Must be Tuesday.

It’s better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Planer, angle grinder, drain snake. Yup. Grinder still going, planer destroyed by my own stupidity.

“and” is a little too prominent. Usually one of the excluded list in word clouds.

Did exactly that. Not many vanities come in 12” depth 36” wide, but upper cabinets do. Color matched furniture feet from Amazon.

Somehow top and sink were easy to find.

You just described America.

I don’t know enough about Paw Patrol!

Bones Brigade 4 Life!

You mean the one played in the police documentary by skateboarding legend Tony hawk?

Marinara Corps?

Early career, that’s exactly what I did. As I earned more PTO, it became possible to have a summer decompress vacation, then just time to chill (even just 2, maybe 3 days) around holidays.

It can be pretty mind numbing to be at work with no one around. If you depend on other people to get stuff done, even more so.

If you have work you can do on your own, however, it’s a fantastic time to catch up / get ahead without distractions.

Skip the bowl - popcorn machine gun right into my mouth.

I was at a black tie charity event for my partners company. After dinner there was a book signing room with Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark.

I never read anything by them, but know the names well - peeked my head in with my fiancé and doubled the number of people in the room. They we so welcoming, made some small talk for about 10 min.

Conversely I went to a release week signing for A Fest for Crows by GRRM in NYC. The line was so long at one Barnes and Noble it almost stretched to the next nearest BN bookstore.

Neither of those sound like enjoyable events from the authors side.

Had to go look - thought there was some crazy mashup with 311’s All Mixed Up. And I was into it.

I don’t know all their albums, except the biggest singles. My first exposure to The Cars was the goofyness of You Might Think on MTV. It did them a big disservice.

It’s great without. It’s epic with.

Moving in Stereo by The Cars.

Hessen-Kassel provided the British fifteen regiments of infantry, each with five companies of men, four grenadier battalions and two companies of Jäger (known as chasseurs or sharpshooters in English).[8] The Jäger in particular were in high demand.[9] Jäger, a German word that translates to “hunter” and can be used as both a singular and plural word, were recruited from huntsmen and foresters who were skilled in the use of rifled weapons normally used to hunt boar.[10] They were skilled shots, self-sufficient in battle, and swift, able to efficiently load and fire a rifle, a skill which took greater dexterity than firing the muskets of the day. Most importantly, they were valiant.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/05/the-hessian-jagerkorps-in-new-york-and-pennsylvania-1776-1777/

Regular hessian mercenaries wore blue uniform coats, Jaeger rifle units wore green coats.

In the American Revolution, the British also hired mercenaries from Brunswick and other German states. Some other uniform differences could have come that way too.

The Western European arrogance, greed, and racism set the tone for pretty much all of it, right?

I’m still fascinated by the risk takers, and the struggles and the failures. Grew up in southern NJ, knew about the English colony, a small bit about the Dutch, but knew nothing about New Sweden until I went down a Wiki-hole.

Were there ever “benevolent” colonial arrangements? Or ones that were at least purely commercial, not aggressively exploitative or land grabbing?

Read this in 1993 and still have it bouncing around my noggin more that stuff I read last month.

Not an expert, but I believe there are tests that look for certain proportions of isotopes found in food and water unique to local population from a specific era.

Shaking hands with the milkman?

Any sense of how BNB compares to Brasilia grill? It’s been several years since I went, but that was my usual low-key churrascaria.

Used to have a connection at Fogo de Chao, so that was my “high end” choice.

Heard it here first - shoot at the sky to improve air quality. Take the smog! Pew pew!