saving a thrift store acoustic guitar with just strings
It is sometimes amazing that all it takes to save some guitars is just a new set of strings and nothing else.
I was lent a $7 miniature First Act acoustic guitar bought at a thrift store. Yes, it was really just 7 bucks. The guitar had these awful strings on it and the high-E string was missing.
It used to be that if you wanted a package of small bandages that were about the size of an adult index finger, you could find it at any pharmacy. No problem. Yeah, good luck finding that now. If you don't very specifically know the dimensions and the name of what this bandage type is, you'll never find it.
But I know what the name and dimensions are. And now you will, too.
I was in a Walgreen's recently and bought something that was too good to pass up.
This is a computer thing, and it's honestly something I didn't think I'd be buying again, but there it was...
I drive an older car with with no screen in it (unless you count the gas gauge which is a tiny LCD panel), and given I've been using Garmin GPSes for almost 20 years, that's the only screen I use in the car.
If I weren't using a Garmin DriveSmart 66 for navigation however, the alternative is actually not a bad idea at all...
I've been to a good number of restaurants over the years, but I am one of those people who sincerely believes eating out was better in the '90s. Early-to-mid '90s, specifically.
I used to think this was all in my head, thinking yeah, I'm older now, so of course I'll say eating out was better in the past. I don't think that way anymore.