This, is a thread for general positivity. A place to celebrate our own little wins, and when even they might be thin on the ground, a reminder that they do exist.
And they don’t even need to be all that little. But little will do. All I ask is that participants don’t bring anyone else down, or try to belittle anyone’s cause for celebration. Life tends to be a lot tougher than we expected it to be, and there’s little gain in hashing the next fellow’s mellow.
As is tradition, I’ll kick us off. What follows isn’t intended to act as a benchmark though, it’s just my recent Little Win.
This week, I got 100% on a QA at work. Had a bit of a run of less than 100%, so I needed this boost. That it came from a particularly irritating case, and of a type I don’t normally deal with, a glowing endorsement of my efforts was very well welcome. Because being good at your job, and thinking you’re good at your job aren’t always the same thing.
And a lesser Little Win to expand the tone? I also made a Madras Curry from scratch this week, and it turned out really well. Added more Fenugreek this time and that brought a really pleasing savoury depth
Right, everyone else’s turn! Nothing off limits provided it’s within Dakka’s usual rules.
We just got a new mattress as an early Christmas present to ourselves. Unfortunately I appear to have buggered my back helping the delivery guys brute force it up the stairs…
Hah! My Battletech Kickstarter stuff is finally on its way. 6 months late, and accompanied by great irritation, but hopefully that will fade when the opening dopamine hit kicks in.
All that remains is a last minute visit to Sainsbury’s/Asda to get the Ponies their special Christmas Dinner, stuff that in the Hamper, then its bombs away Sunday when I go to dog sit.
All that remains is a last minute visit to Sainsbury’s/Asda to get the Ponies their special Christmas Dinner, stuff that in the Hamper, then its bombs away Sunday when I go to dog sit.
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Another minor win, my buddy says he got me some GW stuff for Christmas, but won't tell me what it is... the bum!
Cleaned up a huge stash of old documents left around the office. The telework employees don't bother doing it because they're only in the office once a week.
I found stuff from 2009, absolutely ancient for the type of work we do.
Paid off my Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit freeing up 1700 and splitting that to pay off two loans by Feb 2025. Disregard the 2024 the Ram 1500 CRW 4X4 TRX in front my house.
Got all our stuff packed and emptied the house just in time for loading the truck to take it all to Portugal.
In addition, my wife's naturalization process which got last-minute dropped in bureaucratic limbo due the move was saved by one of said bureaucrats who although she called back late did so because instead of just making stuff actually bothered to look up the actual rules and found out that it was possible after all.
I have finally had a not-full trash bin for the first time in 14 months.
I got divorced last year from a semi-hoarder. She just bought, and kept, random stuff we never used. After she moved out, I upgraded our collection bin to the largest one available (120-gallon capacity). Now, on my own I average a single 13-gallon bag of trash per week. In the 14 months she's been out of the house I have been stuffing that 120-gallon bin well past capacity, taking a bag or two with me to work and putting it in the dumpster, AND about every other week sneaking out at night to stealth a bag into the neighbors' bins.
This was the first week in over 14 months I only had my own trash.
No, we sold our house in the Netherlands and are on our way to Portugal where we're going to buy our new house, but the formal handover won't be until after Christmas, so we're technically homeless right now.
Bran Dawri wrote: No, we sold our house in the Netherlands and are on our way to Portugal where we're going to buy our new house, but the formal handover won't be until after Christmas, so we're technically homeless right now.
That's the good homeless... the other way, as much as it puts your life into perspective, is a whole lot less fun.
I’ve lived the bad homeless. And it’s not much fun.
And even though it was the bad homeless?
It wasn’t the awful homeless. At the literal end of the day? If my friends couldn’t put me up? Still had keys to the shop, so at least I had a roof over my head.
It wasn’t the awful homeless. At the literal end of the day? If my friends couldn’t put me up? Still had keys to the shop, so at least I had a roof over my head.
It's good to know you have friends. It's one of the best things in life.
I found a cool new avatar which fits my two army loves together (an Adeptus Custodes Mechanicus), which I will use after the December holidays are over.
Also, I found out that the local shop plays AT/Li and Kill Team...
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
Yeah that was a shock to the system. You hear so much about the Terrible Twos, but nothing beyond that. I remember lamenting it and expressing relief that it was nearly over, and my parents saying "Yeah, it's the Terrible Threes next." I'm sorry, WTF??? Looking back now, it all went by in the blink of an eye though...
I'm quite into baking cookies and cakes from time to time and recently got the family recipe for a special cake from my grandma (so it stays in the family). I made it for Christmas but the first try was a bit off and the butter-creme came out too soft. But after an hour on the cold balcony while we had lunch it solidified and became much better. Also my family said the taste was on point.
Last night, Dallas my Nephloof decided eating some wallpaper was a swell idea. And it….kind of was?
His tender ministrations weren’t desirable, but he did reveal hitherto unknown Black Mould.
So once he was on his bed for being a bad doggy? I stripped back what I could by hand, took a photo and submitted the issue to the letting agency, then went at the mould with some handy Mould Spray. What was exposed is dealt with, and now I’m going to press for the wallpaper to be stripped back to reveal the extent of the issue, so it can be properly dealt with.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Ouch. It's good she didn't get hurt worse, I once got a free trip to the ER for stepping on an old pewter dark Eldar masquerading as a caltrop.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Ouch. It's good she didn't get hurt worse, I once got a free trip to the ER for stepping on an old pewter dark Eldar masquerading as a caltrop.
Warhammer quest goblin spearmen were great for that too
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
Yeah that was a shock to the system. You hear so much about the Terrible Twos, but nothing beyond that. I remember lamenting it and expressing relief that it was nearly over, and my parents saying "Yeah, it's the Terrible Threes next." I'm sorry, WTF??? Looking back now, it all went by in the blink of an eye though...
Wait until the teenage years then you'll be reminiscing about the early years.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
Yeah that was a shock to the system. You hear so much about the Terrible Twos, but nothing beyond that. I remember lamenting it and expressing relief that it was nearly over, and my parents saying "Yeah, it's the Terrible Threes next." I'm sorry, WTF??? Looking back now, it all went by in the blink of an eye though...
Wait until the teenage years then you'll be reminiscing about the early years.
Unless you've got some long standing family feud going back several centuries - You might be in the wrong thread
Can anyone explain why a pilot from a galaxy far, far away goes by the handle of 'Dutch'?
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away the people of the planet Dutchy fled the Clone Wars in a huge sleeper ship. A sleeper ship which travelled the stars and then the great void between Galaxies for countless millennia before crash landing on Earth. The impact was just off the coast of what we now know as the Netherlands.
This is why the peoples of the Netherlands, known at the Dutch, are raising land from the sea floor. Each inch they gain is another inch closer to their lost sleeper ship; chock full of advanced technology from a more civilized age!
Unless you've got some long standing family feud going back several centuries - You might be in the wrong thread
Can anyone explain why a pilot from a galaxy far, far away goes by the handle of 'Dutch'?
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away the people of the planet Dutchy fled the Clone Wars in a huge sleeper ship. A sleeper ship which travelled the stars and then the great void between Galaxies for countless millennia before crash landing on Earth. The impact was just off the coast of what we now know as the Netherlands.
This is why the peoples of the Netherlands, known at the Dutch, are raising land from the sea floor. Each inch they gain is another inch closer to their lost sleeper ship; chock full of advanced technology from a more civilized age!
Thanks - I knew it had to be something obvious I was missing
Did a good turn yesterday. Because you can the boy out the Scout Movement, but you can’t take the Scout Movement out the boy.
Was visiting a toy shop looking to get some Lego. Turned out it was release day for a new Pokemon card set. A rather panicked seem Dad wanted one for each of his kids, but there was a One Per Customer, presumably anti-scalper sales policy.
He asked if I could go up to the counter with him, so I could effectively donate my Per Customer. And it worked.
He offered me a tenner, but I declined, because c’mon. It’s no skin off my nose, and it saves him disappointing his kids. And whether it’s disappointing one, or arguably both, a couple of minutes out my day is no price to pay.
I ended up getting a little Beetlejuice Rubber Ducky. Because as well as very nice, I like my silly little things.
As a consequence of the pet sitting? The last kitty “Wee” Neville, the youngest of the bunch, a fellow rescued and sadly sole survivor of his Mum and litter now trusts me.
He’s always been understandably skittish, and I know to let kitties come to you. And this week it happened. We had gentle cuddles on his terms, and he was even my bedtime buddy one night (kitties took it in turns over the week).
BobtheInquisitor wrote: If you want to be chosen by cats, be allergic to them. Nothing makes them want to curl up in your lap more.
This comes from a basic misunderstanding of human body language by cats, and vice-versa.
For humans, you express polite interest by paying attention. Cats, on the other hand, express polite interest by briefly looking, and then looking away. To cats, what we consider 'polite attention' is a challenge.
So. A cat walks into a room full of people. One is allergic, the rest avid cat fans. All the cat fans stare... while the allergic person looks at the cat and then looks away. The cat then reacts by approaching the one person in the room who is being polite in cat.
So if you're allergic and do NOT want the cat's attention? Stare. Stare HARD. Lock eyes with it and stare at it until it turns away. And if you're a cat fan, do NOT stare at the cat. Look, look away. Put a hand down where the cat can come up and sniff, if they choose.
A slightly silly one. But as I’m doing more reading at bedtime, and my boudoir being really poorly lit for it? Finally got me a reading lamp. It’s fairly fancy, too. Three level LED and touch sensitive.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: A slightly silly one. But as I’m doing more reading at bedtime, and my boudoir being really poorly lit for it? Finally got me a reading lamp. It’s fairly fancy, too. Three level LED and touch sensitive.
Congrats on the lamp, reading in the dark is no fun.
I have been trying to re-home my farm animals in a "friends not food" sanctuary or farmyard. It is not that I want to give them up, but the winds of change are blowing and I have a feeling I will be getting re-assigned in my Corporate world. That would probably take me back to the city at some point in 2025.
I managed to find a place for my 11 goats. However, I am sad because I have raised them since they were babies and I will miss them. They are not far at all, and I will be able to visit; but it won't be the same. Right now, I can literally look out my front windows and watch them, and I often do. They won't be there anymore.
So, I am happy I found them a good home but am sad to see them leave. I will miss them.
Since I'm currently carless... I figured out the local bus routes and it will only take me 1 hour and 31 minutes to get to the Warhammer store... and then the same amount to get home.
Been struggling to find a job since leaving the military, and then had 3 offers in the past week - starting next month as an ecologist, flexing some muscles I haven't touched since uni. Not the best remunerated offer, but the one I think I'll enjoy best, and has the best scope for wage growth.
Talked to my financial planner the other day.
He assured me that (almost) regardless of what my Govt. is currently doing I'll be fine & can stay retired.
We have a meeting set for Wed anyways to actually go over accounts etc anyways & make sure the correct plans are in place.
Completely random, but recently I learned this....
That is my home state of Minnesota overlaid on the UK.
Here is my current state overlaid on the UK.....
For some reason these distances blew my mind. When I drive to the capital of my state, it is like going from Londonderry, North Ireland to Cambridge in the UK.
Wait you visit and realise just how many accents there are. Especially in the Midlands/North. Liverpool, Birmingham, York, Newcastle. All completely different accents.
5.9 people per square mile and a population of about 584K.
That means the entire state has fewer people than most Metro areas in other states.
The largest city is Cheyenne, the capital; with 65K people.
The state has two public escalators, and both are at a bank in Casper.
The tallest building is the Dorm tower on the University of Wyoming campus, which has something like 12 stories.
The average wind speed in Wyoming is 21.5 MPH.
In the Spring, there is a larger antelope population than people.
Wyoming was the first state to give Women the right to vote. It was the only way we could get them to stay here.
Wyoming produces the most coal in the US, take that West Virginia! It is an extraction economy for oil, natural gas, and other minerals.
Wyoming residents have more representation per person int eh government than any other citizen in the US.
Wyoming leads the Nation in Suicides, Divorce, and is in the top 5 for Drunk Driving per Capita. We are very proud that we went from 2nd to 4th in DUIs.
When you said Cheyenne was the largest city in Wyoming with 65k people, my first thought was there’s no way Jackson Hole is smaller than that. Last time we went through there, it was summer, and Jackson Hole felt like a city the size of a Fresno or a Bakersfield.
So I checked, and google says JH has a population around 10,000? How? That’s 1/50th the size it felt like driving through and walking downtown. There must be more tourists than residents in Wyoming during peak vacation season.
My son is out of the 4 daily antibiotic doses to kill his Staph infection. Another week or so of daily doses and he should be clear entirely. Scotlands best Easter holiday weather in about a decade and we’ve spent it taking turns sleeping in terrible cold out parent beds on the children’s ward!
However In reality what could have been really nasty is s mostly an inconvenience, so multiple layers of win!
An annual test of motor vehicles for safety purposes. If the vehicle fails the test it’s illegal to drive on the road. While the test itself is cheap to get done, it’s often accompanied by an eye wateringly expensive service to fix or replace all the stuff that has broken over the course of the previous year.
Wikipedia suggests that some US states have something similar.
Yeah most car manufacturers have shut down or heavily curtailed production of new fossil fuel based cars. There's a big push on them to go electric but the UK is NOT ready for it.
The infrastructure needs a massive overhaul in both production of electricity; price of electricity and provision of charging points.
And people have responded - by and large secondhand car sales are doing really well right now whilst new car sales of electric are growing but not very fast. They are very expensive and many people just can't jump on that ladder - even without the lack of proper infrastructural support.
So we are in the doldrums and its questionable if the 2030date will be reached where the government wanted the full change taking place. I suspect we'll miss that date, but barring any major global problems, we should be steadily working toward the change happening - like most other countries.
The government is watering down the heat pump push dramatically, so I can see them rolling back on vehicles as well. If the world could just go a few years without some kind of drama we would be able to focus better on moving on from fossil fuels :(
What we need is a big focus on nuclear energy - we should be building several nuclear power stations (and perhaps somewhere other than the most sandy coast we've got...) alongside renewables so we can jointly drive up supply and down prices.
And yeah at the local level people would be FAR more likely to insulate their houses; improve local green energy production and other things if the world could just go a while to let people actually save up to afford stuff like that.
Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet K2-18b
Space
Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet K2-18b: "This could be the tipping point"
Updated on: April 17, 2025 / 7:52 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism.
There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean world capable of hosting microbial life, at least.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.
On Earth, the chemicals dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide are produced only by life, mostly microscopic marine algae called phytoplankton.
The researchers emphasized caution, saying that more observations were needed to confirm these findings, and that they were not announcing a definitive discovery.
But the implications could be huge, according to Nikku Madhusudhan, a Cambridge University astrophysicist and lead author of the study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Madhusudhan told BBC News that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence soon.
"This is the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there," he said. "I can realistically say that we can confirm this signal within one to two years."
Artist's concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data
An artist's concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. The illustration was released on September 11, 2023.
NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)/Handout via REUTERS
But outside experts pointed to disputes over previous discoveries about the exoplanet, adding that these chemicals could have been created by unknown means having nothing to do with life.
"Goldilocks" zone
More than eight times the mass of Earth and 2.5 times as big, K2-18b is rare among the roughly 6,000 exoplanets discovered so far in that it orbits its star in a habitable or "goldilocks" zone.
This means it is neither too hot nor too cold to have liquid water, considered the most important ingredient for life.
Telescopes observe such far-off exoplanets when they cross in front of their star, allowing astronomers to analyze how molecules block the light streaming through their atmosphere.
In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon-based molecules were detected on an exoplanet in a habitable zone.
It also detected weak signals of the chemical DMS, leading astronomers to turn Webb towards the planet again a year ago, this time using its mid-infrared instrument to detect different wavelengths of light.
They found much stronger signs of the chemicals, though still well below the "five sigma" threshold of statistical significance scientists seek for such discoveries.
Even if the results are confirmed, it would not necessarily mean that the planet is home to life.
Last year, scientists found traces of DMS on a comet, which suggested it can be produced in non-organic ways and is perhaps not a "biosignature".
However the concentration of the chemical observed on K2-18b appears to be thousands of times stronger than levels on Earth, likely suggesting a biological origin, Madhusudhan said.
"Hellishly hot"
K2-18b has long been considered the premier candidate for a "hycean planet" -- an ocean world bigger than Earth with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
Hycean planets, much like Earth, are covered in oceans and have atmospheres rich with hydrogen, an element that is essential for life. Many of the planets are bigger and hotter than Earth— up to 2.6 times larger than our planet and reaching atmospheric temperatures up to nearly 200 degrees Celsius, or 392 degrees Fahrenheit.
Graph shows the observed transmission spectrum of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b using the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI spectrograph instrument
A graph shows the observed transmission spectrum of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b using the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI spectrograph instrument. The vertical shows the fraction of star light absorbed in the planet's atmosphere due to molecules in its atmosphere. The data are shown in the yellow circles with the 1-sigma uncertainties.
University of Cambridge via Reuters
These planets would not be expected to be home to intelligent alien life, but rather tiny microbes similar to those in Earth's oceans billions of years ago.
"Hycean planets open a whole new avenue in our search for life elsewhere," Madhusudhan said previously.
Some research has questioned whether the currently proposed hycean planets are too close to their stars to support liquid water -- including K2-18b, which orbits its star every 33 days.
Raymond Pierrehumbert, a planetary physics professor at Oxford University, has conducted separate research indicating K2-18b is too hot for life.
If the planet did have water, it would be "hellishly hot" and uninhabitable, he told AFP, adding that oceans of lava were more plausible.
Sara Seager, a professor of planetary science at MIT, called for patience, pointing to previous claims of water vapor in K2-18b's atmosphere that turned out to be a different gas.
Madhusudhan estimated that it would take just 16 to 24 more hours of Webb's time to reach the five-sigma threshold, which could happen in the next few years.
The current three-sigma is comparable to the odds of flipping a coin 10 times and getting the same result each time, Cambridge University statistician Stephen Burgess explained.
Five sigma would be getting that result after 20 flips, and would mean "we can be very confident that this observation isn't just a chance finding," he said.
Even beyond K2-18b, Madhusudhan said Webb and future telescopes could allow humanity to discover life outside our home planet sooner than one might think.
"This could be the tipping point, where suddenly the fundamental question of whether we're alone in the universe is one we're capable of answering," he said.
Flinty wrote: The government is watering down the heat pump push dramatically, so I can see them rolling back on vehicles as well. If the world could just go a few years without some kind of drama we would be able to focus better on moving on from fossil fuels :(
Unfortunately democratic elections run on drama nowadays.
The irony being heat pumps are far more energy-efficient than gas furnaces, and the only difference between heat-pump heating and central air is a reversing switch.
Sadly, that switch seems to be INCREDIBLY expensive, which is a big part of the problem with transitioning to heat pumps.
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Overread wrote: What we need is a big focus on nuclear energy - we should be building several nuclear power stations (and perhaps somewhere other than the most sandy coast we've got...) alongside renewables so we can jointly drive up supply and down prices.
And yeah at the local level people would be FAR more likely to insulate their houses; improve local green energy production and other things if the world could just go a while to let people actually save up to afford stuff like that.
Are you kidding? Forgo massive profit margins for a year or two? That's the same as LOSING money in unrestricted capitalism!
Besides, we're switching over to a total rental economy. You will own nothing and LIKE IT.
EDIT: To stay on topic, yesterday's little win is that despite having an unpleasant head cold I got the new shower curtain up.
Today I'm aiming to get some regular curtains up, to help keep the climate control in despite the rather drafty turn-of-the-century windows in this rental.
And no, it wasn't the turn of the 21sts century that they were installed in...
Hit my weekly target again, and spent a fair amount of the working day pottering around my flat, before going into our sensitive evidence inbox and clearing that out.
Also done some absolutely sterling work supporting a vulnerable customer. Potentially life changing work, in due course. Just a shame that on Tuesday, he won’t be getting the outcome he wants on the case I’m looking into. Hopefully the groundwork I’ve done supporting him in the Bigger Issue will count for something.
When we fitted our heat pump, the pump itself was covered by an incredibly generous loan/grant that meant the unit itself was not much more expensive than a gas boiler. However we also had to reinstall all of our radiators to make it work properly. That was hugely expensive, and that was without refitting any of the pipe infrastructure or touching the floors at all.
I managed to build some test covers and other work on some new games I am working on, both RPG and Wargames.
Often, this is the first steps in getting something to completion. However, not all games make it through the whole pipeline based on a lot of different criteria.
I also made a new cover for an old game, and updated all the internal art/photos. I am looking to upgrade some of my earliest works found on the Wargame Vault to more modern standards.
My ongoing battle to get the upstairs bathtub clean has ended in VICTORY.
And now for the context for that....
Some time ago we shampooed the carpets in all the upstairs rooms & hallway. The grimy water was poured down the bathtub (not flushed down the toilet like I'd said to do).
1) bitz of carpet/grime/etc ended up partially clogging the drain. Nothing calling the plumber didn't fix soon enough.
2) whatever was in the carpet shampoo though? Interacted poorly with the plastic of the tub.
Now the floor of the tub has a slightly rough texture in areas that quickly collected rust (from our hard water - even with softner)/soap scum/etc - wich in various places seemed to instantly fuse itself in place.
It has taken all winter of scrubbing the tub twice/week, but yesterday I finally got the last area of this cleared away.
Now, thanks to the roughened texture, we just have to be more vigilant about cleaning the tub.
Congratulations on the cleaning. I understand your pain. I am fighting a battle with cleaning grout in the shower that has quickly turned into a battle of attrition that rivals the Battle of the Somme.
ccs wrote: My ongoing battle to get the upstairs bathtub clean has ended in VICTORY.
And now for the context for that....
Some time ago we shampooed the carpets in all the upstairs rooms & hallway. The grimy water was poured down the bathtub (not flushed down the toilet like I'd said to do).
1) bitz of carpet/grime/etc ended up partially clogging the drain. Nothing calling the plumber didn't fix soon enough.
2) whatever was in the carpet shampoo though? Interacted poorly with the plastic of the tub.
Now the floor of the tub has a slightly rough texture in areas that quickly collected rust (from our hard water - even with softner)/soap scum/etc - wich in various places seemed to instantly fuse itself in place.
It has taken all winter of scrubbing the tub twice/week, but yesterday I finally got the last area of this cleared away.
Now, thanks to the roughened texture, we just have to be more vigilant about cleaning the tub.
On the upside, it sounds like you're going to be a lot less likely to slip and fall in that tub.
Lathe Biosas wrote: I noticed that the Flag next to MDG changed to the American Flag...
I'm not sure if that's a win for him or not.
Well it means he's made it through body searches, phone tapping, confiscation of anything dangerous (like the razor sharp edges of paper from a book); and has thus entered the USA on holiday.
Lathe Biosas wrote: I noticed that the Flag next to MDG changed to the American Flag...
I'm not sure if that's a win for him or not.
Well it means he's made it through body searches, phone tapping, confiscation of anything dangerous (like the razor sharp edges of paper from a book); and has thus entered the USA on holiday.
There goes the neighborhood!
Welcome to NY MDG, enjoy your trip. If you end up hopelessly lost about 4 hours north, let me know.
Walked to local train station, train on time. Connections flowed like timely water. Comfy seat on plane, respectful and pleasant other passengers.
Arrived on time, figured out JFK’s trains and that, got into hotel around 7:13pm local time. Unpacked me bag, had a quick refresh in the bathroom (somewhere, in New York’s sewer system, is a very British jobby). Then went out for an hour or two.
Couple of disappointing beers, and a wonderful Proper Juicy Cheeseburger. Back to hotel, and threw in the jet lag towel around 9pm local.
It’s now 4:19am, and I’m awake again. But in another little win, but one for tomorrow? Going it turn this to my advantage, and go for a day trip via train to Salem tomorrow.
Oooh! And whilst in Katz’s Deli (which 3,000% lived up to the hype), had confirmation the offer on Dad’s place is proper official formal offer, which of course we’ve accepted.
Being a Scottish sale, shouldn’t take long at all to sell. Which means…I now need to be doing viewings of my own in Ingerlund.
Sliders were superb. Chips were distinctly average.
That's White Castle in a nutshell.
Fun fact, White Castle is the first fast food restaurant (opened its first location in 1921).
If you're looking for suggestions on American food, may I suggest you find somewhere that sells good buffalo wings. As hot as you can stand, if possible. I don't know how readily available those are in the UK, but a lot of places sell them here in the US. As far as chains go for wings, I'd recommend Buffalo Wild Wings or Zaxby's. But I'm sure there are some good local shops too. Like I said, maybe this isn't a great suggestion if there are a ton of wing joints in the UK and you've already had lots before, but wings are one of my favorite foods (along with pizza).
