Post by EllieArroway on May 7, 2017 16:44:05 GMT -5
I typically check out ebooks from the library and then buy a paper copy if it's one I want to own/read again/loan out. Sometimes I buy the paper version from the jump. I almost never buy ebooks, even though I mostly read them now.
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 27, 2017 18:15:24 GMT -5
My brother recently had surgery to remove a pin and screws from his ankle that had been there for 15+ years. He was on crutches but otherwise back to normal life a few days later. Anecdotes!
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 25, 2017 22:02:25 GMT -5
Oops - I didn't mean to post this without any commentary.
There aren't any episodes up yet, just a teaser that says they will release episodes every Tuesday. So I guess it starts next week? I subscribed, though. I like that he says he's going to focus on ways to get involved.
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 25, 2017 21:48:59 GMT -5
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson takes you inside conversations about culture, social justice, and politics by exploring the history, language, and people who are shaping the struggle for progress — and talking about the steps that each of us can take to make a difference.
I've always loved northwest Arkansas- Fayetteville area. Much more progressive and lively than the rest of the state and there's so much to do in Arkansas if you enjoy the outdoors.
This is where I live. We built a 4 bed/3 bath house last year for $210k. I'm in tech - this is a great place for that. We have the major well established companies that everyone knows but startups are popping up in Fayetteville left and right, too. Excellent hiking/biking/swimming. Consistently on those lists of happiest/best places to live. Nearly everyone I've met is a transplant. The political situation sucks when you go outside of the city but we need more liberals to fight the good fight.
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 17, 2017 22:00:42 GMT -5
Both stays have been lifted. The state SC did block the two executions scheduled for today earlier, but the state is still trying to overturn that ruling and carry one of them out before midnight. One of the prisoners has been served his last meal. It's up to SCOTUS now.
In a case brought by nine Death Row inmates — six of them still scheduled to die — the judge said they were entitled to a preliminary injunction based on their claim of the potential for cruel and unusual punishment by the lethal injection process and unreasonable restrictions on access to counsel during the execution itself.
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 11, 2017 21:39:26 GMT -5
My email is firstname.lastname@company AND it's a super common, easy to spell name and still people get it wrong probably weekly in emails. I don't get it.
This is ridiculous - I looked up the drug and know it - it's Versed. Not a doctor - or executioner - so I don't know how much of it is needed in an execution but come on - this isn't some super rare drug. This is just vile. Happy Easter Monday, let's start killing people!
Also (source is Wikipedia) "Midazolam is available as a generic medication and is not very expensive.[7] The wholesale price of a vial is about 0.35 USD".
It's not that the drug is rare, it's that the manufacturers refuse to sell it to states for executions now. This has been a problem for a few years now. So the state has no source for more drugs when these expire.
Some of these are super lame. Some are recognizable classics.
TN - The Client - super lame NC - A Walk to Remember - lol
Seriously. And Arkansas is a Grisham too? I googled because I couldn't remember the title of a much better book I'd read that was set in Arkansas. I couldn't find it but I did find "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" which is a hellavu lot more famous than whatever that shit is. And sure IKWTCBS may not be fully set in one state but still.SaveSave
This one or True Grit should be the Arkansas books. I get it if they decided too much of IKWTCBS happened outside of Arkansas, but surely True Grit is more famous than a John Grisham novel??
Folks that have seen this recently - were people singing along? My BIL saw it (in NYC?) and said that people in the audience were singing along and I was horrified. He said he didn't mind, but now I'm scared for the LA shows. But no one sang at Leslie Odom's concert, so maybe I shouldn't worry?
No one was singing along when I saw it in NYC a few weeks ago.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 29, 2017 19:05:43 GMT -5
I tried for a while but I found that I need something digital. It was worthless as a calendar for me, and not the best for future planning. I was essentially just using it for daily to-do lists. (Maybe I didn't use the best methods though, to be fair).
I am back to Outlook and OneNote for my personal calendar & notebooks, and Confluence and JIRA for project management.
At this point we're not really saving anything for our kids' college funds, which I feel awful about but something has to give, and it's not like we can take out loans later for retirement.
So I know I said that babyharpy going to kindergarten will free up all this money, but I suspect that we will wind up just starting a college fund with that. There is no way we are saving for college while paying for daycare.
Yup, we've been telling ourselves that once we're finished paying for daycare (and the later our student loans) we will divert that money to college funds and catch up. But the reality is that we will likely be paying for my mom's retirement & healthcare by then, so who knows.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 28, 2017 17:17:05 GMT -5
We are okay with retirement savings but I fully expect my mother to move in with us in the next 5-10 years and I don't know if we'll be able to stay on track while also covering her expenses. She has nothing. Right now she's on Medicaid thanks to the Obamacare expansion but I'm sure the current administration will find a way to eff that up and we'll need to cover her healthcare too.
We make well above average salaries, but there's no way we can save enough for retirement, pay a mortgage, raise two kids, take care of our parents, pay off student loans, etc. At this point we're not really saving anything for our kids' college funds, which I feel awful about but something has to give, and it's not like we can take out loans later for retirement.
I think the problem is he blocks out time on his calendar but no one respects it. Like he showed me his calendar the other day and he had like 4 meetings scheduled at one time. I guess he needs to find a way to say no.
It sounds like your husband's job is a lot like mine - I am basically in the same position.
He needs to decline meetings until people learn to respect his time.
I'm currently sitting alone in my car eating lunch because I needed to get away from people for a while.
I always try to block my calendar so that I have time to myself at the start and end of each day. I have learned that I absolutely need that time at the end of the day to decompress and plan my tasks for the next day before I go home. If not, I tend to go home and hide in my room all night and my family suffers. Sometimes I stay late after everyone else has gone home just to mentally wrap up my day and get in a better head space before I go home.
I also try not to schedule a lot of lunch meetings because sometimes (like today) I need to run away from people in the middle of the day for a bit.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 19, 2017 8:58:18 GMT -5
Soliciting a 17 year old is awful, do not get me wrong, but I thought pedophilia was about attraction to pre-pubescent children? This asshole seems more like a homosexual rapist than a pedophile IMO.
Yep, when this happened I got one of those alerts like you get for Amber alerts on my phone telling me alternative numbers to call until it was resolved.
Only EllieArroway can ban from a single board like she did lys. Or at any rate I don't know how, so I'll leave it to her if that's what the board wants.
I think I created a new group that had access to all boards except CEP and added her to that.
I will do whatever your mods decide. But I can't get to the admin area from my phone anymore, so it may be a few days before I can make the change.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 17, 2017 19:32:05 GMT -5
Follow up since we discussed this here after he introduced it...
Sen. Jason Rapert has apparently given up — unsurprisingly, given lack of support from anybody else — on his effort to force the renaming of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock.
Note: A change.org petition to name the sewage tanks in Conway after Rapert is still active, with almost 2,500 signers.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 13, 2017 18:52:56 GMT -5
When I was a kid cruising was a thing. Like, we drove back and forth down the same stretch of road over and over on weekend nights. We would congregate in parking lots and switch cars and go to Taco Bell. There was nothing else to do. Lol
Now everyone has phones and activities and shit. When I told my little sister about cruising she acted like it was the dumbest thing she's ever heard of. Which, it kind of is. But anyway, she's 17 and just started learning how to drive. She really doesn't care, most of her friends aren't driving. It's just not a big thing for them like it was for us. Our parents bought us (the older kids) cars when we graduated, and little sis has already asked if she can just have cash instead. I spent like 2 years counting down the days until I got that car, and she's just like "nah."
Yeah, I don't find that to be true - lots of Clinton love still around
Even for Hillary? Almost everyone around me despises Hillary and just refuses to talk about Bill.
I feel like there's still a lot of respect for both Bill and Hillary where I am. People here still remember Hillary serving on the board at WMT and you know WMT is king up here.
But I do live in this weird little bubble where I barely met anyone during the campaign who admitted to supporting Trump, despite the fact that something like 60% of my county voted for him.
Ha! This thread reminded me that in high school my sister made out with a guy I'd dumped about a month earlier. Her friends (who also had sisters) were pissed on my behalf, but I didn't learn about it for another 6 months. I couldn't even muster up a shrug.
My sister briefly dated my HS boyfriend like 5 years after we split up. I thought it was weird as hell, but mostly because she's 4 years younger than me and was a "little kid" when we dated/he first knew her, so I thought it was super creepy that he then dated her a few years later. Plus he was older than me, so when they were together she was like 19 and he was 26. Gross. But mostly I was creeped out by him, it didn't bother me that she wanted to date him.