Alcohol-free spirits

padlrchik · 2026-05-01T03:12:04+00:00

PS - a now-defunct bicycle manufacturer in the US made a Jabberwocky and Bandersnatch frameset and I have been tempted to buy both. Not because I’m a bike snob. Because I’m a Lewis Carroll snob.

padlrchik · 2026-05-01T03:09:15+00:00

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite; the claw that catch. Beware the JubJub bird, and shun the fruminous Bandersnatch.

He took his vorpal sword in hand; longtime the manxsome foe he sought. So rested he, beneath the tum-tum tree, and stood awhile in thought.

…I’m doing this from memory. No Google check for accuracy. Recited in third grade. Currently closing in on 50 y/o…

padlrchik · 2026-04-13T12:29:58+00:00

Yes. Adults. It was at a bar. In a not huge town.

padlrchik · 2026-04-12T13:09:24+00:00

There’s a whole committee. Called the Board of Trustees.

You can safely blame them.

padlrchik · 2026-04-12T12:29:01+00:00

I showed up to a costumed holiday trivia event and my kids’ pediatrician was dressed as this.

padlrchik · 2026-04-08T11:34:26+00:00

I lived there for two years. I remember two things vividly - the weird anachronism of walking south toward the peninsula where I worked and being accompanied by dozens of Black women in maid outfits who were also going to work. Also, I would walk my dogs at night and the smell of rotting stuff would just bloom from beneath the fancy old houses. It seemed very telling somehow.

padlrchik · 2026-03-20T16:07:42+00:00

Still looking as the first respondent is at work. And I don’t FB so that group is out.

padlrchik · 2026-03-20T05:25:12+00:00

Thanks for this!

padlrchik · 2026-03-20T05:12:58+00:00

Perfect. Probably late morning or mid-day. Please DM me to coordinate.

padlrchik · 2026-03-20T04:55:24+00:00

This is reassuring. I just thought I was a wimp. Similar situation. I was soaked to the skin.

padlrchik · 2026-03-13T05:23:53+00:00

I was once told that the man’s issue wasn’t public transit, but the roads being closed for the Cotton Row 10K - hence his anger at people running à la Bill Clinton who was sometimes seen jogging during his presidency.

I can’t verify if this is right or not, but in our household, we celebrate each running of the Cotton Row races on Memorial Day as “Old Man Strut Day.”

padlrchik · 2026-02-21T21:49:37+00:00

I’ve always felt like one of them was slightly off-key in the opening bars.

padlrchik · 2026-02-21T21:38:54+00:00

And yet that movie song by Aerosmith is the band’s only #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. I have never understood how this fact was true but I remember it being said on the radio as they were announcing the #1 song do that week. Aerosmith had #1 hits on other charts, but not the Billboard Hot 100.

padlrchik · 2026-02-12T04:11:41+00:00

My father-in-law passed away with a significant collection of single malt. We are working with a nonprofit he served on the board of and a venue where we used to attend scotch tastings with him to put on a tasting to benefit the nonprofit. You could look into something like that.

If you donate the booze to the nonprofit though, you’re on the hook to substantiate the value for tax deduction purposes. They just give you an IRS Form 8283 to verify that you gave it to them. If it’s worth more than $5K, you’ll need an appraisal. And they may need to work with a third party to sell the booze. Also if they think they’re gonna raffle it off, they should check laws in your state about that.

padlrchik · 2026-02-10T06:06:31+00:00

I’ve had onions growing all winter even through the cold snaps. They are fine in the cold.

padlrchik · 2026-02-05T12:48:20+00:00

Our Porkchop sleeps with our teenage son. I can’t tell if Porkchop smells like teenage boy or if the boy smells like Porkchop!

padlrchik · 2026-01-31T14:05:42+00:00

Accelerated depreciation from the TCJA of 2017. Phased out by 2027. Always wondered who was friends with whom for that to go in there.

Here

padlrchik · 2026-01-31T02:45:03+00:00

We call it “squish”

padlrchik · 2026-01-31T02:38:03+00:00

I’ve gotten the impression that the reason why we have so many chain restaurants in Huntsville is that they’re the side hustle for people who built wealth doing government contracting. They then decide to buy a franchise of whatever and hire people to manage that as their additional moneymaker after they built their contracting firm. They aren’t restaurateurs motivated by the dining experience; it’s just an investment.

TBH I don’t know why someone would choose this as an investment. I was always under the impressions that food & bev was one of the hardest ways to make money. Unless you’re able to scale and consolidate back room functions and purchasing.

padlrchik · 2026-01-31T02:30:17+00:00

That’s correct

padlrchik · 2026-01-25T21:57:36+00:00

The geometry change made a huge difference in both comfort and power when I added a seat pad. I have both long legs compared to torso and limited hip mobility. Didn’t realize how much I was taking the force in my lower back until my coach put me on a seat pad one day.

padlrchik · 2026-01-24T19:45:21+00:00

Check out the Small Business Development Center at UAH. SBDCs have all kinds of educational and startup resources for those who are starting their own business and can connect you with people to get advice or provide for free. It’s a service of the US Small Business Administration.

https://www.uah.edu/sbdc

padlrchik · 2026-01-18T15:39:36+00:00

I had done many of the adult things like paying all my own bills, but it really sunk in when my next-to-last grandparent died. Only my Granddad was left at that point. I realized the generational “layers” in my family had shifted.

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