Hot Fun in the Summertime: Lounge LC Thread.
It's that time again!
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GL Bully. The one I had wasn't really that bad. Hope you get a good experience and outcome as well.
Shockingly not bad. Can’t imagine what they must’ve been like 30-40 years ago. Even got a little discount so it came in about $60 below the low end of the quoted range!
Dentistry has come a long long way. Get a cavity filled now is like flossing compared to even ten years ago. I bet half the kids in America I started kindergarten with in 1970 never saw a dentist until turning 18.
Lord, we are fortunate, lucky, and blessed on a level we can’t even comprehend let alone appreciate.
Shockingly not bad. Can't imagine what they must've been like 30-40 years ago. Even got a little discount so it came in about $60 below the low end of the quoted range!Dentistry has come a long long way. Get a cavity filled now is like flossing compared to even ten years ago. I bet half the kids in America I started kindergarten with in 1970 never saw a dentist until turning 18
Modern dentistry is one of the great equalizers between then and now. One of my favorite subjects to read about is the guilded age and guys Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carrnegie etc. It's really easy to see how much better an average normie has it today over the super rich of the past. Sure they had power and palaces for homes with plenty of servants. I prefer a lazyboy, unlimited entertainment options at my fingertips, cheap jet travel, good roads and personal transportation and modern medicine/dentistry. People have it so good now and all they can do is complain.
Current problem with health care is the demands put on doctors. My GP who I really like is leaving to open a concierge practice. I can afford the $250.00 a month (and I'm considering it), but the $20.00 copay seems a better choice.
My doc is supposed to see 20 patients a day, and he had his pay cut by 20% because he didn't meet the quota. He wants to do his job, spending time with patients, advising patients on matters beyond the checkup that lasts 15 minutes.
Don't know if this is happening all over the country, but it seems so. And then add the misinformation promoted by kooks, the snake oil salesman, people turn to these homeopathic "cures" and refuse vaccines because they have done their own "research" and distrust science.
Watch cable news and see the sort of stuff that's advertised, especially various supposed benefits aimed at seniors. And don't get me going on gambling ads that will lead to mental health problems for many.
And I agree with Mrbaseball. We do have it good overall.
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Ayn Rand saw it all coming sixty years ago.
Ayn Rand saw it all coming sixty years ago.
I'm not quite sure what Rand is up to there, except perhaps that passing Medicare involves doctors surrendering agency because the greater good depends on guilt-tripping doctors who should resist appeals to morality. (Am I even close here?)
I think most people would be happy to take the health care afforded to the members of Congress and reject socialized health care.
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Saw Citizen Kane on a big screen way back around 79 or 80... & then again tonight.
There are no superlatives too extreme.
Audience ranged from early 20s to the 70s.
Relevant to current culture.
I find it a bit unfathomable that women pack a suitcase that weighs about 50 pounds to go away for a long weekend.
What do you have in there?
Hairdryer.
They have those in hotels.
Not the right kind.
What else?
Laptop.
Hotels have computers too.
How many pairs of shoes?
Four.
I pack for a long weekend in a small duffle bag, knowing I can buy anything I forget. I can pack for a week in a larger duffle bag. Do I really care if I wear the same clothes two days in a row.
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My wife always liked it when we went away for long weekends. I could sling my small messenger bag over my shoulder, leaving both my hands free for two of her suitcases.
I don't know how I managed without Google Wallet all these years.
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I know this forum isn't the place for politics, but here goes. I wish that some people (not here of course) would teach at a community college for a year.
It might open their eyes.
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I wish that some people (not here of course) would teach at a community college for a year.
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I wish everyone in education of any type would work a year in the private sector. It might open their eyes 😀
While I was in LV we got hit with a massive storm that caused flooding which pretty much destroyed my basement/man cave/office. None of my stuff got destroyed but all of the carpet and drywall needed to be taken out. So all of my computers, TV, stereo etc. are secured under plastic waiting for the repair crew. The cleanup crew was quick but the repair crew is undetermined.
Finally getting all of my repairs done early next week. I have a workstation set up on the dining room table which sucks. It will be great to get back to my muticomputer multiscreen setup (I use 10 monitors but only have 4 up in the dining room) and my bigscreen TV and my comfy recliner. Can't happen soon enough but I am also greatful and have mearly been experiencing "first world" problems 😀
I wish everyone in education of any type would work a year in the private sector. It might open their eyes 😀
From 16 until 37 I worked in the private sector, from stocking supermarket shelves, to hotel accounting and finally as a multi-unit business manager for a NYSE corporation - before transitioning to teaching English in an urban public school district in 1996. The change was prompted when MrsSaint was ill, and we didn't know if she would recover. I needed to focus on family - inclusive of two daughters ages 8 and 4 at the time. Long story short, my private sector career pretty much came to an end when my supervisor told me that my "priorities" were misplaced as she shared how she chose to go into the office the afternoon after her son had been buried earlier that same morning.
My response was a simple one, "Linda, that may be your priority, but it'll never be mine." As those words were articulated, I knew my career path was dramatically changing in real time. I was out of that gig less than two months after that conversation. I got my Provisional teaching license. Got a job. Got my MFA in Poetry writing. Progressed to a Professional license yet made significantly less money than I would've if I had stayed in the private world. At the time of her illness, MrsSaint had not yet attended college, but upon recovery she got her bachelors, her masters and became a LICSW. Those two daughters grew up. Both got masters. Both are professionals - the older is a Special Education teacher and the younger is the HR Director for a human services non-profit. I have no doubt that my family's path became accessible during that interaction between Linda and myself.
Becoming an educator is on the short list of my best life decisions. And an anecdote: about three weeks ago, I was lifting at Planet Fitness when a guy approached me and told me he'd had me for junior year English some 22 years ago. I needed a name, but when he said he was Michael B*****, I immediately remembered him and responded by saying, "you were a pain in the ass." He laughed. I also remembered that he had an effed up home life when he was an adolescent. Another long story short - he told me that I had had a dramatic impact on his life because, as he put it, "I told him straight." He shared that he had a professional career, had a house in a good neighborhood and a family - showing me pics of his wife and three boys. This is just one of many interactions I've had over the years with students from my past.
Yes, working in education is different than the private sector. I'm good with that.
