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  • "The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow."

    Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  • “after a review of the evidence that was gathered, it was determined that the person of interest needed to be released.”

    Just sayin', maybe you review the evidence BEFORE you name someone a person of interest and arrest them?

  • Oh yeah, FUNCTIONALLY, the house is fine.*

    *"fine" defined as "built in 1951 so there is not a single ground wire in the entire house so we have 4 GFI outlets for the important stuff." 😉

  • Yeah, I hit the same thing with a chocolate cheesecake recipe of mine. It calls for a 12 ounce bag of miniature chocolate chips.

    The "good" brand chips are all 10 ounce and 20 ounce bags now. Fortunately I found a store brand that was 12 ounces.

    I do have a kitchen scale so it would have been possible to buy the 20 ounce bag and measure out 12 ounces...but still!

  • That's not a bad idea. I'll need to measure the space once the shelves go up to get a better idea. Thanks!

  • That's the minimalist basic plan, yeah. Hoping to do something complimentary above the bookshelves though.

  • Yeah, the pattern makes it intentionally hard to tell. It's a vacuum formed plastic square with 4 circles.

  • What they did was staple a horizontal slat, then some extra vertical slats, and painted the bottom half of the wall blue.

    It's all plaster except for the crappy wood slats they stapled on. LOL.

    I found some old photos from before they did this, it was a perfectly fine wall. Maybe a little plain, but fine!

  • I dunno if they're transparent enough for that, would be worth looking into.

  • There's an 10" gap between the bookshelves and the ceiling I'm trying to do something with. 😉

  • I need to figure out what to do with the top of the wall that sticks up above the bookshelves, lots of options, but my wife has veto power. 😉

    Left to my own devices? TARDIS wall. LOL.

    Others:

  • No joke! Glad I have some time off!

  • Not a bad idea, a bit beyond me doing it, but that's what contractors are for! 😉

  • In fairness, they are a set that I linked my wife to as a "yeah, something like this..."

    Bookshelves are one of those things that can be like $80 each up to "How much would you like to spend?" These are reasonable.

  • Rumor an innuendo at this point. "Sources" are saying his kid stabbed him to death along with his wife.

  • Farro is my go-to cheap meal. Bags of 10 minute farro at Trader Joe's for less than $2.

  • 2009 they were waving sheets of paper at Obama they called "The Republican Health Care Plan".

    On examination, the sheets were blank.

    https://youtu.be/-usmvYOPfco

    Nothing has changed.

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