We started this with our oldest for her 1st birthday party. We asked for cereal to donate to the local food pantry. Since then, we’ve expanded that by finding out whatever the food pantry needs and asking for that, but in general - if you want to bring something, bring a donation to the food pantry and come to have a…

I tend to be by myself for business trips so often request a table/booth (preferably small - and rarely an issue if the restaurant is busy). I don’t like sitting at the bar as I don’t drink and have zero interest in sports. The setup is also not really conducive to me popping out a book to read while I’m there and…

Looking back over the last year, I’m kind of wondering who had actually moved on after the election. At least based on my FB feed, it seems pretty similar to the day after the election almost every day (though better having muted some excessively pro _and_ anti Trump sources - not friends, just the sources). Really…

Opted out of overdraft “protection” as soon as the option was available. The concept isn’t a bad one, but some banks decided to be “helpful” in the way they ordered your transactions so they rearranged the transactions to put the largest ones first, then the smaller ones, often resulting in a cascade of fees. Even…

Totally agree about HABA games. Those are great for kids. Would have appreciated seeing more games that aren’t just “games you can find at Wal-mart” because there are a lot of really good games for families out there right now. Ticket to Ride Junior, Rhino Hero, Animal Upon Animal - all good games. I will agree that…

I ended up following one of the “bargains” sites’ threads to a Dell in-stock deal. I had a bunch of Dell credit for some reason so used that to get the console. While I would have preferred the red/blue one over the gray one, that’s a minor thing. My credits were going to expire and go unused otherwise so glad they…

Gamestop had a couple of bundle deals recently for Zelda or Mario Kart that were basically “Console + Game” pricing, maybe a penny more. Order online and have it shipped. You’ll most likely get one of those titles anyway so it’s not a bad deal. And - don’t have to hit up the store to get it. You do have to pay for…

Charging while you sleep or while you’re just settled in one place makes a lot of sense for wireless charging. There are some great stands/mats available for a low cost. Easy to pick up and use, then place back to resume charging. Admittedly not great if you need a fast charge, but useful for longer term. You also…

Thinking I might do the same thing. Supposedly the business engine is a bit better than the consumer one anyway. Annoyed that the consumer option is going away, but I’m guessing they just weren’t getting the return on that side to make it worth keeping.

Wasn’t there an option to switch to every-other-month credits at one point? Still a member, but only get 6 credits a year instead of 12.

I’d be curious to know how you get some truly unbiased numbers that support a position one way or another. For guns you have facts that show gun control helps and facts that show gun ownership helps - different sources, different surveys, different people polled, whatever. I read the article and it sounded like they…

I picked up the lowest level one for my oldest a while ago - regularly having issues getting out of bed on time for school, which was getting to be problematic. Maybe part of this is psychological with the “new clock”, but since starting to use the wake w/ light, mornings have gotten quite a bit easier to manage.…

I picked up the lowest level one for my oldest a while ago - regularly having issues getting out of bed on time for…

Really helps to try to write something practical for yourself or perhaps a game of some sort to play. Without some sort of goal, it’s hard to really get motivated to advance much in coding skills. Maybe write up a web page or try to download data from some well-formed data source, hit an API, etc. There are all sorts…

Now if only I’d known this and taken advantage of it many years ago when I was in college. Me now would greatly appreciate that time spent being in better shape back then, though I’m sure I still wouldn’t have listened much.

We had it for a while and turned it off when given the option to do so. We had a horrible cascade of issues one year (again with the “largest to smallest” cascade which is now gone). Ended up being hit with a crazy number of overdrafts on top of some larger bills. If those hadn’t come out “first”, we’d not have been…

Don’t know about that or that it’s a rule of thumb. My first major job out of college was one where I was offered the job on the spot. It was a great job. I learned a lot, liked my coworkers, and grew quite a bit in that job. In this case, I was quite a bit more qualified than anyone they’d seen and they saw potential…

The fact that Crashplan runs on Windows server was a huge selling point for me. I help a friend out w/ his small business and he has one server that he uses for a bunch of things, including file storage. I can back up that server and make sure he doesn’t lose anything important. I agree that it’s a resource hog,…

You really need to know your audience when picking these games. I’m not going to recommend CAH because it won’t fit for the majority of people who want to play a game, I fall into the camp who doesn’t think it’s really a good game, and there are so many better options. Likewise, not going to recommend some really…

There’s a podcast dedicated to this - Low Player Count. However, you probably want to look at games designed for 2 people for starters - Star Realms, Epic, Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small, Among the Stars: Revival.

You can also look at www.boardgamegeek.com and search for games that have a community opinion of…

It’s a good game, but definitely “fiddly” to play and keep track of everything (even using the Sidekick app that’s available). I like it, but bookkeeping is definitely a challenge. :)