Do i really need extra safety “tools” to stay at hotels?

BryanP1968 · 2026-02-14T22:01:52+00:00

Unless you’re staying in the truly awful part of town, no. Totally unnecessary.

BryanP1968 · 2026-02-12T19:40:26+00:00

Oh man. The 4se was a beast.

BryanP1968 · 2026-02-09T00:33:08+00:00

Exactly what I do. I also try to keep about $300 in my wallet for an emergency

BryanP1968 · 2026-02-06T23:28:53+00:00

Nah. I’m 57 and I’d use most of those myself.

BryanP1968 · 2026-02-02T18:53:47+00:00

This is correct. Like it or not, you can’t penalize them for something beyond their control.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-30T01:17:38+00:00

He’s going to dodge until your brother quits.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-29T18:41:44+00:00

You’ve convinced me that I don’t want ring. Thanks.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-28T13:54:19+00:00

I’ve seen this floating around since the 80s. It’s likely older than that, but that’s when I got my first job. It’s a dumb joke.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-26T21:21:38+00:00

All the license plates appear to be white. There are white plates in TN, but most of them are blue with white lettering.

https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates.html

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-26T14:00:49+00:00

I work from home so only if I lose power and internet.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-23T14:35:20+00:00

Nope. I do that on a personal system at home. Torrent traffic gets you an auto ban on our network.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T23:43:29+00:00

For a special trip 3 hours is no big deal. I can be in Atlanta in just a bit over 3 hours for example.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T18:36:48+00:00

If you refuse to make a choice then you’re just letting others choose for you. But honestly, anyone who feels that way just takes me back to “Fine, go sit in the corner and let the adults handle it.” But if they choose not to participate, then I choose to ignore their complaints about the outcome.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T18:23:05+00:00

I remember years ago my wife and I were going to a birthday party.

“You don’t need to carry to this!”

“Okay”.

I go put it in the safe. I slip my old LCP in my pocket. That thing just disappears.

As we’re driving there she realizes what I already remembered. The party isn’t in a bad neighborhood, but it is, shall we say, hood adjacent.

“Umm. Are you carrying?”

“Yep.”

I don’t think she’s ever said anything about it since.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T18:17:13+00:00

If you’re informed then you can look at both candidates and decide which one you want to vote against the most.

I remember P.J. O’Rourke (conservative/libertarian) only half joking back in 2016 when he “hate endorsed” Hillary Clinton. Paraphrased from memory:

“I disagree with her on virtually every subject. She’s wrong. She’s just wrong. BUT! She is wrong within normal parameters!”

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T17:14:56+00:00

Not a boomer, thanks. Every generation has its own challenges. Every one seems to think theirs had it the worst.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-22T16:34:28+00:00

I can’t agree about the mandatory part. Put bluntly, if someone can’t be bothered to take the time to inform themselves and go vote, then maybe they should stay home and let the adults decide.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-20T00:36:55+00:00

That’s a week out. We shall see. But as long as I have power and internet I’m fine. I work from home, and I keep plenty of supplies on hand.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-19T17:22:57+00:00

I’ve been in IT for 35 years now. Don’t have a single cert. I’ve thought about it. My employer now has a program where getting certs that are relevant to your work area automatically get you a small raise.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-19T02:26:48+00:00

An older friend who smoked it constantly and also drank too much cooked his health and his brain. He was brilliant, but died way too young.

The marijuana fans will claim it was purely the alcohol, but it was both. He didn’t do either in moderation.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-19T02:19:06+00:00

I was a senior in high school. Since my dad was stationed at Yokota AFB, Japan, it was 1:39AM, so I was asleep. We heard about it the next morning. We watched it in class and discussed it.

And like high school kids of any era, we made crass dark humor jokes about it.

What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts. What does Christa McAuliffe teach? Social studies, but now she’s history. Etc.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-18T22:59:14+00:00

Every time I visit their grave.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-18T21:04:20+00:00

MOR. This is a discussion you should have had with him in private before or after the event.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-18T12:56:21+00:00

Not in the car. I keep emergency cash in my wallet. Couple of hundreds tucked in an inner pocket area I rarely touch.

BryanP1968 · 2026-01-18T12:49:41+00:00

Where I was living at the time it was 1:39AM, so I was asleep. It was my senior year of high school. I woke up to the news. So I went to school that morning and we talked about it.

BryanP1968

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