Yeah, a little bit. Not like a number of other places, even in North America, but after a few weeks of sort-of-hottish weather (100+ °F) I'm turning off the fan in my home office when I get home, and wearing sweatpants, a hoodie, and a wool watchcap.
TNP can remember the last time he or she got measured for a suit (you know, tailor getting up in your crotch for inseam, all that).
Not measured for a suit, but I had the waist of some pants taken in maybe seven or eight years ago. I know some good local tailors - and one who's good but who takes 'way took long, so I don't go to him anymore.
TNP has been kept waiting an unreasonable amount of time for something recently.
Sure. Impending doom. To silence my enemies. Waiting to get kicked off an MST3K forum because the self-describe "queen of the mods" has an attitude problem but appaears to not have the votes to unilterally impose exile upon me.
TNP is sure of very few things in life, but one is that he or she will never pick up Tagalog/Filipino as a spoken language.
Yeah, that’s a total certainty.
TNP has ordered Filipino takeout.
Y'know, I'm not sure I've ever eaten Filipino food, let alone gotten takeout. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, definitely... but not Filipino, as I recall.
TNP has a favorite Filipino dish.
No. I'm completely unfamiliar with Filipino culture, except knowing a few commonly held cultural or political beliefs among those few I've known recently. That and Filipino (men.... this woman I used to work with was horrified when I suggested I'd never play her a game of pool....might have been that she was offended at being lumped in with the scruffy nerf herders who typically begin playing with a sawed off tree branch at the age of three or whatever) historically have made some of the greatest pool players (any game!) for many decades....and Manny Pac didn't do bad as boxer.
When TNP changes jobsites, he or shoe scrutinizes maps like Lewis and Clark to find the best way to get there, and revises his or her route over the first few days of commute. Or,.otherwise said, TNP takes finding the path of least resistance and least likely to have one's car totalled by a jackass very seriously, even to the point of making a more circuitous, but less traveled route with fewer potholes and potheads, or whateber.
Nah, I use Google Maps pretty much all the time now when I need to know how to get somewhere. Far more often than not, that's all that's necessary.
TNP loses WiFi signals when driving, far more often than he or she would prefer.
Not exactly...but during my "order drive-thru fast food using the companies' various 'apps' I was alarmed by how many places on main thoroughfares had unsatisfactory mobile reception. In town, mind you, not going into the mountain passes and such.
(I use WiFi on my phone whenever possible if I'm planted someplace....I suspect you might have meant mobile reception....but I suspect I have a habit of being wrong often, as well).
TNP has not found that notebook/laptop computers in general last all that long, when used heavily, and at that, not docked to a station at home with various peripherals, and subject to all kinds of environmental hazards (static electricity, dust/particulates, spills and thrills, all that).
No, we're an Apple household, and their stuff tends to last. After 6+ years my wife's laptop is missing a few keys, though.
TNP thinks a customer might reasonably expect that "boneless chicken wings" will be, you know, boneless.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/...n/74810554007/
Yeah. That was a disturbing tale of justice gone wrong....or something (didn't scan the link to the very final ¶)...which I hadn't heard of. I'd expect "boneless chicken wings" to probably include gluten, trace amounts of tree nuts, or whatever else....trace amounts of methamphetamines, dairy, fingernail clippings, hair... but certainly not bones.
TNP has eaten a fairly substantial amount of "Buffalo wings" over the years, and has a preference for the "flats" (I guess one could call them) or the drumstick parts.
Bonus points if TNP has ever been outraged that a server provided ranch sauce vs. blue cheese.
Double bonus points if TNP doesn't really bother about the celery sticks much.
I prefer boneless, but I've had all kinds over the years. Definitely prefer blue cheese, and lots of it, over ranch sauce. And I like the celery sticks, too!
TNP likes "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1983):
Yeah, no offense intended to another's taste, but that's a hard 'no' from me. I'm sure it's great in the context of a disco floor or whatever they call them, but I can't listen to that.
TNP uses one, two or or more sets of headphones kind of regularly....and yet TNP really regards headphones as a necessary accomodation or tool, at best. Sort of moving air "minus."
Hey, no offense taken. To each their own.
I've been very dissatisfied with headphones lately, as it happens. Either they're uncomfortable, or they don't stay in my ears, or they seem to wear out in just a year or so.
TNP will be in Philadelphia by Dec. 31.
Not that I know of....although a good old-fashioned Philly winter sounds good enough to me. (No, not really kidding: I have some good friends a short train or bus ride from Philly and wouldn't mind at all catching up on the scene).
That doesn't "sound" good at all! I think my least favorite pair of cans, the AKG K240s, could be run over be a car or a person on foot and not skip a bit....plus, the connecting cables can be replaced, just plug and play with a mini-XLR adapter cable....no soldering.Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
TNP doesn't trust bluetooth much as far as reliably maintaining a connection goes, and therefore prefers good old wired "old tech." Generally.
Never tried Bluetooth, actually, so I have no opinion on it.
TNP knew that the wireless tech is named after an ancient northern king: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
Hell no. Good lord, what will they think of next? No, I had no idea. Bluebeard? Sure. Harald the Bluetooth of youths jumping around the gymnasium using radio waves of a certain specification? No, not really.
TNP can think of a dozen good reasons to take some old whiskey or whisky bottles and cut and sand the necks off them. No, TNP does not have to name a dozen reasons, such as "fun, fairly large drinking glasses" or candle holders or whatever. But even better if TNP has actually taken a dremel-style tool and done this to one or several examples.
A dozen reasons? No. But it sounds like you're off to a good start.
TNP is pretty careful about recycling glass, paper and plastics.
Negative. I really don't think it matters in single-stream recycling. I would have no objection to take recyclables to a central depot, except I lack the time most months, and especially now for family reasons. I do "recycle" corrugated cardboard, but I have zero confidence that my flattened, clean cardboard is "recycled" in any way. Nor any glass nor plastics.
It's a grand idea, but, I find it to be a failure, in most cases excepting heavy metals, various other deleterious materials.
I make the effort but am disappointed time and again. However, beer cans and such with a deposit....I'm 100% sure the scroungers find those from the dumpster and....dunno where they go after that, probably landfill, but I'm certain they get "recycled" and give some soul probably a decent chunk of change.
TNP is amazed by the soft, appealing properties of wool flannel, either as a fabric for a suit, or trousers, or a jacket, and finds that an excellent non-funeral suit, especially in this more casual age in which we dwell, could well be navy or charcoal flannel, in 13 oz. weight, or even 16 oz. weight for a colder winter.
Yes, wool flannel is a good fabric for lots of cold-weather gear. I prefer cotton in the summer, though.
TNP has seen Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956).
Yes. But I don't recall one damned thing about it. One might be shocked, but there are many pictures about which I could say the same. Those were in the days before I kept daily records of medications taken, amount of alcohol, tobacco, and kCals consumed, whether I used the Waterpik or not, weight at morning, and after work, and all that.
It is not a diary! Dammit! It's a scientific document!
Given the choice to have a made-to-measure jacket that matches exactly this absurdly heavy pair (16 oz. flannel in true charcoal) of MTM trousers for $550, from the same company, one would pull the trigger, or else pick up a cotton or linen navy suit for the hellish solar radiation months....if needed, or perhaps just stick with sportcoats and trousers during the hotter months.
Weird question, since all about personal budgeting and priorities, but that's what came to mind.
I have pretty much lost interest in spending money on dress clothes, so whichever of those is cheapest.
TNP has sometimes wondered why there are no male dental hygienists.
Huh. No, I have not ever wondered that, but I am now!
That is a strange thing. It's not a particularly well-paid job, especially considering the precision and accuracy good hygienists provide, and one is more or less a contracted worker for an LLC of whatever DMD or DDS...same with pharmacy techs, I guess.
TNP has recently come close to buying a bit of home-fitnesss gear, like a free-standing pull-up/dip station, for example, but decided against.
No, I get most of my exercise from long, very brisk walks while listening to music on my iPod.
TNP has been in an Apple store in the past week.
Nah. not that recently.
TNP still likes the iPad, but has trouble justifying the purchase of a new one.
Yeah, that's probably true, although I'm gonna have to buy a new Apple computer sometime before too long.
TNP has been in California in the past month.
False. Not for years.
TNP can name one or even more reasons to visit California. Let's say except if TNP has family down there...other reasons.
Well, our reasons late last month were our niece's gala wedding by the ocean in La Jolla, and then a week of touristy stuff in L.A. and vicinity, including the Getty Art Museum, a Paramount Studios tour (including Stage 31, where the USS Enterprise interior sets were for the original Star Trek), Griffith Park, Legoland, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, etc. We had a great time, despite the horrible traffic.
TNP has been on a studio tour.
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