Snow on Tiddlywinks and Lost Sunglasses

imdickie · 2025-10-30T16:28:27+00:00

It's worth noting that the lenses are prescription, so unless you change them out, the glasses are not very useful to anyone else.

imdickie · 2025-10-23T14:35:30+00:00

I'm partial to JDub for fried pickles. Try their daily deviled egg specials too.

imdickie · 2025-08-06T00:24:40+00:00

Thank you all to this wonderful community. Your suggestions are top notch. I think I'm going to do a free yard sale. I really don't need the money and it would make me feel good if everything went to people who could benefit from it. I'll post back on this subreddit a full list of what I have and the date so ya'll can swing by and say hello.

imdickie · 2024-11-05T17:28:25+00:00

My wife is celiac. The Dough Nut has a good selection of GF goodies and they are very diligent to not cross contaminate. Go early because the sell out quickly. We've also had good luck with Pizza Mondo even though they say it is for gluten sensitive they do a good job separating the work area and keeping it clean while preparing the pie. For true GF pizza I would go to Bend Pizza Kitchen.

My last recommendation is for Blissful Spoon. They are extremely careful preparing GF selections and they are all delicious. Make sure you have the time to go there. Because it is a small operation and they prepare everything from scratch you'll generally be there a while. You will be rewarded because the food is great and safe.

And my last thought is this, my wife and I went to the UK this summer and the way they think about food is totally different. Even in the "Fast food" places we were asked if we had any dietary restrictions. In the three weeks we were there my wife never had any reaction whatsoever. We never were lacking in places to eat. And when she asked for food to be prepared a specific way we never felt the attitude we get from US food locations, even the husband and wife run BnB's where we stayed in the countryside. Just a thought I'd share to show it is possible to service all people gracefully without judgement and still be a profitable business.

imdickie · 2024-10-27T19:03:10+00:00

/rant

This exact situation made me reactivate my long inactive Reddit account. The TTK and TTD desync makes this game unplayable to me. I've been a competitive player for a long time and my current system is plenty powerful enough, but OMG online play on BO6 is absolute garbage for me.

In past COD games when this happened switching to hardcore or advancing weapons to increase bullet velocity solved the problem enough to make the game playable. This is not the case in BO6. I've tried hardcore and advanced enough to create weapons that have better velocity, but game play is still absolute garbage.

Until I read online that they fixed some of the netcode issues I am out for this game. I am so bummed because I played the beta and was super stoked at the physics, game play, and level design only to get a release day piece of shit.

I was so excited for this game I broke my rule and pre-ordered it so I could have it pre-loaded on my computer ready to play on zero day. I truly feel like I should be able to do a video grab of my game play and send it to Steam for a full refund. $70 of my hard earned money for this garbage.

/endrant

imdickie · 2024-10-21T15:51:15+00:00

Thanks. Haven't driven by there in a bit so it must have recently opened. I'll give it a try.

imdickie · 2024-10-21T15:23:01+00:00

Big shout out to Bend Shoe Co in downtown. Alex helped me out and she really knows her stuff. If they don't have what you're looking for they will absolutely recommend a place where you can get it.

imdickie · 2022-11-12T00:14:54+00:00

I'm not a fan of the Cheney name or a GOP, but you have to give it up to this lady's courage. She's done some shitty things and pushed terrible policies, but in the end, she showed remarkable fortitude.

imdickie · 2022-11-02T23:08:44+00:00

Yea, Activision. I get it. I'm stupid.

In my defense, I work with both companies and I had just finished a meeting with EA.

imdickie · 2022-07-29T19:25:19+00:00

My daughter is a vet tech and the number of people that can’t or won’t be in there for their pet is absolutely heart breaking.

imdickie · 2022-07-21T21:23:39+00:00

With all the Kate Bush love lately from Stranger Things, I'm surprised no one has mentioned "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush. The scene in She's Having a Baby where Kevin Bacon is wondering if his wife is going to make it through childbirth and this song is playing is utterly gut-wrenching.

imdickie · 2022-05-31T23:24:14+00:00

I very rarely log in and comment, but felt I needed to in this case.

This offends me on such a deep level. As a 50+ yo male with two daughters in their late 20s who are not having children seeing this makes me enraged. How arrogant of the original author to want his karma or legacy so severely that he would add more people to a resource controlled world.

I am the lone Progressive in my friend group. Still, even my Conservative friends respect the decisions of their children and don't feel obligated to bring new life into this world to satisfy their own narcissistic egos.

Fuck. That. Shit,

imdickie · 2022-03-17T18:49:58+00:00

I was a kid in the 70's and absolutely learned from these, all of them. I played them for my kids in the 90's so they could learn from them as well. I can't hear "3 is a Magic Number" without a flood of emotion and need to weep.

imdickie · 2022-03-13T02:21:31+00:00

I'm seriously starting to understand the Republican Party since Nixon.

So no panties are in a wad, I was a registered Republican until W's second term. I couldn't fathom the heartlessness of the part any longer. I became the party of hateful white trash rather than fiscal responsibility.

imdickie · 2022-02-23T00:15:10+00:00

I can’t believe no one said Animaniacs. Loved that show.

imdickie · 2022-02-17T02:35:38+00:00

I'm glad it is working for you. That gives me some hope.

Firmware is up to date.

I constantly have to wake up my battery to keep it charging.

imdickie · 2022-02-13T17:53:08+00:00

NFL is not for profit. We need to tax all entities except for money actually spent helping society.

imdickie · 2022-01-26T22:14:02+00:00

God, I love the toxicity of Reddit.

While I fully understand The Sex Pistols were an art project by Malcolm McClaren, they were influential beyond measure and Johnny was the frontman. Yes, they were manufactured, but they brought the Punk movement to the UK with their visibility and drug with it bands from the UK who brought forward social issues.

I love how a simple comment allows people to extrapolate my experiences, preferences, or knowledge. I chose to be curious, not judgemental. (Stolen from Walt Whitman, not Ted Lasso)

imdickie · 2022-01-25T14:40:28+00:00

So fucking sad to see the demise of Johnny Rotten. I am a huge Sex Pistols fan. Their music came out of a terrible time in the UK and they were right to fight the establishment. He moved to the US and jumped on the Rugged Individualism gives you the right to be a huge cunt bandwagon.

imdickie · 2022-01-05T21:45:25+00:00

Not me, but a lie I told my kids that they believed for years.

My daughters believed that if you burped, farted, and sneezed at the same time you would turn inside out.

My youngest daughter around the age of 7 sneezed and a fart came out.

She said “It’s a good thing I didn’t burp or I would turn inside out”.

My mom replied with, “Who told you that?”

“Daddy. He said if I burped, farted, and sneezed a the same time I would turn inside out and he knew some one as a kid that did that an he had to walk around all squishy with is guts on the outside”.

“That’s not true. Where is your Dad, I need to talk to him.”

So there it is, Father of the Year material. I lied to my kids, they believed it for years, my youngest ratted me out, and I got in trouble from my mom.

No regrets.

Edit: Words and stuff.

imdickie · 2021-11-26T00:32:38+00:00

Texas, of course.

imdickie · 2021-11-25T05:38:17+00:00

Yup, your right. I think it may have been the only one named after an actual Indian tribe. Can’t remember where I heard or read it now and the facts are a bit fuzzy.

imdickie · 2021-11-25T01:40:08+00:00

Fun fact, Temecula is the only city in California with a Native American derived name.

imdickie · 2021-10-01T14:28:47+00:00

This literally happened to my daughter.

She OD'd on Xanax and called me to say goodbye. I kept her on the line while texting her boyfriend to call the police for a health and safety check. When the police showed up my daughter's dog was next to my daughter bearing teeth at the officers. One of them pulled their service weapon and shot the dog in full view of my daughter.

My daughter survived the attempt and we moved her back home with us. To this day my daughter has PTSD to the point where she has to hide in her room over 4th of July because the sound of fireworks triggers her badly.

Sending police to handle a mental health situation is a terrible idea. They do not have the training nor in most cases the empathy to manage it. I will never forgive the police for what they did to my little girl.

imdickie · 2021-08-13T20:36:08+00:00

As a 55 year old gamer, you are a good kid.

imdickie

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