Guys used to put stickers on their flight bags that said " If it ain’t a Boeing I ain’t going " now it’s " If it’s a Boeing I ain’t going "
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My wife taught me how to make a proper hearty lasagna. Contains NO bologna.
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Two students in my shop were making fun of Lynch’s Dune today.
The original “Dune” was a cinematic masterpiece. Today’s imagery is great, but most of it was CGI.
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Mrs. SkinyUte has been a dance teacher for the past 30 years. I can easily say that “dance moms” are the most insane, irrational, spoiled, narcissistic, bratty, ridiculous group of Karens to ever exist.
No matter how badly their student behaves, no matter how often they break the rules, no matter how late they show up for important events, no matter how many times they schedule vacations or other events in the middle of competitions (which puts the entire rest of the team performance at risk), nothing is ever, ever their fault. Anything that goes wrong is always the fault of the dance teacher.
The most recent drama involved one student who was told to be at the performance a minimum of 90 minutes before show time so they could ensure costumes, makeup, hair, etc. were all in place before they went on stage. This mom strolls in 5 minutes before the show - literally right as they are supposed to be walking on stage - without the dancer in costume, no makeup, not even remotely ready to perform. When Mrs. SkinyUte tells her “sorry, your daughter isn’t performing”, the mom proceeds to scream and yell at at her at the top of her lungs (in front of all the other kids and everyone else in attendance) about how Mrs. SU is being “so unfair” and “you just hate my child” and “you’re the worst teacher ever” and on and on.
Mrs. SkinyUte is an incredibly patient and kind woman. I don’t know that I’ve seen her raise her voice to anyone in the 30 years we’ve been together. How she somehow managed to keep it together and not just knock this mom out, I’ll never know.
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Time for that woman to find another dance studio…
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All I can say is that the kid from the Villeneuve films plays a great Kyle MacLachlan.
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People who use “50/50” in that something might turn out well – well, no sh!t. The out come is 50/50. Many are using it to express probability, which wouldn’t be 50/50, anyway.
Oh… ambivalent does not mean indifferent. Holy cow.
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How people generally drive in parking lots.
This is a seriously peeved group of people. 
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When people complain about how many pet peeves I have.
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Having to go to the store on a weekend to pick up stuff to cook dinner when thing one and two are living in the basement.
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This, basically.
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I know. I’ve looked at real estate in Utah, and much of the West. We can’t afford to move back West. It’d be nice to be closer to family, especially as our parents get older, but we’d have to triple our take home pay to afford the Salt Lake Front or Back. Even Cedar is too pricey. Grand Junction is only marginally better.
So, here in NC we stay.
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I’ll let you know if I can squeeze a cot in the corner of my tiny apt. LOL
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Brigham City, and North, still has room.
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This issue is presenting serious challenges, not just in Steamboat Springs where the real estate market is upside down:
“It used to be employees lived in houses and ski guests stayed in hotels, but now ski guests stay in houses and the employees are staying in employer paid hotels”
The Univ of Colorado hospital in Steamboat is building a 42 unit apartment building so they can fill positions that have been open for 2 years.
There’s a similar issue in Park City, but there’s much more affordable housing nearby in SLC - everything is relative - so it just means lots of commuting for something like 90% of the workforce in PC.
Ski town issues are one thing, but the housing crunch along the Wasatch has become a primary morale issue at University Hospital. The U is toying with the idea of providing housing like in Steamboat, but I get the sense most employees with kids really want a “white picket fence”, like everyone else.
In any other market, we would raise prices and bill insurance accordingly, but it doesn’t work that way. The insurance is going to pay what it will pay.
It’s a tough issue.
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Housing has become ridiculously unaffordable. That said, I still remember the big real estate crash in the late 1980’s. Before that one prices had gotten way out of hand, too. The difference right now is all the older boomers who would normally be downsizing aren’t. The reasons vary. Since the builders were “betting” on a transition that didn’t happen, it has complicated things here quite a bit.
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I had an apartment on 9th east just off of S Temple smaller than my current kitchen for $99 a month. I loved that space.
PS I am impressed by how adult you all sound, talking about market values, home pay, mentioning various real estate regions that you’ve researched. That all makes my head spin. Good on ya.