I’m remodeling a house and I’ve learned that my initial idea is always wrong and it will take me 3 days to accept the right answer.

You should see what happens at the hospital. Every item is single use in plastic packaging.

I spent about a year practicing sleeping. I stay by telling myself that i deserve a good night of sleep. Spend several breaths feeling my bed, pillows, covers, and getting everything as comfortable as possible. Then i spend 3 breaths relaxing each body part, feeling the weight of it sink into the bed, starting with a foot. I focus really hard on this to keep my mind from wandering. I’m usually asleep by the time i get to my knees. It took practice, but now those 4am wakeups are usually brief. The hardest part is convincing myself that i deserve good sleep and can let everything else go.

We’re not old, we’re experienced. I love that I lived a ‘be home by dark’ childhood without a microchip.

I think duolingo has forums for it

Isn’t that what Drunk Pete did?

Luigi

When you’re fancy enough to bowl in your own.

Soylent green?

My grandma used to eat leftover rice with a little milk and sugar for breakfast. Kinda like oatmeal.

From Peter Coyote on Substack - I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret. Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

A protest is an invitation to a better world. It’s a ceremony. No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at. More important you have to know who the real audience Of the protestis. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them. If you win them, you win power at the box office And power to make positive change.Everything else is a waste. There are a few ways to get there.

Number 1 let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do. 2 appoint monitors, give them yellow, vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down. Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement. Number 3 dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum When you’re dressed in clean Presentable clothes. They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.Number 4, make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people.Let signs do the talking. Number 5 go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at Dawn fresh and rested. I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection. It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically. Nothing I thought of is particularly original. It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s. And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act. .The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this. Wake up. Vent at home. In public practice discipline and self control. It takes much more courage.

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Met in 1986. Began dating in 1989. Married in 1994.

Can you become roommates and share expenses temporarily?

Old cars.

Upvoting here is more “thanks for sharing” and less “i agree.”

I like to chat for free instead of for someone else’s profit. Also, theres a sightly higher class of BS here. And better punctuation.

I do. Mostly i say, “No. Huh-uh.” My husband says that’s how he can tell when I’m having a sex dream.

I shared this with a friend, who has 5-10 more years to work and i thought she would respond about retirement. Instead she said that’s how she feels as a mom to adult kids.

I have 2-6 years to go. I really like the work but admin is becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate. It makes me sad to think about someone else helping my school kids because i bailed on them. Someone said you sound workaholic but it’s really just about feeling needed and productive and helpful.