My first is about to turn 1 and the wife is making noise about a #2, which fills me with crushing existential dread (to be fair, the little guy is awesome, always happy, sleeps 11-12 hours straight every night, etc... I just can’t handle 2, especially since there’s no way #2 will be that easy going)

Still preordered. No regrets.

This. My soon to be one year old son needs to grow up in a world not plunged into a nuclear winter by a narcissistic nacho scrotum.

We pay $800 a month for part time (2 days a week) daycare here in NC, and our teachers are fantastic, but we know they struggle and have to babysit and do other jobs in addition to their full time 40+ hour job... We pay at least $20/hr plus a tip when we hire one of them to babysit because we know how hard they have…

I made the mistake of being DD at the Derby infield one year. Ended up having to bail a friend of mine out of the infield jail (really just a chain link enclosure) after she was arrested for having sex with some rando Irish guy in the port-o-potty.

Probably just a mis-statement. I do procedures (in kids) where we do biopsies or drain abscesses or the like through tiny incisions using ultrasound or CT guidance with special needle-deployed devices, but we call that “minimally invasive” , not non-invasive. In my case, the kids need a band-aid, instead of stitches…

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I agree completely. I guess the reason I said “weirdly” is that it seems odd to be so smug given that his numbers are plummeting, he’s pretty much despised both in his own state and across the nation, etc.

I watched this debate (I’m a North Carolinian and, apparently, a masochist). McCrory was batshit crazy (and weirdly smug) the whole time. It’s actually remarkable how this gubernatorial election parallels the national one - a moderate (perhaps even mildly conservative?) democrat whom some find distasteful versus a…

My first thought was “good for her!”

Also, I never actually DID any of those things, unlike DT.

“All men talk like that.”

Yeah but then you have to build a big wall around the hole because you don’t want a bunch of foreigners pouring in and voting fraudulently.

Exactly what I was thinking of!

Please let them never take away his twitter privileges.

We raised ours in an environment where we walked her on a popular greenway trail near our home every day, letting people of all ages pet her. She’s never been territorial, aggressive, or standoffish (and she’s wonderful with our now 10 month old). The breed has that stereotype but nurture can overcome nature in many…

I played on a rec team in high school; the league was technically coed but we were the only team with girls. The guys (myself included) were a bunch of stoners with no skills, but the girls kicked ASS and were on our school’s varsity team during the whilst season, so we won most of our games.

I LOVED Arcanum as a teenager. Think steampunk fantasy version of Baldurs Gate, that’s difficult and doesn’t hold your hand the whole time.

I tried quoting the studies showing physician gamers have better hand eye coordination and are better at surgical and minimally invasive procedures (I perform the latter), and so it was important for my patients that I play lots of games. She didnt go for it.

Yes.