Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.
Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.
Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.
It probably depends, but in my city (Tampa FL US) the frequency is by far the biggest problem. We live within easy walking distance of 5 different bus routes (on purpose) including one that goes directly to the uni my penultimate kid went to, the community college my youngest attends, my job, both jobs my youngest works, and my husband’s previous office. Without transfers. One bus. So basically we are the best served family in the whole city, right?
Two of those routes run hourly. The other three only every half hour. So it’s useless for work & school, if you have to be there on time.
This is a degradation of service, too - when I went to the same university, I lived by a bus route that went directly there, and ran every 15 minutes. Buses need to run every 15 minutes to be useful, even if the routes are good.
Paying is not so bad now with the tap to pay but free would streamline the whole affair for sure.
I did have a more themed cocktail today. 2oz bourbon, 5 raspberries, demitasse spoon of sugar, half oz lemon, half oz raspberry liqueur, quarter oz Campari. Muddle fruit and sugar, add the rest, shake with ice.
Strained twice, put in a barolo glass over ice, garnished with raspberries on a pick.
Deep penetration, hee hee.
Red light therapy is reasonably well proven at this point, it’s not magic but can have an effect.
One year on my birthday, years ago, my mom gave me a gift in a jewelry box. I was inwardly groaning, but when I opened it, it was memory for my computer. Which was a thoughtful gift, and a funny way to package it.
Way ahead of her time I guess.
That is so silly. I love pork sausage but veggie sausage is the next best one and clearly is sausage.
Same as “burger”, it is a preparation not an ingredient.
I can fit 2 paper bags of groceries in my bike basket. There is not a grocery on my short commute route or I would go on the way home. But really I can haul a few days stuff in the bike if I want to.
The car was essential when the kids were little, but as a couple the e-bike does more of the heavy lifting.
I’m not trans but a lady into skincare, with a trans kid (boy now).
Tretinoin, Retin-A, is the night cream of the gods. It both controls acne and slows aging, I have used it for so many years and it’s really paid off. Ask your doctor if it would help you.
That’s the backbone of my routine. I wash with CeraVe bar “soap” (it’s not soap), use a toner, DMAE gel, then at night the tretinoin, in day a light estrogen cream and mineral sunscreen. Lots of prescription stuff but I have NO genetic predisposition to great skin so it takes maintenance to have great skin.
For body care, try (not daily) a high potency glycolic acid lotion made for KP, that will help the skin turn over faster. Use that every few days, and between just moisturize daily with something light - CeraVe is good, and Naturium also make great stuff, neither are crazy expensive.
Not fashionable, personally, and my kids and their girlfriends have such different styles. Good luck to you!
I love good whiskey, particularly bourbon but anything good enough to drink by itself, lengthened with fizzy water and a lemon wedge. On ice. It’s such a perfect drink. Sort of a Kentucky ranch water.
Well we do live in a city neighborhood and don’t have to drive much.
Car insurance on two cars not used daily $400/month here, gas immaterial. But the cost of the cars (paid off) was so much money, if spread over a 15 year life (mine will go longer maybe, but that’s unusual) would add another $125 each, so $650 plus gas and maintenance (less maintenance cost because cars were bought pretty new).
My daily commuter is a good electric bike, $2,000 plus electricity (I could charge it at work tho) and maintenance. I don’t know how long they last, so can’t estimate a per month but insurance for a year costs less than one car costs for a month.
Transit pass here about $50 a month. But buses are terribly infrequent.
Shivering does nothing, rubbing my hands together just makes my arms tired. When it’s not cold just cool, I can exercise (like go run up and down the stairs) and build internal heat. But not when it’s really cold.
When I was pregnant I couldn’t get cold, it was nice, I think that must be how a lot of people feel - I had a heater inside me. I wasn’t really too hot in the summer even pregnant, could still be still and cool, but not too cold in the winter at all.
No tengo una plancha.
I have never had an iron, just wear knits mostly, natural fabrics. If absolutely necessary, will steam them, but only a couple times a year.
My mom didn’t iron much but she did have the board and the iron. Some of my coworkers do iron their stuff.
My mom talked about staying up late to hear the black radio station because everything on the radio was so boring. She ran away from home to see Elvis!
You live in a different world, with streaming, you can listen to so much music. I can remember before that - we at least had community radio with volunteer DJs who played different stuff but top 40 radio literally played about 40 songs on repeat.
I suppose your grandkids will also consider whatever you think shocking music to be boring too
I can cool right down by being still, when it’s hot.
Can’t do the inverse though, when it’s cold I’m just cold.
I went to a zoo, it sucked and had only one exhibit.
It was a shitzu
And
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?
He had no body to go with!
This was my experience as well, everyone had calmed down and just staying in shape put me in the better looking bucket. Duck to swan thing, I didn’t get to feel that when I was young so it was kinda nice.
I mean, they could take the same approach they are with immigration and not give due process, right? Since they are arguing it’s not a human right? Just “deport” them to a prison somewhere they aren’t from?
Like siempastrophe, I was not blessed with belief. I remember finding out that the adults at the church really believed the stories they were telling were true, when I was 5 or so.
I wouldn’t say I am Atheist, with a capital A, either. No way to disprove, and the simple fact of physical existence is so mind-blowing, the universe existing at all, consciousness, time. But no I can’t believe enough to believe in any particular religion as true.
For a long time, the taxes worked better with one Head of Household filer and one Single, that’s the way you are required to file as unmarried parents, it gave us a bigger standard deduction. Benefits at work could still cover everyone.
I also didn’t want to be required to stay, wanted to stay because I wanted to.
Also wasn’t religious so didn’t have to get married to have sex or kids.
And lastly, I just didn’t really want to be a wife, there’s a lot of baggage and history associated with that. And a wedding was certainly never my dream, either.
I am married now, because my husband really wanted to be married. Like, his preference was much stronger than mine. It’s fine, didn’t really change anything for me, we still want to be together and he & our families really, really, really enjoyed the wedding when we had it, like still talk about how nice it was. So I guess I was wrong in some ways.
That’s not as profoundly bad as I was, nor my nearsighted child, and I had a work colleague with -12 who got her vision corrected with Lasik.
I had the Lasik in my 20s for a -6 prescription and got, not perfect, but good enough vision to only need thin, light glasses.
When I was profoundly nearsighted I got really good correction with contacts, hard contacts gave me supernaturally good vision, but glasses never did. Even now I can’t get perfect vision with glasses, it’s just good enough.
You are farsighted? Two older ladies at my work had to get cataract surgery and in the process, their vision was corrected. Do get a second opinion, but it is true that you may not be able to see perfectly through glasses, I never could. Well enough to work, to read, and to not get headaches from squinting all the time, though, I don’t feel disabled by my sight.