Thank God. A Separate Peace is just bad. I hated it in high school, and a few years later, I actually stumbled across another copy of it at home that was from one or the other of *my* parents’ high school educations, and both of them were like “god, yeah, that book was awful”. 

Nah, A Separate Peace is just bad. I hated it in high school, and a few years later, I actually stumbled across another copy of it that was from one or the other of *my* parents’ high school educations, and both of them were like “god, yeah, that book was awful”.

This is an interesting point. The original antenna mast (screws onto a piece mounted to the roof) on my ‘03 Corolla was really beat up and falling apart, and I finally lost most of it on the highway in to work the other week. Bought a replacement, and yeah, one of the things I noticed is that it’s even harder to get a…

Yeah, the tape player on my ‘03 Corolla died several years ago, and if I’d realized I was still gonna have the car 3ish(?) years on, I might’ve pulled the trigger on an aftermarket stereo after all.

when you’re at a restaurant, before 8pm, and the person next to your table is drunk and talking shit about their coworkers and cussing up a storm

My biggest problem with it was Toyota then bringing that same shit into like, Corollas and Camrys and stuff, and everything else around that time. It’s moving slightly away, but not completely gone I think. Still too wonky. And based on some of the other threads in here, it looks like an infection that’s spread to…

I didn’t finish my PhD, but not gonna lie, while in grad school I bought a t-shirt that says “GRAD SCHOOL: It seemed better than getting a real job”...

“Well, actually...”

I see no BBQ Recipe Beef either, which, while the meat is meh, the BBQ sauce is IMO not bad. For better or worse, that’s the flavor that gets a place in my freezer as “emergency backup work lunch option”.

You don’t write down your ten or so ideas and then try to write your way through it because if your great idea is in the movie you get a bonus. You look at how to write a good story and make it into a coherent script.

Dang it, I coulda gone with the Ford Flex as ‘inspiration’ for my son’s Pinewood Derby car when he first gave me a drawing that was a rectangle with section out out the front (I was thinking with the proportions of the block and his proposed design, it’d be schoolbus, but he didn’t want that).

Yeah, I hear you. I work in a small office (small company, but owns its own buildings - they’re just not super large), and we dunno HOW the breakroom is wired. Apparently they already had an electrician out to change which circuit one of the plugs we use for the 2 microwaves is on, and it still isn’t enough all the…

And one last thing: There is no such thing as the St. Louis style bagel. This was a publicity stunt perpetuated by St. Louis-based Panera Bread (known within the 314 area code as the St. Louis Bread Company).

I dunno, I wonder if individual mini-fridges would help cut down on the “office lunch thief” thing, since said fridges would be under more observation by their owners...

Yeah, I keep mine in a plastic tub with a snap-on lid on a side table next to my desk. (And usually have other stuff on top of the lid, cuz I’m just messy with papers and stuff like that.)

I mean, compared to what we usually read about for his Moab projects, this was an unqualified success, although yes long, arduous, and exhausting. 

I had a boss who, at least on her previous cars, in like city/(sub)urban driving, would shift down from D to 2 to 1 in her automatic transmission car to slow down for say a stop sign or whatever. She told me this, and I was like “...are you crazy?” I should’ve mentioned the “brake pads are cheaper than transmissions”…

Sounds like roughly the same method as the instructor I had, although his also included specific spots like center of your headrest lined up with something on the back seat or out the rear window to use for setting your angles - he swore by this system as lining you up right every time, and keeping it simpler in that…

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