This is a well-timed post and I like the list of action items, as I’m dying for a vacation, but everything has been on hold for months while doctors look into agonizing health problems. Amazing how slow time is when you are in constant pain.

I thought that was because she was pregnant for much of the series, like Julia Louis Dreyfus on Seinfeld, and they wanted to maintain a consistent wardrobe for her.

“I’ve joked before that children are like sociopaths until you teach them not to be”

Once your memory starts going, using your name is a necessary device. You can’t imagine the panic that washes over me when I’m introduced to one or more people. I immediately forget their names, which never used to happen to me.

Meanwhile his sisters are slobs. (Biased source: every female roommate I ever had)

That’s when you develop managing up skills.

I have tried some of their candy and did not like it

Everything I have ever purchased from TJs was shite.

You consistently crack me up

I don’t think waste water treatment experts appreciate gum poopers. They already are overburdened with trying to minimize pharma waste.

40+ are Gen xers (I am a Gen xer). Yeah, I was generalizing the Boomers, but of course there will be exceptions. Most people are not farmers.

OK, but later Boomers still enjoyed incredible employment benefits and financial security.

That 20K assistance deal is not much help for SF prices.

In every way. The benefits and job security that my parents’ generation enjoyed have not existed for a long, long time; real estate prices were relatively much lower; spending habits are different because of the psychological effects of wartime and Great Depression frugality; etc.

I don’t know if I feel confident about comparing the earnings, savings, and spending choices of Boomers with those of Gen-xers and Milennials.

Food is not an entitlement. It is a need. At age 6, a child should not be dictating their meals based on personal preference so that it threatens the lives of the other children.

“Like, if they can play with toys without always needing you right there, that’s the big thing. If they can’t be alone for one goddamn second, then it’s a problem.”

Your self-entitled godson did not “need” those food items. He chose them because his parents over-indulged him. The kids with allergies life or death NEED certain foods and food residues to be removed from the school.

I dunno dude. I think you have to suck it up like the rest of us and find a full- time job (in any field) that pays much more. None of this in-between stuff.

Funny how lots of others in Congress had no problem announcing their support. Bernie’s campaign speaks to her values, and she should have endorsed him a long time ago. Perhaps at this stage she can’t, so I concede that point to you.