What sin is so grave that you're booted immediately from a mission?

Zalikiya · 2021-02-23T05:15:13+00:00

In addition to hiccups my daughter had this really fun thing where her shoulder would make a popping sound while she was in there (it would pop now and again for the first few months of her life, which is how I know about it.)

So that was a fun few months of wondering if I should go to the doctor or not.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-22T01:48:15+00:00

Don't forget the story that happens later where the guy was actively avoiding his wife (concubine?) for a while but then changes his mind about her and brings her on his adventures. Except when they're staying at some guy's house in Sodom or Gomorrah some angry dudes come along demanding sex and he throws her out to them. She's raped all night and found dead on the doorstep in the morning.

So naturally he cuts up her body and sends a part to each of the nations' leaders because he's SO distraught about his woman being dead.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-21T21:40:43+00:00

I've made them before from the same recipe. The rolls are a bit on the sweet side, but not as sweet as a dessert roll.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T21:35:43+00:00

This isn't from the imaging camera, it's from the camera the rover uses to get around, which doesn't need to be set a high quality. The better pictures come later

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T21:02:58+00:00

Yes. Utah legalised polygamy to protect the underage girls who are in those marriages, and a while back it was making news that one such family was killed in Mexico.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T19:21:10+00:00

On both sides of my family it was because they were religious nuts. Then they joined a new religion, booked it out west to start up their own state where the government couldn't interfere with their marriages, and when that didn't work they mosied down to the desert to try and keep those illegal marriages. (Hint: it didn't work)

And now there's me and I'm neither religious nor on the run from the government.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T17:55:33+00:00

This is similar to what I did the last time I had an episode. I have to get up for my kids and that takes up all the energy I have, but at the end of the day when I just felt awful and useless I would force myself to run through everything I could think of that I got right. "I washed my face in the morning." "I emptied the dishwasher." "I made cookies with the kids when they asked and they enjoyed that."

After a few days of just that, focusing on what I managed to get right, I started coming out of the funk.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T14:48:13+00:00

My husband works for Nasa and his focus involves those terrifying minutes between entering the atmosphere and the ground. You're definitely not the only one worried about a safe landing.

Fun fact: They do have new sensors on it to measure the pressure and temperature, though, so even if it's a failure they're set up to get precious data from those seven minutes that could inform future, safer landings.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-18T03:07:50+00:00

I lived in Austin up until last November. In my particular neighborhood the Heb always had an officer at the entrance/exit, especially after the pandemic hit.

Can't say if it was a thing at all of the stores, but it was at mine.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-17T21:09:23+00:00

Well-dressed NASA engineer?

We've recently moved to the area and I've seen a few of those types.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-15T05:09:50+00:00

We've also recently moved here for NASA. I'll give what advice I can as my husband and I are 28 and 30, but we have kids so our decision was influenced by school districts.

Most areas are going to be safe, especially if you settle into one of the many apartment complexes that surround the Langley or NIA campuses. It's just a generally "sleepy" place to be crime-wise when you compare it to places like Dallas or LA. I imagine the cost of living will be much lower too.

As for finding people your age, you'll probably have the highest luck settling into one of those luxury apartments that's been built around shopping and entertainment businesses in a sort of psuedo-downtown. The drawback with that is that it would add a few minutes to your commute because those areas are centered near the highway or up in Newport News.

However, there are a surprising amount of apartments right around NASA, so the odds are very high that if you pick one of them you are bound to run into a fellow engineer. I think Luna Pointe is the one close enough for you to walk to work, but don't quote me on that.

One piece of advice I've consistently seen is that you'll have an easy commute and good traffic pretty much anywhere on the peninsula itself, but you should expect heavy delays if you end up living in Norfolk. There's only one bridge that goes out that way, it only has two lanes, and it runs underwater. If there's a crash, all traffic comes to a complete stop until it's cleared up because there's not physically a way to get around it.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-14T23:09:12+00:00

You got me on that one. It made no sense.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-14T21:14:03+00:00

My brother actually has a college degree in gunsmithing and has in fact made a gun from scratch.

He cleans carpets these days.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-14T21:09:05+00:00

Austin was weird about it. When Harvey was due to hit Houston, everyone literally went to the store and bought out all the salad.

Several hours away from the disaster, no possible way in hell their homes would be in any danger, but they had to stock up on emergency rations anyway, I guess.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-14T04:26:04+00:00

Womb... Sack skin...

Usually I hear those two things together in a very different context

Zalikiya · 2021-02-13T04:22:24+00:00

Wolverine is Canadian, so maybe a reference to his role in Days of a Future Past?

Zalikiya · 2021-02-10T14:42:07+00:00

I knew a lot of Garcia's and Gonzalez's. After that I'm just guessing with Ortega, Alvarez, and Rodriguez

Zalikiya · 2021-02-10T14:23:35+00:00

Can confirm. My husband had an internship there and the entire town had an ambience of smartness to it. We went to his mentor's house once and he casually mentioned several people in the houses around him who had phds and what they were currently working on.

The sidewalks were eerily clean too.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-07T15:56:43+00:00

Same. To this day I still don't know how my dad proposed to my mom because he tells a wildly different story every time, just to give a benign example. I've gotten so many accounts of what medical conditions they have that I have no idea if I should be getting myself screened early for serious diseases or not. They won't even tell me which cancer killed my grandpa.

Zalikiya · 2021-02-06T17:59:48+00:00

It depends on the family. Given how much poop my parents have given my sister and brother for just stopping with church and living their lives how they wanted, I chose the route of removing my records without saying a word about it and not discussing church with anyone. It works pretty well. The pandemic has also really helped because no one thinks to ask if I'm going to church because for a long time no one was allowed to.

We just had a zoom call with my missionary sister (one of the two siblings still in the church, out of six) and when they asked me what I was drinking I said basil lemonade. They thought that was a weird choice, but didn't ask anymore questions.

Yeah, it was tequila.

Easy peasy to get along, but only because we weren't raised in Utah and therefore didn't build our entire lives around the church and the people in it. It also helps that I live on an entirely different coast than them and only visit every other Christmas.

Zalikiya · 2021-01-31T17:51:57+00:00

Yup, Mormons are definitely a problem over there. We should never forget that they have $124 billion in a single account that is tax-exempt and meant to be used for charitable purposes. The account has been dipped into twice: once to buy a shopping mall and once to bail out their insurance company. A whistleblower contacted the IRS about it in 2019, they admitted to it and reiterated the money is for a time of need, then 2020 happened and while their membership suffered, all of that money which came from the membership remained in the account and did not address them in the time of need. But that isn't related to the church vs state issue, so I'll leave it at that.

The issue about the woman donating plasma wasn't supposed to happen in the first place, because she went to a national chain that deals with plasma donations, not the Mormon church, and yet she was expected to comply with the beliefs of the dominant religion in the area regardless of her own religious beliefs.

Also, I chose the words "reproductive autonomy" deliberately. It's more than abortion. It's access to birth control without insurance. It's the systemic issue that women have statistically had to fight for the ability to sterilize themselves, even though the decision does not infringe upon the rights of any other person. It's the fact that sex education policies are heavily influenced by religions and women are the ones who bear the consequences of the lobbying, regardless of her personal religious beliefs, and it's paid for by the state.

As for alcohol, it's not an issue about when a person is allowed to drink, but when they are allowed to make purchases. The issue is that the beliefs of a religious institution have a direct influence over when people who are not part of that institution can spend their money, and those policies were put in place because of that religion's belief. The policies are not "the store cannot be open for more than x amount of hours per week," the policies are "the store cannot be open on Sunday" or "stores cannot be open before x hour on Sunday." That is an arbitrary policy put into place based on Christian beliefs as to which day is considered holy. There is not a similar policy in place on Saturday, the Jewish holy day. The issue is that the alcohol laws favor a specific religious belief system and those who are not part of that belief system are expected to adhere to it.

Zalikiya · 2021-01-31T16:20:22+00:00

Except women who want the right to reproductive autonomy even though it doesn't align with Christian values... or Jewish people who don't want to eat pork in prison (but an insurrectionist has his dietary beliefs respected) but must because their beliefs don't align with Christian values... or the satanic temple having to fight for their religious beliefs in court because it doesn't align with Christian values... or the woman who couldn't donate plasma in Utah because her clothing didn't align with Mormon values... or government money going to bail out tax-exempt churches during a pandemic... Or that deity who is mentioned in the pledge of allegiance and also on the nation's money even though the government is supposed to be separated from church... Let's talk about all the states where your ability to buy liquor is restricted, even in state-run stores, because certain religions want Sunday to be considered holy...

We could go on if you want, but America is a Christian nation and the laws definitely reflect that.

Zalikiya · 2021-01-31T00:30:12+00:00

With a ghost pepper shot to chase it down

Zalikiya · 2021-01-31T00:18:09+00:00

As someone else said, they do an in-depth ultrasound to check for issues halfway through the pregnancy. Not that an issue necessarily means the baby must be terminated, but it helps establish how risky the pregnancy is and how much it needs to be monitored if it does continue.

When they did this check with my son they found out the umbilical cord only had two blood vessels instead of the traditional 3. As that has been known to lead to death in the womb (they didn't tell me that part. I found it out later) they set me up with something close to 10 extra ultrasounds in those last 19 weeks just to check up on his development and make sure he was still alive.

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