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  1. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    The kitchen work is done and everything is put back in place. Aside from a couple of minor imperfections in the wallpaper where I had to cut it to get the coving removed you'd struggle to see what I'd done there. But the nasty strip light is gone and a new downlight is in place and working, and...
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    Heart Issues among US military up nearly 1000%

    Remarkable. You'd almost be forgiven for thinking something was done to military people around the early 2020s that would cause such a thing.
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    Kiss say farewell to live touring

    I agree. If I'm going to pay through the nose for a ticket I want the atmosphere of being there, not a video screening that looks kinda-sorta-like I was there.
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    Does sarcasm necessarily mean sinful?

    Depends on the usage of it. Sometimes sarcasm can be fun, satirical etc. Sometimes it can be used to put someone down and hurt them. Even if it's deserved it's not necessarily helpful.
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    Snow Blower

    A snow blower doesn't work very well on my driveway. It's not all that big so when it snows we share the shoveling work with next door. It's a shared driveway, with our houses close by so running a blower just means throwing snow at one of the houses. If we get a huge dumping of snow one of...
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    Christmas cards

    It's nice to get Christmas cards, although when sending them to people at church we use the church mailboxes rather than paying the post office to get them to the same place. We've massively cut down on how many we send out, because it can get expensive especially when sending several of them...
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    After working on the house my suggested workout was three threshold-level intervals. I managed to get them done but it felt harder than it should have, and the day was just a little bit chilly for the run. I should have worn a warmer top, but didn't realise that until I was far enough in that I...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Today I got a load of holes in the wall patched. The biggest one was so big it could have taken an entire bucket of cement to fill it and was in a difficult location to get at, so I stuffed it with fiberglass instead. Then I got polystyrene cut to size for most of the gaps, and cut some...
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    People who bought a house:

    Half a door. Our last house had a few boards across the rafters in the attic, most of which weren't much use as flooring because they didn't match the spaces very well so you had to be careful not to stand too near the edges. Then there was the half-door that kinda-sorta acted as a bit of...
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    Christmas Shopping

    I get something for my wife. She gets everything else. We don't tend to exchange gifts in any meaningful way with very many people, which suits me fine. It seems like an ongoing headache trying to figure out what to get someone, going from place to place trying to find something suitable, not to...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Lots of fog today so my run can wait until the afternoon. Even wearing a bright orange top seems like a suboptimal situation when I can go later on. It also means it will have chance to warm up a bit before I run. While I wait for the fog to lift I can enjoy filling lots of gaps in the wall.
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    Customer service experience

    Often it seems there's an army of lackeys in the way, whose primary goal is to be really nice but utterly ineffective at solving the problem. There's no point shouting at them because they can't do anything but a key part of their job is to deter you from pushing the matter any further. Then...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Today's fun project. Firstly taking down a section of lath and plaster wall without spreading plaster dust throughout the kitchen. That was mostly successful, although a couple of pieces pinged unexpected and landed on the floor. That revealed a number of gaps in the wall, including one huge...
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    Donate Food

    Generally not. I've often thought that grocery stores are as much a beneficiary of food banks as anyone else. People pay full price for an item or two while the stores get the publicity for allowing collection there (as if they'd refuse, given the enticement for people to buy additional items)...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    On taking a closer look I found I can't insulate the pipes because there isn't enough space around them, so I put the first piece of coving back and took down the second piece. Tomorrow I get to pull down the lath and plaster wall tucked away behind the coving. I hate lath and plaster walls, but...
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    Customer service experience

    I suspect you'd struggle to find anyone who hasn't had a bad customer service experience at some point. Usually it relates to a call center where you spend half an hour hearing how important your call is to them before being connected to someone who can barely speak English, doesn't understand...
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    Christmas Tree

    My wife has a small artificial one that she likes. I like a real tree but don't like needles everywhere, and we want to avoid having stuff falling on the floor that might harm the cat. So an artifical pre-lit tree it is. She usually puts it up right after Thanksgiving.
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    Free prison phone calls

    Maybe up to a point, as long as the prisoner's conduct is within certain bounds. It's important that prison be a rehabilitative process, but it's also important that it's a punishment. If there are things a prisoner can earn through good behavior it gives an incentive to earn them, rather than...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    This morning the kitchen is warmer than it has been in years, even with the heating set to the same level. But the adjacent section of wall, the one I haven't worked on yet, is still showing signs of cold spots. I wasn't entirely sure whether opening that up would be necessary or just worth...
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    NameDrop

    Sounds like the early days of Bluetooth when you could send stuff to random people because most people didn't turn it off on their phones. Some days I'd pass the time on a long train ride by seeing what Bluetooth devices were nearby and sending them a "contact". It didn't take long to figure...
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