After a surge in car-buying statewide at the height of the pandemic, there are signs that some Philadelphians ... have made the decision to do away with their cars in recent years, bucking larger trends.
my favorite comment I've seen was people talking about this and being like, "they're mummer shoes? why are they mummer shoes?!?" So philly. redheadbaker , was that something you posted on FB? or somewhere here? I just keep laughing every time i see them though.
(mummers being a new years day parade thing in philly. image for explanation)
Nope, wasn't me! But that's exactly what they are!
ETA: And I had to make a post about it now that you pointed it out, LOL.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 19, 2024 19:18:03 GMT -5
I replace them when they need to be replaced. I don't pay attention to what part of the school year we're in. He's going to need them all summer anyway.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 19, 2024 18:26:16 GMT -5
I think I have everybody beat with small district size, LOL. District covers .5 sq mile. The entire school district has less than 800 students (that's fewer students than my high school graduating class). One building (covering two square blocks) houses elementary on side (with one principal), middle and high school on the other (one principal for both), with the center link housing a community room, and principals' offices. We have a superindentent, no asst. superintendent. No buses.
DS walks to school with his best friend. Bad weather? Grab an umbrella.
Donald Trump is selling sneakers. Seriously, sneakers. Not for the campaign, not for charity. Just sneakers. For money. They are gold high tops (bc of course they are- like, dipped in bright gold) with an embellished T in the side and a US flag around the back.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 16, 2024 15:43:45 GMT -5
We got a Gizmo watch first, and while it worked well at first, it stopped charging, no matter how many times we cleaned the contacts, adjusted how it sat on the charger, etc.
So, we bought him a Kyocera flip phone (not a smart phone).
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 16, 2024 13:05:10 GMT -5
I know this has come up before in discussions about saving for college.
Under SECURE 2.0, up to $35,000 in a 529 account to be rolled over to a Roth individual retirement account for the beneficiary of the 529 account if certain conditions are met (the 529 account must have been open for at least 15 years, and no contributions or earnings from the past five years can be transferred. Up to $35,000 can be transferred in total — but transfers are limited to the maximum annual Roth contribution, which in 2024 is $7,000 for people younger than 50).
When Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, stood on the House floor this month to announce her proposal to censure the only Somali-born member of Congress, she said she was seeking punishment for “Representative Ilhan Omar of Somalia — I mean Minnesota.”
Earlier that same week, Representative Troy Nehls, Republican of Texas, called the Black husband of another Democratic woman of color, Representative Cori Bush of Missouri, a “thug.” He then said Ms. Bush, who is also Black, had received so many death threats because she was “so loud all the time.”
At a hearing across the Capitol, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, grilled the chief executive of TikTok, Shou Chew, about his nation of origin. Mr. Cotton repeatedly demanded to know whether Mr. Chew, who is from Singapore and of Chinese descent, was Chinese, held a Chinese passport or was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
“No, senator — again, I’m Singaporean,” Mr. Chew responded with agitation after saying several times that he was not Chinese.
Around the same time, House Republicans released their report on impeachment charges against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the Cuban-born homeland security secretary who is the first Latino to lead his department. Using unusually loaded language for a committee report, the panel described its action as “deporting Secretary Mayorkas from his position.”
In private, the language was uglier. During a closed-door meeting of House Republicans, Representative Mark E. Green, Republican of Tennessee and the panel’s chairman, referred to Mr. Mayorkas as a “reptile with no balls” because of his refusal to resign from his post, according to Politico. A White House official condemned the statement, noting that Mr. Mayorkas is Jewish and that the comment echoed an antisemitic trope.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 12, 2024 21:56:24 GMT -5
Yes, he is a great caretaker. Sometimes he worries about my health more than I do. When I had my wisdom tooth removal, he made sure I took my meds and had soft foods.
If I’m sick, he’ll let me sleep in and he will get DS up for school, give him breakfast, pack his lunch, etc. He does more cleaning than I do even when I feel fine …
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 9, 2024 18:49:03 GMT -5
I guess because of my job, but we live in the the particular borough that we're in because the apartment we moved to didn't have dog breed restrictions.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 9, 2024 15:20:21 GMT -5
I almost miss the "old days" where you had to wait for your doctor to call you with blood test results. Now, I get a notification and can see the results in my online chart, but have no idea what they mean, so I'm googling.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 5, 2024 18:25:38 GMT -5
H trimmed the fat off a cut of pork, and gave the trimmings to the dogs. I came home from work the next day to puddles of dog diarrhea EVERYWHERE. Of course, on the night of the week that he had to stay late at work (he worked at a school at the time, running an after-school social skills program). I was also pregnant at the time.
ETA: I do not clean up vomit. If I tried to, there'd just be twice as much vomit for H to clean up.
My job is collaborative. And even with me returning to office, it's going to remain collaborating remotely because my colleagues are spread all over the country. So why the fuck should I have to return to the office?
So, yeah, I'm going to keep fucking whining about it.
Sorry not sorry that I didn't explicitly say that we collaborate in person. I would've thought "it's very job and company specific" covered that but apparently not.
So, you post about your specific office's situation and tell "general" society to stop whining about RTO?
But we have collaborative jobs. The work isn't one person doing a thing by themselves. So I think it's pretty evident why the above is all true for us. It's very job and company dependent and painting broad strokes either way is foolish. Some jobs are better done remotely. Some jobs are better done in person. Some companies will make you work in person no matter what; others are fully remote. Can we stop debating it and whining about it (general we as a society) and just let everyone find a job that fits what they want?
Seriously?
My job is collaborative. And even with me returning to office, it's going to remain collaborating remotely because my colleagues are spread all over the country. So why the fuck should I have to return to the office?
So, yeah, I'm going to keep fucking whining about it.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 3, 2024 20:14:37 GMT -5
He knows that I **hate** having blood drawn. It's always an ordeal b/c I have awful veins yet no phlebotomist believes me when I tell them. If it's just a test or two, I'm ok, but if it's going to be a lot, I don't even have to ask him to come with me -- he asks what day the appointment is and requests off.
On the days we are both working from home, he makes me breakfast. He knows I like my scrambled eggs a little on the runny side and lots of butter on my English muffin.
If I look frazzled in the morning, he asks what he can take off my plate. If I'm stressed out, he'll pick up peanut butter chocolate ice cream as a treat for me.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 2, 2024 23:27:05 GMT -5
We can only afford to send DS 4 days a week for 7 out of the 9 weeks with no before or after care -- that alone is $3.7K. Thank goodness at least H or I will be working at home each day of the week (stupid return to office mandate ) and both of my parents are retired, so he could go there for the day if needed.
So...how does it work? do you actually eat them together? Are you dipping your cinnamon rolls in the chili like naan bread in your chicken tikka or are they just served at the same time and don't touch? Also what style of chili? is it more texas (mostly meat) or the essentially bean stew they do most other place?
I'm not usually fussy about foods mixing, but I can't make that much sugar make sense in my head with chili. But I love cinnamon rolls. and I love chili. I could be convinced.
I dip it in the chili (meat and beans type chili but any would probably work). It's not complicated.
We have been in the office for almost 2 years by now, started with 3 days/week and have been 4 days/week for the past year. It surprises me when so many companies are not “back to the office”. By now haven’t orgs figured out if full time work from home works for their business or not?
I think a lot of companies are locked into leases of office space and want people in there. Then tell people "productivity!" "collaboration!" even though it's just money.
Honestly, my biggest issue with working at the office is *getting to* the office. Packing up all my shit, making sure I remember everything, remembering to get a lunch together, actually getting a lunch together, driving to the office, parking, walking in (it's a big parking lot) and making the trek to my desk is... a lot. So much time I could be spending doing other things. Like work. 😉
This is my biggest issue too. I actually like when I'm in the office, but it's so much more logistics and as a naturally disorganized person who struggles to get up in the morning, that's a lot to add to the day.
Yeah, I have a morning routine, and even a three-day weekend is enough to completely throw me off and make me forget at least one or two things I'm supposed to do -- like take my meds.
I’m just more surprised at how much people like WFH, so I must be doing it wrong when I have to do it.
If more of the colleagues I work directly with every day were also in the office, I'd be less angry. But as I said up-thread, I'm the only graphic designer (on my team of 8) in my state. The Editorial team members I work with most are on the West Coast.
I'm going to be commuting (more gas $, more wear and tear on my car) to the office to work remotely with my colleagues rather than working with them remotely at home.
I'm also an introvert -- chit-chatting and "being on" all day makes me exhausted.
And in particular, our set-up (not getting to choose what day you go in, my workstation not being anywhere near the rest of the Marketing team) makes me angry. And the bullshit reason. No one is buying the "spontaneous in-person collaboration" crap.
My husband's team reworked THEIR in-office rotation so that H could be home to be with our senior dog on days I have to go to the office -- paying someone to come every 3 to 4 hours to let him out is not in our budget.
Ditto. They’ve literally said it’s not about productivity. It’s about the CuLtUrE. Even though we have offices and teams scattered about and a good amount of fully virtual employees so all of my meetings are still on Teams.
Yeah, I'm the only one on my team in my state. When I pointed this out, they said to focus on collaborating with other teams. ::eyeroll::
Oh and also, I use a Mac while most of the rest of marketing uses PCs. There are only 8 workstations with Mac ports (and possibly more Mac users then Mac workstations, but not sure), and they are no where near the workstations where the rest of marketing will be sitting. IT refuses to move the Mac workstations, and there isn't enough room for marketing to move near the Mac workstations.
We're not even being told it will "improve productivity." We're told it will "facilitate those spontaneous, in-person meetings" that we allegedly had before COVID (even though those never happened before).
Ditto. They’ve literally said it’s not about productivity. It’s about the CuLtUrE. Even though we have offices and teams scattered about and a good amount of fully virtual employees so all of my meetings are still on Teams.
Yeah, I'm the only one on my team in my state. When I pointed this out, they said to focus on collaborating with other teams. ::eyeroll::
"A recent article from Fox News dinging Swift for flying on her personal plane from New Jersey to Maryland on Sunday to watch Kelce (and the Chiefs) play in the AFC championship game against the Baltimore Ravens. According to a Reddit account that tracks Swift’s jet and was cited in the Fox News article, that trip “cost $1,328 for the fuel and produced three tons of CO2 emissions.”
Every so often, Fox News comes dangerously close to making a solid point before swerving at the last second to avoid it."
You'll still see them at "craft" fairs (and trying to worm their way into art fairs). They also seem to pop up any time someone posts that they're looking for work, lol.
I volunteered for the first time last year to help organize my borough's annual art fair. I successfully convinced them to not allow MLMs. Or AI-generated art
I've asked this before, but I'm a researcher and this is my soapbox: Has anyone who works somewhere that is requiring RTO been shown any evidence that their company's performance/productivity/whatever measure was negatively affected by remote work? Actual evidence, not "Oh, CEO feels like there's less productivity because he can't watch people sitting at their desks..." The biz journals keep churning out these pieces about how remote work is bad for "productivity" but then there is no data cited in support of that claim. There's not even a definition of what productivity means. *eye twitch
[I'm fully remote, permanently.]
We're not even being told it will "improve productivity." We're told it will "facilitate those spontaneous, in-person meetings" that we allegedly had before COVID (even though those never happened before).