tipicaldik

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[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm betting he also answers all his spam calls to tell them to quit calling him...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

CT scans every 4 months... probably gonna get another nodule in my left lung nuked at some point. Hoping maybe the distended aorta that showed in my last scan takes me out quick so I can bypass all the misery of my advancing emphysema or the lung cancer possibly spreading. Aside from that, I'm just going to enjoy my family. Got three grandkids that are a real hoot right now. Counting my blessings is pretty much the priority...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Several years ago, before we got the transmitter-type meters, they would sometimes estimate our usage. We didn't know that until after several months of estimates they came out and actually read it. Apparently, their previous estimates were all low, and suddenly we were hit with a $900+ bill to catch us back up. That sucked. I also remember meeting one of the readers who was going house to house. Our next-door-neighbor's house is completely fenced in, so the reader would come down our driveway and read our meter, then use a pair of binoculars to read the neighbors meter from our yard.

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

haha yeah I've been a pothead for 40-several years and I got my Florida MMU card last year. It took me a while to get past my "kid in a candy store" phase. Geez I wasn't used to having ANY choice, let alone that many choices 😆

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

but back then it was "fine" because it never made the news...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

haha my dad was a tech nerd and when he bought his first programmable VCR back in the '80s he was on top of the world. He was recording everything...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

heh... yeah I remember the boy's bathrooms in my HS back in the late 70's early 80's. No doors on the stalls, and the toilet paper rolls were threaded onto chains that looped through holes in the walls that divided the stalls, with the ends locked with a padlock. There were no dividers between the urinals, and in one of the older buildings on campus, the urinals were big long communal troughs...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

fall out of the sky you say...?

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I long for the good old days when I could lasso that wormy little rat-fucker and drag him off into the desert behind my horse...

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[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

haha... yeah. We have a tankless gas water heater that requires an electrical connection. We live in hurricane country so going without power for days/weeks at a time is something we've lived through on several occasions. Having a hot shower during those times is the one thing my wife really appreciates. Fortunately, it's just a 110 connection and we can plug it into a generator or battery back up...

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Our loquats are still tiny little buds. I love 'em and can't wait for 'em to come in...

 

The news of the tragic death of Gene Hackman (RIP!) reminded me that even tho I had always wanted to watch it, I had never seen the French Connection. I did a web search to find out who was streaming it, and I noticed in the search results that archive.org had it on their site. Just Watch said on their site that Amazon Prime could stream it for free. My wife has a Prime account, so I made a mental note and decided to go to Archive.org and watch it there since I'm sitting at my computer. It loads up and starts playing, no problems, and then at about 10 minutes in, my browser throws an error, and Voila! just like that the video is gone, suddenly no longer available. I get immediately suspicious and log in to Prime, and no, in fact, I cannot stream it for free, but I can rent it for $3.99. Nobody on this planet can convince me that Amazon's greed didn't have something to do with it getting yanked from Archive.org...

Opportunistic assholes.

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