Reminder: being mentally ill or addicted folks doesn’t preclude someone from holding down a job and/or being a “regular” person. They might just need extra supports.
Source: have mental illness. Am mostly a regular person but need extra supports. Am currently holding down a job requiring an MS.
I could be pushed to 3 homes. One person owns a triple-decker building, lives on one floor and rents out the other two to students. That sounds fine to me.
Rereading: you said houses, not homes. 2 houses sounds good. One main home and a mother-in-law unit seems reasonable.
You can probably get access through your local public library, if you’re on their Wi-Fi. OED has been like this for as long as I’ve been paying attention. Source: librarian and before that was annoyed at OED, but now I’m almost always on work Wi-Fi if I’m looking something up, so it’s invisible to me.
I really just want to know where the bathrooms and sitting areas are.
Students smoking where they shouldn’t is a PITA to me, a librarian, because it can set off some fire alarms.
I do not appreciate needing to help a less mobile coworker down the stairs to evacuate the building. I don’t like spending in the rain while we wait for the fire department to declare the “all clear”.
We don’t use spy pucks to tattle on students, though: we know what alarm was triggered and we know who checked out that study room. Or we know who came out of the single seat bathroom.
Edit: and generally students have been contrite when they return the study room key after the building was evacuated. Very “I didn’t do it but I’ll let my friends who were studying with me know…” and we’ve not had repeat offenders. Tbh, they’re [young] adults so as long as no one is hurt and I don’t hear about it I’m cool with it.
I’ve looked up what to put on cards before, or read what other people wrote on the card as it’s passed around. Signing cards can be awkward.
Yeah, I heard about that from a podcast the other day. 😞
I put on my robe and wizard hat
I want an AI in my smart fridge that looks like my dead grandma but acts nicer and suggests I buy certain branded ingredients to make her famous corn bread casserole pie, which she never actually made IRL /s
Some libraries also have access to Consumer Reports online, accessible via the library’s network (or maybe also via a library card + link from the library site? I dunno, it’s been a while since I worked in a public library.)
Closest we had in public school in Kentucky was a form sent home at the beginning of each year that your parents would sign, stating whether or not the school was allowed to use “corporal punishment” (aka spanking or paddling) on you.
But yeah, parents in some (all?) states in the USA have wide latitude over their kids in ways I don’t agree with.
I got my non-gamer boomer neighbor on Bitwarden. It’s not that complicated.
She’s never had a job or hobby where she had to use a computer and she picked up “oh, I store all my passwords in this magic browser thing? That’s way more convenient that remembering which kid’s birthday was the password to my email.” I also taught her how to copy and paste using the keyboard (and that you can remind yourself of what the shortcut is by right-clicking and looking at the shortcut hint in the menu).
His name’s “Elvis” and he answered to “Aye-ellll-vis”. Now he doesn’t answer to anything because he’s gone deaf, but he’s still a great pup. He’s a senior terrier mix, about 10 pounds. He’s a bit of a velcro dog and I am the One True Human, so it sucks for him that I work outside the home. He’s stuck with Work From Home Partner, who just doesn’t fill the same void in Elvis’s heart. So, Elvis sleeps all day and then watches the front very attentively when he decides I should come home.
He still has bursts of energy. Last weekend he met a chihuahua his age. Elvis was like “omg, you’re slightly smaller than me and seem even more chill. Let me dance around and thwack you in the face so you’ll play with me”. The other pup was game and it was adorable to watch two seniors playing.
He goes on long hikes with me. He gets tired after about a block and will turn around and try and get me to go back to the car. I generally just carry him at this point. He’s lucky he’s tiny. He’ll lean forward to ask to be set down, then he’ll either sniff something or amble so very slowly along the path. He is the worst hiker.
This question reminds me of a dog I ended up with. He knew his name, but only in the same accent as his previous owner. So I’d be at the dog park in New England calling for my dog in the most exaggerated southern accent I could muster.
From a “giving tech support” POV, nano is the best editor. Have you ever tried walking a non-techie through editing a config file on the command line, over the phone, no screen share? Nano is your friend. (I swear, this very expensive software I used to support got its sysadmins by picking whoever was absent the day the the client site figured out someone had to do it.)
My partner’s the tasty one in the relationship. I don’t wear lotion or anything, he just isn’t into my flavor :(
other hair may also be licked—my dog is really into beards and eyebrows. He also tries to get into ear canals. For him, though, you just need to wash off the tasty, tasty face oils. Then he gives a single lick and walks off in disappointment.
I swapped to Kagi this month. It’s refreshing. I’ll probably end up on the $10/month plan. They also have a library pilot program I’m trying to get my academic library to look into.
Ah, ok. It sounded like you were advocating for helping the “easy cases” and ignoring those that needed a bit more support.