Thanks, everyone for straightening me out. It is helpful and good to know!

I agree. I am completely open to being wrong, but it seems to me that a manager having these discussions about family matters at work, while compassionate-sounding on the part of the manager, sounds like it might also be illegal.

This is very nice. Well done.

I use Gmail in Chrome on a Mac and I was having a problem where Gmail would just hang forever on the logo screen. What I found was that if I went to Gmail from a bookmark, it would stick like that. However, if I simply went to www.gmail.com, I did not have the problem. 

It may be another plug-in interfering with this one, but when I right-click on an email, I get weirdness at the top of the screen, a whole bunch of overlapping text.

You really should have asked permission before using a photo of me.

The title of this post made my day.

The title of this post made my day.

I just looked up Blessing of a Skinned Knee on Amazon, and it now says “Using timeless teachings,” so I guess they changed the title for later editions. Still good stuff. I will have to check out the B- book.

When I was preparing to become a father, I was given a copy of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel. I cannot say enough good things about it, and I am not even Jewish. The book is a good antidote to the tendency to over-parent. Highly recommended.

I am using this mouse as I write this. For less than $20, it is unbeatable. I don’t realize how much I appreciate it until I use another mouse.

I am using this mouse as I write this. For less than $20, it is unbeatable. I don’t realize how much I appreciate it…

I’m still waiting for “Hal.”

I was able to purchase a large tree for the price of a medium this year by buying one with mud on it. Saved about $20. 

My youngest daughter just barely missed the cutoff to start school a year earlier (she was born in October). My wife (a teacher) was afraid our daughter would be bored spending an extra year in preschool and was ready to push for her to get an exemption and start school early, but what kept us from doing it was…

This article is filled with good advice. Almost twenty years ago, I went from working in a small, urban office to working alone in a home office in a rural community and I almost lost my mind at first. Creating routines including being the one who drove my child to preschool in the morning helped, because I still had…

This is so true. A church I once pastored had a food pantry, and we could purchase non-perishable food for pennies on the dollar from larger regional food banks and then provide it to our clients, which was a better deal than anyone could get at the grocery store. It was also nice when we had money, because we could…

I love Anne Lamott. I can’t wait to listen to this.

I just realized I can do this on my iPhone in Swiftkey. Trying it now.

In 2016, I purchased two cars from CarMax in three months, and both cars are lemons. The notion that they check their used cars more thoroughly than anyone else is horseshit. Never fucking again.

Agreed

I have found Boomerang a great add-in for Gmail. It can parse a date in an email and turn it into a link. Hover over the link, and it shows your GCal for that day in a popup box. Click on the link, and turns the email into a calendar event. It even can do a pretty good job of guessing the location of the event and add…