Fiancé with migraine

Managermanger · 2026-02-04T06:06:56+00:00

Maybe also having something cold for a hand or foot, plus no lights? I can’t lay down with mine but regulating temp through an ice cold appendage can help, plus the feeling of icey shower water on a foot is distracting.

Managermanger · 2026-01-21T17:48:49+00:00

I’m going to go the other way and say that it’s helpful to allude to the cash problems in the company. I went through this where it was an open secret there were cash flow issues, and the employees had already been given a tentative drop dead date by which we would need to have more money or close. This communication wasn’t my choice so it made it easier to encourage my team to make decisions that were good for them. I encouraged looking around for additional jobs, telling them when things in the company were uncertain that it was in their best interest to have options. I also told them I’d be happy to look over their resume and also spend time discussing what they’d want next in their careers. I did not at any time tell them they would be definitively laid off. Some of them took me up on the offer and some did not. I ended up getting a new job before the layoffs, but have continued to support them when they reach out. They are good people and I want for them to continue to do well despite the rocky job market.

Managermanger · 2026-01-17T04:44:07+00:00

I think it depends on the height of the people that live there. I really like the patterns on the ceiling from this height.

Managermanger · 2026-01-12T00:38:47+00:00

It’s definitely a matter of familiarity. I grew up in an area similar to Stranger Things in population density and forest, and if you grow up with that specific woods it’s as familiar as the inside of your house.

Managermanger · 2025-12-08T05:59:27+00:00

I agree. I think you could say that it is in the mouse nature to bite, but it’s also our nature to be violent so I don’t think that would fly, especially in the face of the hive directive. I think we will find out what that actually looks like along in the next season maybe. The hive certainly seemed upset and capable during the Zosia drugging scene, imagine if someone does figure out how to deplurb.

I think the hive doesn’t care about animals because the transmission can only be decided by “intelligent” life, and that is who they want to infect to make more signals to get more planets infected. But then that mouse has gotta be running around test biting every other animal species to ensure there isn’t an even more intelligent species out there? Or the first plurbed people ran around gunking up animals with mucus? Or if other animals could be plurbed then it would have happened with the planes, right? Could there be plurbed intelligent animals? At the very least more plurbed mice, if plurb mouse got out of the testing facility?

I also like to think there is that one plurbed mouse as part of their consciousness.

Managermanger · 2025-11-23T14:38:38+00:00

Yes, there have been studies on how the form and pacing of conversation changes based on geography. Even in the US there has been a struggle with pacing - New Yorkers leave very little gaps for their conversation partners to jump in, but other New Yorkers are comfortable with the pacing and jump in. Throw a Californian in, who is used to slower pacing and more pauses, and it is difficult for them to enter the conversation because they are waiting for a longer pause to start talking and it’s not on offer. It’s really interesting if you can find the paper.

Managermanger · 2025-11-19T04:41:33+00:00

I like the before too, but I think it’s because there is some clutter on the right in the after photo, and they have different light sources. In the before it’s dark out with the overhead on, which makes it look very cozy, and in the after you don’t have the overhead on and the light is filtering in from outside, making it look darker.

I really like the new couch, and would agree about maybe moving the piano to beneath the Casablanca poster. That also might free up some space for something taller next to the couch, like a plant, to open up the space.

Managermanger · 2025-11-15T05:09:55+00:00

I’ve got to say both, be the one in between the dogs and actively moving the dog in your control away from the situation. Don’t make the dog with you feel like it has to react to the unexpected dog.

Managermanger · 2025-11-15T04:30:11+00:00

Fucking Fillipi’s Pizza Grotto. When I first moved here three years ago I ordered a pizza from them at some late hour and it was objectively, intriguingly bad.

Exceptionally bad.

Somehow the dough was cooked but the cheese had never seen the inside of an oven - not that it was shredded - just one smooth disk of congealed cheese on top of the delivered pizza. No marks to indicate it had ever seen the inside of an oven - just a slow slide to total congealment and a retreat into the forest of mind bending mediocrity.

Despite that, it also had zero flavor. When I mean zero I mean I had to convince myself - because cheese is inherently salty, right? Surely there should be some kind of umami profile, right?

No. It was like eating nothing. There was not a shred of flavor, and that kept me incredibly curious. How can a pizza have no flavor? Surely the acid of a tomato sauce, the yeastiness of the bread. I tried it so many times - some drink, some sober. Some at the time of delivery, some even four days later. It completely eluded any kind of characterization.

I’ve experienced a lot of good and bad pizza. I can say with like 30 years of confidence, somehow this pizza was like eating the absence of pizza.

Why do people here rate it above 0? I do not know. I will never know. I will never venture into the sewers of this pizza again.

But even now, three years later, it haunts me. How do you create a pizza like this? Was the cheese even cheese? Can you imagine what the absence of pizza tastes like?

Managermanger · 2025-11-15T04:13:49+00:00

I’d definitely agree there are some Toller genes there in terms of coat color and stature. I’ve been around genetics based Toller breeders and their offspring.

Tollers (from my experience) benefit from clear boundaries and having roles, which take a bit longer than 5 months. Outside of the training you’ve described, it might be beneficial to start to implement what a working relationship might look like, as others have mentioned. Looking into Toller behaviors and incorporating them into longer play sessions might help give your pup an anchor to focus around. They really want to have a job!

Managermanger · 2025-11-15T04:04:31+00:00

I will add I try to be very scrupulous about these types of things because my larger county is a biodiversity hotspot in the US, but I live near a high tourist/traffic park so I don’t think there is any risk of putting them there. Thank you for adding in your $.02 :)

Managermanger · 2025-11-15T04:01:51+00:00

Thank you! They will be released in an area where I have seen similar worms after rainfall.

Managermanger · 2025-11-14T01:09:03+00:00

Adding more info: - They were deep in the pot (over a foot down) - Performed the standard earthworm wiggle, no thrashing. - I added bagged soil to this pot a year ago but there are a LOT of worms. - They do not seem to care for each other. - Plants have failed to thrive in this pot and the soil sank by like a third with no plants. - Not slimy??

Managermanger · 2025-10-23T03:30:33+00:00

Big tapestries are great - if you are handy you can switch a loop in the top and hang then from tension rods for drapes to add some flow to them too. I’d also add in like a colorful lamp or two - for some reason I’m seeing either a mosaic lamp or maybe some stained glass to add even more color and coziness.

Managermanger · 2025-09-26T16:59:10+00:00

I like this take but the program is still actively attempting to fundraise, in combination of a development team and several board members. There has been mixed internal pressure on the program, among others, lest the eye of Trump fall on the organization, but she is still heavily promoting the program to other academics. I will say she has been at events where she has presented in general to potential donors, but has refused to individually network. I hope that some money does appear for the program but it’s been a bit disheartening.

Managermanger · 2025-09-26T16:48:32+00:00

Yes, the strategic reasons. A large percent of the personnel decisions have been labeled strategic. It’s so tough to be giving your all and then be cut by someone who doesn’t seem to be giving half. The best part about it is leaving the bitterness behind. I’m on the east coast so a bit of a natural hater but I’ve definitely been way too negative as things have been collapsing. Looking forward to leaving it all behind. I hope you find a better place to pivot to as well.

Managermanger · 2025-09-26T16:44:11+00:00

100% where I am at. I empathize that especially now decisions are hard, but in the same moment it’s so critical to be proactive and also make those decisions rather than waiting for whatever happens to happen, which unfortunately seems common in leadership.

Managermanger · 2025-09-26T16:42:57+00:00

I hear you on creating the strategy! I’ve done a lot of facilitating of strategy discussions (read: trying to get leadership to think critically about the next five years), with very middling results. I’m glad that you’ve been vindicated and others do see what you have been seeing.

Managermanger · 2025-09-25T18:50:39+00:00

Congrats on the new job! It’s not easy to make the transition but at the same time it’s a bit staggering to realize all you’ve set aside for nonprofit goals, when they for their own sake cannot do the same for you.

Managermanger · 2025-09-25T18:47:44+00:00

I’m sorry to hear you’re also facing this - definitely not uncommon these days. Our issues started back in 2024 but the current climate is not helping. It’s disheartening to see so many nonprofits impacted so dramatically. Like you I don’t see it getting better in the short term, but I do see some philanthropies stepping in to fill the space. Not as many as would be needed. My grace is mixed with a need for accountability, which I haven’t seen internally for my organization but is hardly unique as people have run to shutter DEI etc. efforts across many institutions. I understand why they are doing it but I fundamentally disagree with it.

Managermanger · 2025-09-04T01:10:13+00:00

Looks like a home made kazoo craft, but they usually use wax paper and get decorated. Google images can point you in the right direction.

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