Between injuries and all sorts of other crap, I didn't ride from July until October, so I'm starting over from total scratch again because the human body has no memory. Fitness sucks. Losing all progress from a short break is incredibly demoralizing. I'm as weak as I was 3 years ago, when I had take...

How does twitter even make money to exist at all, do they sell ads or have some kind of premium accounts where you can buy more influence/reach? I continue to not understand why anyone would ever use it.

You remember correctly, I live about 6 blocks from them and in the middle of one of the most queer neighborhoods in the country. Going to appointments is literally a walk in the park. Local politics are great here, state ones not so much. If it’s the same provider I’m thinking about, I also seem to...

"Digital Nomad" visas are starting to become a thing in some European countries. I noticed Portugal recently announced one that has me very interested. Basically, if you make over $2,750/mo remotely, you can get a visa to stay in the country for up to 2 years. I think it would be fun to r...

Cheers, so far everything is simple enough but that could change as time goes by (especially in FL...). Oddly enough, Starbucks has about the best coverage in this country to the point that it's almost a meme. Want to transition in the US? Go work at Starbucks. Lol I seem to remember there’s a prov...

SRF is from Castrol, I remember it being like $65 a quart or something 10 years ago. It's the one with a wet boiling point over 500F, so in a street car you can generally do it once and have it perform well until it's been with 3 different owners.

Hey Val, Still planning on moving to France one of these days? Would their national health care cover any of your procedures? That's always been a dream but I don't expect it to ever materialize. Maybe after the wife's parents and aunts/uncles are gone aaaand if we also happen to have enough cash t...

:hai: First off, since I do have some connections with some of y'all outside of DFD: I'm not yet out to anyone beyond my wife, doctors, and random internet folks, so please don't post anything to my Facebook or whatever until you see the names change on there. Timelines vary significantly based on ...

I am the same, use Google email, calendar, sheets, etc. for personal shit, Microsoft at work. I also have an iPhone and am kind of :butwhy: I will probably just get a Google phone next time. That said, this iPhone is four years old and still going strong enough, so :aintcare: I hope to get another ...

2015 prices returning here would mean a 70% crash from current values, leaving us owing twice as much as our place is worth. I do not hope for that.

ATE is a waste. SRF is what you put in a street car that gets beat on regularly. BMW OEM fluid is almost the same as ATE 200 and off the shelf Valvoline isn't that far off either - all 3 of those however are waaaaaaaaaaaay better when fresh. See the huge drop in "wet" vs "dry" bo...

We're supposedly "only" up 42% now in the past 18 months, a few months ago it said 50% on the real estate sites.

Prices are still pretty high and inventory low here, but everything is moving slower.

I plan to work at Starbucks.

I also think tablets are pointless, but I've never had one so :iono: I think Android/iOS both suck compared to a real operating system (Mac or PC), I would get a real laptop of either flavor personally. Chrome OS had some nice cloud integration. Open a file explorer window and you could add / pull ...

D Griff wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:59 pm Yo Brad and Valerie someone needs to get an avatar so I don't keep thinking you're the same person

It's probably the ribbon cable connection between the monitor and the motherboard, slight chance that it's fixable if you want to mess with it. FWIW my HP Spectre will turn 7 years old next month and is still working well. Battery life is down slightly but it's hardly noticeable. It was $900 in 201...

So my Pixelbook dies last night. Something happened with the hardware related to the display. It functions but the screen is going nuts and it’s basically unusable. I successfully downloaded everything off it while the screen was intermittently working. So that’s good. 4 years old and it’s dead. Th...

I've used it and other Val-* names in gaming communities since ~1997, including EQ and WoW. In a way that was the only time I ever got to really be myself and is perhaps why I spent so many thousands of hours in game worlds. I'm sticking with the more common Valerie for a real name, though... Valky...

Valkyrie is a badass new username. Indeed. 5/7 would name a WoW character Valkyrie. Also never heard anyone using that name IRL so that’s cool as hell I've used it and other Val-* names in gaming communities since ~1997, including EQ and WoW. In a way that was the only time I ever got to really be ...

Hey fuckers new username who dis No big deal here. We lost a massive oak limb in the storm but it luckily landed out front on top of nothing, so all I had to do was clean up a bunch of random debris. The city took a few weeks to pick stuff up but it was otherwise not a big deal. The most annoying t...