And here’s to grandparents that grew with the times and served as a handy dictionary for random novel phrases/words that are “no longer said.”

Verbiage is a good shitty-people detector, especially in the South.

Ahem, I believe you’re conflating Mister Beast with *Doctor* Beast.

Oooh, fancy.

Those under story trees miiiiiiight like the sheltered location but I’m not hopeful about the soil compaction situation.

Nobody likes a pendant.

I was just thinking this sounded like sketchy political favor job where one goes out drinking while drawing a paycheck.

Yup: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022...

They’re also soft-n-fluffy on the inside.

I have plenty of these glove floating around for biking and misc “it’s cold and wet” outdoor work.

This messaging should be proclaimed from a tinny public-address speaker that’s been bolted atop a tricycle that’s slowly riding up and down Bryant.

¡OIGA! ¡OIGA! ¡ABIERTO AHORA EN LA ESQUINA DE LAKE Y BRYANT! ¡LITO’S BURRITOS!

The timeline normally goes: tell people to stop using something; stop letting new sign-ups use the old thing; warn people that the old thing will stop working at a certain date; cut off everyone still doing/using the old thing.

Most of the time it means that it uses old communication standards that they don’t want to use anymore because they’re slower and/or no longer considered secure.

If it’s End-Of-Life there, then it’ll probably be EOL elsewhere: to the recycler!

Bring me back to being eleven and getting lectures from my grandmother about why I didn’t have a job yet.

Children can remote work, right?

When I was your age we had returnable glass bottles and the person returning them was me. I had to come back from the corner store with a crate full of beer, a carton of cigarettes, and *no* candy: it taught me about responsibility and added in a bit of exercise.

But, staying on topic: before needing a car to regularly drive to non-bikeable medical providers and getting a much-deferred-maintenance house, we supplemented full-bike-life w/ short term car rentals via Zipcar and Car2Go.

Team “small-car + trailer”!

Besides having a lower center of gravity, trailers make loading/unloading so much easier with a lower platform than the bed on my old pickup. Plus, loading/unloading time doesn’t tie up the transport aspect of the vehicle since the trailer isn’t permanently attached.