Thought it was funnier that way.

I’m just very excited about all the massive asteroids that keep near missing us. Talk about exciting!

My nephew based his life on Dennis the Menace. I was cooking a family and got called out of the kitchen where I was working alone.

Two minutes later I come back in to find this kid (maybe 5?) waving my razor sharp french knife around.

I very carefully removed it from his grasp and when I wasn’t using it I put it under a towel at the back of the counter. Told his parents to watch him.

Later he’s got it again and a steak knife.

I take all the blades, put them in a box, and put them way up high.

Come back later and he’s got a chair against the counter, a box on the counter, and he’s heading back up the chair with more of mother’s cookbooks to pile up to stand on…

Some kids are a little more extreme.

Edit: cooking a family feast, not a family (see first paragraph).

I am intimately familiar with issues like this. It’s maddening.

I am fully vaxed (booster not available here yet) and had COVID before. Just got it again recently and it really got me good. Still dealing with respiratory problems two weeks later.

I had a thing thing on with a bookcase and told them I was sick of haggling; they could have it for free, it’s at the end of the driveway.

My buddy picked me up to do something right after and helped me take it down to the end of the driveway. He said if it’s there when we get back I’ll take it (he drives a van for his business).

He dropped me off hours later, 3 hours after the guys said they would come and the bookcase was still there, it was going to rain, so we loaded it into his van.

As we’re doing this the brodogs show up in a car way too small to handle this item and acting like they would fight us over this transgression. Lol.

People will assume you are exaggerating but I will back you up here. These things happen and can all easily happen at one property.

I looked after a house that my brother owned while he was out of the country for a few years. The first tenants were a group home that destroyed the place so much we had to gut the drywall and they never paid the rent until I hounded them endlessly every month. Every month.

The other tenants were just regular families and pretty good for the most part.

I would say I was dealing with something related to that house all the time. Every three weeks for stuff. Leaky faucet, roof shingle gone, branch fell on the lawn, sewer backed up. Big and small, all the time.

And they always called late at night or very early in the morning. This was before texting and email was common, etc.

My brother was paying me to do this, I would have done it for free but he insisted, but I was so glad when he sold that place.

I dealt with everything promptly. A family friend ran a property mgmt business and his crews did all the work promptly and billed us direct. People still always seemed annoyed and dissatisfied. Never again.

I was on a recent business trip and signed up for a couple of days of roaming. My colleagues saved a few bucks with e-sims which was great until they needed to get an SMS for 2fa.

Both of these are incorrect. YYYY-MM-DD for life.

The way to learn to touchtype is simple but annoying. Figure out how to hit backspace every time.

From here all you do is never look down. You hit the wrong key? Backspace. Try again. You can look at the keyboard sometimes, but not while typing.

It will take a while but eventually your error rate drops very quickly and you are good.

This process works very well on split keyboards.

I have a pretty similar bio except I’m not into gaming. I will say the feeling of going to a non-split keyboard is immediate now. I’m at a phase in my career where I’m in meetings all day so I don’t mind it was much when it happens but a few years ago I’d be having wrist pain after a couple of hours of working on a standard keyboard.

I tried the sculpt as well but found it was having issues with key repeat or just losing connectivity so I went back to a wired keyboard (MS Natural).

Any thoughts on why the Logitech is better or were you just ready for a change?