I think there are a lot of variables there. I usually sleep fine, but like anyone, I go through the occasional bought of insomnia, or one of my kids has a nightmare, or wakes me up because they barfed in their bed, etc, etc. If I have one night of ~5 hours of sleep I’m usually fine. If I have a few within a short…

This is untrue. Lease penetration for the industry is about 25%, a number that has been fairly consistent for a long time.

Outside of a few major cities the US is not set up in a way that makes mass transit viable. We could rehash all of there reasons for this, but that is the current reality. Sure, we could force it with major investments, but that still doesn’t mean the average person would be willing to accept and use it. I work for a…

I always pound my chicken breasts, and use either a meat mallet or my cast iron skillet to get it done. The skillet gets extra points, because not using the mallet means there is one less thing to clean afterwards. Speaking of that, I need to find a dishwasher safe meat mallet. The only thing I have against using the…

The interesting thing is that some Brits do the same thing with names like Rebecca. 

I really doubt the fake step-whatever thing is as prevalent as a real kink as those sites would lead someone to believe. I have no step siblings/parents/children, and that particular idea does nothing for me, but I do click on those if they appeal to me for other reasons. I suspect I’m far from alone. 

Meanwhile the OEM I work as a sales analyst for is laser focused on the current quarter. 

I suspect this has more to do with brain development than conscience decisions. You may have read my separate comment about my wife moving to the US from Russia at 10 and having no discernable Russian accent as an adult. I investigated this once, and it seems that accents become “fixed” around the age of 12. I don’t…

I’ve always wondered about the extra R head in certain forms of Northeast US accents, think of a Kennedy saying the name Rebecca(r). 

Toyota actually had significantly more fleet sales than usual in 2021. They handled the microchip situation better than most OEMs, and saw that in addition to retail, they could gain an advantage in the fleet industry. Due to inventory issues fleet sales were more profitable than usual, especially rental fleet. For…

Two unrelated anecdotes on this topic:

How did you not lead with the second one? I’m not the type of immature guy who says “ew, periods”, but that’s just nasty. Is there no wastebasket in your bathroom? 

It counts, but I think it’s a stretch. I’ve lived with my wife for 15 years and was racking my brain to think of something she does that grosses me out, and anything I came up with was clearly just an annoyance, and not actually disgusting. I guess that means kudos to my wife for not being gross.

I definitely still eat until my plate is clean, I just try and put less on it in the first place. At dinner I do allow myself to reload on vegetables as much as I’d like to, I just try and control the meat and carbs. Like a lot of people carbs are my absolute favorite. I also found that actually making vegetables…

The thing about “eating until you aren’t hungry anymore” is that it changes based on how much you are used to eating, or at least it does for me. I made some lifestyle changes at the end of summer in order to get my health in order. The biggest component were changes to both the content and quantity of my diet. I did…

Kudos, this is just so damn cool. I probably wouldn’t have the patience to do even one screen’s worth of the overworld, but now I want to see one of the dungeon maps realized in Legos :)

Drip, because being able to prep it the night before, and getting up to the coffee maker turning on automatically is essential for me. 

I love my kids, but that time without them in the evening is crucial to my sanity. 

My wife and I stay up far later than we should watching TV in the family room on weekends. Why do we do this? Because enjoying a few hours after the kids are in bed is like having a mini-vacation. I definitely do not have trouble falling asleep after this. 

This makes me think of something my sister and I did once, except we were not at all sneaky or clever. My mom had just purchased a box of those small flat-bottomed ice cream cones. Being flat-bottomed begs one to question whether they are still actually cones, but that’s beside the point. The box she bought featured…