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  1. Our daughter likes Barbies or their Disney princess counterparts. We usually watch Amazon for the mini playsets, Barbie and a dessert cart, or mini Dr office/vet/salon/etc as they have more going on than just the doll. We'll buy them and use them as gifts for her friend's parties. They've always gone over well, I think. She likes the Barbies but has lately been obsessed with Polly Pockets. I think she's got 3-4 playsets right now.
  2. Watched several games so far. Officiating is definitely off this year. Overall I think the level of play is where I expected it. Although you have to hand it to Vietnam, they had an exceptional defense clinic. Especially their goalie had probably the toughest match of the ones I've caught. The Jamaica v France game was also well played by the rookie team. The ejection for the double yellow card was not correct in my eyes and they'll suffer for the bad officiating for sure with Shaw out next game.
  3. Possibly, but I consider the sweat in the garage and the crawling around the tiny assed engine bays that my Civic and CR-V as savings enough to pay someone else to fuck with them.
  4. We played this and Chinese Checkers with the couple we went with on our Alaskan cruise often enough. The kids played Unicorn Monopoly or Jenga while we were at it. Was fun.
  5. Or have the emails auto-reject the filing multiple times before you do it manually. That way they eventually see the path of least resistance is to use the actual system.
  6. Actually, a couple of drip coffee makers do the bloom now too. I have a pour-over, french press, and a traditional coffee maker. My TCM has a rain shower head type of fixture to put the water in, it heats and calibrates the temp about 5-8 mins before starting, pours some in, sits for about 30s and then continues. Makes an excellent cup, travel, or carafe of coffee every time. I sold my espresso machine as it has a "specialty brew" at 4oz and a "Forte" 8oz. With frothed milk its delicious.
  7. My sister is renting a 900 sq ft apartment in a decent area, but not great, for $1600 a month. It also has mandatory cable and internet, so she cannot opt out or go with a competing product. Her out-of-pocket for housing then is around $1790 a month. My mortgage, taxes, and utilities cost less than that. We refinanced the house three years ago at 1.8% Even with the market crazy, we've been looking at buying a second home for investment, hell even just a place my sister could pay rent. The housing market is fucking nuts. I just searched Pinellas County, removed homes over $400k, and not in 55+ communities. This was my only choice: https://redf.in/SFMdaS 3 Beds 1.5 Baths 790 Sq Ft $199,000 For a 1970s shithole of a singlewide in a crappy part of a desirable hamlet of the county. Unbelievable.
  8. If it's more than 2 days I unpack. 3-4 days it's kinda partial, a week I unpack everything. I used to be lazy putting everything away when I get home but we've gotten more efficient lately. Before we even leave the house is spotlessly cleaned. Coming home to a perfect clean house is rather cathartic. Then we unpack, sorting and doing laundry right away. The transition of vacation to home seems to be best for us this way.
  9. Ditto on this, sister had a 97 and it was a steaming pile. We had it in Detroit and then when she came down to FL with us all the door insulation was melting to black tar goo, you had to hike yourself over the door frame practically jumping into the car not to be covered in the sticky gunk. It ran like shit in the cold and twice as worse in the heat.
  10. Here's one of me, 16 years old on the pier near Rocky Point in Tampa. Here is where I got introduced to my future home. I'd move here with a backpack full of clothes and a motorcycle the day after I graduated high school.
  11. We do. Our daughter just got tall enough to ride most of the tube rides at the local part, Adventure Island, so we bought year passes this year and have gone most weekends since it opened in April for the season.
  12. I have a fairly high threshold but others who've sampled don't and it seems to be that happy medium of hot-hot but not overpowering. I have planned; jellies, candies, and infused honeys, I'm gonna make an oil extract, and goat cheese balls (seems this is a thing)
  13. Edamame dip sounds delicious. My Turkish wife is very loudly proclaiming that it is NOT a hummus dip, however.
  14. Neither did my mother's parents. They were fairly typical parents of the California suburb they lived in most of their lives. Coming from conversations I've had with their neighbors back when I was still in contact with that side of the family. But they were very active pill heads with all the baggage and side effects that come with it. Abuse both physical and mental, neglect, and promiscuity in their marriage. Maybe that's not what the 60/70s were for most people but in Cerritos CA, it seemed very much the norm.
  15. BBQ is tomato, garlic, cumin, ginger, and only 1.5 ghost pepper. Has a sweet heat that builds but isn't danger levels.
  16. Now BBQ is cooling and ready.
  17. Mother’s Little Helper = Valium Black Beauties = Biphetamine 20 Barbs = Barbiturates At least movies, songs, and my mother's recollections of her parents point to this. But what the fuck do I know, I wasn't born for another 20 years.
  18. First batch of sauces from the ghost peppers. Made 16 oz from 4 ghost peppers, 2 jalapeños, red peppers, shallots, and garlic all roasted on the BBQ. Pureed after skinning and seed removal with white vinegar and nectarine juice. So doG damn hot it's scary but man is the flavor amazing and it hasn't even come fully together yet. Filled 4 bottles like pictured. Have tomato puree onbthe crockpot for a cumin and thai blend i make, the heat will come from one more ghost pepper i roasted.
  19. How do I trim these so they don't look so wild but still have pretty flowers?
  20. Debatable, but you can decide. Here's some of my personal video server's listing of the shows I keep on hand:
  21. goldendesign

    TIO

    I'm keeping an eye on Amazon Prime Day deals for something similar. In my CRV I already have a great boom arm type one with a heavy-duty suction cup. Has worked flawlessly for years. In my Civic I have Android Auto through the USB-C connection to my car, unfortunately, my current phone has a broken port and I can no longer connect and control audio and navigation via the big ole screen. I can get another phone from work, it's company issued, but it's a Samsung S20 FE currently, and that's all they still have in inventory, yet to order the next gen of phones, and this S20 is the most stinking pile of garbage Galaxy phone I have ever owned. I'd rather keep the broken junk then get a shiny, but still shit, phone. Since it can't charge or communicate via USB-C I have to use wireless charging. I need a boom-type phone holder that also has wireless charging for the Civic.
  22. If it's a dessert like cookies, cakes, or chocolates I will devour them.
  23. Probably not. We sometimes turn a blind eye to patterns and behaviors. Also, our life experiences can wildly differ and certain cues are completely lost. I was dating and married to my wife for 4 years before I came to her with overcoming my cocaine addiction. She knew something was off but never connected the dots to drug use and addiction.
  24. In a bathroom? 2 In a single-family home? 5 In an event hall? 150 In a stadium? 25k On earth? -25% current population In my head? n-1
  25. For us, the big one is needed for crepe batter. We make fresh berry crepes every Sunday. Without this family habit, we'd have no use for a blender of this size.
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