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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • No amount of wipe on surface treatment will help against child damage because the underlying wood deforms. It’s like putting Saran wrap over a chicken breast before pounding it with a mallet- the Saran wrap will be intact.

    If keeping it intact is really important, you need a 2 part epoxy to provide a rigid coating.

    Otherwise just let the damage build up and sand/refinish after kids are older.





  • Bad luck? I have very high levels of mica sediment in my well that my immediate neighbors do not have. I asked my neighbors when I moved in and none of them had that problem. The well company said that they usually drill a new well.

    A few miles away a neighbor has such high radon that they need special filters that need to be disposed of by a professional company because it needs to be treated as a radiation hazard. I have no radon in my water.

    As someone else said for lead, if you have old soldered copper pipes, that could be your lead problem.

    A professional company can install water treatment to make your water safe. The well pump salesman showed off some of the crazy systems that they had done. One was a system of really large water tanks connected to a very large Reverse Osmosis system to deal with a well that had bad water quality.






  • Obsession over corporate sports is a problem but many people enjoy it. I’m sure you have hobbies or activities that aren’t productive.

    I don’t follow professional sports but I also don’t care if people aren’t interested in 3d printing, cats, cooking, sci-fi media or any of my other hobbies.

    (Cooking falls into hobby because it’s not about survival but taste.)