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Propane?
Ice?

I would never have thought to look for that at Ace, and I wouldn't think they would have a display large enough that I would have noticed it on a visit when I wasn't looking for it. Weird.

Close enough.

Canned air.

I know that Home Depot (and assume Lowe's) sells canned air, and a surprisingly large selection of other "high tech"/IT adjacent products. Not great prices for anything I bothered to look at of course. Usually noticed while looking for something more hardware store appropriate.

Pro tip: monoprice dot com. Good or cheap, some products might be both.

A new Ace opened a few months ago only a couple of miles from me. It's much closer than HD or Lowe's. I was much too excited when I heard it was coming and couldn't wait for it to open, but then was "Crap! I hope I don't have to stop in there very often."

So far, so good. *knock wood*

The irony is that it is only a couple of blocks from where "the" local mom & pop hardware store was when I moved here. It closed not long after Home Depot popped up. I don't think there was even another hardware store in town.

I have at least two Aces closer than an HD and I don't even know where the Lowe's is. (1st World Problem?)

One was a True Value, but now identifies as Ace, and is closest to the house. Great people, not great value. I go there (too?) often.

Garage sale day in the neighborhood. Got rid a few small things. So far, it's been like this:

Them: "How much for X"
Me: "What do you think is a fair garage-sale price?"
Them: "$X"
Me: "Done."

Tiny dent made in the stuff. What's left probably goes to goodwill/ARC. It's good to de-clutter, even if it's just a little bit.

Happy June!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUPERBAD WATCH PARTY

Look, I can't do this, I told you already, I have an exam tomorrow. Can you understand that? I have a goddamn veterinary exam

Mindy: "He was caucasian."
Officer Slater: "Oh..."
Mindy: "Kinda looked like Eminem."
Officer Michaels: "Ah, an M&M..."
Officer Slater: "M&M, so he was like circular..."
Mindy: "Marshall Mathers. Eminem, the rapper, Eminem."

My SSN just got suspended for the third time this week. It does seem fishy that the email comes from a gmail account.

Bad luck.

probably just some foreigner playing urgent

Last week my wife was at a convention in Denver. It was at a downtown hotel where all the participants stayed and all the sessions were held. Not too big, maybe a few hundred people plus vendors. She arrived on Sunday and came home Wednesday morning. While there, she noticed some people dressed "weirdly" and mostly thought "well, that's a choice". But walking around the hotel area she noticed a lot more - including a guy with a chicken head - and it was getting a little strange. Of course she then found out that Fan Expo was in town and people were dressing up as characters from their favorite movie/tv show.
As I said she came home Wednesday and of Friday we made our annual trek to Phoenix to watch baseball when my team was in town. Going to the stadium on Friday had much more traffic than usual and as we got near the parking ramp we usually use, which is by the convention center, there were plenty of people walking around dressed up as something. Yes, another convention. This time it was Fan Fusion, same thing, different name. Saturday was the worse, parking was hard to find. The game had 30,000 people but everyone I saw on the street was going to the convention center. And a good third of them were dressed up as something. I couldn't help but think people are weird. I thought this fully appreciating the irony as I was walking into a stadium wearing team gear each day, including a jersey with a players number and name on the back.

LOL

I might need to take an anger management class.

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Been needing to clean that stove and mop the floor for a couple of months anyway, all is good unless I want to microwave something.

You have to teach Earl not to bring his bad decisions home!

Door didn't close all the way, and cracked your melon on it?

HD will sell you a new microwave, I bet. We've all had that fit of rage. It happens.

THE NY KNICKS ARE YOUR NBA CHAMPIONS
BING BONG!

Back from a week plus of medieval reenacments and way too much driving. Brother-in-law got a major award up in Minnesota, so first drove from banjoland to there, then down to Kansas City for our usually June medieval week, and finally back yesterday. I need a vacation from my vacation.

I miss anything?