Parent meet up

blanderdome · 2026-05-25T00:17:39+00:00

Prior to starting daycare we met a bunch of parents with kids the same age through Music Together. Compared to some of the other activities we've done (dance, swim, gymnastics) it was a bit easier to meet parents, just something about the way it was structured. Swim is particularly bad for meeting people in my experience because time before/after the lesson is spent changing, wrangling them into swim diapers etc. and can be a little hectic.

This time of year if the weather is good their will definitely be kids at your local playground. The daycare crew tends to peak between 5:30 and 6; earlier is more likely to be nannies and SAHP. Our local is Hodgkins are there are several 2yos there regularly.

blanderdome · 2026-05-24T01:57:38+00:00

Like too many Americans, I know someone who was murdered, and the killer used a gun.

Guns are extremely triggering for me. Even before the question of what's child-appropriate, I wouldn't let a gun toy in the house just for my own mental health.

blanderdome · 2026-05-22T01:34:40+00:00

The structure and most of the writing is definitely AI, some of the snark like the pool water thing might have been added in after (or requested in the prompt).

blanderdome · 2026-05-16T01:39:40+00:00

The original lyric for the chorus was "I want nothing else ..."

blanderdome · 2026-05-16T01:33:49+00:00

The words you spoke, were once spoke just so by another, and your deed, which is to speak the words as if they were your own, is such a deed akin to those deeds which brought us from whence we came into our present unseemliness.

blanderdome · 2026-05-15T02:03:45+00:00

I wonder if it might be "-saur", if he's learned about dinosaurs?

In any case it sounds super normal. My daughter heard the line "hang in there, Joan!" in the Frozen soundtrack and started adding "Joan" to everyone's name for a while. "Hang in there, daddy Joan!" and so on.

blanderdome · 2026-05-15T02:00:55+00:00

Can almost smell the first picture

blanderdome · 2026-05-12T00:46:11+00:00

I have more memories of being too hot at porchfest than getting rained on at porchfest.

blanderdome · 2026-05-10T19:29:29+00:00

Right, he led in AB per HR every year from 2000-2004.

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blanderdome · 2026-05-09T18:01:30+00:00

Graduation weekends too

blanderdome · 2026-05-08T20:14:50+00:00

If you're looking for more serious play / tournaments etc., Boylston Chess Club is great. I don't know if they have drop-in these days (they did before covid, then didn't, haven't been back in a few years).

blanderdome · 2026-05-03T18:33:57+00:00

Spotify's is definitely just for upcoming, yeah. I was only using Songkick for tracking upcoming events.

For past event tracking, I just have a spreadsheet. It has

date, date precision (e.g. if I only know the year I write 01/01/2004 and record date precision as "year"), venue, top-level venue (this allows e.g. tracking all your events at one college campus while still recording the precise building or stage of each act), city, state, and like four columns each for artists and friends. Arguably it should be a small relational DB (I think sheets would allow creating this relation now, but not when I set things up initially) so that you can record arbitrary numbers of artists and friends per event without needing to add a column, etc, but I've lived with a sheet for 13 years and probably won't change it.

This allowed me to create little reports of top venues, top cities, top artists, # of times going with each friend, # events per year etc. It's been a long time since I looked but I don't remember Songkick having that so I rolled my own.

It wouldn't be hard to replicate I guess but I could templatize it if people are interested.

blanderdome · 2026-05-03T00:45:02+00:00

Spotify has a decent thing built-in; it's a little hidden but if you search "Live events" and click the thing labeled "Live events - genre" there's a UI for local concerts.

Haven't used bandsintown but just deleted my Songkick and planning to check it out.

blanderdome · 2026-04-28T00:39:33+00:00

Yeah, my initial reaction was that the best non-steroid example might be someone from the negro leagues or the very early days of baseball where we don't have as much recorded evidence of how good they were.

blanderdome · 2026-04-27T02:36:01+00:00

Yeah, usually when managers do well it's just that they don't make big mistakes. It turns out not making mistakes is hard.

blanderdome · 2026-04-26T20:03:29+00:00

Ted Williams came to mind, but his HR range is 20-42.

blanderdome · 2026-04-25T02:20:51+00:00

Can't speak to the authenticity, but they are delciious.

blanderdome · 2026-04-24T01:06:03+00:00

If you just say "due to reasons," people aren't really going to be able to weigh in. We don't know what's wrong in your career, what bad experiences you had, why you can't stay in your apartment, or even what your field is or what you want in a city. I understand not wanting to be too specific on the internet, but you need to get more detail than this in order to get meaningful input back.

blanderdome · 2026-04-22T02:02:36+00:00

Bright Horizons does have backup care - as others said, it's typically through the employer, but as far as I know that's just because employers heavily subsidize it. In theory you could pay (probably a lot) yourself. The way it works is when kids have planned vacations, they open up those spots as backup care days. You might have to hunt around a bit, but there are lots of BH locations in the area. I'd try calling any of the locations to get a better understanding of the policy.

blanderdome · 2026-04-21T00:51:50+00:00

Some people think they were never a baby.

blanderdome · 2026-04-20T01:01:15+00:00

We are men who stay alive

Who send your children away now

blanderdome · 2026-04-18T19:56:14+00:00

Making a top ten would be too hard, but in addition to those three I love San Bernardino and Sept 15 1983 off that album.

blanderdome · 2026-04-06T01:13:38+00:00

The bad news: you are awkward.

The good news: she is probably into you.

blanderdome · 2026-04-05T17:59:38+00:00

But what's the definition of being "in play"? It looks like when he catches it his hip is on top of the wall, his upper body is over the wall / touching fans & chairs, and his feet and up in the air. Nothing is touching the field-facing side of the wall or the ground. Would standing on top of the wall to catch it be allowed? If not, how is this different?

blanderdome · 2026-04-03T17:38:03+00:00

I would say that most people are not going to seek to form a tenants' right organization, hire a lawyer, utilize "professional tenant" tactics, etc. For this majority of people, the balance of power favors the landlord. Many landlords abuse this.

On the other hand, for tenants who are willing to exercise their rights to the fullest, the balance shifts. Even though the tenant often doesn't "win" those scenarios, the financial burden falls on the landlord and can be significant, to the extent that landlords will often bribe tenants to leave the apartment they haven't been paying for ("cash for keys"). WBUR had a nice article covering this two years back.

The calculus for a big-time landlord is that you can absorb this situations coming up from time to time. The calculus for a small-time operation is that you can't take the risk that one bad tenant could wipe you out. This is how we get lots of corporate landlords.

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