[WillYouStopDave]

@Evo1114 Every time I hear someone talk about working on a lawn mower I get a hankering to watch a Mustie1 video. If watching his videos actually made me know anything about it, I'd probably be doing it for a living by now. Working on machines might as well be magic to me. :lol I can watch someone fix something and when they're done I'm sitting there looking like that dog whose human disappeared behind the blanket.

 

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I took a bucket bath for like 2 hours today (refilling the bucket with water once it gets empty).

I have questions. :con

How do you fit in a bucket?

How does the bucket get empty and need to be refilled?

 

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I bought a container of instant iced tea mix. I regret not doing so ages ago. It tastes exactly the same as fresh brewed and isn't such a pain in the butt.

 

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The popcorn setting on my microwave wields varying results each time. Sometimes it's burnt. Other times it needs a few more seconds. And sometimes it's perfect. It's the same brand/type of microwave popcorn, and I've tried to mitigate other factors.

The most consistent results I've gotten is with Orville Redenbacher's brand. It still varies some but not nearly as much and not in as many unpleasant ways as with other brands. However, Orville Redenbacher's brand makes a damn mess in your microwave if you like the strong butter flavor. I have to wipe the whole cavity down with wet paper towels every single time I make popcorn or it will get stuck on there and never come off.

I use 2 minutes full power and it comes out pretty much exactly the same every time.

 

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I've recently decided to give the popcorn setting on my microwave a try. It usually takes about a minute forty for a bag to pop in my microwave. The popcorn setting is about the same. I don't have any problems with the bag sticking, and a bought one that's wide enough so the bag can turn freely. On occasion though,, the bags do leak out. And FYI, I typically buy Pop Secret movie theater style.

Oh, yeah. That's what I mean. Whatever they use for the butter flavoring "leaks" (more like sprays) out of the bag and splatters all over the interior of the microwave. If I don't clean this residue off promptly, I know that it will eventually harden and get stuck on there and basically become part of the microwave so it adds an annoying cleaning step to my popcorn routine.

I remember once I had a microwave I used to make popcorn in every day and I never thought about it. Eventually, I went to clean it out one day and the baked on yellow from the popcorn absolutely would not come off no matter what I did. I guess it didn't actually hinder the functioning of the unit. It was annoyingly ugly to look at and made the interior of it kinda stinky.

 

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Just when I was bragging on my mini fridge, it finally conked out on me yesterday. I woke up and heard what sounded like water dripping onto my carpet coming from that direction. When I got up to check, I saw there was water leaking out of the door seal. Further investigation revealed that the compressor wasn't starting.

It was probably a bad capacitor so I could have probably fixed it pretty cheap but I was never terribly happy with that fridge anyway, as it was very noisy and seemed to get very hot on the sides. So, went out and got another one (different brand. Old one was an Amana and new one is an Igloo). New one is MUCH quieter and doesn't get as hot. It still benefits from an extra circulation fan added inside so I think that's just how it is with those. They work (sort of) the way they come but they cool your drinks down much faster (and get them all uniformly cold) if you add a fan.

Anyway, when I first turned it on, I thought I'd gotten a dud because it was so quiet I couldn't believe the compressor was actually running.

 

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In other news, I took the trash out yesterday and on my way out, I saw an old man walking slowly across the parking lot. All of a sudden he farted so bad I could hear it like 15 feet away. At first I couldn't believe it was really a fart because.....I don't know why. You just don't expect someone to crack a huge fart right out in the open like that.

 

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Been getting bites on my lower legs the past week. Today I found a single flea that jumped on my pinky toe. I searched thick and thin and I haven't found any more. Also thoroughly look at my dog, haven't found any on her. And she showed no sign of excessive scratching, itch and bites. So odd.

I used to stay at someone's house whose dog had fleas and man was that torture! There would be so many of them that they were biting me like every 15 seconds ALL DAY LONG.

 

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Just when I was bragging on my mini fridge, it finally conked out on me yesterday. I woke up and heard what sounded like water dripping onto my carpet coming from that direction. When I got up to check, I saw there was water leaking out of the door seal. Further investigation revealed that the compressor wasn't starting.

It was probably a bad capacitor so I could have probably fixed it pretty cheap but I was never terribly happy with that fridge anyway, as it was very noisy and seemed to get very hot on the sides. So, went out and got another one (different brand. Old one was an Amana and new one is an Igloo). New one is MUCH quieter and doesn't get as hot. It still benefits from an extra circulation fan added inside so I think that's just how it is with those. They work (sort of) the way they come but they cool your drinks down much faster (and get them all uniformly cold) if you add a fan.

Anyway, when I first turned it on, I thought I'd gotten a dud because it was so quiet I couldn't believe the compressor was actually running.

When I woke up earlier, my room seemed almost silent. I didn't even realize the fridge was running until I got up and walked past it. The compressor on the old one was so loud that sometimes my ears would be (kind of) ringing when it would finally click off. It also made this constant annoying squeaking sound that I guess was Styrofoam insulation flexing with the temperature changes (It sounded just like that noise it makes if you rub two pieces of Styrofoam together). And also lots of gurgling and trickling sounds. This one doesn't do any of that.

 

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I ate scrambled eggs for dinner.

So did I. :lol

 

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This blonde woman I always run into on my walks, she always lets her elder golden retriever swim in this algae gunked up pond. Hope it's not toxic.

Is he looking a little not like a golden retriever should look lately?

 

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I may have had to travel well over 100 miles, and it may be one the worst brand available here, but I finally found myself some nog.

That's egg noggin.

 

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I did not know that spiders are able to live in cold weather. A few days ago when I took out the garbage, I noticed there was a large spider on the outside of the building. He was kinda just there and it was cold that day (and had been cold for days) so I assumed he was probably frozen to death. But didn't really wanna check because I don't like spiders and I really especially don't like them when they move. So anyway. I left him alone and forgot about him until I went out today and noticed he was still there.

So I blew on him and he moved under his own power. Which surprised me because it's very cold out there. He's about the size of a quarter. Which is big in this part of the world.

 

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My Sansa Clip MP3 player is 12 years old (Almost 13) and I still use it every day. I think the charge capacity is significantly reduced (I can't really remember what it was like when new but I would be very surprised if it was as old as it is and as often as it has been used and charged) but it's just amazing to me the longevity of it.

 

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They sure don't make electronics like they used to.

Actually, the first MP3 player I bought before the Clip was an earlier Sandisk model that had the viewing screen and played videos as well (and was more expensive) and it died in like 2 months. Which I hated that it didn't last because I really liked it. But of course Apple eventually just won the whole MP3 player thing with the iPod with an actual hard drive in it.

 

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I bought scissors at my local Safeway today. :blank

If they aren't safe scissors, could you sue them for false advertising?

 

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That Amazon dude was right on the dot today man. As soon as the package was out for delivery, it gave the estimated earliest and latest delivery times. I expected them to get pushed back over and over like usual but this time he pulled up 1 minute before the original estimated earliest time without it having been pushed back.

I was irrationally pleased with my new phone batteries.

 

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There was a sour smelling poo in the bathroom at work today. My gosh, it was the worst one I've smelled yet. I tried my best to hold my breath in for as long as possible. 🤢 I sure went at a bad time and my day was already pretty crummy. But I couldnt really help the bad timing.

More hilarious than dull but yea. 😒

:lol :lol

:lol

 

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My first time trying Starbucks Via. I did but didn't expect it to taste much better than run of the mill instant coffee. But honestly, it tastes pretty much just like Starbucks out of a bag. But way too expensive. I have cut back on coffee to one cup every now and then but still. I don't think I could live with this price.

 

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The store I go to to get most groceries and supplies is sometimes out of things that are a bit unusual. Like we have these light fixtures that use tubular bulbs with the E17 base. They burn out frequently because my dad turns them on and off every day (which just destroys incandescent bulbs).

Anyway, I went to that store a few weeks ago and looked for them and they were out of them. I went back about a week later and they were still out of them. I came home that day and searched for them on that store's web page and yesterday I went back and they had them.

That has happened more than once at that store. I think they sometimes overlook items that don't sell that well when restocking and they prioritize it if someone searches for it on their web page.