You can buy a timer for those. To turn the fan on, you rotate the dial to up to 60 minutes then it turns off automatically. It won't be where you think you think it will be in the big box hardware store.

Did you ever try this? I am considering this for DD soon.

Congress needs to step up an actually pass laws. The Supreme Court fills the void left by the Congress. The presidents have also been filling the void with presidential mandates. I've been waiting for a president to start their first day in office with a presidential mandate nulling all previous presidential mandates. The thing is, to have a stable government it needs to be hard to make changes. I quake inside at the idea of elected justices. Regarding safety of the justices, wasn't there a Grisham book based on that idea?

Congress has been lily-livered as far back as I can remember. They are the ones that are supposed to declare war when needed, they've taken the chicken way out. They are supposed to pass actual laws. But, instead they turn their power over to the bureaucrats. Now on the Supreme Court, I don't want an activist bench.

I have been known to get out of bed, put a bra on and nothing else. Walk to the shower, take the bra off and get in the shower. Maybe my breasts are unusually heavy, but the feel of gravity pulling on them drives me nuts. I swear I can feel my skin above them stretching out. I want my breasts pushed up. I've even idly toyed with the idea of sewing one for myself.

In high school a budding romance was squashed over the barefoot issue. He was one that hated looking at bare feet and even thought sandals were a little gross. I am one that hates to wear shoes. I remember thinking, "This will never work out."

Sounds like a reason to drive barefoot.

My DH had twin nieces who liked to strip naked and then run in opposite directions. His mother started to duct tape their clothes on.

I am a complete language dunce. I think I have dead-space in my brain where that is supposed to be handled. When I took foreign language classes in high school and college, I learned humility but not the foreign language. As a supplement to whatever class she takes I highly recommend the Michael Thomas CD's. They are highly effective and I still remember most of what I learned from it. I used to work for a German company, and would spend a few weeks a year over there. Co-workers preferred to practice their English, so I didn't get a lot of practice, but the CD's very much helped me. I wasn't in a tourist area, so outside of work people generally only spoke German.

I will never ever join AARP. If I ever wanted the discounts, I'd join an old folk's group that started in opposition to AARP. AARP was started as a complete insurance con. Then the old people didn't die as quickly as expected, so it stayed legit.

For the local, local elections living in a small town is a huge benefit. I can talk to the friends I run into around town for first-level info, and the mayor, that I like, for the second-level info. For less local, that is tough. When I was first voting, I liked the LWV materials, but not anymore.

We did the same thing. I have a small bladder and I've always skipped out the side door to use the bathroom. In our case it was automatic since the ceremony and reception were in the same place. But, we just stood still until a while had passed when no one wanted to talk to us.

It smells that College Algebra, a remedial course was being pushed on everyone.

The Fortune article leaves out the disclosure requirement if Twitter sues. Disclosure has been a central issue up to this point.

I was talking to a friend that volunteers at a shelter. They said it is really really bad now. People are saying that they can't afford pet food anymore.

I took her to the shelter. I'd gone back and forth but the tipping point was that I didn't want to release her in our area. There are outdoor cats in the neighborhood that I'd classify as semi-feral. I am fine with those cats. But, I worried that this one would eat our chickens and in the process teach the neighborhood cats how yummy they are. So then I thought about maybe releasing her in the suburban (chicken-free) neighborhood we used to live in. I could also see a kid trying to pet her, and she'd shred their face. It also seemed bad thing to foist her on some innocent people. I was shocked when I went in that they'd had many kittens up for adoption. What saddened me most was that 10 of 12 kittens looked just like the ones at home. I always thought of kittens as quick to be adopted. I remember one cat we got as a companion kitten to our pet cat who was in mourning. The last half of his tail literally dragged on the ground. If we didn't get a kitten that weekend we were worried he would literally die of sorrow. The shelter had no kittens and we got the last kitten available in the city of 250K. He was overjoyed. For the first 6 months, she didn't clean herself because he cleaned her and a bit too much.

The Mama Cat was really really mean. I'd be 3' feet away from the front of the Broody Jail, and she'd hiss and charge at me with teeth and claws. So, whenever I saw her, in my head I'd sing, "You're a mean one, Mrs. Grinch." So, eventually I just started to call her Mrs. Grinch. I'll post photos soon. I just need to connect my cell phone.

We are now without Mrs. Grinch. It really is a relief. The kittens had started to notice her growling and hissing at us. The kittens have really discovered their purring. I just love it when you pick them up and they start purring. They also sleep in our beds. DD is going to an Electronics camps in the mornings this week. This morning was the first that they've been alone in the house since we got them. Well, I think we went out to eat once. We had to leave super early in this morning, and DH who was trying to sleep said that they stampeded up and down the hallway looking for DD or I. Then he did some work in the attic for a few hours and when he came down they were all over him. We haven't told DD that we are keeping them all. We want her to develop some favorites and she's picked Randolph and Sunny. I'm a cat-person by nature, and I'm old which makes me restful. And when I'm working from home, I also provide a comfy lap all day. So it will be natural for the cats to prefer me. Our hope is that this way, if Lexxie crawls into my lap her feelings won't be hurt.

Well to be fair you had just diminished your gift. I better response would have been, "You are welcome."

I just had a thought. People aren't allowed to keep stolen goods, even if they paid for them. Seems like the same idea could be applied to medical data. Unless someone consented to that organization having their medical data, then it was effectively stolen from them. Seems like someone could say, "Delete my data" and the courts should enforce that.

Seems to me that everyone that calls to make an appointment should tell them that the website isn't an option because of the tracking. If enough people do that, they'll make sure it doesn't happen and put a clear promise on the website that it isn't happening. There is a cost to them if everyone makes the appointment by phone.

We got testing for DD. I really suspected a vision problem, but we had to get the general tests first, which found a vision problem and also without asking gave DD 2X on testing. We hadn't asked for that and they were a bit shocked that we really didn't care. The Vision tests found dyslexia and fortunately her problems were all curable with vision therapy. How did I not know that Dyslexia was sometimes treatable? DD's was that she saw two of everything so the letters were blurry. To read, she'd spread them out and just read the left one. Which explains why she could read, but hated it. The thing is her dyslexia is cured now. Halleluiah! But they told me that the testing documentation is good from now on. Seems off.

I second the toe socks. Whenever we will be walking a lot, I always carefully trim my toenails. Somehow still there is always one toe that is hurt by the nail on the nearby toe. These toe socks completely stop that. I also haven't had any toe blisters since I started to wear these. I don't use that brand but they do look good.

I've done similar shelves to the ones posted above. But I used some of those metal brackets from Home Depot. In with the brackets people sometimes use on the house framing. Super-duper easy and sturdy. Same basic idea, but instead of the horizontals being nailed to the verticals, the horizontals were cut and placed into the bracket. Do you have a source of cheap metal filing cabinets?

I don't know if they would have known. Mom didn't tell me of anyone actually seeing it happen, so BB's would have been lost in the debris. They came home to a random broken window and nothing stolen (which is of course the first thing you check). Seems particularly dumb since doesn't every other house have exterior cameras? DH who did many incredibly dumb things as child/young adult that could have legit killed him, used to regularly have BB gun fights with other equally stupid teen boys. They didn't even have eye protection! I have zero experience with BB guns, so my concern was his eyes. He said they "weren't necessary because if anyone shot near someone's head, the rest of the boys would close in and all shoot at that boy. And it would hurt." This was even low on the list of stupid things he did. Only thing that stopped the BB fights was that a police station was built within hearing distance of the pasture they used. Police react badly to the sound of gun fights nearby.