My work in CPS definitely made me appreciate my parents so much more. They were great parents... but seing this hidden world that I wasn’t aware of until I started that job was eye opening. Makes me wonder looking back who in my school was having a horrible time. Considering the number of cases I had in a rural county…

Its like the sports fan version of Good Guy Greg!

Could she pick a moderate Republican? Not sure if such an animal exists that would work... Republican enough to give the ones who hate Trump a choice, but not so Republican that Dem voters would be put off by it. Huntsman maybe? Is he still around? Probably would piss off a lot of Democrats hoping for the job…

The number of shady boyfriends I had to deal with during my time in CPS was staggering. Even worse was the good chunk of women who would choose said boyfriend over their kids.

My sympathies :( Ours will stay up till 10 no matter when we put them down, so we stopped fighting it. Not sure why we were fighting it in the first place, I guess cause family/friends were aghast they were up so late. They’re getting the hours they need though, so whatever. I hope yours discover the joys of sleeping…

Our three year olds are sleeping from 10pm to 8 am, with a 1-2 hour nap around 2pm. Works for us, cause we like sleeping in. :D 6-6 would be too much for us, mainly cause my wife gets home at 6 and would never see them except in the morning.

Man those AOL text RPGS... remember when you only had a certain number of minutes online before they started charging you? Not just for the game... for doing ANYTHING online. I blew through that so fast between Neverwinter and Gemstone.

And that 78 million if invested even at a measly 3% return rate is making him over 6k a day... so he and every ancestor from here on out will be living comfortably without touching the principal at all, they just need to not spend every cent of interest and let enough be reinvested to avoid inflation.

When one of my daughters doesn’t quite make it to the potty and pees all over the bathroom, I used to be able to comfort myself by going, “Well... at least urine is sterile...”. No longer :(

Yeah, mine sat in a garage for over a year... changed the battery and it started right up. Still keeps chugging. All I do for it is the oil changes now and whatever is needed to get it to pass safety inspections. Same as you, around 36 mpg. It has been a fine secondary car... though it would be nice to upgrade to…

I bring my 99 Saturn to Jiffy Lube. Cause... it’s a 99 Saturn and runs fine and it JUST WON’T DIE and I can’t justify a new car until it does. C’monnnnnn Jiffy Lube, fuck it up!! The upsell is the most annoying part. Seriously the cost of all the upsell crap put together is probably worth more than the car! Just…

Hell, I worked with all women and got tons of shit for taking my leave. Sorry, ladies, but after covering for all your asses for 10 years of babies I’m taking my leave. The woman who took parental leave 3 times in 3 years was the one giving me the most shit. Came back for two weeks when it was done and gave my notice,…

You sure as hell can label them all on hotel property. And I’m betting after this incident and whatever lawsuit happens every Florida hotel will be. We’re not talking about a random pond somewhere... this is a place that already had a no swimming sign. They just need to add a stick figure alligator to it and... done!

Right there with you. I also spent 10 years in Child Protective Services, so I’ve seen an entire world behind the scenes. The major reason (along with cost!) I am staying home with them over sending them to daycare. It is a wonder to me how any of us make it to adulthood at times!

Hell, just put NO SWIMMING - ALLIGATORS PRESENT as the sign. That’ll let everyone know without beating around the bush, then again people might not want to hang out at the beach. Still wonder why they have a beach on this lake if you can’t go swimming in it?!

Just put a contact lense case or something over the name/address and take a pic.

A pearl necklace in VR? Perhaps you want a.... different game.

My daughter got “cured” of her fear of shots after having a nasty infection around her eye. The shots were horrible, 3 days of powerful antibiotics with a big ass needle in her legs... but we told her they would fix her eye (she was quite aware of how jacked up it looked). Her eye started to get better after the…

Champions... a supervillain was escaping in his personal battle jet or some such craft. The heroes were in hot pursuit in their own craft. They close the distance, their robot takes the controls and the heroes all fly or teleport over to or into the other craft. Except for my friend Rob’s character Shamrock. Shamrock…

Total War: Warhammer, until my fingers bleed!