Your CVS is staffed? The CVS and Walgreens around me are chronically understaffed. Like one pharmacist and one tech filling prescriptions and handing them out.
Weirdly, the Safeway pharmacy is always very well staffed. 2 pharmacists, 4 techs. I wonder how much better their benefits are than Walgreens.
Get your vaccine! My grandma had shingles. She said it was by far the worst pain she ever felt (yes, even worse than childbirth). And it lasts a long time.
Everyone is different. Some people want space, some people need attention. The main thing is to ask them what they need.
Additionally, making sure they’re eating and drinking (water, not booze) is important too. Cook them a few meals. Remember, you’ll be grieving too, so don’t let helping your partner overwhelm you or override your own needs.
I’d ask a mutual friend (now) to check on you two, especially on the first day. Being around loved ones can be really helpful.
When I lost someone close to me, my wife hugged me while I cried. That was the best thing she could do. Being around family or friends also can be a good distraction, so you don’t get totally swallowed up by grief. You have to feel the sad feelings, but don’t let them consume you.
As for school, I don’t have any experience. I’d suggest maybe studying away from home, so they’re not reminded of the cat.
Good luck. You sound like a good partner, and a “helper”. From one helper to another: please don’t neglect yourself. Let yourself feel the feelings, bottling them isn’t healthy. Help your partner as best you can, but don’t be afraid to call in outside help.
I read their Wikipedia article. It’s kinda nuts. Like seminars where randos jerked off female employees. And then there’s the forced labor and other abuse.
I build rockets that go on satellites and scientific missions. I enjoy my job; I find it extremely interesting and often quite fulfilling. In the grand scheme of things, I really wouldn’t change much. But like my boss said on the first day of the job, “This job is awesome, but it’s not worth doing for free.” If you told me I could still enjoy the same level of comfort at home that my job affords me, but I wouldn’t be paid, I would quit. I’d rather be at home reading, spending time with my family, playing around with my hobbies, etc.
My wife is a nurse. She loves her job, but she wouldn’t do it for free either. Her love for the job prevents her from quitting when she’s abused by the public for 12 hours, the pay makes her come in.
Some people are motivated by enjoyment alone to do jobs for free, but many are not. Or the thing they love doesn’t help society in a meaningful way. Or they just don’t want their hobby to turn into a job. I don’t think there’s a big enough overlap to have a functioning society.
Because people murder each other for reasons other than money.
Lol. Craptop. I named my old laptop that.
Paul Blart is a fictional mall security guard. Kinda incompetent, excessive sense of self importance, but a good guy.
Derek Chauvin was a real cop who murdered George Floyd by kneeling on him, cutting off his airway until he died.
I use a 2012 Mac Mini running OPNSense. I use the Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter in addition to the built in Ethernet. You could probably do the same for the MacBook Pro. I have a separate switch and access point. It works really well. And it was cheap.
I thought this said IKEA at first and was very confused.
That’s a neat job. Do you work for a university or something?
I use a Norton Commander clone (Total Commander) lol. Having a huge list of bookmarks in a drop-down menu with subfolders is super helpful for my work.
All our network shares are Azure hosted, so Microslop is getting corporate $$$ regardless. And I think that bug has been around since forever.
Dude. Same. Windows 11 at work is fucking awful.
My laptop idles at 12 out of 16 gigs of RAM free.
Right clicking takes dozens of seconds, especially on a network share.
Did IT remove a letter mapped network drive? Haha! Fuck you! Windows hangs indefinitely if you open Windows explorer. You gotta fuck around in the registry to remove that shit.
The only good thing about windows 11 is tabs in Windows explorer. Which MacOS and Linux have had for a gazillion years.
We make engines for other people to attach onto their satellites or rockets. All I typically do is test if the engines are functional. I help build the test programs and go through the resulting data. Our customers do the GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) programming, so I have no idea how that typically works.
A lot of people, schoolchildren included, are up way before sunrise anyway, regardless of where we put the clocks.
Personally, I’m just sick of moving back and forth. I don’t care what we change it to, just stop changing it. Where I live, we get 8 hours of daylight in the winter. Someone is always going to be in the dark sometime, no matter what we set our clocks to.
I’m a data analyst/software engineer in rocket engine testing.
I get super excited when I see rocket launches in the news or on the Internet.
“Woah that’s so cool!”
“Holy shit! Hardware I touched is on that!”
“Yooooo. Those engines I tested are on the Moon!”
Health insurance: “Hey, we’re fucking assholes, but the maximum you’ll pay for your care in a year is $XXXX.”
Dental insurance: “Hahahaha! Fuck you! The maximum we’ll pay for your care in a year is $XXX! Also, we don’t cover anything other than cleanings!”
They’re still pretty common in the Seattle metro area. My parents are within a stone’s throw of two of them.