Kaiser says something like be ready for a call 30 before up to 30 minutes after the official time for phone appointments. Video visits are usually more prompt. (15 minutes before? and they usually show up within 20)
But I don’t just sit around waiting either way. I keep the appointment window in the corner of my screen while I get other work done.
He's doing it because he doesn't want to endorse the presumed nominee.
that’s backwards. He knows the presumptive nominee won’t support him. So he’s getting out before he gets publicly humiliated and dragged when trump installs who he wants.
The donkey + star on the posters, plus the release timing made me think it was another Christian holiday movie so we never watched it . It sounds like we didn’t Mis much.
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
No kids 🤷🏼♀️.
I’ve been an adult for 30 years now and only has kids for 13 of those years. We live in smaller spaces than ML average. Lol.
Some people responding here don't have sleep issues and it shows.
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
We don’t have a second place for someone to sleep (our couch is not as long as either of us is tall). When we isolated for covid, the not sick person ‘slept’ on the living room floor in a sleeping bag. Thd house air vent intake is in there so it can’t be the sick person.
The ‘spiky kid’ thing isn’t new but it bothers me. Yes - for that one snapshot of an incoming class at age 18 I’m sure it seems great. But when you look at the successful people around you, how many are pursuing something they devoted their life to at 16? Let alone age 12 or 10 or earlier. That’s what it takes for the highly directed ‘spiky kid’ path - intense internal or external fixation. Even when a kid has that sort of focus (I knew a few) it rarely works out. they often have a painful breaking point when they need to redefine themselves and how they function in the world. It’s such an unrealistic expectation and so far from the change and flexibility real adulthood requires.
My youngest started sweating like a teen when they finally potty trained at almost late 4. it's been brutal. We remind about deodorant multiple times a day, every bath I explicitly say "don't forget to wash your underarms, feet and bottom with soap (and then smell their pits afterwards). Laundry detergent changes made a big difference. And still...
I've been shaken since Tuesday when I heard about the murder of Nex Benedict, especially the way the school and police are victim blaming and explicitly lying about the medical report.
My little one isn't even in middle school yet but I'm not ready for what the future could bring.
Doesn't COVID mess with other immunities for some people? I swear I saw one of you post something about it in the past - and specifically draw an analogy to measles wiping out immunity. If so, that is one more layer of risk on top of the sntivaxxer b.s.
I find additions easier than restrictions. What are your favorite inexpensive meals? What are the easiest things to cook that don’t break the bank? Make them more frequently and think about variations of those recipes /cooking techniques:)
Also - look at your actual costs. Many people here are saying less meat = less expensive. But for our family, meat isn't what is driving food costs. Perhaps if we were eating Petrel sole a few days a week, but fresh produce can quickly add up too. We often spend more on fruit than meat.
I am the outlier. I would split it proportionately: each kid gets just over 1/3 of their loans covered. 3K to your son, 7K to your daughter. She still has a larger financial burden going forward. Being able to live with family is a significant gift - both DH and I did that for a portion of law/med school and came out with lower loans than our peers. So I wouldn't discount that.
I skimmed the article when I posted, so I don't know if this was mentioned - FL isn't requiring the unvaccinated kids that were exposed to stay home. Which is against all recommendations.
Yet again Florida making it unsafe for any child . . . to exists.
$20 says that when they get to the damages phase of the trial, they ask for higher damages since Alabama clinics have ceased IVF transfers so now they have lost the opportunity to try again or use donor eggs or embryos.
Did fertility clinics in Alabama shut down egg retrieval and fertilization procedures today?
I heard on NPR that UAB, a major medical system/ provider for the state, has stopped IVF procedures for now due to this ruling. They will still do egg retrieval but no fertilizations I believe.
yes - I just saw that too. No fertilization, no embryo development and no implantation of current embryos.
The idea that this case can go forward given the facts is particularly mind blowing.
If you can sue a hospital for wrongful death when a patient gets out of control and destroys your embryos, then surely you can sue the entire Alabama government, education system, the gun shop and the gun manufacturer if a gunman does the same to actual children at a school, right? Right?
We don’t have free bussing. It’s $300 each way per kid for a bus pass (so 1,200 for both if we used it). And there aren’t a lot of stops. The school timing and route works with my husband’s work schedule and I’m the afternoon we are often going straight to an activity. So paying $600 a year for a few days a week of busing would be steep.
Lol. We used to have a speed bump at the base of my block right after you enter the neighborhood. it was annoying (but understandable, especially when I didn't know there were alternatives) and gunk would always build up on the "uphill" side after a rain storm (there is a very mild incline to our street, but rain run off could tell. Last repaving, they replaced it with a similar depth drainage dip running across the full street but at a slight angle to work well for run off. It's awesome. No messy build up after storms, no "kathunk" feeling when you drive over it. Low riders aren't negatively affected. But it still slows down cars really well. And you can't drive around it because it doesn't dip on the sides like a speed bump. People don't even put out their "plastic neon kid holding a flag" thingies anymore pandorica
It should be the new standard.
Is the roadway along the curb then the same elevation as the drainage dip? Or are there catch basins in every dip? Or do these roads not have curbs? How do they prevent water from pooling in the dip?
Ours is specifically designed so it feeds right into the curb drainage and natural water flow pattern. It actually improves curb drainage. It's the work of those crazy civil engineers and their planning that others have mentioned up thread. lol.
You still need to slow down if you don't want car damage, they help with drainage, and if you take them at a good slow speed they aren't jarring at all. Speed bumps are unpleasant to drive over no matter how slow you go. With inverse speed bumps, you naturally comply without even thinking (it just becomes routine) but speed bumps, no matter how wanted, are also always annoying to drive over.
I was thrilled when my neighborhood switched and would be pissed if we went back to speed bumps.
I think we just call those potholes Very effective, although hard to control placement.
Seriously though, it sound like an interesting idea. I wonder if it works better for low profile cars than the bumps.
Lol.
We used to have a speed bump at the base of my block right after you enter the neighborhood. It was an annoying necessity (but understandable, especially when I didn't know there were alternatives) and debris would always pile up on the "uphill" side after a big rain storm (there is a very mild incline to our street).
Last repaving, they replaced it with a similar depth drainage dip running full width across street width but at a slight angle to work well for the run off. It's awesome. No messy build up after storms, no "kathunk" feeling when you drive over it at low speed. Low riders aren't negatively affected. But it slows down cars really well. And you can't drive around it because it doesn't dip back down on the sides like a speed bump. People don't even put out their "plastic neon kid holding a flag" thingies anymore pandorica
You still need to slow down if you don't want car damage, they help with drainage, and if you take them at a good slow speed they aren't jarring at all. Speed bumps are unpleasant to drive over no matter how slow you go. With inverse speed bumps, you naturally comply without even thinking (it just becomes routine) but speed bumps, no matter how wanted, are also always annoying to drive over.
I was thrilled when my neighborhood switched and would be pissed if we went back to speed bumps.
Three different organizations around the bay area that support trans people in general or trans kids/families specifically have folded or ceased services since last summer and a fourth is on the verge of collapse. These aren't new. Places that have been around since 1982 and 1996. Something has happened and it feels like someone is coming after their funding because grants they have gotten for years have dried up.
How interesting. I never had fever either time I had covid & my symptoms were mild, but seems like there is probably a range of ways to interpret "mild & improving symptoms" as a barometer.
and don’t forget, for COVID classification purposes, anything that didn’t land in the hospital is labeled mild. Wracked with pain, fever, chills, nausea, splitting headaches, coughing, can barely get out of bed to get to the bathroom for exhaustion, breathing problems that resolve with medication rather than an inpatient stay? No worries. You have mild COVID.