When? I think you mean “if”.

Problem is liquid cash can be converted to non liquid forms. Unless this system treats all assets like cash, it doesn’t work.

Currency is prone to inflation. See other posts here about that.

I think the way conscious will and unconscious feelings interact is more complex than most recognize, and the language we have to talk about it is insufficient.

Grant-Lee Phillips, Yuletide

Mary Margaret O’Hara, Christmas EP

I don’t think you can decide in the abstract and I don’t think there is a one-size-fits all answer. Every pet’s (and person’s) decline is different. You may get to a point where you have to make a decision, but the specifics of that point are always different, and being in the situation is not the same as trying to imagine it.

What if you a sprayed layer of something onto the mossball to slow water exchange? Not sure what, something like starch or collagen occurred to me but that probably only works if they can dry.

I’m taking a moment to appreciate it right now.

Perhaps you could build some sort of large Fresnel lens to place in front of it that would correct for it.

“Picture rock”, rolls off the tongue like gravel. :^) But maybe it was trademarked.

I think two things that are common causes of sibling bad feelings are differences in treatment, and handling of sibling conflicts, both of which can create feelings of unfairness and resentment.

I don’t have prescriptions for those things. Kids are different and necessarily need to be treated differently. But one should be aware of how this can feel unfair to one sibling. And be aware of how your need to end conflicts and restore order can again wind up being unfair to one sibling.

I think the hardest thing is being able to see things from their points of view.

Stainless steel can be plenty nonstick but you have to get it good and hot. Seasoned cast iron is a little more forgiving, but heavy. Carbon steel may be the best of both world because it’s similar in weight to stainless, but takes a season, but I don’t have enough experience with it yet to say for sure.

I would take the error message at its word: “The server encountered a temporary error, Please try again later.”

In the morning, coffee. Throughout the day water, maybe a tea once in a while. In the evening 1 alcoholic beverage, usually wine or a cocktail but maybe beer. This time of year it’s often something hot (hot toddy, mulled wine, mulled beer, old man’s milk, etc.).

If they were asking 10 zipped individually vs a single zip, I didn’t get that, because that’s not what their phrasing actually said. But you might be right, that would make more sense to ask.

Wouldn’t trying it out and seeing how much it saved be about the same amount of work as typing in this question?

Maybe she likes older guys but not the kind that are looking for younger women.

That is true, but I didn’t say anything about their styles.

Ha! I am no different than she wrt things like my neighbors cars!

It frequently amazes me what people don’t absorb or remember, like whole sentences of a 4 sentence email or text message. I’m not under any illusion that I am exempt from this, but what we see and others miss is of course more apparent to us.

This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?