IKEA is a fun place to go!

option 3 - yell out to your husband for urgent help from the bedroom in the morning after pre-hooking and trying to pull it on with the clasps attached but you just got out of the shower and now it’s stuck and twisted and you’re suffocating.

I will wear athletic tights under shorts semi-regularly in public.  It’s not a change you wish to see.

Semii related:  last week I learned that I can clean the clothes washing machine with dish washer detergent.  After it sat for 3 weeks without fully draining it stank.

Back when I proposed to my wife (24 years ago) two months salary wasn’t buying her squat - she got a nice 1/8 carat solitaire it was the most I could reasonably afford.

I worked out of a office building that was ~90%+ women out of maybe 500 people. There was a sheet cake going in there everyday for month - engagement cake, about to be married cake, baby shower cake, retirement cake, divorce cake. Everyday we’d line up for that building and there’d be a full size cake going in.

not when you’re paying for the cake

Wasn’t it Chery that made a clone of the Chevy Spark(?) that was so much of a copy you could swap the doors between the cars perfectly?

You should three way match for a reason:

MRI’s may have changed - I know my parents travelled to Buffalo for a knee image to speed things up - but that was over a decade ago.

there is a ‘fair’ point about wait lists here in Canada.  But if you need to see a specialist and it is truly urgent you’ll get seen quickly.  If you’re not as urgent it may be longer.  MRI’s are the one thing that I know take longer for whatever reason.

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as a Vancouver based junior mining CEO this is likely some of the least shady stuff he’s ever done.

we went to Morton’s in Seattle ~15 years ago and spent $3,000 between the 8 of us and nobody was drinking. Between inflation and throw in some bottles of wine and $7,600 is easy to get to.

I have a Lodge braiser and it’s really nice. My ‘french’ oven is a Martha Stewart one that was on sale.

the cheap ‘cracked wheat’ bread is my favourite bread for a toasted tomato sandwich.  That, good tomatoes, some quality mayo and a sprinkle of montreal steak spice and you’re close to perfection.

A 6 quart enameled cast iron dutch oven - it cost me $65 and included a matching enameled iron trivet.

Not including their onion rings in this blog is a serious mistake.

at a work dinner many years ago the president of the company and my steak got mixed up. I was four bites into his well done steak when he started to complain his was rare.

ours was loud enough that you’d wake the dead. When it died (which as a panic inducing trauma) I was quite okay with having to replace it.