I’ve had mine since 1998, when my .edu email was getting deactivated.

I have a couple of gmail accounts too, but the vast majority of my user ids are tied to my Yahoo.

I miss the MyYahoo landing page.

Ok, I did a telehealth appt and got a Rx for antibiotics. Easy peasy.

I’m right here in the boat with you.

Some kind of hot drink is nice. The whiskey warms up the chest too. Hot showers are helping. I’m using the “boiling a frog” approach to getting the steamy water steamier as I normally can’t tolerate hot showers. And my new friend is a sinus irrigator, kind of like if a neti pot and a WaterPik had a baby. Battery operated pulsed water up the schnozz (using the premix packets of course). It’s helping to get the gunk out.

This is all in addition to liberal cough syrup and mucinex and Halls and Sinex.

I may need to give up and go to the doc.

Ooh! Good answer! But that’s not it.

Nope. I mean, yes they are states, but this is not my group. Try again! 😉

How does one make a sculpture furry? Is it resin dressed in fabric fur? Or resin so detailed to look like fur? Spray-on flocking? This crafty gal needs some beer money.

Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Utah

2 questions:

• what is the size of the bag of mini chips?
• would you recommend baking it in a water bath if it’s going to be in the oven that long?

P.S. damn, that looks tasty!

A whole lot of football, the Philadelphia dog show, and my husband starting Skyrim for the first time.

Your words were fine for most situations. Research to a layperson generally means you go and read up on a thing from authoritative sources. Research to a pharmaceutical scientist means you convince/pay a bunch of people to take pills that you or your colleagues have made, note how those people are affected, and possibly adjust your recipe.

Similar to the word “theory”. To a layperson, it generally means an educated guess at why a thing is the way it is, but untested. To a scientist, an educated guess doesnt become a theory until it’s been tested over and over and over, making sure the results did not deviate from what was expected to happen.

They’re so cute though!

I took an assembly language course once. You know those merge games where you eventually get to double or quadruple your producer’s output? Coding in assembly feels like being stuck on 1x, where you have to generate all the basic stuff first, and then build on it, then build on it some more. It takes forever.

I liked understanding the why behind it. But I appreciate other languages that are more accessible.

I definitely use a password wallet.

And because I’m getting into the demographic where my peers are going through end of life planning (whether for their parents or themselves), I have written my master password down and keep it with the will/“very important papers”. Whoever settles your affairs will thank you.

Also, since I’ve wrangled with this one specifically, when a loved one passes keep their mobile number active so you can navigate mfa and password resets for their accounts.

Either this is a common algorithm or you might be my friend who also does this.

Go watch Children of Men

How I imagine you checking for mail…

My cynical view on this situation is the pros are 1) she’s fast-tracking home ownership for a generation that generally expects to not own homes, 2) she’s securing financial stability during the traditionally least financially stable era of adult life, 3) working as a paid live-in caregiver pays significantly little comparatively and it is damn hard work, 4) she may have plans on marrying for love later. She’s still maturing, so having a starter marriage that’s lucrative may not be a totally terrible idea.

Honestly at the end of the day, you want her to be happy, right? If she’s walked into this with eyes wide open, considered all the cons and still found the arrangement preferable, is it really the end of the world? What would your feelings be if she had chosen some other non traditional relationship?

You can’t please everyone, so pick the audience you want to write to. If you don’t care what angry white guys think, then create your characters however you like.

My pet peeve about these gutters is 4 way intersections where the city planner put stop signs for the direction that doesn’t have to cross the gutters, and makes the gutter-crossing direction the primary right of way. We have to essentially come to a slow roll to not bottom out, just give us the stop signs as a heads up that we’re approaching a hazard that eats undercarriages.