Running the tangents is a great idea but what do you about all of the people in the way who: 1) don’t pay attention to the people around them and weave back and forth, or 2) run next to their friends in a big line across the road.

I don’t know why you say “even”. Noscript reports 17 script domains on this page.

Regarding keys: I’ve never understood keeping keys anywhere other than on your person. Anything else seems like a recipe for getting locked out of where you need to be, especially when you “just pop outside for a second”. (I do understand that women’s clothing leaves something to be desired here, but seriously, stop…

Interesting, I always assumed pesto was an Italian word for paste and referred to the texture of the sauce.

I’m about your age and growing up, J.C. Penny’s sold unfinished suits (unhemmed pants, etc) and would alter them for you as part of the price. Never used a cobbler, though.

Your emergency fund should be liquid. Investments aren’t. If you have an emergency on Friday night of a holiday weekend, you need that money now. You might not be able to cash out your investments until Tuesday. Also, pulling capital out of investments is a longer term hit than taking cash out of a bank account.

No, you remove the meat and freeze it and then boil the carcass.

But what if something is owned by multiple people named James, does that mean it is Jameses’s

If you’re really ambitious, take the remainder of the carcass and boil it in water with vegetable scraps to make your own stock, freeze this, too.

Cook the entire chicken, eat 1/4 - 1/2 of it then shred the rest of the meat off of it, put it in the freezer to use with any of the thousands of recipes that need “1 Cup cooked chicken”

I never truss mine either, they turn out fine. I rub the butter on the outside not under the skin.

re: “Decided to keep him...” This just bugs me, I know people that will see a pet animal and assume it is lost/abandoned. Seriously, (most) pets don’t get lost, they come home unless they’re prevented. There are exceptions, especially for new pets but if people would stop feeding and taking in obviously well kept pets…

Sure, but soaking a bracelet in it is going to repel the mosquitoes from one of your hands, that’s not particularly useful.

The food is the expensive part. Our venue cost us $100, but our catering was $5k. (200 guests)

I don’t think the trick is that if you don’t know then you’re lying. The trick is that it disrupts the chain of the story and picking up the story in the middle is harder if it’s a lie than if it’s the truth.

I really hate the “1 medium eggplant” thing. How big is a medium eggplant?

8 “perfect” shuffles (interleaving one card from each hand at a time) gets you back to the start IF you always end with the original top card still on top. If you alternate which card ends up on top then it takes a lot more than 8. (I figured it out once but I can’t find my results right now, it was either a bit over…

I think it was “The Family Tree Problem Solver” but it could have been a different book from the library.

I cannot find a reference for referring a group of people by their widowhood. I would probably punt and go with “the widowed”. I only mentioned it because you twice used “widower” to refer to the woman (and the first time I read it I thought maybe he had hooked up with a man, I thought the story was going in a…

I mostly agree. I know several people who have lost a spouse and the best advice seems to be “no life altering decisions in the first year” Don’t sell the house (unless you have to), don’t throw everything away, don’t get married. You’re too messed up to make good decisions.