The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it’s not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

It’s also California: the weather is usually really good. Maybe this “Becker” should add an amendment that requires bike roads to be built instead of parking spots.

I assume he’s against being proactive in problem solving, though.

You passed the one that matters: you’re interested in having a democracy.

I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm’s hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.

Nothing falls asleep improperly.

In all major US cities since the 1970’s that have a river in the downtown area, the percentage concentration of dihydrogen monoxide has been increasing! We keep finding more and more of it in parts per million in our river water. At what point will someone in our government stand up for us and say this is enough?!?

I’m in that track too! Soon, so very soon.

It’s quite the logistics effort unless you can afford lots of help.

We’re just doing it by hand, so it’s crazy most days, but we’re getting there.

Oh yeah. The hierarchical thinking inherent to the Conservative mindset is one of authoritarianism. They want to know their place in the hierarchical structure, which they wholeheartedly believe places them above someone else. Even though they have a boot on their face, at least they have their boot on someone else’s face too.

They truly believe there must be a hierarchy. They can’t seem to envision a world without boots on faces or that maybe we should work for a place without boots on faces.

You know, if we made individual cars larger so they could hold more people or cargo, this idea could get really efficient!

He knows, but does he care? Does it actually matter to him? I have been watching and meeting all too many people who have no idea just how dangerous the world can be when there’s no rule of law and institutions protecting us. They want through life focusing on little personal gains and never truly understand how bad the world gets once Conservatives start showing their fascist foundations and the mask comes off.

When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It’s not just eating them, it’s cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.

At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.

I’m just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they’re struggling to keep food on their own tables.

I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.

But it’s got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave.

Yes, and sorta no.

Statistically, US children’s non-health related mortality causes are sitting with firearm deaths at #1 and vehicle related deaths at #2. That said, it’s not just school shootings for the firearm deaths, so they’re more likely to die in a car crash to and from school, but firearms overall throughout their lives.

Both of these categories are climbing year to year, with firearms growing faster than car deaths.

Overall, cars are the third highest reason US adults die after cancer and heart issues.

All of this sucks hard.

They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).

It’s not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.

They had to change their venting and airflow system for that building after it formed a cloud and rained inside. When your room can have weather systems, I feel you’ve entered a whole new category of ‘room’ by definition.

I did.

I was there 5 months before heading back to grad school.

I had one interview where they literally got me to fix their Sendmail server while I was there.

In LaTeX, a single hyphen is just - while getting a range hyphen (the longer one) is --. I got chewed out by my graduate advisor for getting that wrong in a research paper. The difference is visibly small, but it does matter for clarity.

Plus the estimated million+ who smartly fled Russia in the first year of the war.

• Women get educated
• Women get their own money
• Women get control over reproductive rights and tools

So much of our world is based around women keeping it on the rails without receiving credit for their efforts.

This is a great list.

I wear loose athletic pants for long flights. Not bedtime sweatpants, but Adidas style pants. I wear comfy shoes, that I unlace once I start napping.

I bring a sweatshirt so it becomes a pillow and something to pull over my eyes if it’s needed.

I also have a couple of airplane blankets and I bring my own. It comes in handy on flights where we cheap seats people don’t get blankets, and in airports when it’s nap time. I roll it up tight and strap it on the bottom of my backpack.

I also bring Sudoku puzzles. It’s a nice diversion from watching videos the whole way.