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
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 adore Gina Torres and I love this bit from this interview with her. I’m so disappointed that I didn’t know about Pearson on USA because we haven’t had cable TV for so long. “What would you say to your younger self now?: The messaging is the same, which is: What is yours is yours. It doesn’t matter the road you choose to get there, you’re going to get there. You can get there quick, or you can take the scenic route, and that’s all about choice. I firmly believe your blessings are yours, and we get them when we’re ready. We get them when we’re supposed to.”
As an immunocompromised person, I’m very much irritated by people choosing to do all their normal things and not caring if they are disease vectors because “I’m healthy so I’ll be fine.”
Tanja (ONL) over at MarketWatch cautions us to maintain our cash as we watch the market do its thing with regard to coronavirus. I fully admit that I’m inclined to buy this dip but I’m sticking to my plan for this year’s investing: small weekly purchases. I’m also seeing the sense of the advice. I’m already spending a big wad of cash upfront to stock up our supplies. We’re buying the household supplies we need and a little more like we usually do, but I am stocking up a few months out on Seamus’s meds, and that costs a LOT. I would have had to do it anyway but it’s a little earlier than usual and in one lump rather than spaced out across a couple months.
Angela’s Prepper FI post. I wish Life Straws were around when I first started getting our prepper kit together ten years ago. Back then, I picked out some gravity filtration bags, but Life Straws seem a lot more convenient. It just seems wasteful to add Life Straws to the packs when we already have (unwieldy) filtration options and still need other supplies. We also have a bunch of Mountain House meals but none of them are really good for me, nor are some of the other foods that I’ve laid in. I have been thinking of stock up and activities in case of a precautionary self quarantine, I foresee spending a fair bit of time baking with JB to use up the wheat flour that I can’t have. We should be able to share baked goodies by dropping off boxes of uncontaminated baked goods with the neighbors that we like. But now that that is mostly covered, I am thinking about preparing for a quarantine where one or more of us are actually sick. First and foremost, I am starting a list of recipes to make ahead and freeze that I would be happy eating if I were sick because I won’t be cooking then: curry, soup, stew.
