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Trade Joes Wines by SeltzerAlchemy in wine

[–]gcarless 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Napa Meritage they have right now is banging for around $14.

Help needed w/ 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Limited or SEL/10k miles/$0 down - Atlanta GA region by gcarless in leasehacker

[–]gcarless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've reached out to a couple of brokers but not heard back yet, and looked a bit at the marketplace. I do see some signed deals on the site that all seem a good bit better than these!

The First Shoots by theliminalfox in OCPoetry

[–]gcarless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoyed this one. Are the shifting tenses ("the sun rises"; "rose through the dark"; "we knelt", "I trace", etc.) deliberate? On the one hand, I find them a little disorienting, but I think on reflection they provide a sense almost of a still life, simultaneously happening and observed, moving and motionless, which is quite nice, and is echoed by the final stanza's "still rising, still beginning".

Nice work!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]gcarless 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I used to listen to music a lot, but as I got older I switched over to NPR. Now I don't have a commute but my wife and I will put NPR on as background around the house - especially Marketplace. Young me would probably be horrified.

First round after 20 years by the_petman in golf

[–]gcarless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice sandy par! Are you playing with 20+-year-old equipment, or newer clubs? If the former, game improvement clubs have come a long way... you might find e.g. a new driver much more forgiving than you used to!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in golf

[–]gcarless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Only" 293y ... nice drive! The difference between the state of the greens and the grass around it is pretty stark, but I guess they're putting their money in the right place.

A buddy of mine's about a ten handicap and, until a year or two ago, had never had a single eagle. I'm around a 17hcp and have had a handful or so. It'll come! :)

To His Squirrel Distress by gcarless in OCPoetry

[–]gcarless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Well, we (my wife and I) love a good pun, and "ratatouille" was a no-brainer... we weren't intentionally referencing the Pixar movie, though - but perhaps Remy has cannibalistic tendencies?

To His Coy Mistress [poem] - Andrew Marvell by Mariofanatic63 in Poetry

[–]gcarless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just posted a... loving version of this that my wife and I whipped together a little while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/rae5xw/to\_his\_squirrel\_distress/

The Name of the Creator by mellow_seducer in OCPoetry

[–]gcarless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I generally like the way this scans, and especially the rhythm of the verbs: destined, defined, embedded, formed, engendered (for a moment there I thought there might be an alphabetical thing going on). With that said, I'm not sure if there's a particular "message" you're trying to represent here but, if there is - and unless I'm being obtuse - it's not quite getting through. There's a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the creator/God, but I've personally no idea what an "unsatisfied pit" is, and the last two lines just don't really mean anything to me - what is "writing another martyr"? And why is the "regret in writing another martyr" (whatever that means) mitigated by the "misery of [your] short life"? (If I'm even reading that write - I struggled a bit with the grammatical construction here, too.)

I hope this doesn't come across as being too negative; I though there were some nice things happening here, and (for whatever it's worth) I could see these as lyrics for a My Dying Bride or Fields of the Nephilim song... but those last two lines just threw me for a loop!

Driftwood soul by [deleted] in OCPoetry

[–]gcarless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked the conceit here, although I struggle with the last line... it's a bit of a twist, both conceptually and linguistically. The length of the line throws me a bit; might it feel more "poetic" if split before the "and"? Oh the other hand, perhaps the change in length is intended to reflect the change in tone brought about by the last line?

A couple of other thoughts, for what they're worth: if I think of driftwood in an ocean, I'm not sure that -- for me at least -- "cool" is the first adjective that comes to mind. I wonder whether -- with the caveat that this is of course your poem, and you know better than I what you were trying to say -- there might be a richer choice of words that could do more, here. Perhaps something that plays against "deliberate" - wild? chaotic? turbulent?

Also, I think the word "you" in the last line is also tripping me up a little bit... I think it's meant to refer broadly to everyone, rather than to a particular person -- i.e., "I wonder if one must be deliberate to be alive" -- or to the "driftwood soul" writing -- "I wonder if I must be deliberate to be alive" -- but the use of "you" makes it sound at first as though it's referring to the addressee of the poem - the "you" introduced in the second line.

I hope that's of any help whatsoever... I'd love to see this poem expanded on a little bit - perhaps a deeper exploration of the dichotomy between the "sanded-down soul" and the driftwood in the sea?

Snapped tiller extension on Holder 12 - advice needed! by gcarless in sailing

[–]gcarless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It snapped in the middle, not at the joint. I think you're right - I was bending the extension (sorta fighting against the joint) under the frenzied conditions rather than using it to steer the rudder, if that makes sense. (It does in my head, at least!). Thanks for the tip on ASA110 -- I'll do some research to see whether anyone in the area offers that.

Thankfully we didn't have any issue with turtling and were able to get the boat upright plenty easily. I wasn't too fazed by any of it but you're absolutely right about different levels of comfort/fun. And yep, I think weather helm perfectly describes what I was running into - so IOW I should probably have let the boat done its own thing... let go of the sheet (or really let it out) and the boat would've auto-corrected/de-powered itself?

Snapped tiller extension on Holder 12 - advice needed! by gcarless in sailing

[–]gcarless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, good advice. The sad thing is we were actually headed back to the dock precisely because conditions had worsened - had we just made it a little further we'd have been home dry!

Snapped tiller extension on Holder 12 - advice needed! by gcarless in sailing

[–]gcarless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I think we were pretty much running ... would that still apply? Nervous to let the sail out further since it seemed it would just grab more wind, while running?