If you are no longer able to care for a pandemic pet for any reason (regardless of how specious), be sure to check the paperwork you signed. The shelter I’m at contractually requires people to return the adopted animal to us. We will occasionally make exceptions to that, but we would treat it like a new adoption where…

I volunteer at an animal shelter, and can confirm that a lot of people that adopted dogs should never have done so. Despite being literally closed for two full months during 2020 we adopted out more dogs than we ever had in a year.

I think the chances of humanity coming together in the face of something like this is we’re fucked.

Check with the shelter ahead of time - the one I volunteer at isn’t currenly accepting walk-ins due to the pandemic so prospective adopters have to make an appointment.

Whatever angle you take on this, make sure you are talking to these people from at least ten feet away.

As the oldest generations of professors mostly . . . retire/die off, they are being replaced by non-tenured positions with dramatically lower pay and benefits.

Reminds me of the Homer Simpson app that used to run on Macs in the pre-OSX days. His eyes would just follow the cursor around the screen and every so often he’d utter a quote. If you moused too close to him he’d get angry and say “don’t point that thing at me” and then eat the cursor. A few seconds would go by, he’d…

Some terriers will live to be 15 to 20 years old

It was for me last year, although my mortgage is a few years old.

Bonus: Most kettles are small enough to sit on your desk at work, eliminating the need to consume stale cafeteria coffee.

+1 to waterproof shoes. I volunteer at an animal shelter and spending two hours walking dogs in the rain wearing what were essentially sponges on my feet was getting to be too much. I generally don’t wear things that I don’t mind getting ruined when I’m there, but spending a bit on some good waterproof shoes was…

Here’s Taiko, our 11-year-old Cairn Terrier mix, chilling in the back yard.

But what if I want to be the Posture King?

IT’S NOT VERY EFFECTIVE

It’s also worth noting that libraries often have reciprocal borrowing agreements with other libraries in the area, so you can register and use your card at more than just your own local library. Admittedly, that kind of puts the onus on the patron to travel around to the various libraries, but it’s another option that…

It’s a popular brand of blenker.

Our method was rather simple when we were juggling debt spread across multiple credit cards - we focused on one card at a time. We paid off the smallest card while paying the minimum on the others. Then we rolled that amount into the payments on the next smallest, and so on. All while paying for things with a debit…

For this reason, if you really, really want to set off some fireworks this fourth of July, don’t.