True. In my 20s, I dated a guy my age, and I still marvel at how mature and responsible he was.

I’m the spawn of parents with a huge age difference. I can’t imagine my mom with a guy her age. She has always been super mature and the HBIC, and everyone knows it. A younger man than my dad would have just been another child for her to look after.

Thank you! I’m surprised Gaga is still playing and that people are still going.

This makes sense! I’ve often used Citrix at home and only used VPN a couple of times at my old job. Thanks for explaining it to me!

Hmm. I assume that ISPs for healthcare organizations and financial institutions will have to maintain strict privacy protections. I’ve worked at several hospitals and know that doctors and researchers don’t always require a VPN to access patient charts from home. The electronic medical record system can be accessed…

I think* he was (is?) Justin Bieber’s manager.

Nope, never on purpose. After a few sentences, I usually notice that I’ve “switched.” If there are people around who are used to my neutral voice, I try to go back that so I don’t sound like a poser or like I’m making fun of the other person. I’d never realized how much thought goes into it.

Thank you! I live in Houston and interviewed Paul several years ago. He switches, as do I. I grew up in a poor Mexican-American community and went to a college full of sorority/frat kids from Orange County. I can’t help but switch between these and “Texan” along with what my coworkers call my“national anchorwoman”…

Wow, his appearance has changed a lot since the RNC. And not in a good way.

Aww, it didn’t work. That’s okay. I’ve been reading Jez comments for years and years, but I’m not super active on here. Thanks for the tip, tho - I will use it again next time I think I might be sitting at the cool kids’ table!

LOL. Thank you!

Eek, I’d never thought of that, but I haven’t heard from him since we broke up several years ago. Maybe i’m the creepy one,since I look him up every couple of years. Thanks for the ungraying info!

I’m always amazed when people are so off-the-grid. I have an ex who’s like this, but he works in the intelligence community, and he’s never had a social media account of any kind (not even during undergrad, when MySpace blew up). I’m sure he does other things to stay off Google’s radar, but I can’t imagine what they…

Hmm, maybe he left. Did you do a general Google search? LinkedIn?

Is there an online faculty/staff/student directory where you could look him up? You could also search the website for him. Maybe his department posted something about him leaving at some point, or there’s a recent newsletter that mentions him.

I did!!! It inspired me to unpack one of the last three moving boxes that have been sitting in my house for almost two years. It also showed my hometown and motivated me to reconnect with an old friend, who is an extreme minimalist who wanders the world with everything he owns on his back. So...thank you! :)

Yup. At the press briefing, Spicer was asked if Trump was happy with how Ryan has handled the bill. If that reporter was one of Trump’s friends, they may have planted that question to start shifting blame to Ryan.

The jerks at my company had a massive layoff the second week of January. They’d known about it for months.

Hahahahahaha

It makes my olive skin look kind of ashy. I don’t look good in it at all.