spicytuna62

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I’d say more than half the crappy situations I end up in are both outside of and beyond my control. Sometimes, you just have to ride the suck train until things improve. Therapy is a powerful tool, but it has its limits, and it’s important to know when and how it can be helpful.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Whoa little buddy. Red flags going up. Something’s telling me we should walk through it, not over it.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I honestly hate the vast majority of Christmas music. And I’ve never worked retail. God I feel awful for anyone who has to work that sector between November and January.

Last Christmas gets a pass though. I kinda love Wham

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Playing the music and being subjected to it are totally different. I played guitar and trumpet in my youth and doing Christmas music for the school and the town parade were always a blast. But now that I’m a jaded adult…lol

Getting my guitar out and figuring out new songs is still a lot of fun, even if I’m kind of terrible at it.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I played bass with a little four piece band in college. I’d listen to a lot of music with the bass turned up so I could learn basslines, practice them, and then build off of them and do my own thing. And it was a pretty easy transition since a bass is strung just like a guitar without a B or high E string. I haven’t played regularly in a long time, but I do find time to get the guitar out and kill time when I’m at home alone here and there. Most of the music I listen to is one of like four different chord progressions, each made up of three or four chords lol

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

He was the kind of guy who would tell you exactly what he was going to do to score on you, then execute. Again and again. Can you imagine how demoralizing that’d be? This guy tells you how he’s going to beat you, and you’re powerless to stop him. You have to stand there and watch the man toss it in.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately, it was removed a couple years ago.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd074e5b-f720-48bc-a05b-bee2b2993fcb.jpeg

But the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is coming down. So that’s nice.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I remember his video about people burning wood with microwave transformers. 2-3kV is some lethal shit. Some lady, one of the lucky survivors of an accident, had her hand mutilated as a result of messing with that kind of voltage.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I was trying to avoid “cool item give big money” because that’s exactly what I did when I posted the idea on Reddit. It was a set of dice that would give the winning lottery numbers and then scatter like the Dragon Balls. And then guess what half of everyone chose. At least the penny can be used for things other than gambling. Idk maybe something like that should be a single use item to balance things out.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Gotta distinguish it from any old penny in the change jar.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Man, I remember when games were as simple as

1. Power on
2. Play game

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Mythbusters may have been one of the single greatest programs ever.

I miss Modern Marvels and How It’s Made.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I lived for Local on the 8’s

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

My wife says her mom used to do that and now she can’t hear Santana’s “Smooth” without thinking of The Weather Channel.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

My wife and I bought a house with two GIANT trees in the backyard. At least sixty feet tall, four feet across. They were probably planted when the house was built in '72.

One month in, one of them dies. It cost $2,700 to remove it and leave the stump.

Then in March this year the OTHER ONE FUCKING DIES TOO. We went ahead and had the stumps ground this time. $4,400.

I spent $7,100 to have a backyard with 0 trees and 2 mounds where I would rather have trees. Fucking NOTHING to show for all that money. Those trees were gorgeous. I was pretty devastated when we had to have the second one cut down.

Apart from the trees, we have had:

• A 50 year old toilet flush valve break ($35 plus the time it took me to repair the toilet because I do not want to figure out how to get rid of an old toilet);
• The garbage disposal fail ($300 for a new disposal; $450 for the plumber because I got in over my head);
• The gas valve on the heater break ($840 plus a weekend of it being 45° in my house before anyone in town could come with the part)
• A garage door that hangs up as it closes. I’m gonna ignore that one for as long as I can and just pull it down while it closes for now. Maybe I’ll get the hardware to convert it to a manual door while I’m young enough to pull it up and down.

I’d still rather own, but man, the cons go hard.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I did fuck up the plumbing. Like I said, got in over my head. All the old pipes were cemented in and the disposal didn’t match up to the existing plumbing. I should have thrown in the towel sooner, but “too late” was when I, the dumbass with a sawzall, chose to admit defeat. He was here a solid 2 hours cleaning up my mess. I can fix most stuff, but sometimes, it just goes the wrong amount of sideways.

As for the disposal, if we were gonna replace it, we were gonna get a GOOD one. It’s a 1 horse and it’s probably overkill, but I’d rather spend the extra on a higher quality machine. We both spent way too much time living with shit tier appliances in cheap apartments.

Fortunately, the plumber was a total bro and replaced all the cemented fittings with compression fittings. So if the next one doesn’t perfectly fit, it’ll be as simple as loosening everything up and adjusting it all.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Be me, 10 years old

Wake up on top bunk

Rub eyes, sit up

Get wacked a in the head a half dozen times by the ceiling fan

3/10 experience, great views, not worth the brain damage

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bc73611f-ed1a-4109-a99a-8c62825eec1d.jpeg

• His name is Sherlock.
• He’s a year old.
• He weighs about 70 pounds/~32 kg.
• He’s a mix adopted from a local shelter. Google Lens calls him a Dutch Shepherd. Might have a little pit in him. Gonna get a DNA kit for him.
• He has XXXL ears. Everyone comments on how oversized his ears are.
• He gives the softest, sweetest kisses.
• He does not like walks or new people or new places.
• He loves other dogs.
• He doesn’t understand the cat. Or his boundaries.
• He pooped in the car once.
• If left to his own devices, he will eat all the grass in the yard. The concept of not eating too much fiber at once is one he can’t digest.
• Despite not loving new people, he does warm up to you fairly quick. It took 20 minutes of my in-laws being around before he got lovey dovey on them.
• He doesn’t like bones that much. He’d rather have a cloth toy he can pull apart thread by thread.
• His two favorite places in the world are 1) Daycare, and 2) Wherever mom is sitting. I’m the spare lol
• I wanted to name him Rye Bread because of the color of his coat. My sister in law has a dog named Tater and my brother’s dog is named Biscuit so I thought going with the theme of carbs would be cute. But he responds to Sherlock and that just makes handling him a million times easier so we stuck with that.

Here he is peeping out the window with the aforementioned cat:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/26a4481c-e2c5-4959-86e8-8b6dc9f03062.jpeg

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Your wish is my command

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1b5e8d5f-8d52-49a5-a9d7-e7001e1ca874.jpeg

But that’s it. Not gonna overstay my welcome on this lol