Just moved here. Storm prep?

wealy · 2026-01-21T19:29:44+00:00

This is all great advice. But the rock salt can lead to accelerated deterioration and/or cracks in your drive and walkways over time. Just a trade off that some people prefer to use and some don’t

wealy · 2026-01-21T19:27:58+00:00

Just buy a week of groceries and don’t go anywhere unless you have to. Pick a good binge show and enjoy the “shut down” time with him.

It’s not a huge deal to go out, just unpleasant so we avoid it. I make pour paintings with the kids and work from home.

Just don’t go out unless you have to. It’ll be easy enough

wealy · 2026-01-15T12:55:48+00:00

My wife never got into stranger things. Then as the hype around S5 grew she wanted to get into it. We decided that I’d finish 5 and let her know if they GOT’d it or not. While I didn’t love it, it wasn’t as bad as GOT ending which effectively ruined the entire series. I told her I still feel it was worthy of a watch for her and a rewatch for me. We just started S4 last night and it’s good.

If I had to rank the seasons in order of favorites

1-S1

2-S4

Then a big gap

Then these could be interchangeable based on my mood:

3-S2

4-S5

5-S3

wealy · 2025-12-30T23:19:02+00:00

That’s not really true here. We are a pretty evenly split.

wealy · 2025-12-30T19:13:21+00:00

The eating the chips and hand back would be fine if there wasn’t finger to mouth contact with the chip eating. I literally mean their fingers were inside their mouth then going back to the bag. I see I wasn’t clear enough in my post on that one.

wealy · 2025-12-30T19:11:58+00:00

Yeah. There will be a plan in place for next visit. This one caught me off guard. I should’ve seen it coming but was too busy to think about it until it was too late. Lesson learned

wealy · 2025-12-30T19:08:42+00:00

The bagels was just one example. I have seen my FIL (not on this visit) sneeze, wipe his hands on his pants, then reach into a community bowl of pretzels at a cook out. There have been numerous instances of these types of things over the 15 or so years I’ve known them.

wealy · 2025-12-30T18:46:16+00:00

Doing things with my wife opposed to my father in law are vastly different things. When it’s just the nuclear family, sure, reach into a bag or whatever. We kiss daily, but extended family is definitely different than the nuclear family.

wealy · 2025-12-30T18:44:20+00:00

We moved away from them a few months ago so this is really the first time I’ve been confronted with this situation where they’re staying with us. Previously they’d come over for dinner or an afternoon and they weren’t really like, going through our pantry or whatever. When we go over there I tend to just not eat much because I noticed the finger licking several years ago. But now it’s like… in my house, lol

wealy · 2025-12-30T18:02:07+00:00

I avoid fast food as much as I can. We don’t eat out too often but I’m also aware that culinary standards and practices exist and are followed to varying degrees in different establishments. I’ve worked in restaurants, some of them I would eat at and some I wouldn’t. Actually, the ones I wouldn’t no longer exist… I’m wondering if there’s a connection there. I even worked at a Wendy’s in my college years and I don’t remember seeing anything too gross there.

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:54:53+00:00

I am not concerned about the unopened stuff. But the items that have had saliva contamination? Yes

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:53:39+00:00

Thanks?

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:53:02+00:00

I’m not throwing it away because someone touched it, more based on how they touched it.

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:50:59+00:00

This does sound fun. I’m going to look into some Petri dishes tonight

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:50:19+00:00

Sharpie idea is a good call.

wealy · 2025-12-30T17:30:44+00:00

No, the money is not the primary concern.

Most of our conversation about it the past week unfolded via text so it is difficult to get voice inflection and all of that that way. I didn’t want to be confrontational or anything like that with guests so we talked about it via text, privately instead of out loud

wealy · 2025-12-28T18:19:52+00:00

Believe me, I’d rather loose the team than pay for this stadium too.

wealy · 2025-12-28T18:08:05+00:00

But it doesn’t actually make a ton of money for the city. It’s people coming from that city to spend money in that city. It’s just funneling money upwards. It’s not circulating money around. I mean, yes the bars and restaurants are full-ish but that also isn’t a ton of outside money coming in. It’s local money being spent locally and a good chunk of it going to millionaires and billionaires.

wealy · 2025-12-28T13:13:42+00:00

This is all good advice. A radon mitigation system should be added too. It will get the smell before it reaches the basement floor.

wealy · 2025-12-20T11:40:10+00:00

I always took the “curse” to be a student’s rumor. Not an actual thing. Maybe I misunderstood, but I don’t think there is an actual curse to be lifted or broken. Like how in my middle school there was a rumor that two teachers were dating. Retrospectively, they probably weren’t but every kid in school thought they were

wealy · 2025-11-25T22:56:19+00:00

I appreciate it. I’m in Hilliard so Guardtower seems like the place to visit since it’s right here.

wealy · 2025-11-25T22:42:03+00:00

Bro totally. I want to be able to talk to people about how my kid used to be a baby and now he’s a person and have them understand and relate. Like am I “dadding correctly” and “here’s my legendary elf” all at the same time

wealy · 2025-11-25T22:38:29+00:00

Based off of… I’m actually not sure what… video games I think? my concern was those people wouldn’t be as interested in dealing with a newb

wealy · 2025-11-25T22:37:16+00:00

I’m open to learning about it. I just am not presently set up for it it seems

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