@wtg said in The doorbell rang:

Or it was a distraction ruse, something that happens in our area quite often. One guy comes to the door and engages the homeowner, especially seniors (I think I qualify), usually trying to get them to the back of the house and away from the front door. An accomplice gets in the house and steals property.

I’ve heard about this happening more in this area as well. 😞

Once we move, I wonder if we’ll be more vulnerable to that kind of thing, mostly bc it’s a nicer house. Our rental house is pretty nice on the inside (mostly) but the outside is so drab and in need of various tweaks and repairs , I can’t imagine it would be much of a draw for that kind of crime.

Yes, on the money.

@jon-nyc

On a history note...where are you in your quest to read biographies of the Presidents from the first one onward? I think it was a 2010 New Year's resolution. I thought it was a great idea, one that I was going to adopt.

Got a recommendation for a good biography of Washington? 😊

She is one of the righteous. May she rest in peace.

Big Al

@AdagioM said in I FOUGHT:

@CHAS

That was good, but what about this version?

https://x.com/ResisterSis20/status/1796533014924771722

I just sent that to about ten people.

Best one I've seen so far, and I've seen a bunch of stuff.

@Big_Al said in home now for sale in my neighborhood:

the pool is saltwater.

I wonder if this is becoming a thing now... we met someone recently and he was telling us about their community pool, which is a saltwater pool. I don't think I ever heard of one before outside of a very fancy spa...

😆

Big Al

The "cat in a window" picture reminded me of a stationer's shop in downtown Pittsburgh that had a cat that slept in its front window for many years.

Big Al

🤣

Thanks for the morning chuckle, jon.

I think he'll have to pay a fine . Would be surprised if he gets home confinement, and totally shocked if he it was jail time.

2024 is going to be a very interesting year. The Dem convention is in Chicago this year. @Rontuner - you' live down in the city. Are you planning to take a well-timed vacation?

AO Smith. That’s the brand almost all the local contractors are installing, and based on googling around, I’m resigned to the fact that they’re all probably crap anyway 😕

Ditto

I would try it -- if someone else would make it for me! 😅

i always wanted to try bullet coffee.. or what was it call? Bulletproof coffee??

Much better.

Related...I'm trying out the Darkly skin with my wtg user id and so far it's kind of nice. I use a different skin that's a white background when I'm wtg-admin. I want to be sure I'm totally aware of my where I'm at because I can do a lot of damage in admin mode if I'm not careful. 🤞

Skins let a user customize colors, but I've also been looking at some of the different styles/layouts that are available with this forum software. You can choose from different styles that would apply to the whole forum. I don't have a lot of experience with bulletin boards besides WTF and various iterations of TNCR. They currently use the same platform that we are using here, but a different style. Here's a link to the recents page on their site so you can see what it looks like:

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/recent

There are others and I'm kind of scoping them out just to see what's out there. Does anybody post on a forum where you love the layout? If you can link to it or do a screenshot, that would be great. I have to check with @Axtremus to see how tricky changing the layout is so I won't start a separate thread on this yet. But if you have any ideas or examples, please let me know.

@CHAS You're absolutely welcome!

I just finished deleting the spam users a few minutes ago.

Now I'm hoping that I didn't accidentally delete any WTFers...I kind of got in a rhythm (it takes like 4 clicks to delete a user) and suddenly I got to @Lisa and almost accidentally deleted her. I'm pretty sure everyone is OK, but if your user has been deleted, I apologize profusely and ask you to try to re-register and we should be able to get you back in business.

You can look at Users (it's the little upper torso icon in the bar at the top of the page) and you can see who is registered. And once you are on the User page you can click Online to see who has been active in the last 24 hours.

I need to figure out how to do screen shots so I can add pics to instructions.

Thanks again for everyone's patience.

OMG! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of temperatures in that range!

Ok. I googled and there is a recording of 54C in Death Valley in 2013. (There are other, hotter recordings but they’re all further back, like in the 1940s or 1920s, so the recorded are less reliable).

In any case, I can’t even begin to imagine what that would feel like.

Isn’t it temps in the 40s (Celsius) in Arizona when places have trouble taking off? Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but these high temps are scary to me.

Photo posting is a definite plus!!

Ewww. That's nasty!

I love iced tea (sweet tea? Sweetened iced tea? Whatever you call it in your neck of the woods!). I don’t drink it on the regular, but with vodka it’s my favourite summer boozy drink. I drink club soda with ice pretty much all the time, but in the summer I love to muddle some fresh berries and add them with a lime. Sometimes with a bit of mint.