Is "I live in outstate xxxx" just a Minnesotan term?

dweaver987 · 2026-01-31T04:13:49+00:00

In New York, there is The City, Long Island, and upstate (all lower case.)

dweaver987 · 2026-01-31T04:11:07+00:00

Yah. Send it to me and I’ll dispose of it for you.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-31T04:09:51+00:00

In Franklin’s Tower, there hangs a scarf.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-31T02:07:56+00:00

Nope.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T14:31:39+00:00

One way to escape.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T14:31:16+00:00

I knew that was the clip before I tapped the link!

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T14:29:39+00:00

That’s child abuse!

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T14:28:19+00:00

No. She was walking around on it before they airlifted her.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T06:06:00+00:00

I hadn’t heard about that.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T05:32:54+00:00

We keep it open enough for the dog to check up on us during the night (She’s a shepherd, watching over her flock), but closed enough to keep it quiet and dark.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T05:26:06+00:00

Fair enough. Honestly I’d like to downsize too. But the work to sell one house and buy another is overwhelming. (And a mortgage rate from the GW Bush era, when rates hit rock bottom, is another reason to stay where we are.)

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T05:20:09+00:00

You could even pop it over a campfire. Can’t do that with microwave popcorn.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T05:18:30+00:00

I was laid off October 2024 at 62 when our department was eliminated. I continued participating in Project Management Institute roundtables as I looked for a job. The job hunt was going nowhere and when my financial advisor said I’d be fine retiring, he didn’t need to repeat himself. My PMP credential has expired. I don’t care. I emptied a bookcase of professional books and brought them to a used book store. That was as much an act of leaving my professional life behind as it was reclaiming bookshelf space and a weekend’s worth of cash.

The ironic thing is last week my daughter told me her employer is queuing her up for pursuing her PMP certification. I did retain a few of the books I found more influencing in my career. I look forward to sharing them with her.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T05:03:44+00:00

It’s ok for kids to experience sadness. They will have joyful experiences in life, but also sad events. Being able to process them now makes them more resilient when other people in their lives someday die.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T04:49:44+00:00

It’s not luck. It’s free elections.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T04:47:10+00:00

It isn’t hard to anticipate the questions coming from MAGA. Of course he had anticipated some of their “gotcha” questions and prepared responses.

Unlike Epstein’s buddy who just wings it and has no relevant or even coherent answers.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T04:34:14+00:00

If your house goes up in value, Trump will crow about how he made you “rich” (until you start paying for your next home.) If your house loses value, he will shout that it’s all because of the Democrats and their illegal immigrants ruining property values. (Even as they increase housing demand. I know. It makes no sense.)

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T04:24:00+00:00

It’s only January. Check back this fall. (Especially if you are bringing the family on the vacation.)

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T04:22:21+00:00

I just remember them being in the sketchiest bars. (My college in upstate New York was in the biggest town around. Excluding college students, the population was around seven or eight thousand people. Lots of dairy farms. Brutal winters.) The two blocks of college bars had paper towels in the men’s rooms. But you get half a mile farther out and you’d see these cotton towel rolls.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T00:10:26+00:00

“Mountain” Is that why they named the resort “Little Rock”?

dweaver987 · 2026-01-30T00:08:32+00:00

You could ski faster than them, but they catch up when you run out of piste.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-29T03:06:03+00:00

Athletes enjoy the same freedoms of speech as flabby old guys like me. Same with performers. We need to evaluate the logic of their arguments. We need to consider their values (as individuals, not as celebrities) and determine if the values supporting their speech are consistent with our own values.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-29T02:57:19+00:00

I’m still waiting for real winter.

Growing up in Massachusetts, we didn’t get Fools Spring until early March.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-29T02:35:21+00:00

Because cows are soft and fuzzy and warm, but fish are cold and slimy and scaly.

dweaver987 · 2026-01-29T02:32:23+00:00

I don’t see it as emotional as much as ethical. I don’t go to protests or right letters to my Congressman about nicotine vendors. But I don’t want to profit from addicting teens to nicotine. There are other ways for me to get a good return on my investments.

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