I had been a plague doctor one Halloween several years before the 'rona hit. I definitely dug the mask back out and went grocery shopping with it a few times during the height of the pandemic.

It.

No real naming scheme, mostly just stupid names because they’re funny, though a couple names have been roughly related to the car to which they belonged.

• Pobjoy
• Probably Jessie (yes, “probably” is part of the name)
• Probably Jenny
• My Boy Blue
• Winona
• Jules

Boost

First gen Pentium seems like it would be overkill for a scientific calculator but I guess they had to offload those chips somehow.

Ok, now I’m gonna have to go watch that movie again. I just checked IMDb and there’s a bunch that I didn’t remember/recognize/notice.

Gwyneth paltrow was young Wendy (which I’m guessing is probably pretty obvious but I’m just old and don’t remember), David Crosby and Jimmy Buffett are pirates, and George Lucas kissed Carrie Fisher on a bridge.

(6) USPS tracking numbers are like 65 digits long, because they expect to track every hydrogen atom in the known universe individually.

Disclaimer: I don’t actually have these, but I started looking into them quite a bit last year after seeing a bunch of houses in our neighborhood start doing them. I ended up deciding against them. This is from memory from last year’s research, things may be different now.

Govee does seem to be the “big name” in so far as there actually is one for these things. Talked to several people and that’s what they got. Reviews of them seem decent if you trust reviews in general.

What you get is some number of ~16ft strings that you chain together. You also get (I think) one or two empty non-lighted strings to bridge gaps.

There is no easy way to replace one if it burns out, they don’t make or sell singles, and won’t even sell you a replacement short string of them. They also don’t make or sell extra empty connector strings. If you want/need replacements or more connectors, you go to eBay, where people sell their spares for way more than they’re really worth.

My kids have the RGB LED strips in their rooms (not these permanent lights, just the little sticky tape with dots on it thing) and every single one we’ve gotten ends up having colors stop working, after a few months you’ll get three or four dots in a row where one of the three colors stopped working so, like, it can’t be pure blue anymore. And they just keep getting worse over time, more segments losing colors. It’s one thing on these cheesy little $20 LED strips on the ceiling, it’d be a much bigger issue if you’d spent several hundred dollars on these and needed a 20 foot ladder to fix.

So that, and the inability to get replacements, is what stopped me. After watching all these LED strips start losing colors and going wonky, I just don’t trust that these “permanent” lights would really be permanent. And if they fail there is no easy way to fix or replace. So to me it just didn’t seem worth it.

Over there.

Chili, nacho cheese sauce, and diced onions.

Lil Brudder was always my favorite. He has the heart of a champion!

I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.

I like how Thomas Andrews and Stockton Rush are right next to each other on that list. Kinda poetic.

❤️YYYY-MM-DD❤️

Pretty sure this was my last feature phone as well. I liked it. I probably still have it floating around in a drawer somewhere.

“In like Flynn” is a slang phrase meaning “having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired.”

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