This was a "bookcase door" so it stood out anyway.  But didn't scream "door".   It also opened from the bottom, to throw them off too.

Sun Nov 24 2024 01:43:35 UTC from zelgomer

2024-11-23 19:39 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
Bored. Watching a video about making hidden rooms to keep thieves at
bay

I've seriously thought of doing that. The RSCs they sell as "safes" are worthless. Only problem is that I doubt I'm handy enough to make it not stand out like a sore thumb.

15 kHz "coil whine" back when we still had tube TVs. Often times i could hear it down the street.   Kids today will never know.

Every so often i hear it now, but no clue why. I wonder if someone has an old TV near by... ( why i even thought of it a little bit ago ... 'ring'... then gone )

1985.

:(

1985.

My dog died

My cat died

My great grandmother died

I was in high school hell

Remind me again why i want to remember 1985?

For me it was the last year before garbage started. ( not the band. lol )

Fri Nov 14 2025 02:34:54 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

 

1985.

My dog died

My cat died

My great grandmother died

I was in high school hell

Remind me again why i want to remember 1985?

1985. I was punk. Like, really. When you think of a punk in 1985... piercings, shaved head, leather, studded clothes, combat boots - downtown - that was my scene. I was 15. I was nailing girls from about 14 to 18 years old, not all punks... I was doing mountains of coke and lots of other drugs. I was playing AD&D with a coke dealer who was BRILLIANT. I was a rock star. I was 5 months out from a huge crash and a struggle from 1986-1990 in rebuilding my psyche that wasn't worth what came before - but I probably wouldn't change much. I wouldn't have done so much LSD. That was a mistake. :) 

I was 15.

When I tell people THAT part of it, they go, "oh my God, you were just a child." 

I get that now, heading for 56, and paying the price for dumb decisions I made as a kid - but... also... when I tell people, "I lived more life in the 1st 15 years of my life than you will in your entire life," I mean it. I got a lot of things done in the first 15 that a lot of people never really get around to doing - and I don't know if that is for better or worse. I have a lot of good stories. 

I'm a tad older so i was out of school and in college by then, after a 'life redirecting event' in early summer of 84.  i do think gen X 'children' did more in their childhood than any generation since.  Good and bad.

I will say tho, that if you have a bit of blotter in you and you jump out of a moving car, it does tend to sour your taste for certain recreational activities.  Wont go to far into it, but it was not a normal experience.. Later i learned 2nd hand that it was laced ( pcp ), and some people out on the west coast died from it.   That also helps you make a decision to move on. 

Sat Nov 15 2025 05:14:24 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

1985. I was punk. Like, really. When you think of a punk in 1985... piercings, shaved head, leather, studded clothes, combat boots - downtown - that was my scene. I was 15. I was nailing girls from about 14 to 18 years old, not all punks... I was doing mountains of coke and lots of other drugs. I was playing AD&D with a coke dealer who was BRILLIANT. I was a rock star. I was 5 months out from a huge crash and a struggle from 1986-1990 in rebuilding my psyche that wasn't worth what came before - but I probably wouldn't change much. I wouldn't have done so much LSD. That was a mistake. :) 

I was 15.

When I tell people THAT part of it, they go, "oh my God, you were just a child." 

I get that now, heading for 56, and paying the price for dumb decisions I made as a kid - but... also... when I tell people, "I lived more life in the 1st 15 years of my life than you will in your entire life," I mean it. I got a lot of things done in the first 15 that a lot of people never really get around to doing - and I don't know if that is for better or worse. I have a lot of good stories. 

Most of the laced stuff out here was with arsenic and speed - so it would make your body cramp and cause anxiety/bad trips... but nothing like PCP. The face I made when I read that, I wish you could have seen. 

In some ways its was a terrible event.  In others, it was good.  It did contribute to a change my path in life.

And no, i didn't break anything, i was still an active black belt in several arts at the time. So i rolled out of instinct. 

Thu Nov 20 2025 04:05:39 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Most of the laced stuff out here was with arsenic and speed - so it would make your body cramp and cause anxiety/bad trips... but nothing like PCP. The face I made when I read that, I wish you could have seen. 

 

Blue light specials.  sigh.

( went to local Rural King with one of the dogs this afternoon.  Its in the Kmart i used to go to as i was growing up. I can almost see the lights still looking down the isles, or remember eating at the food court, now where they have the mowers and weed eaters and stuff..  90% of the people there. have no clue about the history of that building, or the one next to it.. )

K-Mart used to sell these bags of ham sandwiches on buns - cheap... $2.99 for a bag of like 8 of them. We were dirt poor, and it was special when my parents would save up $3 and drive us into the hood to buy a bag of sandwiches. 

Weird that this would be the very next post after I posted about having $200k in investments to piss away and not knowing what to do with it - but that is my *genuine* life path. From being excited about a bag of K-Mart Sandwiches on a Saturday with my mom and dad on welfare - to, not being sure if I should by a Z06 Vette or a Porsche GT4RS. 

Tue Nov 25 2025 23:14:47 UTC from Nurb432

Blue light specials.  sigh.

 

I can picture walking into the store, seeing down the aisles, seeing the checkout counters, turning to the left and going to the Deli area... getting that long bag of stacked sandwiches, walking back out into the parking lot and having a couple of them in the lot on my dad's tailgate, too. The visual is strong. 

I was often there on my own, so id stay there and eat.

And ya, head to the back isle left hand turn walk = food

Right hand = the auto area.  Not sure all had that as i dont remember it in the one just north of us, ( which is now a Walmart, but they tore the entire place down and rebuilt it as a larger strip mall ) but we had a smallish auto repair area in this one. Ironically its still there, however RK leased that area out to another company.

And as  you walk, kept an eye out for the cart with the flashing light.  lol

Thu Nov 27 2025 03:53:04 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I can picture walking into the store, seeing down the aisles, seeing the checkout counters, turning to the left and going to the Deli area... getting that long bag of stacked sandwiches, walking back out into the parking lot and having a couple of them in the lot on my dad's tailgate, too. The visual is strong. 

I do remember the right turn took you to automotive. First the general automotive aisles - then, through a door, into the area where they did tires and oil changes. 

I was really young, though - a LONG time ago I was last in a K-Mart.