It varies like crazy for me.

I’m an insomniac, and some nights after being up for a while, I’ll fall asleep again within an hour of the alarm. Those days, I struggle to focus enough to sit up, and force myself to move in a minute or two.

Other times my eyes will flick open and I’ll be in full awake mode almost instantly. Some of that was trained behavious from when I was on-call.

Honestly, peanut butter and honey is where it’s at.

And don’t just spread each one on your bread - mix them together on a plate and then spread the mixture on buttered bread.

Good. Now eliminate them altogether.

Ignoring the gatekeepers and the people watching for trolls, there’s one other aspect: a lot of people are posting their account anniversaries not to brag, but to celebrate - celebrate leaving the toxic world behind.

Just an FYI, Canada Dry has been an American company since 1923.

Burwood Distillery in Calgary makes some great gin for G&T. I’m a bit indifferent to Victoria’s Indigo gin, but their 1908 cocktail gin makes one of the best martinis in the world.

I’m a middle-aged dude with a wife and teen. Disney fucking sucks. Amazon fucking sucks. Spotify fucking sucks. Facebook fucking sucks. Instagram fucking sucks. Google fucking sucks. My local cable company fucking sucks.

Even if I wanted to live as a hermit, I have to either make compromises or make my family hate me. No TV, No music, no social media.

It’s unfortunate but true. It’s tough to be an absolutist if you don’t live in a vacuum.

It doesn’t fit all of your criteria, but Platinum Blonde’s “It Doesn’t Really Matter” comes to mind.

Bye, troll.

Sorry, I meant why are the boutique pick makers using galalith - a processed natural product - instead of horn - also a natural product.

Realistically, I love my Primetones. I just got to wondering about it.

Well, that was sort of my question - although I worded it badly.

Everyone has been trying to replace traditional tortoiseshell for half a century, starting with celluloid and nylon, then delrin and ultex.

Then along came the boutique pick makers like BlueChip, RedBear, etc.; and now D’Addario and Fender are in on the game as well. And they’re all using galalith, which is essentially plasticized casein.

But aside from a few tiny vendors and mom-and-pop shops, very very few are making picks out of actual keratin, which would presumably be closest to real tortoiseshell picks.

Just seems odd to me that such an incredibly common and cheap material that is so very close to old picks is by-and-large being ignored, while companies are making galalith to create picks.

(For the record, I have some horn picks here - and they’re awful, but more because they were made by a company that puts their effort into drinking goblets rather than picks.)

1. Bleach + water (~1tbsp/L)
2. Vinegar + water (1:1)
3. Toilet bowl cleaner
4. Tub & Tile cleaner
5. Lots of rags

90% of my bathroom cleaning is done with the bleach and vinegar solutions (but DO NOT MIX them!!! Use separate rags, etc.) Toilet bowl cleaner is good for the angled bottle and the bluing is absolutely worthwhile.

Tub & Tile cleaner is good for hard deposits, but doesn’t really get brought out very often.

If there was anything else I’d add, it would be a general purpose light cleaner - despite the name, Windex is ideal for almost everything else.

Also, add something like Mr. Clean into this list and you have everything you need to clean your entire house forever.

EDIT: Something people may not realize about bleach. You really do NOT need a heavy concentration, but you have to leave it in contact for a while. Spray on the diluted solution, leave it while you clean something else, and then wipe it off. But crucially, if you increase the concentration, you don’t significantly reduce the amount of time it needs to work.

Did you create an account just to be sanctimonious and superior?

I’m 56, and I don’t have any answers.

Any upward momentum at work stopped for me. I’m slowly descending into alcoholism and sloth. The more I do to maintain the household, the less that everyone else does.

There’s a reason that financially comfortable, socially stable, middle-aged men have a ridiculously high suicide rate.

The worst part - the VERY worst part - is that even after I retire, I don’t see any improvement. I’m going to be slaving away at an attempt to maintain a modest life until the day I die.

Exactly the same thing that every other country has done.

Now how about reporting on some news?

Behaving badly is still behaving.

When they mention it, say “tell me more.” Or ask them to write it down.

Wonderful information. And if you posted the vaccination rates for India, you’d notice that the single LOWEST Indian province has a rate 10% higher than Alberta (79% vs. 69% in Alberta); and that the overall vaccination rate against Measles in India is 93.5% - significantly higher than Canada.

No.

They’re not cowardly, they’re complicit.