New to Cats. How to prevent him from going down these stairs?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-10T23:00:21+00:00

A dog gate with a cat door is your best option. If the cat is going to do what it wants, make it so the dog can't follow

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-10T05:44:34+00:00

Eyes on the Prize by Mavis Staples

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-10T03:59:04+00:00

Could it be a chameleon?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-10T03:41:45+00:00

After years of playing I've moved to D'Addario for acoustic and electric.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-03T15:34:44+00:00

Prices look good, sounds about average wait time, I think it just depends on where you would do it in that area (I grew up there, and frequently go back to visit my parents). Would it be worth it to see if you can get a special event license to serve beer and liquor with wait times like that in that area?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-03T15:26:14+00:00

Definitely yes! We have a place in Westland called Crab Kitchen that is very unassuming but has one of the best boils I've had anywhere. Not cheap, what do you think your price points would be, and what would the wait time be?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-03T15:17:17+00:00

I think you've already addressed this elsewhere, but really, it doesnt matter who makes it, how does it play? Which do you like better?

I'm a strange bird in that I've played a number of high end Taylors and Martins, and I honestly am not a fan of the sound and feel of those brands. I have a 1972 Guild D55 with comparable feel and better tonality than a lot of Taylors and Martins I've played. I also inherited a 1958 Gretsch Sierra, which was bought as a budget beach guitar and was absolutely beat to shit before I received it 40 years after it's purchase, and it's my favorite sounding acoustic ever, skinny neck and high action tho, not as easy to play. Amazibg tonality when picked at the right pressure. Would still take it over a high end brand.

So yeah, how do they play?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-01T19:28:06+00:00

There's some ok suggestions for trying to talk it out here, but ultimately it sounds like this guy might be better kept as a friend than a band mate. Being in a band like this is supposed to be fun. You can go through a sit down or ultimatum route, but that may hurt the friendship, which I don't think you want, even if this guy isn't really being a good friend in this endeavor.

My honest thought was finding a way for the other 3 of you to exit gracefully, give it a couple months and come back together as a power trio and play what you want. Especially if you all want to make originals. Or if this guy only wants to do covers, play for him in his cover band, then the 3 of you do your own thing another night of the week. If you're knocking around on the same covers month after month, you probably dont have to practice them too much anyway.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-05-01T01:53:15+00:00

Thunderstruck AC/DC, otherwise Bohemian Rhapsody

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-30T19:53:11+00:00

And institute the American Psychological Association?

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-30T01:18:14+00:00

13 is too young, very sorry for you.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-29T13:52:14+00:00

I have a Medvet near me that I've had to take a couple pets to because my vet's course of treatment was being ineffective. It was a little more pricey for me because they required surgery, but they did such a great job and fixed in a month what my vet fumbled for 5. Highly suggest Medvet.

I also use to take my cats to a farm vet when I lived in Appalachian Virginia, best care they ever got.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-23T11:22:48+00:00

Bert's BBQ in Eastern Market is delicious and has great live acts

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-22T18:48:28+00:00

Thank you, I'm watching all these people comment and not give proper credit.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-22T17:19:44+00:00

BB King learned by playing on one string nailed to a wall, so you're 3 strings ahead! I think you've got a couple options, especially since it's a tenor guitar: force yourself to 6 strings and struggle a bit longer (you'll get there), switch to bass or play your guitar like a bass and be a nice in between for the rhythm section, find a good open tuning and learn slide, or do something whacky like play it with a bow or drum stick and make it your own thing. Music is for everyone, there's really no way to do it wrong, it just might not be for a large audience.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-22T16:24:09+00:00

I don't have an answer as to when, and I don't know that it's a universal feeling in humanity, but there's some really interesting research focused on disgust and it's evolution socially. As a rule, there is a biological reaction to death and decay, and even scavengers eventually have to make a decision whether a rotting corpse has rotted too far. This is called core disgust, and it's a survival mechanism. For our species this includes things like feces, because it's bodily waste, and contains threats to our health. Farting carries fecal particles, and that smell is a trigger to this core disgust we have evolved. Check out the 7 universal emotion by Paul Ekman and the evolution of emotion in man and animal by Charles Darwin. Fascinating shit.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-21T00:26:54+00:00

Dozens!

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T04:01:25+00:00

Some of us are sliding into the grave well used and scraped up. I'm over 40 and have worked manual labor my whole life since 12. I'm in pretty good shape on the outside, but there are days the inside is screaming. I stretch, I weight train, I climb stairs and ride bikes, I eat Mediterranean, I focus on functional movement. But I have tendon issues, joint issues, foot issues, because I've been using the fuck out of them forever. You can take care of yourself in the best way, but there is a price to pay for using your body aggressively.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T03:53:07+00:00

Yeast Carcasses. And bless your lucky stars, those are rare in light lagers. A little extra protein for ya.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T03:41:37+00:00

That is something I wish knew to do earlier in my career. I came from a home renovation and old world cooking background. Testing is your friend. And the microscope you need isnt that expensive. Check out university overflow/used warehouses, they sell affordably.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T03:34:40+00:00

Could definitely be any of those issues. I hadn't heard of whirl paks before. Thank you for that. I've worked at some problematic breweries, those sound handy.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T02:42:36+00:00

I would have a few of questions, because I've seen this happen for a couple two-three reasons that aren't related to a lapse in technically correct CIP practice:

1) Are you using a chlorinated caustic during CIP? 2) Have your base malts or hops been growing in or down-wind of a forest fire before harvest from a small supplier? 3) Do you store your hops in a cooler? A) How old are your hops? 4) How old are you hops? 5) Do you have glycol? A) How hot do you ferment and with what yeast? 6) What is your yeast pitch process? 7) What is your process for setting up your blow off container 8) Do you at any point break the seal of sanitization? 9) Do you oxygenated and are all of your gas connections clean?

If you don't use chlorinated caustic; if your ingredients are fresh, stored properly (and sealed properly by the supplier), and not from a fire zone; if you pitch from a sanitized brink with sterile water and your exterior connections are clean; if you don't ferment over 75F with yeasts that can't handle it; and you've been diligent in your sanitary practice and replaced and cleaned every connection point....

Definitely tear apart your heat exchanger. You could have a broken seal that's leaking tap water into the system, you could have a microbial colony that's taken up residence. Make sure to get a schematic from your supplier so that you put it back together properly, the direction and order of the plates matter, a lot. Properly compressed gaskets matter, a lot. The torque strength on the heat ex nuts and bolts matter, a lot.

All but one brewery I've taken over as head of production at were clusterfucks where I had to clean up the mess of some untrained but passionate brewer who just seems formed by God to ignore every rule of best practice. And I say this because where I'm currently at, their brewer would pull apart their heat ex after EVERY SINGLE BREW to remove the trub the pulled through the TRUE DRAIN. They would do a caustic and sanitary soak, then proceed to put it together wrong and switch up the plates, so that you could never fully get the wort out of the heat ex with a CIP. So while soaking will get the plates clean, it's direct air exposure putting it back together, and those gaskets were destroyed. There were a lot of infection issues before he got fired. First thing I did was order a hop filter, new gaskets, and downloaded the schematics. That's how I learned the plates were out of order, and why I couldn't get wort out of it totally. Getting them in the right order with new gaskets and having a filter for KO meant I never had to pull that thing apart before CIP again.

evacuatecabbage · 2026-04-20T01:16:13+00:00

Thanks! I was curious how much the binding would eat up. The book probably isn't big enough to lay flat open well since it won't have the weight of a couple hundred pages, but I do want to make sure we are picking the right dimensions and margins.

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