Well, feh. After paying a good sum of money for the plumber to unclog the condensate drain from the AC(what he thought was causing the puddles) I went to do some laundry and there was another puddle. I've called the plumber and scheduled an "any time after 8:30" appointment which means I have to stay home and wait for the guy, using more vacation time.(I wish there was some sort of time off allotment for this kind of thing. Can't use sick time for this, and I hate using vacation this way)

She started drinking a little bit in her tea, for her kidneys, which was fine. Then as she got more dementia, it became almost an obsession - more and more vinegar, less tea. So she doesn't drink it FOR anything anymore - she just drinks it because it's in her head to do that, I guess.

I was quizzing people at my workplace today to see if they knew the phrase "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate", and it seems that in my small sample, those of us 33 and up do, and 33 and under do not. Although not everyone 33 and up knows what spindle actually is.

I know what spindling is, and I think the deal here is that it appeared on the bottom of certain standardized tests?

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For much of the 20th century IBM cards had the warning "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate," printed at one end, and that became something of a motto for the post-World War II era, though many people had no idea what spindle meant.

I know what spindling is, and I think the deal here is that it appeared on the bottom of certain standardized tests?

I think that it appeared on a lot of punch-carded items. I believe my grandma's social security checks had it, and they were meant to go through a punch machine. When I used to play office, I would make big business-like checks and punch holes in them to make a punch card.

curse your sudden, yet inevitable cross -post!

Ah well. I was just at a diner where they spindled the checks!

I know the "do not fold, spindle or mutilate" warning, but didn't really know what spindling was.

Isn't spindling where they put it on one of those pointy metal spikes?

I was wrong about spindling, I thought it was rolling paper. Apparently it's the same as spiking it, according to wiki.

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Spindles seem dangerous. I feel like I would have fallen on my spindle and died or something. I always thought the "mutilate" was the funny part. I never really thought about mutilating pieces of paper before being warned.

Isn't spindling where they put it on one of those pointy metal spikes?

Yes, apparently.

I mutilate a lot of paper.