I’ve never heard of a fulltime job in the US that was truly 9-5 with an hour lunch, meaning a 7 hour workday. The expected hours of every office job I’ve ever had have been 8-5, 7-4, or currently 7:30-4:30. Those do include an hour for lunch. 

Yes, conversation should be emergency only: “I need to get to the bathroom.” “You dropped your wallet.” “I’m going to puke.” If you are an anxious flier, find another way to self-soothe other than talking, like a meditation app.

1) Aisle seats, always.

I don’t lean my seat back. I used to fly a lot and I believe that my room is the space from under the seat in front of me to as far back as my seat goes.  So if the person in front of me leans their seat back, I have no problem with that.  It’s their space.  But I don’t like it when it happens to me, so I don’t lean…

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Get out of here with that bullshit. We have had almost 2 years now to sort that out, going down to the store and buying an N95 isn’t going to cause some nurse to not have access to one. If people who need these for their jobs don’t have proper PPE by now it’s on their employer, not every day people looking to stay…

Things “just work” on Apple stuff, but generally not in a way that (to me) makes sense or works well. And the limited ability to customize stuff on Apple’s OSes, makes me avoid them entirely.

Contrarily, your comment sounds like an Apple user who’s jealous their Android using friends. 🤷‍♀️

I 100% agree with you on the organization... while I like filling up notebooks with work stuff, it becomes a huge challenge to find that information when you need it.

You are aware that there are multiple religions that prohibit shaving, yes? There are also methods to masking up securely with your beard intact (e.g. Singh Thatta Technique).

I always print my boarding pass(es) at the airport. Always. I would never trust a phone to not screw up at exactly the wrong time.

Biden isn’t vice president. And I’ll worry about the guy apparently actively committing crimes before someone who may at some point in the past possibly may have committed a crime.

I’ll take my open concept condo with me to my grave, thank you very much.

I think I’d choose the Fixin’ To over that McMenamin’s. I feel like it’s always noisy there. I see people working at the Fixin’ To fairly often. Also I’m a sucker for rotel dip.

I’ve found that most places in SE are pretty chill about people working on their laptops, but I wouldn’t recommend somewhere like Teardrop or other places in the pearl. I like double dragon, double barrel, and this weird cafe/co-working space that also serves wine called Elevator, mainly because they have a ton of…

I actually just finished doing this with our two new Kindle Fires this weekened. It can easily be accomplished without root or adb. I followed the directions at

This just in, hack your life by actually looking at the food you buy.

Do you have any suggestions for a similar app for Android?

HAHAHA - until this week when I was too lazy to reorder checks in time to pay bills - I paid all bills via the check, envelop, stamp system. I had to sign up for bill pay this week because I won’t get my checks in time (it’s free through my credit union as long as I use it once a month, and frankly about time I used…