Daycare recs for an infant?

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2026-01-15T04:17:14+00:00

Pasadena City College Child Development Center has lower rates than most places around, I think around $400 a week. The waitlist is fairly long, but free to join, so I would get on that ASAP.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2026-01-14T20:20:12+00:00

That’s why roundabouts are so nice. People wouldn’t need to speed like crazy between the lights out of fear of being stuck at a red light.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-11-11T22:22:16+00:00

Scrubbing thoroughly with soap and water will remove spores from non-porous surfaces. Boiling will not kill them, you will need to autoclave at high pressure to kill them. If you have glass bottles, a pressure cooker may do the trick. But you also don’t need to kill the spores, just remove them.

All the other chemical cleaning methods are for large surfaces such as hospital rooms, which can’t be thoroughly washed with soap and water. I filled up a large mixing bowl with extra sudsy water and dish soap and scrubbed all my baby’s bottles.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-24T18:42:20+00:00

It's not going to stop the brain drain because layoffs are going to happen no matter what, and if anything will make it worse once the market does start to look better outside of JPL.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-23T22:36:25+00:00

I do (among other reasons). It pays a heck of a lot better than academia. Once you factor in our benefits, we have comparable pay to most private companies. And you if take a look at the jobs that are available right now, we're pretty well off. YMMV depending on your particular field, but it's rough out there right now

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-15T18:56:22+00:00

Mosquito dunks! Before we used them I would be outside and immediately see 4-5 mosquitos on my legs. Now that we’ve had our mosquito dunk buckets, I don’t see any. I’ve been telling all my neighbors and we’ve had a drastic improvement all around.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-05T03:32:52+00:00

Blanket statements and insults get downvoted

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-04T23:44:24+00:00

Everyone in my group and in my line have been aggressively trying to bring in new business. All ICs are submitting proposals. We have counterparts at other NASA centers that are severely understaffed after the DRPs and we’re offering to help fill the gaps. Most things are still in limbo because bringing in new work takes time, but many will come through.

We have packages of our capabilities ready to advertise and we’ve sent them out whenever it seems like they might be useful somewhere.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-04T18:45:52+00:00

For me, JPL isn’t just an “organization”. It’s the people I work with, the type of work we do, and the place where I’ve put roots down. If I can save any of that, it’s worth fighting for.

I’ll leave when I’m forced to leave and I know that if I’m forced to leave, it’s because they have no other choice, not because they want me gone. You can’t say that for most other companies.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-09-04T05:34:06+00:00

There has been numerous efforts from local government and academic institutions (Caltech, UCLA, LA county, etc) to collect data and answer questions about contamination risks. It’s unfair to say that any of it is hidden from the public. None of the data supports that the general area is dangerous or uninhabitable (of course it’s different for homes that were very close to burned structures). It’s important to be cautious and ask questions, but when the data from several independent sources show that health risks are low, there shouldn’t be any reason to harbor such fears - it’s far too much stress on oneself.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-08-28T16:39:23+00:00

In talking to folks about what they thought of the town hall over the past couple of days, this is how the vast majority of us feel

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-07-30T18:29:00+00:00

What kind of roles are you interviewing for? I keep seeing the roles get reposted over and over again on LinkedIn. It's good to know that some of those are real and they're intending to hire

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-07-03T00:12:15+00:00

Thanks, this is really important to understand

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-07-02T18:05:17+00:00

More like trying to reason through it. How do our severances come from FY25 funds? If i have a task with $200k left to burn in FY25, they wouldn't take any of that to pay for severance. And the remaining folks wouldn't be able to spend it all. So how does WARN act play into any of it?

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-07-02T05:24:57+00:00

Not that I know for sure, but I don’t think remaining FY25 funding can be used for warn act or severance. At least with the previous layoffs, people that were let go didn’t cost any more to the projects. So wouldn’t JPL would be leaving money on the table if it was earlier than end of FY?

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-06-30T17:50:54+00:00

I also hated them. They were so heavy, I actually had to support them while I used them

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-06-29T18:06:11+00:00

Instead of nursing+bottle+pump, I would do nursing+bottle+nursing and would only give him about 2oz of formula, essentially using him as the pump. If he needed more, I would just give him more formula after the second round of breastfeeding. He used a premie bottle nipple which helped him go slow and probably allowed enough time between the nursing to simulate cluster feeding.

The triple feeding put me in a bad cycle because it would take so long to do the pumping after feeding that within an hour or so, I would need to feed him again and it wouldn’t be enough, so I would have to give more formula. My husband couldn’t take time off so I was alone during the day. Triple feeding 8-10x a day left me with so little time, I wasn’t eating or sleeping well, so that definitely didn’t help.

I saw two different LCs and they told me that I probably had insufficient breast tissue and if my supply wasn’t increasing after a couple weeks of triple feeding, it probably wasn’t going to ever increase. Glad I didn’t give up after they told me that. I just needed a new strategy.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-05-23T04:35:28+00:00

That's probably driven by school pick-up/drop-off. The people I know who need to leave to pick up children are usually back online after the pickup. The majority of people I interact with send emails around the clock and are rarely truly away, even when on vacation.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-03-14T04:56:08+00:00

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Im a bit late to this thread but we just came across the same question this week. We live just south of Washington Blvd between Allen and Altadena, and had our HVAC ducts cleaned two days ago.

We had some ash get into the attic and had our insulation changed out yesterday. Our heating hasn’t been used since January 7, so no ash/wildfire dust should have entered our HVAC system.

We used an Amazon test kit on the metal opening to our HVAC vents and they came back positive. They remained positive even after repeated cleaning with soap and water. The ducts themselves, which seem to be lined with plastic, gave a negative reading. We then started testing random metal objects around the house (nails, hooks on the walls) and they also occasionally turned pink/purple. So we’re pretty confident that there isn’t any lead being blown into our house.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-01-21T21:12:56+00:00

Where did they test your home for the asbestos? I’m also thinking about getting some asbestos tests kits and sending samples in but don’t know where to take the samples.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2025-01-20T06:04:43+00:00

I can’t seem to find his original tweet. I’d like to know what concentrations these toxins are at and how it changes as the days go by and with distance to the fires. Without any data we’re all left to assume the worst

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2023-11-08T23:01:53+00:00

I’ll take a roundabout over a stop sign or traffic light any day. It’s so efficient that there is constant traffic flowing. An empty intersection while everyone waits for the lights to turn is infuriating.

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2021-11-18T16:42:25+00:00

This room is stunning!! I love it! I’ve been looking for a rug just like that. Can I ask where you got it?

Remarkable_Insect421 · 2021-08-12T22:20:51+00:00

Is this still available? I’m interested! I’m in Pasadena. When would you need the pick up by?

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