Recent content by calmloki

I paid $100 co-pay for 30 days worth from the hospital pharmacy using Kaiser-Permanente Senior Advantage plan. Sure to be cheaper for a 3-month mail order supply fromKP. Well past donutholes - unless you have some powdered sugar ones?

A note on the blood thinners. I took warfarin for a number of years with no issue - except disliking getting blood draws to check my numbers. It was much much handier to have a home test kit, poking my own fingertip, and calling in the self-test numbers. If I was out of range the nurse would...

So back in February I was inquiring about Sotalol vs Metoprolol: Sotalol vs. Metoprolol for the heart crowd Got up north and went in on Wednesday for hospital monitoring to see if I was a likely candidate for Sotalol. On Friday they decided I was good, so they did an 8AM cardioversion and I...

Running?! Well maybe they are, but I ain't a gonna do it. I plod. I buy the spendy shoes that I choose on Ebait for more money but less than stores, and the the really great buy cheap good ones by happenstance from garage sales - folks that bought them new but don't care for them .

Just back from a walk in my $3 garage sale Adidas. Kind of a lumpy expense - sometimes I'll spend as much as $50 on used-as-new New Balance foot covering. Now if you want to talk vitamins/supplements taken at the behest of my honey, well, betcha my urine is spendier than most on here.

You should do it in a heartbeat. 20% of your stash. Five years required investment. Ferrari is 77 years old for instance. Think they are going away? Tax and Visa benefits? Cool! But it's easy for me to gamble with your money.

Regarding lost items, MIL used to say "it's always in the last place you look". Makes sense, not gonna keep looking if it's there. Building off that logic, for a speedy search, maybe look in the last place first.

I thought this looked terrible. Got to the end of your video and am very impressed with your result. And the repair has lasted several years now? Can't argue with results - Good job.

No sense of fun. playing with gas can be an uplifting experience. much as playing with electricity can put a sparkle in your eye.

Have you lifted the range top to expose the burners and plumbing to them? There are rotating covers around openings on the tubes to the gas burners that regulate the air/gas mix, any chance there is a bit of boiled zucchini over one of the openings or maybe a cleaner disturbed the location? Do...

Interesting - seems there are different grades. https://www.jameso2.com/co2-purity-by-grade/ Impurities can be things like Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide, Ammonia and Benzene. Food and Beverage grade CO2 is 99.9 grade, Medical and Industrial must meet 99.5 grade. Medical CO2 can be used for inflating...

Had to look - if a Sodastream container has 14.5 ounces of CO2 and costs $32 that means 20# of Sodastream CO2 costs about $700. Guess I don't feel as abused paying $70 for my 20# container. Edit: Protip. On an adventure evening involving alcohol one might be tempted to try and carbonate vodka...

Dunno - CO2 is getting spendy - a 20# tank cost $74 back in December. Though that will gas up our water for the better part of a couple years.

I'd cranked out a number of loaves in short order and my starter got upset with me. Pretty much crossed it's arms and glowered up at me from it's container. Was tickled by the Carl's Starter article and the Oregon connection so sent off my SASE and a small unrequested contribution. Couple weeks...

We all do the best we can - and maybe most of us have an exaggerated view of our own importance. The world will carry on, your partner will do what they do. Probably won't be what you think is optimum, but "when I move from here to ghost, what's gonna matter most.." (32,000 days, Emerson Hart)...