A long overdue Open Thread for Personal Stuff. (There’s also one for non-personal stuff.)
As always, no trolls or MRAs. Let me know if any show up.
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Open Thread for Personal Stuff, 5/16 Bearcat Edition
We Hunted The MammothBucking the Backlash
@Alan Robertshaw
Always. Except when I have to work in a client’s office. (Joke.)
Anyway, I’ve loved that song for forever.
@ kat
I love that song too. You’re very lucky to have it. This is my hometown’s ‘official’ song :-/
(Actually I do like it, and yes, we did look like that back in the day)
https://youtu.be/S4N7eCQiHCU
We’re from Bradford! I’m totally on board with the spirit.
Are you in the photos?
@ kat
Note the emphasis on “not from London!” 🙂
Somebody claims to have spotted me (those are all my old 80s haunts) but I can’t see me. I do have some similarly embarrassing photos though. I’ll dig some out for you sometime.
@Alan
Interesting. Over here in the U.S. it just refers to trousers. And to us trousers is a stuffy-sounding word that the British use. (I think some parts of US might say trousers, but here on the west coast it’s pants or slacks if they’re nice pants. If we’re wearing denim, which is most of the time because that’s acceptable business casual wear here, it’s just jeans.)
@EJ
That’s even worse! Why is it warmer in Cape Town than London right now? Huh!? Who decided this!? How can they get away with this? There should be rules. Why aren’t there rules!? Meanwhile here in old Dixie, it’s 90 and raining…
If you’ll excuse me, I need to throw some stuff
*fans her face*
Can’t sleep. Still so hot, even when the night has cooled, ’cause now everything is trying to get rid of the heat stored.
So…
@Shiriki
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Axecalibur:
LOL 😀
Not related to anything in particular, but the fact that there are still some GooberGrops who insist that they’re not a massive collection of bigoted assholes really just makes me laugh and sigh and facepalm all at the same time.
@Shiriki: I’ve recently found that getting a good air circulation does wonders for cooling down a room at night, though it does depend on having a few fans and certain circumstances being right…
I’ve got my one fan in my room that I point out toward the hall, where another fan is aimed at the kitchen, and when the windows are open in there a lovely cool breeze constantly comes in through my bedroom window in the evening/at night.
It is a relatively small apartment and the kitchen windows are on the same side of the building as my bedroom window, though. And I can’t really close my door.
…
It’s not a perfect solution.
dslucia:
Normally I would do this, just open all the windows and balcony door and enjoy the crossbreeze.
Right now I can’t. I have no safety nettings anywhere, and I got two very curious mew-mews.
And yes, I am in process of getting that safety net for the balcony…
@Alan Robertshaw
When you get a chance, I’d love to see your punk era photos.
@Skiriki
Occasionally it gets hot here in San Francisco. And we live on the top floor, which gets hotter than the other floors.
One trick I’ve used is to have two fans going while I sleep. One is in another room and is aimed at the bedroom. (Our bedroom has no doors. Yay for the open-plan apartment?) The other fan is right next to the bed and has a metal bowl filled with ice cubes in front of it. The fan blows across the ice cubes, which cool the breeze. And the bowl is metal just because it’s not going to break if a cat knocks it over. This works pretty well. Although there was a night or two when we left the front door of the apartment open . . . Yeah, it was that hot. On those evenings, our next-door neighbor would come home quite late. He preferred to spend his evenings in the air-conditioned bar down the street.
The sick kitty I mentioned up thread passed away tonight. :'(
Please accept my condolences kupo.
Erk! My condolences, kupo. 🙁
kupo, I’m very sorry 🙁
Hugs if you need them Kupo.
Many hugs to kupo.
Thanks, everyone. Pepper is trying to cheer me up by adorably brushing herself.
So, my family got a new puppy like two weeks ago, which we dubbed Tinkerbell. Grandma decided to put some flea medication (that we’ve used for years on our other dogs) on her, and she got really sick.
She stopped eating, she stopped drinking. We had to force her to get nutrition and water in her. She was so lethargic, where she was once so playful and energetic.
Tinkerbell passed away last night peacefully in her sleep. She was curled up next to grandma in bed, and when grandma woke up, she was dead.
Grandma blames herself for it, because she’s the one who put the flea medication on the dog, and the vet said that’s what made her sick. She couldn’t have known that Tink would have such a bad reaction to it, but she’s still really upset.
So, this, on top of our cat passing away is just a little much for me right now. There’s been too much death in this house recently.
Oh Paradoxy that’s so awful. Hugs to you; I know how shitty it is to lose an animal friend.
Keep reassuring your grandma though that she isn’t even slightly to blame. She was only doing what was best for poor Tinkerbell and she couldn’t have possibly known that would be the outcome.
Oh Paradoxy that’s so awful. Hugs to you; I know how shitty it is to lose an animal friend.
Keep reassuring your grandma though that she isn’t even slightly to blame. She was only doing what was best for poor Tinkerbell and she couldn’t have possibly known that would be the outcome.
So much sad :C kupo, Paradoxy, that is so awful. Hugs for you all <3
Big hugs for kupo and Paradoxy, and much sympathy.
@Alan – Sorry again for ghosting. Very busy, not feeling well, and generally avoiding things.
If I don’t talk about decisions, they don’t have to be made, right?
That’s how it works?
No apologies necessary at all. That’s an entirely valid point.
With the J2, he’d have more management / project management experience in an enterprise-level environment under his belt and I’d have at least some recent work experience on my resume but he would likely not have any higher a clearance. This would hold true regardless of the (<1year) timeline. We'd be "in place" and wouldn't have to think about housing our children's school enrollment.
The contingency plan would primarily consist of…finding another job.
Absent unforeseen political or economic forces, this would likely be minimally difficult for him, marginally more difficult for me.
With J1, he'd have a higher clearance / higher clearances, several more high-demand certs, and more experience supporting a high-profile, enterprise level organization with minimal tolerance for downtime – all resume gold.
Given a horizon of ≥1 year, there's about a 50/50 chance that I'll be able to secure employment (chances fall precipitously as the timeline decreases). With ≥6 months, I'll likely be able to obtain at least one new cert.
If the job ceases to be viable, the hiring company is contractually obligated to either move us back to our point of origin or provide sufficient funds to do so (that amount is stated somewhere). We will (hopefully) have renters in our current house, though, so we would have to find other arrangements until that lease is finished. Judging by the aggressive recruitment efforts currently directed towards him with no / a minimal clearance, absent unforeseen political or economic forces, it is entirely likely that he'd have offers of employment in or around our home location before our household goods made it back.
We will likely be able to sock away some money (that amount increasing along with time in that job)…though that will be slightly curtailed by our seeing real, live castles, hitting every Christmas market ever, and making at least one trip to "Doctor Who Land" (as our eldest has only half-jokingly dubbed England).
*big breath*
Speaking of, I need to make breakfast for the kiddos.