“nighttime fears, for which the National Sleep Foundation offers advice (I like the “flashlight tag” and “monster spray” ideas).”

I can sort of imagine, but where are these explained? I couldn’t find them on the linked page. 

This is what we ended up doing. Serta actually makes twin mattresses with a strip of super-strong velcro along the side so they attach together very firmly, and we put a king-sized pad over the top. Plus if my wife and I ever decide we want our own beds we can separate them. :P

Yes, I’m aware you can *disable* Safari, but I don’t think you can actually *delete* the app, which was really my question.

Is it even possible to delete Safari from an iPhone? (Not that I’d want to; the ability to look things up on Google or Wikipedia instantly is one of the best things about carrying a smartphone.)

Sorry, to clarify — you say you’ve “tried every liquor”; so you’ve tried this recipe (or something very close) before, and this is your assessment having tried it with tequila and brandy? Or are you just extrapolating based on other experiences with tequila? 

I just assumed that like the gourds it was decorative. A bit much, granted. Who’s actually got room on their Thanksgiving table for anything but actual food?  

Be sure to wash them, then, preferably before they get super-ripe. For some reason people forget that most bananas have a ton of pesticides on them. Neurotoxins — fun! 

All yours. That stuff tastes like old band-aids smell. 

 No mention of a quattro formaggi? Gorgonzola? Asiago? Ricotta? All of these belong on pizza (not necessarily at the same time, but that works, too). 

Came here to say this. It may be correct, but it’s not good. I think I’ll use “grand-cousin”, “great-grand-cousin”, etc., and then used “removed” in the downward direction as needed. 

Weekends are fine, but we just recently had a whole week off with a 1- and a 4-year-old, and yes, going back to work felt downright relaxing.

The posture thing is huge. There’s a specific feedback loop between the nerves that regulate the postural musculature and the wakefulness center in the brain. 

Keep looking! And keep your mind open to options you’ve never considered before. You never know what might work out, and if your current situation is really awful it might be worth a “crazy” idea or two.

Find a night job, and wake up feeling amazing... mid-afternoon. 

I’ve cut out caffeine before, and even after the withdrawal headaches subsided I never stopped feeling constant, low-level brain fog. I’m afraid maybe my brain has actually adapted structurally to decades of caffeine use, and there may be no going back? Maybe I need to give it another go and wait it out even longer,…

Hating humanity is a tough one, but you might at least be able to find a different job that you don’t entirely loathe. It’s worth trying. In the past, I’ve taken a significant pay cut to have a job I didn’t hate, and it was a fantastic decision. You might even find you don't actually hate humanity as much as you…

I replaced a junky old gross plastic thing I genuinely loathed with a stainless steel one that makes a pleasing ringing sound when I take it out and put it back. It’s fair to say it brings me joy.

Have you tried Freecycle or similar sites, Facebook groups, etc? I’ve given away a ton of stuff this way.

This sounds almost exactly like me. Getting better about it, but slowly.

If it were just a bunch of random “rich people” telling us we cannot sustain our current model of energy production and use, I would certainly ignore them. But it’s not. It’s an overwhelming consensus among scientists who study this. The argument that since the rich people are being (hypocritically) unconcerned in…