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TL;DR Help me put together a "greatest hits" playlist of office episodes to show my husband.

So my husband saw the British Office first and had some kind of grudge against the US Office when it came out for being a remake (so of course I watched it without him). I just finished re-bingeing it on Netflix, and he caught enough this time to spark an interest. He has too short an attention span to watch the whole series, but he's willing to give it more of a chance now. Finally! :D

He doesn't care about following specific story arcs, but he loves the silly humor of Dwight's absurd behavior, any of Creed's scenes, etc. Obviously the best laughs are sprinkled all throughout the show and he shoul

Hi, Pittsburgh!

I'm looking to get volunteer manuals printed and bound for a local non-profit. We're still finishing up the final draft, but it'll be about 25-30 pages (single-sided), in color.

I wondered if anyone here could recommend a printer / binder (like plastic spiral binding) for something like this. I have no prior experience in this area and I'm struggling with my research so far heh.

Thanks in advance! :)

Recreating people and places is a great part of the Sims, of course, but sometimes creating the Sims is more interesting than actually playing them. What fictional family or group have you recreated in a household (I'm still using Sims 3 at this point, though I know the way households and neighborhood interact varies between versions) that turned out be really interesting to play?

Had a second kid recently IRL, which has really cut into my fun / Sims time, but my older one has been watching a show on Netflix called Kazoops that has a weird family that might be fun to import into the Sims. Got me thinking about what other ideas might be fun for when I get back in the saddle.

I know that family meal time is valuable for various reasons (helps picky eaters to see others enjoying foods; creates family bonding time; studies show it may help reduce bad outcomes for kids in the future, etc) -- it's the logistics that trip me up.

So far we have only one kid, 15 months old. My husband and I have never been "routine" people, so meal times are all over the place (add to that my husband has after-work obligations some nights of the week). It didn't matter for the first year because the baby was eating completely different stuff from us anyway. Now that he can eat table food, I feel like I should be trying harder to make family meal time a thing, but it's a struggle.

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I know it's just hair and it will grow back, but my husband butchered our son's bangs and I'm pissed off.

They were hanging in his eyes (his hair has never been cut before), so we had casually mentioned trimming them a few times. Then tonight, after bath time, my husband's like, "I'll just cut them right now!" and grabs some scissors. He was so gung-go about it I assumed he had some clue what the fuck he was doing.

Kid was in my lap, but even from there I commented after the first snip that it looked too short, so husband made the rest of the cuts about two millimeters longer apparently. Now my kid has curls in the back, long on the sides, and fucking Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber bangs.

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Just finished the first book of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, and I'm debating whether or not to buy the other two.

I liked the story and the characters (I did find the writing style a little frustrating at times -- too much Suspenseful Foreshadowing for the amount of payoff -- but overall enjoyable). The mythology was very cool.

That said, I think the first book stands alone pretty well, and from what I've read the second one seems fairly disconnected from it (takes place ten years later; some characters from the first book make appearances but aren't central).

Given that I have a crapload of books I want to get around to reading, should I just take the satisfaction I have with the

Little Punk is just coming up on 14 mos, so I know we haven't even gotten to the really good annoying phases yet, but.

We're currently in the phase where there are two types of places in the world: Boring Safe Places, and Interesting Death Traps (closely related to the three categories of things in the world: Boring Safe Items That Belong To Me; Interesting Things I Can Damage Myself With; and Things That Belong To Other People -- guess which two are the most fun).

He can walk pretty well now, so after an hour or two the house and yard are basically tiny jail cells in his opinion (especially when he's not allowed to play with any of the good stuff, like knives or the bucket we use to clean

My son is 13.5 mos and we've been using cloth from the beginning (with a few stints in disposables during travel, etc). He had only two yeast rashes in the course of the first year, both cleared up with lotrimin af, no problem, no other rashes.

Right at the one-year mark, he got a really terrible rash that just wouldn't go away. The only new things in his diet were whole milk and clementines -- which he got obsessed with -- so we think it was caused by acid poo from too much citrus (he's had no other issues with dairy).

The horrible rash became yeast, then got infected, so his doctor ended up prescribing an antibiotic cream and we switched to disposables for the duration of the medicine us

No. 1 Fiery Hatred: My stepmother. She and I have never been close; we will never be close. My tolerance of her growing up was based 100% on wanting my dad to be happy / not be alone after my mom passed away. She used to be a heinous bitch (she once scrubbed all of the "kids' height" marks off of the wall that my mother had made and labeled for my brother and me growing up "because her mother was coming over and she wanted the house to be clean"), and in recent years has been downgraded to merely INCREDIBLY IRRITATING due to finally taking her goddamn medication. Her daughter has no plans to have kids, so she has decided to glomp onto my son to live out her grandmotherly fantasies, in comple

I feel like I'm devolving back into my teenage self, but instead of being the child in the parent-child dynamic, I'm the parent. A typical day looks like:

• waking up tired (at least now I know about coffee)
• lots of tongue-clicking, eye-rolling, and sarcasm (from me)
• feeling like no one is listening to / understands me (literally true, since I'm home all day with a dog and a one-year old)
• staying up way too late because it's the only time I have to myself with no one bugging me
• you can see how this loops back up to the top of the list...

I'm not much of a drinker at the moment, but I think I may have overlooked the sedative benefits of a good ol' nightcap. Anyways, thanks for liste

Not necessarily a true immortal, even just a remarkably long-lived character. I have a major character in my story who has lived for generations of normal lifetimes, and as I'm working on developing backstories I'm wondering how to tackle hers given the differences. For example:

• Her childhood world might have been vastly different from that of my other characters -- but is it even worth going back that far in her development?
• She will have lived through a lot more of history and had a lot more personal experiences -- but how many are worth considering / fleshing out?
• The important experiences, the ones that have shaped her the most into who she is now, won't necessarily be the same on

For example (and I don't know the appropriate terminology), are there more guttural sounds, or more long vowels, or more monosyllabic words in hotter / colder / wetter / dryer areas (historically)?

Is it a 12 person specific message board type deal? Or just 12 suggested profiles to commiserate with if you're looking for moral support? Are there some kinds of events / forced interactions? I'm excited regardless, just curious if any Camp vets can give me a heads up (I've only done November NaNo in the past). Thanks!