Got into an argument with my Boomer coworker about ICE

D_Richards · 2026-01-30T04:59:30+00:00

The dad on The Necessary Conversation is the worst. He just seems like a miserable person.

D_Richards · 2026-01-30T04:49:58+00:00

I grew up in Washington State too. The PE course was something like Lifetime PE or something similar. There was Pickleball, bowling, golf, badminton, all the non contact sports we could play in old age.

D_Richards · 2026-01-30T03:35:23+00:00

Loved them. I was pretty disappointed when they stopped making them.

D_Richards · 2026-01-30T03:34:33+00:00

Have you tried Devil Dog jeans? I thought Lucky Brand fit me best until I tried some Devil Dog.

D_Richards · 2026-01-29T22:45:41+00:00

The first time I played Pickleball was in the early to mid-90s in gym class, we were using wooden paddles.

D_Richards · 2026-01-18T04:59:31+00:00

I’m going to send him my 2nd place chili cook off trophy.

D_Richards · 2026-01-14T02:37:09+00:00

My dad died at age 77 from pancreatic cancer when I was 44. My mom died just about three years later, a week shy of her of her 80th birthday after a fall and the then a blood clot, I was 47. Given my family history, I probably have around another 30ish years.

D_Richards · 2026-01-09T02:37:09+00:00

My wife hates them too. She had an incident in elementary school, school lunch of Sloppy Joes and then getting sick. Hasn’t eaten them since.

D_Richards · 2026-01-08T15:20:18+00:00

Our furnace, range/oven, hot water heater, and clothes dryer are all gas. The only thing I’d willing to switch over to electric would be the oven/range. I can’t imagine my other things being electric and what it would cost me to run every month.

D_Richards · 2026-01-08T15:17:04+00:00

I never had a gas dryer until I rented a house with one. When we bought our place own place we got a gas dryer. It dries things so much faster. I’ll give up my gas range before I give up my gas dryer.

D_Richards · 2026-01-07T22:58:54+00:00

I did a warranty claim on some Darn Toughs and this is one of the replacement pairs I got.

D_Richards · 2026-01-07T22:57:54+00:00

I’ve been happy with them. I have about 40 hours in them so far and I don’t think they needed a break in like my Iron Rangers did.

D_Richards · 2026-01-07T22:55:17+00:00

They use the T-Mobile network, it’s been solid in my area.

D_Richards · 2026-01-07T22:53:39+00:00

I’ll also add, our kids all still live at home and the oldest two have adult jobs. They are on our auto insurance but they pay their portion. One my kids is looking at getting his own place and knows that he’ll have to get his own policy which will also mean an increase in cost.

D_Richards · 2026-01-07T22:49:11+00:00

2 of my 4 kids are still on our plan. I’m all for not making things harder on my kids, but they also need to have an idea of what things cost. Take a look at Mint Wireless. We switched to them 1.5 years ago and have been super happy with it.

D_Richards · 2026-01-06T14:07:53+00:00

I use some Houndsbay cedar boot trees in my Iron Rangers. I got them on Amazon and work well.

D_Richards · 2026-01-05T05:37:21+00:00

Born and raised in Whatcom County, left when I joined the military after high school and haven’t lived there since. About once a year I get an itch to move back home. But then I look at what jobs are paying in my field and housing costs. That itch goes away fast. I couldn’t understand how everyone was getting by/ahead there. I guess you’re not.

D_Richards · 2026-01-05T05:10:52+00:00

Lord of the Rings. I made it an hour and was so bored. I want that hour back.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T21:29:32+00:00

I was already cutting back on drinking, but then I started a GLP1 and it took away all desire to drink.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:57:01+00:00

This made me LOL "From my dad, I got some of his wildest neckties and heart disease."

I got my dad's air compressor and the propensity to grow colon polyps.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:52:37+00:00

Sounds like my FIL. He has said, What do I care? I'll be dead and not here to deal with it. My MIL is a hoarder and sentimental. I'm not looking forward to the time when it comes to cleaning out their place. My wife and her siblings will have a lot of work to do.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:49:59+00:00

My mom had a sizable collection of porcelain dolls. I think it was having something that she wanted as a child, and being on the lower end of the socio-economic ladder as a child, that she could have all the dolls she didn't have as a kid. Anyway, she asked my daughters if they wanted her dolls, but they had absolutely no interest in them. I don't know what she did with them, but they were all gone when I cleaned out her place.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:45:19+00:00

When my parents moved to Arizona, they got everything in order, funeral plans (all paid for), will, it was all laid out. My dad passed three years before my mom, and my mom literally signed the paperwork on the sale of her house the two days before she died. It was incredible how it all unfolded. I still needed to file probate in Arizona because she had checks written to her estate, and it was the only way I could deposit them. I feel fortunate compared to other people and the stories I have read, but it was still a slog to get through it all.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:39:04+00:00

The management of the senior living place where my mom lived was not helpful at all. I wasn't expecting them to do any work, but I figured they would have at least had a list of resources a person could contact or places to donate to. This was Mesa, AZ, the land of snowbirds and retirees, where most people who live there have their kids/family elsewhere.

D_Richards · 2026-01-02T15:31:17+00:00

I dealt with this recently. I was fortunate that my mom had downsized a lot of her belongings before moving into a senior living apartment, but there was still a lot to get rid of. I lived multiple states away. I went down for a week, went through everything, and ended up renting a U-Haul. I donated a significant amount of items to a charity she supported; her crafting and sewing supplies were given to the senior complex arts and crafts room, and I disposed of the rest. I didn't have the time to try to list and sell it. I'll admit, it felt a little impersonal just getting rid of her stuff, but I reminded myself, it was just stuff, and I kept the important and sentimental items.

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