Minor things that please you

[SEWIGuy]

My coffee tasted really good this morning.

[JayhawkCO]

I'm not "Max", so don't run a ton, most of the time just a couple miles at a time, and the most I'd ever run in one shot was a 5k. But yesterday I went out for a run, decided to drop my pace just a little bit and ended up running five miles without stopping, and probably could have kept going if not for a hot spot/blister that I felt forming. A good sign for my upcoming climb.

[Max Rockatansky]

Speaking of 5Ks, someone at work this week was wearing a shirt from the event (a 5k mud run) I finished first in three years ago.

[kernals12]

They sure did love the Ford Panther Body cars and W Body cars from GM.

Awkwardly, they loved GM's front drive x-bodies.

[kphoger]

Deglazing a pan with a splash of wine.  There's nothing more satisfying in the kitchen than being able to easily scrape up all that fond, or the smell that comes up from the sautéed garlic when it happens.

[Max Rockatansky]

This response to PETA trying to run a "go vegan" protest at a BBQ restaurant in Bakersfield.

https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california/bakersfield-barbecue-company-peta-protest/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4Iph2vHd0kK1LBxqGoQ2HkQ-Jk2_CDLRb0jS55a3_A8ZhKsA5TA10s8F0J2w_aem_yvsdGVXfql0aUeECT7S3Ww

[1995hoo]

Customer service is not totally dead!

On Friday we had ordered a medication for our cat and we used the pharmacy the vet recommended. As you may have seen in another thread, her condition declined very quickly over the weekend and we wound up having her put down on Tuesday morning. Once we had made that decision, we called the pharmacy to ask whether it was too late to cancel the order because we could no longer use it. They said they had already compounded and packed it for shipping. But—and this is what really surprised me—they said they would refund our money and we could just donate the medication to the vet's office (who confirmed they will accept it). The credit hit my card this morning. So I will certainly remember that and it's a reason to use that pharmacy in the future.

[JayhawkCO]

Customer service is not totally dead!

On Friday we had ordered a medication for our cat and we used the pharmacy the vet recommended. As you may have seen in another thread, her condition declined very quickly over the weekend and we wound up having her put down on Tuesday morning. Once we had made that decision, we called the pharmacy to ask whether it was too late to cancel the order because we could no longer use it. They said they had already compounded and packed it for shipping. But—and this is what really surprised me—they said they would refund our money and we could just donate the medication to the vet's office (who confirmed they will accept it). The credit hit my card this morning. So I will certainly remember that and it's a reason to use that pharmacy in the future.

Chewy is good like that too. Our previous cat had some health problems and the vet gave us three cans of special food to sample to see if the cat would like it. We gave him one, he ate it up no problem so I ordered a couple of cases from Chewy. Then the next day, when I gave him the food, he wouldn't touch it. I reached out to Chewy to see if I could cancel, and instead they just refunded me and told me to donate.

[1995hoo]

The vet's office sent us a really nice sympathy card signed by everyone there with longer notes from the doctors with whom we dealt the most often. Really nice gesture, although it also had us both bawling our eyes out before I started making dinner.

[freebrickproductions]

I'll post the video after I've gotten a chance to sleep, but yesterday I finally got to hear a Thunderbolt 1000 siren in service sounding off for a test! Even better, it was set on terminal/chopper level 1, which definitely ain't very common to see on Thunderbolt sirens like this. (Photo below is of the siren I recorded.)

Thunderbolt 1000 Siren, Memphis, TN by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[mgk920]

I'll post the video after I've gotten a chance to sleep, but yesterday I finally got to hear a Thunderbolt 1000 siren in service sounding off for a test! Even better, it was set on terminal/chopper level 1, which definitely ain't very common to see on Thunderbolt sirens like this. (Photo below is of the siren I recorded.)

Thunderbolt 1000 Siren, Memphis, TN by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

The Federal T-1000 Thunderbolt (with the 4/5 impeller) sirens that were here in Appleton scared the bejeevers out of me when I was very young, but now I realize what a wonderful sound it was that they had.  When they were wound up, THAT was a TORNADO WARNING!  Their 'weak spot' was that they used roots blowers to maintain internal air flow and they were thus too expensive and complicated to maintain.

Mike

[kphoger]

When I drop something, do that split-second attempt to catch it, and actually succeed!  Makes me feel like a ninja or something.

Or when I drop something in the kitchen, and it lands messy-side up, no cleaning required.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Scrolling the radio and hitting a favorite song.

[Molandfreak]

Silk's oatmeal cookie creamer!

[freebrickproductions]

As of yesterday afternoon, I have now recorded 1,700 different railroad crossings across the US!

[1995hoo]

In the "Minor things that bother you" thread, last month I mentioned the agony of having to put our cat down (certainly by no means a "minor thing" in my life). So in this thread, I will post a photo of her successor. The same lady who introduced us to our previous cat told us about her. We went to meet her and just knew instantly. We adopted her over Memorial Day weekend and she's settling in quite nicely.

[formulanone]

In the "Minor things that bother you" thread, last month I mentioned the agony of having to put our cat down (certainly by no means a "minor thing" in my life). So in this thread, I will post a photo of her successor. The same lady who introduced us to our previous cat told us about her. We went to meet her and just knew instantly. We adopted her over Memorial Day weekend and she's settling in quite nicely.

In the spirit of this thread and your post, I do like when someone says "careful, my cat doesn't like people" and it eventually allows itself to be pet.

[1995hoo]

Heh. We will never say that. One of the things that stuck us was how she was instantly affectionate even when we first met her. I sat down in a chair and she came over and jumped right up into my lap. She's a rescue cat. Spent 16 months in an animal hospital at one point. One of our hockey ticket partners thinks that sort of cat is more affectionate because it knows you're providing it a real home. I have no idea whether that's true, though I'd like to believe it is.

[kernals12]

In the "Minor things that bother you" thread, last month I mentioned the agony of having to put our cat down (certainly by no means a "minor thing" in my life). So in this thread, I will post a photo of her successor. The same lady who introduced us to our previous cat told us about her. We went to meet her and just knew instantly. We adopted her over Memorial Day weekend and she's settling in quite nicely.

Sorry for your loss. But I'm glad you found another fur baby

In the "Minor things that bother you" thread, last month I mentioned the agony of having to put our cat down (certainly by no means a "minor thing" in my life). So in this thread, I will post a photo of her successor. The same lady who introduced us to our previous cat told us about her. We went to meet her and just knew instantly. We adopted her over Memorial Day weekend and she's settling in quite nicely.

In the spirit of this thread and your post, I do like when someone says "careful, my cat doesn't like people" and it eventually allows itself to be pet.

Cats are basically the same as autistic humans, they do not like things that interrupt their routine.

[Max Rockatansky]

So, the next time someone claims that I'm autistic simply because I like roads all I need to do as a counter is tell them I dislike routines?

[kphoger]

So, the next time someone claims that I'm autistic simply because I like roads all I need to do as a counter is tell them I dislike routines?

I've also had trouble getting cats to understand nonverbal communication, and their obsession with a predictable self-cleaning routing is noticeable...