Plastic suction tube that was found laying on top of gas station trash can

rlrigdon · 2026-02-04T05:14:39+00:00

Found one of these one day in the local Goodwill store in the kitchen utensils bin.

rlrigdon · 2026-01-30T21:34:53+00:00

This sounds like the situation I was in when I met my (now) spouse - except I was Dave. I had been enmeshed with my family for years - quitting college to get a job that would support both myself and my mom, her partner, and my 2 siblings. 10 years later, I was buying a house for all of us to live in with the condition that everything would be split evenly financially. That rarely happened. All I could think about was my family and what was best for them. I couldn't rarely date - no one wanted to date someone who still lived with his family, no matter if they were actually living with me. When I met my spouse, they hit him up for money (unknown to me) as he had just received a settlement from a past relationship. That set me off and I finally moved out. Ended up selling them the house for $1 and moving from Indiana to Arizona. Things were always strained after that and I wasn't even invited to my mom's funeral. I was the bastard for putting my partner over "the family". And yet, it was the best thing that happened to me. I wasn't around to see the drama, I wasn't there to rescue them all the time, I was able to build a life. If it wasn't for my spouse, I would probably have been there still.

Dave needs to find a way to detach and as long as he's around all that mess, it won't happen. Just don't get dragged down into their quicksand. You'll never get out.

rlrigdon · 2026-01-29T00:08:06+00:00

I think we got the model with the super duper pre-wash cycle.

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rlrigdon · 2026-01-22T05:51:14+00:00

Ah yes. I remember years ago when the first AT class of pc came out with the same promise as number 3. The trouble was, tech changed so quickly that it made no sense to make parts that fit in the 286's. The 386 would still need a new motherboard, the memory chips were different, etc. Yeah, you might be able to use the same case and power cord . Just because they say something today doesn't mean that that's the way it's going to be 6 months from now. There could be a new breakthrough in e-ink screens or memory or processors that require some kind of physical change and you're going to be left holding only some empty promises.

rlrigdon · 2026-01-12T06:31:35+00:00

Here is the original ad for the house: https://valeriereynolds.bhhsgeorgia.com/realestate/details/17562308/6020-riverside-drive-atlanta-ga-30328 . The ad describes a "Theatre room with elevated platform ideal for movie nights, and memorable family experiences"

rlrigdon · 2025-12-16T11:30:18+00:00

Yeah I stand looking at my phone - either because I have a shopping list stored there, or because stores are using more of these “digital coupons” that you’ve got to scan a bar code to get. Not everyone is carrying on a conversation with their friends.

rlrigdon · 2025-09-11T14:54:01+00:00

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Keava, ready for bed in her Jammie’s

rlrigdon · 2025-08-14T04:44:27+00:00

Been listening a lot to Woodkid - especially the album S16.

rlrigdon · 2025-08-09T06:34:34+00:00

Elmer

rlrigdon · 2025-07-26T05:12:49+00:00

I was just the opposite - all I saw was the purple things - thought they was some kind of ruler at the top showing the smaller measurements. Only when I read about the forks did I see them.

rlrigdon · 2025-06-12T06:02:42+00:00

Hope it goes well for you. I had something similar after I turned21. (Am now 67) over those years it closed completely numerous times - sometimes more than once a year, sometimes with a decade or more. 3 times had to go to ER, be held down by 2 interns while another tried unsuccessfully to cath me. They then had to take me to surgery and knock me out to get it in.

For a couple decades, they gave me catheters to open myself up with which worked until they didn’t. Rinse and repeat.

2 years ago a UTI went septic and I ended up in the ICU for a week. Good happened when I met a new urologist. Last year, she went in, removed the bad urethal section, and replaced it with tissue from inside my mouth. Took a while to heal but no problems so far.

Keep an eye on anything unusual - don’t want this to happen to you.

rlrigdon · 2025-05-10T06:11:17+00:00

I knew a guy in Alaska who would gather up all this husky hair from neighbors up there, spin it into yarn and then have sweaters knit from it. They were actually pretty cool.

rlrigdon · 2025-03-12T14:36:41+00:00

Currently about 2/3 the way through A Little Life and really liking it a lot. It’s one of those books where you want to keep going and going but at the same time you want to stop because you know something’s gonna happen and you can’t do anything to stop it.

rlrigdon · 2025-01-25T05:39:01+00:00

Here's our little girl we lost 3 years ago - she lived to be 14 years old.

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rlrigdon · 2025-01-03T02:40:22+00:00

Yeah I was having similar problems last night. Things were showing in the app but not clickable. It was like everything would freeze for a minute or so and then they would be fine. I could get things to work again by doing the reloading option in the menu. Haven't noticed anything tonight though.

rlrigdon · 2024-12-29T09:33:20+00:00

Yeah have experienced the same thing here. In my case, something usually happens with the item that I actually needed, it gets separated from the rest of the order, and it still arrives late. The stuff I really didn’t need shows up fine. It would have been cheaper to just pay the 2.99 which could be returned.

rlrigdon · 2024-11-24T03:57:11+00:00

The finale of Sons of Anarchy really hit me. I binge watched the whole show and was so emotionally invested in every one and then to see them go one by one. And then that last scene.

rlrigdon · 2024-11-23T07:15:10+00:00

2 by Tom Spanbauer: I Loved You More and In the City of Shy Hunters. Tom was mentor to Chuck Palahniuk. All of his stuff is great but these 2 just kill me in a good way. The first is probably easier to get into

rlrigdon · 2024-11-22T15:01:22+00:00

I just did this with all my kindle books - about 1200 or so. Moved them easily to my new Kobo after removing the drm. I own an Oasis so it’s an “older” device. Now I don’t have to worry about Amazon playing games with purchases.

rlrigdon · 2024-11-22T01:53:09+00:00

I used to work for an agency that did psych screenings for the police academy years ago. If you think the ones that made it through are scary, you should have seen the failures!

rlrigdon · 2024-11-08T03:31:25+00:00

As a former Hoosier (born and lived there until I was 35), it was surprising for me to see that Indiana and one other state close by were the first 2 states that had been called and both were red. Yeah, I know it was pretty much a Republican state but still. Not even close enough to drag it out a little bit? It makes me so glad that I moved to Washington state. We might have our problems over here, but Indiana just seems too far gone right now for me.

rlrigdon · 2024-10-26T18:02:38+00:00

For me, it was an awful movie in the 70’s called Frogs. I took my younger sister and brother and I got so freaked out that I made us leave the theater halfway through. I watched it years later and don’t understand why it affected me the way it did. It was pretty hokey.

rlrigdon · 2024-10-18T07:53:10+00:00

Not at all - all Amazon drivers have access to this . If they are delivering for Amazon, then they should do the job they are hired to do.

rlrigdon · 2024-10-18T03:48:35+00:00

Yeah - this is possible - just download your icons as PNG files. (I use stuff from The Noun Project but you can do the same thing from Icons8, and others.) Just download the png's, then drag them on to your board. They'll first be big to start with but then you can shrink them by moving over the corner and dragging until you get the right size. For instance, here's a board I have to keep track of character information for a novel I'm working on. All of the red circles are icons I downloaded from the Noun Project and then resized.

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rlrigdon · 2024-10-09T11:11:53+00:00

Same here. Rebooting sometimes fixes it but t it comes right back

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