TMoney

Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall Yeah.... I'm surprised this is as good as it is. Travis Barker produced it and you can really hear that Blink-182 influence. Some of these tracks are pretty slick.

@Hopstretch looks like our girl was on Seth Meyers last night!

Happy birthday, gentlemen!

I'm really sad the see the devastation these latest Napa and Sonoma County fires are causing. A lot of places I know are getting hit and I hope all the people made it out ok.

I've been digging my teeth into Wasteland 3 and having an amazing time. A modern take on an old school-style RPG in the vein of the old Fallouts and Baldur's Gate games set in post-apocalyptic Colorado. I'm about 10-15 hours in. Highly recommended, and it is on Games Pass so free to check it out if you are already a subscriber.

Happy birthday, Jim!

The one thing I'd chime in with that differs from the advice offered so far is that, having just upgraded to 4k myself a few weeks ago, 4k at 200% scaling in windows looks amazing! Text is razor sharp in office apps, and I'm sure it wouldn't hurt in photo/video apps either. Running a 4k laptop at native resolution is insane, but doing 200% scaling is really nice. Everything is the same size as a "normal" 1080p screen, it just looks better and is rendered with twice the pixels. Good luck with the purchase!

I'm not an EDM guy normally, but this is pretty good. Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks

Condolences, Jose and Jeff.

RIP, Justice Ginsberg. One of my favorite law school professors was best friends with her husband, Marty. Both of the Ginsbergs sounded like amazing people. A trailblazing jurist who did things the right way. She will be missed.

Happy birthday, Andrew!

Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

I was able to open the windows last night and air my place out. Today there is <100AQI air all over the bay area. It feels amazing to be able to spend time outside and see blue sky for the first time in a week.

One more funny tidbit I learned while talking to a co-worker today: if you really love a hotel chain's bed, say the Marriott, Ritz, Four Seasons, etc. all of them are happy to sell their exact bed setups to you online. I don't travel enough (especially this year) to really have any particular affinity, but for the the gentleman or lady who can't get over how well they slept on a work trip or vacation then you can have that experience at home. I thought that was kind of cool.

Happy birthday, John!

Last weekend was the bed, this weekend is the linens. I did a dumb thing and went to the fancy bedding store and tried stuff a bunch of stuff blind without knowing what it cost. Ouch. This is head-case.

The ash "snowning" from the skies has you feeling festive? 🙃

Hail to the chief.

Yeah, this is so fucking weird. It is as dark here as 45 minutes or so after sunset... only it is 10:30AM.

Might want to shut your windows and doors, bay area friends!

Did I miss the memo? Did we somehow run afoul of the curse of the pharaohs or trigger the plagues of Egypt? The sky here is orange this morning. I've never seen anything like this. It looks like planet Arrakis from Dune. The spice must flow!

Yeah. Such a personal taste thing but the latex just felt like the correct choice for me right away.

Well, that ended up being a lot less painful than I thought. I started the day thinking I was going to buy memory foam but I ended up hating them. I bought the Natural Mattress Stretch recommended. The latex just felt right immediately compared to the 7-8 different brands/types I tried. It was towards the reasonable end of what I had budgeted for too so that didn’t hurt either. Shout out to the tall man. I would never have heard of the company/brand if you hadn’t brought it up in this thread. I also decided to make the switch from queen to cal king. I’ve had a queen since I first started grad school 13 years ago and while that size is fine the extra foot of width in the Cal King will have plenty of space for a future Mrs. TMoney.

Bumping this thread. I'm going out mattress shopping today and found it very useful for ideas of stuff to try out. Thanks everyone. I've slept like crap for a month so I'm hoping a new mattress is part of the solution. Brands I'm looking to try today: Natural Mattress, Duxiana, Aireloom, King Koil, Tempur Pedic, Intellibed. Thankfully almost all of them have showrooms/retailers close to me in San Rafael.

Happy 120th(!?) birthday!