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I bought my daughter a shirt I saw in a Facebook ad, from Chalk & Stone. The shirt arrived and is great.

I do know how to load arbitrary PDFs onto the kindle, you can do it now with a specific email address that's assigned to each kindle. It's allow-listed for coming from your amazon email address though.

I was not able to extract the PDF from the online textbook. I think I had something that would have worked to just get the content, but I'd have had to stitch all the chapters back together, and if the page numbers didn't match the original book it would have been a hassle for my daughter.

I could not figure out a way to extract a pdf of the textbook to send to her kindle. I would have liked that solution, since she has one of the large format kindles.

My 11 year old daughter uses the open dyslexic font in her kindle. She has dyslexia, and also had to do some vision therapy when she was younger. She thinks she is able to read for longer with fewer headaches. She specifically has trouble tracking line to line.

She finds it very challenging to read her school textbooks, which are provided online on her Chromebook with a bad screen. I bought her paper versions of the same books.

In the US, I usually show up about an hour before. A little less if I'm traveling alone, but holiday are a disaster at American airports.

Once, I showed up two hours before a flight a few days after Christmas. I had a lapchild, so we needed to check in with a person and not use the kiosks.

We stood in line for 90 minutes, then stood in the security line for 30 minutes and missed our flight. They couldn't rebook my family for a week. We rented a minivan and drove 1800 miles, without our luggage.

We pack lunch for our three kids because the free lunch at school is low quality and they don't like it.

I'm not claiming it's an overwhelming amount of work, and if we just packed sandwiches it would be easier, but it's easily 30 minutes a day of food prep and cleaning lunch boxes.

My middle schooler can't eat whole apples because of trauma to one of his front teeth. The fruit with school lunch every single day is a whole apple, and he isn't allowed to bring a knife to school to cut it.

I have an M2 Max now, and it's incredible. But it still can't handle running xcode's Instruments. I'd upgrade if the M4s could run the leaks tool seamlessly, but I doubt any computer could.

I wouldn't mind paying to sit next to my kids so much if the middle seats were free to select, so I just had to pay for the aisle or window. It seems like blatant greed, and also encourages the behavior of selecting the aisle/window and planning to swap if someone sits in the middle, which complicates boarding and possibly stops other families from sitting together.

Yesterday, I flew with my 11 year old on Southwest. Our first flight was three hours late, we missed our connection and were in the last boarding group on the new flight, which took off at 10:30 pm. He's sat alone before and it's fine, but our bags weren't organized in way to make that easy, and on the late flight they turn off all the lights and it just seems a little strange to sit between strangers in the dark for hours. He was also changing timezones and landed at what felt like 3 am to him.

It just seemed like an unnecessary stressor after a long day of travel for a relatively young person.

Mathacademy.com will curate an adaptive course for 4th grade math thru college

I have the cheapest kaiser plan available, with a 10k deductible. It is 1900/month for my family.

The California academy of sciences membership was cheaper for one visit for a family of 5.

My obgyn didn’t remember me when I went in pregnant for the third time. I’d seen her at least 20 times in the previous 5 years.

We had kaiser for years, and it was fine. I was able to receive care for pregnancy, stitches, vaccinations, etc with little hassle and mostly reasonable billing.

Then we moved. Omg, I can’t even get appointments to get a rash looked at, or a sinus issue, or vaccinations. And most of those are pediatric issues! My son minorly broke his arm, and didn’t even need a cast and I got thousands of dollars in bills from four different companies.

My university had versions of courses that engineering majors were not allowed to take. Chem 160 for most students, chem 167 for engineers, chem 177 for chemistry majors.

We did. It’s a private school and they sweep everything under the rug. The other parents know she’s not a great teacher, but she was making an example of my kid in particular.