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Plus I'm currently living inside a condo built and furnished in the 'oughts, so there's carpet everywhere No real good way of keeping things clean.
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Most of the counties around us, including ours, full online at the very least to the end of first semester. They’re going to reevaluate for spring semester mid November.
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I wouldn't expect it to change. Google is keeping everyone at home until next summer, and I assume they didn't do that without reason. Saddle up, folks.
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They are in a connected garage, so they're insulated and kept out of the elements, but I wouldn't call that inside the house.
Plus I'm currently living inside a condo built and furnished in the 'oughts, so there's carpet everywhere No real good way of keeping things clean.
Plus I'm currently living inside a condo built and furnished in the 'oughts, so there's carpet everywhere No real good way of keeping things clean.
When I lived in Portland and bikes would come home dripping every day, I had a couple of plastic doormats under each bike
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The site has been really... interesting, though. In the week or so that I've been keeping tabs on it, I feel like I've become more invested in improvement. I mean, I had vague goals concerning power, weight and ultimately w/kg, but having this in front of me has only solidified the goals and the resolve.
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When I've gone down, it's like slow motion, and that's how it was for me watching the boy, too. I knew he was going to be okay and I knew that I could (narrowly) avoid running him over, but I was interested to see how he'd react. I was glad that he took it in stride and wanted to continue on, rather than turn back.
Side note for the interested readers: the boy and I picked up The Hobbit to start reading after he and my wife are done with their current book. Should be fun.
Side note for the interested readers: the boy and I picked up The Hobbit to start reading after he and my wife are done with their current book. Should be fun.
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Ha. Just console yourself with the fact that no self-selecting group of participants is representative of the whole.
The site has been really... interesting, though. In the week or so that I've been keeping tabs on it, I feel like I've become more invested in improvement. I mean, I had vague goals concerning power, weight and ultimately w/kg, but having this in front of me has only solidified the goals and the resolve.
The site has been really... interesting, though. In the week or so that I've been keeping tabs on it, I feel like I've become more invested in improvement. I mean, I had vague goals concerning power, weight and ultimately w/kg, but having this in front of me has only solidified the goals and the resolve.
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And yeah, I keep meaning to move my 401k into mostly bonds for a while. I don't think there's going to be meaningful (non-illusory/ non-bubble) gains for a while. The only advantage is we're starting to get ideas of what can be done, and what has to be done, and the jobs that can be done are going to be done and remotely. And as always, the marginalized people are going to be hit worst.
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When I've gone down, it's like slow motion, and that's how it was for me watching the boy, too. I knew he was going to be okay and I knew that I could (narrowly) avoid running him over, but I was interested to see how he'd react. I was glad that he took it in stride and wanted to continue on, rather than turn back.
Side note for the interested readers: the boy and I picked up The Hobbit to start reading after he and my wife are done with their current book. Should be fun.
Side note for the interested readers: the boy and I picked up The Hobbit to start reading after he and my wife are done with their current book. Should be fun.
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I do wonder how it compares (stress-wise; the lack of going to school is different) to growing up during the Cold War with duck-and-cover, the Korean and Vietnam wars and their drafts and protests, polio, and the other massive issues faced in the past century that I brought up with AG a month or two ago but can't remember now. The last couple of decades (up until... something happened maybe three and a half years ago) were an era of vaccines, antibiotics, no draft, no soldiers in the streets either integrating Alabama or shooting students, and relative prosperity. That was the anomaly, not the standard. Unfortunately.
Good on him, on both counts. The Hobbit was the first grown-up book I read/ was read; it was a bedtime story several times in a row, and I read Smaug's lines aloud in what I would swear on everything was a deep voice but can't possibly have been. That was when I was maybe... six? LOTR took a lot longer for me because of the character count; I would have had an easier time with the movies first just to have visuals of the different names. I remember one of my ill-fated attempts to start reading it was thwarted when I realized Sauron and Saruman were different.
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I made a grim discovery at the church this evening. Since I mowed the lawn on Thursday, a bunch of dead leaves have fallen on the driveway.
Autumn is officially here. The season formerly known as summer lasted a scant four weeks.
Autumn is officially here. The season formerly known as summer lasted a scant four weeks.
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They are in a connected garage, so they're insulated and kept out of the elements, but I wouldn't call that inside the house.
Plus I'm currently living inside a condo built and furnished in the 'oughts, so there's carpet everywhere No real good way of keeping things clean.
Plus I'm currently living inside a condo built and furnished in the 'oughts, so there's carpet everywhere No real good way of keeping things clean.
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Ha! I thought the same till book three! Then I was like “ooooooooh”
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Right now, you couldn't pay me to eat in a restaurant, or go to a bar, or go out to a movie, or go to church, or any other indoor activity in close proximity to others. I'll probably hold the same opinion till I'm vaccinated AND they're sure that my antibody titer is sufficient.
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There is no hope of turning a corner for at least a year. Probably more. Sad but true. Possibly never with a large chunk of the population refusing vaccinations when available. Then you have the (traditionally)corrupt countries, that can't even get everyday life together. Too much p & r? Mods please delete it.
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I've had similar thoughts. On one hand, I feel like young minds are more resilient and can roll with the punches better than those stuck in their ways. On the other hand, I don't want to feel like I'm leaning on that too heavily and I want to me mindful that this is the only childhood that my kids will have.
My biggest issue now is what kind of country and world they're going to be living in as adults.
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