Yeah, the maintenance on “living fences” starts to be onerous at some point. I have one arborvitae-like thing flanking my garage and it’s hit the point where I don’t own a ladder big enough (and I have big ladders) to safely keep it tidy.

This looks like just one more thing for the cable company installers to come by and cut in half the next time they’re around.  Xfinity has left one of my properties a wasteland of chopped-off ends of rooftop antennas and disconnected grounding lines where I’ve had the temerity to use the same coax access point that…

I’m actually shocked that it’s taken Amazon this long to enforce their policies, especially on companies with such a significant presence.

I... don’t think em- and en-dashes are real things. I think they’re largely ways for people with too much time on their hands to get overly specifc about “50 ways to use a hyphen for fun and profit.”

Ugh. Yes. We went with Lowes, I think, but same basic deal. I hated every minute of the hour it took me up there standing on my new bathroom vanity trying vainly to coax wires into the right place behind the paper-thin sheet-metal fascia without letting the whole thing flex enough that it’d bend the damn fascia in…

Yep.  We are in a REALLY strange time in the real estate cycle where it is ABSOLUTELY a seller’s market. 

On a stove, the entire heat source is located directly underneath the pot, maybe 1/2" away (electric or gas - same setup)

My father had ownership interest in a good handful of properties, largely in um... less-desireable parts of town. My brother and I were frequently in the maintenance and clean-out squad because he didn’t have to pay us more than lunch.

You have skills.
I’m a fan of one “community bag” for each hotel stop - roll in, unload ONE bag into your room, sleep, load up and carry ONE bag back to the car in the morning.

Agree strongly with most all of this (especially the “no screens in your lap!” bit as we do have a barfer).

I said that about my ‘83 Plymoth Horizon with the stereo speakers screwed into some poorly-done cutouts in the dash trim.

I was coming back east across I-80 in Wyoming during the usual white-out blizzard, and WYODOT closed 80 and routed everybody through Medicine Bow. I was following a semi pretty closely because I could see the lights on the back of the trailer and I figured he had bigger lights than my little Saturn and probably could…

Does it actually matter? Given the current state of Amazon, it’s the same 5 random items offered under 6,000 different algorithmically-generated random Chinese company names (“Hooforyay”, “PRODCUNI”, “TreeBicyicleCan”...).

Commentariat: Whaddya got for “larger format” masks? I never thought I had a huge face, but I’ve struggled this whole time to find a mask that gets under the chin and over the nose.

$400 should find you an Android Auto/Apple CarPlay deck in single- or double-DIN, and a decent backup camera. That’s a lot of creature comforts for the dollar (and decent safety upgrades, too, to my thinking).

$400 should find you an Android Auto/Apple CarPlay deck in single- or double-DIN, and a decent backup camera. That’s…

I’m on board with the tire pressure gauge, rag, and the Rain-X washer fluid, but $190 jumper cables? Whoa, nelly!

I’m on board with the tire pressure gauge, rag, and the Rain-X washer fluid, but $190 jumper cables? Whoa, nelly!

Yes.

When, exactly, has the human race ever skipped on an excuse to throw a party?

Wow. That’s amazing.

No, no - I see the light.

No, no - I see the light.