• Cyburbia is a friendly big tent, where we share our experiences and thoughts about urban planning practice, the built environment, planning adjacent topics, and anything else that comes to mind. No ads, no spam, and it's free. It's easy to join!

RTDNTOTO šŸ» Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

Who needs one of these t-shirt
www.rayguncustom.com

Car Talk: Unencumbered Shirt

White Ink on a Black T-shirt (100% Preshrunk Combed Cotton) Screen printed by Union Labor at RAYGUN. Size Chart can be viewed here.
www.rayguncustom.com www.rayguncustom.com
1763336469300.png
1763336593344.png
 
jumbach said:
Sometimes my wife jokes that my list of Saturday errands looks more like a bus schedule.

I am alarmingly good at sticking to the time frames though.
Click to expand...
This ended up going out the window because I got home Friday night and noticed we had a padiddle on the car. I couldn't get it in until Sunday, so I revised my schedule so I would leave 30 minutes after sunrise on Saturday so as not to need the headlight. Made an appointment for Sunday at 10, so I could go there right after the Commanders game and be back in time for the 2:00 Canucks game. It worked, and got some other minor work done while it was there.
 
Salmissra said:
Drone delivery service station/charging port on the City Council agenda tonight. Should be interesting!
Click to expand...

Speaking of drone delivery...

I was reading an article last night about Amazon announcing 1 hour delivery by flying drones within a 6 mile radius of a massive local warehouse. I was intrigued so I immediately went and pulled up a map but I'm sadly about an extra mile and a half outside of the range. My office is within the range. I should plug that address in and then make a random purchase eligible for the drone delivery. I'd happily go sit in the parking lot for an hour to wait for it!
 
luckless pedestrian said:
We are also a Bee City

Had a good weekend - hope you folks did too - Happy Monday?
Click to expand...
I don't like to ascribe feelings to Mondays...it feels like I'm trying too hard already. Does Monday resent us all, because it knows how we feel about it? It's awkward. It's like I'm 7 years old at JC Penney's with my mom all over again, and she's asking me if I want to start wearing boxers or if I like my normal underwear and I have to act like I don't care but really I want to die because people can hear me talking to my mom about my underwear and I know boxers are cool but they're gonna bunch all up in my Toughskins and I know I'm not going to deal well with that and I wonder if that means there's something really really wrong with me or if I'm just not cool. Probably a little of both.

I still don't wear boxers. Hate them. I also don't like Mondays. Mondays wear boxers.

I'm going to take my meds real quick before my meeting. :)
 
Latest fun thing to zone...electric vehicle charging stations. I'm not talking one or two at the local Walmart. I'm talking a lot with 10-20 stations. I keep trying to tell our zoning team to just treat it as a service station and be done with it. I keep getting, what if it's a membership club service - don't care still a service station. What if it's a charging location for automated vehicles - don't care still a service station. What if they handle semi trucks. I do understand trucks are different from cars at a service station because of the idling truck noise, but don't care. Electric trucks don't idle.
 
šŸ“¢
posts about violence towards spiders will not be tolerated

Anyone else take pictures of spiders they see around the house or out in the world? Hubby thought it was weird that I have a bunch of pictures of spiders in my photos.
 
dandy_warhol said:
šŸ“¢
posts about violence towards spiders will not be tolerated

Anyone else take pictures of spiders they see around the house or out in the world? Hubby thought it was weird that I have a bunch of pictures of spiders in my photos.
Click to expand...
Are you secretly author T. Kingfisher? Because that's a real vibe, man. Also if I have discovered your secret identity will you sign my copy of "What Moves the Dead?
 
dandy_warhol said:
šŸ“¢
posts about violence towards spiders will not be tolerated

Anyone else take pictures of spiders they see around the house or out in the world? Hubby thought it was weird that I have a bunch of pictures of spiders in my photos.
Click to expand...
Can I talk about all the mice we have caught in our garage trap in the last week? At least ten have met their demise out there.

The neighbors' kitty died a while back . . . when she was around we didn't have that problem.

I've even seen a mouse crawl over its dead friend to get the rest of the cheese off the trap. Not much for compassion there.

Jim
 
ME, to a co-worker: "See that guy over there in the lobby? Do you think he's a plumber?"

CO-WORKER: "Oh, God! Thanks for pointing that out!!!"

The Terminator said:
Violence against Mice is PERFECTLY ACCECPTABLE when carried out by a Cat! Meow
Click to expand...
For the record, I won't touch any animal outside our house. Inside my house uninvited, you're toast. (Unless you are someone's pet, in which case, I will take you home.)
 
dandy_warhol said:
šŸ“¢
posts about violence towards spiders will not be tolerated

Anyone else take pictures of spiders they see around the house or out in the world? Hubby thought it was weird that I have a bunch of pictures of spiders in my photos.
Click to expand...
Spiders are cool and we leave them top themselves to the point hat I hate vacuuming them up with their cobwebs in the basement.

But House Centipedes can die in a fire.
 
I am a big arachnophobe - I am better than I used to be - I can handle seeing them outside but inside, still a nope, but I don't break down when I see them, I just make my husband kill them, sorry-not-sorry - ticks make me gag

in other news - I am reminded of how middley a middle manager I am when upper management wants my staff to do something that my staff understandably is pushing back on and now I am pushing back on upper management on it - I feel like a clichƩ
 
luckless pedestrian said:
I am a big arachnophobe - I am better than I used to be - I can handle seeing them outside but inside, still a nope, but I don't break down when I see them, I just make my husband kill them, sorry-not-sorry - ticks make me gag
Click to expand...
[/resisting urge to post jump scare gifs...]

Faust_Motel said:
Spiders are cool and we leave them top themselves to the point hat I hate vacuuming them up with their cobwebs in the basement.

But House Centipedes can die in a fire.
Click to expand...
Agreed. Spiders are our 'little' buddies and kill/eat the actually annoying insects.
 
Someone sent a mass email to everyone on our signer list. It's a long list. Now everyone is hitting reply all and asking why am I getting this and now it's degenerated into everyone hitting reply all and saying remove me. Now the snarky comments have started. It's just a joy to see the brilliance of humanity and the inability to not hit reply all.
 
I don't think I will ever get tired of Jaguars, but I have watched every single nature doc available on YouTube about Jags and it's now getting boring watching the same thing over and over again.

Jaguars will always be #1, but I am taking recommendations for something new to obsess over and consume content about before bed......
 
Faust_Motel said:
Spiders are cool and we leave them top themselves to the point hat I hate vacuuming them up with their cobwebs in the basement.

But House Centipedes can die in a fire.
Click to expand...
1763482287291.png

These mad mammajammas come in my house periodically - they're frighteningly aggressive and move very fast. Sometimes you see one and if they hear you coming they run for you like a little light-rail of searing pain and death.
 
DVD said:
Someone sent a mass email to everyone on our signer list. It's a long list. Now everyone is hitting reply all and asking why am I getting this and now it's degenerated into everyone hitting reply all and saying remove me. Now the snarky comments have started. It's just a joy to see the brilliance of humanity and the inability to not hit reply all.
Click to expand...
I seldom use reply all (unless there are only 2 or 3 names and everyone needs to know), and never use bcc:. I think the first is rude, and the last is passive aggressive.

Jim
 
jumbach said:
Can I talk about all the mice we have caught in our garage trap in the last week? At least ten have met their demise out there.

The neighbors' kitty died a while back . . . when she was around we didn't have that problem.

I've even seen a mouse crawl over its dead friend to get the rest of the cheese off the trap. Not much for compassion there.

Jim
Click to expand...
I worked a summer at a Nature Conservancy site in southern Colorado. Stayed in a trailer that hadn't been occupied in at least 6 months. I was the first of the 3 of us to arrive for summer. I could hear the mice in the walls when I first got there and placed three traps with peanut butter out. The first few nights I it felt like I was getting up every 20 minutes to empty the traps. I stopped counting at 50. About a week later, the third roommate brought her cat. It had never really been around mice, but its primal instincts took over and we stopped having to deal with traps.
 
Back
Top