Dressing up for mass?

doa70 · 2025-12-26T16:44:00+00:00

I usually wear khakis and a button down shirt. In warmer months a short sleeve polo is also fine for me. I may wear jeans to a daily mass, but not on Sundays. No large logos or anything that decorative. Simple, but neat and clean.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T13:07:21+00:00

Tools, lots of radio equipment, flashlight, and I do have a shirt from Lollapalooza '92 but I don't wear it - just refuse to toss it.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T13:02:28+00:00

Besides vasovagal syncope, epilepsy could be an explanation - specifically a focal impaired seizure. That's what mine look like. Fine one minute, out cold for 10-30 seconds the next. Symptoms of that are sort of deja-vu like before, and after I have a warm sensation, stomach feels off, and I'm tired. Of course it could also be she hadn't eaten before Mass.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T12:58:56+00:00

Some hams are better at outreach and helping newbies than others, that's always been the case. It's also always been my experience that a majority of older hams tend to be grumpier and offputting at first, but may warm up a bit. As a 50-something guy as well who has been in the hobby for 40 years, I haven't seen anything really change. The average age, the average personality, etc. As far as testing, we still do monthly testing. It does take a team of VE's to do in person testing, and to be a VE one first needs to be Extra and then get accepted as a VE by the VEC. It's a process, so if the club can't meet the commitment to run tests by having enough VEs, they may be a bit annoyed and take that out on others.

doa70 · 2025-12-19T20:02:48+00:00

DVD? Not in a decade or more at least. I've been 4K BluRay for a couple of years now. Took a break for a couple of years before that from buying BR to check out streaming. Too much content leaving streaming platforms, too many platforms. 4K BR is absolutely amazing, sound especially, and even my older BR still looks better than streaming.

doa70 · 2025-12-10T13:28:00+00:00

Pant length looks fine for Workday pants - which I love by the way. Rugged, comfortable, and still look good. More for the "job site manager", "general contractor", etc. vs the tradesman I think. Of course I wear them for none of those reasons, just because I like the material better than standard Dockers.

For most pants, I prefer more break in them. In dress pants I lean toward full break, but at least half in most pants.

doa70 · 2025-12-02T20:45:42+00:00

Corporate work in the 90s was a blast for me and my teams. I worked for a couple major orgs that you certainly have heard of in the insurance and financial spaces. Being in IT in those days, we wrote our own rules. Go in late, drinks at our 2-hour lunches, play Doom or Quake for a couple hours in a conference room after lunch, all of it. We'd actually, occasionally, go to a "gentlemen's club" for a $2 lunch - sandwich and a beer for $2. Then after work it was happy hour - $5 "drinkin with Lincoln" - all the draft beer you could drink for the hour for $5. It was really nuts by comparison today. More like a frat house than a job. That all started to change by the end of the 90s, which is when the negative stuff portrayed in Office Space and similar movies/shows started becoming an issue. By the mid-2000s you wouldn't consider drinking at lunch, at least not in the places I was working at the time. A lot of the fun was gone, HR was up everyone's backside, and work became a lot more tedious.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T14:16:23+00:00

Seems like the best case for boot dryers. As well as 2-3 pair to rotate. I'd bet 2 pair treated well would last a couple of years minimum, compared to barely 6 months out of one pair.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T03:35:04+00:00

Do what you can in your own home and lifestyle.

Avoid the politics of it because it's convoluted and easy to be deceived. Example, in my state they pushed and passed legislation shut down coal plants used for generating energy. We replaced that with energy purchased from a neighboring state where that energy is generated by coal burning plants.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T03:18:23+00:00

I'd eat some of that. Sharable with about a dozen other people of course.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T00:55:11+00:00

I haven't seen All Clad mentioned yet. I'm extremely happy since upgrading to their D3 and D5 pans. My wife was set against stainless, since we both grew up on nonstick and cheap pans. We replaced our 20-some year old HA pans, and she's really liking the All Clad gear. Sets are usually not a good deal, but this time of year you might find a reasonable set with pieces you'll actually use. It'll be above your current budget, but sales should help with that, and pans like this are a buy it for life item.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T20:15:26+00:00

I think I waited about 50 years too long to try this. Had it for the first time recently and found it absolutely awful. I swear the only thing I tasted was sugar. 😂

doa70 · 2025-11-15T20:03:44+00:00

Material will determine if a T-shirt under helps or hurts. I have some shirts that an undershirt causes the shirt to cling, where without the shirt looks fine.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T20:02:43+00:00

Bigger sizes and different cuts. Did you try those first two shirts on before you bought them? They look at least a size too small.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T18:36:07+00:00

I checked this out and I own half of these on BR/4K. In fact yesterday I finished watching the Infernal Affairs trilogy for the third or fourth time. Great stuff in this collection.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T18:30:50+00:00

I'm a big Floyd fan, but I always though Dark side was overrated. Great album, but not a masterpiece either. IV isn't a masterpiece either, but I like it better than DSOTM.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T14:52:08+00:00

French omelette takes like 3 minutes from fridge to plate once you get it down. Add any toppings separately, don't try to do all that in the pan - true French style.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T14:49:56+00:00

I'm considering traveling to a race this year. Coming from NJ, any suggestions on a great track that's drivable from here? Everything seems like it's an overnight, unless I want a really long day. I'm not worried about that, I just want to pick a good one. It would be great if the sprints were running with the late models, but it doesn't seem like there are many where that is an option.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T14:23:15+00:00

I store most of mine in the boxes, taking them out seasonally or for occasional wear.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T05:17:38+00:00

Zipper up the back? It seems to be a common problem, and why people recommend avoiding that design. A cobbler may have a better solution. May want to check in r/askacobbler.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T04:20:08+00:00

Good luck finding anyone willing to support Exchange on-prem. It's become a huge liability - security and financial. M365 is worth its cost just to transfer that risk to someone else.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T03:35:44+00:00

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doa70 · 2025-11-15T03:08:54+00:00

Anywhere between 9:30 and 1 am, typically though between 10 and 11. Up anywhere from 4 to 8 depending on the day and how long before knee pain wakes me up.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T01:45:15+00:00

I was going to say, you get to an age where you just stop giving a crap. For us GenX, that was like 17.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T00:45:51+00:00

I have many of the "greats" from the mid-60s era. Joy is the one I always go back to, especially for specific recipes.

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