From my experience living in the midwest older people tend to assume shoes on is okay while younger folks either ask what is preferred or assume they should take them off. The entire exchange at the door is very midwest of not wanting to be rude or inconvenience the other person.
The slant in print writing I think stems from how curisve is (was?) taught in U.S elementary schools. I recall getting the very distinct advice to tilt my paper 45° for cursive writing and it ended up becoming a habit that carried over into my print writing.
Thanks, but dont give me too much credit. My handwriting is more towards the sloppy side than proper, haha. Im frequently asked “what does this say” when others try to read my hand written notes.
In all honestly, if you arent getting that question from other people often, or at all, (“what does this say?”), then your pendmanship is generally good even if it has little quirks like a slightly more rounded ‘a’ or short stemmed ‘d’.
I think it looks really good.
I recommend exagerating the straight line on the lower case ‘a’ a bit more to distinguish it from ‘o’. In context of the words you wrote it’s easy to see when an ‘a’ is ‘a’ and ‘o’ is ‘o’, but words like ‘sang’ may look like either ‘sang’ or ‘song’.
For the lower case ‘d’ i recommend extending the straight line a tad bit higher. It still looks distinctly like a ‘d’, but it’s very, very, close to looking like a lower case ‘a’.
Similar recommendation for the lower case ‘p’, extend the straight line just a tad bit more below the letter.
I think another comment recommended something similar for lower case ‘h’, but i actually think the way you write them is just fine.
However, overall, it looks a hell of a lot cleaner than what most native english speakers write. It’s for sure cleaner than mine, but i use a mix of different letter styles.
I worked food service years ago and im pretty sure walking into the freezer to find someone curled up would have sent me into panic mode thinking you froze to death.
Well aren’t you a smart cookie!
Well im not getting a raise this year…so yes…a lot.
I mean…its not mozzilla directly but Librewolf is a fork of firefox that ive been using for over a year and havnt had any issues.
Oh god, that was also one of the first users i blocked alongside a few other bots and pugjesus
Ive been in and out of college since 2014 and my most recent attempt, specifically one programming course, was the final straw that made me throw my hands up and say fuck it ill teach myself.
On top of paying out of state tuition, i had to pay fees that were meant to support the online learning platform the school used to deliver virtual courses. No biggie, every school ive attended has the same fees. However, this one programming course was integrated with pearson and not just for a few assignments, but for literally everything. Every module, assignment, quiz, etc. was a hyperlink to pearson. My teacher was doing 0 teaching and grading, I was still expected to pay fees for the schools learning platform that was nothing but hyperlinks to pearson, and then on top of all of that i was expected to pay an extra fee to use pearson’s platform. But, wait, it gets better. The hyperlinks to pearson were actually directing to pearson’s in-house built course that they openly sell on their site at a lower rate than what my school tried to charge me and with a longer access period than I would have gotten through my school.
UMGC, university of maryland global campus, essentially tried to outsource my education to a 3rd party and then asked me to front the cost in addition to their own fees. Yeah, no, i withdrew from the school. As much as I want my bachelors, its not worth it if i have to play these games.
I got into gaming console collecting as a hobby, (though on pause at the moment) and decided early on the ps4 and 5 are not a generation of consoles i want to purposely seek out anytime soon, so a bit of a different perspective, here.
My general rules for adding a console to the collection is 1) it has to be a good deal, no above market rate, because the hunt for a good deal is part of the fun for me, 2) it has to either be fully working or clearly repairable, 3) it has to have a disc drive, and 4) it has to be within budget.
The only console I found made post-360 that fit those rules was a 20.00 xbox one listed as for parts on shopgoodwill. They couldnt get it to boot fully, but it turns out the drive was just full and taking 5+ minutes to turn on.
Other than that, im not holding my breath on any other post-360 consoles making it into the collection within the next 15-20 years. Any fully working ones i find are/were outside of my budget and since theyre intentionally designed to not be repairable at home, the broken consoles within budget are too risky of a purchase. I took a chance on a 15.00 xbox one S model that wasnt turning on and wont be doing that again. I’ll admit i’m no professional and sometimes a repair is just outside of my skill set, but it was the first busted console i couldnt even diagnose. It was frustrating as hell given the week prior i was able to bang out a recap for a Sega game gear and fix screen tear on a gameboy without a second thought.
I had Thursday/Friday off, making a nice 4 day weekend, and felt like i was starting to relax by Sunday. I actually baked cookies Sunday evening on impulse, something I havent done in years because i just havent the energy. The thought of working today stressed me out so much i woke up at 5am and couldnt fall back asleep, then had a small emotional breakdown while sitting at my desk staring at the number of tickets in my queue. We downsized this year and let everyone else in my position go, leaving only me to do the work of a team of 4…Im so tired…
how in the fuck have i lived in ohio all my life, central for the last decade, and not know about the field of corn sculptures. I feel like i need to turn in my ohio native card for my blasphemous corn ignorance.
I went to save this for future use and had to double take when i saw the .gif extension.
They made coming up with a user tag easy
Living in Ohio (midwest U.S) its not entirely a yes or no and more of a “it depends”. Ive noticed older people assume shoes on but anyone under 40 will either ask or assume shoes off at the door. Theres also a layer of midwest nice to the whole exchange of not wanting to inconvenience the other person, so you get situations where a party will start with everyone wearing shoes, but end with everyone shoeless.