I and my mother and sister (Finnish and Swedish, mostly) get picked much more than the rest of our relatives. Anecdotal, yes, but we’re not unconvinced it’s to balance the numbers with non-profiled “randomness”.

I do this a lot as well. It’s just, i think i misbalance the importance of Y a lot lately.

(A small accident at work trashed my confidence, so i stopped working out for like 6 months. Every time Y was “i’m scared” or a variant thereof. It took me this long to remember to counter Y with “but the benefits outweigh even…

If i had a nickel for every time one of my ideas was appropriated by a male coworker.

Plus they made her sign her rights to the patent away for $1? BOLLOCKS.

Of course, i’m on maybe 6-7 patents and i receive no money for them. But still.

*gasp* Noooooooo.

My dad and his brother, my uncle, were about a year apart, give or take. They were followed by....2 sets of twin sisters, a year apart. Fortunately between Dad and Youngest Twin Aunts there is a 7 year gap, so my poor grandma only had 6 kids in 7 years.

BUT my point is, Dad and Uncle did okay versus Four Younger…

If the writer is single, that’s not unreasonable. When i lived alone i actually did load my lunch dishes pretty much every day, but i only unloaded once a week because i only ran it once a week. Sink i would clear while i was making dinner on the nights i made dinner, but again, as a single person, i ate a lot of…

In a similar vein, a former company of mine always had BS/MS level chemists accompany job candidates to lunch, regardless of the level of the interviewee. One notable candidate was interviewing for Department Head - PhD with decades of experience. He was so deeply offended at having lunch with non PhDs he basically…

Oh hell yes to this advice. I once broke up with a promising beau based mostly on him being tantrum-y and rude to a clerk at Walmart.

There were other small signs, but that was the deciding factor. Plus we’d only been dating a month, so i ended things swiftly rather than wait for Tantrum 2.

Yup, a beautiful former cat of mine was known as the $1300 kitty for his foray into sewing thread :(

Naw, in fact mixes can perform better*. You need a variety of personalities, so Huskies, malamutes, Eskimo sled dogs, and even golden retrievers and some German shepherds are desirable. I should have specified, breed and train, since the training of teams is the labor intensive part.

*Based on the experiences of the…

That’s a great fantasy, but breeding sled dogs and competing in sled dog races isn’t much of a moneymaker :( (That’s my post-lottery version of being a gentlewoman farmer.)

This is great advice. I am terrible at drawing - my handwriting is barely legible, no way can i even draw a circle - but for years i painted minis for D&D, Warhammer, Call of Cthulhu, etc. Damn, it was so meditative. My mental health was in pretty good shape for those years. Plus it isn’t a bad group activity, as long…

For me it’s the headache i get every day around 3pm. If it’s not gone by the time practice starts at 6, or when i need to be changing into my practice clothes by 530, i generally don’t go. I have tried pushing through but that usually ends in a migraine for me. I wish i had a solution to this but so far, sleep is the…

I’m so excited my company is having 15 % layoffs tomorrow and none of us knows the criteria for being let go!

Yup. Nope. Not working.

N. Cull toys routinely, and bring them to a place of donation with the child. Make sure they know what sort of people benefit from Goodwill (or shelter or halfway house) donations. Similarly, choose toys at xmas to give to Toys for Tots or whatever holiday/charity combination you prefer.

M. Do what my mom did as a…

Yeah, i had a senior manager (boss’s boss) tell me once in all sincerity that his 8 year old daughter’s stomach flu was tougher to endure than my BF of 2 years going through chemo and radiation for a cancer he wasn’t supposed to survive. I never did discern his reasoning.

My point being, illogical people often have no…

I use water and conditioner on mine 2-3 times a week, more in the summer. I WASH wash it with shampoo maybe....about once every 2 months?

I only use dry shampoo maybe twice a year, when i’m due a shower and i just flat don’t have the time or energy to deal with hair washing. I also make my own - i got the recipe from…

If you’re a gamer or you work from home, i can see how this would rock. However in the last 4 months i went from normal-wide to 2 monitor and back to normal-wide. I have to say, i strongly prefer the 2 monitor setup. Maybe it’s the way my brain processes looking at data in one window and writing reports or analyzing…

I would purchase a Purity Ball Gag ;)

Suddenly it’s really dusty in here >_>