Yep. Borrowed the GPS head unit (Garmin, I think) from my cousin with money for a road trip to SF.

I remember that it worked great until we got to the city itself, then the buildings made it hard to get line of site to 3 satellites. So we ended up printing a bunch of maps from our hotel’s business center anyway. But it got us there and made it easier to find gas stations along the way.

When I was a tween-teen my mom and I would thoroughly decorate our front yard and porch every year (for 5 or 6 years running) as a mini-haunted house. A lot of homemade decorations including a coffin my grandfather built for us. Then Halloween night I’d be in the coffin (which was on our porch) and she’d be there tending her cauldron or whatever worked for costume that year. When kids would come to the house she’d lift the coffin lid and I’d be in there with the bucket of candy. There was spooky music / sound effects, and some gloomy lighting. It was a mildly spooky vibe.

Very little kids (3 or 4) were often too scared to come up to the house and so one of the adults would have to come get their candy for them. I remember that, the last year we ended up doing it, one of the parents came up afterward and told us that their kid had been too scared to come up the year before and they talked about seeing “what was up there” on-and-off all year. And that year there were very proud to have gotten their own candy.

It’s fun to think that my mom and I are part of that family’s holiday memories.

I had a HS science teachers in the early 90s who was very insistent that, “day-ta is a name, dah-ta is information.” And between Star Trek and The Goonies, that made sense to me.

Alternatively you could buy from a dollar store where it’s 12 times the price but in a smaller package so it seems cheaper.

You know if a candy line has a fruit punch flavor you’re in for an iffy time.

If they’re taking Moo Ding anywhere, I hope it’s on a trip to meet Pesto the giant penguin chick. And I hope they decide to make a buddy cop style movie together.

My wife and I contribute to a few local organizations on a regular basis. They all offer donations on their websites. There’s a clinic we donate to. The shelters where we got our cats get regular small donations. We also donate to the local food panty plus warming centers in the winter.

We also exchange donations in lieu of gifts with our parents at the holidays. We’re all in positions where we don’t need more stuff, and it’s a nice way to still exchange something. My mom encourages donations to the rescue where she got her dog. I ask that she makes a donation to an organization that maintains and protects a local river basin.

🥑 x 10²³

My initial thought was, “that title can end after the 3rd word.”

I could never put a finger on it, but kids felt like an expensive 18 year punishment is because of child seats. The seats for high school aged kids are a nightmare.

Cellular modems with lifetime contracts from a telco are also increasingly common.

The is Lemmy Shitpost, the lower the quality the harder I click upvote.

I keep telling people! That’s why the correct spelling of urban is “qurbangg”

I mostly use the clipboard for moving images around, but I guess DL’d this gif when Linda Ronstadt was last in the news. I don’t remember if I posted it anywhere.

I thought about it, but I’m inclined to leave it. Especially because, unlike Reddit, Lemmy users are understanding… and I kind of like my retirement “joke.”

“I think mail in ballots aren’t secure, so I’m taking away the boxes that are a more secure option than the mail.” Their excuses for election interference make them look like idiots but the media is happy to go along with it.

I died there

Is the hot glue pretty good for standing up to kitty abuse? I was thinking PVA glue, but a glue gun would make things quicker.

They were both aluminum free, one’s just not labeled. I had to give up on antiperspirant a long time ago because it made my skin weird. Still, weirdly, kind of miss it though.

I was thinking of Cyprus. But the last company I worked for bought a small business in Cypress, CA. and I conflated the two when I made the title.