RBWells

Well I am happy, but would be happier if the public transit here was good. Because the city would be so much better.

More money would make me less anxious but I have a reasonable lifestyle already (only took a half century and 4 wage earners in the household) and am satisfied with it.

A visor.

It depends. My mom wanted to break even when she died. Not leave us money, and not cost us money, but did rely on my sister to help out, not financially much but with some care. I sent maybe $500 total towards that, so pretty close to what she wanted.

Husband's parents are loaded, but if his mom needed care I'd help because she has been so nice to me, I was not close with my mom but have been lucky in mothers in law. I don't expect anything from them, think their plan is to skip us and leave some to the grandkids, but in any case they are rich-ish and do not expect anything in the way of financial help.

I took time off to raise my kids, so don't expect to retire but no, I would hope to not need financial help and don't expect it from them. It's a win if they don't need any financial help from me!

In your case, if your parents sacrificed their future income to raise you, I understand why you feel you owe them, but I don't really think that way, you don't accrue debt for being raised. It's more like whoever ends up best off helps the others, so my most successful daughter wants to be "the rich uncle" who can do that, she helps out her sisters, and my hope is like my mom's - to not burden them and to die with close to nothing.

My usual breakfast is cafe con leche.

My favorite breakfast is a big fryup, eggs, good homemade sourdough toast, home fries, and spicy refried beans. There isn't one best food in there, it needs all of them.

Runner-up grits with butter, cheese, and nutritional yeast, topped with a fried egg.

Average 0.16 USD per kwh if I divide the whole bill by the KWH.

Our bill is pretty high but literally everything runs on electricity in the house, the cooking, water heating, A/C, we have clothes washer & dryer, there is no gas line.

I would be happier if plastic surgery, instead of always being aimed at making people closer to all the same, was used to make us look different. Elf ears, horns, tails, big noses, different shaped faces, neanderthal brow lines, creative changes. That is the style I'd like to see happen.

Also, since I'm in Florida, fancy parasols.

Dunno, I think a fake radio show inside a podcast is media inside a different media. But yes it's the whole thing, and a favorite.

Yes, with a fictional Public Radio host, his show is the podcast.

I have a stepdaughter with schizophrenia, she trusts me more than her mom or dad since I wasn't part of her upbringing, so I've been able to do things like bring her to the emergency room when she thought everyone else was out to get her. But at some points help is not helpful - if your help is only hurting you and not doing much for him, you cannot fix that by trying to help. Wrecking your own life is irresponsible to yourself and to your wife.

I do know it's hard. Especially here where there is not much mental health funding and they end up in jail (though stepdaughter was calmer in jail for some reason, that is not a good answer). If he is stuck on violence, and crazy so he can't see his own responsibility in it, just keeps blaming everyone else, you can't fix that.

Welcome to Nightvale.

Not sure but these are on repeat at my house:

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Hot Fuzz

Into the Spiderverse

Pride and Prejudice, the one with Keira Knightly

So one of them but not sure which.

Have you learned nothing from science fiction stories? I would not change anything.