I'm in my favorite place

Oxford valley road, langhorne PA?

The phrase dollars to donuts really doesn't hold up anymore.

PrattRules wrote:The phrase dollars to donuts really doesn't hold up anymore.

bullion to bagels? cash to crullers? bitcoin to beignets?

What's a donut from Dunkin cost nowadays? $1.09?

What's the most consecutive consonants you've ever seen in a name? Kid I went to college had the last name Blechschmidt, which has six, but I was just watching a YouTube video in which a guy named Leszczynski was featured. New record? Or do we count the Y as a vowel?

sometimes, as per Freeze

There are polish names out there that will crush those. I refer to a friend as 'Mr. would like to buy a vowel'.

any Cape May recommendations?

Last weekend I was trying to get the kids to go outside and do something. So I filled up a kiddie pool we had and tried to get them to come out and play in it. They're 7 and almost 12 and took one look at it and were like yeah, no. So I was looking for something fun water based thing they could do.

I found an inflatable pool that is something between a kiddie pool and an above ground pool for $50 and they were in to that. One problem though is that our yard has a steady decline away from the house and it would need to be level. NBD I thought, I'll get a shovel and level some yard. Spent the rest of the day digging up a 16' circle in my backyard trying to level it. After hours of doing this, it was coming along ok, but not really getting there. So I spent a couple nights after work at it trying to level the ground, and as it turns out, the decline in my yard is a lot steeper than I initially thought. By Wednesday night I was pot committed to this idea but not getting anywhere, so I started looking into how to level this fucking ground. Sand. Ordered 3 tons of sand yesterday morning and it was delivered by the time I got home from work. Spent the evening wheelbarrowing sand from my driveway to the other side of the yard and smoothing and leveling it. So now I have a perfectly level 16 foot circle of compacted sand in my backyard and ~ a ton of sand in my driveway. Isn't it funny how a fleeting idea can turn into a fairly large and involved project without you intending to do it.

And they still won't play in it!

When I have kids I will never care that much

Slowhand wrote:And they still won't play in it!

At least it's big enough for me to sit in it and drink beers if they don't go in it.

CFP wrote:When I have kids I will never care that much

You will. Being stuck inside with bored children is awful

The Dude wrote:

CFP wrote:When I have kids I will never care that much

You will. Being stuck inside with bored children is awful

Exactly.

I ain't picking up sand and wheelbarrowing it across the yard, that's for sure

Great story about how a janitor created the Flaming Hot Cheetos line. Excellent story of perseverance, tenacity, and grit.

Bill McNeal wrote:

The Dude wrote:

CFP wrote:When I have kids I will never care that much

You will. Being stuck inside with bored children is awful

Exactly.

At least when they're teenagers, they'll sleep until 1 or 2.

Grotewold wrote:any Cape May recommendations?

Specifcally for what? The beach is nice, the town is quaint with a number of solid restaurants. There's a pedestrian mall that is better than you'd expect. You can stay in a nice bed and breakfast. It's not cheap, but I think it's a decent value.

Gotta get to Cape May Brewing. I'm far from a Cape May expert beyond that