The New Coffee Room

We took a family trip out to Chicago this summer in a rented Acadia…Liked it enough we sought one out a couple months ago car shopping for the Mrs. Turns out, they’ve gotten much bigger than since whatever model year the rental was, so we bought her a new Terrain. Looks/rides nice, lots of features for those that are into that stuff, etc.

Looked at the Hyundai Kona at the time too…but for her it was ‘too much’ on the techy side of things. So many screens, it felt distracting. (some cool features though)

I guess you get a better deal if you rape in bulk??

Less than 5 months per rape.

I felt cringe reading the description of "& Juliet"

Couldn't even finish the article.

@Horace said in 61% of rape claims are false?:

Many of the TDS posts on this forum board are tantamount to intellectual and spiritual rape of the readers.

Then again, there's a 61% chance this accusation is false.

We thought we knew you Horace.

Good for the guy with balls of steel to jump someone with a gun...but holy crap, f-that. Risking life, for a couple hundred bucks (if that) in a cash register?

The opening scene to 28 weeks later was good enough I'll probably watch this.

(once it's on Netflix or whatever)

In a restaurant if my wife and I order $12 hamburgers vs the $30 salmon, there’s no extra effort either.

I suppose it’s different tho if in a situation where there isn’t actual service…the way there used to be and pretend there still is at restaurants.

A shill for big-mask even before it was cool!

Congrat's on the 8 years off.

Yeah, sort of hoping the blanket anti-vax stuff doesn't actually make it into any meaningful policy decisions.

tbh, I'd even been wondering if the RFK/Trump alliance could make it all the way through to the election...Kennedy has a real 'big business=bad' kind of way about him. How long into an administration could it be before heads but, and Trumps latest best bud, becomes another 'lame brain' that had to get fired?

@xenon That's really funny!

I'd just been thinking of how far we've em, progressed(?), since say 2000...When 'W' was caught on a hot-mic calling a reporter a 'major league asshole'. What a big news story that was at the time.

If your travel schedule makes maintaining the system unrealistic, then you'd do just as well to leave it unplugged altogether.

A/C does help some in the summer...but there are often stretches where the humidity is high..but the temps aren't. Humidispray systems (that are only on when the furnace is on) are certainly much better than nothing. But in the northeast, the temperature frequently gets far below what would be a safe level of humidity to add indoors. So the system still helps quite a bit in those cases.

@LuFins-Dad Of course. Why else would they have a Whitney spinet?

I was thinking Bidenflation. Saving lives one overpriced egg at a time.

Edit—overlooked the news on the Frogs—sorry!

Great to see you here Brenda. Exciting to hear the kidos good news....(at some point, does she become the adult-o?)

Fun to read everyone elses updates too. Kids moving forward in life...retirements, etc!

@kluurs You should be aware if you aren't already...As the ages go up, only the fast ones keep running, so the AG wins aren't any easier....Enjoy them when you get em!

I mentioned in another thread, I'm grandpa now, so this is how I spend a lot time these days:

So then how did this used to be done and these places stay open? The small hospital in my town, had a birthing center for decades. Over a 12 year span, all 5 of our kids were born there. A couple births, a day, was the norm there since...forever.

Did something change to make the couple births a day model unsustainable?

@Klaus Interesting, in the U.S., or at least here in Connecticut, this would not be allowed. For instance, my older brother was divorced and based on his income, it was determined he would have to pay a certain amount in child support.

While the pay was 'ok enough' the schedule was very inflexible. So he went into business for himself. Ultimately he ended up making more, and having the closer to the schedule he'd hope for, but it took a couple years.

The court would not lower his weekly amount due, since his separation from employment was voluntary. (even if it was to ultimately lead to something much better) At one family court hearing, he was placed in cuffs and put in a holding cell. Asking the judge, "How can pay in I'm in a cell?", he was told "We find that within 48 hours, almost everyone is able to come up with it."

Well, the judge was right. His family came up with the balance...Once again, in this case, it eventually all worked out, but around here, if it is determined you can work and earn the money for your support order--you are obligated to do so.

@Axtremus Courts make these determinations all the time. Were you unaware??