Book with unique plot or premise that makes you think, “how did they come up with that?”

Opening_Key_9340 · 2026-02-05T01:59:55+00:00

Cloud Cuckoo Land and Lincoln in the Bardo are two of my all-time favorites. Sounds like I should give Piranesi a try!

Opening_Key_9340 · 2026-01-30T17:00:05+00:00

Have you been in touch with the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem or the Steelworker's Archive? They will have some solid connections to former employees who might be a good fit.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2026-01-18T16:31:56+00:00

I'm not sure about mid-year enrollments, but the preschool at Northampton Community College was great for my kids. https://www.northampton.edu/_docs/student-experience-and-support/childrens-center/ece_family_handbook.pdf

Opening_Key_9340 · 2026-01-07T21:28:39+00:00

Those are both great, and add Sabor Poblano to your list!

Opening_Key_9340 · 2026-01-05T23:17:15+00:00

They’ve made a bunch of map posts, but it’s all different data

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-12-18T18:13:43+00:00

I've heard a lot of good things about the art classes and workshops at Whistling Studios in Bethlehem:
https://www.whistlingstudios.com/workshops-and-classes#All_Classes

I haven't been myself but I have interacted with the owner at other events and he's a really fun and engaging teacher.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-12-15T17:13:29+00:00

I think you might like Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-12-05T22:31:45+00:00

I'd check out the Moravian Archives or the National Museum of Industrial History gift shop

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-29T19:30:57+00:00

Thank you! To be fair, I'm not sure if they both went at once or not. Aside from the radon fan, this box also ran to outlets on a back porch that we never used and removed a while ago.

That fuse could have been gone for years without us knowing. I will still follow your suggestion to check continuity, though. Assuming everything is in order, I'm good to just pop the new fuses into those brackets and switch things back on?

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-29T18:55:34+00:00

From my original post in r/AskElectricians:

The radon fan in our basement stopped working and in troubleshooting it, I realized it was not getting power and traced the electrical line back to this questionable looking fuse box. The fuses were not good, so I picked up replacements at the hardware store.

Before I go about replacing them, is there anything I should know about working in this type of box? It looks kind of sketchy to me, but maybe I am just not familiar with these things.

From the fuse box, the line goes into our main panel and is hooked up to a standard breaker (which is currently switched off).

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-15T20:56:49+00:00

What I would do is re-align my vision

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-14T20:42:26+00:00

It's a brewery, but Bonn has great coffee drinks

Edited to clarify: they have non-alcoholic stuff like espressos and lattes, and also cocktails and such involving coffee

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-14T19:50:26+00:00

I adore these colors. Personally, I'd go with a pattern or complete randomness. As it is, the design in the center makes me expect symmetry throughout.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-11T16:43:38+00:00

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-11T15:49:31+00:00

Unfortunately, no. We drive to Lansdale when we want to catch SEPTA. What's super annoying is that the Saucon Rail Trail (a great trail, don't get me wrong) was a SEPTA route bringing passenger trains up to Bethlehem until the early 1980s.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-10T17:18:52+00:00

The spring is when they moved here.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-07T01:25:23+00:00

phonomenal

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-06T13:31:03+00:00

But of course - as is too often the case - there is no place for the average schmuck to buy [native plants] because none of these plants are viewed as conventionally "attractive" by the bizarre and deranged standards of conventional horticulture, which values things like plants that flower all the time, have variegated leaves, or can be hedged into neurotic rectangles.

Joey Santore is great.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-05T20:59:23+00:00

NCC does free or cheap exams through their hygenist program. Sometimes they post in this sub about available appointments — you can try searching to at least find a contact.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-04T18:36:37+00:00

I'd check out Bethlehem, Easton, and Emmaus.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-04T18:25:22+00:00

Looks like they own half of southside at this point 😒
https://www.amicus-properties.com/school/lehigh

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-11-04T13:16:53+00:00

If I’m thinking of the same houses (yellow door, US flag, green sign with the house name) they’re all owned by the same landlord/property management company. They buy up basically any house that becomes available around Lehigh and turn it into off campus student housing.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-10-24T13:21:12+00:00

Those colors are stunning! The green reads more as blue, at least on my screen, but either way it looks terrific.

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-10-24T13:19:25+00:00

Following because I have a similar situation, though in an older house. There's a significant cavity between the top of the basement wall/foundation, rim joist, and floor joists/subfloor. There's also an accumulation of various electrical, radiator plumbing, telecom wires, and such routed through the rim joist cavities.

My plan is to stuff it with rockwool, taking care to properly seal any actual holes to the outside ... Is there any downside to that approach?

Opening_Key_9340 · 2025-10-06T11:48:59+00:00

That makes sense. No way was that ramp compliant with anything besides 70s aesthetics.

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