Walking in "just as the game begins" sounds more like "walking in just after it ends." It can take half an hour after landing just to get out of the airport so often (taxi to the gate, deplane, walk to curb, etc.) and then parking on the other end is likely to be crowded with the championship game. And that's If everything runs on time.
FFS it's kids soccer. They can deal with a little asymmetry. It's insane how seriously some kids sports teams take themselves. I wonder what we (as a society) are teaching kids by investing so much time, money, energy and hassle into something so trivial.
Can you print out a number on a white paper background and just pin it on (as if they were competing in a running race)?
she's talking NFHS rules, these are high school/varsity level rules. I don't have any skin in the game (literally), we dropped out of the group kids sports racket a long time ago, I'm just familiar with the rules and am trying to help people who aren't understand where they come from.
Thanks This helps me have perspective.
I still think off center shouldn't be a make it or break it thing (unlike safety rules or things to prevent abuse/mistreatment - which is where I think sports leagues have been remiss. Kids can head balls and get life long brain trauma, but an off center "1" is verboten? Who is making these rules?)
No tape is normal- it changes the placement of the number (so it's not standard and centered).
FFS it's kids soccer. They can deal with a little asymmetry. It's insane how seriously some kids sports teams take themselves. I wonder what we (as a society) are teaching kids by investing so much time, money, energy and hassle into something so trivial.
Can you print out a number on a white paper background and just pin it on (as if they were competing in a running race)?
We have COVID in the house for the first time (as far as we know). DH tested positive today. No one else has symptoms so far, but I guess we’ll see. We all have gotten the newest shot within the last 4 weeks. Anyone taken Paxlovid lately? Trying to decide if DH should ask if he can get it, although he’s not high risk.
By now you know how it's progressing for him. For me, it was absolutely the thing that kept me out of the hospital because my breathing deteriorated so much. When I called in to ask about it, I sounded so bad (needing to stop, etc.) that the advice nurse wouldn't let me off the line unless I had another adult around who could drive me to the hospital if necessary. They layered Paxlovid with two other drugs to get me back on track.
If he is unable to do low key, normal things I'd consider it.
The only Democrat back room deals I want to see are getting a handful of Republicans to defect and go independent, dragging control of the House away from the GOP.
Ugh the most beautiful house came on the market. Ugh ugh ugh. We can afford it, but we'd have an interest rate of 7% (currently at 2.125) and our daughter adores our neighbors. Ugh ugh ugh. Why couldn't this have come on the market last year when rates were good and she hadn't yet met our neighbors???
Go see it! Neighbors move.
The most average, (not exactly what we'd love but maybe we can make it work and also pay for it) house went on the market and I'm trying to decide whether to bite. Our current situation doesn't work. But this is just so not exciting. I'm trying to figure out if we could renovate it to better.
Our new neighbors keep their garage door wide open during the day and leave the stroller on the sidewalk. Where tf do you think you are, Mayberry? Bizarre behavior.
Is there a car in the garage? Or are they letting everyone know it's already been stolen? (I kid). I accidentally left the garage door open once (during the baby sleep deprivation stage when I could have lost my own head if it wasn't attached). The police knocked on the door to check on us. Even in Mayberry open garage doors are scrutinized. lol.
I have a stupid question: Why isn't the international community pressuring Israel to allow evacuation and aid by sea rather than focusing only on the Egyptian border?
I’m not sure but from a purely logistical perspective how will an evacuation by sea work? Where will the refugees go? Which countries are going to pick them up and take them to a safe place? I’m genuinely curious about how that would work.
I definitely think that aid can be brought in via sea and that it should but also consider that it’s exceptionally expensive to do that. More expensive than land convoys entering the region.Israel needs to reconnect with its humanity and set a conditional ceasefire so that civilians can be cared for.
The US spent a lot of time negotiating with Egypt about evacuating citizens through that border. While I know refugee evacuations are very loaded and difficult (since the world doesn't take in refugees easily), I don't understand why the Egyptian border is the primary point of evacuation for people who are not refugees and have a country to go to. Once you are bringing in a means of evacuation, I'd think it could also be a way for necessary aid supplies to arrive. Not logistically easy or cheap - but nothing about this is easy.
I have a stupid question: Why isn't the international community pressuring Israel to allow evacuation and aid by sea rather than focusing only on the Egyptian border?
They weren't hacked. But they didn't necessarily know to whom they were selling it.
It would be sloppy if NK went out of its way to set up the workers with fake information and documents at other steps of the way and then blatantly sought Americans to sell wifi to NK. I would be surprised if they had any idea of who was using it.
I avoid stores / hours where self check out is the best option in favor of places fully staffed. Our two most commonly used grocery stores don't have it at all. I bag my own groceries all the time. Most stores are happy to let you do so.
The most difficult aspect of this is going to be proving they caused the damage - are they admitting fault?
As far as the $$$ repair, ditto pp - that is a lot to put into an older vehicle. Do you know the value of the truck?
No, I need to KBB it. The cost of a new or used car may make the decision for me.
It might be worth looking at it the opposite way. Would you have bought it last year for $30K? If so, then go ahead. If not, that is basically what you are considering now.
Question two: I was quoted $11k for a new engine, labor, etc. If you had the money, would you pay that for a truck that you paid $19k for a year ago?
On the second question: We just got quoted $12K of repairs on a car with a bluebook value of 15K. We've found that once things start going wrong at that scale and those prices, it's a snowball effect and only the first of many. So personally I wouldn't spend that much on repairs. But having only a year of use before that has to hurt.
What does this mean? Like "I am going to get up and go to the bathroom. Next, I will go microwave my lunch". Like a narration of your actions and plans and feelings?
If so, no. I always have a bunch of thoughts swirling around but there is no narration.
[while microwaving lunch]"I have to remember to fill out that class registration. Do I have the link? Who would have sent the link? Wait - did I ever get that email with the 1099 to file amended taxes for my mom? I should call her.'
Most of the time? I try to pause it with meditation. And sometimes it will quiet when I'm listening to someone/something.
My youngest doesn't. They see shapes or something like that? Very talkative, verbal kid. But apparently no inner monologue. (this came up two days ago).
My husband is just over 6ft and we have no issues when he is in the back of our sienna. It’s not a common occurrence at all and for teens on short drives I wouldn’t let that deter you from the car.
If you can’t tell we LOVE our Sienna.
I think the hybrid Sienna puts the battery under the second row seats because DH's head was hitting the ceiling. And this is someone who regularly drives a Prius.
Our 2016 Pilot's transmission has died so we are looking to move on.
We started assuming we'd get a Highlander Hybrid. But my 12 year old climbed into the third row and her knees literally pushed her chin up the leg room was so bad. And if we moved the second row up enough she could barely sit, the leg room there became really squished.
So we tried a Sienna Hybrid, but the roof was too low for DH's head if he sat in the second or third row (while he isn't usually back there, we expect to be driving teens so someone his size needs to fit in that second row).
So far, the only car that has actually fit people in our family was the Acura MDX. (When we tried, we found the current Pilot has lost interior space compared to the 2016 model). We're tallish, but not by a lot (DD and I are both 5'7". A car should be able to fit someone 5'7" in any passenger seat.)
If you drive a 3rd row car, can a teen or adult actually sit in that third row (when driving for an hour - not just around the block or an emergency)?
Congratulations if this is the first time you have found this board inflexible on something that you disagree with. I promise you - doubling down will not change the new board norm. It will just lead to you being more frustrated.
Stupid X question. I was a rare twitter user and even rarer X user so I apologize for my ignorance.
But if someone posts something claiming to be someone say the Washington Post. Someone else could post something as the Washington Post (maybe have a slightly different name) just by paying for a check mark? Are there repercussions for the person who is being impersonated ? If so what are they?
I was - and then I just stopped keeping track or trying to keep up. I remember reading something years ago where the writer realized they had more staples than they would ever use, so in essence their staples would outlive them. I think of that. I am not worrying about my podcasts outliving me. Whatever I get to is what I get to.
From what I'm getting is that there is no passage from Gaza for American citizens.
Yeah that is kind of what I have been seeing. I guess I don't know what the answer is. American working with Israel to let Americans only out looks horrible given all the other innocent folks that are trapped. I don't know that israel even wants to put the manpower in to do that and America probably doesn't want to put boots on the ground to do it.
It would be pretty standard for American evacuation efforts. There are always other innocent people left behind.
The phrase that keeps going through my head is the title of a book about Rwanda's genocide: "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families." (The quote is from Tutsis trapped in a church before being murdered). The scale of all this is unimaginable.
I say No - we discontinue the use of Twitter/X links. It's harder for me, as a mod, to vet the sources as posted. I've never had to moderate source links since it's always been fairly easy to sort out the ones that are not legitimate/all out fake.
I say we treat it like hearsay testimony. (.sort of. maybe. I don’t use twitter because of trump so I might be wrong). If it’s a known entity, being quoted because they are the one saying it, fine. Not for the truth if the matter asserted. But as evidence that Matt Gaetz really did say this or that asinine thing in public (and specifically in his twitter feed).