NABDad

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Damn. UPS doesn't even bother getting the package to the right street for me.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

As an American, I suggest Ukraine tell the US to fuck right off with that bullshit.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

It's no big deal. He overslept and in the rush to get out accidentally put on the pants of the child he was raping the night before. What Republican hasn't been in this situation? They'll laugh about it later and he'll get some good-natured ribbing.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. Please for the love of all that is good in the world, don't side with the US.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Representatives for the internet provider she had used in her old apartment initially told her they couldn’t cancel her account because there was no last name associated with it.

She had been paying the company for months. She has since switched internet providers.

Are people this silly? Just stop paying them. They'll figure out how to cancel the account.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Cats are territorial. You are relying on just luck that they will get along. You're much better off not trying. Your cat doesn't want a friend.

Four "add another cat" stories for you:

  1. My oldest had a cat and decided to get another cat after quite some time. However, the first cat had already established the entire house as her territory. They followed all the recommendations to try to introduce a second cat, but it made no difference. Now they can't bring themselves to give up cat #2, so they have divided their home up to keep the cats separated.

  2. My second child and his fiancee had one cat. They decided to add two more. Their cats fought. When they tried to keep the new cats in a room and introduce them gradually, their old cat was so violently opposed to their presence that it tore apart the carpet under the door trying to g et at them. However, they ended up moving. Once in the new apartment, all three cats stopped fighting.

  3. Many years ago, a co-worker agreed to take a third cat. There was no fighting between the cats, but one of her cats was not happy. He started peeing on every surface he could get to. If you think the cat wasn't doing it intentionally, he straddled her toaster so he could pee into it. Cats know how to communicate their displeasure. By the time she was able to re-home the new cat, the damage was done. Apart from the small appliances she had to replace, she had to rip up the floor in her house and replace it to get rid of the smell of cat pee.

  4. My wife and I added a second cat years ago, but we did it at the same time we moved into our house. There were some fights between them, but they were just because of their personality differences. The new cat was young and wanted to play, while the older cat had reached the stage of life where he wanted to see how much fat he could gain. She would attack him and chase him around and that would piss him off, but they usually got along and he got in better shape. When she got too obnoxious for him, he would chase her under the TV, and make her stay there in time-out.

So, based on my experience, the only time you can safely add a cat to your home is when you move.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

With any luck he'll disappear off the face of the earth and stop defaming the honorable appearance of turtles throughout the world.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's more like:

Your neighbor's house is burning down, and they've been stacking dry branches, twigs, and leaves on the side of their house that faces yours, and their kids illegally turned on a hydrant to play in and never turned it off so there's no water pressure, and you see embers floating towards your roof.

I think we're at the stage where it's time for Canada to get out the earth moving equipment and dig a fire break between us.

I don't think they expect us to care, it's more like they're coming to the rational conclusion that we're a lost cause and they need to protect themselves from the dumpster fire we started.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your parents wiped your ass. There's no reason to be embarrassed about anything.

Just say it quick, like ripping off a bandaid:

"I need to see a doctor about a hemorrhoid that won't go away."

It's not even in the top 1000 worst things kids have to tell parents. If you can't tell them about a hemorrhoid, how are you ever gonna be able to tell them about the gay prostitute you accidentally knocked unconscious, thought you killed, and then tied up in the basement after they woke up while you were trying to bury them?

If a hemorrhoid is the most embarrassing story you've got, you have no reason to be embarrassed.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You might want to try to sleep in some multiple of around 90 minutes.

The theory is that there are natural sleep cycles and if you wake up in between sleep cycles, you'll be ok, but if you wake in the middle, you'll be left feeling tired.

So, 6 hours, 7.5 hours, 9 hours... Not 8.5 hours.

https://www.health.com/sleep-cycle-timing-waking-up-8708948

(Nothing special about that link - it's just the first one that came up in my search after skipping the AI garbage).

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knowledge as well.

 

Seeing lots of cat pictures, but not enough guinea pigs, so here's Daisy and Rose.

Rose, by the way, seems to have recovered completely from her intestinal parasite.

She was getting better, but her recovery coincided with us introducing fresh wheatgrass into their diet (we grew a little window garden for the girls).

They both loved it, but Rose may have loved it too much and gave herself a bellyache. Rushed back to the vet and got more X-rays just to find out that Rose perhaps doesn't know the meaning of "enough".

She's doing well now, and having no problem with the wheatgrass.

We're also pig sitting for our daughter while she takes finals.

This is Etch, the chill college boy:

He's unique among guinea pigs in that he was abused by the other pigs in his environment before she got him, so he wouldn't tolerate being around other guinea pigs. He does ok with Daisy and Rose, although they are in a different pen at a suitable distance from his.

 

I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.

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We got Rose's test results back on Friday, and she's all better, so Rose and Daisy can be together again!

Edit: this is what things were like every day while they were separated:

https://youtube.com/shorts/SkCAVoe-cbM

 

We had to take Rose to the vet on Friday because she stopped eating hay and started having diarrhea.

Diagnosis: intestinal parasite and gas in her stomach.

She's on antiparasitic meds, antibiotics to prevent secondary infection, and a nutritional supplement to replace the hay she isn't eating.

She takes the tiny doses of the meds ok, but she's not a fan of the supplement.

We had a lot of trouble until we figured out how to get her burrito towel wrapped correctly.

She's starting to do better. More normal poops, started nibbling hay, and she stopped fighting the supplement.

Daisy and Rose are inconsolable because we had to separate them until Rose is all better.

The gateway between the pens is closed now and they keep pulling on it like they're trying to pull it open.

 

Obviously teenager is 13-19.

"Young adult" would start at 20, but where's the cutoff at the upper end? Similarly, what's the range for "adult", "old", "elderly", " ancient"?

If someone asks for responses from "old men", how do I know if it applies to me?

 

Title is my question. It seems like refusing to recognize other state's driver licenses would be blatantly unconstitutional. Is there something I'm missing?

 

I tend to at least look at every work email I receive. Likewise for Teams messages. If I see a notification of a new communication, I tend to check it and see if I need to respond. I don't always respond, but I always look at the message.

In various virtual meetings, I've seen other people's notifications when they share their desktop, and it seems like some people just don't bother even looking at them.

Am I the weird one? Does everyone just ignore messages they receive at work?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/191646

This morning I was driving to my son to swap vehicles when I encountered road work on Moyamensing.

Blocking the only road that leads to his apartment.

When I got back to my office, I had to check Google maps to make sure I didn't miss anything.

 

Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

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