@LuFins-Dad said in Marriage advice: The bigger issue here is the disorganization and the clutter. Was her parent's home cluttered? No, and her mom has become a minimalist recently too. They talk daily, they share almost every personality, maybe that'll rub off on her. I know her mom has made comments about the clutter too. I think my wife knows, she is just overwhelmed and knowing her she can paralyze in the moment. Heck, tomorrow morning she has to volunteer at a gymnastics meet, it's going to feel like -15 or so and she is concerned about parking, so she asked me to drive her (which involves me also bringing the 3 kids with at 7am), which I'm happy to do. Happy wife, happy life... but you're right, only to an extent. I would probably be more pleasant after work if I didn't walk into a tornado house each time, but I also don't want to ever go down the road of "needing to be a jerk for someone to be scared not to piss me off", that is unhealthy. To continue thinking out loud, things did change a bit after our 2nd kid was born. Many more fights about really dumb illogical stuff, to the point where I avoid bringing up triggering topics any more. Wasn't like that before. I wonder if the clutter is a way to hide behind whatever changed, perhaps physiologically. The 3rd kid was just another layer on the cake. Day to day we are fine. I haven't checked out, I spend basically every waking hour supporting someone else (sometimes I'll watch a show from like 930-1030pm now), but when you can't inject logic into arguments, what other resort do you have? For example, why does each of our kids need 50-75 shirts shoved like sardines in each drawer? Same with PJs? You take one out and like a dozen will "pop" out of the drawer it's so inaccessible. So the logic would be "Honey... how many PJs do you think each kid needs before the next laundry cycle?" The answer btw is about 5-7, not 50. But if your partner refuses the logic and just says "I handle their laundry why do you care?" or "when will I have the time to pick out the 7 PJs?" what resort do I have? BTW I did tell her one time when she said that, that "If it were me I'd just pick the first 7 PJs I see and donate everything else."

@jodi said in 89th - because of you…: Taking the cloth napkins I don’t use to the goodwill so I can actually open the drawer and find the ones I do. Nice to be able to shut the drawer without having to force them back in there. Truly, that thread has had me in cleaning mode these last couple of days, lol. [image: IMG_5582.jpg] [image: IMG_5583.jpg] Excellent! Beautiful artifacts, too. I suppose we did have that win, similarly. We had a drawer in the kitchen with probably 30 towels shoved into it because you never know if the next glacial flooding event will happen, right? After we did our counters, we now only have about 10 towels in that drawer. Being able to open, access, and close that drawer is a pleasure I get to enjoy daily now!

Here's an idea. Ellison buys Netflix. Ellison makes Netflix change to use Oracle Cloud (from AWS) as its cloud provider. Oracle uses these funds to build a bigger rocket than Bezos' AWS, the two rockets fight in the air. Meanwhile Elon has already deployed 10,000 starlink satellites making him "bro, totally ABOVE the cloud, amirite". And finally, a white man becomes rich.

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US booze for the most part, remained on the shelves here. To my knowledge it has stayed on the shelves and has been collecting dust.

@Mik said in Hay Lufin: I've had relatively good experiences with chiropractors. But none of them have ever wanted to get invasive. There are chiropractors and then there are Chiropractors…

That's a far cry from what chatGPT said. It did acknowledge that in certain contexts it can carry the implication of antisemitism, but that was a corner usage. Perhaps not so corner in certain places in punditry.

Dropped the car off at the Silver Rock approved car place yesterday. They had given me 4 different places to choose from. There were not highly regarded, but one is considered an above average shop, so I took it there. They need to keep the car for a few days but have started the claims process. Carvana approved extending my guaranteed return date by 3 days to match. The guy at the shop said they’ve had decent success with Silver Rock approving the claims overall, and he only recalled one that he felt Silver Rock hadn’t treated the consumer well… So we will see.

Oluwadamilola Ogooluwa Bamigboye and Rekeya Lionesha Lee Frazier Down goes Bamigboye!

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Cool she’s into group play.

Yeah - I feel the Canadian ire all the time as someone who travels there frequently. You can't blame them - it's like a family member just turning on you all of sudden for no rhyme or reason (or benefit to anyone).

I finally got to see my doctor on Monday and showed her the rash on my scrotum. She just ignored me and kept pushing her cart through Costco.

@Mik said in It's not just Minnesoota: That's ridiculous. How do you know they didn't identify these schemes to begin with or serve as the catalyst that led to it? I think we can know that. Elon would have bragged about it either then or now. Plus the bulk of it was from a pandemic era program that ended in 2022. I’m pretty sure doge was more focused on cutting current and future spending. What backwards-looking investigation they did do was focused on justifying the termination or reduction of ongoing programs.

Hey, w00t! https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/38082/time-s-2025-person-of-the-year-predictions

The question is the answer.

They were taking the long view.