Reverse first-world problems: What *good* thing happened to you today?

[Charmonium]

Scored a new personal record for highest upvoted comment on reddit today. w00t

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1ouvlgh/comment/noekyzl

Comment on this post...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1ouvlgh/differences_in_vascularity_between_my_left_arm

Mmm, juicy. You know what would really make them pop though . . . . some track marks. Hehehe

 

[allisolm]

Got one of those "here is your share of the settlement" checks today from a class action type suit someone filed somewhere against Facebook for something they apparently did at some time that supposedly had some effect on me. I was sure it would be one of those "here is your settlement amount of $1.50". Was surprised to see $31.22. It's not going to pay for my next car, but it's better than a kick in the head.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sounds like you could treat yourself to some take out. At least if you go pick it up instead of getting delivery.

 

[Chaotic42]

My new bag of Wint-o-green Life Savers is like 90% soft. They should make those puffy Christmas mint things in wintergreen.

 

[lxskllr]

I was looking for something, and found an almost full bottle of Lagavulin 16yr I forgot I had. Score!

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Found the complete 7-season collection of MacGyver 1985 at Amazon for $53 shipped.
(DVD version. The Blu-ray version was $115.)

Very nice.

 

[Shmee]

I was stopping at a Mcdonald's to get a sweet tea, and I noticed the Mcrib is back!

 

[AMD64Blondie]

My new-to-me Victorinox Executive Swiss Army Knife (from Ebay) is arriving today.. (Nov.17,2025.)

(I didn't expect it to get here until next Saturday, Nov.22nd.)

 

[DigDog]

I was stopping at a Mcdonald's to get a sweet tea, and I noticed the Mcrib is back!

.. you are in for a disappointment.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Just scored a brand new SwissChamp Swiss Army Knife off of EBay.. for $58 shipped.

(Compared to $115 for the same knife new at Amazon.) Nearly half off.

 

[lxskllr]

I've carried a SwissChamp for ~30 years.Before that, I carried the Champion. I'm on my second one so far. Word of advice, the magnifying glass lens may pop out. It isn't as good as the older versions. Put a couple drops of superglue on it to keep it in place.

 

[Shmee]

.. you are in for a disappointment.

Well I had one, it was ok. Maybe even a bit better than typical.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

I've carried a SwissChamp for ~30 years.Before that, I carried the Champion. I'm on my second one so far. Word of advice, the magnifying glass lens may pop out. It isn't as good as the older versions. Put a couple drops of superglue on it to keep it in place.

Thanks. I'll see about that when I receive it. (Just ordered it today.)

 

[BoomerD]

Had to go into town today for groceries. Nice weather when we left…a few hours later, on the drive home, we hit a bit of drizzle. Got the groceries unloaded and into the house…30 minutes later…here comes the rain. Not a major downpour, but enough that I’m glad we got home when we did. (Of course…the fckn lights have flickered a few times…I really hope I don’t have to go out and set up the little generator.)

 

[AMD64Blondie]

On a Ubisoft UConnect sale, I just bought both Assassin's Creed Mirage and Assassin's Creed Shadows for $72 total.

($54 for Shadows and $18 for Mirage.)

 

[nisryus]

The only knife I have been using for preparing all my meals finally snapped in half after 21 years. Good excuse to get a new one.

*Yeah, all these times I only been using this 12 inch knife I got from Target for everything. No boning knife, cleaver.. etc. One knife to rule them all!

Now that I look at Amazon and Macys, too many choices! Is Japanese knife hot now? There are tons of them! Who knew buying knife is not easy....

 

[iCyborg]

At my BIL's birthday party I had a whiskey that costs $3K in Canada and it's like 30% off, Bowmore 29 Timeless.
I didn't like it though, it has this strong "barrely" taste with stale/mold-ish note, I guess fancy whiskey isn't my thing.

 

[lxskllr]

At my BIL's birthday party I had a whiskey that costs $3K in Canada and it's like 30% off, Bowmore 29 Timeless.
I didn't like it though, it has this strong "barrely" taste with stale/mold-ish note, I guess fancy whiskey isn't my thing.

Might be past it's prime. Older isn't always better. Some whiskies do better with age than others. In general, I prefer middle aged whisky. 12-16yr is the sweet spot for me.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

The only knife I have been using for preparing all my meals finally snapped in half after 21 years. Good excuse to get a new one.

*Yeah, all these times I only been using this 12 inch knife I got from Target for everything. No boning knife, cleaver.. etc. One knife to rule them all!

Now that I look at Amazon and Macys, too many choices! Is Japanese knife hot now? There are tons of them! Who knew buying knife is not easy....

I've been using the same Pampered Chef knife to cut everything for years and want to get a decent knife set, or maybe just 1 or 2 knives to carve and cut. Japanese does seem to be the hotness for awhile since I've been looking. Haven't decided on anything yet, still no clue what are some decent brands.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't get too precious over kitchen knives. My favorite parer is a Henckel 4*, but I also have some junky generic parers that get some use. For a big knife, I use a Henckel 4* santoku. That's basically all I use. I have a Chinese chef's knife that's almost exclusively used to remove pizza from the toaster oven and cut it, and an Alaskan ulu for occasional use when it's design makes things easier.

 

[bbhaag]

I don't get too precious over kitchen knives. My favorite parer is a Henckel 4*, but I also have some junky generic parers that get some use. For a big knife, I use a Henckel 4* santoku. That's basically all I use. I have a Chinese chef's knife that's almost exclusively used to remove pizza from the toaster oven and cut it, and an Alaskan ulu for occasional use when it's design makes things easier.

Our 4" and 7" Wusthof santoku knives are the work horses in our kitchen. A balanced santoku with a nice edge is hard to beat.

 

[nisryus]

I've been using the same Pampered Chef knife to cut everything for years and want to get a decent knife set, or maybe just 1 or 2 knives to carve and cut. Japanese does seem to be the hotness for awhile since I've been looking. Haven't decided on anything yet, still no clue what are some decent brands.

Just ordered the Wusthof Classic 8" Chef's knife. Will see how it handles.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I use one I got from Big Lots 20 years ago for under $5.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I run a top site list for Ultima Online servers, it mostly just runs itself but been meaning to make improvements to it. One improvement I just finally got around to doing is making the banners local only. The way it was before is server owners can put a URL to an image on their site and it loads from there. Problem with that is it made the page load kind of slow sometimes as it was so many different queries going out. It would also stall if one of them was a server that was down.

I just released the fix to production and it's night and day how fast it loads now. Wish I had did this sooner. I made a script that checks if the current banner is hosted off site and if yes it downloads it locally and updates the entry in the DB to point to new one. Suppose I should batch that, but I just have it setup where it does it when you click on an entry so I've been doing that more or less manually for now.

The front page loads pretty much instantly now. 640ms give or take, with cache disabled. 100-300ish with cache enabled. Used to take like 90 seconds before. The page would be more or less loaded but you'd see in the status bar that it was still trying to load stuff.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bwahahahahaha

Who says there's no good left in the world?