At least with paper maps, you can see an entire trip and all the alternate routes in detail in one place, then plan the best route for yourself. I find myself inserting lots of midpoint locations to get a route that I want to take not the route an app wants me to take

Same. Noel’s Notes is always a good read. noelcasler.substack.com?utm_source=n...

Same thing happened here, 2002 when eldest brought her newish boyfriend home for Christmas. But I had my little telescope focused on Saturn and said we’ll clean up the mess later. You gotta come out and look at this. Believe it or not, he was not dismayed and they’ve been married 15 years.

Can this be projected on the White House?

Mars

"The U.S. Is the Only Country Among Its Peers In Which There are More Gun Deaths Than Cancer or Motor Vehicles Among Children and Teens"
www.kff.org/mental-healt...

My husband used to get CDs from the library and painstakingly create personalized CDs for family members. This is a favorite of mine, now stored on my phone.

I looked out to see a young man shoveling my double-wide driveway. I'm not even sure who he was, I think the son of the guy who likes to plow for the several old widows on the street.

I had a friend in first grade with polio- heavy braces and crutches to get around. But, yeah, no prevention then. It's why we lined up to get the vaccine when it became available.

This was pre-vaccine in the early 60s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2... lots of damaged babies in those years.

I did, but my baby sister is hearing impaired.

Wharton must be so proud

My pregnant mom had rubella.

You just need to send in five rice crispy box tops to get one

Hard to do it any other way, I think

You beat me to it. My folks had a small whiteboard on the fridge with day and date.

Or actually to type or spell, both things I learned in high school

Especially if “Mr. Potsy”, who covered reproduction by showing a grainy black-and-white movie of pigs, was your biology teacher in 1965.