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An almost weekly occurrence is seeing people stick half their car onto the street when leaving a parking garage I drive by often, and only then stopping to watch for incoming traffic. I've parked in that garage before and I know there's plenty of visibility from the exit; it's like people don't realize there's a whole chunk of metal before the driver's seat.
I live in the Seattle area though, not NYC.
Some weeks we chat online almost every day. But sometimes we'll go 2-3 months without communicating at all. When we touch base again, the friendship seems as great as ever.
To me those are the best kind of friends :)
My wife and I are immigrants from Brazil and this is one of the few culture shocks we've suffered here in America. We moved here when our daughter was 4 (she's 8 now) and comparing her ongoing upbringing to ours back home can be interesting.
Birthday parties in America have an exact start time and an end time. Not only that, those parties are almost always organized around planned activities which also have a start and an end time (e.g. first 45 minutes they'll play in the playground, next 45 minutes they'll play some game, final 45 minutes they'll have pizza and cake). This is the case even when parties are at home.
But the party stuff is fine. It's just how it is. What bothers me somewhat is how my daughter's day-to-day activities are a bit too organized. Both at school and at her after-school care place, every minute of her day has some kind of label attached to it (e.g. "Power Hour" in after-school is homework time). Everything they do at school has a quirky label attached to it to too, instead of just being called what it is. Every activity has a name and a time and a specific method to how it's supposed to be carried out. If they're going to learn values such as respect, focus, etc., there has to be a label attached to it (e.g. "Reflections" or "Values Initiative" or whatever) instead of those things just being taught for what they are.
Her teacher sends us weekly emails to keep us up to date with what's been going on in class, and I feel overwhelmed trying to learn all the labels and names and whatnot. Of course my daughter gets super upset when I don't remember what one of them is about. It doesn't help that some have similar names, like they have both Reading Club and Reading Partners for reading, and I'm supposed to remember the difference :)
While there's a good side to everything being neat and organized, I've seen this lead to some level of anxiety. My daughter sometimes expects the same kind of organization at home, like there should be a specific time and label for everything she does. She gets upset if we eat a meal outside its normal time (e.g. late lunch on a weekend) because she then she says can't call that meal by its name because it wasn't at the right time. This leaves me a little apprehensive that she will grow up to be a schedule-follower, with such schedules always being defined by other people. That's basically the opposite of how my wife and I are.
1) The whole border wall thing is just ridiculous. I thought he had given up on that. Why would Mexico have to pay for that? If the US wants to build a wall, fine, build it and pay for it. It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it.
2) The FDA thing is scary. Regulations and processes are there for a reason. I'll be very wary if this goes through and I ever have to take any medication that's not established in the market.
I hold the unpopular opinion that we need those things. The current state of things is that we're not much more than kids hacking away on computers with minimal supervision.
I'd love to see most (if not all) software written with the rigor required to write safety-critical systems.
Try telling that to a landlord. Being one is a job in itself - or you have to pay someone else a good chunk of money to do the work for you.
https://www.nvpers.org/public/investments/pers/PERS-Investme...
Pretty vanilla 3-fund portfolio plus 10% split between private real estate and private equity.
Sorry but I'm going to be that person :)
How much do you think parents should be involved with kids' homework?
My wife and I got tired of the daily battles with our 3rd grader over homework. Until a few days ago one of us would review it at home and point out any mistakes. The response to any mistake was a fit of rage. Our daughter gets extremely frustrated whenever we point out she did something wrong.
So we decided to try a different approach. We told her we won't review her homework anymore, unless she explicitly asks us to. Her end of the deal is that at the end of the week she has to read her teacher's feedback and take note of what she got wrong, and figure out how she could have gotten it right.
Do you think it might be a good strategy?
She does well in school by the way - because we constantly nudge her to. We don't put pressure on her for perfection though, just for decent results.
P/E is calculated at a point in time - current price over last reported earnings. The CAPE (Cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings) ratio is a better measure because it's calculated based on the last 10-years earnings. It's somewhat predictive of future stock market returns (10 to 17 years out), albeit with wide variation.
Right now the American stock market is very expensive. Take a look at http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/. Many international markets are not, though: http://www.starcapital.de/research/stockmarketvaluation. Current American market valuations have most people expecting very little real (inflation-adjusted) returns from the stock market over the next 10 years.
In fact, I don't think it's only work that can lead to bad health issues caused by stress. I have my whole routine designed to have a low stress life. I avoid bringing in anything into my life that might be a major source of stress. I keep everything as simple as possible.
On the symptoms side of things though, I now have to go to the doctor. Again. Reading about the buzzing in the right eye and the tingling was terrifying because I've been feeling something similar for the past few months. So onto my 4th brain scan in the past few years... Sigh. Hypochondria is a bitch.
BTW, in my experience Brazilian doctors prescribe antibiotics a lot less than American doctors.
In theory, yes, but I'm married and have a kid. No way I'd be able to make the lifestyle change. Hence, you're my hero, living the life that I can't :)
Also, you live in an RV - you're my hero! How I wish I could do that...