Attention What are you doing at the moment? 2024-25

[Kahaih]

/\ mmmmmm . . . Sprouts!

 

[me203]

I'm sending you a nice stainless steel pan.

It might have stuffed cabbages inside. Been sitting on the stovetop for a few weeks now.

Looks like it's growing green fur or something

Anyhoo. Enjoy.

Sad to say, but I got a notice from the shipper. They won't be able to make the delivery. Something about a problem with the package causing contamination at the procvessing facility, which has turned it into a Superfund site overnight.

 

[me203]

Thought of the day...

Q: What is the difference between me and a roll of ugly carpet?

A: The carpet might get laid someday.

 

[johaninsc]

Maybe the carpet has personality...

https://www.architectureartdesigns.com/30-rugs-with-personality-pick-the-right-one/

 

[Peloso]

Maybe the carpet has personality...

https://www.architectureartdesigns.com/30-rugs-with-personality-pick-the-right-one/

Personality disorders is more like it.

Just got back from the laundromat where I was fascinated by this kid who strolled in with half a ton of laundry that he shoved into one machine, packing it so tightly that he could barely get the door shut. Then he dumped in a half bottle of Tide and started the machine, which was one of those front loaders that use as little water as possible. (The claim that that less water cleans clothes better is utter nonsense. It's just an incentive to sell their machines to cheap laundromats.)

I'm watching his wash through the glass door. No room for the clothes to agitate, and by the end of the wash cycle I notice that the clothes in the center are still dry. Then, the little genius pulls the clothes out of the machine, apparently not noticing that most of them are barely wet and slathered in laundry detergent that will never come out. He shoves it all into a dryer and sits down with his phone, apparently reading today's posts on dumbshit.com, while I make a mental note to never use that particular dryer.

 

[fredroy]

The last time I went to the laundromat to wash the comforter and mattress pad, because they have really big machines, some dude was there doing his thing. I suppose neatly folding your Fruit of the Loom boxers briefs could be a good thing. Don't want wrinkled undies, right?
Me? Socks and underwear? From the dryer to the bed. Then sorted. Open drawer, pull what's in the drawer forward and the just washed stuff gets shoved into the back of the drawer. Rotate the stock, y'know?

 

[Vannie]

I'm eating a grilled cheese sandwich and debating if I should call my sister. She had another stent put in and I feel bad for her.

But she will keep me on the phone for 2 hours talking about the same thing she had me on the phone the last time for 2 hours.

Shady Pines Kath.

 

[fredroy]

Call her. She's your sister. And ya know, after half an hour hang up in mid sentence. Cell phone batteries run out, right?

 

[me203]

Just got back from the laundromat where I was fascinated by this kid who strolled in with half a ton of laundry that he shoved into one machine, packing it so tightly that he could barely get the door shut.

Nothing new. I saw a decades old pictiure taken at a local college of some guy stuffing a top loader past capacity. And he probably wondered why women didn'twantto go out with him, citing unfresh laundry to their friends...

(The claim that that less water cleans clothes better is utter nonsense. It's just an incentive to sell their machines to cheap laundromats.)

It's also a claim used to shove these modern washers down the throats of home washer buyers.

 

[me203]

She had another stent put in and I feel bad for her.

Hope she recovers well1

 

[me203]

Call her. She's your sister. And ya know, after half an hour hang up in mid sentence. Cell phone batteries run out, right?

Or he could suddenly scream: "Gotta to go the bathroom--it's stuffed cabbage night!"

 

[me203]

Laundromat talk reminds me of an old ad I saw on YouTube for Levis, with Nick Kamen. I won't link, because it may not be OK for the rules here, due to children in the ad. But it shows a guy doing a striptease (only down to underwear) at a coin operated laundry.

 

[Kahaih]

Or he could suddenly scream: "Gotta to go the bathroom--it's stuffed cabbage night!"

I seem to recall him having a fart machine that he could crank up and hit every so often for special effects.

 

[Peloso]

The last time I went to the laundromat to wash the comforter and mattress pad, because they have really big machines, some dude was there doing his thing. I suppose neatly folding your Fruit of the Loom boxers briefs could be a good thing. Don't want wrinkled undies, right?
Me? Socks and underwear? From the dryer to the bed. Then sorted. Open drawer, pull what's in the drawer forward and the just washed stuff gets shoved into the back of the drawer. Rotate the stock, y'know?

Folded boxer briefs are a sign of a wasted life.

True about rotating clothes. Even laundered clothes can get a little musky after being unworn for a long time. I generally wait to wash a lot of my winter clothes (I have a lot since it gets very cold in here) in August and September.

 

[me203]

Folded boxer briefs are a sign of a wasted life.

Perhaps, but it might mean less wrinkles, and thus less ironing. I suppose you'll be telling me next that ironing underwear is a sign of wasted life.

 

[me203]

True about rotating clothes. Even laundered clothes can get a little musky after being unworn for a long time.

Yes--I've noticed some years a need to rewash clean seasonal things just to get rid of mustiness. It's less of a problem now, because I've got slightly better storage than had once been the case.

One problem I have--even with regularly worn stuff--is that the closets are along outside walls, which are not well insulated. Stuff quickly becomes musty. I now use the closet as dead storage of stuff I don't expect to be able to pull out and wear immediately.

I generally wait to wash a lot of my winter clothes (I have a lot since it gets very cold in here) in August and September.

Ideally, I'd prefer washing at the end of the season on the theory laundry doesn't get better sitting around... And last year, with summer stuff, I even used a better variety of Tide and did a long soak with the hopes the summer stuff would be truly clean. But stuff slips through. I have some stuff that's sitting around that needed washing years ago. Gross, I know, but it's not stuff like underwear--although I suppose there might be a pair of moldy underwear somewhere... It's stuff like a comforter that needs refreshing, but won't go into the washer i use So it sits around collecting dust until I can figure out a way of making that peril filled journey to that most exotic of places, a coin operated laundry.

I put on a set of summer sheets a few days ago that was last washed in the fall of 2023. Probably not the freshest--but it was clean, and better than the sheets they were replacing! Most years, though, I'd have run those sheets through the washer quickly to refresh.

 

[me203]

I seem to recall him having a fart machine that he could crank up and hit every so often for special effects.

Given all those cabbages, I'm surprised he'd need such a machine,

 

[Kahaih]

Given all those cabbages, I'm surprised he'd need such a machine,

It was some time ago.

Maybe he just saw one and posted about it for the benefit of the audible flatulence impaired.

I think it had a remote control so it could be activated from outside the guest bathroom, on the other side of the dinner table in a restaurant, or sat on the front porch waiting to incriminate the mailman. That sort of thing.

 

[rareboy]

last ZOOM meeting for the week....going to try to grab a short nap before taking friends out the dinner later this afternoon.

 

[me203]

I'm experimenting with NoScript, which (by default) blocks JavaScript. This site's speed is improved; however, some features on this site get broken.

I may keep using NoScript in hopes of keeping this dinosaur computer alive just a bit longer...