Same. The auto function is particularly dangerous on winding roads with hills where they don’t detect an oncoming car until they’re right in front of you.

Check out Body Condition Score charts. Some use a scale of 1-5, but I prefer looking at the ones that range from 1-9. Some even differentiate between small, medium, large, and giant breed dogs. Royal Canin Body Score Condition Charts. On a scale of 1-9, dog should be at a 4 or 5 depending on breed, age, and lifestyle. Many dogs I see in my area are at least a 7, and many pet owners that don’t know any better believe a 6 (overweight) or a 7 (obese) is what they are supposed to look like. When they see a young, fit dog at a 4, they assume the dog is being starved. Remember that diet is only one part. To help strengthen and build muscle that will help burn fat and keep it off, exercise is just as crucial. If you can swing it, swimming is a phenomenal way to exercise overweight dogs since there’s little impact on their joints.

HP just wants them to buy the external CD/DVD drive too.

There was an apartment in Kenmore Square I looked at about a decade ago that also had that stipulation. Red flag if you ask me

That makes sense! I hope you find the guy and don’t have to wait out those 45 days.

I didn’t realize people actually followed the MA quarantine law on this for vaccinated animals. I know nobody does for scratches. Dog squabbles at parks are pretty common, so that’s good to know.

I almost got nailed on Route 1 this morning by an ice sheet that flipped off the roof of a car ahead of me, one lane over. Luckily the wind took it pretty high up and I had room to accelerate out of the way before it landed. Not sure if anyone behind me was as lucky.

I shouldn’t have to worry about mosquitos in February.

Whole day I’m fucking busy only get few money

Friendship

Downstairs isn’t going above 58 with our heating system on (gas heat). I have oil-filled radiator space heaters for days like this. They produce a good amount of heat and really help make things bearable. Hopefully the power stays on.

Also most pharmacists won’t tell you who has the medication in stock (my usual person will, which I appreciate greatly but depending on the day someone else will be there), so you basically have to take time off bringing the script from pharmacy to pharmacy hoping somebody has it. No excuse to treat people terribly but if you’ve come to your 6th pharmacy that doesn’t have it in stock and still aren’t being told where you can fill your medication, that’s a pretty frustrating situation.

The only thing with the flu is that you can also get it from surfaces. So, masks are immensely helpful, but definitely want to wash hands/sanitize them as well. Elevator buttons, shopping carts, and gas pump handles and buttons are all pretty common surfaces someone can pick up a nasty bug.

People were holding the doors open for others for a while now anyways. The visitor access system didn’t even mandate vaccines, especially to guest speakers in the area where I work, and half the time was so glitchy that we had to resort to propping doors open after issuing visitor access through the TIM Ticket app. Contact tracing has all but stopped, and so has regular testing and being able to work remotely when you’re not feeling 100%, so people probably come in to work on campus with Covid regularly. For the past semester all restricting access really did was inconvenience caterers and make event planning a logistical nightmare.

I live within walking distance to downtown, but on the North side. I do adjust a lot of my habits in October. I can’t even think about going out anywhere in town for dinner, delivery is from nowhere on the South side of town, I go grocery shopping in other towns because there’s no way I’m driving through downtown to get to the store in Salem, I change my route home when driving to avoid traffic on all the Salem exit ramps, and if I can’t work from home on Halloween, I take PTO. I don’t travel anywhere apart from walking on Halloween unless it’s in an ambulance. This year, I’ve had to adjust further and earlier, as the crowds even during the week are spilling out into the streets that aren’t closed, trying to enjoy a walk downtown is almost impossible and at times claustrophobic, and the amount of litter on the ground and people I see actively littering is much more than years prior. I also noticed exponentially more out of state cars parked pretty far out into the neighborhoods that aren’t resident-only. This is the first year that they’ve reached my neighborhood, which we’ve never had before. We’re walkable, but it’s about a mile to the train station, so most visitors never venture out that far. I love Halloween and I love all the fun stuff everyone can see and enjoy during this time in Salem, but it’s just absolutely insane and at certain times, borderline dangerous this year. I worry that there aren’t enough crowd control measures or officials in place to keep things safe. November 1st will probably be one of the best days of the year in terms of being able to actually live my life again, and I’ve never felt so strongly about it until this year.

Also top notch hospitals

I dunno I was always pretty stressed when my favorite sandwich guy at City Market wasn’t behind the counter.