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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Well, I guess it isn't covid. I was worried last night because when I got up to go to the bathroom aroun 10 I could barely support my own weight, much less walk. The exertion of getting there and back to bed left me shuddering with chills.

But this morning only feel slightly fatigued. Guess it was just exhaustion. Makes sense, given as how I just came off a massive project that required 55 hours a week on site with a do-or-die deadline looming over me.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

There is a rise in a tick born disease in NS whose symptoms essentially match covid. Fuck ticks! If they aren't giving you lyme disease or making you a vegetarian they fake you out with covid-not-covid (anaplasmosis).
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

A year ago PatrThom said:
So we just had a severe thunderstorm roll through.
It tore one of the ornamental shutters next to our bedroom window off the exterior BUT only the bottom half came loose, which means the wind just SLAMMED that shutter REPEATEDLY into our WINDOW until it SHATTERED and then finally also tore the top loose and blew it away. I tried to open the inner window to catch it and keep it from shattering the inner window as well but I couldn't open the window because it appears my my father-in-law, at some point in the past, put a bead of silicone sealant all the way around the window, gluing it in place.
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Just had a severe thunderstorm roll through on Monday. Straight-line winds were 60MPH or higher. Guess what happened? They blew in the SAME DANG WINDOW as last time. In fact, they were so strong that they blew in not only the storm window, but also the interior window AND the dresser we had sitting in front of the window (as well as everything that was sitting on top of it). So I had to come home from work 3hrs early to pick up all the glass and straighten up while it was still light out, now I have to find some place that will fix the three broken windows (the two from the Monday storm plus a third window from my son's room that he broke last year while moving a set of shelves).

I just cannot seem to catch a break respite lately.

--Patrick
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

All right, this one is gross, so putting it behind a spoiler tag. TL;DR version? I think I need to think of a new method for handling my food waste and compost. Trigger warning for talk of insects in this post.

So, I have a small metal pail that Mom gave me as a housewarming gift. When I lived with my parents, she used something similar for compost. The problem is, with just me living here, I don't really have a lot of food waste, so it takes awhile to fill up this pail. The majority of the waste is a daily banana peel from my smoothies. Sometimes it's broccoli stems. If I make chili, it fills up fast with waste like onion scraps. But it doesn't fill up very fast on a regular basis. I've been ordering out more often than making my own meals. Or what meals I make are often really simple and don't create much food waste. I use small compostable plastic bags. Those mostly break apart by the time I bring the can down to the building's garbage bin.

Well, I went to empty it today, as I knew it was already filled with fruit flies. And it was. But there were also tiny maggots along the inner sides of the bag and pail.

Believe me, I made the same disgusted face you're making right now.

After I dumped everything in the building's compost bin, I washed it out extremely well, going as far as to boil water and wash it out twice. And sprayed and scrubbed down the area where the pail rested (under the sink).

So I really need to figure out a different method for the compost. A much smaller bin, perhaps, and maybe use this pail for larger instances like when I make chili.
 
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Bubble181

Bubble181

If you have the space for it and just want to throw it away (you're not making compost or if it yourself), you can put your kitchen/food waste in a plastic bag in the freezer. When it's time to take it out to a compost bin it'll defrost and be perfectly fine for composting, feed, whatever.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Bubble181 said:
If you have the space for it and just want to throw it away (you're not making compost or if it yourself), you can put your kitchen/food waste in a plastic bag in the freezer. When it's time to take it out to a compost bin it'll defrost and be perfectly fine for composting, feed, whatever.
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A good idea in theory, but I don't have a particularly large freezer. I just have the one in my fridge, and that's already semi-filled with various frozen food.
 
Simfers

Simfers

ThatNickGuy said:
All right, this one is gross, so putting it behind a spoiler tag. TL;DR version? I think I need to think of a new method for handling my food waste and compost. Trigger warning for talk of insects in this post.

So, I have a small metal pail that Mom gave me as a housewarming gift. When I lived with my parents, she used something similar for compost. The problem is, with just me living here, I don't really have a lot of food waste, so it takes awhile to fill up this pail. The majority of the waste is a daily banana peel from my smoothies. Sometimes it's broccoli stems. If I make chili, it fills up fast with waste like onion scraps. But it doesn't fill up very fast on a regular basis. I've been ordering out more often than making my own meals. Or what meals I make are often really simple and don't create much food waste. I use small compostable plastic bags. Those mostly break apart by the time I bring the can down to the building's garbage bin.

Well, I went to empty it today, as I knew it was already filled with fruit flies. And it was. But there were also tiny maggots along the inner sides of the bag and pail.

Believe me, I made the same disgusted face you're making right now.

After I dumped everything in the building's compost bin, I washed it out extremely well, going as far as to boil water and wash it out twice. And sprayed and scrubbed down the area where the pail rested (under the sink).

So I really need to figure out a different method for the compost. A much smaller bin, perhaps, and maybe use this pail for larger instances like when I make chili.
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Had that happen to me once, the first time I composted (it's mandatory in my city, which means they provide us with a bin and they pick it up weekly) I as in a similar situation to you at the time and figured I'd wait until the bin was full before going to empty it in the big ones downtairs.

That was a BAD idea. No matter how little stuff there is in there, throw it out weekly.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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It is a particularly shitty time to be shopping for a car right now. Dealerships don't even pretend anymore.

Them: "Every car we sell here gets our platinum package with tinting and undercoating."
Me: "It's $3000 I'd rather not spend on features I don't even want."
Them: "Maybe we can come down a little on the cost."
Me: "I don't want it at all."
Them: "All cars we sell here get it."
Me: "Well, it's a dealbreaker for me. Thanks for your time."

And then he doesn't even lose a moment over it, probably, because there's people lined up behind me screaming to buy whatever, WHATEVER, HOWEVER MUCH IT IS WE DON'T CARE JUST SELL ME A CAR because the housing market, bonkers as it is, has got NOTHING on the auto market.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

My fiancee's dad runs a dealership and told me if I want a new car when my lease is up in 2024, I gotta start looking in a month or so.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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blotsfan said:
My fiancee's dad runs a dealership and told me if I want a new car when my lease is up in 2024, I gotta start looking in a month or so.
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Seems legit. I could have a car today, if I didn't care what kind of car it was and was willing to pay 40% over sticker. I could get the make and model I want if I wait a month, but I'm still paying 40% over sticker.

I could buy a used 2020 version of what I want but it has 100k miles and "light accident damage."

It has NEVER been more of a seller's market than now.

And we need to abolish dealerships, no offense to your fiancee's dad.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Someone I know, ordered a new car in August 21, they are looking at 13 months of waiting in 10 days. The dealership wanted to buy their old car the day they ordered, but didn’t have anything they could sell them to get through the, now, past year of waiting. They did turn down the offer of the sale.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Drive out to ETX..most of the dealers here are running at or just below MSRP. Though there's one family of dealerships that has "call for price" on all their various brand websites, so I assume they're running over MSRP.

Inventory is a bit limited, though.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I'm just glad I don't actually NEED the car right now. My 20 year old Dodge is still limping along, and 90% of my driving happens in a company vehicle. So as long as I don't break down going to/from work each day, I can probably wait to get what I actually want.

Of course all that changes the instant the Jalopy breaks down.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
It has NEVER been more of a seller's market than now.
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Cash4Clunkers removed all the beaters.
COVID gimped the supply of new vehicles.
Chip shortages gimped it even further.
Climate change is eating vehicles faster than ever before (floods, accidents, hail damage, etc).
And in 13 years, gasoline powered cars will go kaput anyway what with the forced transition to ZEVs.

This is the LAST BIG CHANCE for sellers to screw...I mean, "maximize their investment" and it probably won't stop until at least the chip shortage eases and EVs start rolling off the lines.

--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

evilmike said:
I prefer to think of this the other way 'round. The auto makers bollixed the electronics supply chain.
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There's a chip shortage in about 19842 different economic sectors. Sure, cars play a role in it, but then you might as well say the toaster industry is screwing up the electronics supply chain. Or the fridge industry. Or the doorbell industry. There's practically nothing without chips on the market.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Bubble181 said:
There's practically nothing without chips on the market.
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We’re seriously at the point now where you could make an 80’s James Bond movie about how the villain du jour has cornered the world market on Fabergé chip wafers in order to build a private satellite Internet service.

—Patrick
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Bought a small shelf unit to stand over the toilet in my bathroom.

I put it together wrong where the two sides were backwards. Then the brace between the legs meant I couldn't just slip it behind the toilet because it was too close the wall. So I tried taking off the brace but then I fucked up the screw where the metal warped and i couldn't screw it anymore.

With every mistake, I got madder. And screamed. And cried a little.

Then I lost my temper and broke the legs of the shelf.

So that's money right down the drain because I can't do anything right.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I fell the other night. Bruised my palm and forearm on my right and got a good raspberry bruise on my left hand knuckle. The worst part is I was carrying some perfectly buttered and jellied toast. And of course it landed jelly side down.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I saw the doctor tonight and discussed my recent flares. The first wasn’t a flare at all and the doctor believes it was a partial dislocation.

The second is ongoing and the joint question is out of place. It can’t be dislocated per se, but he explained why it keeps making these awful cracks any why my pelvis is out of alignment. He was able to feel that it was out of alignment it’s gotten so bad.

And I laughed in the office because it’s ridiculous.
 
Dave

Dave

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Well I’d been diagnosed with diabetes before, which caused me to diet & exercise to lose the weight. I got my A1C back under control and into normal territory. Well, working nights has fucked up my schedule and I’ve gained back half of the weight I’d lost, meaning I have to start taking medication. Not injections, thank goodness.

Now I’m just waiting for my liver numbers to come in to see how that’s going. Frankly that scares me more than the whole blood sugar thing.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Few looks are as withering as the disapproving stare of a health care receptionist when you blithely and obliviously show up for an appointment 24 hours late.

It's particularly galling because I can't believe I made such a dumb mistake when paying attention to this kind of detail is part and parcel of what I do for a living. The amount of personal recrimination I am feeling for myself, I'd put about on par with leaving $1000 on the sidewalk. It makes no sense because rescheduling is only a minor inconvenience, but subconscious gonna do what subconscious gonna do.
 
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