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Thank you, this wasn't totally unexpected but the timing couldn't be worse 🙄

This is great, thanks so much everyone. I need to be there sometime early afternoon to help my Mom get my Dad settled into his nursing home room (merry f-ing christmas to us) and I'm ready to go, just have to figure out the best time, weather-wise, to leave.

Alihan's on 6th downtown

Yeah, she likes their trays 😉 and it's an easy Christmas gift but... not going to support their doing business with the state insurrectionist.

I tried to do a search...came up empty. Would like to know this as my Mom wanted something from WAF for Christmas 🙄

Wendell August Forge?

All of Phipps is wheelchair-friendly (elevators as well) with the exception of one room (which I believe is called the Stove Room) and really wasn't decorated for the holiday. The tropical forest is accessible, but the path down to the lower level is an incline, although I've seen strollers and wagons on it and they didn't seem to have a problem. At the bottom, there is an elevator back up to the conservatory level. Wear shoes that are a little "grippy" though, the humidity level and waterfall splashing can make the paths a little slippery at times.

I can't believe that someone else is in this situation! I was staying with my parents over the holiday weekend and saw my Dad's unused-for-20-years accordion in a corner of the spare room. It still works and there's a bunch of sheet music, but I had no idea what to do with it. What a timely request, thanks OP, I'll also take some of the suggestions! 👍🏻

Park in the garage next to it, very reasonable.

Vent away. Covid + a family misfortune and the ensuing struggle = my family broken apart in a way I never would have dreamt of three years ago. Wear your mask and cook away, enjoy the time with them if you can.

If you're north of Pittsburgh (Wexford-ish area) White Rose Mobile Vets is wonderful in this situation.

Yes, that triggered a memory... maybe they started that after the bird was let free!

WWSW that inserted their stupid "TookiTooki Bird" sound into a pause in the "Good Lovin'" by the Rascals. Geez, this is dating me, isn't it? Probably during the 80's, too, maybe into the 90's. I occasionally hear the song and still, during the pause, think "TookiTooki". Annoying after so many years...

Hot water radiator heat is wonderful, the problem in our old house was that there were 12' ceilings, and I didn't want to replace the original doors/ windows so I weatherstripped as much as I could but it never seemed to be enough (went from that house to a new construction with geothermal-- wow, what a lovely difference that was!).

So maybe the boiler is old and inefficient. Maybe the valve is stuck and not open fully. Hopefully the maintenance guy can help shed a light o n the issue and it can be fixed. And, we keep our house at 68 so we're not too far off of your heat level. Maybe buy a small radiant heater to keep in the room where you are most of the time? Good luck!

Definitely something is wrong with the radiators that aren't at all warm, and the ones that aren't warm may not be filled to the top with water even though excess air was bled out of them. In our old house I kept the knobs in the guest rooms at a halfway position and they got warm but not hot, in the lower level of the house they were fully turned on and the radiators got so hot that I made foam cushions to keep my cats (and my butt) from getting too hot. Hopefully the maintenance guys are familiar with radiator heat beyond having to bleed the system in the fall. 🤞🏻 And, another thought is, maybe the boiler is getting to the end of its life and not heating the water enough.

You can read through this article for more insight on the issue, and it does mention that "Check the radiator control valve: If a radiator is not getting hot: (steam or hot water) first see if the valve that controls it has been turned off. Try turning the valve counter-clockwise to see if it will open"

Your landlord may need to contact a plumber who is familiar with hot water radiators if the maintenance guy can't figure it out.

We lived in a 150yo home with radiator heat for many years and I never felt warm no matter what the thermostat was set at. At the floor should be a knob to regulate the water level in each radiator-- have you turned it to the most open (when the radiator would be most filled with water and would be the warmest) position? If not, wait until the maintenance guy comes over to repair the leak and ask him to do it just in case a seal breaks or it won't budge.

I have a similar situation in my family but I'm sure as hell not going to report it. In theory, it would be a good idea to keep somehow people from voting who are competently not able to do so, but how would that possibly be determined and enforced? I personally think that people should take competency tests before having a pet or, for that matter, before having a child (purely for the sake of the child or the pet) but then we get into the whole freedom of.... whatever... thing. "Big brother" determining who can do what. Just something that we have to deal with, our "freedom".

I know about this-- I've taken (and taught) Olli courses before! 😊 But I no longer have years to go to college, get a degree, then a job and and experience and THEN have the time to make a difference. Alas.

Or are too old to go to college (I am interested in this and at age 64, well, it's just too darn late...)

very interesting. To those of us who know people who have had a stroke, and who have watched people dig out from the after effects of the stroke, it's not surprising that Fettermans opponents were striking against him in the way that they did concerning his hesitant speech. Consider how tRump often publicly made fun of people with disabilities or people who are going through hard times in their lives. He has turned the republican party into a bunch of bullies who feel as though they can do and say anything without repercussion.

Animal Friends has a couple of large bins in their outer lobby for unopened food and supply donations

Yep, public property. My family lives near there and I have to say, it is hard to find any stretch of road without an Oz or Mastirano sign. I just hope they're all down before I have to visit again, it's tough enough to deal with the Trump 2024 and FJB banners flying all over the damn place.

Actually, Oz gave a gracious concession speech last night. Similar to the concession speeches that politicians (generally speaking) used to do before it was considered okay to whine about fraud and lay blame on everyone else.