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I got fed up with actual coffee pots after my last Mr. Coffee experience.
I get the 5 cup ones and the last machine had some kinda weird problem with the water uptake thingy in the tank.
The multi-use of an electric kettle makes more sense for my personal needs.
I love boiling up water for oatmeal.
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(04-19-2023, 03:45 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: The plain 'lightly salted' are my fave.
Yeah, I think those are the best. I've tried some of the other flavors, and it's just too much flavoring. I like the natural pea taste.
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Yeah they go mthrfkn ham on the seasonings.
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Mr. Coffee made one that worked like a Bunn machine in the early 2000s. My roommate at the time had one. I didn't see one on Amazon, so I'm getting the cheapest one Bunn makes.
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Let's be real...
Any coffee pot made 20+ years ago would still be functioning with zero problems today.
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Even the cheap Bunns only last about five or six years nowadays. You have to get a commercial model if you want it to last forever. I don't need that big of a machine hogging counter space, even if I had the money to blow on one.
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I think I can make it last a bit longer if I only put distilled water in it. Mineral scale seems to be the downfall of machines like that.
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There's almost certainly someone at the Chinese factory who speaks English better than the guy who writes the marketing material. Here's how one manufacturer describes a whistling tea kettle.
When the water boils, the steam punches the music sheet and sends out the music reminder
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I wonder if I'll have to buy a box of music sheets and replace them each time I use the kettle. 
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Reminds me of the mysterious, invisible player piano on Gunsmoke...
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When I was a kid, the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in our town had a player piano with some automated drums and other instruments behind a big glass panel at the bottom. My mom called it a nickelodeon.
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Wow, that is so fucking cool.
Sweet fucking America, man.
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*stares at 3 boxes of Triscuits*
I shall not be tempted.
It's time to make dinner!
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So I went to Wally World today.
I totally forgot to look for Harvest Snaps and baked fruit chips. I got busy looking for other stuff, and lost the plot.
I did get like nine different kinds of Great Value tea and other flavor packets for bottled water. I've only tried the iced tea and peach tea so far. They're pretty decent. The peach tea is decaffeinated, which doesn't make sense because they add caffeine to some of the fruit flavor packets.
I also got this cute little .45 fluid ounce bottle of tea tree oil with an eye dropper cap.
Girl, dat shit is loud as fuck. Louder than Pine-Sol. I'm talking about the eye-watering Pine-Sol yer grandmaw used, not the delicately scented stuff that never even sniffed a pine needle.
I rubbed some on my scalp. Oh, I got the tingles, all right. The only other time I used tea tree oil was years ago when the shampoo girl at the salon put it on my head and shoulders that time when I got my hair done in corn rolls. She wore a flimsy sundress or something or another, and minced around the joint all sexy-like, and just made me squirm a-watching her. Anyway, I don't remember that tea tree oil being as loud as this one right here. Maybe I should mix some with unscented body wash instead of putting it on straight from the bottle.
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(04-20-2023, 04:55 PM)user328 Wrote: I totally forgot to look for Harvest Snaps and baked fruit chips. I got busy looking for other stuff, and lost the plot.
What is it with WalMart? You hear this from EVERYONE.
As soon as you walk in the place, you totally forget WTF you came for.
Gotta have a list. It's indispensable.
(04-20-2023, 04:55 PM)user328 Wrote: that time when I got my hair done in corn rolls
Pics or GTFO.
You gotta dilute the tea tree oil either with a carrier oil (olive oil etc.) or just put it in a mister bottle with water.
Fingertips and olive oil dilute would be the way to do it, but you really gotta make sure you cover your whole scalp.
Obviously your hair will be mega greasy but...
Rinse it really well just with water next time you shower and that shit will be sooo soft and shiny.
I have my hair care routine perfected to a fine art these days...
Took me like ~12 years of experimentation on and off over the years to FINALLY figure out what really works.
I'm trying to grow out the longest hair I can possibly achieve...
Apparently hair growth cycles go from between 3-8 years, 6 years being the average for most people.
That's the point when your hair stops growing and begins the shedding phase.
All hairs on your head are at some different point of this ~6 year process all the time.
So that means that depending on your genetics, level of care, and how long your growth cycle is...
Your hair can "only get so long" before it reaches terminal length.
Anyway this long hair quest is my reason for really sticking to the process that I've developed for maximum hair hydration and protection of the length, health, etc.
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From what I recall of my past long hair situations...
Seems like my own terminal/max hair length is around 30 inches, which comes to right at the bottom (or middle??) of my hip bone.
I've read around forums where chicks are mega obsessed with the long hair, and a lot of times I see them measuring length and cheating with the taper...
Tapers don't fucking count. It needs to be cut straight across. They think holding onto that sad little taper makes their hair look "longer" but it genuinely does not.
The blunt straight across cut at the bottom gives the appearance of fullness which is much more important than whatever additional length you get from a taper.
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(04-20-2023, 05:27 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: Seems like my own terminal/max hair length is around 30 inches, which comes to right at the bottom (or middle??) of my hip bone.
Yeah, I dunno. Buttcrack length hair. Top 'o the crack to ya.
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I had a dream of it, that's why I'm doing this. It was this dream where I had hair longer than that and it was like... I dunno, super cool. I woke up and I was like, yup, I'm doing that. According to my calculations, it's probably about ~2 years from reaching my max length, but I could have done the measuring/math wrong. We'll see.
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(04-20-2023, 05:23 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: What is it with WalMart? You hear this from EVERYONE.
As soon as you walk in the place, you totally forget WTF you came for.
It's because you have to wade through a billion and one products to find the one you want. That tiny bottle of tea tree oil was lost in an ocean of irrelevant bullshit.
(04-20-2023, 05:23 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: Pics or GTFO.
It was a disaster. My hair gets nappy when it's long, so I figured I'd try dreadlocks.
Well, it decided not to nap when I wanted it to. Go figure. The braids fell within a week or two, and I ended up with this lopsided quasi Princess Leia bun mess on my head. I said fuck it and had it chopped off.
(04-20-2023, 05:23 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: Your hair can "only get so long" before it reaches terminal length.
My hair is too short to comb now. I buzz my head with electric shears every month or so.
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