Do your work, there’s going to be a lot of back-and-forth and probably at least one legal challenge to work through before we have a final result so you won’t be missing anything

Just be careful when you do, because there’s a risk of screwing up your retirement savings. Losing employer contributions that could have kicked in if you held out another 6 months or whatever. (I’m not an expert on this subject by the way, and ymmv)

Aaaand they’re gone

Or maybe it’s about relative protection of cosmonaut suits vs astronaut suits, like they thought, “well maybe not quite as well as an astronaut, but better than a cosmonaut”

This is not what we have in Los Angeles. We have bus lanes on the right in many places, where cars can only enter if they’re turning right. We have HOV lanes on freeways, on the left. It’s not a California thing

Hard agree. Ads, what ads? Those are just swaths of color in my peripheral vision. I watch old-timey television too, and those ads are my free time to do whatever else, like pee or get snacks.

Is that one of those Paul Dinning videos? Our old cat used to love those.

Real Linux aficionados don’t have cars; that would require leaving the basement.

And in certain tones and context, a man saying the last one to a woman could sound a bit predatory. I’m sure you’ll use good judgement.

Yeah I get that, literally blood money

If you want to practice compliments, a safe choice is often some version of “cute shoes!” Obviously some shoes aren’t cute, they’re “super” or “dapper,” or (some adjective I’m too old and out of touch to know) or “I bet you can run real fast in them.”

I donate blood at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center because I know it’s going directly to the hospital. Of course I expect it to be used for others, but on a selfish note, it helps keep their supply of my blood type topped up just in case I need some one day.

It’s definitely not a me thing so it might be a you thing, does drinking water help? Maybe you should ask your doctor about it.

He looks like the flock that visits my neighbors’ silk-floss tree in the mornings!

Well tbh the last time I got locked out was 1999 and I didn’t have a cellphone yet. I climbed over a railing (which now has spikes added) to access the pool area, went to our window, took off the screen and broke it such that the shards landed in the not-disposal side of the kitchen sink, boosted our toddler carefully into the other side, she climbed down and went to open our door while I carried the baby around to the hallway. My husband was home and okay but he’s a quad and couldn’t open the door. I suppose he could have called 411 to have them connect him with a locksmith…? We live in SoCal so just putting the screen back on (and cleaning up the shards of course!) was enough until we could get the glass replaced. And our toddler got to be the Houdini Heroine!

I can easily break into my apartment through the kitchen window, the only one that wouldn’t require a ladder, but then I’d have to replace the glass. We could get back into the building by waiting around for a neighbor, who would probably recognize us or at least not find the old couple with the wheelchair threatening. But we’d be late for wherever we were going, which is usually a medical appointment. When I go out alone I usually don’t lock the unit door because it’s more dangerous for my husband if I crash or something and nobody can get in to help him than the chances of someone breaking in with evil intent.

This is why my spouse and I both always take our keys when we leave the apartment.

It’s mostly delighted or pleased, although it can occasionally mean the opposite, especially in the military. I believe it started off as “proud.” This bunny is delighted and proud of his new rug.

I’m amazed he knows how to use a litterbox and not just poop everywhere. That’s probably how he earned his nice rug!

It works pretty well. You’re applying opposite sideways forces to the zipper itself rather than pulling on the plastic film of the bag.

Edit: if you want to be sure you don’t blow out the corner of the bag, pinch it with your other hand before sliding your thumb towards it

I was old enough to be disappointed watching it on our neighbors’ TV, because it was so far behind the science fiction stories I’d been reading when I ran out of library books and moved on to my big brother’s.