Yeah, but, maybe not this very minute.

This was not the best time for me to have a new $1.200 bill.

You know, you make we want to drive over to Wallyworld just to pick-up a bag of that stuff. I'm sure it's no hotter than Pepperjack.

"Friendship" can exist on so many different levels.

A few close friends are worth more than dozens of more distant friends. Let's just put it that way.

i think of "friends" and "friendlies".

One of the voices I follow suggests that date could be Inauguration Day.

So, I'm getting the same brand as the tires I'm replacing, but a longer-lived tire. <sigh>

Also, they told me that they'd arrange a shuttle to take me back home. Shuttle is spelled "L-Y-F-T". Never took one before. Pleasant enough ride, but the Christian hip-hop entertainment was grating.

4/end

The rationale is that should I ever need a new tire, it will be better for me if the tire I need is a tire that they carry.

The added cost isn't the pain point. The pain point is having to replace tires with barely 24,000 miles on the odometer.

3/

I get to the dealer at 8:30 this morning and? The tires will be delivered by 2 this afternoon.

Long story short, I am having the tires the dealer recommended in the first place put on the car as they have them in stock. It will cost a bit more.

2/

Today is "Tire Replacement Day". Roughly a month ago, I made an appointment to have new tires put on my car.

Because I was rather disappointed at the short life of the tires that were on my car *FROM THE FACTORY*, I wanted to go with a different brand and ordered a competing brand.

1/

@epistemiccrisis.bsky.social is saying that we're in a five-day window.

It is like the longest-running nihilistic soap opera ever, isn’t it?

The trick is to fasten them and zip them up while they’re around your ankles, then pull them up.

It can be a bit confusing. The LBASE Gen 5 is for Gunpla, but comes is bundled with varying inductive LEDs depending on the application.

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Amazon is carrying a line of inductive LEDs for placing inside Gunpla and having them light via an induced EM field.

Because I don't believe that (any) management pays attention to customers through regular "Contact Us" channels.

I think one needs to deal with humans from time-to-time, and it gives them something to discuss in their various mandatory meetings.

Two thoughts.
1) Eventually, you grow tired of beating yourself up and you begin to realize that the people you are trying to appease are even more effed-up than you.
2) It dawns on you that you're on the "spectrum" and that you're really part of a collective.

I feel you.

I tend to be slow to anger, but I'm at the point now where my filter is wearing out.

(Isn't that a sign of frontotemporal dementia?)

I'm going to assume that the mod team (shouldn't that be "squad"?) is an AI in order to shield the staff from adult images.

But, I'm going to attend that meeting with "Kevin", and ask the following questions:
1) Why is he trying to poach me from my existing banker with whom I have an established relationship?
2) Who is Schmidt Research and why are they calling me "on behalf of my bank"?
3) Why was my number given out?

Spoon-sized Shredded Wheats are a bit better (even with added white sugar) because the "frosting" isn't quite as tasty as real sugar.

I suppose you could report it, and get the boiler-plate response that there's nothing in that post that violates Community Standards.

I did get a call from my bank. I verified the number and made an appointment with them for next week.

Folks, I'm three years into my retirement. It's a heck of a time now to want to go over my "investment strategy". That ship done sailed.

I had a "research company" call me "on behalf of my bank". I left the call go to VM. Sorry folks, but I have no way of verifying who you are, and my bank did not alert me that you'd be calling.

You'll get no call back from me.

1/

I opened up the sunroof of my car and let the sunshine in.

The sunshine really makes the gray in my hair *POP*. It only looks like the barest hint of gray in the bathroom.

Are you hinting that your light saber is a "splinter"?

Happy Birthday!

Can’t choke you and lots of tongue room!

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Not an endorsement.

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