Helps provide tone and emotion to the conversation - the things you get when listening to someone speak and the reason text messages can be so difficult sometimes.

Sitting in a rocking swivel patio chair while shaving the dog and I leaned forward to get his belly. The chair started to tip. I startled and i was able to stop it from tipping over, but then it felt like my back locked up and i couldn’t move. Husband helped me into the house and i missed several days of work. I did the exact same things three years in a row. I still have the chairs. Dog died and that’s likely the only reason it stopped after 3x.

They’re all bad, but Firefox is terrible about this. Twice already in January I’ve had to make new passwords to pay bills. I was in my car when i did it and now i have no idea what those new passwords are. I’m so sick of letters, numbers, and special characters! No one is out there attempting to guess my gas company login password - they’re buying it from someone who hacked the gas company.

I match your preferred timeline and wouldn’t change it. Happy that my childhood and young adult life is documented mostly by still photos with no backup.

When I first came here, I was so jaded, with the expectation that every account was a bot or an asshole. Seeing the actual conversation among humans has been nice.

It’s ok. I prefer club soda from the gun and most restaurants here don’t charge for that.

It irritates me when people say, “i don’t drink soda” and then grab a flavored bubbly water.

Thank you. Enjoying my first glass of big tank bubbly lemonade.

Throw 2 or 3 naproxen in with that and you’ll wake up in the night extremely unhappy.

I’ve tried different things - freezing, upside down, etc. It’s hard to hold everything without a helper. I just bought the adapter to contact straight to the machine. Will see how that goes tomorrow.

I bought the adapter to fill the bottles but i believe they have a valve protector of some type. I have to fill really slowly and if i open the valve to much they stop. Even if i freeze them i can only get them about half full. I got my tank from a keg shop. I think it was about $80 and $20 to refill. I’ll check for the hose adapter to the machine.

You went directly to the tank? I’ve been filling co2 bottle with minimal success.

It’s handy - turn on/off lights, adjust thermostat, set reminders (like to remember cat medicine) or cooking timers. We had the Google one but switched to the Alexa one So i could ‘drop in’ on my mom and set it to call me if she said HELP.

We keep ours on a window sill behind a curtain. We have to yell at it 3 times to make it work, but it’s still better than looking under the couch for the tv remote.

It was nice. We always do polenta on Christmas Eve and that’s fun. Started a new tradition with aebelskiver on Christmas morning. Grilled a beef rib roast for dinner. Was nice, just us and our adult kids. 2 of them left for awhile mid day to go to the in laws, which gave us a chance to clean up and prep dinner. Tiring but fun. I still have to even out everyone’s gift allowance - we have weird stuff going on this year with house repairs and limited space, so some wanted gifts and some wanted $ to spend when they’re less cramped on space.

I’m terribly guilty of this. It’s usually voice to text that i forget to check before posting/sending. My brain knows the difference between your and you’re, but apparently my mouth doesn’t.

I’m so sorry. This was my second Christmas since losing mine. She was always so excited about Christmas, Santa, decorations, all of it. Missing her made me want to do it a little more this year but I got started oto late. We still had a really good day - husband and kids picked up the slack.

I started reading and then stopped to Google to make sure it wasn’t real. 🤣🤣

I had a school kid who moved to a different district and then ate 12 non-latex gloves there before anyone noticed. Not recommended.

I don’t think so. He’ll say it still looks like old rolled out vinyl.

We’re about to move into a different house and will have to replace all flooring after foundation repairs. I would go with linoleum but i don’t think i can convince my husband that it’s not the same as vinyl. Also, i don’t want any height changes so I’m not sure what floorings i can put in the kitchen and living that are level.