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Does BR even have any houses that he might struggle even a little bit to afford?

Magnesium glycinate with l-theanine.

Melatonin hangs around too long for me. I feel slow in the mornings. You can also build up a tolerance for it AFAIK.

I paid some of my people more than I made as their director (2 or 3 levels higher than them) because they were critical to the success of my team. There isn't a rule that says you have to make more than people that report to you. They were worth it to me, and I made enough to take care of my family relatively easily. If you're providing as much or more value to the company as they are, then just quantify and articulate that, and it will take care of itself.

Just be careful with the comparison thing, because if they can replace those developers for $30 a month with AI in the near future, that might not be a fun conversation to have in the opposite direction.

I exist on Facebook so that my wife can tag me in pictures of the kids so my side of the family can see them. Pretty much no other reason.

I'm not reading the whole thread, so some of this may have already been mentioned, but this has been our strategy and it works well enough.

- Car seats aren't worth the hassle. They're not going to stay in them and it's a lot of extra crap to carry and situate.
- Collapsible stroller that you can gate check.
- Take all of the space that you were going to use with the car seats and instead load up on their favorite snacks. You can't have too many snacks.
- Bring some Starburst or something similar for the 2 year old and a bottle/sippy cup/pacifier for the 1 year old and give it to them during takeoff so they pop their ears with the pressure change.
- Go to Dollar Tree or whatever and load up on cheap activity garbage and have a bag of tricks that you can pull from during the flight. Obviously don't let them see it before they're on the plane so they don't lose interest.
- Extra clothes that aren't checked if you think they might puke (and maybe an extra shirt for yourself).
- It's always the nuclear option for us, but tablets to watch Bluey or whatever on.

I'm hypersensitive to ruining everyone else's flight experience as well, so I know the anxiety. Godspeed.

I'm just here for all the people that fry their phones trying to take a picture of it without a filter later.

Just take it to a BMW dealership. They'll charge you at least that much no problem.

I use 1Password as well. Easy to set up shared vaults for accounts I want my wife to have access to for paying bills and junk and I can use for multi-factor tokens and keeping recovery codes and all kinds of stuff.

Might be a little over the top, but I've also started using it to randomly generate answers to password reset questions that are easily discoverable like mother's maiden name and what have you. So instead of her maiden name, it's just another randomly generated password.

And yes, if 1Password ever gets popped or tanks, I'm ultra boned. I have accepted this risk.

I hate dancing and will go out of my way to never do it again, but my wife and I took salsa lessons at Courtney Black's studio in secret to surprise everyone at our wedding. I still hate it, but I learned a salsa dance for my wedding, so it obviously worked.

I use it all the time, and it will be my full time job starting in January. I know how to do most of the crap I get it to do (except draw), but it's pretty nice to get such a massive head start on things now. I've worked a normal amount of hours a week several weeks in a row for the first time in years because I can just do more things in the same amount of time now.

Depending on how precise you need to be, I think a slide out shelf for it might be a mistake. If your miter saw is anything like mine, it's not light, so it's going to be tough to come up with a solution that doesn't sag when you extend it out. Add the weight of whatever material you're cutting, and it's going to get difficult to keep it flush against the fence and get square cuts (unless you make your slide out shelf out of glued up 2x4s or a box or something). I just finished building my miter station a few weeks ago, and I just put the whole thing on casters. Not sure what your tolerance would be for that, but if it were me, I'd rather do that and keep the saw stable. Just roll it out a bit when you need to use it, and then tuck back against the wall when you're done.