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Share your wisdom! Everybody's got a tip or two for how to avoid a problem, how to make an opportunity, or how to get something done. What simple things do you do that make your life better?
When I brush my teeth, I brace my hand against the counter behind the sink so that while I'm leaning over the sink, the weight of my upper body is on my arm and not my back. I started doing this a few years ago when I heard that most back injuries occur while people brush their teeth. I don't know if it's true or not, but I don't want to find out the hard way.
the paranoid OCD suffering roommate of mine suggested that we store our toothbrushes in the cupboard at all times so that the germs spraying out of the flushing toilet will not land on our toothbrushes. i guess that it would make sense, if i felt that the toilet sprayed things out rather than in...what does BigJ the bio man think?
Whatever you do, don't tell your roomate about the uncounted trillions of germs that are in his gut right now.
all the germs crawling around inside the cupboard.
The flushing of a toilet can send water out over 4 feet, but just think about a world if we WEREN'T subject to such germs, a child not exposed to germs is much more likely to be unable to fend of an attack if it comes. Granted eating a handful of feces wouldn't be good for you, but little bits here and there actually help boost your immune system, and keep your toothbrush where it's handy. There are over 300,000 insects living on the surface of your body right now! Not to mention the necessary biota to help you digest. If you start worrying about all that it'll just keep you up at night. Besides if the average male can ejaculate 3 1/2 feet why worry about toilet flushing!?!
perhaps this now explains why the aforementioned roommate is on tons of pills and is always getting sick. She bleaches things, anything that we will allow her to. I had to ask her not to bleach the dishes, due to my lack of desire to eat bleach. For myself i am a firm believer in a little dirt. Not feces, but i will cut the moldy part off of the bread and proceed to consume it. We dont worry about ejaculate around the house too much these days, although said roommates boyfriend is coming to stay soon for a few weeks. time to cover the couch in plastic.
i love jim.
... was a word I'd hoped we'd never hear in the diner.
Which word did you hope we'd never hear? There were a lot of offensive ones floating around, ha ha ha.
I am a strict proponent of the 5 second rule, especially if it is a favorite type of candy like a Jolly Rancher, unless whatever it is has fallen unwrapped on the concrete outside, because who knows how many millions of shoes have touched that one square inch of space? By the way, the Jolly Rancher factory is just a few miles from my house in Colorado and when you drive past it, you are bombarded with the scent of concentrated Jolly Rancher for miles. Magnifique!One of my best friends has severe OCD and obeying her hygiene rules can get a little tiresome, God love her. In college when you went to her dorm room, you weren't allowed to sit on her bed because your alleged germs would contaminate her bedspread. Now, in a closet-sized single in Olson, where else are you supposed to sit but on the bed? Blimey.
Floppy disks are not a long term storage medium, and generally have a life of around 1 year. They can and often do last a lot longer, but you shouldn't count on them to. In fact, you really shouldn't count on floppy disks, because they are sussceptible to all kinds of things like magnets, moisture, dust, etc. If you have something that's important to you, do NOT leave it only on a floppy disk. Store it on your hard drive AND a floppy disk, or on a hard disk and two floppies, one floppy you leave in a drawer somewhere and another you carry with you to print or whatever. Don't trust floppies. Always have backups. That is all.
If it looks like a pine cone and ticks, don't date it.
try to ride a bike with no hands while standing on the pedals.
If you ever have a large patch to assimilate, start by running it through diffstat.
Start by making sure that your lecture covers every detail of the questions you assign for homework. This seems obvious, but it's not.
What class are you teaching?
Computer Networking.
I have a bunch of uncoated CDR's (specifically mitsui silvers) that seem to get scratches on the top of the CDR. This makes for a big spot of no reflection and for nasty skips and static. I found that taking a sharpie and coloring in the sratched part makes the CD play normal again. Hooray for sharpies!
When you're loading your Rhodes or big amps into the back of the van, it's a huge pain in the butt because someone has to get inside and lift it up (while bending over -- a recipe for back disaster) to get it to slide. But if you always leave a few pieces of cardboard in the van, you can set the rubber feet on the cardboard outside the van, and then just slide the amp up to the front, using the cardboard as a skid. It works great! I'm never leaving home without cardboard for a gig again!
As someone who used work as a furniture movers assisant on weekends and during the school holidays I came to appreciate the power of cardboard (and the utility of old soft blankets).Anyway, since when did bands get so wussy that they started to worry about the state of the equipment. Surely you want to attain that "gigged all over the world" battered look. My old bass amplifier now claims to have been made by "Marsha" and is splashed with paint from when my brother borrowed it to stand on when decorating his ceiling (they don't make 'em like they used to).
this goes mostly to pedro, from a fellow migraine sufferer.try ginger. if you include ginger regularly into your diet you should feel a lessening of frequency and intensity of migraines. if you use it only when you feel one coming on it can also be effective.
i recently had a migraine so bad i could hardly move my neck, as it had seemingly spread downwards. i had just read this ginger tip [thanks to jean carper's 'food your miracle medicine'] and sprinkled some ginger onto a spoonful of guacamole and ate just that amount. not three minutes later, my headache was gone. entirely,one hundred percent,gone. it doesn't happen quite as immediately all the time, but it helps.
since that incident i have started putting ginger on almost everything.
anyone interested in natural remedies, check that book out.
i just made a one-hour, round-trip over the hill to hollywood to pick up a script that wasn't waiting for me. actually speaking to the guy leaving the voicemail before i went would have been a good idea.
My hampster Flash would chew his way out of his hampster castle every now and then and be missing for about a week at a time. I could never find him. Eventually he'd show up in one of my lego buildings on the floor and I'd get him. Years later I found some hampster treats in a little pile in the back of my closet under some stuff. It was funny. He could fit a bunch of them into his cheeks and I guess he'd stash them there and probably hang out for awhile. So, I'd say there's still hope for your guy.
So I'm moving out to Park City Utah in a month or two. I've made the decision to buy a condo, reguardless how dirty it makes me feel. What it comes down to is mortgages are cheaper than rent. So I found a 2 bedroom 1.75 bath place that's about $15k - $20k less than any other in the area. It's a bank selling it and it's not in the greatest shape. It's fairly close to the highway, but on the other side of the building which looks out towards mountains. It's very close to a huge shopping area, and you can see the olympic center in park city from the window. Here are the pictures....http://www.smaxx.com/images/condo/ And if you're interested Real Estate Specs: http://www.asktyler.com/property_details.php?mls=9952171
I'd have to spend some cash on a stove, some paint and a little drywall putty, but other than that, it's a little tacky, but not bad. I'm kinda thinking that with the money I'm saving on the overall price I could put it back into the place over the next couple of years and actually make it nice.... probably nicer than any other unit in the building. Not to mention it's probably the only 2 bedroom I can afford.
I'm fully capable and willing to fix a place up. Although I've always thought I'd be fixing up a shack or camp in the woods, not a condo. Any advice?
smax, i may not be the right person to give advice, but close enough.it seems a wiser idea to buy than to rent forever, particularly if you look at it as an investment and do what you can to make it so. mortgage payments are cheaper with ownership, not empty-handedness, on the other end. there are a lot of articles on buying homes that i've been reading lately because my parents and i are considering investing in property out here together. they're all over the place and very helpful. and i also read the real estate and home sections in the paper trying to get a good idea of neighborhoods, pointers from pros and other tidbits about buying, selling and everything in between.
park city has a bonus, too, because it hosts the biggest film festival stateside once a year. if you want to move, but not sell, renting it for exorbitant prices for one week a year and normal rates the rest of the year [for skiiers, vacationers, etc.] you'd probably do fine.
you can probably get a fair condition stove for cheap on craigslist.org. although i don't know how comprehensive the utah list would be.
oh, you should also check with the city to see if there are any, i can't remember exactly what they call them, but it's something like public disclosures. basically, lists of any planned changes that will affect the value of your property.