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It's really hard to say without knowing your personal goals. Do you have family members you want to stay near to? That restricts where you can go, geographically speaking. Do you prefer warm weather or cold weather? Do you speak other languages, and if not are you averse to learning a...

I like craft beer. Stouts, Belgians, silly double and triple IPAs, sours, there are all sorts I like. In the heat of the summer I don't tend to drink the imperial stouts or the Belgian quads, and in the winter I don't tend to drink the lighter summery beers. That said Thursday's beer was a...

A run in the heat this morning. Too hot for running but I want to maintain as much fitness as I can so I'm not starting from too far back when it cools down. I need to see if there are any gyms nearby that don't require an extended commitment and maybe run on a treadmill when it's too hot or wet...

Some are depressingly dismal, although not necessarily all of them.

Or maybe she should encourage him to live in the real world rather than joining the growing ranks of teenagers (and increasingly pre-teenagers) who appear unable to function without a screen in front of them.

It "isn't that awful"? Not the highest of praise I've heard for a movie.

Is it so inappropriate for a parent to not want their child to see everything on their phone? Sometimes I exchange memes with friends that wouldn't be appropriate for a 9-year-old. Some people may have personal information that a 9-year-old might not understand is confidential on their phone...

I read an interesting article recently that looked at possible reasons Biden might have had for his poor performance, and comparing them to the excuses that were offered. They constantly pointed to the same underlying issue, that he's not capable of performing the duties required of the...

Thanks, I went ahead and disabled it. This morning I had breakfast with one of the young guys at our church. He's off to university in a little over a month. Over the last several months I've gotten to know him, support his sporting endeavours etc. It's been good getting to know him, he's a...

Right now I'm wishing tese annoying fireworks weren't on the page. They add no value and are distracting. I can't be bothered to try and post any more with things exploding all over the place.

I've considered the vast majority of fast food to be garbage for years. I think the last time I was in Burger King was in 2021. The last time I was in McDonalds was probably 2016 and even that was only because I was with friends - I didn't order any food for myself. I've had food from Arby's...

FIghting with insulation panels. I've managed to clear enough space around the wall I framed, and in the space where I'm storing the stack of remaining panels, so that I can feed the panels into my table saw, get the strips upstairs, and fitted into the spaces. Spaces aren't quite as uniform as...

I think this is a key point. However unappealing the two candidates are in all probability one of them will be president come January and declining to vote effectively denies oneself the opportunity to decide which one. Unless someone is truly equally satisfied with the prospect of either it...

I've become a fan of having layers of redundancy, as long as each one adds some value. As long as a metal roof over the top of the shingle won't cause you problems down the line, if you need to work on the shingle but can't because the metal is in the way, that seems like a good way to go.

There may have been some spray involved but from what I recall (it was a long time ago now) it was some kind of waterproof fabric put on the roof in layers, with presumably something in between the layers to make sure they all stay stuck together and stuck to the roof. It was applied to a period...

The trouble is the lack of sensible options. A voter who is even a moderate Democrat would really struggle to vote for Trump, which leaves them with the option of Newsom or a third-party candidate. When both sides field candidates who even moderates on their own side increasingly dislike it...

If committees actually achieve anything I don't mind serving on them. When they turn into places where people meet to talk a lot and nothing ever happens I rapidly lose interest in them.

We had a contractor come in and lay multiple layers of waterproofing material across the entire roof. I'm not sure exactly what it was, only that it was the same stuff he laid across the porch roof and as far as I can tell neither of them have let in any water in a very long time. We used to get...

Anything that keeps the rain on the outside is good with me. We have a metal roof over part of the house and the original flat wooden roof (coated with many layers of waterproofing materials) over the rest. We got tired of having the roof patched only for rainwater to flow over the patch and...

I didn't watch the debate. I was interested to see the New York Times this morning, hardly a right-wing mouthpiece, saying more or less that Biden's performance was a disaster and Democrats are worried now. Curiously it mentioned a poll that said well over half of voters don't plan to change...