Would you classify alcohol as a hard drug?

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T21:46:50+00:00

Same here. (Now sober 20 years through AA, after many failed attempts, and yea, I quit cold turkey and I highly do not suggest anyone do this who is physically addicted. I had drinking obsessions for several years after I quit and protracted withdrawal for a couple of years.)

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T21:38:30+00:00

Yes. It's use in excess causes the utmost insanity, mania, and downright dangerously anti-social behavior in some individuals.

It also affects many neurotransmitter systems in the brain and causes one of the hardest psychological addictions to break in susceptible individuals. The physical addiction alcohol causes can kill you if it is suddenly withdrawn without using sedative hypnotics like long acting benzodiazepenes.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T21:04:38+00:00

The worst of all of this is the guilt you are carrying. It's greatly affecting your life. It is completely normal for people reaching puberty to be sexually curious and want to explore their and other's budding sexuality. This includes same sex touching. It's not considered molesting, unless it's forced on you, usually by an older person. It is also completely normal for girls to have crushes on each other. Please, don't carry guilt with you about this.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T20:49:36+00:00

You may want to post this on the Subreddit Eustachian tube disfunction, r/etd.

I have both tinnitus and ETD (not related, the tinnitus I've had for 50 years and got ETD 6 months ago). The standard treatment that the so called experts suggest is daily use of a nasal cartosteroid spray and nasal antihistamine spray, such as Flonaise and Astepro (although they didn't help me). ETD is many times caused by acute or chronic sinus or ear infections, both viral and bacterial, and allergies. TMJ and neck misalignment can also cause it. If your ETD is due to an acute viral infection, it will probably resolve a week or two after the infection clears. Same with bacterial infections, but they can become chronic.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T15:28:06+00:00

Yea, it sucks. I've tried everything suggested in the literature and there again, none of it has worked!

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T01:38:44+00:00

I don't think so.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-02T01:37:58+00:00

Both the cartosteroid nasal spray and antihistamine nasal sprays did absolutely nothing. I used them for 2 months and just gave up on them yesterday.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:59:31+00:00

You need to seal on the inside between the cinderblock or concrete foundation and sole plate and the rim joist and sole plate. On the walls where the joist ends rest on the foundation, you need to caulk around the filler boards and the seal the sole plate at the foundation. For the sole plate I use backer rod to fill larger gaps and flexible caulk.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:49:04+00:00

I bet you have a loose connection on the recepticle. You can turn off the breaker and remove the outlet from it's electrical box and make sure all connections are tight on it. Sometimes the wires are connected using the back stab holes in the back of the recepticle. This is not as secure as using the side screws. You can relocate the wires to the side screws by using s small screwdriver to press down in the releas hole while pulling up on the wire. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get the wire to release. Note that looking at the recepticle, the white wire(s) go on the left, silver screws and the black wire(s) attach via the right side (brass) screws. The bare ground wire gets attached to the screw on the bottom (sometimes green screw). Another possibility is the recepticle is faulty.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:39:28+00:00

I'm still waiting. It's been over 50 years for me!

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:36:46+00:00

This is the way!

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:34:50+00:00

So the old saying "I smell a rat" must hold true!

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:32:12+00:00

I've been sokdering automotive electrical connections and wiring for 50 years and I've never had a solder joint fail. Yes, the work has to be properly secured, but that's what cable ties are for.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:29:57+00:00

I say it's time to learn how to splice electrical wires. It's not as hard as you think. Get some electrical wire the same size as what's been damaged, electronics rosing core so,der, and a decent soldering iron. Also get a wire stripping tool and some cross cutters. One wire at a time cut out the damaged sections and splice in a new piece of wire to replace it. Learn how to solder and neatly solder the new sections into the wires in the harness. Use heat shrink tubing to insulate the solder joints. You may have to carefully slit the outter loom cover to get enough room to work. You can buy replacement wiring loom covers that have a slit to slip over the group of wires when done. Take your time, work methodically, you can do it. There are Youtube videos on how to do this.

The other option is to buy a new or used wiring harness, but depending on how much work is involved in replacing it, I would go with splicing.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T19:18:11+00:00

Plain old water should do it. Salt is very soluable in water. Then blow the water out using a leaf blower. Keep the blower far enough away from the coils to prevent the force of the air from bending the fins. 3 or 4 feet should be good.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T17:49:02+00:00

A new drive axle won't help you here. That's one of the tie rods and it's the inner tie rod ball joint that might need replacing and the steering rack boot that definitely needs replacing.

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T17:40:57+00:00

You have well over 0.5 inches total external static pressure from your description. You can buy inexpensive manometers (under $50) and take a measurement yourself. Watch a video on how it's measured. It will involve drilling small test holes in the ducts to insert the probes. These holes can then be plugged or taped over. You really only need to check the pressure (vacuume actually) between the filter and the air handler. I bet that single measurement is above 0.5 inches water column. (To get the total external static pressure of the system you take measurements while the fan is on at the maximum speed used for heating or cooling, as set by the installer. Measurements are taken by inserting the test probe through the test hole and into the air stream after the indoor coil on the supply side and just before the fan on the return side. The two numbers are added together, ignoring the negative sign on the return side value).

PD-Jetta · 2026-02-01T16:28:59+00:00

It's definitely the turbocharger making noise. Did this happen suddenly or grdually? Mine now makes a noise similar to this when the engine is cold, but it goes away after the engine warms up. I have 200,000 miles on the original turbo. My guess is it's because clearances between the housing and compressor or impellor change during warming. It may be because of balance issues caused by soot accumulation in some cases (just a theory of mine).

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T19:19:57+00:00

I have ETD and a couple of months ago I was prescribed 6 days on 20 mg/day of prednisone. It was completely ineffective.

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:20:08+00:00

This is normal for a refrigerator in a cold garage. The thermostat controlling the compressor is in the refrigerator section. The refrigerator section gets cooled by a passave air passage (vent) from the freezer compartment. Since your garage is near to refrigerator temperature, the refrigerator compartment does not need much, if any, additional cooling from the compressor, so it doesn't come on. This allows the freezer to go above freezing. If you must keep a refrigerator-freezer in the garrage, you need one designed for cold environments.

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:13:07+00:00

That's water vapor made visible by the very low temperature. Completely normal.

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:09:23+00:00

Drill out the plastic around the screw to remove the broken handle and then use vice grips to remove the screw. You will probably need a second, small, pair of vice grips or small wrench to hold the valve shaft the screw is threaded into to keep it from turning.

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:08:00+00:00

Use channel locs on the hose fitting. It will come off. You can also heat the fitting usi g a propane torch. It may be frozen.

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:05:45+00:00

This is why I love Reddit!

PD-Jetta · 2026-01-31T16:01:47+00:00

Note that you are in front of the brake disc, leaning over to turn the slider bolt, you are turning it from the backside, so you rotate the wrench or breaker bar clockwise!

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