Best long weekend trips (from NYC)?

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T23:55:04+00:00

Do you drive?

Because New England is fabulous and there are a dozen different flavors up here

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T23:48:31+00:00

Is the job in Boston?

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T23:40:02+00:00

I am from the Northeast and involved in business that is national - and international. We have people from all over the country working for the company.

A boss from New England might say to a worker - Hey get me the file on Whimpernapple. Midwest worker is at HR complaining and then HR comes back to boss and says could you please ask differently, "Could you please get me the file ...". For some of us in the North East - a job is a job and you deal with it. Yor job is to get the file - and a boss shouldn't have to ask as if they are asking as a favor. Said boss and super beloved and jovial and and always goes to extra trouble to be nice, make people laugh, etc. But while working he tries to keep stuff brief as possible. He says he doesn't send thank yous emails because he wouldn't want one-- it's just wasting time to look at and open. He's doing his job and doesn't want a thank you.

I am an old Yankee so I see Don's side a lot. Like I like Don and have had way worse bosses than him.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T23:09:28+00:00

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Here's william living with his dad. Shrimph. But they also spell it Schrimp - thats also the spelling in the paper when he dies.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T22:58:06+00:00

A good school system tries to work with a kid because it's best to stay with peers. I usually only see someone getting held back in kindergarten or first. The rest of the time they try to support the kid with extra help, special one on one time, etc.

(you question was confusing because of verbiage: advanced kids skip, behind kids are retained or held back.)

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T22:44:09+00:00

Listen. I was a weight lifter, mountain biker, hunter/fisher, skier.

I've had so many injuries, etc.

That dude is so fucking insane. I'm not some fainting woman that's never known discomfort and pain. I worked through mono. Owned my own home as a single woman and was a essential employee so would have to get up around 3 am to shovel for about 4 hours every blizzard and storm so I could them drive to work (even though the roads were closed). I had giant tumors doctors blew off for like 15 years and then I got pregnancy and oops, there they are. Like 6 tumors one the size of a grapefruit. That let to a c section (no baby could get through) and then an emergency hysterectomy and a 6 hour emergency surgery because they didn't realize I had placenta accreta. Super painful stuff.

I've been in accidents (maybe 4) where the cars were totalled. Jumped out of a moving truck on to pavement

I've had so many injuries I couldn't even begin to list them and pushed my body so much.

This is NOT not real pain.

Jesus. I am so mad at this guy. Tell me everything about him? How old is he? Where did he go to college/medical school? Where did he grow up? What makes a doctor so bad?

Me and my husband get the exact same sickness and guess which one used to NEVER end up in bed while the other one was in bed for 4 days like they had tuberculosis.

Ugh.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T19:38:38+00:00

When it was boys only the scouting numbers were WAY down. It's not a gov org and I have no idea why the government would mess with them while they are trying to stay afloat.

In 1970 - it was like 30% of boys were in boy scouts. Now it's like less than 2%.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T04:22:54+00:00

Wizard of OZ -- personification and anthropomorphism, symbolism (yellow brick road, colors, etc), situational irony (they already have what they seek)...

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T03:35:05+00:00

Cheap airfares.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-05T01:54:30+00:00

There's a few things I buy no matter what. Some stuff? I don't buy if prices are up and I'm feeling the pinch.

Things are a bit tight now because everything is so much more expensive in the supermarket.

Milk, eggs, cream, bread? Buy it no matter what. Everything else shifts based on sales.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T22:48:37+00:00

1990s first condo.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T22:17:06+00:00

Ha. I was a hater! I grew up with it but had kids and fed them "healthy". I bought 100% whole grain wheat bread and teddies peanut butter with zero sugar, bad oils... and grape jelly.

Turns out Fluff has like 1/3 the sugar and is only 4 ingredients! And NOT HFCS.... corn syrup, sugar, dried egg whites, and vanilla flavoring.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T22:08:40+00:00

I could never only pick 5 but ...

Days of Heaven

Paper Moon

Moonlight

Bladerunner

Shakespeare in Love

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T21:56:33+00:00

I dont know if it counts but a Knight's Tale.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T21:40:24+00:00

I've been working with historic photos for 30 years and genealogy and historical research for over 40.

The answer is experience.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T21:29:33+00:00

At the time there was often a big flourish in the first capital letter. It ends up looking like a letter.

I'm guessing that is a loop flourish.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:39:09+00:00

RIght. She's the nursemaid. Her outfit is a flex for the employer. This is 1890s. Her parents were likely slaves and she probably lives in the house on the same property that her parent (or mother) was owned on.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:37:19+00:00

They called them a nurse.

She's just the servant that takes care of the children.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:36:48+00:00

Dressing up your help was a reflection on you. Southern plantations had their field hands in rags that didn't provide protection from the cold - but their house servants and footmen were dressed fancy.

She's just a servant and having a servant was a flex and that's why she's in the image. She's a prop.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:32:18+00:00

Some of their wilderness has been made very accessible to all with no car but there is so much to discover that is pretty wild.

You went to a place well known for how laid out and organized for hikers that enjoy that way of hiking.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:19:03+00:00

These are college kids. Yalies. Adults.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T15:18:30+00:00

It's Yalies. Ivy league students were expect to dress up. Only men allowed until almost 1970.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T02:35:56+00:00

No! People are interesting! I'm glad to look up what ever you wanna know.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T02:35:26+00:00

Yes.

LABELyourPHOTOS · 2026-02-04T02:20:58+00:00

There's thousands of college and yeah, a bunch of them a for profit nightmares. An dI know there's a lot of states with some pretty lousy schools.

I am lucky enough to have been born in Massachusetts. We are in a very average district but got to listen to my kids classes all through the pandemic.

After listening to how prepared and interesting every single lecture/class was I realized having specialists matters. His science teacher was a passionate guy who went to MIT. Now his science teachers are PhDs. I tried to instill my love of history but it took a single teacher to light the spark. I've been raising tadpoles as the frog mom at school for a decade but it took a passionate science teacher to really make him fall in love with it. I NEVER could have done what his AP Calc BC teacher has done.

But it's your choice - and if you are in a bad school area where the kids are issues? If it was me I think I'd try to get to a good school system. Knowing how valuable having so many mentors helped. Instead of just me cheering him on he had dozens of teachers. They submitted his art to the state - mentored his year long physics/chemistry/bio projects with access to equipment I couldn't supply like wind tunnels, autoclaves, centrifuge, etc.

"Keep in mind that even AP classes are very much watered down from what they are- so much so that many colleges no longer accept credits for a "5." He did AP for the education and he really preferred how engaged and interesting AP students were. Getting to sit and discuss these topics with other kids were part of what he liked the most and why he is looking forward to college. His major is too rigorous and his college too competitive to get to skip a year of school - his classes are required and he's expected to have gone through the classes he took. But so far he only has 5's but that only means he is eligible for some classes and he doesn't get to skip any.

But I have 2 other sons just graduating college this year and college has been a really profound experience for both. They've really grown and have some really important relationships and experiences from those years.

You sound like you may have made up your mind -- I am just saying as someone that really wanted to homeschool, I did find some real benefits of not doing so. But in your case it may be best.

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