For some items cheaper is as good. For sex toys follow the ‘buy once, cry once’ method and get the nicer one.

My son just bought a 2003 Chevy van and he’s in love. Captains chairs, futon, no screen and he can work on almost every part off it.

Every year is my favorite year. Currently 55. Only reason to go back would be to undo stupid shit i said/did.

My husband’s company (where he works, not owns) is giving bids for an AI facility. They’ve been told that they can set any price if they can produce on time. As we near retirement the likely bonus from this project would be great but it makes me sad.

I just had partial replacements on both- one in October and one this Wednesday. So far so good! Looking forward to squatting to feed the dog. And not hearing/feeling cracklr crackle.

I work in public education healthcare. A few people are using magic school or chatgpt to write goals and treatment notes, and then generate report cards. The only discussion has been these people doing brief demonstrations in department meetings.

My mom adopted a very sweet cat from a shelter. Within two weeks we learned that she was sick, barely eating and losing weight. She passed on my mom’s lap within a month of adoption. We assume she was dropped at the animal shelter because the previous owner knew and didn’t want to deal with it. That seems so cruel- to put a sick animal through that process of shelter and adoption. I’m glad that we were able to give her care and love at the end but I’m still angry at the asshole who dumped her.

Children from international adoptions sometimes have something like an acquired autism - life is completely regulated and food and water and needed items are delivered and removed on schedules and the child has no impact on their environment. I had a couple of greyhounds that were trained to race as pups. They had some AU tendencies. I bet some other pups develop those to.

Every time you go to the vet it’s a few hundred dollars. Before you know it you’re in $2-3k and trying to do iv fluids at home on an 18 year old cat.

That’s how we learned that our girl had liver cancer. She was getting sick most days but looked like she was gaining weight. Imaging at the vet showed the tumors and fluid and she said we had a few weeks, maybe a month.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

With people it’s sometimes when you start morphine, knowing that it’s the beginning of the end. It’s the same- when they can’t really communicate and you know they’re uncomfortable, when you’re praying that they go in their sleep,…

These moments in life are so fucking hard. And the guilt in your heart hangs on even when your brain knows it’s the right and merciful things to do.

They say that by the time they let you see how bad it is, it’s past time. It’s impossible to know the exact right day, especially when you see the little perk ups, the tiny tail wags, laying in the sun,… We do the best we can. I’m sorry for your loss.

Thank you!

Thank you!

It’s merciful but it’s incredibly difficult. What would you want someone to do for you?

When you come home and your 20 year old dog is lying on the floor in a puddle of pee, poo, vomit, and blood and can’t get up it’s likely time (or past time) to help him go, but you’ll still feel terrible about it

When your blind dog with liver cancer is at the date your vet thought she would pass; she still lifts her ears and wags her tail a bit when you walk in, but she also can’t hold bowel or bladder, vomits most days, and has to get carried to the yard; and you put her down a few days before you have surgery knowing you won’t be able to clean the floor or carry her for a couple of weeks, you’ll feel guilty and selfish and like you killed your dog because she was an inconvenience even though everyone tells you it was the right thing to do.

Take better care of your knees and back.

Independence from what?

I’m older, my kids are grown, and I’m kinda past caring what other people do and think. I have friends with kids who complain about how expensive it is to enroll kids in the activities that “everyone does.”

If you haven’t heard them, check out the Everly Brothers Love Hurts or the Four Seasons Beggin’. Many people only know the remakes. The originals are so good!

I work with school kids who have physical disabilities.