There was Home Depot, Best Buy, and Lowes. I looked at their in-stock offerings online and only one of them had something that would work. I tried out a floor model, it seemed fine. I couldn’t spend too much time on the decision because I was playing host and didn’t want my house guest to worry about her food spoiling. (She has dietary restrictions and enough food anxiety as it is.)
I did buy a replacement refrigerator based on “no ice dispenser, fits in available space” on a Saturday when mine let out the magic smoke that morning. It was delivered the next day and worked out ok.
I would not get something fancier without doing research. This one was literally the only refrigerator that fit the bill at the store (weird-sized refrigerator alcove)
I want them to only know “hot cross buns”.
Thank you for the pointer. I’ll try it out and see if I can recommend it to my colleagues. (I’m the library techie, so if a coworker has a problem, I’m the one they’ll ask for help. So, I should at least play around with it a bit first.)
BeyondCompare. I’ve used it for all my Windows text comparison needs for decades. It also handles comparing spreadsheets and directory structures.
Grief is complicated and doesn’t always look the same. When my dad died, he’d been in the hospital for a month for a surprise illness, so I had time to get used to the idea he might not make it out. His older sisters hadn’t seriously considered the possibility. I’d done some “pre grieving” and they hadn’t, so my reaction was a bit less dramatic? outwardly intense?
A friend of mine says grief is an ambush predator. You can be going about your day and suddenly something triggers you to suddenly drown in emotion. When that hits, I just swim in it, feel my feelings, all the complex emotions that come up–anger, loss, regret.
And as time goes on, I’ve gotten ambushed less often, but it can still feel just as intense. I have more practice swimming in it, so maybe I don’t have to excuse myself and hide in a work bathroom to cry anymore, I can just sit at my desk and focus on drinking my coffee.
(It’s after my bedtime, so I hope this all makes sense. There’s also the Grief Box analogy, which feels accurate to me.)
My bad. I should have linked directly to the one in the Miskatonic University archive. (it takes a while to load, but it does load for me, all the pages)
Am librarian. Here you go
An aquaintance was told “stop” by plainclothes police. He ran. He’d been mugged before and was convinced it was happening again. He got tackled but was physically fine, just shaken up.
“threatened to crash the car”? Dude was breaking the cardinal rule of being a passenger in a vehicle–“don’t distract the driver”. That’s dangerous and one of the potential natural consequences is crashing the car.
My reading: new legislation that will kick the voter in the metaphorical balls will go into effect after the next election, when presumedly the Democrats will be in charge. Voters will be kicked in the balls and blame the party in charge for their pain. This is despite the Republicans being the ones who passed the ball-kicking legislation.
Edit: and the only way the Republicans will be blamed is if they are still in power when the ball kicking occurs.
I’m also team cardboard tree! Mine is a small one that came as a kit with lights and stuff, painted it at the office as a holiday fun thing with the over-lunch craft crew. It’s about 10 inches tall and fits on the shelf under the TV, next to the PS2.
This year I went all-out and got a Christmas tree-shaped ornament to set next to it. It’s shaped like those vintage ceramic ornaments and tickles me pink.
Not a parent, not friends with my adult sibling: I suspect having emotionally mature adults around them would help. Also, don’t constantly side with the child with easier needs when there is a conflict between children. (Example: I wanted to not hear my brother’s music in my room. Brother wanted to play his music. Brother got his way. I got ear plugs.)
Don’t make the older child always do the selfless thing because they’re “more mature”. They shouldn’t have to share everything. (Example: brother got to ‘help’ blow out the candles on my birthday cake. He spat all over it because he was a toddler.)
My main use case is “hey, I need to make a change to this system I touch once a year. The documentation is thorough, dense, and I don’t know where to look. What button do I push to do Y?”
Are you my boyfriend/roommate?
Edit: he and I are both IT folks, but he handles all the Windows issues in the house. I handle Linux issues. He handles the router because it’s closer to his desk so it’s easier for him to threaten.
The online card catalog my library uses recently added an “AI Research Assistant” feature. While debating whether to turn it on (we decided against), this blog post came up. tldr the assistant won’t return results for certain topics. The is Not Cool. That (and the fact the flipping assistant can’t even limit itself to suggesting resources available in our library) is a deal breaker, without even getting into other considerations.
I once had a grad class that let out at at 10pm. On the bus ride to class, I was fine. On the ride from class my stomach was in my throat, all the nausea. After a few classes I figured out the difference: on the way to class, there was traffic and people getting on and off. On the home the bus just booked it over all the potholes because it didn’t have up constantly stop.
That’s also when I learned Dramamine [anti-nausea med] makes me wicked nauseous on an empty stomach.
I have a Bambu 3d printer. Can confirm, the comparison is apt.
That’s my partner. I just shop hungry and ask him to check the refrigerator for me while I’m out.
We also have a shared grocery app, which works nicely.
Probably, yeah. Tbh, it was not wanting an ice maker that was the biggest hang-up. We didn’t have a water line to the old refrigerator and I was tired of visitors trying to use the non-functional door ice maker on the old model.