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So I actually just learned that PVC plumbing cement seems to be a reasonably good way to patch a leak in an air mattress.

My dad sleeps on an air mattress (long story). Which he has one of those that has a secondary pump that monitors and tops it off when needed.

A day or two ago, my dad said that it almost went completely flat on him during the night. Fortunately, it wasn't hard to find the leak. It was a small rip at one of the seams that was letting out enough air that you could feel it just walking by.

I saw someone suggest the plumbing cement in a youtube comments section and remembered that I bought a container of it a few months ago because it was on sale. I didn't really expect it to work because I have had bad luck attempting to repair leaky air mattresses in the past (although I never actually tried using a proper patch).

I figured I'd try it. Let out the air, applied the cement with a small paintbrush. Let it dry a few hours, reinflated and it was completely sealed. I was pretty surprised. I don't know how long it'll last (I'm still expecting the leak to come back pretty soon but I have other ideas to make it more better the next time.

 

[WillYouStopDave]

So I actually just learned that PVC plumbing cement seems to be a reasonably good way to patch a leak in an air mattress.

My dad sleeps on an air mattress (long story). Which he has one of those that has a secondary pump that monitors and tops it off when needed.

A day or two ago, my dad said that it almost went completely flat on him during the night. Fortunately, it wasn't hard to find the leak. It was a small rip at one of the seams that was letting out enough air that you could feel it just walking by.

I saw someone suggest the plumbing cement in a youtube comments section and remembered that I bought a container of it a few months ago because it was on sale. I didn't really expect it to work because I have had bad luck attempting to repair leaky air mattresses in the past (although I never actually tried using a proper patch).

I figured I'd try it. Let out the air, applied the cement with a small paintbrush. Let it dry a few hours, reinflated and it was completely sealed. I was pretty surprised. I don't know how long it'll last (I'm still expecting the leak to come back pretty soon but I have other ideas to make it more better the next time.

So this is actually still holding. I didn't expect it to last more than a day or two but somehow, it has. So I'm gonna wait until it fails to even mess with it because that was a quick, simple fix that can simply be repeated as necessary. Though it might not be a perfect fix for every leak because we've had air mattresses before that apparently had pinhole leaks we could never find. I dunno. Maybe you could find them with a FLIR or something but I don't have one so.

 

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I remember when I was a kid we had a pet hamster and sometimes I'd put him on my pillow beside my head. He'd stick his nose in my ear and that was the strangest sound. Like to me, it was hilarious because you don't normally know what a hamster breathing sounds like. But also, his whiskers would tickle the entrance to my ear.

 

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That moment when you see a slow-moving bug moving slow but then you realize that it's actually going marginally faster than it's usual cruising speed (because you've scared it). And then it dawns on you that the bug is actually presently in overdrive and probably thinks it's haulin' ***. Like an old person who is shuffling along pretty slow but in their mind, they see everything rushing towards them at warp speed.

 

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My local dollar store really loaded up on the Lay's Stax Potato Crisps. They have almost a whole half-aisle of them. They're pretty much Pringles knockoffs - same shape, but actually a heartier potato flavor and thicker. However, they come not in a more environmentally friendly cardboard can but a sturdy plastic container. This seems like a bit of a waste because they go very quickly, leaving you with a container that may or may not be recycled. It'd be nice if they'd reconsider their packaging.

I'm honestly afraid to eat anything from Dollar Tree. Maybe I shouldn't be but am.

 

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I just spent about 3 minutes thinking about a forklift and I don't know why.

 

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Were you eating with a fork when you thinking of so?

No. There was literally just an image of a forklift driving around in my mind for a couple of minutes until I caught myself and thought "WTF is that?"

 

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Hope it is normal to intend to type something and then to goof it up without realizing. Just went over something I wrote on here and I put one instead of on and you instead of your.

I noticed that but knew what you meant. I butcher just about everything I post in some way or another. I think most of it (in my case) is due to using a pretty cheap wireless keyboard. I seriously think that some of my typing mishaps might be the keyboard getting it's wires crossed and sending the wrong characters in the wrong order or something.

But OTOH, I don't proofread stuff as much as I used to and I honestly probably never did it enough before I posted. I remember I used to edit everything I posted a zillion times because I'd post it and then read it and see a mistake and fix it and then see another one and fix it and so on.

 

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I hate it when I show the slightest interest in some random thing on Youtube and it suddenly amplifies it X100 as if it just discovered some hidden gem that I didn't know existed and it takes me days worth of intentionally ignoring Youtube constantly suggesting things related to it before it finally realizes I'm just really not that interested and decides to stop shoving them in my face.

In the meantime, I will just be randomly bouncing around on things I'm mildly curious about and Youtube makes the same assumption about all of them and starts suggesting anything even slightly related to them. And worse, starts suggesting things that mingle with one another no matter how bizarre the connection is. So pretty soon I have a feed full of random nonsense that youtube seems to think is a perfect snapshot of my brain and I have to intentionally derail it to make it stop.

 

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Being able to filter bullsh1t is often an overlooked essential skill.

I must admit it is one I usually struggle with. But am better at than I used to be.

 

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Isn't it funny how one size fits all pretty much never does?

 

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Well, Amazon finally broke us with the shipping chaos that happens without Prime. My mother has started to want to order vitamins and supplements from Amazon so she finally broke down and told me to get Prime. It is nice to not have to wait days and not know when your stuff will come but I honestly don't know if we'll use it enough to make it worth it. We only made like 14 orders last year and the shipping generally wasn't too expensive. Although I had started using the paid shipping because the free shipping just took forever.

So I think we got our Amazon account in 2010. It took us all this time to finally give up on the standard shipping. Used to be you could get most stuff with free shipping if you were willing to wait long enough but then they made it so you had to spend at least $25 to get free shipping on most stuff and it still took longer than I really wanted to wait (and half the time was shipped by USPS).

Surprisingly, there was only ever one time when I didn't get what I ordered (just disappeared in transit).

 

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My new desktop wallpaper. Loving the subtle jumpscares I'm having.
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Why does it look like that?

 

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Shopping malls are obviously going the way of obsoletion as they're gradually disappearing one by one. But aside from retail purposes, it still serves as the central community space for most areas. Building more parks wouldn't replace that because the purpose of going there to buy something was what was the motivation to get people to go. Just thought about this when I notice so many new parks that have been popping up in new develpments being mostly empty and un-utilized. Hopefully VR and metaverse malls will replace that.

Some people blame Amazon but that's not the whole story because people went to malls for more reasons than just shopping. Especially teenagers. The vast majority of the kids that used to hang out at the mall I went to were just there to socialize. They spent some money on food and drinks and the arcade and movies. And I'm sure some shopping went on too but as you say, it was a gathering place as much as it was a commercial space. It's just that without the commerce, there's no way to pay the bills.

But then also, I think "back in the day" there were fewer things to do so people would just gravitate to places like malls. These days, it's just as entertaining to sit at home and watch Youtube and order your shoes and clothing online. We kind of toot it for granted that the mall was this gigantic place that was free to go to. As long as they were making money, all was well.

Anyway, I used to go to the mall just to get out of the house. I'd walk the mall 5-10 times and sit on the benches like an old man ( I guess ). I guess I never realized it might seem strange for someone who was only like 21 to be doing that.

 

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Yesterday I was walking to pick something up and Amazon have left someone's parcel just outside of their door! The door of this house is right on the pavement so anybody can just bend down and pick their parcel up; just seems irresponsible to just leave it there.

That's why I watch for my packages like a hawk. If I know it's coming (and especially if it's something that wasn't cheap).

 

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Why are human ears shaped this way? Why don't we have ears like cats/dogs/rabbits/elephants?

I'm now trying to imagine what I'd look like with bunny ears.

I would probably look just about right with the ears of a basset hound. It would match my face pretty well. I could maybe pass for a humanoid pug.

 

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Personally I'd go with a deer. But I want the antlers too (even if they'd be a bit cumbersome)

I don't know. I'm not sure I'd like this

 

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There was a guy who was cleaning his window at 4.45am. I have walked past his place and have seen him doing it at that time before.

I guess he has to clean it sometime.

 

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They are putting a roundabout on the 4way intersection in front of home. I wonder how this will work out with typical American drivers though.

Probably a lot like turds circling endlessly in a flushed toilet that's plugged up. Kind of par for the course in the US.