http://www.icelandair.us/information/baggage-information/checked-baggage/ This still says 1 bag for economy standard (I don't recall there being an "economy light" last year). I do think that when we flew it was two bags per person though.

Oh my. The system is so rotten.

Basically, I think more than 1 in 100 people are going to think something dumb anyway, which is why I wouldn't care. I'm sure plenty of people (probably at least 1 in 5) think we spell Broccoli's name weird, or that Celery's name is too old-fashioned, or wonder why their full names are from a certain country, or all of the above. On the one hand, I think you'd get used to the name, but on the other hand, if you end up being self-conscious the whole time, then it's not a good name. Plus, it doesn't have good nicknames... U? Uni? Nit? Nope.

Never heard of them, and I looked through the first 10 pages of Google results for unity and did not come across them either (I do know that Google goes by past preferences though, so other people might get different results, but still... it's not like most people will google Unity and get that as the first result). I think it'd be rare for someone to think that you must have named the kid after her (unlike if you named the kid Adolf... it's still going to be a while before that name is okay). I think most people would assume you're naming the kid after the idea of 'unity'. Heck, I'd probably think that it was inspired by the faction names in Divergent (obviously, it isn't one of the faction names, but it's similar). Of course, it's your decision, but 1 out of 100 or 1 out of 200 people wouldn't deter me. Now, if it was 1 out of 5 people, then yeah... I probably wouldn't do it. And, if your last name is Mitford or something pretty similar-sounding, I wouldn't do it either.

We found Icelandair to be cheaper because of the luggage allowance. Of course, it depends on how much luggage you need, and probably on timing as well. I can't give cost to just Iceland, but to round trip to NL via Iceland was $437/person a year ago. So, ymmv and all that.

Good afternoon! My Russian book says that the Russians don't print when handwriting - that it's all cursive. I don't know how true that is though - my Russian is pretty bad. I do a much better job reading foreign languages than speaking them. At the moment, I think the only languages that I could have a real conversation in would be Dutch and English. I used to be pretty decent in Thai, but I haven't used it in forever. Likewise, my German used to be more functional than it is now, though it was never stellar.

Double post Double post Double post When you've got one real post and 3 extras, I think that's called a "quadruple post".

Which is like 5158/5159 days. :svengo:

Ha, yes. It's our 169.5 month anniversary of knowing each other. :party: Yay for reading!

The CCs I've been to allow people to take a full load in summer. I've taken 16 hours in summer before. The only thing was that they don't put you on the Dean's list for getting straight As in 16 hours in summer*, because it's summer so not a 'full load'. I've also once tried to do Diff Eq and Physics 1 in Summer 1, but I got sick the first week of class (4 week session), so I only passed Physics 1 (not sure what I did with Diff Eq - I either dropped it or got an F). Both Diff Eq and Physics were in person though, which wasn't helpful because it required showing up each morning and then again each evening - when I did the 16 hours in summer only the accounting classes were in person, the other two were online (that said, I wouldn't have wanted Diff Eq to be online - Physics however would've been nice, since I basically ended up passing it from high school memory anyway). *The only time I would've made the Dean's list, ever - I've had a few other semesters with straight As, but with too few hours to qualify for Dean's list. Yes, I'm obviously annoyed, because I don't get the silliness - if I'd had 16 hours of straight As in Fall or Spring it would've made the Dean's list, so it doesn't make sense to me. ETA: it obviously wasn't the Diff Eq teacher's fault that I failed/dropped it. From the few classes I went to, she seemed like a good teacher. There's basically nothing she could've done to prevent me from failing/dropping it.

It's also less fair for small classes - if 3 out of 14 students W/F/D, that could be much more random out of the professor's control than if 61 out of 300 do (DW once got fired because she needed to maintain a 90% customer satisfaction rating, but they called only 3 people and one either wasn't happy or didn't understand whether a 1 or a 10 was better or who knows - if they'd called 8 more people she might very well have had >90% (as she had other months), and her boss was quite pissed at corporate because he didn't want her to leave).

(((Krissi))) Unrelated: I just checked that science skills test prep Celery did, and one of the questions is about imaginary camera brands, and in the table they have one called QuickPix, but in the answers, it's called Quickie. So, Celery wrote "what happened?" next to that one. Methinks the proofreader told them to change the name of the camera, but it somehow only got changed in the table. :lol:

I remember one time in physics the teacher asked if he'd covered something (it was the start of a new year, and he'd covered it right near the end of the previous year), and I was the only person who remembered he'd covered it (out of like 30 people). That was weird. For the record, I have no clue what it was he covered, lol. ETA: same people in the class, so it wasn't that there were different kids.

To be clear, some electricity and electronics stuff was definitely covered in physics in 8th grade as well, which was required for everyone (though it was the pre-university track). I remember making a radio in shop class in 8th grade (as in, making a coil out of copper wire and I don't know what). I did not create lightning in any microwaves though (or whatever it is y'all are doing).

In the science section of Celery's 6th grade test prep book there's a question asking him to draw an electric circuit featuring a light bulb. (the only reason I know is because I assigned him the science section today) We were definitely taught some electricity and electronics stuff in my secondary school. That said, NL and all that. (also, I took physics 1 & 2, which is more physics than you're required to take)

No dying, not even due to the lack of coffee.

I gave up and had dinner. It didn't stick to the bottom. I stirred it like once every 30 min or so (but, I didn't do this for 6 hours, but, it was still very liquidy, so I could probably have gone quite a while longer).

Not necessarily. It could just be that more older people are white, and that the younger generations are more diverse. In reality, probably both are true. Also, while 73-ish percent of Americans are 'white', when people get all upset about only 'white' women being chosen for something, I tend to assume that no Hispanic women were chosen. So, if you subtract 'white' Hispanics from the 'white' population, only 62% are 'white'. So, out of 5 people, it's not unreasonable to expect at least one non-white person. I think it's mostly a stupid decision by the company, like some PPs have mentioned - you presumably want to expose as many different potential customers to your product, and since people tend to stay within their own bubbles a fair amount, that means that the crunchy hippie is probably mostly going to tell her crunchy hippie friends about the product, and the homeschool mom mostly her homeschool mom friends (Instant Pot anyone?), etc... so yes, you'd probably want diversity, of all kinds, including race (well, maybe you wouldn't want economic diversity in this case, since people in poverty don't buy luxury products, but you would want to appeal to middle class and up white, black, Hispanic, etc people).

Because it'd turn into mush, or because a gas stove has an open flame?

The plot for another book...

Oh, yes, definitely. On the way to NL, we arrived in the middle of the night and left in the middle of the night, so it was fine (other than the freezing rain thing), but on the way back, it was crazy chaotic busy.

Yeah, I'm contemplating having dinner earlier, and then later DW reheat her portion later. Of course, if I do that, I might as well throw a frozen pizza in the oven, since the kids are not going to want the goulash anyway, and sitting there alone with the kids whining about it, is not on my list of fun things to do.

Much easier/faster.

You could make goulash too. It 'only' took me an hour cutting everything up etc. Gouyah!

At least it shouldn't be an issue cost-wise, since it shouldn't really matter if we heat the place with the gas heater in the basement, or with the gas stove in the kitchen, right? (no, the stove won't put off enough heat, especially when just simmering one pot), but anyway... it feels so wasteful to simmer it excessively, but it shouldn't. I think.