Canopyflyer

That’s true!

It’s the reason why you tend to sneeze after coming out from watching a movie and it’s still light outside. From what I have read, it’s a reflex to give your eyes time to adjust to the brighter lighting conditions.

Similar here. Our second was scheduled for induction and he decided to come 2 weeks earlier than that!

Side story on the birth of our first. My wife’s OB/Gyn actually made it to the delivery. When she entered my wife asked her if she could have an epidural… The OB/Gyn replied; “You’re going to have a baby, not an epidural.” My wife was too far along and getting an epidural might have set things back. So yeah, she delivered our first old school.

Our second there was enough time for an epidural, but the anesthesiologist had a heck of time getting the needle in. He shook his head and said if it doesn’t go in this time I need to stop… Fortunately he was able to hit the right spot, so her second delivery was a lot easier.

If someone is about to sneeze, wait until they begin to inhale and say something unexpected to them and it will stop them from sneezing.

I told this to my wife and she scoffed and didn’t believe me. One day her allergies were kicking up and she started to sneeze. I waited for the right moment and said “GRAPEFRUIT” to her and… She didn’t sneeze.

The secret is timing it correctly.

Power delivered to homes in the US is Split Phase. Meaning the distribution transformer was wired to a single distribution phase and it is center tapped. So you would get 120vac A to center, or B to center, but 240ac from A to B.

If it was 2 phase they would be 120 degrees out of sync and would deliver 208vac.

This is awesome.

It very nearly happened to me as well with our first. My wife went into labor around 1am and she felt things were going quickly. Triage just told her to take a bath and take it easy as it could be hours. She woke me up around 4am and said we need to go. We get in the car and make it to the hospital. The triage nurse was really dismissive of my wife… That is until she examined her… My wife was fully dilated and effaced. Our little boy was born 45 minutes later. He is 18 and in college now.

This was back at my home dropzone. The DZ owner actually owned the entire airport and the land it sat on. To help offset the cost he rented out the parts of the property to local farmers to grow crops. That year there was corn, really really tall corn as it was a wet year that bordered the north side of the landing area.

Not a big deal as the landing area was very large. Well, one of the local Skygods (idiot that thinks they’re cool, but they’re just an idiot and has an attitude about it) thought that it would be fun to do a hook turn in to the corn…

For those of you that have been in corn fields, yes you are guessing correctly on what happened next.

You see, do such a low and aggressive turn under a parachute generates a LOT of speed and he generated that speed… So he goes out over the corn, hooks the parachute dives into the corn. Those of us watching were highly entertained seeing a parachute traveling just above the tassels of the corn at a high rate of speed for an impressive distance. The guy burst out of the corn field onto the landing area rolling head over heels and came to a stop in a quivering lump.

He had multiple lacerations, contusions, and his gear was in such bad shape he had to send it back to the respective manufacturers for repair.

He never jumped there again and I’m not sure he ever went back to skydiving. Probably for the best.

As someone that just bought two cars:

Autotempest.com

It’s an aggregator for used car sites such as Cars.com, autotrader.com, ebay.com and a couple of others. It has a pretty decent set of filters that works on all the aggregated sites.

What do you get after 16 sodium atoms?

BATMAN!

I was once asked if sodium was my favorite element. I replied: “Na”.

What’s 6.022e23 avocados equal?

1 guacaMOLE

The only dishwasher made by a high end manufacturer is COVE. Which is owned by Wolf/ Sub Zero.

Wolf is the absolute best in regards to cooking. I own a DF304 and love it.

Sub Zero is good, but requires some maintenance to keep in tip top shape.

Cove… Sucks at this point in time. It cleans well, but there have been some reliability issues with the brand.

Source: I live about 4 miles from the Wolf headquarters in Wisconsin and personally know several people on their engineering staff.

Two men walk into a bar.

The third man ducked.

Tauntaun, but it has to be served lukewarm.

Oh, we have at my house and it was completely my fault.

I was making marinara sauce in bulk for a specific recipe that we make often. At the last minute I decided to press the garlic, but not reduce the amount and the results were not pleasing. It was way too much and none of us are vampires.

How you prep garlic depends on what you are doing with it, or what the recipe calls for.

What it comes down to, the more garlic flavor you want out of a clove, then the more you need to damage the garlic’s cellular walls.

So this means if you want some garlic flavor, then a rough chop would be fine. If you want a good amount of flavor, then mincing is necessary. If you want a metric f#$k ton of garlic flavor then you run it through a press.

Why wouldn’t you just use fewer garlic cloves and just use the press all the time? There are many reasons, but mainly because a pressed clove may be too over powering for the recipe. Also, if you are doing a slow cook, then larger pieces of garlic will enfuse the recipe better over the longer cook time than pressed garlic.

I hope the above makes sense. On the surface it appears that it’s just better to press garlic cloves and just adjust the amount you put in the recipe. However, there are real differences to the final product based upon how the garlic is prepped and added to the recipe.

I bought a Bosch 800 series 6 years ago and love it. Bosch is a bit different from American style dishwashers. It has a screen that needs to be cleaned at least once a week. Also the heatless drying is fantastic. Mine is old enough that it doesn’t have Wi-Fi with certain features locked behind a cloud based app, which I find appallingly idiotic.

They make me feel something.

The absolute pinnacle of this is “Pacific Rim”. The first time I watched that movie I felt like an 11 year old seeing something for the first time. I was 43 when that movie came out and hadn’t felt that in a lot of years.

Honorable mention is “Star Wars The Force Awakens”. Yes, I know it’s not a great movie, but the feeling it evoked from me was close enough to how I felt when I saw “Star Wars A New Hope” first run in 1977 that I give that particular movie a pass.

I don’t care if the writing is good, or if the plot is tight, or the director sniffs unicorn farts. If the film does not evoke something from me then I just consider it time spent.

#1 choice: Pilot. Unfortunately I am legally blind in my right eye, so that precluded me from attaining an ATP license in the US. My parents absolutely forbid me to move to another country to become a pilot where the vision rules are more relaxed. I did go on to become a skydiver and attained USPA Licenses: A, C, D and Pro, along with BIC (yes I’m old and YES back in those days you did not have to attain each license in order, you could skip and I skipped getting a “B”).

#2 choice: Engineer: Sort of attained this one. I made it to my senior year for ME when circumstances (mainly my own stupidity) took me in another direction. I’ve worked in IT since ~1995 in a variety of roles. Today I manage processes, which sounds boring and it is, but I don’t have to carry a pager and I work 40hrs a week flat and that’s it. I plan to stay in this position until I retire in about 9 years.

They are very individualistic. I’ve had crows that would land on me and say hello (in crow speak) and others that would fly around me, but never really come close.

The common denominator that I have seen, if you befriend one you will friend the entire murder. The flip side of that if you piss one off, all of them are pissed off at you and that never goes away.

Crows on a few occasions. They are remarkably easy to befriend as they are highly intelligent.

Veggie Pasta

1 Red Onion diced 2 Carrots diced 1 Celery diced Fresh Mozzarella 4oz bacon 6oz fusilli pasta (My personal favorite is Dellalo) 1.5c Marinara sauce Parsley for topping

Cook the bacon to desired doneness in a 10 to 12" skillet. Personally, I like it just a bit chewy, rather than crispy.

Drain the bacon on a plate with a paper towel while you cook the veggies.

Cook the veggies until soft and browned. Add sauce and bacon and warm.

While the veggies are cooking, bring a well salted pot of water to a boil and cook the pasta per directions on the package.

Aliquot the pasta onto two plates add fresh mozz into the pasta and spread the sauce evenly between the two plates. Top with parsley.

This makes enough for two people.

Those that can’t do, teach… Those that can’t teach do HR.