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I think that was part of Apple's rationale, that is was all coupled together. I assume that’s not the case here?

I figured a few honest small businesses would issue refunds.

What I did not anticipate was that someone would do it with this much style.

God, I fucking love those people.

My understanding jibes with yours: habitat loss in all its forms.

My wife’s parents are from São Jorge, and they still have a bunch of family there.

According to them you cannot actually feel the tremors. They all live on the central south coast or eastern tip of the island, and the tremors are happening on the western half, but it’s not a terribly big place.

Hopefully this will turn out to be nothing and will just stop, but it must be very odd to have the potential of a sudden disaster unfolding, yet it seems like just another quiet day on a quiet island.

No, we did nothing. He caught up all on his own.

Only worry about the milestones when they are way off. Like waaaay off. Every kid develops at a different rate.

They tried to get us all freaked out that our kid had a speech delay and that we needed speech therapy, and possibly other interventions. It was obvious that he understood what we were saying and could act on what we were saying so it seemed to us like his lights were on and that the language parts of his brain were working. Plus friends of ours had been down this road and gave us similar advice.

In a few more months he started talking and talking and talking, and hasn’t shut up since.

He’s in first grade now and his teacher is super impressed with his elevated vocabulary, and generally how articulate he is.

Sometimes kids just take their time getting somewhere.

Of course, there are times when something might be genuinely wrong, but if your kid seems happy and healthy and their “lights are on”, for lack of a better expression, just enjoy the hell out of this time because it goes crazy fast, and you never get it back.

I feel like this too, but only when other people are at the counter.

When I’m at the counter the whole thing never seems to take more than a few minutes. It’s always quick, and smooth, and I’m out of there, seemingly, in no time at all.

I desperately want to know what other people are saying or doing at the rental car counter.

I agree more or less with with how you remember it.

The evening before Thanksgiving we got some flurries, and that’s about it. Nothing I’d call “measurable”.

In September I also recall a few pleasantly rainy days, but overall it’s been uncharacteristically dry and warm. It’s going to cool off next week, but it’s mostly been in the 60s lately with a few days in the 50s or 70s.

I also only blew out my sprinklers last weekend because we’ve only had one or two light frosts. That’s the latest ever for me by over a month.

Rather than picking anything at random, I’d prefer to be able to have it randomly pick an episode of a particular show.

Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is.

My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.

Most kids, it seems, are into dinos. There’s also the social aspect where kids are at least somewhat into what other kids are.

But then again, sometimes kids reject the stuff you into, just because. They’re excellent trolls that way. :-D

Agreed. But a silver lining of the pandemic is that my wife is now my office mate. As a result, we've spent the majority of most days together over the last 8 months and I could not be happier!