Thanks for sharing. I’m going to have to look harder at myself after reading your post. Maybe I let people repeat themselves too much; I could definitely see that being partially my fault.

In a perfect world, no it doesn’t count. When people’s feelings are involved, regrettably it does... I have yet to work a lot with editors, so I’ve never had that bliss.

Not really, he taught basic physics, and after flying jets you probably learn a little about inertia, gravity, and speed vectors (wind). This was his retirement job. I’m sure he was getting a nice pension from the military.

I had a retired Blue Angel as a science teacher once. He got into it after being a regular fighter pilot. He used to tell us stories of spotting and reporting migs. He never talked about if he saw any action because science class isn’t the place for war stories, but that whole cold war era flying close to borders you…

This something I’ve been working on for a long time, and with little result. My problem is a matter of comfort level with my conversation partner. I am always annoyed when people repeat themselves, which is often in small talk. My knee jerk reaction is to get them moving onto either more detail, a reason, analysis, or…

I work at a private university and they don’t distinguish between maternity and paternity. To them it’s all just FMLA, which is up to 12 weeks. It’s paid if you’ve accrued enough STD. I got a full 60 days off of work plus I kept all of my 20 days of vacation, 8 paid holidays and we get a gift of time, Christmas Eve…

But that’s the point, if it’s baked into the TV service all of the data would be carried over coax very much like on demand tv. No wifi required. Hospitals actually have very fast internet connections, just not for the public, especially if they are academic hospitals connected to a med school.

Hospitals should do this as well. People spend so much time just sitting there.

It was weird, it wasn’t an all out audit, but it was also just on my state taxes. In about January of 2014 they sent me a bill saying that upon reviewing my 2012 taxes that were prepared in 2013 they found that since I claimed one thing, I couldn’t claim another and I owed them like $20. I looked back, and they were…

No gun, but depending on your taps, you can get growler fillers for under $10. My store is northern brewer, but their growler fillers don’t work with Perlick, so I don’t use them.

I’ve tried a few things, but what always works best is taking the lines out and washing them manually with brushes that can go inside. This is why I use fasteners that screw and MFL connectors, instead of the ones that are permanently clamped and barbs.

I have found that you can never keep your stuff clean enough, but when I switched to kegging homebrew it was a lot cleaner and clearer and I didn’t have to wash all the darn bottles anymore. Now my headache is cleaning beer lines, but I’ll take that over scrubbing bottles any day.

They will take my office keys from my cold dead hands! Our offices are literally in an old school, so they are more pockets of offices spread out along a hallway with classrooms in between, but I have 2 huge windows, a door that locks, and a desk that faces the door so I can see people coming. In the corner I keep a…

I got skimmed and a drug cartel (or so I imagine) tried to book a chartered one way flight from Panama to Columbia but the transaction was through a sketchy agent in Brazil. At the same time a guy in Brooklyn (I live in the Midwest) tried to use my info at two different Burger Kings. I didn’t lose anything either, but…

Yes, anytime your pay is ahead of the COLA adjustment you’re a winner. It’s good if you can get it.

Once again you provide the thoughtful answer. The more basic answer was covered by Chris Rock a long time ago in his OJ routine. “Should’ve had a prenup, everybody needs a prenup, prenuptial agreement. People think you gotta be rich to have a prenup, OH NO. You make 50 million dollars, your wife wants half, big deal,…

Well yeah, any video capture service could be used........ but not like when you’re talking about hitting record on a TV guide menu.

You can turn a PC into a DVR, but you need tuners, and based on your setup, you can only tune what’s broadcasting, not streaming. WMC MythTV NextPVR are all avenues of recording shows, but you need a feed. Sling TV is just a streaming service, that’s like asking to record Netflix, not gonna happen.

4thdeskonright is correct. If you stop to think about it, most of our indulgences aren't really rewards or "special", it's just us (all of us, because you're not alone) telling ourselves we deserve something, or it's okay because of "blah blah blah". If you're going to not care about the calories then you should care…

Not advice! There are a lot of good things on here but I didn’t see this.