Bitches in the Dark

Who Mourns for Bitches?

Requiem for Bitches

Hey, it’s the guys who installed my kitchen counters! They sent a measuring crew to validate everything before fabrication, and I confirmed with them thay everything loomed right, but during the fabrication process, someone screwed up the citout for the apron sink. Fortunately they did it the right way and didn’t cut it deep enough. But what did the installers do? Should they ask someone on site? Maybe check the original measuring and layoit diagram? Nah. Let’s unplumb the sink drain, pull the cast iron sink forward, prop it up with a 1x2, and install it with a two inch gap between the apron and the cabinet front. No, that’s how people are doing it these days, they tried to say. You just need to add more cabinet filler pieces to close the gap. Unbelievable.

And this was after I stopped them from running one of the counter slabs right up against one of the side walls. The natural slab wasn’t long enough to allow that, so the cabinets end about 3" from the wall. No big deal, and I finished the cabinet row with a finished end piece, had already tiled under the cabinets right to the wall anyway, and installed a fancy skirting board around the visible gap space. And it solved the problem of the cabinets finishing about flush with an arch to the dining room, the trim around which would have posed a problem if I had run the cabinets right into the wall. No problem for these guys though. Without even checking to see where that slab should sit, they tried pushing it against that wall immediately, ran it into the archway trim, then pulled out an oscillating saw to carve it up to make room. Those boys were good with some things, but following a design plan or making decisions on the fly were just like in the video. I bet those guys were supposed to have installed the tub rotated 90 degrees but didn’t check with the homeowner.

I usually just find a clean spot on the rag, drape the rag over my index finger at that point, grab the bottom half of the rag with the rest of the fingers on that hand, then pull the top half of the rag over my arm in the opposite direction of the object I need to wipe. Everything out of the way and you have finger point precision. I usually use a rag the size of a t shirt. Takes a little practice to be comfortable with it, but it’s likely no harder than fishing out wipes! Either way, I’d agree, something to wipe with is the one tool (apart from brush and roller) that I use all the time to keep cut lines neat.

I just have a wet rag that I leave draped out of the way over the braces of my step ladder. If I make a little oopsie, I reach down and grab it to clean up. It stays wet enough to use for hours, and it’s reusable. Do you use the wet wipes like that, or for something else?

Well, I am due for a re-read. Thanks for the suggestion!

Fitzgerald or Lattimore?

Uncircumslide

They also need to ditch the push toward smartphone dependency and require them to accept cash/credit payment options.

Girls in socks

There is also the Goth2Boss evolution pathway as an alternative.

I think all trans people should have the right to choose bone or no bone.

That’s what happens when you don’t pay Johnny cab for the ride. Hell of a day, isn’t it?

Hawkesbury has a really good Taco Bell. Probably didn’t in 1881 though.

I looked into that the first time I heard about PIX, but from my understanding after reading up on it, PIX is very similar to the existing Canadian Interac/eTransfer system. Both only work in their respective countries and give the easy ability to share money with businesses or each other. But they are based on instant transfer from one bank account to another, and aren’t credit-based like Visa/Mastercard.

Yeah, I finally got a car with Android Auto earlier this year and was excited to get it. I thought it would basically let me mirror my phone on the car touchscreen, but instead, it only uses specific apps for things. I hate it. I just use Bluetooth for phone or with Revanced for audio and I park my phone in the cupholder for nav. Works better.

Same. Jeebus.

My point was that BEVs can weigh significantly more than their equivalent ICE car. The goal should be to get rid of ICE completely and use BEVs where personal transportation makes more sense than mass transit. There is already too much of a push to make ICE cars more desirable than BEVs. I have serious doubts that taxing vehicles by weight would do a better job of keeping these monstrosities off the road than their own cost plus the price of gas does, but putting our legislative thumb on the scale yet again to discourage someone considering a small BEV versus a small ICE car seems shortsighted.

I’m all for having better transit, but I think that if you didn’t have to design around a peak period where everyone had to get from the suburbs to the downtown core and back, you’d be able to move the bussing around so that it provided better routes and more even coverage, and you wouldn’t necessarily have to spend more to get that result. I would advocate for that and keeping people home to see how it works in a given city before building. But I’m sure that even with reduced demand, there are cities that have less rail then they should.

I don’t get how mods like this are legal. The original truck was bad enough, but wow.

Fuck those BEV drivers in particular?