Xerol

8-hour pizza* for dinner

*pizza that sat out for 8 hours because I fell asleep after getting home

still the only thing I can taste 4 hours later

why is it only the worst-tasting pills that get stuck in your throat

for every hour a car alarm goes off for you should be able to do $5,000 of damage to the car without consequences

fig croutons

wireless fiberless

The Sun will be offline from 2am to 3am tonight for regularly scheduled maintenance. Please do not reboot your Sun during this period and ensure it is plugged in and the battery is fully charged.

doom scrolling? no, it's more of a first person shooter

fact of the day:

a us gallon is not 243 cubic inches

wing people can keep their wings, I'm over here roasting 99c/lb leg quarters just fine

A can of "italian style bread crumbs" except the text has been edited to say "italian style head crabs"

I'm exhausted from work and walk into the kitchen looking for something to eat and this is what I see on top of the fridge

putting pepperoni in my salad to make it a breakfast salad

security camera screenshot showing a street which is mostly clear with a thin coating of slush, a sidewalk with a more complete coating, and grass with maybe half an inch of snow on it multiple cars are driving without issue

snow so far

seems to be over

snow forecast map showing ranges such as 0.5-13 inches or 2-23 inches

I might prefer that to the "idk maybe weather will happen" we're under right now

(I do not envy forecasters right now when the difference between an inch and a foot is a tenth of a degree)

photo of a printer screen for a "Discharge Mode" option, with the options being "Normal" and "On"

it foggy

Cockeysville Marble - Wikipedia

That's just up the road from me and one of the oldest still-active quarries in the country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockeys...

discovering mid-game that my mouse only has 3-button rollover

introducing: the skellidoscope

it's a tube that shows you a single dancing skeleton when you look into it

(we ran out of funding after one skeleton)

I just saw an ad for a "smart shower" and like

what are we doing

as a species

trying to figure out how to apply the ice pack to the inside of my skull

if I asked everyone I know for $10 and everyone gave it I still wouldn't be halfway to what I need so I'm not asking

was thinking 'sure wish i could pay someone to shop around and find a cheaper oral surgeon' and then realizing that's basically what dental insurance is

Oragel works for about 5 minutes, most of the pain is up in my ear now. Been on prescription strength ibuprofen but that is only half working half the time (enough to get an hour or two of sleep at a time)

Hopefully this dentist can get me in tomorrow

Until then, endless screaming

not that I could get to it anyway, considering my car is still encased in snowcrete

the free clinic wants $200 for a walk-in and is not taking appointments

at some point the tooth is just going to fall out and stop hurting right

Looks to be a JV spun up for just this opportunity, based on the registration date (June 2024). One of the members is a subsidiary of GDIT and the other is a VOSB/SDVOSB which is presumably being used just for that status to qualify for set-asides.

A Baltimore driver will win it but the medal will go to Virginia because they're using Virginia plates