Got 14 meeting invites about 10 minutes after posting this. fml…
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Oh look, a meeting invite.
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HUGE transaction utility- last week, the school convenience store posted a price increase on my favorite bars from 2.10 to 2.99. I have a ridiculous amount of flex dollars to use up so I bought a box of 15- for 32.33
We ALL used to have that thermostat. Now SOME OF US are the privileged upper class while others of us are stuck working out in 1980. Enjoy your gold-plated chairs, Mr. Trump!
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Lol … we’d both have the same thermostats if MassSave didn’t offer a 50% discount on the Nests
I’ve NEVER had that thermostat. I grew up with this bad boy and even had it in my first “adult” house.
I’m taking this to Flame Free Confessions, @polo77j and @Frank_C. We’ll see what the OG’s have to say about your sissy thermostats and…what is that, @Frank_C? It’s a nice old school thermostat, but what, a 66 degree room?
SAD.
P.S. Husband is out of town. I’ve been drinking with best friend. Well, minimally with her, but then I had another glass when I got home (two? maybe two more) and loud-music-cleaned the house.
Happy about that!
But then I drunk-posted. We’ll see in the morning how I feel about that.
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The first thing I thought of when I saw it. Classic subtle piece of Americana, and probably the only thing in my house as a kid that didn’t get shot with a BB gun.
That’s just an internet photo. My current house is slightly more advanced, but not by much.
I know, I was just giving you a hard time.
Old/cheap doesn’t mean dysfunctional. The cheap washers and dryers in my college dorm literally work better than the fancy, VERY overpriced ones at my apartment in Shanghai
The hot water also heats up a good 2 minutes faster.
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Jokes on you guys, when Skynet takes over I’ll still have heat and my thermostat won’t try and kill me. Alexa, on the other hand, I got my eye on that bitch…
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I don’t use any voice activated stuff, but I’m sure they’re still listening to me. Occasionally I’ll use the microphone option to search for a movie on the Fire Stick. It stores all of that stuff.
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We get stuff happening on our Netflix and through the isp all the time now. My wife Really noticed it a few times when it wasn’t even subtle at all.
Alexa can be creepy AF. She mutters sometimes! More than once I’ve thought the only thing for it is to bury her in the backyard. Also there’s the recording of what may or may not be anarchy talk at my house. I encourage such talk to be conducted in pig Latin, but people get heated, and next thing you know they’re (he’s) right out with it in regular English. Although his regular English is in pretty thick Boston accent, so voice recognition has trouble sometimes. (Haha, the night we had friends over and he was asking Google for the official rules to darts. “Dahts. Dahts. DAHTS.”)
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His name doesn’t happen to be Donny does it?
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He really does sound like that, lol.
On a related note, the Wahlberg family makes me happy. I just watched a sappy foster parent movie with Mark in it.
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My wife has Alexa in her home office. She speaks fluent Hebrew, but typically speaks English among friends/family. She’s creeped out by Alexa, as well, and now favors muttered Hebrew around it.
Apparently, there are no plans for Alexa to understand Hebrew, which I consider a good thing.
I think the current list is German, Japanese, Spanish, and English.
In fact, Amazon won’t let Alexa-powered products be used in Israel. Not sure why, even in English. I am sure it is politics, though. Or maybe the Mossad doesn’t want the competition.