Common problem. I only go into costco with a list and never shop the middle unless it’s on my list, like socks. This avoids all of the snacks/chips. I can and do go in for only milk, rot. chx, and a salad. My wife however, cannot go into costco without getting an extra case of gatorade, forgetting that we don’t need…

Just because something is on sale does not mean you have the money in your pocket to buy it. This is when I advocate for carrying some cash. Of you set a monthly limit that works for your budget and you put that cash in your pocket, you can have impulse buys guilt free, but still limited by the actual cash in your…

As a husband and father of three young ones, eating out alone, going to a movie alone, and just general being out in the world alone is always wonderful. I will always belly up to the bar and ask for a food menu for the exact reasons you say.

Thanks! been thinking about just using one of my Pi’s and 3d printing something, but I love the fact that Odroid Go Advance is a kit I can do with my kid and will be more following instructions than me winging it. I mean, I could, but now I don’t have to, and this will be a better end product anyway.

Netflix only streams in 4k UHD if you pay extra and have the proper internet speeds. Hulu and Amazon are much more liberal with their superior video. That said anything streamed is going to be a little off and the disc is best, not that I own a player or any discs. I up my netflix subscription right before I want to…

Yup, best advice, right there.

Close, I’m first year millenial born in 85. My older sis was born 81 and is an X. I like to say that the difference is one where we were born into a world that by age 5 was dominated by computers, I could type before I could write. Older generations built the internet, but we shaped it, Instant messanger, getting our…

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Should have gone larger in the sedan. I need a no frills car that fits 3 carseats accross. 3rd row suvs suck because you have to fold forward 2nd row to get to 3rd.

After having to wipe my mother’s computer again recently I took an old raspberry pi and made it a pi-hole on their network. It has really helped, and they have no clue it’s there. I also removed her admin privileges. She knows the password to the admin account, but her normal account can’t install anything.

Sorry that I’m late to the party, but I waited far too long to get Lasik surgery. I spent my youth behind glasses or in contacts from age 5. Until this year I had never known what it was like to just wake up and see. I maxed out my medical flex spending, and the remainder was 0 percent interest for 18 months at around…

I feel like people who know me (and would then be texting me) know that my ok is a friendly. Got it, sure, and fine, are the ones that carry a connotation.

My biggest gripe is that it does not remember where you left off in a series. Every damn time I went to turn on mickey roadsters my girls would yell that they just watched that one (s1e1).

No mention of a DIY solution with your own NAS? If you have big files to share, there’s a good chance you have a NAS of some kind.

I taught my kid tic tac toe early on. The problem is I showed her how to either win or tie every time, so we cannot play together anymore because no one wins. But I forgot about the dot game! Totally going to do this with her.

As a guy who has leg hair that casts its own shadow and has a wife with hairy enough arms for the teasing described here at a young age I appreciate this article. We have two little girls and the 5 year old got the hairy gene. Now I know a bit more how to think about it.

There are a lot of people getting a lot less than that these days. Industries that are slow to downsize spread their raise pool money so thin it often ends up at 2%. Mine has had 5 years of 1.5% pools. I get more because I get promotions and there have to be winners and losers, but there are a lot of people who lose…

So much this. Lisa’s response to you that it is depressing means she’s out of touch with what a lot of people go through. I am on year 5 of a 1.5% raise pool. I get more than the pool because there have to be winners and losers, but I’m only surviving on promotion and title increases. I am in a position that sees the…

As someone who has access to it all the time I too do not think it is the end all be all, but there are a lot of people doing border runs all the same.

Reminds me of the entire subculture of people in Illinois and Minnesota who cross over into Wisconsin to export New Glarus beer.