it’s kind of like working in expensive grocery stores, probably
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oh she’s always asking why we don’t buy a bigger house or newer cars.
when i asked her father for permission to marry her (i did not want to ask, but it was important to her) the first thing he asked me was “how much money do you make”
he’s repeatedly asked me over the years why she drives an “old car.”
last christmas he bought her a $550 gucci scarf and as she was opening it said “i know no one else will get you anything this nice” in front of me. i find this extra ironic because for her 40th birthday this year we’re taking a week long trip to europe, which i BELIEVE costs a lot more than $550?
the only reason it bugs me is because it’s demeaning to HER (she has a career and don’t need no man).
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That’s frustrating. Equating stuff with love is sadly very common, though.
I equate stuff with love a lot, but I think a big part of that is because I grew up broke in a family that didn’t really show emotions.
I’m getting better, but I still get irrationally grumpy if I don’t get the presents I want.
Which is hilarious because I’m 41 years old.
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I’d make space for a grandfather clock. They’re just so fascinating. Which reminds me I should get back to work on the clock I started pre pandemic but now I have an additional kid so the likely hood of that getting done any time soon is not good.
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real Twilight Zone situation: you have no time to make a clock
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Lol we’re well off topic for the bike blerg thread, but what else is new
Speaking of boomer furniture, my mom had a desk she got from her elementary school friend back in the late 60s I think? Her brother/my uncle used it until he left long beach to go to uni and it was at my grandparents house until they sold their house in the mid 90s to move to OC. The desk made it’s way to northern California and I used it through high school and it sat in the basement for another 10 years after that. When I move to colorado for pharmacy school my mom tells me to take the desk since the childhood friend (who I don’t think she had talked to in at least 5 years) now lived in Colorado. I’m stuck with this 70 year old desk for 4 years and finally the month before I’m set to move back to california this friend picks up the desk to try and give to her estranged brother because she didn’t have space for it. I don’t know if it just eventually ended up at the thrift store. It’s just so weird to me that my mom had it for like 90% of the time it existed but felt the need to return it vs thrifting it off herself
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It’s weird, I’m 39 now and our house is still about 75% full of shit we dragged in off the street. The only non-used, non-free stuff we have is our dining room table (cheapo IKEA) and our bed (cheapo frame, fancy mattress). Like, I don’t think our furniture sucks, it’s comfortable, but I simply don’t take pride in my furniture. It’s just stuff. I like not stressing about its condition.
What we do take pride is in all of our art and collectibles and shit. A mix of stuff our family has made, stuff we’ve founds and stuff we think is cool. My most prized object (other than bikes and shit) is a pictorial map of the Seattle area printed in 1949 (US10, Big Four Inn, Mosquito Fleet Ferry Routes, Etc). Found in the Ballard goodwill for $20. Now THAT is a fucking heirloom ATMO
Not sure if this is generational or just a result of the milieu my wife and I spent our formative adult years in.
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My grandfather built himself a grandfather clock from a kit where he did the woodworking, that’s in my dad’s apartment now. I bet I can conspire to get it packed up for my brother in Belgium to inherit, as it’s one of the smallest things he built.
I think I want to get the dining room table set he built from scratch, in three sections with two leaves to make seating for 12 and matching chairs.
Hopefully our other brother can eventually take the bedroom set he built, which is two 72" long monolithic dressers and two 30" wide nightstands all bookmatched
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If we can coordinate an east coast visit maybe we could team tackle it.
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I swore I was done dithering with different multitool permutations, but that Forager wrench looks really nice.
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I have the older one which I do not like as much as the new design. The old one had a kinda bobo to use 8/9mm end and a 1cm end. The new one is 8/10 only. I think the 8/10 only is a better design.
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if you don’t need 9, this is a nice option
https://www.kctool.com/stahlwille-10-double-open-ended-spanner-8-x-10-mm/
the motor 10 wrenches are really light and really nice
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Belated Secret Santas, are you listening?
did some new guy just bully a tarcker to keep him from bootlegging fng’s stickers to the community?
thread appropriate, and
kinda but not really?
That’s neat! If you don’t mind, I’m going to take your list of functions and see If I can duplicate or go lower with what I have.
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What is that in non freedom units? Is this a kit for one bike? Long valve is a good idea. I take a valve extender so I can use it on all wheel/tube combos, which is why I always take a hammerlock pump… Also a 9 speed power link should work on 10 and 11 chains in an emergency, although I usually have all 3. I might weigh mine for interest sake too.
The weight in grams is listed in the original screenshot.
It is my kit for one bike-- the silver one. It is the only bike I count weight/miles/etc. The pink bike I carry a pump and multitool and soon a set of tire plugs after I look into DynaPlugs vs DARTs.
I’ve carried a set of DARTs in my toolkit since they were released in 2019(?) and I’ve only gotten one flat since then, so I haven’t got a lot of reasons to dither that bit of kit.
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