Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread! -- 2026 --

[hawing]

Happy random new year, Brewer Fanatics!  Behold the random GIF. 

 

[nate82]

[AKCheesehead]

I feel like I owe my poor old car a sincere and heartfelt apology for what I forced it to do for me this morning.  -56 wind chill is just not nice.  

[greeg35]

5 hours ago, AKCheesehead said:

I feel like I owe my poor old car a sincere and heartfelt apology for what I forced it to do for me this morning.  -56 wind chill is just not nice.  

I don't think cars feel or react to wind chill, so no problem!

[AKCheesehead]

7 minutes ago, greeg35 said:

I don't think cars feel or react to wind chill, so no problem!

Yeah it won't get frostbite or anything, and it won't get colder than the -30 ambient we had this morning.  But where the windchill becomes a factor is that it reduces the effectiveness of the block heater, oil pan heater and battery blanket because they're all constantly fighting a losing battle.  They help some (it did manage to start this morning, barely) but they'd have been much more effective and it wouldn't have been such a hard start in -30 ambient with still air. 

[LouisEly]

About every six months or so I get a random letter in the mail from some company about a data breach involving some of my data being exposed, and get 12-24 months of a credit monitoring service free.

I've had free credit monitoring for several years now.  Just got extended another two years.

 

[nate82]

3 hours ago, LouisEly said:

About every six months or so I get a random letter in the mail from some company about a data breach involving some of my data being exposed, and get 12-24 months of a credit monitoring service free.

I've had free credit monitoring for several years now.  Just got extended another two years.

 

If you have a credit card from one of the major credit card companies (Chase, Capital One, etc.) you get a free credit report every single week.  The free credit report for a data breach is stupid if you have a credit card.  Heck my auto loan with KIA gets me a free credit report every month. 

[homer]

11 hours ago, nate82 said:

If you have a credit card from one of the major credit card companies (Chase, Capital One, etc.) you get a free credit report every single week.  The free credit report for a data breach is stupid if you have a credit card.  Heck my auto loan with KIA gets me a free credit report every month. 

I froze my credit about five years ago. If I have to apply for a loan or a new credit card I do a temp unfreeze for like a week. 

[GAME05]

Even the Titan brand back extension (roman chair) has a weight limit of 250#, so maybe I'll go for the bulkier Freak Athlete Hyper Pro, even though it's $700. Back still really tightens up and hurts on longer, busier days, so curious enough if back extensions and/or reverse hypers would help. Trying something a lot more dedicated to the lower back would also check that variable when I start to contemplate surgery five years from now.

[nate82]

If you are talking about office chairs then get a  Herman Miller Aeron chair.  That is probably your best bet for your back.

[GAME05]

I should've clarified, it's a workout machine. Stretches and bird dogs and light deadlifts have greatly helped the day-to-day back going out, but it still gets sore from bigger things. Just cutting a couple small trees today was enough. So looking into more dedicated work for it to see if that makes a difference. If it doesn't, then I can decide to either live with it or get major surgery.