If you go to Mainley frames, note that a lot of their maps are in the basement, so be sure not to miss those ones. I can also confirm that they've got plenty of cool old maps to hang on your walls, so it'll be worth a drive, based on what's in your post.

I had good luck with Life Stance Health doing telehealth. It's a pretty big practice, but that also meant I got in way faster than the smaller places.

Rwanda Bean

I like Rwanda Bean's decaf the best out of all the ones I've tried.

Rwanda Bean used to, although their website doesn't list anything under the unroasted section anymore so I'm not sure.

I've seen it too. Cars should just have the tail lights on all the time as basically rear daytime running lights. I can't really see a reason not to do that.

Concord trailways has a direct bus from Portland to NYC that may be worth looking into. Still leaves you with getting from Manhattan to Brooklyn, but that may be more tolerable depending on exactly where you're going.

See, the trick is to put so much in that the front wheels lift off the ground, and then you can't go anywhere. Can't put your car in the ditch if it's physically incapable of moving.

Pfft, real Mainers use bear grease.

In Maine I see no point to buy anything but the -20°F stuff. If you're far enough north that -20°F isnt abnormal, it's worth it to get the -35°f stuff in the late fall and switch to that until spring.

My parents have a house that's broadly that size (I think) and put ductless mini split heat pumps in about 8 or 10 years ago. They kept the oil furnace both as a backup and also because it provided the house's hot water. Overall, they love it. The oil bill went way down and as a bonus they now have air conditioning in the summer. It probably helps that the downstairs is relatively open, so they get away with one heat pump downstairs, positioned near where they spend most of their time. The upstairs is much less open, but their bedroom is the only room that gets regular use upstairs (they're empty nesters), so they have a heat pump in their bedroom and just let the other rooms upstairs run a bit cool (probably like 55-60°F). If guests come over and actually use the other rooms, they just use the oil heat to make them comfortable for the brief period guests are there. It's probably also very helpful that their house is set up so that basically every room has its own zone for the oil heat, so it's very easy to turn the oil heat up or down in just one room if it's needed for whatever reason.

BAYONETS!!!!!!!!!

I don't know exactly how/why, but I definitely have memories of playing Socom 3 online (2006ish), powered by the generator, so it isn't a new thing in general (although maybe it's a new thing in your area).

I went through Lifestance Health, primarily because they got me an appointment in about 2 weeks, rather than telling me they had no openings like most people I emailed. I don't know how busy they are currently though.

It ended up working out really well and I was happy with the experience overall. I was able to do all my therapy via telehealth sessions which was convenient and really handy when COVID was peaking pretty bad a while back.

Anybody got one of those giant inflatable rats kicking around?

As much as I'm going to hate the sun setting early this afternoon, having it come up only a little bit after I woke up today was a nice change. You're definitely right that there's no magic clock setting to fix the problem, all we can do is shift it around.

The proper term for that bird is "pterodactyl".