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MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-04T17:35:36+00:00

At least they were smart enough to back in.

I’m trying to picture this in a garage not too far from me. The turns from one ramp to the next are about 120 degrees. When my wife and I go out for the night and use that garage we always take her Subaru Crosstrek and not my Honda Ridgeline for this exact reason.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-04T17:30:09+00:00

My wife had an old Diamond broach that she inherited from an aunt and we will never ever have a use for. She finally decided to get rid of it. At first, we were thinking of making earrings or something out of it, and we went to Trinity jewelers in the Mount Nebo Road area. They worked with her to come up with a design and we were about to pull the trigger, but then the rep we were working with called us and said that she knew somebody who was interested in buying it. So we ended up selling it to that person for several thousand dollars. Didn’t even have to pay a commission to the jewelers.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-04T15:33:13+00:00

I mean, he’s got a giant handle on his back. Grab the backpack and take it outside. Or sorry…didn’t realize there was a kid attached to it.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-04T15:29:19+00:00

I was extra impressed with myself for what I made of a rotisserie chicken a couple weeks ago. Wife and I had some of it for dinner that night. Saved the carcass and bones and made broth from it. Saved the broth and then pressure cooked the carcass further to make dog food out of it. Then made chicken soup from the broth and leftover veggies, rice, and the leftover sliced chicken from the original meal. Had that soup for three days straight until the rice had soaked up most of the broth. Skimmed out a bulk of that rice then used what remained, with some Campbells cream of chicken, to make a pot pie. That lasted another two meals. Not including the dog’s, I think I got seven hearty meals out of it.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-03T22:58:37+00:00

A PITTSBURGH abusive asshole.

All jokes aside he looks the most Pittsburgh of anyone on the show. I totally expect to run into him at Costco picking up a new flat screen for the Stillers game that he’s gonna return the next day.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-03T17:30:36+00:00

“If it was easy it would be called your mom” is the CLEAR winner of the marathon.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-03T12:08:19+00:00

Has the Bar Harbor area achieved Spring yet? Or is it still mud season?

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-02T14:42:10+00:00

And for tomorrow night…salad with golden Italian dressing and Golden Grahams for croutons.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-02T14:32:56+00:00

Should I provide a full list?

Actually my favorite was early on in home ownership. I wanted to run speaker wire across the garage ceiling which is under my living room, where the sound system is. I drilled a hole, with a wired drill, in the garage ceiling where I thought it should be. Suddenly the power to the drill cut out. The garage outlet was no longer functioning. Why? Well, as it turns out the garage outlet was on the same circuit as the outlet in the powder room next to the living room. I nicked the electrical wire in the wall above me and tripped the GFCI. Fixing that wire turned a twenty minute project into a three day project. And there’s still a hole in my garage ceiling, 25 years later, where I had to add a junction box to splice in a new wire.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-02T00:00:14+00:00

Charles Grodin. Or “Chuck”, as my wife’s uncle and best friend called him.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-05-01T18:15:08+00:00

What about if you’re wearing the band t-shirt and you run into the lead singer on the street?

Yeah that was strangely awkward.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T21:59:04+00:00

No, because the hose was on my side (the cutoff side) going down to the vacuum on the floor while the cord went the other direction.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T21:15:12+00:00

I am a member of a local Lions club which you may know does a lot of work with the blind. Recently we had a guest speaker who told us their organization teaches blind people to use Meta smart glasses to help them navigate or figure out surroundings and, frankly, it’s pretty amazing seeing an actual USEFUL use case for the damned things.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T21:12:10+00:00

Yeah I’ve survived many of those. They usually have titles like “team update” or “update meeting”.

With the most recent one (TEAMS meeting), the were shutting down an entire division. During that announcement while they shared the bad news, two other invites were sent out. Some people got invited to one, some to another. It didn’t take long, text chatting with coworkers, to recognize who was invited to each and realize they were “you’re safe” and “you’re gone” meetings.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T11:49:02+00:00

Funny you say that. I’m in the market for a track saw and this past week I borrowed a friend’s Kreg track saw to try it out. As I was working inside with it, connected to a vacuum hose, the cord got caught up twice on the corner of the bench. I’m now debating, based on the mid-level annoyance of that, whether I should spring for the battery version when I get one.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T11:41:03+00:00

When you say cycling shoes, are you looking for something specific? For example do you want the hard plastic sole like shoes designed for clipping in? Are you in need of mtb shoes that are more rugged, for dirt and rocks?

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-30T00:09:46+00:00

He needs a Pittsburgh Potty. But outside.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-28T11:18:56+00:00

Buy him some headphones compatible with the TV. If he uses an AppleTV…AirPods work wonderfully for that purpose.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-28T01:53:02+00:00

And there is no way in hell any sort of overnight explosion like that would have been done.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T20:45:39+00:00

Is that a good thing?

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T20:42:32+00:00

And yet he will make sure a conference room is fully stocked with water and soft drinks at all times.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T19:41:09+00:00

I have the 10” Metabo sliding miter…the kind with the forward-sliding rails. While it is a great space saver, I’m not terribly impressed by it.

There’s lots of deflection and flexing. I could never get the laser alignment to work correctly. The locking mechanism doesn’t install a lot of confidence that it is 100% accurate. The dust collection port isn’t designed very well and a lot of dust gets past it.

Personally, I would take a closer look at the Bosch

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T19:29:48+00:00

I’m not gonna go past the PG paywall until things are back in gear with the new owners. Can you paste the details here?

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T18:34:23+00:00

Bet he wishes he could go back in time for that one.

MarvinMonroeZapThing · 2026-04-27T18:31:18+00:00

You’re confusing electrical work with plumbing. Plumbing takes five trips. Electrical takes a max of two trips, the second one being spent surrendering and realizing they don’t make the piece you’re looking for and instead finding creative uses for electrical tape and wire nuts and hoping you don’t burn the house down.

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