February 24Feb 24 This one is a bit of both pleasing and surly. Grocery stores here now have compostable bags for fruits and vegetables. I use these in my kitchen for fruit peels, organic waste, so I can dump these directly into my yard waste can (yes they allow kitchen organic stuff). I'm trusting these are better than plastic bags. OTOH, they are pretty flimsy and you can poke a hole in them fairly easily and don't want a chance against pears, carrots, sweet potatoes and anything slightly pointy.
February 25Feb 25 1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said: Got frisked by hot security lady at the Tokyo airport Happened to me in Oslo once. I did not complain.
February 25Feb 25 2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said: Got frisked by hot security lady at the Tokyo airport Tell me she looked like Karen or Anna?
February 25Feb 25 2 minutes ago, Superhero said: Tell me she looked like Karen or Anna? Both. But colored hair I think. It was funny at the end I was like “left my watch on my bad” and she said that’s not a factor. And now I’m wondering why I was frisked.
February 25Feb 25 10 hours ago, Superhero said: Tell me she looked like Karen or Anna? Those are different people? I'll see myself out.
February 26Feb 26 On 2/22/2025 at 4:30 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said: Sleeping in my own bed A whole lot of this. Between traveling for work, being sick and sleeping on the couch, and kids being sick wanting to sleep with mommy, I've slept on my bed like twice in the last 30 days. Today I got home from work around 2 and took an hour long nap in the bed. It was fantastic
February 26Feb 26 Taking the bus and it being almost completely silent despite it being full yesterday afternoon. The manners of people here are just so much better.
March 14Mar 14 On 3/12/2024 at 10:29 AM, Storm the Field said: Spring Break week at work when you don't have kids. Traffic on the way in to work is lighter than usual. Can park just about anywhere you want in the office garage. Office is extremely quiet. Useless weekly meetings cancelled. This year I'm experiencing the other side of this. Same perks of no traffic and shit hold true, but I've been insanely busy this week, wrapping up the final parts of a rush project I've been grinding out since mid-January. 10+ hour days all week, getting home no earlier than 8 pm....etc. Meanwhile I'm bombarded in group texts with pics of friends and co-workers spending the week down at the beach or hitting the ski slopes.
March 14Mar 14 Someone waved at me in Philly, after I let them in, in traffic. All 4 fingers up and everything.
March 14Mar 14 Someone waved at me in Philly, after I let them in, in traffic. All 4 fingers up and everything.Narrator: They weren’t from Philly!
March 16Mar 16 On 3/14/2025 at 6:29 AM, Iceman said: Someone waved at me in Philly, after I let them in, in traffic. All 4 fingers up and everything. Are you sure that you weren’t so drunk that you had quadruple vision?
March 20Mar 20 We’re in Taiwan visiting family and checking out the famous ShiLin night market. There are food carts, road side stands and hike in the walk restaurants serving all kinds of food. One of the carts was selling grilled corn, so I caught my daughter’s attention and started singing ”It’s corn! A big lump with knobs, it’s got the juice!” A woman walking by sang “It’s got the juice…” That brought a smile to my face that some in Taiwan knew about this obscure song on YouTube. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about.
March 22Mar 22 Food in Taiwan can be really inexpensive. There’s a little breakfast place by my MIL’s house. 4 drinks, 4 breakfast items for less than $7. Lunch at a nice restaurant for 13 people. The lazy Susan in the middle of the table completely covered in amazing food for $230. The same meal would have cost easily $350 - $400 in the US. I could see myself living here for 6 months out of the year to stretch out my retirement dollars.
March 22Mar 22 20 hours ago, Superhero said: Food in Taiwan can be really inexpensive. There’s a little breakfast place by my MIL’s house. 4 drinks, 4 breakfast items for less than $7. Lunch at a nice restaurant for 13 people. The lazy Susan in the middle of the table completely covered in amazing food for $230. The same meal would have cost easily $350 - $400 in the US. I could see myself living here for 6 months out of the year to stretch out my retirement dollars. Hits close to home, the last time we were in Panama we some time to kill. So we convinced our cab driver to show us his neighborhood etc. We went to his favorite place to eat and covered a standard card table for 20 bucks and fed 4. Every available inch of real estate had something on it. It was great. Edited March 23Mar 23 by Bevo&Pevo
March 23Mar 23 Eating in Taiwan is dirt cheap. Even the fancy food is half the price of other major cities. And it's fuggin good food.
March 29Mar 29 On 3/22/2025 at 7:56 PM, Sam Lin said: Eating in Taiwan is dirt cheap. Even the fancy food is half the price of other major cities. And it's fuggin good food. Japan as well.
March 31Mar 31 Going on a mountain bike ride with my son. He's 10 years old and not even 5 feet, but he took my wife's bike and rode it better than she ever could.
March 31Mar 31 My wife (no pics) made some egg salad that is basically chopped deviled eggs. It is delicious. The best part? My farts tonight are going to be awe inspiring!
March 31Mar 31 At my office happy hour last Friday, we had over 10 people and at least 8 different bottles of whisky / whiskey. The fanciest bottles so far were Eagle Rare and Macallan. Most people bring the $60 - $80 bottles, which can get you a decent bottle to share with coworkers.
April 3Apr 3 Popular Post I’m in a season of life when I cannot fly (discussed in another thread and I’m getting better with help). We are attending a wedding in DC this weekend. We had to drive instead of fly. I’ve been inspired by a few books and other resources discussing mindfulness and being present and aware in the moment. Mrs NNM and I just drove from ETX to suburban DC old school, no GPS. We never pulled up the map on our phones or car. Bought an atlas at a truck stop, calculated distances between cities, estimated arrival times, called the hotel in Knoxville to get last mile directions, called BIL in VA to get last mile directions. It was fun.
April 3Apr 3 4 minutes ago, nnm said: I’m in a season of life when I cannot fly (discussed in another thread and I’m getting better with help). We are attending a wedding in DC this weekend. We had to drive instead of fly. I’ve been inspired by a few books and other resources discussing mindfulness and being present and aware in the moment. Mrs NNM and I just drove from ETX to suburban DC old school, no GPS. We never pulled up the map on our phones or car. Bought an atlas at a truck stop, calculated distances between cities, estimated arrival times, called the hotel in Knoxville to get last mile directions, called BIL in VA to get last mile directions. It was fun. Couple of years ago, we had a conference in DC and girlfriend and I made that road trip from Atlanta. Made a long week of it and went to some out of the way places on the trip. Lake Lure/Chimney Rock, NC, Boone, NC, Assateague/Chincoteague Islands, Jamestown, etc. Enjoyable trip.
April 6Apr 6 Fired up the chainsaw and took down a dead cottonwood tree. Fell exactly where I wanted.
April 7Apr 7 On 4/5/2025 at 8:53 PM, High Plains Drifter said: Fired up the chainsaw and took down a dead cottonwood tree. Fell exactly where I wanted. Cutting down the cottonwood is the easy part……it is the fucking roots that grow like crazy right on the surface that have to be dug up that sucks.
April 7Apr 7 On 3/31/2025 at 11:37 PM, Iceman said: I hope there were leftovers. That sounds fun though!!! I left after 1 drink because I have to pick up my daughter on Fridays. I think most people leave no later than 5:30.
April 8Apr 8 I love traveling -- just got back from a family trip to see our son in Croatia -- but getting back into your own bed after extended time away is a special slice of heaven.
April 13Apr 13 We had a mystery at the NNM household. Last week, when we were out of town, the guys working on our house sent me a pic of a stump off our driveway that was all torn up. The pine tree died a few years ago and I chainsawed a cross in the stump instead of grinding the stump down then. The gnawed-up portion is new. My 89-yo neighbor looked at the pic, and ruled out a beaver, nutria, and hog. He said it might be a pileated woodpecker. Largest woodpecker in North America. Roughly the size of a crow. He said in parts of East Texas, it’s known as a “Lord God Almighty bird.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_woodpecker I’ve been staking out the stump the last couple of days. This morning Mr. Woodpecker finally made his appearance. I was able to creep around and get some good pics. IMG_0225.mov This gruntles me. Edited April 23Apr 23 by nnm
April 14Apr 14 Did a lot of “dad”ing this weekend. Took my daughter camping at Joshua Tree with the dads/daughters group. Came back, showered, and took my son to a movie and dinner with the dads/sons group. It was fun, but I’m drop dead tired.
April 16Apr 16 On 4/13/2025 at 8:59 AM, nnm said: We had a mystery at the NNM household. Last week, when we were out of town, the guys working on our house sent me a pic of a stump off our driveway that was all torn up. The pine tree died a few years ago and I chainsawed a cross in the stump instead of grinding the stump down then. The gnawed-up portion is new. My 89-yo neighbor looked at the pic, and ruled out a beaver, nutria, and hog. He said it might be a pileated woodpecker. Largest woodpecker in North America. Roughly the size of a crow. He said in parts of East Texas, it’s known as a “Lord God Almighty bird.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_woodpecker I’ve been staking out the stump the last couple of days. This morning Mr. Woodpecker finally made his appearance. I was able to creep around and get some good pics. IMG_0225.mov 13.55 MB · 5 downloads This gruntles me. He brought a friend. Edited April 23Apr 23 by nnm
April 17Apr 17 Wife's middle-school nephew whipped some punk ass popular kid that waited to jump him after school. Nephew beat his ass, caught on video. Video apparently quickly made the rounds at school, so the next day him and 8 friends waited for nephew for "round 2," since now punk-ass kid was embarrassed. Nephew popped punk-ass kid in the nose and bloodied it. Ding. Ding. Ding. TKO. Punk ass kid stayed home the next day. I've offered to buy nephew is favorite flavor of ice cream next time I see him.
April 17Apr 17 Punk ass kid probably stayed home from school to gather up ammo and load magazines for his AR. We'll be reading about him later this week
April 17Apr 17 Finding a short with a male lion and about 8 hyenas fighting loud as hell that I absolutely intend to play of full volume the next time I encounter 'I don't need ear buds while I watch tiktok in public' dipshit.
April 22Apr 22 I listen to the Guardian podcast. Their audio logo at the beginning is drops to a low bass note. It's not noticeable when I listen to it on my earphones, but in my car, when I turn the volume up, the bass note makes the car vibrate a little. Is this trivial enough?
April 22Apr 22 My toddler runs into the kitchen where im prepping food. “pwease, daddy, pwease, pwease…” ”what is it. what do you want?” He stretches his arms out. “a HUG!” Best goddamn feeling in the world. 🤗
April 22Apr 22 Casters. I have been putting casters on every heavy piece of furniture at my studio in Bartlett and I'm wondering why I didn't do this on very piece of furniture I've ever owned. Holy Toledo!. I don't care if they look stupid, I'm rolling this stuff around like I'm Speed Racer. I've convinced myself that casters are the greatest invention of all time after the wheel, which is sort of a caster. I like casters so much I'm thinking that, if you have a heavy piece of furniture that you would like to roll around the house and if you buy the casters and the beer, I'll come over and put those bad boys on for you. That's how much I like casters. Casters, man. Edited April 22Apr 22 by Hornius Emeritus
April 22Apr 22 On 4/15/2025 at 8:11 PM, nnm said: He brought a friend. Story on NPR a week or so ago about those woodpeckers attacking car mirrors and breaking them. Apparently, they see their reflection in the mirror, think its another male intruding in their territory, and attack. Story said every mirror on entire block was broken.
April 22Apr 22 2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Casters. I have been putting casters on every heavy piece of furniture at my studio in Bartlett and I'm wondering why I didn't do this on very piece of furniture I've ever owned. Holy Toledo!. I don't care if they look stupid, I'm rolling this stuff around like I'm Speed Racer. I've convinced myself that casters are the greatest invention of all time after the wheel, which is sort of a caster. I like casters so much I'm thinking that, if you have a heavy piece of furniture that you would like to roll around the house and if you buy the casters and the beer, I'll come over and put those bad boys on for you. That's how much I like casters. Casters, man. All the storage shelving in my garage are on casters. I haven't had to move them around yet, but it sure comes in handy when I'm trying to reach that plug for the Christmas lights.
April 23Apr 23 I installed a motion sensing light in the kitchen pantry. I no longer get stressed by having to turn off the pantry light 10 times a day. I am at peace with the world.
April 23Apr 23 10 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Casters. I have been putting casters on every heavy piece of furniture at my studio in Bartlett and I'm wondering why I didn't do this on very piece of furniture I've ever owned. Holy Toledo!. I don't care if they look stupid, I'm rolling this stuff around like I'm Speed Racer. I've convinced myself that casters are the greatest invention of all time after the wheel, which is sort of a caster. I like casters so much I'm thinking that, if you have a heavy piece of furniture that you would like to roll around the house and if you buy the casters and the beer, I'll come over and put those bad boys on for you. That's how much I like casters. Casters, man. Great. Now casters are going to be tariff'ed at 145%.
April 23Apr 23 16 hours ago, Dbeasy said: I installed a motion sensing light in the kitchen pantry. I no longer get stressed by having to turn off the pantry light 10 times a day. I am at peace with the world. This, and doing the same for our primary bedroom walk in closet have taken a lot of stress away.
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