I always remember by flora=flowers and fauna=fawns.

I live in a drought-stricken area, and so I take short showers. If I lived where it wasn’t an issue, I’d be in the 30+ minutes camp.

At least some of the demographics is likely because older folks often have more free time to be able to get out and protest, but I know an awful lot of passionately liberal boomers.

And you’re right, now that conservatives are being undeniably impacted, it seems that their support of Trump might be faltering.

Slightly more boomers voted conservative in the last few elections than voted liberal. Slightly more of the younger generations voted liberal. The difference isn’t that stark. If you attended any of the no kings protests, you saw that the overwhelming majority were older folks. This kind of age prejudice isn’t helping anything.

My problem with most southern sweet tea is that it’s too sweet. I love sweetened iced tea, but usually get unsweetened and add either sugar or lemonade (the latter if it’s real, and not that stuff that’s mixed from a powder).

Huh, I wonder if it set off the confetti anyway

Looks like the first message has an engagement ring and heart emoji

Well, good on them. A fast food hamburger isn’t what people should be living on, but it’s better than being hungry.

I think it’s the “automatically rewarded” part that’s the key flaw in the OP.

I recently retired after working for 40 years at the same company. My general approach (to life, not just work) is similar to the post, but with some tweaks. I would phrase it more like:

• Be empathetic, and treat everyone with respect.
• Work hard and be willing to volunteer for the tasks that nobody wants, but don’t give so much of yourself away that you’ll resent it.
• Strive for fairness in your handling of situations, but never expect life to be fair because it isn’t.

I had a very satisfying career. I went as high up in a leadership chain as I wanted to go, and had really enjoyable relationships with folks at all levels. But that last bit is very important: life just isn’t fair. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for fairness though.

Since I just did this a moment ago, I’m compelled to upvote.

I met this cute girl who, like me, did her laundry at weird hours in the apartment building we lived in. When I asked what she did, she said she had two jobs: she was a clown for children’s birthday parties, and she was a stripper at the bar down the street. If I hadn’t been in a relationship, I would have professed my love for her on the spot.

This is the way I do it too. Works amazingly well.

In case it’s not clear, you use two large bowls, mouth to mouth like a clam shell. Shake the hell out of them, then it will be just naked cloves and paper inside.

I can remember when I’d come home from high school, if I smelled oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I’d know my mom would have saved me some of the dough in a Tupperware in the fridge. I’d get it, a spoon, and a half gallon jug of milk and sit down in front of the TV until they were both gone.

I was super active, and really skinny, but it still seems funny to think about now.

More than just giving the benefit of a doubt, especially in dating situations, people often fill in what they don’t know about the other person with what they want to be true. It’s not necessarily a conscious thing, but it happens a lot.

Hmm, needs a rainbow separation bar

One of the other managers at my work brought in a resume he got for everyone to laugh at because the guy had put being a WoW raid leader as part of his skills. I had done a little of it, so I said “Imagine getting 40 people together virtually on headsets. They’re broken into three different main roles, but within those each has different abilities. You have to lead them through an encounter where everyone has to do their part, there might be a lot of coordinated moving around, and some of the mechanics might be complicated. If just one person screws up, all 40 people could die, and you have to start over. Some of the people may never have seen it before. It’s your job to explain what’s going to happen, lead 40 people through it, and keep everyone calm and focused if something goes wrong. How many of our current leaders could do that?”

I think I made the point, but the problem is that very, very few hiring managers are going to know what a raid leader is, and are just going to see it as playing a video game.

More dots!

If it makes you feel better to have someone more ancient around, my youngest turned ten that year.

Mine was a Timex Sinclair. You got to each of the Basic keywords by hitting a function key and then one of the other keys, which actually helped because you could see them all. And, since I didn’t have any external storage, I got lots of practice writing them.

And ATT Worldnet!

You can buy it in half gallons and quarts, too, but a lot of families go through a gallon in a couple days.