After a suggestion this year I tried that with Dr Pepper too and it worked surprisingly well. Mr Pibb not so much.

I did get them from the son of a carpenter, so maybe I’m already covered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it weird to keep a handful of iron nails in your SHTF Go Bag with the wilderness survival supplies?

Asking for a friend.

I was down to only buying 2 exclusive ebook series on Amazon, and one of those just ended. I look forward to cutting them out completely.

Seems like he likes to stake out a new horrible position every few years. So bizzare.

Oh, I didn’t catch that you made this. I was thinking that it was like some of them that I have seen where it is laser cut wood on a leather backing, nice!

I was looking at cabbage boards like that, but it was worried that the holes would wouldn’t be deep enough to hold the pegs up well or that there would be enough play to let the pegs fall out between uses. Does it work well?

Sweet Home Alabama

Also:

No, he’s the one that breaks that chain for the value of support and friendship and it’s because of that he was such a disappointment to his sire and becomes a target of those who want to maintain that heirarchy.

Drew Hayes Fred The Vampire Accountant has this as a big component in later books. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

This is marginally the flavor of what happens in the Fred, Vampire Accountant series by Drew Hayes.

Thankfully, it’s more I find I’ve already read and thoroughly enjoyed the recommendations you call out, but between you and Erika there are a few you’ve instantly added to my TBR because we so often agree.

Relatedly, have you ever come across The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins? It’s a trip…

Harbor Freight has a Portnoy sized hammer for $4 if he’s gonna choke up on it that much.

I’ve been looking forward to this episode and it just reinforces that if @aleen.bsky.social recommends it, I’m going to enjoy it.

Non-GMO Salt.

My stuffed Fivel from when this came out is a treasured item.

The couple of time I’ve tried I struggle because it ends up heavily recency biased and then then I try to swap out some amazing ones from the 80s and 90s or earlier to balance it and it all just collapses into a way too long list.

Good luck.

They ended up homeless and couldn't get help because of what Trump did to the government. They still don't understand "why Trump is betraying me" and they're still angry that "the only person who will represent me is a woke [slur] like you."