The case of the missing blankets

@tightwad They’re still figuring out who to fire.

@dave It’s Monday

@arfdawg You got the email, right?

@dave Yes got the email last night, thanks

But, @dave! Emails are no fun for the rest of us curious about the juicy details!

@InnocuousFarmer did you throw it all out yet?

@RiotDemon what, and waste perfectly good bad candy?

Maybe that’s fine for you hoidytoidy bourgeoise. I’m going to sit down and eat it whether I like it or not. Or package it in ziplocks and distribute it to confused family members. So many uses for uh…

I’ll at least wait till it is a little bit less chewy.

@InnocuousFarmer I did that with some sort of snack bag I got from Trader Joes once that sounded great, but just had way too many competing flavors going on. I hated them, always referred to them
as “garbage nuts”, and ate the whole bag over a couple months.

@InnocuousFarmer I wonder if the squirrels would eat it.

@RiotDemon you think maybe the squirrels would not eat it? It’s kind of seed-like… I bet they’d go for it.

@InnocuousFarmer I don’t know. Not all animals like sugar. I don’t have any candy corn to test it.

Squirrels don’t eat candy. They don’t really go for anything that’s too squishy, far as I can tell. They leave tomatoes alone (thank goodness), and even string beans.

They go for things like walnuts, and acorns from the trees when they start seeding. They love planting walnuts in my yard. I don’t appreciate it as much as you’d think, since I believe the two walnut trees already in the neighborhood are two too many.

Squirrels are also wicked, and eat bird eggs if they get the chance. I like birds a whole lot more than I do squirrels.

@Shrdlu Not the ones around my yard! Had to stop planting tomatoes in the garden as every time a tomato would start to ripen those bastards would grab it, leaving the 1/2 eaten remains in the yard. This summer I was left with 1 potted cherry tomato plant on my deck after 2 years of getting 4 tomatoes combined from the plants.

I also have stopped buying pumpkins for decoration as they eat them pretty much right away even when placed directly outside my front door on my front porch.

The best is the one that decided the pillow on my outdoor couch looked tasty, tore it to hell looking for god knows what! I really have grown to hate those furry rats!

@Shrdlu I like squirrels, especially in the spring when all the boys engage in squirrel-y fisticuffs whenever a comely girl-squirrels wanders across the branch from them. It’s also entertaining to watch them attempt to attack the bird feeder, which is staunchly defended by some really large birds. I think they may be pelicans, as we’re only about 20 miles from the ocean.

My parents used to feed the little beggars (buggers?) Ritz crackers with a little peanut butter. The beggars held them like giant pizzas while they snarfed it all down amazingly quickly. One day my mom and I made a trail of Ritz chunks from the front door waay into the house, and her favorite little guy just kept eating and eating and walking farther and farther away from the door. It soon dawned on us that if anything should spook the little wretch we might have a wilder scene on our hands than we’d originally anticipated. This led to more Ritz chunks on a door-ward path.

@magic_cave great story.

@InnocuousFarmer except if you want a solution likely you will need to fill out a support request so you get on the list to get more sent or a credit…

@Raider I hate squirrels. I’d shoot them, but I no longer have a gun to do it with. My fingers can’t be trusted to properly pull the trigger, and my eyes aren’t great either. On the other hand, I’m still excellent with my machete.

Also, long time no see. How’ve you been?

@Shrdlu Life’s going pretty well. After this semester I will be 1/2 complete with my grad school program, 2 semesters left of classes and then 1 of fieldwork/certs. Between classwork, school obligations and work I have little time to spare but try to make the most of it. Just passed 2 years with my “travel companion”, starting to look like this one might actually stick.

Hope all is well in your corner of the world!

@eonfifty only if the dust is invisible

@eonfifty Patagonian plastic parasites have been reported to have altered their food preferences over the last 40 years or so. They now will forage upon such things as polyester-blend fabrics instead of eating a their original very limited diet of toothbrush handles, the right front quarter-panels of some motor vehicles, and various odds and ends found in most kitchens. They don’t leave much dust behind, either. Might be worth talking to some of the entomologists who’ve studied them.

/image entomologists larson

@magic_cave

@rtjhnstn only if you planned to blanket your neighborhood with fidget spinners

@rtjhnstn how much excess?

@RiotDemon Do you need more for the plinko?

@duodec I think 50 will be more than enough! I won’t be making one as big as the actual plinko board.

@RiotDemon
:grumble:

@therealjrn I’m sorry. I don’t have the money or space for that gigantic thing.

@RiotDemon 50 won’t be enough for much of a size of plinko board

@tightwad 4 rows wide by 12 tall. Should be probably triple that. Maybe 10 rows wide by 20 tall?

@ruouttaurmind Our kids Destination Imagination team made one once using a 4x4 sheet of peg board with pencils for the pegs and golfballs were rolled down. I would go for a higher height to width ratio.

@tightwad Perhaps @RiotDemon will be the next one featured like this: https://www.littlethings.com/diy-plinko-board-price-is-right/

@rtjhnstn You reminded me of an award winning short story called Or All the Seas with Oysters. For the curious or erudite, it can be read here. “Struck by the fact that there are never enough pins and always too many coat-hangers, a bicycle shop owner begins to speculate on the possible parallels between natural and man-made objects.”

@mflassy I feel like they should get their shit together. Maybe 1 deal a day is too much for them to handle. #dumpmorningsave

@medz Woot vs. Meh vs. MorningSave:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today 5-y&q=meh.com,morningsave.com

@narfcake exactly. They’re paying a premium to advertise on old lady TV shows and the buyers/support/warehouse can’t keep up. Meh sales are given no priority. Kickstarter campaign said nothing about sister site that would divert all resources from the classic deal a day site.

@medz they’re probably not paying at all to advertise on old lady shows (other than a cut of sales and possibly a percentage of dignity, the former coming out of higher margins), and there’s a strong chance it and less public efforts like checkout.org help keep the lights on and prices down over here for those of us in the fun audience.

I mean, today isn’t a good example of keeping prices down, but this is an experiment.

@medz Morningsave pays the bills so we can play over here and buy the occasional box of spinners. I won’t complain. But then again I didn’t order any blankets.

@sammydog01 I didn’t order any either, but that didn’t stop me from complaining.

@tightwad I believe we’ve finally shipped the extra blankets out today. Sorry about this mix-up. Did you get the email we sent out on the 30th?

@dave Thanks, I did get the original email but more than the suggest “Couple days” had passed so I grew concerned (and cold). Thanks for the update!

@dave just to verify, if I ordered 2 bundles I should be getting 4 missing blankets soon? Will some tracking information be sent out with this 2nd shipment of blankets?

@tightwad Damn interns.

@sammydog01 Oh no, it wasn’t the interns. It was Dave Grohl. Saw him hacking our system out in the warehouse. Apparently the Foo Fighters aren’t enough anymore and he’s seeking the thrills of e-commerce sabotage.