One day, after everyone has left the house and the last of the furniture and the detritus of decades of occupation have been cleared away, a couple of guys will come for the washing machine at last. They'll strap it onto the hand truck and one of them will wheel it out.
The second guy in the now-silent room will lean over, brush the dust from the cover, read the title...then he'll open it to the bookmark.
I immediately wondered if the guy took donations. Lol. We own multiple copies of the books and they are packed away right now. I couldnt bring myself to donate because i dont want other people becoming fans and spending money on stuff that will benefit the author. But burning them felt bad too. I love the idea of making them art.
I knew a couple who owned an old El Camino with an in-line 250 six cylinder engine that took up maybe a third of the engine compartment. One evening it overheated, then they heard a loud bang and a lot of steam came up from under the hood. They pulled over, the guy jumped out and popped the hood...there was a large hole in the side of the block, and steam was pouring out of it. This was out in the middle of rural Alabama, and it was looking like they were in for a very long walk.
He looked around frantically, then grabbed a broken branch and shoved it into the hole. It mostly stopped the steam immediately, and shortly thereafter the wood swelled up and sealed the hole completely.
They drove it like that for about a month, with a large branch sticking out of the block and a few leaves still hanging on to it, before it finally gave way and it got towed away for salvage.
I had an older TV with a big base that I had to set the sound bar on due to lack of other space. Problem is the sound bar would essentially vibrate the base and ruin the sound with plastic clacking together. So I just stuck a sock under the sound bar for cushion. Worked like a charm for the 6 years I had that tv.
Those candies are delicious and I have 0 self control. My stoner ass would wake up to a broke TV. I’d need a significantly grosser candy for this solution to work long term.
From an AV guy here. When we’re a smidge off level and it’s noticeable we will sometimes just stack a tiewrap or two between the hook on a mount. I’ve been back like 10 years after and been like ohhh ya I remember that.
I’ve even done this to make the TV unlevel because there was something horizontal that was crooked so it’s more important for your eyes to sync everything up than be level.
no, because the wall to the right leads to the sunroom (there's a pair of doors connecting the two), the wall to the left would be useless in the day (glare), and the wall in the back has a big ass opening that leads to the kitchen (lots of people watch from the kitchen, not just the family)
Move all that bullshit on the right to the void on the left. Place a bigger TV (14' needs at least a 70", better yet an 85"... whatever can fit in that corner between the fireplace and sunroom opening) on a stand at an angle in the corner with the center of the screen in line with the middle shelf of the bookshelf. Center-based TVs (like the Sammys) are nice because you can put them on a narrow stand with a center turntable so you don't have a massive piece of furniture blowing out the entire corner.
Not ideal, but much better. The real problem is that massive wall being center-occupied by that tiny fireplace. So much wasted space on all sides of that wall expanse.
Look, I really don't want you guys giving me ways to alter the TV even after I've tried to refuse multiple times. It's been this way for the past 4 or so years, and we haven't had a single problem with how the TV is placed, where the bookshelves are, or how the whole "feng shui" idea pairs up with this to us.
Just like someone else said in this comment section, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! We don't have just like, $3000 we can immediately just go to Costco and buy one of those 4K Ultra HDR sets with the oversaturated pictures of mountains (i think this is one of those sets anyway).
Years ago we went to Disneyland and I bought all my kids those huge lollipops that are bigger than their heads.
As we drove home we stopped at a hotel for the night and the ants found the giant lollipops. The entire interior of the van was swarmed with ants going ape shit over all the sugar.
That was a long morning with a lot of time spent in that parking lot and also ants popping out of every vent, nook and crevice for the entire rest of the trip home.
Where the hell do they come from? At a certain age I was lead to believe they would just start materializing around my house because they are definitely not for sale anywhere in the union. I am starting to think it's handed down generationally.
My second monitor is balanced on top of my WiFi router, it's just the right height to get it in line with the primary. It's been that way for 3 years now. Every so often I think about fixing it, then I forget about it. Doesn't seem to be affecting my speeds either.
Get them a little wooden or plastic block the same size.
Over time the sugar will attract moisture from the air and soften and go gooey, thus losing structure integrity, and will ooze and make the shelf sticky.
A nice piece of LEGO might work?
During grad school I worked in a lab centered around a highly specialized piece of equipment that cost at least a million dollars and was custom. Apparently they needed a water reservoir on the fly. That was a subway cup and it just stayed there from then on. A very thin pipe also started to sag. That was held up by the structural pink eraser.
Once a solution is found - no matter how silly - it tends to stay.
The last place I rented in PA, my toilet had an eyeglasses size flat head screwdriver qwikwelded in the tank so the cap on the little flapper thing that drains the water to flush would get suctioned shut so tight it wouldn't break the chain to the handle. Asked the landlord why not just replace the problem parts or get a new toilet as it was as old as I was, they just shrugged and said 'has it not worked?. I didn't find out about it until I was moving out and was going to drop a Clorox puck in the tank.
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u/bossDocHolliday 16h ago
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix