I went to a state school and graduated in 01 (UConn). I still owe a little less than $3,000 in loans. No way I would have gone to college if it cost what it does today. 15 years ago it was $10,500 to $11,500 for the year. Now it would cost me more than $25,000 a year.
My school swung a lot harder towards the LGBT spectrum while I was there because it did not occur to them that they would have to end up siding with the Muslims a few years later. Liberalism is weird.
We've lived in this house for two years. When we moved in we didn't have any barstools for the kitchen island and my sister-in-law donated a couple of old ones they had. Two years later we're still using these barstools that are too tall for our counter. The only reason I'm thinking about this right now and looking online for barstools of the appropriate height is because I'm currently sitting at the island on one of the previously mentioned barstools and my back hurts. I suck at adulting.
Barstools that are too tall are a lot easier to fix than too short. Can't you just saw the legs off and keep them?
I bought new break pads/rotors for my car like 7 months ago now. I changed out the front two because the pads had worn down to the metal and were making a horrible crunchy noise when I breaked. Still haven't changed out my rear ones. I got a flat a month and a half ago and still have the full sized spare on it, even though it doesn't fit my rear wheel and is throwing my alignment way off. My apathy for mundane adult life knows no bounds.
Same, and $25K a year is about what it cost me to go to the Storrs campus and I graduated in '09. I went for a 5th year and then got a masters degree after that, so thats on me though.
They're not very good barstools, I sort of hate them. The fact that they're too tall is just the breaking point. I'm sure it will be another two years before I replace them though.
"Oh, no, sister-in-law. It's not that I am unappreciative of you donating them. It's just they were a little too tall, so I decided to cut them down. I cut a little more than I was expecting and THAT's why they became firewood." If only there were some sort of online-type ordering establishment that could, say, ship barstools directly to your house, to make them easy to replace. Are they plain stools, that you could just replace the slip cover after you cut down the legs? Or, are they like captain swivel deals that belonged in Danforth James Ellington, III's study and are outdated? When you think of solving your barstool issues, TiB is the place to discuss. Nett could build you some new stools, probably. And, if Roxanne stops by, she could sew you some covers. Although, she may be busy altering her Catwoman outfit for Dixie's new porn shoot.
Before we close this out, can I just say, one more time... Watch and listen, you fucks. It gets better every year.
And one of my fears about the midwest is coming true. Its going to be cloudy and somewhat miserable light cold rain for the next few days. I don't miss Denver as a city, I miss Colorado as a state. Amazing weather, tons of outdoor things, amazing scenery of course.
Yeah Im really glad I got my deer this weekend as gun week would have been grey and miserable. I may still go out Saturday and Sunday.
To hell with that, I'd much rather hunt in 15 degrees and snow over 33 and rainy. Especially deer hunting.
So here I am building tree stools, and shit like this is going on around the world: Was just moved into place yesterday... pretty damn cool.
Homer Simpson would be proud. That is cool, and I have something in common with that team, since I also have an erection area. I think it means something different, though.
The effort is super impressive, but in terms of engineering, how hard is it to build a concrete arch? Didn't the Romans manage that a few thousand years ago?