You probably read the best parts anyway. The abuses that brought him down are important, but less interesting than the earlier stuff.

I think about Moses all the time when the whole housing shortage due to of NIMBYism comes up, the Great Builder must be laughing in his grave.

Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/america-banned-sliced-bread#:~:text=So%20by%20January%2018%2C%201943,patience%20was%20already%20running%20thin.

Hmm, hard to tell how much shading you're getting from the neighbor trees. But my raspberries do great right up against the neighbor's garage shading them all afternoon. Only problem is the mosquitos love lurking in them making picking a hazard!

Whiskey barrels are great, about $30 and you can simply screw a trellis to them to grow green beans, cukes or climbing zucchini.

A lot depends on where south is. If it's to the left or straight ahead it looks like you have some pretty good light. Me, I'd plant it up with produce both in the ground and in containers on the cement. We gave up on a postage stamp lawn when the kids were too old to play on it, and recently did the chips with the flower and coleus bed.

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No no, it's just an unusually heavy rolled up carpet in a black plastic bag.

Ok, maybe I'm doing it wrong. How do you make your inquiry and what did it cost you? FWIW, I just got it done. I paid them more than they asked.

I said the weight and it was an appliance, what difference does type make? I default to privacy, even about stupid stuff. No matter what it is, someone will second guess you about what you're doing.

Most of the taskrabbit 'movers' are looking to be paid for their vehicles as well as labor. There doesn't seem to be a good way to just get labor. But I have a PM from someone who looks like it'll work out for this evening.

PM me your number and we can discuss

Huh. I've lived around here my whole life and never heard of anyone getting them. I wonder if they're another gift of global warming?

Far and away your biggest potential hazard is poison ivy, which can cause a nasty rash depending on how allergic you are to it. It's everywhere, learn to recognize and avoid it. Birds spread its seeds and it thrives in our man-made landscape.

Unfortunately there's several other forms of local ivy that can be mistaken for it, particularly juvenile Boston ivy. The saying goes "leaves of three, let it be", but Poison Ivy's middle leaflet has an extended stem on it and Boston Ivy's doesn't.

I thought chiggers was a southern thing, I've never heard of anyone getting chiggers in the Northeast. My family and I have camped for many years and never had chiggers.

Yes he was totally Asperger's, but I don't believe he was actively annoying, just uninterested in other people for the most part. That included a disinterest in collecting accolades. He also discovered X-rays, thought it was interesting and moved on to something else interesting.

But that doesn't mean it's ok for other people to take credit for his discoveries, any more that was ok for Edison to take personal credit for the work of his lab staff.

If we're going to pull on this politically correct string, let's go all the way and say we should return the whole damn place to the Lenape and let them name the street whatever the fuck they want. Then the address of your former condo will be moot.

It's all about ethnic pride. In the early 20th century you had this huge influx of Southern European immigrants into a country created under a Hegemony of WASPs. They wanted to express that they too had a representative in the creation of this country and settled upon good old Chris, who had no idea where he was till the day he died.

Yeah he was a racist piece of shit, and as such was a perfectly representative man of his time. Cancel culture demands to be fed....

You left out the most important one: Wessex, The Last Kingdom! Ive always wondered what name the Saxons in the north took. Never heard of Nussex, and Northumbria is a bit far. Also always wondered why there's Norfolk and Suffolk but no Ostfolk and Westfolk.

Nope. Marconi stole the radio from Nikola Tesla. Look it up, was affirmed in a US Supreme Court case. Marconi was a self promoter second only to Edison.

Yeah, cheap pandering to ethnic voting blocs aint was it used to be.

That doesn't make sense, but that would be par for the course for JCPS. It's been like 7 years since my younger was applying but I seem to recall that there was a point system assigned for the test and grades and extracurriculars etc. It wasn't all just the test.

Precisely. I believe they only accept transfers for sophomores and not juniors or seniors, but you should ask what the policy is. The problem is that you need to show them what has changed, and need some real Kick-Ass grades for the last year and this year, and probably need to take the PSAT again. You better be taking the most rigorous classes your school offers.

Try the triple pepper chicken at King Szechuan. Not stupid, inedible hot, but pretty hot.

In decades doing this I don't think I've ever rented to someone who came back for a second view. And open houses are complete mess, I don't get to give attention to everyone I'd like to or get to sniff them out. I'd much rather do a bit of pre-interviewing on the phone, and then get to actually meet them and assess them during the tour.

The problem is that apps like Zillow have created extremely low signal to noise in this arena. So many people will click on a listing because it takes no effort, and then not even respond when the the advertiser calls or emails them back. I have found this true many times advertising apartments as an owner. I try to get back to everyone, but sometimes there's so many and I know the yield is so low I just kind of give up after getting a three or four people who say they'll tour.

So you know what guarantees a call back from me? An actual written human text, hopefully with some self description, as opposed to using the canned message that you click on.

Also you can get my attention by filling out some of the info fields like income and FICO. I get a surprising number of inquiries from people who couldn't possibly afford the apartment for rent.

Peanut butter and jelly chicken, a recipe my family invented. Baked chicken parts coated in peanut butter mixed with soy sauce, duck sauce, ginger and garlic. Side of mixed brown and red rice, probably steamed broccoli or cauliflower, and of course a challah roll because it's Shabbat.

It has to be Gold's duck sauce, it bears no resemblance to the syrupy crap in the packets that come with takeout. Alternative is apricot or peach jam.

All that presupposes there's ever a time when there's no line. I don't know if anybody has experienced that. In my experience the MVC staff has absolutely not a care how long the line is. They move at the same glacial pace, chit chat, and seem to waste time no matter what.

And if they're already an hour behind by noon, then that's by design. It's not like a doctor's office where emergencies happen throwing the schedule off. But like the doctor's office, they plan a wait in so their staff is never facing an empty slot, the customers wasted time is not a factor in the plan until we rise up with pitchforks and torches the way it was starting to happen just before covid.