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I miss having good manuals.

It's actually pretty great. For all the wrong reasons, but that doesn't detract from its greatness.

I've heard that once before and it always puzzled me. Basically you're telling the candidate that you want to underpay them now, so you can eventually pay them what they are worth. The math is in their favor even if they don't get a raise next year. And of course, next year they will be worth more anyway because they will have another year's experience plus additional domain knowledge.

I'm curious if anyone has ever fallen for that line.

I don't want to query. I want to submit a transaction for processing dammit.

Again though, it might just be a case of me being old and cranky and having to learn yet another query language.

I may also be old and cranky and you should probably get off of my lawn.

I won't swear that I was "truly" asleep, but I have no memory of the last three miles of that run, nor of climbing into the fartsack.

This was all public speaking, so the noise removal worked pretty well. Not sure if it would be appropriate for music.

I'd love to understand why you chose that.

Feel free to hit my up at the address in my profile if you don't want to talk here.

I just grew up in the middle of nowhere rural Tennessee and I used to run a website for farmers.

My suggestion would to talk to the folks at your local co-op, or even talk to your Kubota dealer.

I have also done an oil change in the parking lot of a local auto parts store, and they were totally cool with it.

$140/day seems steep but kudos for taking the initiative.

Planning on buying a cheap welder soon and teaching myself how to weld in the next 6 months (at age 50).

You can argue AND still be respectful and polite to the person you are arguing with. You can vehemently disagree and still do so in a way that respects the other person's different perspective and point of view.

And choosing not to use language that is commonly considered offensive is not a limit on your freedom. But others have the freedom to choose not to engage with you (or continue to employ you).

I expect her university will end up going fully remote again next semester, so we will no doubt be putting this to use.

My daughter has been doing online school for two years now with a school system that has been online only for about 10 years.

Their hack was to give the kids one assignment per day. A missed assignment = 1 absence. An assignment turned in a day late = 1 tardy. The teachers post the weeks assignments on weekend (before Monday morning) and it's up to the kids to determine when/how they will get them done (which is why she attends this school, as it gives her a lot of flexibility to do the other things she is interested in).

We also have the same furniture that we bought 20 years ago as we could afford it. It is all scratched, dented, frayed and worn. It has contributed itself to a lot of living, which is what we think possessions should do. We want to own our things, not the other way around.

We cannot seem to get it through our parent's heads that we don't want any valuable antiques that will need to be taken care of and the fact that it belonged to great-great-aunt Thelma who none of us have ever met or heard of except in connection to this roll top desk does not give the desk in question sentimental value.

Hopefully it goes to someone who will actually appreciate it and enjoy it, but that someone is neither of us.

It's a discipline like a lot of things, and it gets easier the more you do it.

Most of which cause me to wonder what kind of person wouldn't agree with those things... which just goes to show how fully a part of my culture I am. :-)

I didn't see the article refer to those things as right or wrong, merely default positions.