I got a candle warmer about 10 years ago, for less than a “specialized” coffee mug warmer, and it worked great. Ultimately, though, I upgraded to a 5-cup Bonavita brewer that allows me to place the conical filter holder directly on my double-walled stainless steel mug. I’m a sipper (rapid caffeine metabolizer based on…

What surprises me is that this is happening under the most pro-business, anti-consumer administration since before Teapot Dome. I sure hope whoever at the FTC finally got around to enforcing a law that’s been on the books since 1975 doesn’t up and retire so the agency can go back to ignoring it.

I’m on a private well with delicious, but very hard water. I use vinegar to remove scale from things sometimes, but more often use food grade citric acid powder in solution. Unlike white vinegar, CA has no odor. I bought a bag of it on Amazon. I add a small amount to a wine glass with pesky red wine stains on the…

Here in Alaska, it’s shoes off in everyone’s house. Same in Hawai’i, but easier because they just wear slippahs.

This works: https://greenhealthycooking.com/instant-pot-rice/ Note the 1:1 rice:water ration no matter what kind of rice. The only variable is cook time (including cool down time).

Do your research: the active ingredient in Tylenol PM, other than the non-NSAID analgesic acetaminophen, *is* the sedating antihistamine diphenhydramine. Which is the same thing as Benadryl! Anyone who pays extra for Tylenol PM, or even “name brand” Benadryl, is a fool. Generic diphenhydramine is like a penny a pill.…

Do you use a straw? Cause otherwise the head tip as you quaff would be a real tip off.

He’s probably cool with it as long as Trump and Stormy didn’t dine together afterwards without a chaperone.

You had me at “apotheosis.”

What Amazon Prime Two-Day Shipping Really Means, Prime Members in ALASKA Edition:

And my DNA is 50% Scottish.

Not a fast v. slow internet trick, but more an internet v. no internet trick: At hotels that charge for WiFi (the odds of this being true vary directly with room rates), it is sometimes possible to capture a free WiFi connection on your device in the lobby or bar, and maintain the connection as you go back to your…

I don’t care how many times you tell me to do it: I’m not going to wear sunscreen from mid-September through March. That half the year, folks!

I beg to differ. Just like ALL OF US, in this country he was innocent unless/until PROVEN guilty. And the cops don’t get to serve on the jury. Whether he was involved at all in a property crime, the real point is that he, like ALL OF US, deserved due process, not sudden death.

Keep in mind that the police were only supposed to be looking for someone who, at worst, was committing property crimes. Yet they managed to escalate that into the taking of an innocent man’s life. Having your car broken into sucks, but nothing like being dead forever. If I owned one of the damaged cars and heard that…

I am almost always seated in the exit row. And I don’t want to find that my seatmates are drunk. Seriously, the last thing the other humans on the plane need is someone blocking the emergency exit, fumbling around, disoriented and clueless, because they almost slept through the security briefing (harder to do these…

Must be nice to be on an expense account. I work for you, which means I get a set amount of per diem that varies by location. It is not enough to cover drinks and other entertainment, just the extra cost of food on the road as compared to food at home.

I’m currently on my fourth and fifth manual transmission Subarus here in Alaska, USA. I hate, hate, hate, trying to drive automatics on snow and ice.

Huge embedded assumption here that does not apply to me: this only works if senders and recipients are in the same time zone, or at least only an hour or two off. I’m in Alaska and my work covers six US time zones (and sometimes even colleagues working in Guam and American Samoa, a day ahead of me). Many of my…

I have exactly one app connected to my account, which is otherwise very locked down, and I am the only one who can see that app. I use Facebook mainly to stay connected to friends from the many places I’ve lived over my life, and also (via closed groups) for several of my interests and hobbies. Also, Facebook Purity…