spicytuna62

It very much still is

Seems like a good knight out.

Man, that's hella unfortunate.

I came back from vacation in January this year to find my meter box full of water. The half century old PVC line supplying the house from the meter finally gave in. Needless to say the city couldn't do anything about it since it was on my side of the meter. Five grand later, and now I've got a new PEX line. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again in my lifetime and it'll be the next guy's problem in ~40-60 years.

The city was aware of the leak, and even though I never sent them proof that the leak was fixed they gave me credits for December and January that made it so I didn't have a water bill in March and April came in at around 30 bucks. Doesn't really offset the cost of repair that much, but hey, I'll take what I can get.

Jesus, and last month, my wife smelled gas by the back porch. I leaned over to the pipe running from the ground into the house and smelled it. Then I saw where the years of water pooling in the flower bed rusted the cast iron line through. Called the gas company, but they were happy to move the meter from the back side of the property up the the back porch for free. So hopefully THAT'S good for another several decades too.

This after having to have two very big and very dead oaks cut down over the last couple years.

Still beats having a landlord by about a thousand miles.

I gave my brother my Sandy Bridge laptop that got me through college. New battery and charger and it's all set. The 1366x768 resolution doesn't render pages very nicely anymore, though.

My wife's 2019 16" MPB is running pretty great. Probably got another 5 years of life left in it. She uses it to watch YouTube and play Sims 4.

My 2016 Acer Aspire V3-372T is hanging in there running Debian. 60 FPS YouTube videos are getting to be too much for it anymore. I may have to put the old girl to rest one of these days.

But hey, it does play Minetest pretty flawlessly.

I reeeeeeeally envy y'all for that flag. The design is dope.

My house district represented by a Dem so it's not that surprising to see Harris-Walz signs, but it IS surprising to see so many. As someone who grew up in the butt crack of Jackson County in DEEP Republican territory, it's just such a breath of fresh air to be able to live around neighbors who aren't crazy goobers.

Hello, fellow Okie.

I know how this state is going to vote. It's been a given every year for nearly six decades. But I'm still gonna vote, as I have in every election since I turned 18. Change doesn't happen if those who want it get discouraged and sit their asses at home.

What has really inspired me this year is the overwhelming majority of Harris-Walz signs in my neighborhood. I stopped counting, but I reckon there are at least thirty of them. I've seen a grand total of five Trump-Vance signs, and three of them are at the same house.

Also, you get much rain last night? It was so good to finally hear thunder again. I had six tenths in my rain gauge this morning!

Update: I stood in line for an hour and a half and cast my ballot. Next time around, I'll remember to request my mail-in ballot on time lol

That's actually really cool.

The only foreign coin I have came from a roll of quarters I got in 2015. Back when I visited the laundromat weekly. I stuck my quarters in the machine, but this one kept getting spit out so I checked it. I didn't recognize the characters on it, but I had an Iranian coworker who might so I took it to work and asked if she knew what it was. She immediately goes, "Oh! This is a dirham! It's from the UAE."

Turns out it was worth 23¢ at the time lol

The Weimar Republic has entered the chat.

Who knows how long that man had to work to earn that much paper? Twelve minutes? Thirteeeeen minutes?

Anyway, until inflation hits at least 4,130,772,540,007,917,373,294% Americans should really stop griping about it.

This reminds me of when RTGame played Cities Skylines using a world map mod and made the island of Great Britain the landfill.

I have one that takes AAA's. I power it with good old nickel rechargeable batteries.

We need to normalize things taking standard cell batteries again. When these bespoke batteries fail and nobody manufactures them anymore, the whole device is e-waste unless you can rig something up.

I've got a "portable" CD player from 1991 that takes six AA batteries. It also accepts a 9 volt barrel plug. And I still use it to play my CDs sometimes.

It's the State tree of Oklahoma. When my neighbors' redbud starts making pods, I'm gonna snag a bunch, refrigerate them over winter, then scarify and try to get a few to germinate the following spring. It takes probably 5 or so years to start getting flowers, but I really love everything about these trees, not just their awesome flowers. The heart shaped leaves they develop in summer are so cute.