You posted this a year ago, but too bad, here I am, bustin in here like the koolaid man.

I had one of these for years and LOVED IT. It was the 2 slice toaster, 1 egg poacher, also by West Bend, and apparently they discontinued that model. I actually bought a toaster oven this weekend, because they discontinued it and I…

Frozen waffles with yogurt is one of my easy breakfasts I’ve done since childhood. I don’t eat it every day, but I always come back to it. Total bummer. It feels almost healthy, but I guess it's not even a little...

A friend of mine studied abroad in Spain, and also just immediately lost a ton of weight. Said they ate just a ton of fresh food there. Something about anecdata, but there does seem to be something here, doesn’t there?

Oh gosh I didn’t know there were different cursive systems. I learned cursive in the third grade, and was told, in no uncertain terms, that I would have to use it for everything for the rest of my life. Then I went on to fourth grade and largely never used it again. I developed my own signature — mostly real cursive,…

A game like Wordscapes is my actual bedtime story. Sometimes I’ll also listen to a chill podcast for a little while (LeVar Burton Reads, anyone?) but laying in the dark playing a few rounds of a word game with a screen darkening app and I’m out like a light. I’m sleepy just thinking about it. Just the perfect amount…

I’m not sure whether they tweak the randomizer or not, but they don’t need to. There’s a reason people play slot machines. Skinner boxes; random rewards are addictive and do weird things to our lizard brains. The right level of randomness can make it feel like skill instead of luck, and makes it satisfying to win, and…

I have some JBuds Airs I got on Black Friday last year for the same price as these. JLabs won’t support them since I don’t have my receipt, but they have a known issue with disconnecting when nothing is playing (“earbuds joined” alert plays every 10-15 seconds after my podcast runs out). I might have to get in on this.

I have some JBuds Airs I got on Black Friday last year for the same price as these. JLabs won’t support them since I…

I keep a dog hammock in my back seat. Bully mix of some sort, and she slobbers like a full blooded bulldog. She gets so excited at the dog park she blows bubbles. I've just resigned myself to slobber everywhere until it's time to trade in the car, hahaha

Tired, maybe? I dunno, I’m always suuuuper careful with my CPUs. They’re expensive, and delicate. If I’m not at least a bit anxious while applying thermal grease, I’ve become too complacent, and someone should come slap me to get the adrenaline rushing back in.

I guess the only kind we get here is the kind that ships well :C

I haven’t traveled internationally yet, but I when I went to Maui for a week (the closest I’ve been to out of the country lol, I’m working on it, I have a passport), the regular-ass grocery store the locals shopped at was king. The groceries were still absurdly expensive, like 2-3 times what I pay at home, but it let…

It’s so hard to empathize with a car, it’s so easy to be mad at a faceless stranger for being such an asshole. As soon as you put a face to the person behind the wheel, they’re easier to empathize with.

I try to remember that most people — not all people, not always, sometimes people are just assholes and I acknowledge that, but most people — are doing their best. Just like you are.

It’s a grammar thing :P https://www.thoughtco.com/particles-o-and-no-2027923

My stepdad is very kind, very compassionate, and very deliberate with his speech (if not so deliberate with other things haha) — he’s a music teacher at a grade school in a poor district, and works with a lot of kids with problems, so it serves him well to speak this way.

This was an incredibly touching read. There’s something so pure about dreams — I don’t mean pure in a sense of goodness or light or anything like that, but that the emotions are pure, distilled versions of themselves. I was struck by your description of the wasteland, and it reminded me of a couple of intense dreams…

My mom, a 68 year old woman, recently embraced the separate bedroom. She’s always been a light sleeper, bad at sharing a bed. I think she slept badly for most of her adult life, whenever she had a partner.

That was my thought, too! I’ve even hit the wrong pedal before (in my defense, I was a teenager learning to drive, and I didn’t hit anything), but even with a bad reaction time, I’d expect a fender bender and some minor property damage, not crashing through the storefront!! Was he planning to gun it out of the parking…

Depends on the place. I’ve had a drive thru order recently with “green car” printed at the top of the receipt, so I know they could see me. I know the newer two order lane ones do so they can match up the order to the right car. But older ones generally don’t. Sounds like your starbucks probably has a camera, but it’s…

My stepdad’s son killed himself many years ago. He was 12. In his case, they associated it with antidepressants, which to my knowledge can make people more impulsive before they feel better, and so especially in young people can increase suicide risk.