That’s an interseting point. I’ve always thought that there’s a whole UNIVERSE that they could be writing about with Star Wars and not have to fall back on the OT characters / story arc.

The best way to reduce the indoor pollution from gas ranges is to get serious about ventilation. Strangely, even though gas dryers and furnaces are required to vent to outdoors, gas stoves are often not.

The two burning questions:

It’s true. Even when you’re not flipping but just trying to maximize the sale of your own home, spending the money on getting the walls and trim repainted seems like it’s a good investment. It makes things look completed and that’s something that makes a good first impression on a buyer.

Last year we decided to do one single zucchini plant after being innundated for the previous few years. That damn thing still took over half of the 4x8 box I had it in and was good for at least 10 pounds /a week/ during the season.

My wife wants to buy a travel trailer because her childhood featured one. I can’t get behind that because

I use Logitech trackballs (M570 and M575).  My trackballs go at least a year on a single AA.  This is not an “all wireless mice” problem in the least.

...because... why?

You just described my childhood to a T.  The Grand Marquis wagon didn’t come along until I hit high school, but cross-country in the back of Dad’s truck was a core part of my childhood (as was losing my favorite General Lee Matchbox car through the body/bed gap.

The impact driver linked is intended to be hit with a hammer.  I have the same one.  What I see marketed here is a “more delicate” version of a standard impact driver - mine’s definitely too much for a stock #2 Philips screw.

I second your opinions about glass. I got so fed up at the state of the whiteboards in our office that I
(a) stole a piece of frosted-glass shelving from some display cabinet nobody was using and used that as my personal desk “whiteboard”

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Their description of the “WAN/LAN Port” makes me think there is no wired backhaul on this:

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.”

Wyoming is trying the same basic tactic: suing states that don’t buy coal-generated electricity.

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.