So.
(Deep sigh)
I have an entire drawer marked, "Hinges & hardware," & just discovered that all of those "new old stock" hinges have only a single hinge in each packet.
And they're all different. 🙄
So, I went to #TheVulcan's hardware stash, & just had to share everything that
...is NOT a door hinge.
Ever since I started re-selling, the Vulcan has taken anything that didn't sell, salvaged the hardware from it, & saved it for future use.
Meaning, even though we have NORMAL hardware like this...
We also have things like this:
-cabinet soft-close hinges
-door stops
-metal gears for SOMETHING
-bearings from God knows how many Nordic Tracks.
Ooh, this is actually my stuff. Why is it over here? 😂
I have no idea where these came from, but they're cool.
#TheVulcan got a bunch of hardware for attempting to make chess pieces.
Probably old gate hardware from his dad's family farm:
Hey, it includes a set of hinges!
(But they're way too small for a giant teak door.)
Cool looking gears, some scrap metal, &...I think that's a radial arm saw that we got for free, & thought we'd never use, & #TheVulcan took it apart to save space? I forgot about that! I wonder if it will still work...?
And here's some stuff I'm not going to get to, bc that would mean moving the giant-ass chevron table top I made last winter, & still hasn't sold. 🙄
So yeah, that's our hardware stash, lol.
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I've mentioned our 18 yro babysitter in Ohio, who didn't know what an ovary was, right?
I've also known of a pastor & his wife who, while prepping for the wedding of church members, had to explain to the bride *what sex was,* b/c no one had ever told her. 💔
Any sexual thought, feeling, or attraction, not experienced in a heterosexual monogamous marriage, towards ones own spouse, was a source of OVERWHELMING shame.
This is the kind of shame that would render you immobile for days.
You all know I've made some *weird & wild* connections over the years.
I'm about to make the weirdest one yet, so get ready:
A piece of James Bond #Fanfiction proves that the govt has been lying to us about #COVID19.
Seriously, & I wish I was joking.
Let me explain.
In 2019, I discovered that people have written entire novels, some of them VERY long, about existing fictional universes.
Even better, they're FREE on Archive of Our Own!
I could download them on the free Evie voice reader, & have them read aloud to me while I...
...do boring, repetitive, tasks.
There are over 400 stories that wrote Ben Whitmarsh's "Q" character in the James Bond movies as a 3rd brother to Sherlock & Mycroft Holmes, which I think is hilarious.
(Please remember, before Covid, I was going back to school, to b/c a Psych
If they knew this what exactly did they think would happen?
Did they expect our mitochondria to just GROW BACK like a fingernail?
HOLY SHIT:
"During early infection, mitochondrial gene expression was altered in the brain even though no SARS-CoV-2 was detected there, consistent with a systemic response to the virus."
@karamellslp ...in the first place. In my experience, it's not possible to jump ship from one set of beliefs to another---it has to be a long, slow, sometimes painful, process.
@karamellslp The problem is that, meanwhile, anyone who is pregnant, or on any spectrum of queer, still has to listen to the judgement of someone who has *no relationship at all* to their lives. The idea that we would have any input in the medical or marital decisions of other people is...
@karamellslp ...laughable.
Who are we to decide which families can live together?
Who are we to say that a pregnant woman w/cancer has no choices regarding, "Do I fight to keep this baby, or fight to stay alive to care for my other two at home?"
Someone who bullied me in elementary school worked really hard to find me on social media & apologize to me.
Well, a month or so later, she posted some symptoms she was having. I messaged her abt my Long COVID treatment, & she just sent me this!!
@iamthejubster ...find things that specifically lower inflammation & lower clots, & DON'T DO ANYTHING W/OUT TALKING TO YOUR DOCTOR.
I started w/fish oil bc my doc *prescribed* 3000mg of it due to a spike in my triglycerides.
The very next day, my covid-induced arthritis pain was reduced...
@iamthejubster ...so much that, after I got moving in the morning, I carried on w/ my day w/NO PAIN.
I did some reading on fish oil & inflammation, & one random site recommended making sure you're getting at least 2400mg of Omega-3. So, as an experiment, I jacked the fish oil up to 4800mg,