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I use those little portable, collapsible lanterns. LED, use AA batteries, and lasts for hours. I have a 12-pack with 2 basically in every major room. Hurricanes or big storms come in, we have lights. I also have a Jackery Explorer 2000 too, a Solar/car/outlet rechargeable battery backup system. Powerful enough to keep my refrigerator for 3 hours last year in a power outage and still had 20% charge after all that.

Locally? The World War II museum in New Orleans. Was in NOLA for a conference a few years back, I was part of a tech vendor group but was pretty flexible, saw a lot of sights, this blew me away https://www.nationalww2museum.org/

Please take some of my heat and humidity then. 96* with 75% humidity today, it was a swampy mess all day. Feels like temp sat at 108 since 8am. Tomorrow's forecast is worse

Ohh that looks good.

I've already hit my favorite childhood park, Cedar Point. Being on the west coast, of central Florida though, my theme park history for the last 20+ years has been spoilt. A 20 min drive has Busch Gardens with its Bier Gardens, wildlife, roller coasters, and actually impressive food. The story there is, when I was living really close to the University (5 mins from Busch Gardens) a bunch of us bought the Florida resident yearly park passes with the dining package. We could get two full meals from not just the fast-serve areas but the actual restaurants on the property, 8 times per month. We ate well above what broke college students usually ate. Hell, we used the bus service, Bull Runner, to take free rides to the park practically daily to ride a few rides, eat some free food, then go home for the night. That ended sadly when a few retirement communities found that awesome loophole and a bunch of geriatrics would flood the park around 4 pm daily for their free meals. Further out but still around two hours, I have my choice of all Disney World and Universal Studios have to offer. Easy enough to hit the parks on multiple days with a cheap hotel for the extended weekend, we do it basically yearly. Disney and Universal Florida resident passes usually work out to $50-$75 a day when you buy the 3 or 4 days upfront.

Maybe not weekly but as a teen living in East Detroit, we would alternate between putting the boat in St. Clair or road trips to the campgrounds at Lake Higgins or Cedar Point. I do kinda miss Michigan outdoorsy activities. My folks just moved back to the Comins area.

I was just explaining to some of my FloGrown friends, the majesty of living in Detroit growing up and summer weekly trips to Cedar Point. For reference: FloGrown = Florida natives. Yes, there are bumper stickers and T-shirts and it is as annoying as you can imagine. Anyway, I even told the story of how I convinced my wife, then girlfriend, we needed to do a trip to Cedar Point as their perception of Busch Gardens as a "great" amusement park was laughably inadequate. Then this popped up in my Google feed. Looks like another weekend trip to Ohio!

While some of the technical specs have not changed, @Razors Edge, got it right. There have been large improvements across the years, even if the basic specs remain the same. They've boosted the size of the sensor, changed the glass, and drastically improved the image processing software and GPU acceleration. This is true for most Android phones as well. Technology has allowed us to get more from the same.

I've used quite a few brands and types. By far my favorite:: The Brumate Imperial Pint

Decades. I was never a big gum chewer, ever. In the jewelry industry, we just kept toothbrushes and mouthwash to keep the mouth fresh for appearances. Now I'm remote and couldn't care less about my coffee breath. My wife chews when in the office so she does her part to keep Wrigley spearmint afloat.

Full send. Ride harder out of spite.

I have a third-generation Kindle, the one with the keyboard, that has a good visual for how far along in books you may be. There is a series of dots across the screen, under the title. Each dot becomes bold for the progress throughout the book. At a glance, you can easily get a rough order of the percentage of complete books you're reading. That little machine is 13 years old and still trucking.

In business, I have a natural propensity to easily speak in front of crowds and am able to pivot between multiple technological stacks with ease. I understand tech easily conceptually and on a level where I can speak authoritatively and work in-depth in each stack as it's brought to me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)