Same here. Specific foods, I don't get too excited about. My 11 yo doesn't care for asparagus, but everyone else likes it, so we have it less frequently than the rest of us would like, but more frequently than she would. And she is expected to take one or two pieces (the "no thank you" serving). I don't care for salmon, but if the rest of the family really, really liked it, I would eat it, just like I would eat it if someone served it to me. If there is a certain texture, I can work around that with different preparation methods, etc. However, when people talk about cutting out large swathes of dietary possibilities - adults who eat absolutely nothing but meat, bread, and Mountain Dew, for instance (and I know multiple of these)... Yeah, I'm not going to allow my children to do that. And if that meant taking them to OT to work on whatever issue was causing them to have such a narrow food tolerance, we'd be right there.

Home Depot - When we were renovating our kitchen, I found the perfect LG French door refrigerator online at HD, for an outstanding price. We wanted to look at it in person before buying, though, so we went to the local(ish) HD store, where it was over $1000 more. It was exactly what we wanted so we came home to order it and... same price as the store. My husband called and the customer service guy put him on hold and walked down to their IT department, confirmed that they'd had an online pricing error that they'd corrected, and honored the price we'd first seen. Our house is old and renovation is an ongoing thing, so I'm sure they've made the money back and then some on our loyalty. ;) LG provided great customer service on the one occasion we needed to call them. They called every appliance repair place within a 50 mile radius of us and still couldn't get anyone to come out and do warranty work to replace a stuck dispenser drawer on the washer. Finally, they just sent it to us and told my husband to break the old one out any way he had to. It was crazy how unwilling the local places were to touch the drawer of a front loader or, in the case of the ONE LG repair place even remotely close, to drive out to where we live. My husband passes them on his way to work. It's not THAT far. :huh: I've had an associate at Nordstrom get me shoes from the back room, only to discover she wasn't working and had just come in on a personal errand. But Nordstrom is a cross-industry model for customer service, so it's not really shocking. (It is worthy of comment, though) Amazon has replaced products or adjusted prices (our Roku went on sale while our order was still in transit, and they credited our account with a 5 minute phone call) with no hassle at all. And, yes, our local (within walking distance of our house) mechanic is sweet, reliable and cheap.

Nope, not odd. That's pretty much what I do, too. (or, ok, I might also be a little odd.) In fact, there's a book I read that had something to do with organizing with Google (that's probably the title), and drafts and such was part of it. I love the searchability. And I am totally jealous of the gps triggered alerts. I have a 4, and have searched high and low for an app that will do exactly that. :cursing: Eta: Yup, I was close. Getting Organized in the Google Era

Hmmmm... I have an ex-husband with a wife, and I always thought that, at their house, they both made and enforced the rules for my eldest daughter. My husband certainly had full parental authority to enforce rules here. ("Had" only because she is an adult and makes and enforces her own rules now) My parents are divorced and my step-dad was always an equal parent in the mix (my dad never remarried) for me. Honestly, ghastly as I know some songs/lyrics are, and how offensive *I* find them, and how explicit I am about our rules and the reasoning behind them, I also know that 15 year olds do not often connect those dots. They just don't. I don't know why. Should there be consequences? Yes. There are consequences for every action or inaction, that's just a part of life. And hopefully a part that one learns and learns to vet and anticipate with age and whatever brain development hasn't happened yet in teens. But... My step-dad's favorite punishment was writing themes along the lines of explaining why I did whatever dumba$$ thing I did... and the only real answer was that it seemed like a good idea at the time. So, while I know this is offensive and frustrating, and I think there absolutely should be consequences, I can see where your husband is sort of pondering and tempering the response. Know what I mean?

Yup. Here, it would be out on the porch without so much as a discussion. My husband was on the fire that killed the toddler grandchild of one of his colleagues a few years back. (in the middle of the day, everyone up and puttering around the house) No dodgy trees allowed in our house, and a fresh cut tree has a tolerance span of only a couple weeks. It's not worth it.

Yay! I'm glad he's doing well. I suspect that your dd is just at the end of her rope, stress wise. Performances are stressful. Health issues are stressful. Juggling both is stressful, even if you're not the one juggling. Just talk to her about it, acknowledge the stress, and move on. Sometimes, I think, just having the "gee, all of these things at once is crazy stressful!" conversation blows off the steam enough to get through without bursting.

Not for nothin, but if the whole thing went out, did you check the breaker?

Hmmmmm... Of all time? Probably Life of Brian. I also love The World According to Garp, Raising Arizona, pretty much all things Hitchcock...

I don't think it's a conflict to be sorrowful for the passing of a human being but glad for the potential political change.

Yes. I totally know who Xena Warrior Princess is. And no, I have never watched. Interesting, it is, that one could completely avoid even passing knowledge of such things. Heh heh... Kalanamak said "stiffy"... Heh heh.

I agree. However, "too busy" implies that there is some other action or need going on that is not being acknowledged: I was too busy breathlessly turning the page, impatient to see what happened next, and did not hear the jaguar padding softly behind my chair. I was too busy breathlessly turning the page, impatient to see what happened next, to answer the insistent doorbell. There's something missing in the context we have with the isolated sentence. On 2: I will keep going ‘further up and further in’; always exploring, always learning, always traveling through hundreds of worlds, and loving every minute of it. "further up and further in", and the repeated use of "always" feels awkward to me; I would say "I will keep going further, up and in, always exploring and learning, always traveling through hundreds of worlds, and loving every minute of it."

We have a PC, smart phones and tablet. The tablet is used primarily for listening to the news and looking up recipes in the kitchen, and as a whiteboard for math with the boys (there's an app. We don't just write on it). Sometimes, I'll watch a video on it or something, since it's bigger than my phone screen. I don't like typing on it. The on-screen keyboard is just between the phone (on which I type with thumbs) and a regular keyboard (on which I touch type), and I just can't seem to work out how to hit the keys. I have the same issue with the on-screen keyboard on the pc, plus it's on a vertical surface. Bleh.

Tri-sodium phosphate. It comes powdered, in a box, at the hardware store. You use it to clean decks, old paint prior to repainting, for cleaning away lead dust... And they treat frozen shrimp with it. Gross.

I'd go with the SUV. They get "good enough" mileage for that kind of travel, and it would be more comfortable.

I live my Nightstand Central app, since I use my phone as my alarm clock. Pandora Tune-in (seems to work better than the NPR app on both android and iThings) Decimator (DDS reference for organizing my books) CamScanner (portable document scanning with your camera) DocuSign Ink (electronic signature routing) I just downloaded the IPS communities app to keep up with the Hive... We'll see about this one.

Me, too. I don't know if it's just poll threads because I'm on my phone and can't see if there's a poll unless someone puts "Poll" in the title. That would make me feel a little better about being gaslighted by the board, though.

I think the problem is just the paint with the action: it grinds the dirt and oils in. TSP is probably your best bet. If you're going to repaint *because it's your home* I would repaint in an eggshell finish, which should resist the grinding in a little better. If you are going to wait til shortly before you move, I'd just repaint with flat. In future spaces, if you aren't able to use a slightly glossier paint in high finger traffic areas, I wonder if a coat of matte, water based polyurethane would help with the washability.

And explains why we don't have to see to know.

I'm not sure what it even is... A cheese ruffler?

oh. No. NO. I'm sorry, but I simply refuse to have random texts about Walgreens specials or Amazon deliveries beamed directly into my eye. Have people really become too lazy to look at a near instant message and parse meaning out of an arrangement of letters? Did Rome have a general dumbing down before the fall?

Rice flour is actually preferable for frying. I've read a number of restaurant comments saying they've always used rice flour for frying - particularly fish -because it comes out better. My husband makes great chicken tenders and just switched to rice flour with his usual seasonings. It comes out very nicely crispy and doesn't get soggy.* If I'm making something like General Tso's chicken (or any fried chunks in sauce) I use cornstarch. It gets very solidly crisp and stands up to the sauce nicely. I'm pretty sure that's customary in Chinese takeout places, anyway. In applications where I would normally use bread crumbs, I just continue to, but with GF ones. I either toast and crumb GF bread, or buy GF bread crumbs. *resisting getting soggy seems to be a feature of rice flour. The Annalise Roberts says as much in Gluten Free Baking Classics, in the preface to her pie crust recipe and that has been my experience as well; crust is every bit as crisp the next day, even with a wet fruit filling.

Me, too. In my head, I am diagramming that as "it" being the subject and "I" the direct object, with "who wants to go to bed" as the appositive phrase describing "I".

I keep forgetting there's been a split, too. And I really like planning/scheduling/organizing threads.

Mmmmm. And spicy rice crackers!

me too! They make the happiest sounds when you turn them on. I even wash cashmere in mine. (though, I suppose if you're into felting this might be a drawback) Mine have a "play/pause" button (just like a cd player, with the > and ||), so I just pause it to add stuff I find after I start a load. It only takes a second for the door to unlock. We've had ours for 9 years, I think? We get the musty smell if someone shuts the door after a load, but then it goes away with the next load and some airing. I've had a couple of "leakage" issues... both times the little drip on the floor in front of the washer was due to a very long hair hanging out through the gasket and the door. It was just a little puddle, maybe the size of a quarter, but enough to strike panic in my heart until I saw the hair. Of course it was mine. :blushing: We had them side by side, no pedestals, for the first 8 years or so, then stacked them last year to put a shower stall in the laundry room (it was a half bath until then). I've liked both setups, though I miss the large flat area for putting up baskets. (OTOH, the tops don't collect piles of junk anymore) We've had a couple minor issues (a stuck dispenser drawer in the first year, and a modulator widget thing this past year), both of which my husband took care of with little effort.