Christmas Neon style RGB Christmas Light sign I am typically a reluctant participant in the xLights Around the World Project during Christmas. We don't even use xLights to program our Christmas lights. We are devotees of the program Vixen. But one of the main organizers of the project is a friend and I like the
McDonald's How many sauces are you entitled to with your McNuggets? According to the McDonald's app you get 1 sauce with 4 McNuggets, 1 sauce with 6 McNuggets, 2 sauces with 10 McNuggets, and 3 sauces with 20 McNuggets. If you get 1 sauce with 4 McNuggets it seems like you should get 5 sauces with 20 McNuggets! Or
Review Review: Panda Express Apple Pie Roll Not much to say. It is gross. But I didn't get sick from eating it. Review: 2/13
Update UPDATE: Other people noticed Reese's scam pumpkins Update to my scam alert about Reese's pumpkins. Several news articles have popped up about a lawsuit because of the blatant false advertising: The $5m lawsuit over a missing jack-o’-lantern faceEverywhere you look, there’s a new lawsuit for false advertising.HubSpotJuliet Bennett RylahHershey’s slapped with
Review UPDATE: Nothing Bundt Cakes Review I explored the value of different Bundt offerings in my prior review. But all the calculations must change now. On my latest order I noticed a $1.22 "online service fee." Junk fees from my favorite bakery! Shameful! I have decided to update my review of Nothing Bundt
FPP We are living in the automation future Went outside with Cal to test the Christmas lights. 1. Use my iPhone to access the web console for Falcon Player so I could start the lights. 2. Realize the lights on the porch are still on. Use Home Assistant on my iPhone to turn them off. 3. Realize the
Review Review: Exotic Pringles Quick Pringles reviews. Carnitas taco: Tastes like pork is inside my nose. Review: 1/30 Street corn: Actually pretty good. Review: 24/30 Prawn: Just like a shrimp cocktail at Mastros! 30/30
Stye relief Relieving Styes I recently had a stye that looked terrible and was a giant pain. Right in the midst of peak stye, the NYTimes Mini crossword had 5 down: Eyelid irritation. Stye! Coincidence? Or the NYTimes mocking my stye style? Relief for the stye came when a friend recommended OCuSOFT Lid Scrub
Review Review: Chicken Big Mac Alternate title: "Joe is Hungry? More like Joe is Wrong!" On a recent trip to Ireland I was able to make one stop at a McDonald's. I wanted to see if the Shamrock Shake was available year-round in Ireland. It is not. 😦 The McDonald's
Review Lahinch Golf Club & Pons Asinorum I played the Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland in September 2024. On the 17th hole I discovered the hole was named "Pons Asinorum." I asked the caddies (Rocky & Olly) what that meant. Not only did they not know what it meant, they never even knew the hole
Fatboy FatBoy Ice Cream Sandwich Quality Control Issues We have been enjoying FatBoy icecream sandwiches for a few years. But the latest box bought in August 2024 has had major quality control issues. Almost all the sandwiches have had the "cookie" upside-down. And the sandwich I had today which prompted this blog post had one cookie
Review Review & Scam Alert: Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins Over two and a half months until Halloween and I saw some Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins for sale already. These looked pretty fun though because the wrapper showed Jack-o-lanterns with cutout eyes and a mouth on them. I immediately was suspicious though. Would they actually have those eyes
Review Review: Grilled Watermelon An Instagram reel popped up and showed someone grilling a steak and a "watermelon steak." Just a big slice of watermelon on the grill. I tried it out on July 4. It was revolting. Review: 1/248
Review Review: Lego Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit I haven't put together a Lego in many years. I was never that into Lego. But I really wanted this model showing the sun, earth, and moon and how they rotate. I remember a similar model in our elementary school library. Frances and I put it together together
Review Review: Big Cheez-It® Crunchwrap Supreme® & Tostada Always a sucker for a new weird food I was excited to try the cheez-it items at taco bell. I had the Cheez-It Crunchwrap and Cheez-It Tostada. They were both bad. Bad texture, bad taste. Bad. Review: 3/11
Cox Cox billing department data types Looks like Cox's billing software is not storing numbers in an appropriate format. Since my bill is negative one penny every month now I guess in 100 short months I will be owed a dollar.
Review Review: The Art of Small Talk This is a new audio book from Pushkin. I enjoy Malcolm Gladwell's books and his Revisionist History podcast. So I figured I would enjoy this as well. I didn't. It is just awful. The authors are making constant un-funny throwaway, banal jokes. Occasionally they have audio
Mother's Day Mother's Day 2024 I enjoyed this Mother's Day video from a few years ago. And we had a good pre-Mother's Day Brunch at Snooze. Review: 10/10 for the company. Snooze gets a 6/7. UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2024: Snooze service is in major decline. Food takes forever to get
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints That's a clown poster, bro Signs I have made for Bryce Harper when the Phillies have visited Angels stadium.
Dominos Dominos: Do you want to donate or do you want to donate? Dominos Pizza's app has a dark pattern for forcing donations. Are you excused from having a malicious UI if the UI is for a supposed good cause? I don't think so.
Review Review: Mochinut Corndogs I didn't realize Mochinut has more than donuts. I tried out their Half & Half. Half is a corndog and half is just cheese. It was served fresh and hot and was excellent. The outside was crispy and the "dough" was soft. The hotdog was good
Big Sky 48 Miles at Big Sky As a follow-up to my post about getting the most mileage at Big Sky, I completed 48 miles in April, 2024. Ramcharger + Pacifier was the most miles per minute as I expected. But it is not exciting. Cal discovered Swift + Skittles Road is also a lot of miles per minute.
Review Review: Coca-cola Spiced Found a bottle of Coke Spiced in Belgrade, MT. I liked it. It tasted extra "cokey." Like a stronger version of regular Coke. Review: 8/9
Solar Partial eclipse impact on residential solar system The eclipse on April 8, 2024 had a small but noticeable impact on our residential solar production.
