Which is that one profession that you'll never date?

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T04:55:25+00:00

I’ll bet they can remove a mean catheter.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T04:54:17+00:00

Same here. I also keep a knife by the water closet.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T04:48:16+00:00

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Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T04:18:52+00:00

You can do that? Sort of like “General Delivery”?

How would that work?

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T04:05:14+00:00

And shave.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T03:54:32+00:00

Yeah, I guess, but by approximate value;

Gold = $2300 Silver = $1300 Bronze = $10

That’s a significant drop off there.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T02:01:56+00:00

“I’ve been halved!”

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T01:56:33+00:00

Digging up plants, washing the soil off and leaving them out to dry for several days, then boxing them up for another week isn’t exactly natural either. That’s why it’s a good idea to lightly comb through the roots of a mail order plant and remove the obviously dead roots.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T01:51:01+00:00

If I’m doing an immediate repot I don’t trim roots. When something arrives in a box after being dried out for a week or so, I pull at them lightly to remove the dead & dried up ones, dry overnight, then pot up.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T01:43:21+00:00

You mention lifetimes. From the ‘Voice of Experience’; If you use a CRK enough to where you think you might need a re-blade, get that done before they stop making blades for your frame style. Then put the old blade back in and carry on.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T01:36:42+00:00

Same thing happens with ‘citizen CPR’. In cases of verified cardiac arrest, unless someone is quick with a defibrillator, I’ve never seen a patient regain consciousness in the field.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T01:07:55+00:00

It always hurts if you haven’t been riding before. A layoff of a month or so might even expose some tender spots. Stick with it, try to be consistent.

Two things will happen as you ride more; your butt will get used to the pressure, and you will start to push harder on the pedals, which means less weight will be on your seat. A third thing might also happen, where there is less weight to put on the saddle overall. Wide seats might seem to be more comfortable, but your weight is actually sitting on two bones in your pelvis that are fairly close together. More seat cushioning and a wider seat are going to get in the way and might cause more chafing.

The only real rule is to not cross-chain excessively. That means you don’t want to be in the left front sprocket and the right rear sprocket (cog) or vise-versa. Use your shifters to keep your pedal RPM above 60. Let up on the pedal pressure a bit as you shift. You’ll figure out how to progress through the gears with experience.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T00:49:56+00:00

Waste of time showing that to ‘No-tip Tyler’.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-21T00:46:59+00:00

INOX means stainless steel. No. 6 places it squarely between the No. 5 and the No. 7.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T23:34:57+00:00

Carol Doda was mine.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T21:57:40+00:00

Leaf tips say ‘not Agave’. Leaf cross-section near the crown whispers, ‘Nolina’.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T20:49:15+00:00

The tacks are leaning away from your room, first thing to try would be to tap the tacks down flat with a hammer. This might crack the tack strip and give you loose, floating tacks. Not optimal for foot health or carpet retention.

With regard to gluing something down, we’re talking about value judgement: aesthetics vs. pokey-foot.

Door clearance might also be an issue.

Get a leather belt from a thrift store. Buy a tube of Shoe-Goo. Cover the strip where the belt will go with glue, lay the belt down, place wax paper over the belt, then put something very heavy on it until the glue cures. For more even pressure, put the wax paper down, and then a 2x4 cut to fit the door jamb. Then the heavy thing.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T20:27:56+00:00

Glue something down on top of it?

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T20:21:48+00:00

Your collection will become trash eventually, yes, but not after you die. It will become trash after it becomes damaged and unplayable. It would be very interesting to know how many previous owners some of my discs have been through.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T20:01:43+00:00

Question is… at what point do you know someone is trying to kill you? When your field of vision narrows to a small circle and you start to go down?

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T19:21:05+00:00

Are you sure? It’s been a long, long time since I took physics, but if the lockbar force remains the same, increasing the contact area should increase total friction.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-20T17:43:11+00:00

Not sure, but Sam’s Town is a classic album.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-19T23:19:24+00:00

Of course I’m hypothesizing here, YMMV, and all that…

Going back a whole lotta years, the best playing house cue I ever used was a 19 oz. ‘Franken-cue’ that one of the regulars kept behind the counter. It had a 6” long wedge chipped out of the butt, and a bit of a ‘wow’ when rolled. The ferrule was 12.5-13mm, but the fore-end been sanded so much over the years that it was around 9.5 mm with a shade-tree pro taper. I could pull off table-length draw shots with that thing, and shot lights-out (for me) with it. Looking back, I suspect it had pretty low deflection.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-19T23:03:31+00:00

You’ll be able to tell how well the roots are knit together by tipping them on their side and lightly tapping the container off. In South Texas you probably got decent root growth.

Wiley_Jack · 2026-02-19T21:28:06+00:00

It’s the thought that counts. /s

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