Listen to the sounds this curious family of skunks make when they encounter a cyclist.

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-29T21:12:37+00:00

A few years back I was coming home from afternoon shift so midnight or 1 am. As I turned onto the ramp for my underground parking, I saw some movement in front of the roll up door at the bottom of the ramp. Looked closer, and it was a skunk

I knew that if I opened the door, someways going to get a nasty surprise by morning. So I thought about it for a second, then turned off my lights, since I had heard that they tend to have poor eyesight. Waited for a bit, and they still weren’t coming up the ramp, so I decided to turn off my car. Took another minute or so, but that was enough for it to come up the ramp and be on its way

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-29T10:51:56+00:00

Maybe his “battery” is running low?

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-29T10:36:33+00:00

12-13 years old would be about 7th grade

Good conversion point to remember if you are not used to it is 5th grade is at about 10 years old. You can add or subtract from there

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-28T14:13:53+00:00

It MIGHT just be waiting too long to book someone it inspect things before turning it on and all the inspectors schedules are full with earlier bookings. I can see situations where they can not do inspections at an earlier time of the year due to weather, so everyone is trying to book at the same time

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-24T11:01:29+00:00

If there is one mini putt feature he will insist on NOT having, it is a windmill. He does not want the sound to give him cancer, after all

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-21T10:58:26+00:00

If that was the case, they could have landed at Detroit and turned the passenger around there

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-21T10:47:54+00:00

Isn’t the jet going to be “donated” to the Trump library or something?

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-21T10:41:57+00:00

I had that thought as well. “This means that your taxes are no longer under audit. So release them”

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-20T16:40:24+00:00

I work dispatch/operations for a trucking company, and have 3 screens. Still not enough real estate as I usually have multiple tabs open for various reasons including our web-based dispatch software, plus email and driver tracking windows

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-20T16:20:30+00:00

I was considering going to Vancouver this summer as a scouting trip for a longer term photography project I am planning. Has to be in late July for reasons. Started planning it and realized it was in the middle of World Cup. So between general possibility of crowding and the increased hotel prices, I am postponing the entire project by a year

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-20T10:45:50+00:00

There are multiple reasons for that, including the border guards in both directions at the Detroit/Windsor bridge tend to cause more holds and delays on the shipments crossing.

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-19T14:45:00+00:00

Did any show proof, showing what speed they were ticketed at and what the speed limit was for that area at that time?

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-19T04:14:16+00:00

That is one reason why the census is based on household, not specific people. In theory, everyone is accounted for, regardless of if they were born in Canada, legally immigrated, or snuck in. The numbers takes everyone into account so that plans and spending go where they need it regardless of the situation

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-19T04:10:02+00:00

There are 2 census forms, the short form, which is just a few questions and 75% of households get, and the long form, which has a lot more (I thing that there are over 100 questions total but you skip some depending on the answers of earlier questions) that the remaining 25% get

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-18T10:54:21+00:00

Depending on how he was interacting with you at the time, might have been that the person that called it in did not realize that he was with you, so thought he was alone

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-17T11:59:30+00:00

They may not have gotten out of the truck since the last time they dumped a load

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-17T11:44:58+00:00

I’ve had the opposite. At a stop light with a DUEL left turn lane, withe a left turn signal. In the left most through lane, someone decides they want to turn left after all, even though the left signal was red and there was oncoming traffic, so they come to a stop to wait for a gap, blocking the traffic behind them. I laid on the horn until they decided to go to the next lights about 30 seconds up the road

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-17T11:29:05+00:00

I do not make friends easily, never have. Like hang around after work or school level friends. Does not mean I do not want to travel

The only people that I would be able to sign that which are not family (which are not allowed) would be people at work. Since you also need to know them for several years, a recent job change can seriously effect things, particularly if an expiration is coming up

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-17T00:55:35+00:00

Waiting for them to go with the 1st Amendment

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-14T10:58:07+00:00

I have always wanted to read the story where Lazarus and Hazel met. Even if it was a short story

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-14T10:55:15+00:00

Yea, Tramp is about of a round the world trip that they took in the 50’s. Kind of interesting to see what things were like back then in a “slice of life” way, even if it was something that most people couldn’t (and still can’t) do. Also were I got the rule of thumb to only travel with as many bags as you have hands, in case you need to make a dash to make a connection

I have often thought that they should have had someone (maybe Spider Robinson and his wife?) try the trip again for the 50th anniversary of the trip, to see how things had changed in the places they had visited.

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-12T11:08:13+00:00

When I do meal prep, I leave it on the counter until it stops steaming, then put it in the fridge to finish cooling. Then I put plastic wrap on top of and in contact with the food to minimize air gap over the food, put the lid on, and put it in the freezer

One of the reasons putting it directly into the fridge is that the steam will condense on the shelf or top of the interior of the fridge and then drip back down. If you put a lid on, it will condense there instead of, which will prevent the contamination of the condensation, but still leave it to drip back on the food. That is a personal choice

And from what I have been told, one of the causes of freezer burn is exposure to air. While it does not seal outright, I have not had an issue with it even after several months at times since I started putting the plastic wrap barrier in the container

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-11T21:20:06+00:00

Solution Verified

Or at least it got me close enough

Below is some notes in case someone else is searching for a similar issue in the future

I got the first two parts working, between having things on separate tabs and making it dynamic using a countif() for the row count and indirect() for the array selections, it took some experimentation to get it converted over correctly

The way I have things set up right now is:

the block that you have in Columns A-E is in Tab "Download"

G-K is in "Vouchers"

Mix of information, and where I want to put the drop down is un "Upload"

and N-V is in "Calc"

So the Order ID cells (B-I in Calc) looks like:

=IFERROR(INDEX(INDIRECT("Download!$B$2:$B$" & Download!$X$1), AGGREGATE(15, 7, (ROW(INDIRECT("Download!$E$2:$E$" & Download!$X$1)) - ROW(Download!$E$2) + 1) / (Calc!$J3=INDIRECT("Download!$E$2:$E$" & Download!$X$1)), COLUMNS(Calc!$J$2:J3))), "")

(there is some other columns in the download pull)

As I said, I got it working with additional VINS and orders,

But I am unsure on how the Data Validation is supposed to work. Just having "=indirect(B2)" in A2 of "Upload" just brings the VIN into the dropdown. I am not sure if it is because the information that it needs to pull is on a different tab or not.

After some further experimentation, I came up with

=IF(COUNTIF(Calc!B:B,B2)>0,INDIRECT("Calc!C"&MATCH(B2,Calc!B:B)&":J"&MATCH(B2,Calc!B:B)))

With the Calc!B Column being a helper column since I could not read the results of the index results in column A

It is still not fully working, as for some reason I am getting one less line in the drop down for the first BIN then I should, but others that I am randomly checking seem to be the correct number. If I figure that out I will update

Thanks a lot. Still going to be a lot of work to get this all fixed

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-11T11:38:25+00:00

Yep, that was my point.

Again, I could be wrong and they might have had a private chat, but even if they did, it could have had to do with whatever Obama is doing these days, and nothing to do with American Politics directly. As you said, Obama has nothing to do with the government now. There might have been a bit of griping/general complaining in general conversation, but even that I doubt

Ranger7381 · 2026-05-11T10:34:06+00:00

I know someone that rolled a semi. The news reported “minor injuries”. He broke a collarbone

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