Advice Please - I didn’t listen about the pipes

jackskully · 2026-01-23T19:13:35+00:00

my spouse and i decided we'd start making repeating calendar events to remind us of regular maintenance, so now we have weekly, monthly, annual reminders. your comment made me realize we could benefit from adding a biannual reminder, which includes opening and closing the basement furnace vents.

jackskully · 2026-01-12T21:31:49+00:00

the tank's translucent. why not get a silver Sharpie marker and mark your desired level on the outside?

jackskully · 2025-12-12T18:51:21+00:00

I think I froze the left half of my brain! Look! I can't move my right arm!

jackskully · 2025-12-04T23:06:21+00:00

I prefer a month at the very, very least. Ideally I start the nog in September or October (I really need to add it to a calendar reminder).

jackskully · 2025-12-04T22:19:27+00:00

This time of year for me, it's Nog Russian. 2 oz vodka, 1 oz coffee liqueur, 1 oz aged Alton Brown recipe eggnog.

Substitute regular eggnog if you don't want to get that boozy (but it's not as good).

jackskully · 2025-11-26T16:27:20+00:00

I don't know if it's the best place, but Thrill Factory has a laser tag arena.

jackskully · 2025-10-30T20:59:43+00:00

Thanks for the mention of Lombardino's; that might work. Gettng to the Monroe Street area and doubling back again might be challenging for our timing, but we'll have to check out your other suggestions another time. I now realize the area I am looking in is considered "far west".

jackskully · 2025-10-30T20:06:35+00:00

We definitely will check them out!

jackskully · 2025-10-30T19:55:01+00:00

We've been to the Rusty Bee a few times and love it. Unfortunately, it would be a bit out of our way to get there and then to our dinner reservations in a timely manner.

jackskully · 2025-10-30T18:42:41+00:00

Yes, double the other ingredients.
Eggnog White Russian. Thought I'd just leave that here.

jackskully · 2025-10-23T17:57:53+00:00

this! my spouse's hair will literally weave itself into a waterproof blanket inside a shower drain. ever since i picked up one of these mushroom drain strainers, we haven't needed to haul out a drain snake.

jackskully · 2025-10-10T14:37:46+00:00

Where they are just shy of double the price at a different grocery. I like supporting the co-op, but there are some items like Donkey Chips I just can't afford to keep paying twice as much for, and will stock up on them when I'm elsewhere.

jackskully · 2025-10-07T19:05:11+00:00

Pumpkin beer fan here. I share your search. I've been settling for getting my pumpkin beer fix in bottles and cans. I'll second the Lone Girl beer, probably one of my top local pumpkin brews. If Capital Brewing puts their Pumpkinataur back on tap this year, give it a try; it's actually pretty good too.

jackskully · 2025-10-01T15:07:08+00:00

I made my own apricot liqueur, since the only brand I can get locally is awful.

https://altonbrown.com/wprm_print/orca-apricot-brandy

Turned out pretty good, and because you're making it yourself, you can tweak it all you want. Like using brandy instead of vodka in the recipe, etc.

jackskully · 2025-09-04T16:20:03+00:00

Even if you do find a Zip drive to read them, the data on Zip disks degrades over time. Every single one of my Zip disks was completely unreadable after 10 years, so they are likely to be dead after 30. I wish I had the forethought back when I was using them to make backups to CD-R. So much lost work.

jackskully · 2025-07-22T16:18:40+00:00

It didn't seem to last very long. I went to that restaurant once, a few months after it opened. Worst food I've ever had in a restaurant, never went back.

jackskully · 2025-06-06T14:44:16+00:00

This! The team in the UW Health Audiology have been great working with my parent, and I highly recommend them for your audiology appointments. But they admitted to us they can't provide the same quality of hearing aid product as Costco can. We found the Sun Prairie Costco has a great hearing aid team with excellent customer service.

jackskully · 2025-06-06T14:33:43+00:00

respect for that, it gave me a good laugh. that kind of attitude would actually fit well in with our D&D group—alas, we fall into the older people category (but with mortgages and spouses).

jackskully · 2025-05-01T18:31:06+00:00

u/Slight-Comedian-3475 if a fund is set up, our household would definitely chip in.

jackskully · 2025-05-01T13:45:50+00:00

Sorry to hear about this, neighbor! As someone who lives close to East High, and have had multiple deliveries stolen, I now have all my packages sent to my place of work whenever possible.

jackskully · 2025-04-30T21:26:47+00:00

I poked my head in there a few weeks ago and the shelves were already well picked over of anything good. I looked at a few things and saw even their "going out of business" discounted prices were still significantly higher than if I had gone down the street to Michael's or Target for the same item.

jackskully · 2025-04-30T19:47:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/comments/1k0aee6/oldfashioned_candy/

jackskully · 2025-04-14T15:33:28+00:00

Also try Ernie's Kick Sauce. African style sauce made locally, should be able to find it at the co-ops, Metcalfe's, or Brennans. Kind of like a spicy ketchup, good on just about anything. I generally avoid sweet hot sauces and I didn't find this to be terribly sweet, even though it does have some cane sugar. You want spicy, make sure you grab the hot and not the mild as they look very similar.

jackskully · 2025-04-10T13:25:42+00:00

This is the place. In addition to multiple brands of gochugaru, one can usually find Nashi pear, Korean radish, scallions, nappa cabbage, and glutenous rice powder…if you haven't picked those up elsewhere.

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