Post by eponinepontmercy on Jul 2, 2020 8:13:03 GMT -5
Delaware took down a whipping post and people are devastated at the loss of history.
I didn't even know it was there. For some perspective, it's in the same town where a museum is flying a Confederate flag. Lower Delaware is like a different planet sometimes.
I should say that even though I didn't know it was there, Black activists have been fighting for its removal for years.
I'm taking a class, and the teacher started the week commenting on several women looking too young to teach AP chem and they could be one of his students (he asked their age and both were 30+) then later in the class praised the guy who was in the military and quit to be a teacher as a hero for us all to look up to.
Jalapeñomel, ugh. My AP chem teacher (28 years ago) walked in the first day of school, looked at our class and said, “wow, I’ve never had this many girls before. I won’t go easy on you, but the girls never get higher than a 3.”
5 baby!!
Yes, I’m the geek that can also still tell you my SAT scores.
Delaware took down a whipping post and people are devastated at the loss of history.
I didn't even know it was there. For some perspective, it's in the same town where a museum is flying a Confederate flag. Lower Delaware is like a different planet sometimes.
I should say that even though I didn't know it was there, Black activists have been fighting for its removal for years.
Oh LOWER Delaware. I saw that and was very WTF. Apparently the whipping post was used until the 1950s and only retired officially in the 1970s.
I'm taking a class, and the teacher started the week commenting on several women looking too young to teach AP chem and they could be one of his students (he asked their age and both were 30+) then later in the class praised the guy who was in the military and quit to be a teacher as a hero for us all to look up to.
My eyes could not roll hard enough.
I hope there’s an end-of-course critique and that you have the opportunity to light this shit on fire. If there isn’t one, well, everybody has a boss.
Delaware took down a whipping post and people are devastated at the loss of history.
I didn't even know it was there. For some perspective, it's in the same town where a museum is flying a Confederate flag. Lower Delaware is like a different planet sometimes.
I should say that even though I didn't know it was there, Black activists have been fighting for its removal for years.
Oh LOWER Delaware. I saw that and was very WTF. Apparently the whipping post was used until the 1950s and only retired officially in the 1970s.
We're adding a room to the back of our house. We have a concrete porch that needs to come out, and a new pad poured. The concrete guys didn't come yesterday when they should have, and today they showed up for 30 min and chipped out a tiny corner. I'm not at all impressed.
We're adding a room to the back of our house. We have a concrete porch that needs to come out, and a new pad poured. The concrete guys didn't come yesterday when they should have, and today they showed up for 30 min and chipped out a tiny corner. I'm not at all impressed.
Do you need a rec? We just had a guy come work on our porch and he was great.
Jalapeñomel , ugh. My AP chem teacher (28 years ago) walked in the first day of school, looked at our class and said, “wow, I’ve never had this many girls before. I won’t go easy on you, but the girls never get higher than a 3.”
5 baby!!
Yes, I’m the geek that can also still tell you my SAT scores.
My senior year of college (07-08) one of my profs told me transfer students always did poorly in her class. This transfer student got an A, thank you very much.
Someone just came into my clinic with a MAGA mask on - I am having a visceral reaction.
Remembering that we take care of everyone, regardless.
But OMG.
I. Can't.
At least he was wearing a mask - hopefully correctly. I've been surprised that the orange turd's campaign hadn't already been trying to make $$$$ like the grifters they are on the Mask market.
Someone just came into my clinic with a MAGA mask on - I am having a visceral reaction.
Remembering that we take care of everyone, regardless.
But OMG.
I. Can't.
I saw someone in the grocery store recently with a trump mask on and struggled between feeling like, “what an absolute asshole,” and “... at least he’s wearing a mask?”
I drove past someone today with a Trump bumper sticker, probably illegally dark tinted windows, and a huge command to “PRAY” written on the back window. They’re lucky my eye rolling didn’t cause an accident.
Post by seeyalater52 on Jul 2, 2020 17:28:57 GMT -5
Ugh the AC quote was too much (of course.) Just over $11,000 and I really don’t feel comfortable draining our savings that much given the uncertainty in the world right now, especially since none of the other companies can come give a quote until the fall. I think we will sit on it until next spring and see if it makes more sense then. RIP my dreams of being cool.
Ugh the AC quote was too much (of course.) Just over $11,000 and I really don’t feel comfortable draining our savings that much given the uncertainty in the world right now, especially since none of the other companies can come give a quote until the fall. I think we will sit on it until next spring and see if it makes more sense then. RIP my dreams of being cool.
Can you do a portable AC and make one magic, cool room?
H and I had planned a long weekend in midJuly. Because he is still working and I’m so immunocompromised, and no he needs a break, he was planning to tell his boss he needed to take the summer off. This would allow him to finished the house, plus quarantine for 2 weeks before coming home. Our trip starts two weeks from today.
Folks, he FORGOT THE DATES, so he never talked to his boss he has been talking about taking July off for 6 weeks. But he fuckimg never made the effort.
Got dammit! We have not shared a bed since MARCH 8th!!! And he fucked this up. That’s his excused every ducking time... I forgot. This is the shit that makes me want this to be a real separation.
Ugh the AC quote was too much (of course.) Just over $11,000 and I really don’t feel comfortable draining our savings that much given the uncertainty in the world right now, especially since none of the other companies can come give a quote until the fall. I think we will sit on it until next spring and see if it makes more sense then. RIP my dreams of being cool.
Can you do a portable AC and make one magic, cool room?
We have one really similar to this! It definitely does its magic in the room we have it and we have some window units but the main level of the house outside of the bedrooms is a tough setup for cooling that way. It’s ok, I’m just going to hide in the bedroom for the whole summer. 😂
Thanks winecat. At least there is a small chance he can fix this, and he says he will.
I’m still having problems getting over some stuff last year. The big one was when he was supposed to meet me at my oncologists office for the initial treatment plan. The only appointment I asked him to come with me to (other than surgeries). He never showed, which I assumed was a work thing and I wasn’t too troubled. Then I walked in the house afterward, and he was in the kitchen cleaning fish. And the place he goes fishing is on the way to my doctors office. So, it’s like he was on his way, and decided to go fishing instead.
This is the big one. I can’t get past it. There is nothing that can be done to fix it. And he was really good through most of my chemo and radiation. And he was totally there for me the first time around (16 years ago). But that was a big fuck up. And it just feels like I can’t depend on him when I need him.
I’ve kept that screw up pretty close hold because it’s so egregious. FISHING over your wife’s cancer?!?!
Funny thing, he tells me I’m “independent, to a fault.” I say it’s because my life has taught me the only person I can depend on is me. And he just can’t be dependable.
rubytue I’ll sit with you. Nothing nearly as egregious as the fishing fuck up but he made a purposeful trip to the pet store today, got loads of litter (8 boxes) so we wouldn’t have to return for 2 months, and bought no cat food, and then said it was my fault since I didn’t remind him. He’s also pulled the “I didn’t book off work and now I’m scheduled for three meetings so you’ll have to go ahead and I’ll meet up with you tomorrow” shenanigans.
I can’t always be the only adult in the house. It’s crushing my soul. He’s been complaining that I’ve started giving him orders. If the shoe fucking fits. We need therapy too.
rubytue- Man. I'm sorry. It sounds like he hasn't done the work to get your relationship past it. *You* do not need/should not get "past it" on your own. You didn't fuck up. He did. It's his job, his work.