For water stuck in your ear after shower or swimming, what works for me is tilting your head to the side that is plugged and bending/unbending your knees (making your body bounce) until the water comes out.

As of about an hour ago, it is back up

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that resonated with me "Stop pretending your racism is patriotism"

It reminded me of something an African American woman said to me during college more than 20 years ago "I always watch out for people that love to fly the American flag because you never know what that really means."

A few from Mr Torque from Borderlands:

NOTHING IS MORE BADASS THAN TREATING A WOMAN WITH RESPECT!

THAT SENTENCE HAD TOO MANY SYLLABLES, APOLOGIZE

NEW MISSION, I WANT YOU TO BLOW UP, THE OCEAN

Though I don't like Musk, I think deporting all illegals would be damaging to our society and economy.

Had an tenant whose son was reportedly causing havoc around the complex. It was a case of my tenant (and me, as her landlord) vs the HOA and some statements that others had provided. My tenant denied the claims when I spoke to her about them. No evidence was given. I got pulled into a sham of a disciplinary meeting (which my tenant was not allowed to attend) and fined for not doing enough to control my tenant.

This wonderful service for $370/ month (and increasing each year).

Here's a really small one: when one of my toenails has a sharp corner to it that snags on the sheets.

For my work, Bluebeam.

Cook white rice in a rice cooker but instead of water, use a canned soup. Flavor of the soup gets into the rice. A few minutes of prep and walk away.

That's a great point. Thank you

Thank you for the idea. However, it looks like my device isn't supported. Also, not really looking to go that far. Would doing things like disabling search and location history be effective at all? Other simple steps?

An ecoflow battery generator. Granted, it's a small-ish one but I got this itch to purchase one after seeing one in action while car camping ("I can use my hot water kettle while camping, how cool!") and when our city was warning us about widespread power outages from an upcoming winter storm ("to keep our devices powered up").

Thanks so much everyone for your input. I ended up with a KYY K3. There was a lightning deal for it on Amazon for ~$90. It showed up yesterday evening and so far, it works just fine for what I need it to do. I'm certain it will help my productivity while working away from the office or my home set up.

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That's a great idea. Unfortunately my work laptop is locked down and I'm not able to install any of my own software to it

Ugh... It is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me

As an engineer, this warms my heart (and the resulting soup/rice mixture warms my tummy).

I would add tires to your list. Car tires, bike tires...

That's my ring tone for my spouse

One pair in my travel stuff always. Habit from grad school when I lived next door to a frat house

Yes please