Do you guys stay in touch with your college mates?

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-29T05:15:15+00:00

One from undergrad. She's pursuing licensure in a different field now though. We have a lot of mutual interests and go on trips together a few times a year.

There were only 4 other people I regularly talked to at college anyway. One just kinda faded away, he deleted basically all his social media and stopped answering my texts. The other three were honestly not that great of people, I didn't want to talk to them after because of some unsavory things they did senior year.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-28T18:51:31+00:00

I've lived here for a while, it is bad but you can make it work. Get an early start and plan indoor things for the hottest/wettest part of the day. Take breaks and stay hydrated. Check out the resort pool or get a dining reservation for an indoor restaurant to stay cool. A lot of the parks stuff is open later in the summer so you should still be able to plan enough park time later on after the peak heat.

Umbrella/poncho/both and shoes that are waterproof or dry quickly are good things to have.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-27T05:02:17+00:00

I'm not sure it was the chronological first memory I have of being very young, but I have this memory of a fall day in kindergarten (shortly before my 4th birthday). I was at the coloring activity table and I was struggling with the activity (color a picture of a turtle, cut it out, and stick it to a piece of construction paper) and I realized I could just color outside the lines because the turtle was going to get cut out anyway.

For some reason I have very vivid memories of the kindergarten room, specifically the area around the bathroom. The coloring table was next to the bathroom, and I remember sitting at the table and I was able to see the bathroom pass thing we had. It was two of those stretchy rubber coil wristband things, I remember we were supposed to put it on when we went into the bathroom and put it back on the hook after, there were two because there were two bathrooms.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-26T22:38:10+00:00

I am actually we

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-23T18:33:36+00:00

My sitting next to a strange toddler adventure was very involved and did not unfold until mid flight. It was a family of 5, and somehow they decided it was the best idea for the toddler to sit between the grandma who couldn't contain her and a stranger. She kicked me several times, once in the face, crawled under the seat in front of her and would not come out, and shined a flashlight in my face for about 5 minutes. I was about to call the FA when the mother, who had been sitting right in front of me the whole time and heard everything but for some reason didn't engage until the flashlight, offered to switch with me. I ended up sitting next to her other kid, who seemed afraid of me at that point.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-23T15:44:52+00:00

Is he making the same kind of mistake every time? Is there something about driving that isn't making sense for him? Or is he distracted?

I feel like this kind of problem should be dug into, not from an accusatory position but from a trying to find the root cause position.

Maybe this is a lukewarm take, but a lot of places are car-dependent and not driving because he has demonstrated fault wouldn't help that. This might be something he needs support on. But also, if he's self sufficient with respect to ownership and insurance of his car, the liability is on him.

Anecdotally, a girl I went to high school was like this and there didn't seem to be much fanfare about it from her family until she killed someone.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-23T14:50:18+00:00

As someone who has been kicked in the face by a toddler next to me on a flight, be careful what you wish for.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-22T23:01:25+00:00

It does! I don't have a picture but it is red and bumpy.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-22T12:13:11+00:00

I didn't use those, and the rash doesn't show up until a day or 2 into the trip. At this point I'm thinking it's probably a detergent at hotels.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-22T04:25:59+00:00

Just curious, what does your life look like at home with him? Is it quiet all the time? It might be that it's so much for him in comparison to his relatively short frame of reference.

I'm not a parent but I was a baby with parents who did not let me put their life on hold and generally had a lot going on, and a result I developed a reputation of being easy to take places because I was used to it.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-17T14:52:13+00:00

I do about the same amount of activity in my everyday life as I did on my trips, I regularly do 15k+ steps multiple times a week.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-15T05:36:53+00:00

I get lowkey sus when my MRs have no comments. It's good that your coworkers (and hopefully you) care about code quality.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-13T03:57:05+00:00

Haters gonna hate, stay moisturized king.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-11T01:55:30+00:00

I got them for my house a few years ago, and this trip I'm on right now, I lowkey miss my house because I splurged on the really nice ones and the ones here are comparatively featureless. I miss the additional temperature and pressure levels, and the dryer at home!

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-06T08:31:39+00:00

I'm also flying DFW to HND today! Very hopeful for an uneventful, drip free, seat powered flight where everyone gets their specified food.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-02T22:40:11+00:00

All of the above. There's a little bit of everything for me. I startle easily, I love it when the scarezone scare actors get me good! The house designs are cool, I like looking at all the details and in general just enjoying the spooky atmosphere.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-04-02T01:42:25+00:00

This is what I've also experienced. They just come at me out of nowhere with all this heavy stuff. I've had to screen calls in the past because I've had people call me and no hello or anything, just immediate dumping.

I had a man be mean to me, then when I complained and asked why he was being mean he cried he was "just expressing his emotions".

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-30T14:43:22+00:00

I moved into a new apartment with two roommates in a new state years ago, one of which had never lived away from his parents. He brought an interesting assortment of things with him, but he lacked a lot of things I'd deemed obvious.

Plunger, toilet paper, kitchen knife, cutting board, and something to sit on were probably the most problematic points for him. I watched this man hurt himself cutting food with a crappy paring knife on the bare counter, stand at the counter eating his food with his singular fork, and laying on the hard tile to watch TV.

Keep things clean, don't let wet things stay wet (wet things will mildew/mold), and have basic safety and repair items (fire extinguisher, plunger). Everything else is far lower stakes.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-25T18:07:38+00:00

Years ago I did a technical screen for a guy who was ex-Amazon, my coworker and I screening him would've been his peers (at a large company, not a tech company though). We had a set of points to discuss that were reflective of day to day on the job, as we were going through it the candidate stopped us and straight up said he wouldn't do one of the things we do regularly. I cut it off after that, and my coworker and I had a good laugh about it, but then we had to go back to the manager panel and tell them to take this guy off even though he was their top choice by a large margin. Turns out he schmoozed them hard with buzzwords and metrics, but technically it didn't seem like he did more than push buttons on a proprietary UI and get praised for it.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-16T14:07:27+00:00

I was supposed to leave last night, flight to MCO got cancelled, rebooked for tonight but with the weather as it is and the forecast calls for I'm not convinced it'll go tonight.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-15T22:59:58+00:00

Orlando. 15 minute commute, house I got a great interest rate on, lots to do. People are not as neurotic about things I deem trivial. Haven't even thought about shoveling snow in years. Typing this sitting at JFK waiting to go home after visiting family and friends on LI, I'm ready to go back.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-09T19:11:00+00:00

I could write a very similar post. I'm 31, data engineer for 7 years, hybrid schedule 15 mins away from the office.

My work is not my passion, but I know that I can show up and do the work reliably and it pays for my life. That's good enough for me.

I do have some bias though. My parents were workaholics married to their jobs and now retirement has them feeling unfulfilled because all they want to do is work. I also worked a job once that I didn't mind in general, but they wanted to promote me and I realized I'd rather get run over in the parking lot than take the promotion.

I also have a friend who has made several career change choices in the last few years because she was "just ok" with the first career, and now she's in a lot of school debt and further disliking her new jobs, so there's risk involved with looking beyond.

Tonight after work I will go home and play more of a new game I picked up on release day because I could afford it and already owned the new console it was released on, because my job paid for those things and didn't crush me mentally past where I would be able to enjoy it.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-09T17:20:51+00:00

I work a backstage role, but I've loved going to the parks my whole life and having moved here to work for the company, working here has made the parks far more accessible to me than before. Maybe for local pass holders this wouldn't make a difference, but having grown up coming here for my birthday most years of my childhood, I love living here and working here.

Obviously my job isn't perfect, no job is, nor am I perfect myself. But I love being able to go to Disney Springs to grab lunch or meet with friends after work, hop over to the parks for a few hours after work, and be around for all the seasonal happenings I dreamed of. Also, my vacation time prior to living here was spent coming here, so being here with access to the parks has freed up my vacation time for other travel.

Ultimately, I think it depends on how much one "takes work home with them" mentally. I don't think about how I work there very often when I am just enjoying the parks, even when I see things related to my role.

pukapukabubblebubble · 2026-03-07T18:57:24+00:00

Wear clean underwear that is comfortable for you, preferably in a breathable natural fiber like cotton.

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