Good Things Friday (229) and Link Love
July 14, 2023
1. I finished my backpack repair!! The resurrection of a beloved backpack is deeply satisfying. It’s icing on the cake that it only cost an additional $3 in sewing needles on top of the other stuff I already had (thread, spare fabric, old lanyards, a sewing machine that works).
2. The ant bait recommendations worked wonderfully. I think it’s ok to draw a line under the kitchen invasion, that seems to be over. I baited our bathrooms that were still receiving several visitors a day. It’s odd though, they aren’t behaving as I’d grown to expect. Usually you see several scouts and then a full scale incursion hits the next couple of days. They sent scouts daily for weeks without ever fully committing so I don’t understand what’s happening. I wonder if they have a whole other strategy I don’t understand.
Thanks to random reactions to people on Twitter, we are now transfixed by this YouTube channel Casual Geographic (overgrown swamp donkey 🤣)
I know some really greasy dentists
I’m less and less enthused about the idea of air travel in this timeline. It’s too bad, we used to enjoy it. 3 TSA Officers Arrested For Stealing From Passengers – Here’s How To Protect Your Valuables at Security Checkpoints
I know nothing about Tom Waits but this interview is amazing: Play It Like Your Hair’s On Fire
Tom Waits is a cool and interesting guy – thanks for the link to the article! He played the mad scientist guy in Mystery Men, and pops up in bit parts every so often.
Congrats on the backpack repair!
I feel like I need to read up more on him now, that first article was a trip 🙂
And thanks!
I replaced the zipper on an otherwise great backpack years ago and we use it for hiking and picnics and going to the gym now! Congrats on achieving your repair.
I fixed my phone case with sugru this week but it’s mostly because I’m really cheap.
Yay! Thanks, I’m still pretty pleased. This is the first I’ve heard of sugru, and I’m going to try to remember to use it the next time I need to repair things. I don’t mind being really cheap when the effort required isn’t terribly high and/or the process is novel enough to make it interesting.