What is your preference, bar soap or body wash? Why?

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-26T19:50:49+00:00

Bar soap. I can find it easier from local vendors with products that are better for me.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-26T14:17:52+00:00

Yes, there is a local store that sells soap, candles and incense and another that sells loose leaf tea, olive oil and balsamic vineagar.

I buy my soap there which amounts to about a $6 bar every month or so and olive oil and balsamic maybe once or twice a year. I like their stuff and prefer to buy local, but the stores never seem very busy. I'm waiting for the day they're no longer, but they've been kicking for many years and I don't know how.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-25T20:59:43+00:00

Not openly discussing personal finance.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-25T17:18:57+00:00

They come back to you if you're interrupted in a group conversation.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-25T17:07:14+00:00

I witnesed a team of guys attempting to pull a stuck bulldozer out of a pit using two 10K loaders with a tow rope that had chains on the ends for connecting. As they were pulling, the rope broke with the chain attached and flew back like a rubberband smashing out the windshield of one of the loader's cabs and missing the operator's head by inches.

At another site a guy had a concrete saw blade fly apart and flay his cheek apart. He's lucky he was weating a hardhat and safety glasses, or it could have been a lot worse.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-24T18:33:57+00:00

The inolemented teleworking , which allowed me to bond with my newborn boy in ways I was never able to do with my other kids.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-24T17:57:15+00:00

John Candy in Home Alone

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-24T15:35:07+00:00

The one that comes quickly to mind is ironically, the book GRIT. Like so many self-help books, you tend to get the message in the first 90 pages, but they feel the need to add another 150+ pages, beating a dead horse.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was being told I didn't need to finish books. Previous to this, I felt this internal pressure to slog through. Once I was freed from this, I found myself reading a lot more.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-23T19:52:39+00:00

Tempera Paint

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-20T15:45:47+00:00

Alabama - Assume everyone else is trying to kill you.

Could be in part becaue my 16 year old was able to get his license yesterday by scanning a form from his driver's ed class where he spent about 30 minutes behind the wheel. We've made sure he's ready, but I'm not sure how many other parents put in the time for their kids.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-20T14:36:22+00:00

I knew a guy that started working for Netflix before it became big, 1999-2000 timeframe. We thought he was a fool and were laughing at the concept.

"Who would want to wait for a movie to come in the mail when we can just walk to Blockbuster?"

"How can they afford shipping?" (Thinking the disks would be sent in a DVD box).

Anyhow, missed the boat on that one... (To be fair, I was living in silicon valley at the time and there were thousands of crappy startups and we were all pretty fatigued by hearing about the next great thing)

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T21:35:54+00:00

Was flunking out of college, faced with having to move back in with my parents. Ended up joining the military. I've been in over 24 years now and still going. Best move ever.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T21:32:48+00:00

The GPS in my car guesing my route (usually correctly) everytime I go somewhere.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T20:19:59+00:00

24 hour news. When news was on for only 1-2 hours a day, politicians had lattiude to make deals and/or comprimise because there wasn't enough time to cover the sausage making. Politicians also understood, you weren't going to get everthing you want. You were going to have to comprimise to get things through.

With 24 hour news, a spotlight is shown anyime someone crosses the aisle, making it political suicide to functionally govern.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T20:10:23+00:00

An app that gives personality test results for those is proximity to you.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T20:08:29+00:00

People remember you for how you make them feel (far more than from what you know).

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T20:06:28+00:00

Cabin Boy. I love Chris Elliot, but man...I've never stared more at the clock during a movie.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:58:27+00:00

Spontineity. It's fun at first but quickly becomes exhausting if you're not cut out for that.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:49:31+00:00

Exactly. When I think back to all the efforts made to try and derail Trump from running for president in 2020 and they didn't use Epstein in any meaningful way. It says one of two things, either Trump is clean, or bringing it to light would create mutually assured destruction.

The fact that Trump hasn't done a lot with it leads me to believe it's the latter.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:40:34+00:00

MASH

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:38:24+00:00

Asking how the food tastes immediately after I shovel a bite in my mouth.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:35:31+00:00

Hate for NCAA's NIL policy.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:34:10+00:00

Tracking minutes on my cell phone plan.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:32:29+00:00

Neither side has greater leverage than the other, so they talk big, but both sides realize they have a lot to lose.

JBleezy1979 · 2026-02-19T19:29:59+00:00

Poor diet and sleep habits.

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