Fist bumping DJ Shawna makes Elicia jealous!
Catching Covid is absolutely a 1-star experience.
The covid virus is a force to be reckoned with.
Evie handled it much better than I did.
RIP Ingenuity - 72 flights over two years is quite the accomplishment on another planet.
Costco sells The Prisoner wine for $54/bottle! Not too bad!
The water in and around the Dulles Airport is blisteringly hot, immediately.
The Smithsonian Postal Museum has a dedicated postcard writing area, with free postcards. These are my people!!
There is a limit of 41 conservation points available in Ark Nova.
Furniture is a very hot commodity on Facebook marketplace.
Rocking Roller Coaster and Test Track opened in the same year.
Evie enjoys the butterfly exhibit at the MPM a lot more than the African exhibit.
Her favorite? The Hop.
If you were holding on to the side of the ISS and threw a ball as hard as you can straight down towards earth, it will hit you on the head one orbit later.
I’ll never look at the toddler play place in MKE terminal D the same way again.
On the Nissan Rogue we rented in Tampa, the windshield washer fluid now comes from inside the wiper blade itself… seems like an expensive and over complicated solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Foreshadowing..
Jupiter has a mass more than two and a half times that of all of the other planets combined, and slightly less than 1/1000th the mass of the sun.
Evie is a very good traveler, and sympathetic cryer.
I am very bad at packing my stuff when on family vacations!
Jupiter was the first planet to form, only 1 million years after our suns formation. As it formed it migrated from 3.5 AU to its current location 5.2 AU from the sun, allowing the terrestrial planets to form out of the remaining rubble.
The development of a toddlers mind can happen so fast. She went from coloring everywhere to following and staying inside the lines in a weeks time or so.
Ganymede has an ocean that is 60 miles deep. Earth’s deepest ocean is only 7 miles deep.
Hanson is still around.
Merry has never heard the phrase “starve a cold, feed a fever”
Looks like the great kitchen renovation is happening this year!
The boiler expansion tank is another item on the very long list of things our home inspector missed during the pre buy.
Sweating a pipe vertically isn’t nearly as hard with good flux as it is with expired flux.
Flux expires. There’s not a printed date, but it seems to just cease to work.
Who would have thought people would buy your old cabinets?’
Shopping for flooring is tough! It’s one of those things that you just know it when you see it.
Trip #2 of the year, roadtrip to Indianapolis for the Great American Solar Eclipse!
Who would have thought the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in would have rooms two nights before the eclipse at one of the lowest cost in points per night totals I’ve yet to see.
My two amazing travel companions made it such a great experience.
It’s very easy to imagine why ancient peoples would have thought the world was ending during an eclipse.
If you make the mistake of using non-kid toothpaste with Evie one time, she will not let you forget it the rest of the week.
My “complicated” is Trish’s easy, and my “easy” is Trish’s complicated when it comes to electrical projects.
I wish we could put glass in the ceiling so that the new header beam could get the appreciation it deserves.
If the building inspector doesn’t look up, then stop asking questions!!
Amazon does not sell Apple HomePods.
1.75 quarts is 7 cups.
Fred the Swede is the backup drummer for the Horne Section.
The worst possible time for car problems? During a kitchen renovation.
Worst possible thing to go on a Nissan Altima? Torque Converter.
Remember that expensive Nissan Rogue feature from a few lessons back? Yeah… we own one of those now.
It pays to keep calling different “cash for clunkers” type of businesses… about $400 to be exact.
Philly Jawn
Less than a day after the feather finish was installed to level the floor, it had a big ‘ol crack in it. Houses are a lot more dynamic than they appear day to day.
It turns out that drywall cracks are very repairable in the ceiling! (bum bum bum. Foreshadowing)
After a hiatus of at least one year, the country plumbing sign is back!
A five gallon bucket of paint is called a “Fiver”
Jerry Springer was born in London, was the mayor of Cincinnati for a few years, and died.
Porcelain is great once installed, but takes a long time to fabricate properly.
There is only one Bucks player older than me…
He is two months older.
Merry’s eye for design is really impressive!
On my little note that I use to jot down items for this list to add officially down the road, I have noted down “Rocket Salad”. There is no context, nor any recollection of what was special about this rocket salad.
Merry remembered! It has to do with the Rocket in your Pocket task from taskmaster. Nice work Cakesie.
The standard for USB-C was published in 2014. It only took 10 years for me to convert all of my daily driver devices over to it.
Dog ticks are a real type of tick.
Evie was much more excited about sitting on the roof of my car than she was about the Northern Lights, but that memory will last a long time!
The lights were so much brighter than I was expecting them to be.
SpaceX caught their rocket! First try!
There is so much more to watch in person at Lambeau than just the game! Secondly, 75 can feel like 90!
American Airlines also has Biscoff cookies.
Our new iPhone 15 Pro can send messages via Satellite for free in case no reception/wifi is available. For free!
Geese don’t poop inflight.
No more “Strafing run!” calls I guess.
Stella really does not like geese. “Not nice!”
Porcelain is a very difficult type of countertop to load into a truck.
Don’t shut the flue when there are still coals that are warm.
That CO2 detector died a noble death.
The on-ramps in Dallas are wider than our interstate highways!
The roads are incredibly bumpy too! The rental would have gone airborne if I follow the speed limit. No joke.
There is a flight safety instructor in existence that believe’s it’s acceptable to shut down the sim with 48 minutes remaining in our paid for and allocated time.
2024 was a record year for Broadway shows attended: 3! Six, Back to the Future, the Musical and The Play that goes Wrong.
The New York Museum of Natural History does not have postcards, but they do have the Sterling Hill Slab and some incredible meteoroids.
Flames are hollow.
Cast iron fittings in a sanitary stack are mated with horse hair and melted lead to this very day.
The Bare Naked Ladies wrote the intro to the Big Bang Theory.
The Appalachian mountains are older than Saturns rings.
Bangladesh has a lot of aviation related stamps.
Not peeing in a toilet with a flashing light will *trimp riding Thomas the train.
My very first roll in Dungeons and Dragons was a Natural 20!
Wicked’s marketing on the platforms I frequent is so overbearing that it’s having the reverse effect that these millions of marketing dollars are trying to achieve.
And that’s coming from someone who really enjoys musicals!
2024 is the year if many things… dust… not knowing where X from the kitchen is… and broken Christmas lights.
I’m not sure if Notion was discovered this year or last, but it definitely deserves to be on this list.
Pete Holmes is a horrible interviewer.
Dave, Chuck and Andrea do not appreciate the best type of chocolate.
And just because of that… I’m going to burn another line.
Chi-Chi’s was founded in Green Bay by a former Packer player, the last restaurant closed its doors 20 years ago.
Don’t skimp out, get the expensive caulk.
Doing the right thing is so much easier when you are dealing with a good person.
Of course the water heater dies on Christmas Eve!
If you don’t have hot water pressure, the shower won’t work, even just the cold water.
There are so many things that get taken for granted on a daily basis…
Kitchen cabinets, hot water, patient wife, torque converters, healthy kid - the list goes on and on.
There is a market for fake foreign stamps on Amazon.
So. Much. Poop.
It was a close game, and the Generals kept it tight the entire time, but the Globetrotters pulled through for another win. Happy New Year everyone!