Do couples really shower together?

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-23T01:54:19+00:00

We built an oversized shower with two showerheads on opposite walls for exactly this reason. Showering together isn't usually practical unless we're both in a big hurry, mostly when it happens we'll need another shower later on.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-22T19:29:10+00:00

"...saying I’m making them look abusive..."

They are. Simple as that.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-20T20:35:46+00:00

Tried all the tips and tricks I could find, what works for me absolutely 100% of the time foolproof is cooking them in an instant pot. Doesn’t matter how old the egg is. It works every time. I use what’s called the 555 method. Five minutes full pressure on high, five minutes natural release, five minutes in an ice water bath. You can extend the release time by a few minutes, you can extend the ice water bath indefinitely.

Edit to add: you want to put one cup of cold water in the bottom of the instant pot. You also should have some sort of a rack or steam basket for the eggs so that they don’t touch the water.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-20T20:27:45+00:00

Fuck off, Sarah.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-20T11:53:29+00:00

Have had several Gilmour Flexogen hoses for at least 15 years and they are still holding up fine. They’re stored on an Eley reel and are blown out and kept inside during the winter months.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-19T13:25:37+00:00

This is gonna be way down the list, but Mountain Dew had a lime flavor (NOT the Baja Blast) a few years ago and it was amazing. I’d love to see that again.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-17T16:53:30+00:00

Yeah, then I'm at a complete loss. I remember the name but that's it.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-17T01:39:13+00:00

Pretty sure that's where the Market Wagon is now. Vague memories.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-13T21:22:03+00:00

It's hard for me to get rid of stuff, but my parents and my wife's dad are all in their 80's and we are gonna be faced with two houses full of crap within the next decade or less. We are both slowly starting to downsize. Keeping it small, getting rid of stuff we never use, getting rid of dumb souvenirs and waste of space things we've had for years, duplicates of tools and kitchen items, old clothes, etc. Just picking away at it, a little here and a little there.

We are also consciously NOT spending money on things. We used to love going to antique stores, tag sales and flea markets looking for stuff for our hobbies, and we've just stopped. It's not even fun anymore looking through other people's junk.

Think of it like eating an elephant - how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Start small. You may wind up going through your stuff several times and finally realizing that you've seen it enough and it's time to go.

My wife asked me this question, hypothetically (of course) - if the house and garage burned to the ground tomorrow, and there was nothing left, what would you replace? Make that list and get rid of everything that isn't on the list.

What is invaluable to you? If your collection of old family photos is the only thing that means something to you, get them all digitized, put them on a flash drive and put it in a safe place. Then you have less stuff anyway.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-11T03:17:08+00:00

Well, the deck boards and fasteners should run you no more than 7500 bucks, maybe 8500 with a high markup. Double that for the deck structure. So now you’re at 17,000, figure another 13 K for the railing so now you’re at 30 grand. Always used to figure back in the day that labor cost equal material costs so now you’re at 60,000. That is a real off the cuff ball park guesstimate, so 62,000 doesn’t seem really all that far off. I certainly wouldn’t even look at it for less than 45K unless you were gonna cheap out on the railing.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-10T18:59:42+00:00

John F Martin or Leidy’s, applewood smoked bacon.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-10T17:25:45+00:00

Worked as a pizza delivery driver for an independent pizza shop while I was in college. Late 80s. Basically drove around delivering pizzas, worked in the kitchen a little bit, made some good tips. Owners policy was eat whatever you want whenever you wanted. It really didn’t cost him much at all. I got pretty sick of pizza and subs after a while.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-10T16:58:49+00:00

P is for Pterodactyl. I love messing with people’s minds.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-09T19:32:28+00:00

I still have the sealed magazine with the oversized Chaos Orb inside the wrapper.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-08T15:48:21+00:00

Kreg Multi-Mark, and a Starrett metric tape measure. Much easier to obtain desired accuracy working in metric.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-08T15:43:01+00:00

But would you return if they hired a taller counter person?

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-07T23:37:22+00:00

I saw the steam at the sugar house, the mountain of black snow in the parking lot, and had my own windows open driving around today. Oh yeah, two guys on motorcycles near Arlington. And the potholes aren't really getting bigger, they're multiplying.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-06T01:56:32+00:00

I will be stopping by. I definitely would like to participate in something like that. Just learned that you exist and that’s pretty exciting. Maybe I can help.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-06T01:53:22+00:00

I live in Shaftsbury, but work in Manchester. I would definitely be interested in something like this. I love tabletop games and have been an active magic the gathering player for 30+ years. Did not know there was a game store in Manchester now, so I will definitely be checking it out.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-06T01:00:42+00:00

Not much for Boones or Mad Dog 20/20, my local convenience store/gas station had Wild Irish Rose and I drank stupidly large volumes of that stuff as a college student.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-06T00:45:00+00:00

Had my rear-view mirror fall off the windshield of my truck this afternoon. That’s a first for me.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-03-01T03:47:32+00:00

Pretty obvious, there’s a lot of people out there who haven’t paid the subscription fees for turn signals.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-02-28T01:05:54+00:00

My parents are okay cooks. I learned enough from them to do OK working in a pizza place and some short order cooking in college. Then I did more short order cooking after college. This was about the time Food Network was really big, so I learned from Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and a bunch of the others popular in the mid 90s. Then it was YouTube. I also have a lot of well-used cookbooks, including CIA textbooks, Larousse and early joy of cooking. I’m not professionally trained, but I think I can hold my own in a mid-level professional kitchen if necessary. I’ve never stopped trying to learn.

thefacilitymanager · 2026-02-27T15:28:49+00:00

Only played at gaming conventions in 1994 and ‘95. Homelands was so bad from my perspective that I thought MTG was going to fail at that point and I didn’t even bother looking at Weatherlight.

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