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Cake day: September 4th, 2024

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  • I had an infected in-grown toenail when I was 13-15.

    The treatment is too cut the nail lenghtwise to the root and get rid of that excess root.

    First try the anaesthetics didn’t bite because of the infection. The doctor didn’t believe me until she was at the root. Two weeks of antibiotics and she tried again.

    Second time anaesthetics worked. The doctor tried to get rid of the root with lye. The only thing I felt was my foot going cold as she rinsed away the lye. It grew back in-grown.

    Next time was are a private practitioner. Similar procedure, anaesthetics, cut it lengthwise to the root. But instead of lye, he just scraped down the root with his scalpel. It’s been great for 30 years now.


  • As far as music goes it’s definitely easier to be blissfully ignorant now than it was in the age of MTV and broadcast radio. You get your curated stream of recommendations with no reason to highlight what doesn’t fit there.

    I wouldn’t know of Grande had she not been hosting SNL. I don’t know who The Weekend are. I saw a post a while back about Drake’s security being dicks, and I thought Drake’s security was the name of a security company.

    I’ll excel at 90’s music trivia if it was on MTV. But now I’m set in my ways and only listen to HYPR demoscene radio. I excel at that niche genre now, too.





  • I usually don’t. But this year I have a new-to-me car that had a couple of cross-threaded wheelbolts. Changing the whole hub is pricy and the shop refused to replace just the bolt. I managed to re-thread the other.

    Anywho, most lug nuts were really on there, so I gave them a dab of marine grease. I always re-tighten at 1, 100 and 1000km and before any longer trip. But they haven’t moved at all since the 1km re-tightening.


  • My toddler is thriving in pre-school. We can’t teach her how to be independent and socialise with other kids at home.

    I can see a life situation where we would homeschool for a limited time. I’d expect both teaching parent and kid to do standardised testing to make sure the education is up to the national curriculum.

    Home schooling should be be an excuse to not school, which it seems to be in some parts of the world.