Depends on the car. On some cars, it lights up based on time or mileage since it was reset. On some other cars, it is connected to an “oil life monitor” based on how hard the car has been driven (e.g. city driving, lots of idling, cold starts, or overheating will “use up” the oil life in fewer miles than highway driving). The car’s owner’s manual will tell you what it means and how to reset it if you do the service yourself.
This assumes that the light is a “maintenance required” light. If it is the “check engine” or “malfunction indicator” light, then there is something wrong with the car (often causing emissions issues, which could cause the car to fail inspection). One of the most common causes of a “check engine” light is a loose or damaged fuel cap.
Basically a slightly smarter guess than time or mileage, but I doubt it’s that much more accurate. Agreed that the check engine light is a different beast.
I found the prep work for Blue Apron to be a bit tedious. Way too much chopping. We currently use Home Chef, which I like. Tried some others, this was the best of the ones we tried. There’s a lot of them, some might be better.
The biggest drawback with these IMO is they are all environmentally unfriendly. The amount of waste they generate is excessive - every ingredient but the veggies (and even some of them) are wrapped in plastic of one sort or another, there’s insulation in the box which may or may not be recycleable, they are packed with ice packs which can double the weight or more, and they are shipped via a shipping service like FedEx so lots of fuel to deliver a few meals. On the plus side there is almost no food waste, and the meals are portion-controlled. The flip side to that is, no left-overs.
I don’t know if any of them are geared to single people. IME the meals always come in at least 2-person increments, which I guess is ok if you want to eat the same meal twice in a week. It’s rare or never that there’s more than one fish choice per week, and it’s almost always salmon. Sometimes there are shrimp meals, if those fall under “pescatarian”. There’s usually one or two vegetarian meals to pick from if that meets your needs (although the veggie meals are expensive considering no protein). YMMV, if you google around there’s plenty of comparison sites.
Just happened upon a new service in our state—it’s some combo of chef-made food plus local fresh produce that you preorder a box and either pick it up at designated location or $15 delivery charge.
We are going to try it out and ordered it for pick up 5/14. It would be quite of food for a single person—probably better for couple or small family.
Thank you to everyone who helped me figure out what to do about servicing my car. After a Zoom happy hour today, during which I mentioned it in passing, one of my friends pointed out that our inspection might have been postponed. My August inspection hasn’t been yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised it it will. That will be the deciding factor for me. I need a car to drive to curbside pickup, so when my inspection is due, I’ll take it in. Not before. Whew! I should have been able to figure that out myself, but thanks to everyone for your input.
@notrichenough, thank you for the feedback. I would think that it’d be nice if the food was enough for two so she could have it for two nights. Having said that, my daughter is pretty committed to being green so I’m sure she wouldn’t appreciate the packaging/environmental impact you describe. Not sure I’ll do it but will take a look at Home Chef. I appreciate the feedback about Blue Apron.
It’s been several years since I had Blue Apron… My feedback may not be accurate any more. They all post their meals and instructions online, so you can see how hard they are. Home Chef has some that require less than 15 minutes prep time, which is really nice when you don’t feel like cooking something complicated.
Sorry, I’m late in returning to the puzzle edge vs middle responses.
When referring to the middle, I didn’t mean the center. LOL. I guess I should have called it the inside.
Through the years, I had always started with the edge. My mother has been doing a lot of puzzles over the past few years and has become an “insider” for several reasons. Most important, she frequently knocked the completed edge on the floor when she brushed her arms across it to work on the inside.
Her adapted technique is to sort the pieces into piles by the features of the puzzle: color, words, sky, different buildings, people, … and the edge pieces get put aside to be completed last. This method provides the ability to work on the different inside sections with the flexibility of sliding completed clusters around/into position without having to open the sides.
I thought her method was weird at first, but I am convinced of its merits and have become a convert. I also believe the edge pieces go together more quickly when added at the end. I’m now an insider all the way! Keep and open mind and try it sometime. I’d love to know what anyone thinks.
Well, we are working on the 18,000 piece puzzle at the moment (18,246 pieces to be exact. 9 x 7 inch dimension). And no way we could start any place else but the edge. We build the wall first, then sorting. Sorting is extremely important do large puzzles such as ours. We not only sort by colors and features but also the shape of the pieces.
I am happy to report that we are almost half way through after 5 weeks. Hopefully SIP will be lifted by the time we finish.
My husband is also working with my son writing an app to solve this puzzle. I couldn’t envision how an app could possibly work. Apparently the app would use the camera to recognize the color and shape and suggest where to place/group them. I think they will finish the puzzle before they complete the app, though.
I saw the 40,000 piece puzzle too. But our next puzzle will be the clear ones. We have a 1000 piece clear puzzle. I think that will be real tough, sorting the shape of the pieces will be most important.
