Planning and fomenting a revolution to overthrow the fascist takeover of the US government.
Aren’t we all
I need to do dishes and make dinner, and I’m avoiding that by posting on lemmy.
Or another example, I’ve needed to replace my washing machine for a couple months now, but I’ve just been going to the laundromat and avoiding doing any research. I have no excuse for that one, I just need to get on it.
Don’t buy Samsung or LG, get Miele or Bosch
I’m going with a GE one, it had to be under 33.5" tall to fit so the options were a bit limited. I’m hoping it’ll be good lol
Fold the laundry. I hate doing it, but I also hate it being a mess.
So, nudity it is! Two birds, one stone and such.
Hi my husband, I didn’t know you had a lemmy account 😂
Ugh, laundry is just the worst. Lemme know if you ever find a folding alternative!
Um… hangers?.. thought we solved that one a while back
Filing my taxes.
Apart from work?
Colonoscopy.
You can poop in a bag and mail it instead now.
Those only detect actual cancer. Getting the butt probe can also find ulcers and pre-cancerous polyps.
Figure out what’s wrong with my car. Taking it to a shop is probably too expensive and figuring it out myself is too daunting of a task. It sometimes dies when I’m slowing to a stop, and I have to put it in park and restart it. Sometimes it’s hard to start and then the tachometer stays at zero even though the engine is running.
Had the same exact problem with my car. When I slowed down the car taking a turn or at a stop light it would lose power and shut off.
Chances are very good the throttle body just needs to be cleaned. This as I discovered is one of the most common causes of this problem.
Basically it’s the valve that opens and closes to feed air into the engine. When you press the accelerator the throttle body opens up and when you take your foot off of it it starts to close. After awhile, gunk blocks the edges of the opening so the engine doesn’t get enough air to make the little explosions that move the pistons.
Take off a few covers and detach a few hoses to get to the throttle body, spray throttle body cleaner and scrub the edges of the throttle body clean and the car was good as new.
You can do this yourself for the cost of a can of throttle body cleaner and some basic tools like old toothbrushes/rags, channel lock pliers, socket wrenches and screwdrivers. Even if you don’t have the tools you can borrow some for free at your local O’Reilly, AutoZone, or whatever car parts shop you got in your area. Just tell them what you need, leave your credit card with them and they’ll return it to you when you’re done with the tools.
Search YouTube for “clean throttle body <insert year model make of your car>” and you will find a ton of videos showing you step by step how to do it.
Just an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDnb8luAkQw
I’m a guy that doesn’t even know how to change my own oil and I was able to do it in about an hour my first time after getting the supplies and watching the video along the way.
Don’t be intimidated this stuff is waaaaay easier to do than you might think and it’ll save you a huge wad of dough and give you peace of mind :o
I’d add some fuel injector cleaner. The fuel injectors might be gummed up and when it gets to low rpm it starves the engine of fuel.
I had something intermittent like this, and it turned out that I had a cracked distributor cap. It turned out to be a stupidly easy repair, and not a very expensive part.
Edit: this was a car as ancient as I am. I’m not sure modern cars even have that part, anymore.
Man if I start listing them I’ll go over lemmy’s word limit
PTA stuff. I thought I had the time, but the job changed, the kids became more maintenance, and fuck 47.
I need to take my clothes out of the washing machine and dryer but my bed is so comfy.
Building my home server. I have all the parts but the sheer amount of different ways to set it up and all the things I need to learn to keep it safe. Especially now that all that (waves hand around) is happening, it’s so important I get on it. It kinda makes me want to cry. My brain isn’t as sharp now that menopause has hit, remembering things is really hard. Though my dr got me on a different regime of my adhd meds so hopefully that will help. Anyways, sorry for the ramble.
*I have looked at the self hosted and privacy communities, I think I’m going to go with Yunohost. It’s the internet part I’m worried about more.
Learning about Flink (the stream processor used in system design). I promised my club I would be doing a deep dive on it this Friday but…
I really need to clean my apartment, it’s gotten pretty messy.
Reno the place I just bought. I move in in 5ish weeks. Need to finish the ceiling, redo the floors, reno the bathroom and kitchen space.
Its only ~500sqft but I’ve zero reno experience really
Making dinner
