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I swear...
As you may recall, when COVID shut everything down over the summer of 2020 I took the opportunity to purge my house. Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases. It was also the year that I asked everyone to please stop giving me anything physical as a present. Want to give me a present? Take me to dinner. Come watch a movie with me at my house. Bring over some cookies. But *DO NOT* give my anything physical that isn't edible.
So of course everyone ignored that because books are somehow OK.
It's only 3 years later and I'm purging the studio shed of books again. I bought 10 moving boxes, figuring that should be plenty.
Nope. In only 3 short years we have managed to accumulate roughly a dozen boxes' worth of books, all unasked for, unread, and unappreciated.
I knew gift-giving was out of hand. I had no realization as to the staggering scope of it...
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Stupid Atlantic!
What you want to do is go up to the Baltic coast and see if anyone can lend you a dredger.
What you want to do is go up to the Baltic coast and see if anyone can lend you a dredger.I swear...
As you may recall, when COVID shut everything down over the summer of 2020 I took the opportunity to purge my house. Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases. It was also the year that I asked everyone to please stop giving me anything physical as a present. Want to give me a present? Take me to dinner. Come watch a movie with me at my house. Bring over some cookies. But *DO NOT* give my anything physical that isn't edible.
So of course everyone ignored that because books are somehow OK.
It's only 3 years later and I'm purging the studio shed of books again. I bought 10 moving boxes, figuring that should be plenty.
Nope. In only 3 short years we have managed to accumulate roughly a dozen boxes' worth of books, all unasked for, unread, and unappreciated.
I knew gift-giving was out of hand. I had no realization as to the staggering scope of it...
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Stupid Atlantic!
Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?
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Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases.
When my grandfather died in 2016, he had so many books in the house that after I took my cut (10 file boxes), we ended up donating enough to Marist College that my grandmother got a tax credit in the multiple thousands of dollars range. I think it ended up being somewhere around a hundred file boxes. And that's after about a third to half of my grandfather's collection ended up in the dumpster due to mold and dry rot.
Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?
I'd assume he's talking about one of these.
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Some days you feel like you just did something both Good and Evil.
Right next to the El Cerrito DMV is one of those horrible intersections that doesn't go straight; it's more like half a Y. (And you'd think there'd be an ASCII character for that but I can't think of anything better than
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(Yes, not only is it not quite straight, but the openings don't quite meet up across the street.)
Anyhoo, I'd just picked up some moving boxes and was heading up from the bottom, and stopped at the red light. A car across from me was signaling left, so I had the right of way. The light turned green, I started going, and so did left turn guy. He saw me pulling forward and tightened his turn to cut me off... slowly...
...giving me a clear view of the man in the passenger seat: A DMV driving tester, clipboard and all, looking very nonplussed and apologetic at the same time.
So yep. Auto-fail for whoever was driving.
I feel good that I kept that bad driver off the roads for a couple more months. I feel bad that I totally ruined that kid's evening.
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I astounded our new landscape designer with my ability to establish grade without a laser using only my 8 foot level, a measuring tape, a hammer, a can of pink spray paint, and a s+@% load of edging stakes.
Young people today are impressed with the simplest things.
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I astounded our new landscape designer with my ability to establish grade without a laser using only my 8 foot level, a measuring tape, a hammer, a can of pink spray paint, and a s**$ load of edging stakes.
Young people today are impressed with the simplest things.
What, no string?
What, no string?I astounded our new landscape designer with my ability to establish grade without a laser using only my 8 foot level, a measuring tape, a hammer, a can of pink spray paint, and a s!~* load of edging stakes.
Young people today are impressed with the simplest things.
I use string lines for squaring corners or straight lines along the edge but that's not until I get the grade established.
I just measure my starting depth and pound a stake in the ground to that depth and then use the level to work my way around the patio area pounding stakes and then tagging them with spray paint so I can pull them out before compacting it.
Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?I'd assume he's talking about one of these.
That's it. What are they called elsewhere?
That's it. What are they called elsewhere?Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?I'd assume he's talking about one of these.
Dredgers. But we add an odd shaped object to each one.
chat gtp has entered the chat?
chat gtp has entered the chat?
Sure sounds like it, up to and including the whole, "Replying to the wrong post" part. On the other hand, would ChatGTP really be out of place here?
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Humans?!
Oh, the nerve!
I haven't been insulted like that in...
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I think he was referring to your wedding tackle, since you were top of page and thus nekkid.That's it. What are they called elsewhere?Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?I'd assume he's talking about one of these.
Covered in rust and smelling of seaweed and old fish? Very probably.
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Impus Minor: Engineering is nothing more than figuring out how to be lazy in the most creative way possible.
That's it. What are they called elsewhere?Is "dredger" a British term for that thing?I'd assume he's talking about one of these.
Where I grew up, they were mostly called dredgers, but some of the old-timers would call them "draggers."
We're all currently drowning in cardboard Coronation tat.
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Yeah, I wonder who benefits from degrading public education?
The scary thing is that Shiro and I have been saying that for years, and within the last few months he found that exact same clip and sent it to me to reinforce his point.
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In lighter news, I spent the last week emptying my studio shed, boxing up all the books, and getting ready to build the final gorilla rack in there so that it would finally be fully-accessible and I could get what I needed when I needed it.
Impus Minor is now into 3D printing, so I set up half of one of the old racks in the shed for his use, then he needed one in his closet and I couldn't find the full other half, so I just bought a new rack and put half in his closet.
Today I went in to assemble the half-old, half-new rack.
And of course, in the 30 years since I bought my old rack, not only did they change from 3/4" pressureboard to 3/8" laminated pressureboard, but they changed the dimensions from 19"x49" to 25"x49" so the racks don't fit together!
My entire side yard is full of boxes, tools, and electronics awaiting neat arrangement on shelves that I can no longer provide.
Because change.
Grr...
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Yeah, I wonder who benefits from degrading public education?The scary thing is that Shiro and I have been saying that for years, and within the last few months he found that exact same clip and sent it to me to reinforce his point.
I mean, it's not like anything has changed since he was around.
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ALL (DE) and Sonic went to see the Mario Bros. film today - I stayed at home and did MAN CHORES. ALL (DE) slept for most of the movie, apparently, but the little lad enjoyed himself.
Posting without comment.
Seen variations on this for years upon years.
Many, many authors: "I can fix him."
Jane Austen: "I respect that, but it's not me. He'll fix himself if he knows what's good for him."
Emily Bronte: "Fix him? Screw that. We'll make each other worse!"
Mary Shelly: "I can make him."
heh.Many, many authors: "I can fix him."
Jane Austen: "I respect that, but it's not me. He'll fix himself if he knows what's good for him."
Emily Bronte: "Fix him? Screw that. We'll make each other worse!"
Mary Shelly: "I can make him."
utterly terrifying in its accuracy . . . .
Drejk in the kitchen, the story of failure.
I got some minced meat (approximately 800 grams, or eight-ninths of two pounds) and decided to give a try to meatballs or something.
Definitely or something.
Mixed the meat with garlic, some fried chopped onions, and eggs... To thin and soft to form into meatballs (or anything). I don't have breadcrumbs, so I added some flour. Still too soft. I added some more flour. And it is still too soft to give it a shape.
I do not want to add too much flour to avoid making meat pancakes.
For now, I put the bowl with meat-egg-flour mass into the fridge for some time. At the worst it should give some time for the seasoning to work its magic across the mixture.
Also.
I almost forgot how I hate getting my hands sticky. I have to keep washing them while preparing anything that involves me handling fatty or sugary, or whatever ingredients.
I think that attempt will keep me from trying anything complex in kitchen for some time at least.
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A couple days ago on the way to our site, one of my coworkers pointed out a '66 Corvette convertible. "Look at that old 'Vette!" I noticed that the old man driving the Corvette had a "Retired Army" license plate frame, and pointed it out to my coworker. "An old vet in an old 'Vette."
Thanks for the tip but I wasn't in mood for extra work.
While the forming of sticky blobs was inconvenient, the final result were perfectly edible, though they could use some more seasoning. A plate of those remains to be nibbled on on the following days, and half of the bowl of raw mixture awaits more struggle with its consistency while frying it.
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Fantasy NPC: Illhor The Painless
A vaporous vestige of a kyton deprived of her ability to experience and cause pain.
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A couple days ago on the way to our site, one of my coworkers pointed out a '66 Corvette convertible. "Look at that old 'Vette!" I noticed that the old man driving the Corvette had a "Retired Army" license plate frame, and pointed it out to my coworker. "An old vet in an old 'Vette."
Any chance they were also an animal doctor?
Does anyone believe that the NSA doesn't still scrape everything pertaining to all citizens and store it, compressed and encrypted, in that monster data center in Utah?
I don't trust the utah part....
Maybe I need to move to Japan...
EDIT: As a deeper look into my psyche, I don't particularly care for the specific rules they set; 10 minutes seems awfully short, and I love voice accompaniment, even if it's bad. But,
"Here are the posted rules."
"We won't follow them."
"OK, then. We'll take this back away, then."
appeals to my Lawful nature.
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As opposed to New york, where the piano would have fallen on and off the back of a truck befo..there it goes.
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And here we go again:
The Gang: We should play Redfall! It's supposed to be Back 4 Blood, but with vampires!
NobodysHome: Oh kay...
NH: Uhh... it's a Bethesda game. Are you guys sure you want to try it?
TG: Bethesda's only the publisher, not the developer! It'll be fine!
NH: Oh kay...
So all of us downloaded it in its 77 GB entirety last night.
Today is the official release day.
And yep. We all had to RE-DOWNLOAD all 77 GB, leading to the question, "Why the h*** did you have me download 77 GB that you knew you were just going to throw out?", and even more importantly, "Why the **** did I ever buy another Bethesda game?"