Surprisingly, yes. The holy grail of magnet fishing enthusiasts are weapons (that are then usually turned over to police).

I haven’t tried metal detecting, but we went magnet fishing once. Caught lots of fish hooks and one mostly rusted but still intact shock absorber.

Dad let me watch Poltergeist when I was 6 and Mom let me watch The Shining when I was 7. I was also 7 when the Thriller video came out, and I think that scared me more.

To someone with ADHD, this is like telling them to just pull ya’self up by yer bootstraps. 🙃

My motivation

A picture of my grandfather standing next to a woman, taken before he met my grandmother, and she is holding a baby. It didn’t surface until after grandpa’s funeral. It was taken 500 miles away from where my family lives. I live in that other city now. I wonder if I’ve met my half aunt or uncle randomly in passing?

Am Appalachian. This sounds about right.

Have you tried used vacuums from op shops/ thrift stores/ flea markets?

New vacuums in the budget category are not built to stand up to daily use. It may be worthwhile to look for a secondhand premium brand.

I’ve rescued wasps from the pool as well even though they & I are mortal enemies. 1) it was in the water with me & I didn’t want it considering me a liferaft, and 2) smushing it was not an option. It flew away, hopefully to tell its brothers that I’m worthy of a brief ceasefire.

Here Baby Jesus, we brought you some nice smelling stuff, pretty shiny metal, and a kitten.

Fun anecdote, in DC the east/west streets are named A St, B St, C St, and so on. But not i street. Capital i could be confused with L Street, so all the signs are written “Eye St”

I took it off my phone but it’s still on my tablet. rip rif

I had staff that used to talk over me and each other. Drove me batshit, but they were good employees. One day, i couldn’t get my words out for being interrupted, when i suddenly grabbed my sea otter tape dispenser off my desk and proclaimed “I have the talking otter! Let me finish speaking!”

They were so thrown off by the absurdity that it worked! I got my thought out, then handed the Talking Otter to the next person who had comments. From then on, if they got unruly, I’d say “do I have to go get the otter?”

You were just playing billiards but with cars.

Oh, you meant the other kind of pool…

If you can play sousaphone and other various brass, you might be able to pick up the didgeridoo. The embechure is kind of similar (see also: alphorn). It’s the circular breathing I’m still trying to get the hang of.

And a I picked up a hand pan drum last month for giggles. It has a lovely tone.

Edit: I’m a shameless enabler.

Not even Soundwave was spared? Shit dude. That’s some hard core cold turkey.

• Why is dad so loud?
• How to get mom to give more treats
• How to work red light toy
• Why not sunny space all day long?
• Why do humans get in the wet box?
• I ate a string, what do i do?
• New surfaces to scoot butt

Ebay will (or used to) tell you when your account started. July 97 for me. I remember when i could skim through all of the auctions, on my lunchbreak.

Taking turns nicely at a zipper merge. No horns necessary!

I was on the beltway one night in a construction zone. They had jersey walls (concrete barriers) instead of cones and barrels to shift traffic. The SUV in front of me had not been weaving or worrying me at all when it drifted into the jersey wall in the left and just ground along it doing about 70. I expected them to jerk the wheel the other way, but they didn’t. After a few seconds, they drifted back to the center of the lane. Just as I was thinking good on them for not panicking, they slammed back into the jersey wall and rode it until it ended. Their car was scraped all to hell. They had to have fallen asleep (passed out drunk). The grinding noise of car on concrete and flying sparks were too obvious to not be noticed by a conscious driver. I backed way off and fortunately was nearing my exit.