Gratz on acquiring the elusive user.name domain!

26 years down the drain …

Make good use of it. Please send me your contact information so I can provide you with the relevant credentials. If you include your password, I can save it directly for you.

Who isn’t?

I can’t explain, no, because I don’t understand the motivation behind it.

But someone (likely a bot) has been spamming messages, allegedly from the person depicted, as “the Fediverse chick.” I got my first one this morning. It arrived within sixty seconds of me making a post, so I have to guess it’s targeting more active users. If you’re a frequent commenter, you’ll probably get one eventually, too.

Please don’t take my username, it’s really important to me.

Valid, but shouldn’t be necessary.

So far, for me, it’s always been some kind of digestive issue such as reflux or just bad gas.

This is how I feel any time I meet what might be either one or two people in disparate circumstances without context or preparation.

Then you’re automatically doing it right.

There’s a fun book based partially on this premise.

I read it as a kid and enjoyed it, but have thought for years that it was called Flatland. Turns out that, while it covers a similar subject, that’s an entirely different book. I think I just read them around the same time. I’m glad I did because I read and enjoyed other Sleator books as a result.

Also the Futurama episode was entertaining.

Gotcha, thank you for the answer. A long time ago, someone recommended that I do that, but I never pursued it.

Heh - I also work from home and don’t get alone time (now that they’ve moved in with me), but I very much prefer my family to my co-workers. What is B2B work?

I did work a job where I got no PTO but also no penalty for time off. I know the “if I’m not working I’m not making money” struggle. It sucks and, in retrospect, seems like a scam.

I’ve also made investment accounts for my kid, though I only have the one. Teaching them to appreciate it is definitely important to me, but their world will be so different from my own at that age, if it’s even functional, that I haven’t put too much thought into it yet. At this juncture I think they barely know what money is.

Also, nothing I said was meant to be judgemental. I recently said, in another post, that every parent needs a break sometimes. No criticism to you for wanting time off; though I did miss my kid last time I had some, I was grateful for the period of relaxation I had.

I like the pachycephalosaurus because its etymology is so clear. Like submarine.

Also, when my kid was three or so, they couldn’t really enunciate any words correctly but they could pronounce that dinosaur name perfectly.

That’s pretty much the context of the other reference to it. I watched a Walk With Me Tim video where he stayed in a beach villa in Doha and recommended this as a superior alternative.

A vacation without kids or responsibilities sounds nice, but TBH the last time I was without my kid for a prolonged period - when I was moving into my house and the mother and kid were still at the old house - I just really missed them. I remember they had left a little model triceratops on the back of the toilet, which is not something I ever thought would make me emotional, but it sure did whenever I saw it.

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I’ve never heard of Seychelles in my life before, now I’ve seen it referenced twice in the past hour.

When I got my dog, I was told he was a “hound mutt.” You can see him in a few of my posts. If he were loose and thought you were an intruder, I’d wager it would be pretty scary. The delivery people just leave stuff on the porch, though, so they’re never in danger from him.

My five year old is pretty small, but I doubt they’d choose to bite any ankles. Probably just try to convince the delivery people to play.

I used to have a similar problem when I lived in a house with a property bordered by a very popular sidewalk. My dog scared so many pedestrians by running right up to the fence barking like hell. He never hurt anyone or anything, but I never got him to stop until we moved to a house where the fenced in area was in the back yard.

Fortunately my current home is pretty remote, so we get basically no pedestrians and definitely none close to where my current (different) dog can go. However, he does take affront to delivery people if they stick around too long; I’ve never heard him bark, but he’ll go to the windows nearest the front porch to huff and puff. Sometimes, when the delivery person has left, I’ll tell the dog he did a good job scaring them off … And as a result, my five year old has taken to huffing and puffing alongside him.

I don’t know if any delivery people have noticed, but it would be interesting to know what they think about it.

Huh, I would have guessed 7 Days to Die, though not as much these days.