I help teachers with digital stuff. I plant plants in dirt. I play with wood. I cook satisfying foodstuffs "from scratch" as they say. I've been known to tell stories, even when sober. I love watching college sports. Born and raised a Wildcat. #KSTATE#EMAW#EdTech#LNK#Bonsai#Birds
When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.
Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!
@RickiTarr For the first 5 years we were married we were in an apartment and had to do our laundry at a laundromat down the street. Every Sunday afternoon we would go do our laundry and play cards to pass the time. We hated having to go down the street, and thought we had won the lottery when we bought a house that had its own washer and dryer. 27 years later, we recently talked about taking our laundry to a laundromat again, so that we had a reason to play cards.
Rural phone use instructions from a 1919 phone book.
Did any of you grow up with a "party lines" phone? This is back when phone lines were rented and shared with your neighbors. (Notice they are still referring to them as 'phones with the prevailing apostrophe.) I lived in a small town and did not share a line, but all of my family out in the rural areas did and I remember some of this stuff. Hard to believe it was less than 100 years from this to a smart phone.
@nirak I read somewhere that when people who own commercial property can't sell it or develop it for whatever reasons (interest rates or other pressures) they turn it into passive income. The flavor of the 2020s is car washes. People can't afford houses, but they can afford cars, and want them to look nice. When you go to these car washes they aggressively push monthly "subscriptions" that are super annoying to get out of. ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ
Name a film you've seen that left you with the thought, "This is art." If you want to explain why it made you feel that way, that would be pretty cool of you.
@RickiTarr 'Leaving Las Vegas'. Such a deeply sad story, with beautifully sad music to go with it. I left the theater feeling like anything this irredeemably depressing and tragic had to have been created from a place of artistic expression. I know there are people who think the acting is bad, but I found that more realistic. At the time I had people in my life who actually behaved that way, though not to this extreme.
@RickiTarr Early 80s. 2nd or 3rd grade? Small, rural school district. Librarian plugged our phone into a cup modem on our Commodore and connected to a University library system to search their catalog with us. Gopher probably. Reserved the book of our choice. She went and picked it up that weekend. We thought it was magical!
Finding it is possible to rely almost entirely on Mastodon for news during this dynamic time, and that it delivers a much more sober coherent blend of information.
Here's how...
Create a List for "News"
Click Lists on the right >>> Type "News" in the box >>> Click "Add list" >>>
Click "News" below >>> Click on little slider bars top right >>>Toggle "Hide these posts from home"
>>>> Edit: Added below from the replies a few more News and a large list of Media accounts.
@mastodonmigration Thank you for posting these instructions, they are a game changer for me. But... it took me the longest time to figure out how to get the 'News' list to not appear in my Home stream. Guessing we are on different servers/builds? I had to:
1 - Open my NEWS list
2 - Click the Preferences for the NEWS list
3 - Click 'Edit list'
4 - Toggle "Exclusive" ON
Now I only see the folks in this list when I click the NEWS list.
@timbray You perfectly described my situation as well. The technology took a big step backwards when the fingerprint sensor moved to the screen from the back.
Gameday parking - can park at downtown Lincoln meter all day for $15 on the app. Or the expired meter citation is only $10. Why wouldn't you just take the citation and pay later? ๐ค Feels wrong but at same time aren't they basically incentivizing us to get a ticket instead?
