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I haven't enrolled in a party and I get probably 6-12 a day now (from both sides).

Somewhat same vein I tell my coworkers who are going to be new parents: Time really flies with kids.

One minute you're changing diapers, next thing you know they are walking, then they're in middle/high school and have their friends they'd rather be with. As hard as it was I still tear up a little watching old video clips of ours as a toddler.

I’ve had this in the past year as well. I don’t get it. They may be really busy but it seems like bad customer service on their end.

The ones that either don’t return calls or emails or just don’t show, I’m never reaching out to them in the future and I’m never recommending them. But maybe it will never matter?

In the product description:

- Resist feeding non-native invasive HOSP to encourage native species

Sure, but I think the point is that EV owners are topping off everyday vs ICE owners don't fill up until they need to (maybe weekly or if it runs low, certainly not daily).

I forget, weren't there others that did the same? Were they also in that same boat (not enough funds on hand to cover trades)?

But wouldn't those same streets see a lot more foot traffic? I'm thinking more along the lines of trash and cleaning.

I'd expect a lot of this depends on where you are. Some places it won't matter a whole lot what happens with Covid/rates.

Friends in the DC region aren't worried as this has been an ongoing trend for quite a long time (they have enough equity that a dip won't matter much). Friends in Southern California would probably say the same thing. But in Phoenix, I already hear some questions as to whether this will come tumbling down in a year or two.

Myself, bought a place (not a city and not quite the 'burbs) last year and I'm still curious about my local market so I still constantly check the real estate sites/apps just to see how things are moving in my area. Would suspect I'm not alone in doing this.

Also not CA, but I pay almost $3,600 a year while my employer pays almost $10,000. So $13,600 for just myself. My wife and son are on her plan since it works out to be cheaper that way.

We have good plans too but still have our deductibles which, if I remember right, are around $1,000.

>The latest release comes from NAEP’s 2020 assessment of long-term trends, which was administered by the National Center for Education Statistics to nine- and 13-year-olds before COVID-19 first shuttered schools last spring.

Financial is definitely the top one. I often wonder if our child will ever be able to afford a home. Are we saving enough for college considering how fast tuition is going up. Between my wife and I we definitely have good incomes but as we look for homes even we struggle to find something in our range. This also leads me to wondering if we will have some sort of great unraveling at some point and how this would affect ours.

Another big one and I'm not sure how to put it but the general state of media. We see other family with their kids on various platforms and it just seems so much to keep up with and we're dealing with just Youtube at this point. Every few days we're getting told about something what was watched which brings up the inevitable discussion of everything that is online is not true and the follow on of "what are you watching".

I do constantly remind myself that my fears are most likely what many parents experience in some form or another and that this is just another generation. But many times I do wonder if we would have chosen to have kids today if we waited.

Same here. I wouldn't say climate change would be the sole reason but it is up there.

I've definitely driven through places where there is only one light. Blinks red for stop (no stop sign). Many times, for cross traffic you'll have the one light but blinking yellow as a warning at the intersection.

Regarding #5, for me it depends on the size of the meeting. A large 100+ group meeting? Nah. Small group/team meeting? I think having it on is a good thing.

Remote for the last 6 years for me. Pre-pandemic was also the only member of team that was remote.

I do something pretty similar. Friday's I will somewhat regularly send a dad joke or meme. These of course stay non-political and very SFW.

On a somewhat serious side. I try to regularly send "tips". If I learn something that I think is beyond cool I'll send an email teaching that new cool thing. If it can't be done in an email I'll setup small sessions to teach that over Zoom. I prefer Zoom because it's more impactful as far as being "seen" and not just another email.

Relaying what I've learned (even basic things) works really well, at least my regular 1:1's and reviews support this view.

I tend to agree, but we used to live (own) in a major city. We then moved only 4 years later and the house had gone up quite substantially (I couldn't believe it).

Now 4 years after moving away I still check on that house and see it keeps going up and even though our savings has gone up, we can no longer afford that house anymore.

After a few moves, we're now renting a home in a pretty far off suburb of another city and the prices in this area are starting to get out of hand. Witnessed by us starting to look after we decided we like it here. The houses in this market won't last a week and offers are way over list.

But I still go back to, this can't keep up. Who is going to keep buying at this pace? Salaries certainly can't be keeping up with this?

This has been so close to my experience. I chuckled at the kindergarten scribbling comment as that is such a common theme. Sure there are more difficult tasks, but whenever these simple ones come up I feel a little guilty for getting any praise.

Ally has been terrible for me. From my end it was down all morning. Some days its extremely slow. I'm currently looking for another.

Definitely something to look at. I'm not a developer but have an undergrad in CS (very mediocre student). I really liked working through the degree but didn't feel cut out to do well in a career.

So I got a job in a different field and have been at it for quite a while now. Knowing the basics of programming and, more importantly, databases and data structures has really paid dividends. Once you get your domain (finance/marketing/sales/etc) knowledge down at wherever you work, you'll very quickly become a major asset and probably with a good dose of job security.

Instead of asking the engineers to query a database or build out solutions that interface with various BI tools, this would become part of your job.

Is it getting hammered though? Genuine question.

Anecdata: Reason I ask is that we did a trip a few weeks ago and for us, hotels were out of the question. Never used Airbnb before but did this time to get smaller places to ourselves.

As I was looking it was tough to get everything lined up as many places were booked up. Some really great looking places were practically booked up for the next several months. Wasn't sure if this was the norm or if many others are doing the same.

Anyone else using Locast? Works well for us (where we are regular rabbit ears don’t work).

To some extent I agree. But some districts/schools seemed to really have thought through how to deal with this quickly.

Our child's district did a horrible job, from our viewpoint and from the few other parents I've talked to in the same district (public).

Up the road is a private school that I hear from their parents did a fantastic job. As well as another parent in a district (public) further from us.

Edit: I'm curious to see how this affects the online schools (especially high school and below).

This! I work at a place where some people do not want this type of "magic" to happen. They don't trust numbers if they don't key them in themselves (realistically a thin veil for job security).

I ordered a few from Etsy. Took about a week or so to arrive. But this was before it was advised that everyone wear them so maybe wait times are now longer?

I’ve also seen signs that some dry cleaning places are carrying them.

Sports online stores (Fans Edge) also selling sports ones.

I'd like to be optimistic about the recovery but for those locations that do go under (retail, restaurants, etc) there will be replacements but I have a feeling new tenants will take a long time to fill those empty locations. I think people will be wary to put their money into a new business not knowing what the next year will look like.

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I don't think right away. There will be segments of the population still wary to go out into public places where you're shoulder to shoulder with others. It'll take time for people to get comfortable with this (or a vaccine is developed).

edit: Sure there will be groups where this will be the case but not enough to cause packed bars.

Also reminds me a of a story I had heard when I lived in a major city 15+ years ago. A major airline was laying off a bunch of staff. Called an all hands meeting and during the meeting pink slips were placed on peoples desks so they wouldn't know if they were on "the list" until they got back to their desk. Heard this from a friend so not sure how accurate it was.

If a third grader hangs around third graders all day in school then I would expect those would be his friends. Until he starts participating in activities where kids participate in where the grades get mixed (ie. school basketball team). This seems entirely appropriate to me.

And you're comparing public schools to prison? Remote learning for all of them would fix this?

How do the kids learn to socialize? Facebook or Facetime only? Don't say the parents have to organize this (see below for my current experience).

And for those of us with really young kids, this work from home may be great an all, but its really hard to work and tend to a very young one's education/attention.

I generally think the same but locally, our grocery store can't keep items in stock either. Its only gotten worse over the last two weeks. Bread, milk, eggs, meat, paper products, trash bags, cleaning supplies all are either very low or just gone early morning or well into the evening.

Last night I even asked if there was a good time to come and the cashier just said, "there is no good time, the shelves will still be empty".