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Thanks, picked one up (blanket) for the kitchen. They also had a small spray can fire extinguisher so I grabbed that as well, I already have bigger ones near the door and fireplace....

Fire blanket is on the new year's shopping list. What was somewhat scary is most of the family had no idea what to do. When the fire hit I covered it up with a large t-towel (poor-man's fire blanket) that slowed it down. I was yelling at my wife to get the baking soda... when I pulled the...

I still remember them doing this on TV when I was a little kid, interrupting regular broadcasting. They were scrambling jets to intercept an unknown object coming from the north (still cold war back then) and I remember being freaked that they were going to shoot Santa down.... until the pilots...

I put out a decent kitchen fire.... does that count? Luckily I was right there (some could say I was the cause....) and caught it fast so no major damage.

It does not need to be a mandatory sentence but there should be a fat add-on (2 to 10) for involving a minor OR committing a crime with a minor. Many of these smash and grabs, carjackings, etc. have "adults' (early 20s) and minors all in that group. Catch them, another fat charge for those that...

Maybe we will finally get buck a beer /s

As time goes on priorities change, right or wrong. But in all the below I never lived beyond my means and even though priorities shifted there was always some money going to other things... When I was young and single, I spent too much and did not save as much as I should have but I have little...

It is easy, at those hourly wages it should not be too hard to find a labour or delivery job somewhere else that pays more, so why not? It is sort of a free market economy thing, supply and demand. If Canada Post had a real labour shortage, like any company that experiences such a thing, they...

Was there noise with the old computer speakers?

Are the monitors balanced input, sound card unbalanced? A simple solution is an ART CLEANbox, I have fought and loss the unbalanced RCA to balanced more than a few times (sometimes it is NP, others' need intervention), this or something like it saves a bunch of headaches when intervention is...

We have been running with one bathroom for a few months now, two adults and two teenagers.... it always takes way longer than expected.

The old structure was fine but I am putting in a larger tub = more weight. I figured it was all open so sister them all up, I might even triple a couple before I am done.

Some bathroom floor progress.... blocking and then plumbing is next.

And that might be a possible outcome for the people in the article. Hail Mary and maybe the developer drops the contract price enough to let them close to just get it off the books and to move on. Unless the developer is cash strapped I doubt it but as I said, they may look stupid, unless it...

Another co-worker the unit was fine but the original building plans had 20 foot ceilings in the lobby and a waterfall, 10 foot and no waterfall was built (same thing zoning, building height...). He got them to upgrade the appliances and coutertops...

From the builder building short it does happen... I can't remember the minutiae of the situation but years ago when the market was smoking hot a former co-worker bought a townhouse per-construction. years later the townhouse that got built was not exactly as contracted due to zoning. Nine foot...

There is a reason the contract price is the price. If this was 5 years ago (upward market) the appraised price is likely much higher than the contract price and they would scream bloody murder if the developer could raise the price at closing to take a win on increased prices. In this case the...

I was doing some research today and evidently, scientists now know the origin of the asteroid that collided with earth 66 million years ago putting into motion the climate change and associated global devastation that eventually caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that killed off...

Two ways to look at that, paying six or seven figures in income tax really sucks....but it is also a good problem to have (making enough to have to pay that much).

DCs/connection fees were the cost of doing business when condo sale prices were high and building costs were lower. Sure they whined about them but it did not stop them from building. The economics have changed now plus all the fantasy of magical affordable housing ... at the same time cities...