Also, re: noodles, I put the timer for at least one minute less than the package says and then test.

Well B is definitely a factor, so the real question is what, if anything, do the special needs folk get from it? Sounds like you weren't impressed.

Well the twins had fun (and yes Noah went because Grace had fun the week before). Which is enough.

I did have to engage a different set of thinking about the Greek Life people, which is healthy for me to not always assume the worse.

I guess it's because one of the people said something about how the event was super important. Important to whom, I guess. Yes, fun for my kids, but not a particularly meaning-filled experience.

I don't think it's a secret that anything that is set up as a volunteer activity for a group is always at least as much about making the group feel good. This is why I never wanted corporate volunteer days at my youth center job. PITA for no benefit to our kids!

It made me think of Joey telling Phoebe that anything done to be nice is always more about the do-er than the recipient.

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On shore for a few hours in Newcastle, found wifi at The Beer Hut. Not having beer because seasickness got me a little.

So sad, sarameg, but how good that her people are taking care of her.

I was so pissed one year I did a big volunteer day in NYC, and we were supposed to be sprucing up outside a school, but it was raining, so they had people painting inside -- but not just regular painting, they made a really crappy mural. Don't leave the school worse than you found it!!

This is 2015, right? We're going to a birthday brunch at what I think is a prohibition-themed bar, but it has NO WEBSITE. I just wanted to see the menu, and -- nothing. It does have a FB page, but that's pretty sparse (and no menu). Googling the name of the bar brings up reviews of the bar in local publications, but they don't really talk about food as much as "Yay, bar!" I even checked UrbanSpoon and Yelp, because sometimes they have pictures of the menu that someone took with their iPhone and uploaded, but -- nothing.

How does a bar not have a website in the year 2015? Sheesh.

I think maybe I'll eat a bagel before I go.

Timelies all!

Quiet day here.

I have been annoyed quite often lately with how many restaurants and bars and other such things have been using facebook pages exclusively instead of websites. It is like AOL all over again.

Ooh, I hope I'm about to get into a fight on the internet about how my neighborhood has changed over the last 30 years.

Gris speaks truth.

Kat, It made me think of Joey telling Phoebe that anything done to be nice is always more about the do-er than the recipient.

I think it depends on context. I mean, I do nice things for people, and yes, it makes me feel good, and that's great, but I do them in the hopes that it will make that person feel good/be helped/bring compassion into the world blah blah.

Some people do it to LOOK nice. I think the Greeks are a combo of "have to do this"/pad my resume/people who like kids and wanna help them have fun/some who have or have friends/family with special needs and it's really important for them.

Woked till 11:30 last night, then had some wine, and got to sleep at 3. Still up at 10, ready for noon yoga class, then by god I am going to the gym and walking 3.1 miles. The 5K is next Saturday, and I have been making it to yoga, but I haven't walked in a week, so this week is a big push, NO MATTER how busy I am. At least 3 3.1 mile walks before Saturday.

I have been annoyed quite often lately with how many restaurants and bars and other such things have been using facebook pages exclusively instead of websites. It is like AOL all over again.

Yes, and very often they don't even update those with their correct seasonal hours or seasonal menu.