And it’s not going to be good (or safe) firewood until it’s dried out in any event.

I’ve been hit a couple of times. Nine years ago, it required a hip replacement. The driver had (he said) parked his truck for the Winter and taken it off his own insurance, so he was uninsured when he hit me in the Spring. My own UI/UI motorist insurance kicked in and helped, but I was still looking at north of…

That’s the formula for hushaboom, the silent explosive.  U235 and a pinch of salt.

Pretty sure these have been around for a while. Back in the early XP days, I used Alt-PrtScn all the time when writing software documentation, and all of these seem to work on Win10 as well.

It’s important to note that some cities and towns require certificates of occupancy before a landlord can let an apartment.  (1) Check to see if your jurisdiction requires such a certificate; (2) If so, check to make sure that the landlord has such a certificate.  In my state, some towns require these and some do not,…

I learned this trick while working at a software company a while back...

Here’s something to do:

That’s just the PTSD talking.

In my Mr. Fixit days (computer repair, etc.), I carried a Victorinox swiss army knife—the lieutenant model, I think. I still have it, but an Opinel carbon steel is my current tool of preference. The blade can be locked open or closed, and carbon steel is much easier to sharpen than stainless.

My pocket wallet (tiny) contains a driver’s license and a personal credit card, a couple of coffee cards, and a few dollars. It’s also a nice place to put receipts, which I need for my business.

Pretty sure that’s what joey-taps meant. That you can’t (generally) retrieve meaningful data from a drive, even though you can certainly pop it into another device and read data from it. In order to get meaningful data from that drive, you’d need (at a minimum) the decryption key.

Since device encryption and BitLocker are not available on Windows Home editions, most Windows users will need a third-party encryption app to protect their PCs and local hard drives .

Consider a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).  It will make your life much easier.  Take it from a 50-year T1.

This will be a challenge for some PCs (especially laptops) and impossible on certain tablets and hybrid devices like the Microsoft Surface.

By ‘make one,’ I meant the sissy bar, not the saddle. If you can find a saddle like that, you can surely find or bend a sissy bar to fit.

That’s a banana seat, alright, just of a more specialized type.  I don’t know of any that are being made, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot.  You’d just need to find a sissy bar of appropriate height (or make one or have one made) to support the rear section of the seat.

You mean a banana seat? You might be able to fit one to a modern bike, but they’re not without their problems. See:

I’ve never owned an aluminum or CF bike—I am the man of steel, largely for economic reasons—but I’ve heard stories. All I can say is that the Flyer was comfortable out of the box and looks pretty good on the bike.

You may not need the split--some people really like them, others hate them--but a hard saddle is likely to help.