My mom's place (about 100 miles from me) has a water heater that's of an age where it could fail, so I put together a Pico W and a water sensor. I had it notify me daily just to make sure it was still working. And for reasons unknown, every 8 days it would stop notifying. A reboot would resolve it. We tried logging errors and having it report upon reboot but I wasn't versed enough with Pi to figure out anything more than it being an HTTP POST error. So I changed the code so when it got to that error instead of logging it would just reboot itself, and all has been smooth since.
Quail can be put to sleep by tucking the head forward and under a wing (this can be a bit of a struggle at first), then grasping the leg on the same side and gently pulling it away from the body and pushing it in toward the body. Pulse the leg about 10 times or so like this and the quail will relax and go limp.
I find all this kind of strange. She was an adult, and perfectly capable of putting herself on the donor registry. It's a checkbox, IIRC, on your driver's license application or renewal. Why then did the parents have any decision making power on it?
As much as the father sounds a bit unhinged, I wonder if the hospital really was trying all avenues to get her organs donated.
My knees often feel strain when going in an extended downstairs or downhill, and I've found walking backwards downhill (not stairs; too risky) helps relieve that.
I'm guessing it's because they have UPS stores consolidating returns into bigger boxes, which reduces the return cost per item. Then the returns get packed into pallets which are sold.
It's too costly to ship the item back. For small items this is a no brainer, and for very large items as well. There's a sweet spot where the return cost not so high as to kill the profit and the item can still be resold - packaged electronics come to mind.
I haven't carried a purse since my teens and it's absolutely a struggle to find a pair of pants that values function over some dumb designer's idea of fashionable style. I'm pretty sure it's the designers who want women to have smooth lines unbroken by practical things like keys, and underwear.
Whenever I find a pair of jeans that are, as you described, straight leg, 4 pockets of a size large enough to fit my phone comfortably and my wallet (yes I use a men's slim wallet), not sparkly or embroidered, I will buy a half dozen and pray my weight won't change too much. (Asking for a good fabric in top of that is just too much now.)
I can see mincing garlic or herbs as being a lot of small cuts, but more like 50-75. I think a person might get up to 500/day if they're finely chopping something for all 3 meals, but I don't think that's average.
I'd appreciate it more if they could get people to stop clustering around the entrance to the line to the skybridge. I always end up thinking I'm standing in line when I'm actually behind someone in boarding group Z who's hovering there so they can be first in their group.
Exactly. One time I skipped out in 2-3 years of cleaning while dithering on finding a dentist in the new area I moved to. She presented me with an estimate involving about 8 fillings. (I had specifically asked her to keep to the necessary ones.) Shocked, I went back to my old dentist for a second opinion. He told me most of them must be just replacing amalgams with porcelain because he couldn't find any actual new decay.
To be fair I don't really have any real problems with my teeth apart from having had an overeager/greedy childhood dentist who put in a ton of fillings, making for a lifetime of occasionally having to redo one and needing 2 crowns.
I switched to Apagard about 8 months ago. My hygienist seemed happy about it. I like the fact that it's not overwhelmingly minty like most American toothpastes and doesn't foam up too much. I think if I manage to avoid needing new fillings or a redo for 6-7 years (about the frequency at which I need one) I would consider it a good switch.
I like art deco and when I finally became a homeowner in 2008 I spent a couple years replacing the stuff I'd had since college. Craigslist got me an expandable dining table, a mahogany record cabinet with ancient player (made by Motorola!), a credenza, an armoire, a cedar blanket chest, and a china cabinet. Everything was $100-$350 each and a total of about $1350 for all. Solid wood, beautiful inlay work, and will outlast me.
Almost everything from IKEA is particle board or MDF. If it's solid wood it will be priced higher - even pine. I have a couple of particle board items from them and they are definitely heavier compared to actual wood.
Kaiser keeps sending me bills for a pair of non-emergency visits that happened 6 months ago. They're small amounts, but it's crazy that it seems to take months for Kaiser's insurance to decide how much they're going to pay for various labs.
I've been using their spreadsheet for over 5 years. I send them $50 every year or two, it's a lot cheaper than MS Office/Excel and does everything I need.
Vir was a kicked puppy most of the time, ended up with solid steel cojones, somehow still looking like a kicked puppy. When he tells Morden how he wants to see his head on a pike and wave is just a jaw dropping moment. I really enjoyed the series arc. In many sci fi series I find the spicy characters get bland over time as they eventually settle their differences, but B5 always kept that settling hairline-thin, especially between G'Kar and Londo.
I used Sync for the last couple years and having it for Lemmy is great. It feels like I'm browsing Reddit and has made the transition much easier. I wish I could leave Reddit entirely, but there are a couple of subs that don't yet have an equivalent on Lemmy.
This is a key difference. Even though the trail down the Grand Canyon has a lot of elevation change, it's well maintained and pretty smooth. I went about halfway down in sneakers no problem. Rocky stuff, even a little, are ankle twisters and having support is important. Back when I used to hunt, it was mostly flat but sometimes rough terrain and walking along/up/down rocky slopes. Sometimes there is no trail, you're crashing through brush. My favorites were LL Bean boots - about 6", laced a little loose so there was some freedom of movement but support if it was needed. Leather because snakes.
The only time I've seen pilling on cotton is when it's a cotton/poly blend. 100% cotton doesn't, or at least not in my experience of wearing cotton Ts (mostly 100, occasionally cotton/poly) for the past 10 years.
They have a bunch of neutral's games, which I'm very happy to see. They've made some of the best escape the room games I've ever played. Neutral is still actively developing (https://neutralx0.net/) but I don't think they've ported their old stuff over.
Edit: I tried to load a few but unfortunately none of them actually work. Tried a game from another dev I like and though the game loads, the screen is cut off so you can't see all your inventory.
When you have one person who's experienced with tech, it's easy for the one who isn't to lean on them for tech stuff. A relative of mine let her boyfriend set up everything, then later lost access to everything, as she hadn't kept track of passwords. It could have been a much more nasty situation if the breakup had been on very bad terms or if the bf was particularly vindictive.