I am a Meat-Popsicle

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m balanced.

    I’ll help you push you car. I’ll hold the door for anyone, I’ll let you in, in traffic. I’ll over-tip the wait staff, even the ones having a bad day. I give kids in my neighborhood freezypops when it’s hot AF. I’ll go out of my way to make sure your food allergy is covered and you’ll have safe snacks at my gathering.

    I won’t give the guy begging on the corner money. I won’t help you forever if you never reciprocate. You skip a paycheck, I won’t wait for you to get it sorted.

    I won’t remember that you hate mushrooms. I won’t remember your kids name or wife’s face. I’ll forget you birthday if it’s not in my calendar. I’ll tell you I need to focus on something for an hour and go take a nap.





  • Not as such. But it also doesn’t mean that it can’t have catastrophic results.

    Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.

    Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.





  • I bought an adapter and a 25 liter siphon tank.

    I found a local gas company that will refill my siphon tank with food grade CO2. Because it’s a siphon it’ll transfer liquid directly into the SodaStream tanks.

    I own five SodaStream tanks. I can refill them about four times out of the siphon tank.

    The siphon tank cost $25 to refill at a semi local gas company.


  • I have read hitchhiker’s guide four or five times, also the next two books. I’ve listened to them as audiobooks at least 10 times I’m not exactly keeping track but I used to have that on as my driving music.

    I read snow crash twice and listened to it probably about a dozen times years ago. Now that I have teenage kids I’m not quite as impressed by its treatment of people in the book.

    I’ve read most of the popular Cthulhu lure more times than I will freely admit.