I have decided that I'll do my best to work only one way on the shuttle, probably in the AM. On my way home, I will watch something, listen to a podcast, or read a book. I won't want to get home every night feeling exhausted, cranky, and futless.

I got an ancestry genetic test and have just spit in the tube. I just realized that I can't mail it from New York state- I am not sure if they check and throw them out or not! Is anyone willing to send me their address so I can mail it to you and you could pop it in the mail from your state? It is a tiny postage paid box.

My utter frustration with a cat who just wanted to love me for hours on end told me I had no business being in charge of a child who was purposely pushing my buttons, as they do.

ION, work schadenfreude. I'm a Level 2 tech. Recent, a bunch of other L2s got moved to other positions, leaving me and one other L2. When there aren't cases that need an L2 to work on, we work on regular cases. Oddly, the L2 cases are starting to get backed up, because we're working on other cases--sometimes older L2 cases. And the next tier up messages me to take an L2 case, and I say "I'm already on a call" or "I'm working on that older case where the customer is pissed at the delay." A couple of the next tier people know full well it's because they moved people up without having new ones ready to take the load.

But I'm certainly gaining karma points for digging into the load without more than a smirk to carefully chosen people.

Do kids seem to have WAY MORE homework than we did when we were young?

Yeah, Emmett had much more homework and at a much earlier age than I did.

I barely had any homework until I was in HS.

If gentle isn't working, can you work in a bit more stern? Or will that just end up messy?

Stern works as most parents know, but it extracts a high cost on all sides. Kids get angry, and anger interferes with learning, so homework may get done but the lesson probably won't. Stern wears away at the child's self-esteem, and that's also bad. And for me, stern eats away at my soul and my happiness and my sense of self-worth and I am sick and tired of the fact that the price of their schoolwork is my soul.

It is ridiculously impossible to tell the USPS or Amazon that a delivery address is correct. To send an e-mail form to USPS about a tracked package requires the address of the sender, and nothing on Amazon tells the address something was sent from. Also, the damn tracking number should tell them all that. I finally put in a random Amazon address and then got a message that USPS is not accepting e-mails at this time. I left a message with my local PO. We'll see.

My poor best friend inherited her brother's children, who are busily ruining their lives. She occasionally moans, "There's a reason I didn't have children."

Sophia, mail it to me and I'll do it! I already did mine, maybe we'll find out we're cousins!

profile email is good.

How come you can't mail it to them from New York, but you can mail it to me? That's weird.

How come you can't mail it to them from New York, but you can mail it to me? That's weird.

What she said. ::befuddled::

I guess they throw out the ones from ny- it isn't against regulations for the spit to be mailed in NY, but for them to do the analysis on spit that is spit in NY. In NY you aren't supposed to self collect- a doctor is supposed to. So I understand if you are uncomfortable mailing.

No, I'll mail it, the worst that'll happen is they'll throw it out anyway. Which is dumb... but okay, New York, whatever. It's illegal for a person to pump their own gasoline in New Jersey, because OMG dangerous, so who knows, maybe spit is explosive in New York.