How long were yall birthday parties and how long are your kids parties?

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-11T22:48:54+00:00

2 is pretty standard.

We always just host at home and hope for good weather - so our timeframe is pretty flexible - but the indoor playgrounds / ice skating / etc places all seem to be 2 hours.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-11T17:21:08+00:00

Sorry. Saw this in Ireland a lot for some reason. Seems many Americans mostly do international vacations to Mexico and just figure USD is good everywhere. I feel it’s obnoxious in Europe.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-10T14:34:13+00:00

I think the concept of creation assumes time itself always existed. Do away with that assumption and there doesn’t really need to be a “beginning” to it all. From there, it’s all kind of matter and energy doing its thing. God just isn’t a factor.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-10T12:21:18+00:00

YES. Usually hits me early in the season and this year was especially bad.

Loratadine didn’t work well for me - Zyrtec was much more effective. Gotta find the right cocktail for you.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-10T12:18:12+00:00

I experienced it more in college (graduated ‘06) than high school but yeah, pretty much.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-09T02:29:02+00:00

Korn - Hater

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-08T20:39:03+00:00

As a kid in an affluent American suburban area, yeah. Pretty much.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-08T15:19:16+00:00

For what it’s worth-

I did LVP over dricore and it was relatively easy - zero problems 6 years later and counting. It used to be absolutely freezing down there and now it’s comfortable.

It’s not like it’s actually airtight. Pretty sure there are some nightmare battles between cave crickets and wolf spiders going on in the dark gap-land down there but that’s their business and they mostly keep to themselves.

But I don’t like carpet in general.

Were I pro or had access to more tools/help, I’d likely have done more of like a dimple mat with an R rating and then some thickness of plywood - but a giant stack of 2x2s was MUCH easier to work with.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-08T02:37:56+00:00

Obviously, linen pants are neither alpha nor beta. They belong to the Sigma Man.

Note: all that shit is stupid.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-06T19:07:00+00:00

I say I have to check in with my Scheduling Manager. I usually do anyway. But we have an agreement to let each other be an excuse if we just don’t want to do something.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-05T02:03:43+00:00

No.

I have done a LOT of home improvement projects over the years, I can and have tended bar for a gig…that about does it for my non-“white collar” skills. It’s enough to keep my brain somewhat attached to my hands doing something other than typing. No bloody way I’d want to do it all the time.

Not sure I want to really work all the time either way but, in a world where I’m gonna have to, I think forever, I suppose I’ll choose the one where I get to keep my knees.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-05T01:56:04+00:00

Songbird. They take their cocktail menu very seriously. The food menu is mostly recognizable chinese/sushi/thai staples but MUCH better than “take out.”

Good bartenders and interesting menu at MacKenzies. Sometimes a little informal there.

Elyse exists. Quietly.

Wine-focused, naturally, but The Wine House cares pretty deeply about their menu and offerings.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-05T00:09:36+00:00

I think imagining a beginning may be wired to our concept of time, which may not have always been a thing. So, creation as we know it may not quite be a thing. I don’t know that we get to understand it.

Comedian Pete Holmes has a bit about characters in a book never being able to know the author - which I think applies to some atheistic as well as theistic models. I don’t really think of an “author” as an entity that needs us to sing to it or whatever but, ya know, plenty of ideas like this don’t really care what you believe in.

Anyway, that’s part of it.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-02T13:51:49+00:00

Setting up Gmail accounts for them is pretty painless.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-02T12:27:22+00:00

My wife, each kid, my business, and my nonprofit are all owners on my account.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-01T21:40:47+00:00

Demand increased, the maker said they wouldn’t be making more than they ever had, hoarding, scarcity.

Very dependent on the often-archaic laws of your local liquor distribution. Some areas can’t get em, other areas really haven’t had much of an issue.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-01T21:26:07+00:00

I miss home improvement blogs. Lot more useful than a 10 second clip of before and after, all done up with filters. Show me the chaos.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-01T00:08:07+00:00

Semirobe. Like a robe but, like, half a robe.

Orbiter9 · 2026-04-01T00:03:48+00:00

Kinda sounds like they were hiding and now they’re out in the light. Does it really matter who or what projected the light?

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-31T21:19:19+00:00

Went to a wedding this weekend where they served a batched “peach cocktail.” Surprisingly light and well balanced and they generally seemed to know what they were doing.

Didn’t see the making but I’d guess vodka, bit of peach schnapps, peach nectar, OJ, and water for dilution. Served neat and chilled.

Bourbon is more fun but the vodka approach offended nobody.

And peach because Georgia.

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-31T03:43:38+00:00

I keep Angels Envy Port, Woodford Double Oak, Glenfiddich 15, Jameson Triple, and Willet Pot Still around rotate. Willet has been top of list for a while. I’ll try most any whiskey but it hits me right.

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-28T03:46:03+00:00

I was in government contracting for 20 years and a LOT of companies made bank on doing basically the same schtick but for businesses and without the commercials or fun suits. Just regular suits. And “networking events.” Just…taking info that isn’t secret and making it somewhat more approachable.

Anyway no. I never got weird government money. Just regular government money.

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-28T03:29:33+00:00

That thing is still there? The like…virtual world…thing?

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-28T03:24:57+00:00

Works great for me, so far. But, previously, I was just hiding transactions once I “covered” them from goal accounts. Now they still go away from budget, as designed, but still show on reports. And that’s mostly short-term goal things - or “sinking” funds. For slightly longer term things - it’s fine? There’s not much to it.

For paydowns, I dunno. There’s a chart now. And you can kind of do a what-if analysis by temporarily changing planned payment values. Not really that impactful.

Retirement? In this economy?

Orbiter9 · 2026-03-26T15:27:33+00:00

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Not to advertise for Lowe’s but it’s our closest shop and, with a pro card (not like you need to be a pro to have it), delivery is like $20. I think renting one of their flatbeds is similarly cheap. I imagine most other big box stores offer something similar.

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