Understood. You make some great points. Very similar to us too. We also bought our current place in ‘09 after everything fell apart and were recently considering selling and moving out of the area (SF Bay Area) shortly before things started going south this year and rates started rising, so we adjusted our plans…

“While those higher mortgage rates undoubtedly suck, I’d rather buy a house at a lower price and a higher mortgage rate than for a higher price with a lower mortgage rate.”

Yeah... Hmm...

“Batteries on Amazon are 100% guaranteed to be rejects. Amazon has a serious black and gray market battery problem. Don’t buy batteries on Amazon.”

“Batteries on Amazon are 100% guaranteed to be rejects. Amazon has a serious black and gray market battery problem.…

Beth, you have officially won my heart with this post. “This is why, for every vacation for YEARS, I’ve told my coworkers I’m camping. ... I have never camped in my LIFE.” That’s fantastic. 🤣

Ageism is cool.

Does that go for duplicate copies of Excel 97 for Dummies? How many does one need? 

Yeah, not for me. I saved hundreds of dollars this year between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, without question the best savings of the year on the things I’d been wanting. I got an Adobe Creative Cloud sub for $29/m, down from the usual $59/m. Got Moho Pro 13.5 animation software for like 40% off. Got a 1yr sub to…

I keep hearing about this, the “We’ll keep you in mind for other positions” thing but have never actually seen it happen myself. But it’s a nice gesture though and lets the candidate down more easily than simply ghosting them, which far too many companies do following an interview.

Clean each Lego brick individually? Honest to god, who with children has time for that...? Try that with 300-400 Lego pieces and get back to me. 

“This was confusing. But it also taught me an early lesson that everyone has different beliefs and God was apparently one of those subjects that was personal rather than definitive.”

“Despite how it’s portrayed by some, they’re not mutually exclusive. There are plenty of books, articles, and even university courses discussing the topic.”

“People deserve to be treated with respect. Beliefs, not so much.”

“I’m an Atheist; How Do I Talk to My Kids About Religion?”

I work in IT, and we’re considering transitioning from RingCentral Meetings to Google Meet in Google Chrome because we’re already a Google Workspace shop, but my coworkers and I who test and trial Meet are endlessly shocked by how many audio/video issues we have on Meet versus RingCentral Meetings, which has been…

There are quite a few tools out there that let you edit and recreate PDFs, some of them free, just like Acrobat Pro. 

“this is gold, considering the only advice I ever gave on this thread was to add “see a therapist” to the list of things mentionned in the article.”

“With interest rates as they are today (assuming a credit rating such that you have any business buying a new car in the first place), paying cash for a car that is more than beer money is really rather silly. Invest the cash, finance the car.”

I need to tether my iPhone to my Win 10 laptop often, and I always prefer to do it by USB instead of wirelessly when I can to extend the phone’s battery life, and it’s just so much easier when iTunes is installed because it also installs the USB driver.

Good grief... Now we have toxic positivity too? So we have toxic negativity and toxic positivity? How about toxic overanalysis? Do we also have that?