Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?

[Absolom]

12 hours ago, Dimity said:

Are you concerned that she may be hoarding?  My mother had a lot of 'stuff' mainly dishware, collectibles, family memento type things which was a lot to deal with for me when the time came.  But I've got friends who had to clean out absolute garbage (coffee cans filled with cigarette butts as one example - ick) when their parent died.

 

That horrifies me.  I'm deep into emptying the house so I can move into retirement living (independent living).  One daughter and her husband were here today loading their car and my trash and recycling rolling bins. There is no garbage for anyone to clean and I'd be mortified if there were.  Some of this is on me as I never went hard nosed on get your stuff out of my house or I'll dispose of it on my kids.  So now my kids all have to declutter what they left in my house.  It's interesting.  I have my own downsizing going also.  I'm seeing what a job downsizing is and this is hard work.

Edited 1 hour ago by Absolom

[StatisticalOutlier]

17 hours ago, PRgal said:

Must be confusing for families who live in the Hopi nation community but have kids who go to school outside of it?  Or is it big enough to have schools going up to grade 12?

It's hugely confusing.  In this article, one woman with school-age kids says she has to stop and calculate the time for almost everything; they live on the Hopi side but all the school stuff is on the Navajo side.

https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-arizona-navajo-hopi-native-american-a1016ce873b772ffae544de9fbcd29d9

I'm in Arizona right now and my flip phone won't display the correct time.  On the automatic time setting thing, I can see that it's set for Mountain DST but there's no way to change it.  The only thing I can do is set the time manually.  Sheeesh.

And I was going to a 1:30 movie today and got there at about 1:20 and the kiosk wouldn't display the 1:30 showing.  I thought, "Great. I read the schedule wrong."  But I persevered and finally looked in the corner of the screen and the computer thought it was 2:20.  So I checked another kiosk and that one said 1:20 and had the 1:30 showing.  You'd think they'd all be the same, right?

And the thing is, that first kiosk is the first one people coming in the door get to, so I bet it gets used more than any other.  I wonder if anybody had the same problem I did but just gave up and left, assuming they'd gotten the schedule wrong.