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I lost my dog recently and I'd like some advice. My friends and family are concerned about me and many of them are telling me to get another dog. Often I'm tempted - I mean, it would be easy. I could just go to a shelter and get a dog and then I wouldn't be alone anymore. My problem is that I'm not sure I even like dogs. I think I just liked my dog.

I didn't even want a dog when I met him but he saw me, he started frantically barking, and I just knew that I had to take him home. He was attached to me from that first day and he turned out to be a rather unusual dog.

I think the best way to put it is that although he was fully-grown, he never stopped being a puppy. He liked everyone

I was fighting a galgal for the first time and it didn't seem to be hitting very hard with its charge. But then when at half health I ate an urberry, I immediately got the game over screen.

I'm guessing galgals can stunlock if they get lucky and that one just happened to stunlock me all the way to zero HP on the turn after I healed to full? And the game automatically passed my turn for me the way it does with the stasis effect?

My apartment was built in 1930 without a kitchen. It had something called a serv. pantry* with shelves above a small sink and an icebox, and that was it. (The people living there were not expected to ever cook.) Here's a screenshot of my 3D model of the kitchen in 1930 (without counters) and here's a screenshot of my 3D model of the kitchen now. The box to the right of the sink is a small electric stove, and the other box on the shelf above it is a microwave.

The problem with the kitchen now is that the false ceilings above the cabinets block off the vent (visible in the 1930 model)

I got a vintage Colonial Premier floor lamp, and it came with a 3-way mogul socket and a mogul-to-medium adapter that doesn't have 3-way functionality. I want to get it working with medium 3-way bulbs (since I prefer to use LEDs) but apparently 3-way adapters are really rare.

All I can find is this one on eBay which is a little pricy at $32.50 and this basic, cheaper one which a reviewer says will work with 3-way bulbs but I'm not confident of that.

Do you guys have any experience with this? Which one should I buy? (I would just

I got a vintage Colonial Premier floor lamp, and it came with a 3-way mogul socket and a mogul-to-medium adapter that doesn't have 3-way functionality. I want to get it working with medium 3-way bulbs (since I prefer to use LEDs) but apparently 3-way adapters are really rare.

All I can find is this one on eBay which is a little pricy at $32.50 and this basic, cheaper one which a reviewer says will work with 3-way bulbs but I'm not confident of that.

Do you guys have any experience with this? Which one should I buy? (I would just

I have a flushometer (commercial-style) toilet in my home and I want to replace it with one that has a built-in bidet. Is that something that's even on the market? I can't find any.

I have a flushometer toilet (image). The pipe coming out of the wall is 1.5" diameter and the short bit after the 90-degree turn is 1.25". There's a shutoff valve concealed under the black rubber disk. I want to add a connection for a standard 3/8" water line (for a bidet).

If I can fit it onto the short bit of 1.25" pipe that would be ideal, but there's no room for a basic T-joint followed by an adapter - the 3/8" valve would have to be attached directly to the pipe somehow.

Fitting it to the 1.5" pipe would be troublesome since shutting off the water to it would be a major endeavor. (I think it can

I'm on Verizon in the USA, and I'm really fed up with replacing perfectly adequate phones because their batteries won't hold a charge. I've decided that my next phone must have a replaceable battery. The problem is that, as far as I can tell, the best such phone is still the LG G5 from 2016. Is that right?

I don't mind the specs of the G5 (it's not much worse than the Pixel 2 I need to replace) but my worry is that it won't be supported in the long term - I want my new phone to last at least five years and I think starting with a six-year-old model may not be a good idea there. But the only in-production phone I can find with specs even a little better than the G5 is the Galaxy Xcover P

I used to think that doctors went through hazing* during their training but then had reasonable working conditions once they were attending physicians. But a new friend of mine is an attending (endocrinology specialty) and she still works about 60 hours a week. After her commute, she only has time to eat and sleep on most weekdays. It's not because she's so busy saving lives nonstop - a lot of that time is spent on writing notes, filling out insurance paperwork, calling back patients, and other work I had assumed that an attending wouldn't have to do. She says that this is normal.

I hope I don't sound too offensive when I say that if her working conditions really are normal, then I don'

My old windowsills are about 8" deep and made of the same material as the surrounding walls - painted joint compound that had been used to skim coat them. I want to install Corian windowsills, so I was going to just put them on top of the old ones and then glue them down.

The problem is that the existing windowsills aren't quite level. I could try to shim up the new sills, but instead I am thinking of putting a temporary barrier along the edge of the old sills and pouring in plaster of paris that, in theory, would then self-level.

Would that work? Is there a better way to do this?

So I like to start with a solo, teenage colonist for that Hatchet/My Side of the Mountain experience. Except what keeps happening is that some fifty-year-old who refuses to do either dumb or skilled labor falls out of space and now he's the sixteen-year-old's lover and the game tells me they want a double bed. How do I avoid this?