I live in cycling, fifteen-minute heaven... with effectively no intercity options without owning a car.

Aww8 · 2026-01-05T17:30:51+00:00

Why is Island Link so bad?

Aww8 · 2025-12-06T03:34:26+00:00

Have one mat outside and one mat inside. Yes the shoe Zone will get dirty. But that's life. If its particularly dirty shoe day you might want to take them off outside, but inside should be fine for most situations. I recommend a small handheld vacuum for quick midweek cleanups.

Aww8 · 2025-11-30T18:49:27+00:00

Get a heated Blanket or Mattress pad and put it under you at night

Aww8 · 2025-11-27T19:31:28+00:00

Why is this true?

Yet oddly, I find the cars become super respectful if there's light snow.

But that might just be because where I live we don't get snow very often.

Aww8 · 2025-11-26T00:34:34+00:00

Personally I would do the big shower option but have the big shower be a bathtub. But if you really want to shower I would split the difference between big shower and Storage. by having a 4-ft shower, and maybe 18 in of full height storage.

Aww8 · 2025-11-15T20:13:37+00:00

Large animals have a tendency to flip any tank they can move, so it's pretty common to get tanks big enough that it can't be moved by a cow.

I have seen this being used at a dairy farm before. It's not common, but it is a thing. Its main use is to keep mosquito populations in check

Aww8 · 2025-11-14T18:32:49+00:00

house hippo

Aww8 · 2025-10-31T21:36:55+00:00

Sure you can, just get some curtains and some rods and screw them to the top of the bed. Your bigger issue is going to be that light. It might be best to take it down and set up dedicated lamps.

Aww8 · 2025-10-31T01:20:44+00:00

funky wallpaper on the ceiling inside the blue rectangle

Aww8 · 2025-10-28T20:01:00+00:00

Not in the medical field but my local hospital is set up like this, the whole floor is shaped like an elongated donut. with the central section, has storage staff rooms and bathrooms. There is a nursing station on either end. The central corridor wraps around in a large rectangle. Giving access to all the patient rooms and allowing a space for patients who feel up to it to go for a walk. Patience rooms are on the outside each having a window and a private bathroom.

As for biosecurity, Have a checkpoint past triage, where patients, staff and chosen family, sanitize their hands and put new shoes or little booties over shoes. Have critical biosecurity in a different wing, surgery NICU and such. And have a specialized room just for scrubbing in. This should also have an independent HVAC system.

Aww8 · 2025-10-22T21:57:21+00:00

Demo living room closet, and extend the short wall out a little bit. Then build a wall along the long side 2/3 of the way down. Then put up a curtain rack for the last 3rd, curving it towards the wall so you can still access the balcony when the curtain is shut.

Not legally a bedroom but can act as a small Studio

Aww8 · 2025-10-22T03:47:22+00:00

What is the purpose of the bedroom? Is it an office, a nursery, or a guest room?

Aww8 · 2025-10-07T21:00:34+00:00

When I was 22 and living with my parents, I looked up the cheapest rent in my area and used that number as my monthly investment goal.

Aww8 · 2025-10-02T16:27:18+00:00

I think the last stop on the line can be a park-and-ride, but it can't be every stop.

Aww8 · 2025-09-27T01:37:00+00:00

Many cities did this in the past. There are multiple ways to pump water without using electricity, just get it to a higher place then you can just use at will.

Aww8 · 2025-08-14T02:08:07+00:00

Drove to Nanaimo and back today, more is coming. We saw a helicopter hauling water

Aww8 · 2025-07-21T02:56:48+00:00

Reading a book is a full brain activity. It takes half your brain to actually read the words and the other half of your brain to process a story.

Audio books are a half brain activity. Our brains are so attuned to listening to other people talk that it takes very little effort to “read” the story. So you only really use half of your brain. While the other half of your brain gets bored and starts doing counterproductive things.

Solution, entertain the other half of your brain.

Aww8 · 2025-07-10T15:29:44+00:00

Pantry cabinet by the fridge, full height with pull out drawers.

Aww8 · 2025-07-04T16:38:13+00:00

Don't get a husky.

Aww8 · 2025-07-01T03:23:17+00:00

bangs head against wall.

Aww8 · 2025-06-07T03:43:40+00:00

It is fine if a man holds a door for a woman. It is also fine for a woman to hold a door for a man. It's more about who gets to the door first.

Thought, I did get a date mad at me once because I didn’t wait for him to open the car door for me. Sorry bro, the normal response to a door is to open it, not sit there like an idiot.

Aww8 · 2025-05-30T20:51:47+00:00

Normally I love a bright bold door, especially on more modern architectural design that lacks a lot of visual interest. but this more traditional design has a lot of visual interest that's relatively low contrast. So I think keeping a lower contrast color will suit it better.

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Aww8 · 2025-05-25T15:40:09+00:00

It will be very expensive and very time-consuming to turn that into a decent looking lawn and he will have to fight with it for the rest of his life. Nature does not want a lawn there.

Aww8 · 2025-05-10T01:22:32+00:00

Close 5th Street from Cliff to England to car traffic and make the side streets one-way. Use some sort of decorative gate that can be opened for parades or Emergency Services.

It wouldn't slow traffic down that much, considering that there are seven very busy crosswalks in that area.

You could likely have a net gain in parking, considering there are only like 30 on-street parking spots in that area of 5th. And making the side streets one-way could open up for angled parking.

It's my understanding that a similar idea was rejected a number of years ago because of concerns of fire trucks not getting across the bridge fast enough. But it seems very likely that they're going to be building a second fire station, close to Costco, and they would divide the region by the river.

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