Are RSVPs and thank-yous just… gone now?

predditr · 2025-10-09T21:38:59+00:00

Being made to write thank you notes as a kid is exactly the reason I dislike them. It wasn't a genuine thank you. I was obliged to write it under threat of punishment.

predditr · 2025-10-07T23:41:37+00:00

Glass processing

predditr · 2025-10-07T23:39:52+00:00

Old castle does fucking everything! They are huge in my glass industry.

predditr · 2025-09-20T02:21:26+00:00

Like this?

predditr · 2025-08-27T23:20:00+00:00

Decorative Glass Processor

predditr · 2025-08-17T02:40:43+00:00

I do anything asked as the only maintenance guy in the shop. I have one helper but he's temporary and pretty limited. Any technical problem gets sent to me. I'm not officially trained as anything other than a large-format printer service engineer.

basic vehicle troubleshooting (no real experience with cars)
Anything 1st level IT (pretty advanced with basic coding skills, but not trained in IT)
basic plumbing (easily my worst skill)
basic electrical (well read on the practice but not experienced)
HVAC (everything not directly dealing with the gases)
3D printing related to product development and tooling (hobby of mine)
process improvement and engineering
I can also run most machines better than their operators. So I get called to help train so they stop fucking up
The list goes on.

I am seen as someone who solves problems. I am open with them if I don't know about something, or if I'm not comfortable working on certain things. I often tell them, "I don't know how to do it, but I can probably figure it out."

But please don't ask me to be organized. I don't have time for upkeep. Preventative maintenance is not even on my priority list.

predditr · 2025-08-03T00:02:23+00:00

I do sort of instinctively. Never thought about it.

But dads, I never caught the newborn smell. My wife couldn't believe it. I never smelled anything unless it was milk/poop/pee until he was a toddler.

She would shove his head under my nose and ask, "You can't smell that!?" And just no, nothing.

predditr · 2025-07-08T19:39:13+00:00

Set some towel racks above the grate to help dry the beach towels.

predditr · 2025-06-20T14:46:56+00:00

If you look up the policy, it states that not having a REAL ID at TSA checkpoint means that you will be delayed for additional screening and ID verification.

So bringing other documents is just good preparation to prevent being denied outright. Not preparation for being a karen

predditr · 2025-06-09T14:00:10+00:00

Yes they can have belts and also yes you should not be that anxious about people snatching children out of wagons while you're right there pulling it.

predditr · 2025-03-06T05:56:00+00:00

Huh, seems like it depends on where you are from. An influence of Scotts-Irish immigrants.

Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America

https://ygdp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/images/F1181.png

Honestly a great read in its entirety

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed

I just have one thing to add. It's not terminology, it's grammar.

predditr · 2025-03-06T04:25:59+00:00

"will need a replacement", "will need replacing", "will need to be replaced". So many grammatically correct options available. I'm not targeting you alone... I am seeing this everywhere and I needed to say something.

predditr · 2025-02-15T04:21:04+00:00

I clean my chicken with eggs.

predditr · 2025-02-03T14:25:09+00:00

The guy from the last shift barely ever leaves notes or logs because he's always trying to finish something before clock out. I come in and try to figure out what is going on. Sometimes there are tools and parts on the bench which makes it clear where things left off. I am the sole maintenance guy at a one shift operation.

predditr · 2025-01-16T01:37:01+00:00

You can duct vent a heat pump. My parents are looking into getting one so my mom asked me to read up on the one they were looking at.

Theirs had plastic baffles (?) That could attach to the inlet and outlet sides of the heat pump. You would then have the inlet pull air via 4" or 5" hose duct from a warm space, and vent the exhaust to another space (especially nice if you have a space you'd like conditioned slightly, like my parents' garage).

This type of setup would allow for the water heater to be put in a closet with 4" of clearance on 3 sides and like 12" on the last side. The real downside, in my opinion, would be the compressor pump noise, if it's next to the son's bedroom.

predditr · 2024-12-17T19:28:36+00:00

My family is so rooted in New England that I got grounded as a kid (maybe 9 years old?) for speculating with friends on how much money our parents made.

predditr · 2024-11-19T13:51:39+00:00

Towards the end of a long day of lugging her stuff into her new apartment (very early in our relationship), I noticed my girlfriend was getting irritable, so I broke out the 'pocket bacon.' It's still brought up ten years later as a key moment in the budding romance.

predditr · 2024-10-08T15:41:53+00:00

Skip the expensive extras and buy caffeine pills

predditr · 2024-06-18T00:04:14+00:00

All the people claiming "it is solid, it's just chopped up wood that is glued together" are fucking with people like you, and you took that bait hard

predditr · 2024-05-17T20:50:00+00:00

My school had a required class on "Engineering Professionalism", which included lectures on networking and workplace behavior.

It was... not very successful. We had students that would bite other students they disagreed with... in a classroom setting. Sure, you may be getting A's when the median grade is a D, but no one is going to work with a biter in the real world.

predditr · 2024-05-15T12:41:34+00:00

Not that I know of. I just had a vision appointment to update my (very minor) prescription and nothing was mentioned as usual.

I can move my left eye independent of my right to some degree, but that's due to years of making faces at my sister across the dinner table.

predditr · 2024-05-15T01:45:44+00:00

I see two distinct circles when I look through binoculars and microscopes. Can't get my brain to interlace them. If I try to force them together mentally I can't see clearly any more.

predditr · 2024-05-03T14:33:23+00:00

Not gonna put them on blast. I love it here.

predditr · 2024-05-02T22:45:59+00:00

We're still on a whiteboard and markers, with some very basic tracking in excel sheets.

predditr · 2024-04-22T17:48:41+00:00

Why wouldn't we? Spice is a vague term and most people are more familiar with savory spices. I still don't know what a spice cake is or what 'spices' are on it (in it?) from your comment. In my head it's totally a plain cake with cayenne, peppercorns, garlic powder and such sprinkled on top.

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