That would indeed be securing a can. There are a lot of variants of those out there, and they are pretty cheap, so there is no excuse for not using them.

Just don’t leave any kind of can or bottle uncovered, period.

Bottles with resealable lids. Accept no substitutes.

I wish that I had read that simple advice before my Grandfather died a couple of decades ago. Mind you, saying that to him would have made him die even sooner, but it would have saved years of useless arguments.

My first job, decades ago, was working maintenance at a state park in Minnesota. One of the other kids who worked there had a pathological hatred of stinging insects due to being on the receiving end of an incident the previous year.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Yep. Just replayed System Shock 2 last year with a few graphical mods installed, and never even thought about how old the game is. (Well, outside of the interface, that is, since I opted to play it vanilla and just installed graphical mods.) I followed the GOG thread on what to do, and it was quick & painless. …

Yes, that is why I left off crayfish.

I realize that it will not get a hit after doing seafood last week, but I am still holding out for shellfish. Shrimp, in particular.

. . . Or a few months later, after her first haircut:

You want fuzzy? I offer you our youngest, the day that she came home with us:

Well, at least now we know what Marco Rubio is up to after dropping out of the Presidential race.

All of our dogs are terrified of going to the vet, except for Sydney. She actually gets excited to go there. The funny part is that our other dogs are sweethearts, but Sydney is pretty high strung and gets aggressive around strangers or strange circumstances. Not so at the vet. She turns into a joyous angel for…

When we got our second-oldest dog Sydney about seven years ago, we brought her into the vet for her first examination, and the receptionist wanted to hold her. She stood there, holding our puppy, and cried like a baby.

Ye gods. All this time, and it was that easy?

This gave me a reason to like Chip Kelly.

Same here. I had never even heard of Richard Sherman before I saw far too many of my friends on Facebook posting about how they were going to root for Denver in the Superbowl just because of how he acted. Condemning an entire team over one outburst from one player seemed rather silly, so I looked it up and found out…

Denver did not have the injury problems in 1998 that Minnesota did. That is what people tend to forget. Denver also did not have Dennis Green as a coach. He simply did not have the leadership skills necessary to get the ring. The whole team performed below its regular season level in that championship game -- it…

Indeed.

Oh, he has fun with crazy projects like that. But the bulk of his stuff is figuring out how to do things as good or nearly as good, but with less effort. But he gets to go wild sometimes.