"I went to Target today and they finally had a couple of new DC Multiverse figures: a Cassandra Cain Batgirl and the Injustice Society's The Rival (a repainted Jay Garrick). But when I went up to pay for them, I was told that they shouldn't have been…"
"Not so! We got a new toilet last year, and the new design is somewhat elongated. A traditional plunger won't even work (should one be needed); we had to buy a new model. More recently, I had to replace the inner working of the toilet in our guest…"
"We recently remodeled our two bathrooms (which is why I'm not retired), stripping both rooms back to the studs and building back up with 21st century everything. What was replaced was tile and color and design (and hidden mold) from when the house…"
"We recently had to replace a toilet very like the one shown when the cistern cracked and started to leak. If only I'd seen this idea before I took the old unit to the local tip..."
"The Sultana remains the largest maritime disaster in U.S. history, and yet almost nobody knows anything about it. It's a pretty big deal in my neck of the woods, with lots of information in the Memphis Room of the central library. They're turning an…"
"This morning I read a comic book that had a panel of a man sitting on a park bench and reading a newspaper. The name of the newspaper was The Daily Poop. That is a perfect name for a newspaper for so many reasons.
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"Even if the boilers weren't damaged, going north against the current with the weight of five times as many passengers as normal probably would have had the same result."
"Article from Ancestry and the Fold3 Blog:
April 27, 1865: The Sinking of Sultana
April 2, 2024 by Jenny Ashcraft |
In April 1865, some 2,000 passengers, mostly Union soldiers, boarded the Sultana in Vicksburg, MS. The soldiers had recently been…"
I usually hop back on the boards every couple months. I'm usually buying my books in 2 large orders every six months so it makes it hard to follow some of the discussions since I haven't read the books yet.
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