I’m argentcorvid most other places (not Instagram though, that person is not me) I hang around on #metafilter and reddit I don’t plan on posing much
American living in Rural Central Iowa. I don’t really post much.
He/Him, 2 kids, no longer catless
He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them
What is this tool I found at a thrift store?
The two arms are sprung so that as you push on the handle they separate, and then return to position. [https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/63e672c9-3654-4736-a5f2-75515104bda8.jpeg] [https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/f71be20b-795a-4fef-a7c9-6f9a278efde0.jpeg]
grape tomatoes!
Smoke Detector False Alarms?
My house is pretty new, 5 years old. It has interconnected smoke alarms in every room (11), as required. I believe they are all First Alert brand. We have been getting false alarms from them about every 3 months. Most of them are in the middle of the night which isn’t fun for me, and really terrifies my kids (6 & 8). There is no apparent cause, no cooking is going on, no dust. They go off for a while and stop on their own. Some of these are CO detectors, but we had the Fire Department come out when it happened one time and they tested and everything was fine. When they are going off, I can’t find the one that is causing it because they are all going off. However, on these the “ready” light blinks red if it has been triggered in the past, and every one of the units has triggered based on that. I actually permanently removed one because it triggered 3 times in one night. I thought it was a bad unit, but it just happened again at 5 this morning with a different one. Nobody has died in this house, so I’m pretty confident it’s not ghosts (/s) Anyone have suggestions?
It's H A P P E N I N G
Reconstructed, Searchable Text PDFs of the Commodore 64 User's and Programmer's Guides
Made some fried tenderloin at the wife's suggestion. I knew there was a reason I married her.
This year's peppers and tomatoes.
Someone dumped their extras on us and I don’t have a plot dug, so in some buckets they go. I have grown Romas and Habaneros in double-bucket self-watering planters before, but I didn’t have enough buckets this year. This is only half of the plants we got, I passed the rest on to my parents. They are: 2x Serranos, a Jalapeno, a Sweet Black Hungarian, and a Bell pepper. Also 2x “heirloom mix” tomatoes, 1 Roma, 2x Abe Lincoln and a mystery tomato .
