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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??

@Mik Indeed. I wonder if it also allows first responders to take action to stop the act by default. For instance, if they were called to the scene of a person sitting in their running car in the garage....they are allowed to break a window, open the garage, get them to a hospital, etc. Even if their intentions were clear.

Zelenskys comments in the New Yorker interview are a bit of a yawner to me. Probably more unsettling is allowing him to come to the US, and start signing bombs that will be used to kill people in a conflict that is not our own. Even more inappropriate to have US officials doing so.

I don't care who they are, anyone showing up at my door looking for votes is going to get told to 'fuck off' from my talking doorbell.

Ok, probably not that harsh, but the only time it's ever happened was for someone I was probably going to vote for anyway...but man the whole fake conversation was so awkard. There he was, fishing around for some important issue we could bond over. Waste of time for both of us.

Just under 4 from mom, and a little over 5 from dad.

I have three brothers....One lives with my mom, one lives in the same town, the other lives 19 miles away...thus bucking the trend, lol

That’s good to hear…hope the recovery continues!

Good to see you around LW (I’d been ctpianotech prior to switching to this forum)

Looks like 89 has you covered on the potty tips, and sounds like you’re doing great with the little one!

As for me, I can’t update the avatar without windows paint, but earlier this year got a new title…grandpa

My guess is Kamala would be ahead of Desantis. I’m more or less with Ron policy wise, but man, he has all the charisma of a wet fart.

Got yer ride in—nice! (although could have just gone metric, and done 56k)

Happy (late) birthday

I dunno, it doesn't say much good about Walz's brother either. If I couldn't support my brother, I could at least shut the fuck up. Family stuff stays in-house.