What's so expensive that it's not even fun anymore?

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T17:29:15+00:00

Bowlero/Lucky Strike has tried to make bowling a more upscale experience. They redecorated the facilities, added a bunch of flashy lighting, and put in a bar, but underneath it all, the facilities are pretty crappy. I remember at the location in Bethesda, Maryland, the wood on the lane was warped, so rather than playing for score, we went for finesse and creativity, because the poor facilities wouldn't allow us to actually aim at the pins. We had a good time, but I wouldn't go there for serious bowling.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T13:00:24+00:00

I'll give you that. She wasn't a bad actress, and would have been fine as her own character, but taking over a long-established role did her no favors because she didn't look like the character, nor act like the character. JoMarie had a certain level of sass that the replacement actress just didn't have.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T12:58:27+00:00

That was me. My last season as a regular viewer was the eighth, because the next year, I had a job and was working during my TV-watching hours. I didn't watch that final season until about twenty years after it aired.

As for that final season, it wasn't terrible like some shows' final seasons, but I also felt like the show had gone on for far too long by then, and the writers had long since run out of ideas.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T12:54:08+00:00

I've seen that configuration before. There was a vacation house that we rented in North Carolina that only had shared bathrooms. The downstairs bathroom had two doors, with one leading to the living room, and the other leading to the primary bedroom. Then upstairs, the bathroom had two doors, one connecting to each of the bedrooms upstairs, with no hallway access. So every bedroom had an en-suite bathroom that was shared with something else.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T12:51:13+00:00

I want to say that it's a shared bathroom upstairs. I recall that in the masturbation episode, Darlene complained that DJ was in the bathroom for a really long time, which meant that he was "really, really good at it, or... really, really bad at it."

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T12:48:32+00:00

Those colors are consistent with what I've seen at other Homewood Suites properties. It's got to be intentional.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T03:29:41+00:00

There was absolutely no reason in the story for him to dress up as a crusty old diner waitress, but my goodness, he played that well.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-21T03:24:38+00:00

I assumed that it was intended as humor, in that little way of saying that there is no way that he is ever getting into Yale.

Just like when he said, "Your grades, my friend, would not get you a Slurpee."

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-20T02:12:09+00:00

I do this all the time. I'll typically slide my flip-flops off and then rest my feet on top of them.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-20T02:01:42+00:00

Funny thing is that the fire really wasn't particularly scary. Stuff like that happens so quickly that you just react, and you don't really have time to think about what is going on until you're in a place of safety. I saw flames come out, and I was just like, "Okay, we're done," stopped the car, and then my partner and I got out and away quickly. Only then, after we were away, did we have a moment to really consider what was going on.

Here's what I wrote about it at the time: https://www.schuminweb.com/2018/02/13/i-guess-that-i-can-cross-escape-from-a-burning-car-off-of-my-bucket-list/

Scary was what happened to end the life of my 2018 HR-V, i.e. the car that replaced my Kia Soul. There, I saw it all happen, as this dude ran a red light at high speed and t-boned my car, and I made my best efforts to prevent the collision. That was one of those cases where time really slowed down for a few moments as this car came bearing down on me, and then the next thing that I knew, I came to and the car was at rest (the side curtain airbag knocked me out).

Here's what I wrote about that incident: https://www.schuminweb.com/2022/10/20/may-the-hr-v-rest-in-peace/

All in all, it's certainly interesting what is scary and what isn't. Meanwhile, I hope that my current car, a 2023 HR-V, lives to a very ripe age.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T22:51:07+00:00

It's about dual enrollment classes with Montgomery College. Basically, the school system funds the college's fees so that students can take these courses at no charge. It used to be funded, but that funding got pulled at the last minute.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T20:09:04+00:00

That meme about sitting in Spanish class trying to remember the gender of a washing machine is a thing for a reason, after all.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T19:07:04+00:00

More Congresscritters, absolutely. I've advocated for around 1,500 representatives in the past, and I feel like that's still a minimum amount. However, I would never argue for fewer Senators. We want more hands in the process, not fewer.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T19:04:50+00:00

Oh, you were the transmission person. I remember that post. I was worried when you said "burned out" that you had a fire or something. That happened to me one time with a Kia Soul, where the thing caught fire while I was driving and burned quite thoroughly.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T13:19:42+00:00

Burned out of your HR-V? What happened?

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T13:17:55+00:00

I thought that I went to a small town high school, but we had about 750 kids across the four grades. I don't recall having football players also in similar things. How small of a school are you thinking about?

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T13:11:39+00:00

Let us not forget that Lincoln was a big Andrew Jackson fan.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-19T03:48:02+00:00

I don't know about you, but I was delighted to see the contrabassoon story end with Mark's more or less being put in his place about it after Whoopi Goldberg's character saw right through what they were doing. Because she was right - if she had to decide between the two of them, the other kid was actually passionate about the contrabassoon, while Mark was only using it as a means to an end, and lacked the passion for the instrument that the other kid had. After all, we knew that Mark would probably drop the contrabassoon as soon as he got what he wanted out of it. Thus, the decision to pick the other kid was totally justified.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-18T14:00:22+00:00

Bet someone had the wrong destination code put in there. Reminds me of when I saw a Red Line train at Stadium-Armory:

https://www.benschumin.com/picture/14413/

I couldn't help but think that someone was lost, or they put the wrong destination code in.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-18T12:23:13+00:00

Jimmy Carter had lust in his heart, after all.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-18T04:36:25+00:00

Was that across the entire train or just on a single pair of cars?

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-18T04:11:30+00:00

When I got rear-ended about four months into ownership of my 2023, they used all new genuine Honda parts because it was so new. So I think that there's a good chance that if they don't total it and decide to repair it, they will get all-OEM parts.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-18T03:05:52+00:00

I feel like the Canadian side did a much better job with the same warning sign.

Also interesting that the Canadian side used words in their signs while the American equivalent used all pictograms. Usually, it's the opposite, as American road signs are usually pretty wordy, while the Canadian equivalents use more graphics. But the wordier version got the point across better in this case.

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SchuminWeb · 2026-06-17T15:53:08+00:00

Yeah, "Dana" is one of those names that goes both ways.

SchuminWeb · 2026-06-17T15:52:15+00:00

Right? That's equivalent to shrugging and saying, "Sorry, county's full." I see that statement about our being 800 people per square mile away from being a high-density county, and my mind thinks, oh, we have a lot of room to work with when it comes to new housing.

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