If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020? Current total: Lakota, $659.86; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I was very peeved to hear that, among other large companies, Shake Shack and Ruth’s Chris nabbed money from the PPP when I know tons of small business owners hadn’t even had their applications considered. I’m glad to see they may be returning the funds.
Also good to see that Caltrans and BART are able to use this time to do maintenance that’s difficult to schedule or manage during normal commuting times.
Ally Kirkpatrick of Old Town Books has been really active in finding creative ways to keep her bookstore afloat. We ordered from them a month ago when things started shutting down. I’m sad to see that our one local independent bookstore hasn’t done a whit of communication about how we can support them. I’d hate for them to go away but they don’t seem to have any updated social media presence in lieu of showing up at the (closed) store.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I have been telling PiC that I want to shave my head for months, I’m tired of long hair, short hair, shedding hair, hair clogging the drains, all the hair! This is extremely tempting.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I find it rather monstrous when people insist that our values should be primarily about the money and getting businesses “back to normal” because “some people are going to die anyway”. And it definitely seems like this contrarian is cherry-picking data to suit his goals.
As a parent and a manager, I’ve had this question on my mind: how can we make sure flexibility for parents isn’t unfair to everyone else? My solution boils down to: no matter what kind of flexibility you need, you get it. If it’s kid related, you’re fine. If it’s family related, you’re fine. If you need time to hunt and gather, you’re fine. I don’t care why specifically my team may need the flexibility because it doesn’t matter. PANDEMIC. They’re all doing their work to the best of their abilities, and when they need something, they get it. Some will need more, some will need less. It shouldn’t matter if it’s not exactly the same as long as everyone gets what they need, when they need it, the way they need it. No one is asked to cover for anyone else unless it’s truly necessary and if it is, we share out the work as much as possible so no one person is impacted. Because that’s the point of fairness. Right?
Move over, pizza rat. 🍕 A Philadelphia woman found a groundhog outside of her home munching on a piece of pizza for over an hour, completely unfazed by her two dogs. https://t.co/gEmBJydTQ4pic.twitter.com/T0730yXPbt
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
Middle Class Revolution remembering being caught up in the liar loan euphoria
PiC and I are having a small difference of interpretation. Our parks permit us to go walking through them, per the city’s ordinance on their website, and people are going there an staying 20+ feet away from each other or more. So he thinks it’s safe to take JB for a bit of an outing and I want him to. But, I also don’t trust the police to act right. What would you do?
I feel down a YouTube rabbithole and found this clip of Emily Blunt briefly singing with the Backstreet Boys. That really took me back to senior year and the busload of boys who sang the entire Backstreet Boys repertoire on the way home from a field trip.
I spent way too much time thinking about the logistics of this awesomeness:
Are supermarket cash registers now so advanced they can ring through transactions without payment entered? My experience many years ago was that you had to either complete the transaction with a chosen payment type or back it out completely if you had to move on to another customer. I’m imagining Tyler Perry walking in with a dozen personal credit cards and handing one to each cashier to ring up all the customers. I love that image.
My current theory is they’re ringing it all through as cash payments without taking payment, and handing over the receipts for reimbursement later. Like I said, way too much time on the logistics. I’m happy that people are helping people.
I’d be happier if the CDC wasn’t issuing guidance that will lead to more sick people.
Three dogs and a cat
Not only does the proprietress ask the dogs to hide, she also tells the last dog to bring the cat (which it does), and then gives said dog a treat and tells it to share with the cat (which they do, amicably).
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I’ve barely been able to keep head above water this week so not a lot of links happening here.
I always like Emily’s writing but this especially resonated: “What’s causing my impatience is not the world outside of my head. That may be triggering my response, but it’s not the cause of it. No, my impatience is my own response to something not working the way I expected it to.‘
I admire Rihanna‘s drive as a businesswoman and her sheer creative power.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
This was going to be the COVID-19 edition but I decided to make it awesome instead.
It baffles the mind that our administration is trying to find some personal gain with this COVID-19 situation – trying to grab the vaccine just for Americans?? What is wrong with y’all??
The Fioneers on panic and prep. I can and do both at the same time. I am suddenly (is it though) worrying about getting hit with a quake in the midst of the pandemic because hello California.
Skype a Scientist: Working in Zoos and Marsh Ecology with Corina Newsome
