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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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Absolutely fugly and no chance of repurposing once the industry goes bust.
We actually had a little single-bay service station car wash turn into part of a dunkin' expansion- I was surprised. Bu these bad boys popping up all over?
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Totally non-adaptable building form. At least they should be pretty easy to disassemble and recycle.
 
NPS FB posting
Trying to get yourself pumped up to start your day on the Monday after daylight saving.
What day is it? Where am I? It’s okay, it’s often said the first five days after the weekend are the hardest. You got this.

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Image: A prairie dog at Devils Tower National Monument sits with legs spread and a blank expression.
 
I have to confess this morning that I am tired of being a city planner. There. I said it. I think it will be OK, it just feels like after all these years it's all starting to wear a little smooth. I need a vacation I guess. The prairie dog pic is really hitting home, but like, for my whole life, not just Monday.

If you told me right now that I could fund my life being the dude that gently beckons cars forward at the tunnel car wash and points to the side once in a while to tell you straighten out your tires....I'd take that job over mine today. I might regret it, but I'd give myself two months of happiness at that car wash. Two. Solid. Months.
 
Daylight savings has me all messed up - I have a harder time with the spring than the fall - feel hungover without the alcohol for days
Of course, in the spring you're losing sleep, whereas in the fall you're gaining sleep. I find it interesting that a number of media outlets this year have made mention of studies that have found there is a nationwide increase in heart attacks in the days immediately following the changeover to daylight saving time. There's also a bill pending to eliminate time changes for good and just stick with one. The last time this sort of bill was up in front of Congress it failed, though.

 
We basically explained the intent of the rule . . . it was to avoid having a stack of dishes in the sink overnight. We said the incident was funny once, but we may not find it so funny the next time.

No dish problems since that day. Really, it takes two minutes to wash them and put them away, OR to stick them in the dishwasher. We don't care which.

Jim
 
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Of course, in the spring you're losing sleep, whereas in the fall you're gaining sleep. I find it interesting that a number of media outlets this year have made mention of studies that have found there is a nationwide increase in heart attacks in the days immediately following the changeover to daylight saving time. There's also a bill pending to eliminate time changes for good and just stick with one. The last time this sort of bill was up in front of Congress it failed, though.

We remember what happened when Cosmo Kramer decided to boycott DST. :)
 
Of course, in the spring you're losing sleep, whereas in the fall you're gaining sleep. I find it interesting that a number of media outlets this year have made mention of studies that have found there is a nationwide increase in heart attacks in the days immediately following the changeover to daylight saving time. There's also a bill pending to eliminate time changes for good and just stick with one. The last time this sort of bill was up in front of Congress it failed, though.

Maybe what we need to do is, instead of going ahead one hour, we go back 23! So at 2 a.m. Sunday it becomes 3 a.m. Saturday. I don't see what can possibly go wrong :), and it gives everyone an extra day to catch up on sleep.
 
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This equals Florida Man stories and was a Darwin Candidate

Tourist caught scooting along log over waterfall at Glacier National Park (where drowning is a leading cause of death)

She was probably trying to get up close to some buffalo on the other side!
 
I have to confess this morning that I am tired of being a city planner. There. I said it. I think it will be OK, it just feels like after all these years it's all starting to wear a little smooth. I need a vacation I guess. The prairie dog pic is really hitting home, but like, for my whole life, not just Monday.

If you told me right now that I could fund my life being the dude that gently beckons cars forward at the tunnel car wash and points to the side once in a while to tell you straighten out your tires....I'd take that job over mine today. I might regret it, but I'd give myself two months of happiness at that car wash. Two. Solid. Months.
I see those guys holding up signs for businesses at intersections and think how free they must feel. Sure, their job is to do what a stick does more reliably, BUT here are people receiving emolument for something so simple. When I vacation, it is nice just to sit and watch the passers-by. These guys are doing that...for pay. They listen to music. They can DANCE. Their slavery is so much less than the planner's. Their only laws seem to be to stay in a certain location and to wear clothing. My slavery is far worse for I also must exercise couth and produce documents. They have the sun on their heads and the wind in their hair. They may shout at pedestrians who offend them. There is always a market for sign-holding for there will always be a mattress store going out of business. They are the cornerstone of the economy.
 
The problem as I see it is that Congress is a reflection of the people. And WE suck.

Me: I want lower taxes
Me 5 minutes later: I can't believe the government isn't doing more to ensure [fill in something requiring more money and resources].
No contradiction; ol' Benny F is rolling in his grave that WE the PEOPLE have forgotten the value of THRIFT and ECONOMY
 
Excellent map of communities in the path of the April 8th Solar Eclipse.

Path of the shadow center
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Do we take vacation or hope that the office closes?
 
I have to confess this morning that I am tired of being a city planner. There. I said it. I think it will be OK, it just feels like after all these years it's all starting to wear a little smooth. I need a vacation I guess. The prairie dog pic is really hitting home, but like, for my whole life, not just Monday.

If you told me right now that I could fund my life being the dude that gently beckons cars forward at the tunnel car wash and points to the side once in a while to tell you straighten out your tires....I'd take that job over mine today. I might regret it, but I'd give myself two months of happiness at that car wash. Two. Solid. Months.
"I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going mister, in this world
I got laid off down at the planning staff
Our love went bad. Times got hard.
Now I work down at the car wash
Where all it ever does is rain
Don't it feel like you're a rider
On a down-bound train?"

with apologies to Bruce Springsteen
 
Maybe what we need to do is, instead of going ahead one hour, we go back 23! So at 2 a.m. Sunday it becomes 3 a.m. Saturday. I don't see what can possibly go wrong :), and it gives everyone an extra to catch up on sleep.
Just how dark a hole do we have to find to save all that daylight in?
 
I think @ursus will be pleased that his angst today elicited a response to Springsteen lyrics

Very, very pleased. :)

It's making it all worth it again to be singing some good old school rock and roll in my head now. Maybe I'll keep on running. Against the wind, you know? :) I'll keep being a fool to do their dirty work. You know?

Yeah, I'll make it. Cyburbia saves me....again.
 
One good thing that came out of DST: I finally figured how to set my clock radio. I don't use it to wake up anymore; it's in the kitchen now. I've had this thing for 15 years. I may have set it up properly the first time, but since then I just tried to fiddle with the buttons and make the time correct. Sometimes it would jump forward or back an hour at random times, so I shut off the auto DST feature. When I set it this morning I looked up the instruction manual (yes, it's still available online) and learned the first cryptic number that came up when setting the time is the last two digits of the year. Then you have to set the month and day, and then finally the time. So this morning I didn't just move the clock forward an hour, I moved it from Sept 28, 1986, to March 11, 2024. And I've now set the Auto DST feature back to On. Let's see if it falls back in November.

Generational!
 
One industrial fire/explosion in a neighboring community, and everyone thinks everything they don't like is going to cause an explosion :r:
 
Well thank goodness the non-stop primary political ads are done.
However now that NC has made legalized online betting starting today, we're seeing non-stop online gaming ads...just in time for the ACC Tournament & March Madness
UGH
 
We basically explained the intent of the rule . . . it was to avoid having a stack of dishes in the sink overnight. We said the incident was funny once, but we may not find it so funny the next time.

No dish problems since that day. Really, it takes two minutes to wash them and put them away, OR to stick them in the dishwasher. We don't care which.

Jim
Can you please tell my husband that! I’m a no dishes in the sink person unless it needs a long soak. Otherwise just rinse and put in the dishwasher. He thinks the dishwasher is a drying rack šŸ˜†
 
My old home town news outlet posted a story online about a house that exploded due to a meth lab. Unfortunately they didn't edit the video well and they left a few seconds of the previous news story which was about one of the nice old family farms that had a fire. So it looks like the old farmers were running a meth lab.
 
Can you please tell my husband that! I’m a no dishes in the sink person unless it needs a long soak. Otherwise just rinse and put in the dishwasher. He thinks the dishwasher is a drying rack šŸ˜†

Sometimes when we are doing dishes, loading the dishwasher, etc., my wife will say "I'm just going to let this soak for a bit..." and give me a look. I think she knows I will scrub the living sh** outta that pot. Challenge accepted, soak-lady. We'll see if that pot needs soaking or not!!! Gets me every time.
 
Sometimes when we are doing dishes, loading the dishwasher, etc., my wife will say "I'm just going to let this soak for a bit..." and give me a look. I think she knows I will scrub the living sh** outta that pot. Challenge accepted, soak-lady. We'll see if that pot needs soaking or not!!! Gets me every time.
Soaking is an acceptable reason for leaving dishes in the sink overnight. That's the ONLY one.
 
Their only laws seem to be to stay in a certain location and to wear clothing. My slavery is far worse for I also must exercise couth and produce documents. They have the sun on their heads and the wind in their hair. They may shout at pedestrians who offend them. There is always a market for sign-holding for there will always be a mattress store going out of business. They are the cornerstone of the economy.
And wear clothing. Don't forget the part about how having to wear clothes is like slavery.
 
Well thank goodness the non-stop primary political ads are done.
However now that NC has made legalized online betting starting today, we're seeing non-stop online gaming ads...just in time for the ACC Tournament & March Madness
UGH
Pro tip, they don't stop and only pick up more when the game is in your town.

How is living in Hawaii? I'd get bored there after a while.
Arizona, but I'm sure Hawaii is nice too.
 
And wear clothing. Don't forget the part about how having to wear clothes is like slavery.
Why are there so many mattress stores, and how did President's Day become universally known as "mattress discount weekend?"

Jim
 
Pro tip, they don't stop and only pick up more when the game is in your town.


Arizona, but I'm sure Hawaii is nice too
You would know better than I, but I believe there are parts of Arizona that DO have DST.

A small sliver of Nevada, where I live, is in the Mountain Time Zone, but the whole state moves forward and back at the same time.

Jim
 
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