My favorite Halloween quick read is “Dead Trees Give N0 Shelter” in audiobook format, read by the author, Wil Wheaton. Just of an hour and half of spooky, twilight zone style chills.

I don’t remember the airline but we were flying home from Texas to Southern California. The crew was my pregnant wife, my 1 year old, my 4 year old and my 5 year old, and me. We were supposed to fly from San Antonio to Houston to Orange County. Before boarding we were told that our flight was cancelled, but we could…

I know this is evil week and all, but teaching kids that it is ok to lie to their family about what they are consuming is a bit too evil for me.

From the verizon website announcement it is only unlimited plans.  Any of their other plans (shared data, family, kids, prepaid, etc) will not get Disney+ for free.  :(

Been making my own laundry soap for years. Borax, washing soda, and a bar of laundry soap. Super easy to make (takes like 5 minutes) and a makes enough to do a bunch of loads cause only a little is needed per load.  I’ve haven’t priced it recently, but the last time I did it was less than a nickel per load.  

Been making my own laundry soap for years. Borax, washing soda, and a bar of laundry soap. Super easy to make (takes…

It was enlightening to do a google image search of a celebrity, and then send a bunch of different shots of the same person to the system, and see all different classifications.

If you have a bunch of accounts already setup, and don’t want to go through the effort of updating the email address for all of them.  You can also create filters on aspects other than email address.  Emails that have a specific subject (“Payment Confirmation”) or something similar can be forwarded as well.

I very rarely use cash, but I do find a lot of coins on the ground.  I’m kind of in a mixed position.  I save the coins up for a specific purpose, and spend them as soon as I hit that amount.  My current purpose is lunch at Del Taco.  It usually takes me around a month to find enough coins to enjoy some chicken…

Even better. Why give access to the service I want, when I give access to a middle man instead? Maybe I’m backward, but I don’t have a Venmo, or Betterment or Coinbase because they want me to give them full access to my bank account. They can log in as ME the super user for the account. They do whatever they want…

Deal breaker at give them my bank account login information. Even if they are completely on the up and up. That means that some database in some cloud somewhere has my bank account information. If it has thousands of bank accounts (which is likely) then it is a very high profile target for a breach. No thank you, I’ll…

I use overdrive because the last time I checked Libby didn’t work with Android Auto.  Hmm... maybe I should check again.

I used to ask this question more, but got tired of the “insert most expensive thing on menu here” answer.  Most servers figure you are going to tip based on cost of meal, so if they can jack up the cost of meal, they can jack up their tip.

I also think that a bit of sunshine is good for Vitamin D. Also that having something to look at that isn’t 6 inches in front of their face is also a good thing.

My favorite place to put peanut butter is in pancake batter. Make a batch of standard pancake batter.  Then add a few scoops of chocolate protein powder and a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter.  Add enough milk to make it smooth like batter again, and make like normal pancakes.  Eat them right then, or put them…

The only useful thing I can see for this, is unexpected loss of a job. If you need help to cover the gap between jobs.  This only works if you are able to quickly find a new job.  Better plan would be to have a safety net of a few months rents saved up.

Amazing what you can do with taxes if you don’t spend it all on industrialized murder.

I’m torn on this issue.  I’ve always thought that being an example honesty and integrity to my kids was very important. So we never sneak food into theaters, we pay adult price for tickets once they hit the “adult” age, etc. But what this means is that we go to fewer and fewer movies. We now spend our time doing other…

Isn’t a donation to a political campaign by definition a donation to a scam?

I’m sober, and never had it be an issue while dating. To be fair, I’m not recovering, I just turn into a complete asshole when I drink, so I don’t drink. Because of that, I have no problems being around drinking. In fact most people didn’t notice that I’m sober until several dates had passed. When it came up, I…

I wonder if the MAGAts will take this as a challenge, and it will start to be come a thing.  In a few months will you even be able to go an amusement park, and not have some slimeball with a banner on every ride?