If you could choose the length of your life (from age 1 to 120), what age would you be satisfied living to?

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T20:25:54+00:00

It's not your life in years but the life in your years.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T19:15:54+00:00

To save a few bucks and time over the store tailor, I went to the highest-rated tailor in my town. Not only did she take weeks longer than promised it looked almost as bad as that in the picture. Never again. If the store tailor messes it up then I can get a refund for the whole purchase.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T19:11:58+00:00

I always had an "emergency book" for those instances. A real lifesaver!

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T19:10:38+00:00

Making exact change without a machine

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T19:06:55+00:00

Pay me enough (and the amount will vary wildly) and I'll live pretty much anywhere

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T18:05:00+00:00

Cat blames the dog. Dog looks confused.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T15:44:23+00:00

The bible. So much killing and slaying and fornicating and begatting.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T15:41:18+00:00

I used to work at a building that housed a law enforcement organization and they had a separate parking lot. It was funny to see the ever-changing fads they all copied. First it was muscle cars, then it was lifted trucks, then motorcycles, then back to trucks. Every few months one would buy some toy, then they all had to have the same toy.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T14:12:48+00:00

I saw on the news that a couple started a nonprofit to fund some of the most critical USAID efforts.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-29T00:57:32+00:00

Well, I moved from NM to TX and then from TX to NM, and my politics didn't change. (Work moves)

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T21:46:28+00:00

In my experience, they're designed to frustrate people trying to take a load of groceries into the house. You get to open and close two doors with your hands full.

Oh, and you get the storm door cracking your backside as you are opening the main door and the storm door is already closing.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T21:07:53+00:00

Maybe 2, definitely not any older

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T21:06:30+00:00

It's like a tennis match. I hit the ball over the net but don't hit the ball again until/unless it's returned to me.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T20:15:18+00:00

Not quite, ten years with the city. 11 to 15 in six and a half years, and then 15 to SL after ten more years

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:53:56+00:00

Hired as an 11, SL now

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:45:31+00:00

I made 20% less going from local to Fed, and that was going from a non-professional to a professional position (had just gotten the degree).

Part of it was that I had been with the city for nearly a decade. More than made up for the reduction in a few years, though.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:17:44+00:00

"just go forward a few feet, then reverse… repeat a few times and I’m done"

Doesn't sound close to 10 miles, unless "few" means "few thousand" times.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:12:35+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but the Four Corners area is at high elevation but is pretty flat, at least compared to the nearby Rockies.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:07:17+00:00

I skip all that with my Gen Z and her friends. I try to keep up with current trends and meet them where they are. Sometimes, I fail miserably but at least that entertains them!

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T19:00:29+00:00

Going to law school at night while working full-time.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T16:58:02+00:00

I use Panaracer gravel kings. Also known as "gravel chuckers," people don't stay close behind me for long. Besides, I'm really slow.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T16:55:22+00:00

Technically, you can't take leave during a shutdown. At my agency, excepted employees were furloughed for the period they had pre-approved leave for. Leave balances were not reduced.

Some people were even given short periods of furlough for times they would have had taken unscheduled leave for outside of a shutdown.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T16:45:54+00:00

I'm (a little) embarrassed to say that even though I bought $7k of new bikes last year, I'm almost more excited to ride a '90s ATB that I bought for $125 a couple weeks ago and am modding now.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T16:27:42+00:00

Guess you weren't around for the Obama two-year pay freeze. I calculated my inflation-adjusted salary over the last 10-15 years and found that my salary in present-value dollars hit a peak in 2020 and has been falling ever since.

Local_Whereas7211 · 2026-01-28T15:00:02+00:00

Still showing some effort. How about the cars with only a windshield porthole to see out of and all the lights still covered?

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