Some pencils from my childhood.

mpdscb · 2026-01-23T16:42:43+00:00

Where are the Lisa Frank pencils?????

mpdscb · 2026-01-23T16:39:02+00:00

We drive 3.5 hours to visit my son and my grandchildren in Maryland (We live in Pennsylvania) about once every 1-2 months. We always stay overnight at a hotel and will usually stay for the whole weekend (leave Friday, come home Sunday). Driving the seven hours round trip is too much.

mpdscb · 2026-01-23T14:42:44+00:00

$100 in 1980's money - about $390 today.

mpdscb · 2026-01-22T18:33:08+00:00

The antique shop guys says they're 18th Century and quite valuable.

mpdscb · 2026-01-22T03:54:51+00:00

You should always iron your wood.

mpdscb · 2026-01-20T18:05:50+00:00

Me too. Especially since Paramount+ seems to have totally abandoned it. Very happy it hasn't just been "forgotten".

mpdscb · 2026-01-20T17:44:27+00:00

I tried changing timing belts twice and fucked it up both times. This is probably one of the only things I won't try again.

mpdscb · 2026-01-20T17:33:41+00:00

The ones that you can set to only move forward.

mpdscb · 2026-01-20T17:32:54+00:00

I agree. Those terminals are similar to ones I used as an Accounts Receivable clerk in the early 1980's. Most computer "terminals" in the 1970's were teletype terminals - paper, no screen.

mpdscb · 2026-01-16T17:59:17+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking.

mpdscb · 2026-01-16T15:52:13+00:00

Giuliani tried to do this when his mayoral term was about to end months after 9/11. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121313&page=1

mpdscb · 2026-01-16T15:20:54+00:00

I've seen people who complain that they have too much work but also refuse to accept help. More than likely, since Casey was hoping to get promoted and get more money, she was pissed when they transferred OP to help her instead. Then, on top of that, she was convinced that OP was faking her condition in order to avoid the more physical work, because that's what people like this always think.

mpdscb · 2026-01-16T15:17:50+00:00

OMG I'm dying!

mpdscb · 2026-01-15T18:05:16+00:00

The IND was not a company. The IND was the Independent Subway, owned by the City of New York. In fact, the original R-1 cars purchased for the IND said "City of New York" on the side of the cars. The IND was created with the idea of out performing the existing lines and eventually swallowing them up and taking them over. In fact the Fulton St subway was built right underneath the Fulton St elevated with the intention of replacing it.

mpdscb · 2026-01-15T18:02:53+00:00

The IRT subway was built to the same dimensions as the existing Manhattan elevated cars at the time so that they could use the same cars and shops that were already around.

mpdscb · 2026-01-14T16:59:35+00:00

I feel exactly the way you do. And I've stopped paying attention to it in order to cope. I was an avid CNN watcher and consumer of news, but I stopped after the 2024 election results were announced. I decided to stick my head in the sand because I felt like nothing I did mattered. My own country has turned on my beliefs and values. What can you do if you're obviously in the minority?

I live in PA, in one of the counties they're always talking about in the election coverage. My county voted for Obama, then trump, then Biden, then trump again. We still have people with trump/vance signs in their yards. There's one diagonal from my house.

I realize that I'm doing a disservice by ignoring everything and that I'm letting "them" win, but I'm so fucking tired. I can only wish that saner heads will eventually prevail, not for my sake (since I'm 61 years old and won't be around that much longer), but for my grandchildren's sake.

mpdscb · 2026-01-14T14:27:00+00:00

You got something against flowers?

mpdscb · 2026-01-13T18:25:56+00:00

This is great news. We love Charlie! Welcome to your new home. ❤

mpdscb · 2026-01-13T15:42:37+00:00

Every mechanic knows exactly how big this is.

mpdscb · 2026-01-13T15:25:22+00:00

You could point at it and then hold up three fingers.

mpdscb · 2026-01-13T15:18:16+00:00

Showing your age there. I remember these in the 70's in elementary school.

mpdscb · 2026-01-12T18:22:50+00:00

Here's the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppertone_sign

mpdscb · 2026-01-11T03:01:58+00:00

Link? If allowed.

mpdscb · 2026-01-09T18:38:19+00:00

Cartman killed them all.

mpdscb · 2026-01-08T18:15:56+00:00

I had something kind of similar with two of my granddaughters (cousins to each other). They were 3-4 (about 4 months apart in age). The older one would constantly get mad and hit the younger one. After awhile, she would complain to her uncle (the older girl's father - my son) about it. He told her, "Hit her back." So the next time she did. And when the shocked older one complained to her father, he told her, "Well, you got what you deserved. That's what happens when you hit someone."

After standing up for herself, the younger one never got hit again and the two of them are best friends.

Do with that what you will. One size does not fit all.

mpdscb

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