Hi, friends!
How is your week going? Hopefully well!
I’m really enjoying the FYCE retrospectives. Specifically I’m cracking up at today’s with the spaghetti since the comments are exactly what we’d say now if the post were new.
It’s genuinely comforting and nice having such a stable interwebs group like this that we have in-jokes with.
Also, cilantro is delicious.
No.
See now, this could be a comment from any post you’ve talked on in the last 3 years!
I thought you would appreciate that.
I very much do!
Awww thank you, @Brightersideoflife. The retrospective gave your regular correspondents a break, and it was fun going back through the archives at DS headquarters. The avocado 🥑 spaghetti is a classic. I may do another retrospective month in August, summer break and all that. We have a ton of historic FYCEs to choose from.
And the people of DeadSplinter are seriously the best people.
Sorry, Brighter, I have to disagree with you about the cilantro. I’m one of those people who have the tastebuds that equate cilantro with dish soap. Although I think if I were stranded on a desert island I could live off avocados. They’re healthy for you but they’re very fatty. But so what. I’m a fatty myself.
I really should amend this to say that I have a…beer paunch, I think it’s called, even though I don’t drink beer, and then I have lymphedema, which is a build-up of fluids, and no one knows why. So many doctors, so many specialists, nothing can be done. So much for the miracles of modern medicine.
I feel sorry for the cilantro/dish soap crowd…not so sorry for sticks in the mud like @butcherbakertoiletrymaker.
Every time someone hates cilantro, selfishly I think fantastic, more for me.
Wait until I tell Ellie about my new (self-invented) coconut curry recipe which includes *gasp* coriander seeds!
YUM
Coriander is one of my go-to spices that gets used in almost everything.
So??? Do tell!!!
On the contrary, it is all of you who are deserving of pity. For your palates are defective and in serious need of repair.
Me waiting for @butcherbakertoiletrymaker to star my reply like…
This I will star.
You know the saying “don’t knock it ’til you try it”?
Good! Then make the sauce and get back to me after everyone you had try it tells you that you should be selling it because you’d be rich.
Also, if you do market it, please send me my deserved royalties.
Also, also, thanks for those who contributed to DS 2023! 2 were real names and 2 were anonymous and IDK real names or the anonymous people. For the sake of privacy and anonymity, I truly want to thank you.
You know who you are!
Me and my soy allergy will pass. 🙂
The sauce has no soy. You add the protein of your choice to the sauce.
I’m one of the ones who has tried it and I think it should be marketed and sold because it’s the best spaghetti sauce ever.
@TragicallyChic, amen and testify!
Day 5 of flooring, nobody got hurt today but demo’d most of the rest of the main room flooring after moving everything from one side of room to the other. Pretty exhausting days & we quit early. Probably not getting this done before wife comes home but hopefully I can get enough done to not have the house the fucking disaster it currently is!
Oh my God, that’s gorgeous! When we moved into this apartment we went for a stark, mid-century modern look, but over the years we have acquired tons of crap and we’re approaching Collyer brothers levels of clutter. When it all comes crashing down around us the only one who’s going to be spared is the Faithful Hound, who has his own crate and he can retreat in there.
Cool house layout!
Thanks, my wife calls it our doublewide since it is long and narrow but we have made it feel spacious in our renovations. The original house was a 1960’s Sears catalog DYI house sold in the catalog. It looks nothing like that house anymore but still has the same bones.
Inquiring minds and all…does the bar still have the disappointing Leafs season ending sinking stools?
You betcha, with your name on one we never use.
Ooooh that’s a beautiful floor!! Koa? I feel like you’d put in Koa. 🙂
It’s Acaci, Koa is in the same family but more dense and way more expensive & less sustainable.
I camped at a KOA in the mountains of WV in 1995 and believe me…this is way nicer.
Oh that makes sense – guessing the density of Koa is because it’s a slower-growing wood and only in Hawaii so rarer.
If you don’t finish in time, it looks like it would be awfully easy to have a spark “accidentally” jump onto something flammable and then collect the insurance. Not on purpose, of course.
Beautiful! That is some meticulous craftsmanship, @loveshaq.
After paying my ADHD tax this morning, moving is at least *going* finally.
I missed my turn into our alley, so caught it by driving through the parking lot of the Asian Grocery store on the *other* side of our block…
The back door of the building was open, so I didn’t even need my key right away. I unloaded almost all of the minivan, and met a couple of the new neighbors, then decided to start hauling it all into my apartment…
And THAT was when my key didn’t open the door to “my” apartment, and the *other* key didn’t open the laundry room…
The ADHD tax I paid, was loading the van back UP, and driving the two doors south, to my ACTUAL building, annnnnd starting all over again!😆😂🤣
Next time, i’ma LOOK at the front of the building, to be SURE those two blue dumpsters, and thd building door are actually *my* building, and not the matching “sister building” that looks *just* like mine🤪🤣
🫠 but also 😂
At least you met some new people who are technically your neighbors?
Yep!😆😂🤣
They were all REALLY nice, and I definitely like the vibe of the buildings, tennant-wise.
I also DID meet a couple folks from *my* building who seemed nice!
I love the fact that we’ve got *families* living there, not just young single “partiers” like has happened in some of the buildings where I’ve lived.
I always feel… I guess safer/better, living in the sort of place where there’s a good MIX of older folks, younger ones, and families, as opposed to really homogeneous places. Folks tend to be more “community-minded” in the mixed places, and having grown up in a small town, that makes a place feel more like “home” to me😉
One of my favorite stories is that two friends of mine and I convened at this very upmarket little development where this other friend lives. The house is fairly distinctive and the architect somewhat famous. So we pulled up and no one answered the door. So we went around back to see if he had planned a cookout or something. “This is definitely the right house. Here’s the deck. That’s the room where the mother-in-law lived. Maybe he went to the supermarket or the liquor store for something last minute.” We went back to the car and the wife said, “Well, I made [whatever.]” And the husband had brought a case of beer. So we stood around chatting and eating and drinking, basically tailgating, and the husband said, “I’m going to call [host.]”
Turns out that in this little development that architect did two houses (only two) and we were at the wrong one. Can you imagine if the homeowners pulled up and three middle-aged perfect strangers were picnicking in their driveway? How could we have explained ourselves?
STUFF LIKE THIS HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME
Thank you for sharing this, Cousin Matty!😉😆💖 (it makes me feel SO much less alone!💗💓💕💞💖💝)
It makes for a FABULOUS fun & silly tale, and it’s definitely something to giggle about later, although when it happened, I felt like SUCH a massive dumbass!🫠