Depends, of course. I’m not personally wildly ambitious about work so that would be fine with me. If no raise though, that money will not be enough in 15 years. So it would need to come with raises to meet inflation at least.
Retirement at 62 would be a big upgrade from what I expect to be able to do, but I did raise a lot of kids.
Yes thank you.
My mind works more like this - North is always north, I can’t give directions using right and left and have broken every dance teacher I had, all ended up saying "toward the mirror, toward the window, toward the door, etc because I can’t find right or left fast enough to dance, it moves every time I turn around, I want directions to be fixed.
I know there is at least one with no concept of right or left, front or back, only the fixed directions of the world like north and south.
I don’t love big shows but there are some concerts I missed at the Ritz here, that I would have liked to be at.
Kinky, I missed that one because it was my kid’s favorite band and I didn’t know it was an all ages show. Lady Gaga, and Nine Inch Nails I am so sorry I didn’t get to see them at the small venue on their way up.
Those stadium and arena shows, nope, none of them. My mom saw Elvis in a school basketball gym - I always thought that was cool.
I did see Nirvana on their first tour when they made it all the way down here. It was a good time but I don’t really remember it as transcendent. There were fewer than 50 people there! In a local bar. I did get to meet them, they came all the way across the country in a little white van.
Homemade toffee is one of the most delicious substances on the planet.
Goat milk caramel, oooooh so delicious.
Yes soft caramel is sticky but the flavor is amazing. Magically changed by heat from just butter and sugar and cream to caramel.
Any cookie with butter and sugar has a similar toasted sugar flavor. It’s a foundational flavor in cooking.
Thank you for you absolutely trash opinion on this delicious food. Perfection.
I would like to experience something new, so would go with magic. As long as it’s not too wrapped up in religion. I’ve enjoyed my arc here, but don’t need to repeat it - and safe from being a chosen one is itself a perk.
Ha! How long are you planning to be old? That is insane. If you are old at 40 you could be old for over half your life!
I am near 60. I bike to work, work over 40 hours a week, do yoga 4 days a week, lift twice a week. Definitely slower, can’t run but not really old yet, as far as I can tell. I think very old is over 75 usually - that’s when people start to feel like they have lived long, and start really seeing people they know die of old age.
And if I am going to live to 90, as the statistics seem to think, I can’t really be OLD until I am like 80.
I pay for a number of concurrent streams, so “too many at one time” is a legitimate thing. What I disagree with completely is that they want them all in one house. If I pay for 4 streams, they ought to be able to be anywhere. Because I paid for 4.
I always order ONE dish “spicy like you would make it for your grandma, really so spicy” and get the rest of the dishes medium or mild.
Channa Masala is the one I want crazy hot. It’s so good like that. Most of my family won’t eat it, only me & my oldest daughter. But yum yum yum, may cry but oh just so satisfying.
Federal reimbursed me for bus fare, county did not. Federal also comes with a per diem because eating lunch downtown is expensive.
Not even waves just ones & zeros, creating a map. Yeah it’s crazy.
I do wonder if the visual representation of music sounds like that would look like art.
Where I live, younger kids (can) walk if closer than 2 miles AND not crossing any large roads. But if they can’t walk the school system provides busing. Lots of kids get dropped off by car anyway because parents are driving to work, I have made that loop for mine some years. But there isn’t a situation where car riding is required for public school (except for school choice schools, if there is room you can put them in a not neighborhood school, like if you work across town and want them close to your work not your house) - school won’t bus them there - for magnet schools like performing arts they do have a school bus system to get them farther. My high schoolers (teenagers) took the city bus.
Schools do sort the kids at dismissal, into a bus group, a car group, and walkers, in the elementary/primary school, and all of them have to have someone adult or close to it come for them, they can’t just wander home like I could.
For county, several times I called & didn’t need to attend.
Federal, I did have to serve as a juror this year. They always start on a Monday, I think everyone who they pick has to attend for selection, then most are sent home. The way they pick is public information. I am lucky, the courthouse was close to me and accessible by bus or bike. But they pull from 3 counties, some jurors had to come from far away. Case took one week. I didn’t want to do it and my workplace needed me but I am glad now, it was an interesting experience overall.
And yeah it’s mandatory to show up if you are told to. You can be fined or even jailed. If you can’t, you need to ask for a deferral or excuse. I got a deferral of one week because I had a dentist appointment I’d already postponed once, which had delayed it two months so I really didnt want to wait 2 more! And other times when I was nursing kids I sent an excuse, and once a deferral for work, but Federal court won’t excuse you for work - our judge did dismiss anyone who really would not be able to survive without working though.
I’m not sure what you mean by hard books? I read a lot, but more for entertainment, books written at different levels but none are schoolbooks, not dry and hard to read in that way.
AFA setup, on the couch with a cat on my lap and music in the air is my favorite way to read. Runner up is reading on the back deck with a big glass of ice water and a cocktail or glass of wine. I don’t read in bed.
I really have to recommend the Retin-A. It helped me, my husband , our kids, my siblings, coworkers, I was so sure I’d go straight from acne to wrinkles, my skin was so bad and was reactionary, acne then adult acne then rosacea and reactions to every chemical sunscreen & no genetic advantage (my mom had bad skin) but that Tretinoin turned things around, I have such good skin now in my late 50s that people at work ask what my routine is. Yes multiple people. I do have a routine but sure 90% of my improvement came from Retin-A and finally finding sunscreens that didn’t cause irritation.
Yeah I don’t think AI has intent yet.
Of course you should listen to whatever you like, that’s not in question. I like to hear the waves at the beach, thunder, rain. None are music but are lovely sounds.
Looking at late 20s as old blows my mind. I looked at a genealogy site and so many of my ancestresses married in their late 20s. I was surprised by that but apparently it’s never been uncommon. My mom too, she married around age 30.
The fuck? I got my job around that age. And we hired our temp who is at least 65. And a treasury manager over 60 too.
It’s harder, I’m sure. But 47 is absolutely NOT too old to change careers, that’s nonsense.