Help me turn a candle into a coffee mug
So we bought a candle that comes inside a ceramic coffee mug. We thought we could use the candle and then have a coffee mug at the end of it all. But things are not so easy. The wick seems to be...
View ArticleMaking best use of an unused ticket
We both have an upcoming (return) flight scheduled. We both flew out but only one of us is flying back. She can make it. I can't. The flight is non-refundable, non-changable. How can she best make use...
View ArticleMusical Note?
Is there a transcription of this musical postcard by Debussy? Or, better yet, has anyone recorded it?
View ArticleMad Scientist stories
Recommend me Mad Scientist stories you have read. More details inside: One outstanding example is William Sloane's The Edge of Running Water. These stories may fall into different genres: Mystery,...
View ArticleUS Service to send my mom a printout?
Occassionally, my mom needs a hardcopy of things. She doesn't have a computer nor does she want to deal with printers anyways. Is there a reliable service I can email a document to and have them...
View ArticleI want to go to the Getty Museum (complication: no car)
Can you help me get from San Diego North County to the J.Paul Getty Museum in LA? Due to driving license mixups, I won't have a car and cannot rent one. Please help me LA-savvy mefites! Options...
View ArticleRapid Covid Test in San Diego?
We are in San Diego. As per new requirements, we have to get a negative Covid Test before boarding our plane back to Portugal later this week. I don't know how this works in the US. Where and how is...
View ArticleMexican Food Express
Any chance my mom can bring homemade Mexican food with her when she travels from California to the Netherlands - direct flight - next year? That's the question. I miss her homemade tamales and she...
View ArticleDoes my mom have to fill out the American Community Survey?
My elderly mom received a survey which appears to be run by the US Census bureau. It says its the American Community Survey. She knows it's not a Census year and asked me for help as she thought it...
View ArticleMurakami and Apple Pie
I'm reading Haruki Murakami's latest novel 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' ( 街とその不確かな壁) in Dutch translation. In the book, the two main characters go out for 'koffie met appeltart' or 'coffee with...
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