Just "2027" for me. I was no slouch on reserving, either.

Edit: wait I'm an idiot, this says reserve now?! I definitely reserved!

Edit 2:

I did reserve, I got the chance to buy it 6 days ago, it expired 3 days ago, I never saw it. That sucks. Didn't even get a push notification on the steam app. Just an email I missed.

I've watched them three times. Always spaced out by many years. Just did it a week or two ago actually.

The last two were extended. I don't even know what the theatrical looks like anymore. I can't imagine skipping scenes.

Which scenes do you skip? And what are you fine skipping in the two towers?

I'm in the latter category. "Wife" of any kind involves close emotional connection and probably sexy times.

You can say that a work wife doesn't include sexy times, and maybe that's true for almost everyone using the term. But close emotional connection?

Friends are fine. Close friends even. But if you're relying on anyone besides your wife/spouse for close emotional connection/support, you're begging for trouble.

How did your wife become your wife in the first place? Likely your emotional connection started first, then the sexual. The same thing can happen with your "work wife". It's a risk I'm not willing to take.

Maybe none of this is true for people using the term, maybe they just mean a good friend at work who they click with and can therefore get a lot of work done efficiently together. Ok good, great even, but I recommend using a different word to describe it, because "work wife" implies something else to most people.

Or at least that's how I feel about all that 🤷‍♂️

I had a home inspection done. I also had some friends of mine in construction scope out the place before I got far enough to even hire the inspector. The seller also gave me the entire inspection report from HIS inspector when he bought the place last year.

Nobody thought to check the drain. Crap happens 🤷‍♂️

Is it not loading? The video of it flowing properly shows up in the main post for me

Here's the link

https://i.imgur.com/vg9TuTA.gifv

We just did the same thing, it's crazy. How can rent be SO EXPENSIVE, when, now that we finally got into a house, our payment is only a few hundred more, but we've tripled our square footage, and we have a garage, and a little bit of land. It's crazy.

That payment includes insurance and taxes too. Wild.

Granted house upkeep takes money, and effort. But still.

All good.

Yeah perhaps I should check the entries 🤔

I respectfully disagree with that final statement. At least, my opinion on it differs from yours. Which is fine.

We're in our first starter home right now, and we definitely have plans to make changes that will potentially drop its resell value. Why? Because we live here now, and probably for the next decade, and we want to fix things that annoy us.

Namely we plan to knock out a wall to make the kitchen/dining more open, and it'll flow better into the living room too. But then it goes from a 3 bedroom house, to 2 🤷‍♂️

My in-laws just built a house, and I kind of hate it. They even dislike a lot of things about it, but everything they did to build that house, every decision, was 100% about resale. I don't even mean big stuff, I mean every little detail. Like they're living in a showroom. That's just not for me.

Yeah the my buddies who looked at it with me told me not to bother with an inspector. So there's probably song logic to that. But I figured I'd kick myself if I didn't get an inspection, and then found something dumb later, I'd always wonder if I could've known better 🤷‍♂️

I paid for peace of mind, not that expensive in the grand scheme of things

Thanks!

Classic

I'm still working my way through Red Rising. I'm in book 5, Dark Age. Then I'll still have the 6th book, and a 7th should be it this year or so I hear.

The first book is amazing, the next two are still really good.

The fourth I really didn't like at first, since the whole style of writing changes to the viewpoint of multiple characters. But by the time I was halfway through it I was starting to appreciate it a lot more. Now that I'm 2/3 through the fifth book, I'm looking forward to hearing the different perspectives.

Still, there are times when it's a slog. But I just put it down for a few days and then I'm roped back in.

Also the audio book version keeps changing voice actors between books, and they aren't ok following the same pronunciation of some names, and even some words are just straight up mispronounced. Which is annoying.

Worse yet, two of the actors really struggle with proper sense stress and inflection. It's sometimes confusing whether a character is speaking or thinking/narrating, or even whether an ACTION is being described. It's hard to explain, but occasionally jarring. They're getting better as the books go on though. I think they might be cold reading it 🤷‍♂️

Never seen a panel like that. I think I've mostly played with Eaton and squareD.

That looks like a superior design

Same. It actually took me a second to get the joke, then I realized I was the joke

Well I'll be! That seems right!

I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it's an absolute game changer, for reheating.

Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.

30% power is something like "turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat"

Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.

This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they're in.

It works but could be better, smoother.

Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it's literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.

This is much more gentle on delicate foods.

Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can't run normally.

But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.

This has made reheating leftovers much better.

Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.

I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.

Probably on his phone

"honkshoo mimimimi"

I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done

Local bars here have the same thing.

The app won't let you play the same song twice in a row. But, if it's the same song on a different album, no worries.

My go to is 5 or 6 sweet home Alabamas in a row. I've only done 2 or 3 times, much to my friends chagrin.

These days I get side eyes from the very first sweet home Alabama. Heck, I'll be sitting home on my couch and get texts from buddies, "are you screwing with me? Are you playing sweet home Alabama right now?!"

Usually it wasn't me. Usually. 🤫

Upvotes aren't private, therefore not so mysterious.

And while it's not EXTREMELY easy to find the public information, people definitely go digging for it. And it's public by design.

The only people who will dig? The group you offended.