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I don't think Jeff's advice is all that great in this case.

TenuredVulture wrote:I don't think Jeff's advice is all that great in this case.

I think it's true in general principle, although the timing may not be right in this instance.

He does have a way of putting things though.

Broads, amirite?

Cracking down on Internet use at work. Such bullshut. Now I gotta surf on my phone which is a pain in the ads and will just take up bigger chunks of my day

Ive never been allowed to use internets at work. It does suck but you get used to viewing your phone. Make sure youre connected to wifi though.

hey, bill. you're not the only one...

I wish I was still at my internship. My boss would give me my monthly work at the beginning of each month, and I would have it done by about the 9th each month. Out of the 40 hours a week I was there, I worked about 15 and surfed the internet/bullshitted for the other 25. I would always ask for additional work, but my boss rarely gave me more. Plus, they had a gym and free fruit.

pacino wrote:Ive never been allowed to use internets at work. It does suck but you get used to viewing your phone. Make sure youre connected to wifi though.

They're monitoring the Internet so that means they would monitor what my phone is catching.

Just sucks when a program is loading something and you have nothing to do but wait 5 minutes for it to load. So now I get to are at a ceiling

I have a job where i schedule my own month and so i end being done with work with about a week to go in the month. I just end up doing other people's work, as they don't let you justsit around here.

Feels like a Wendy's day.

my computers at work don't have internet access so i'm on my phone pretty much constantly

good thread, 70s bar bands

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There is approximately a 0% chance I'm wrong though. No, swish, the timing will not be better for at least 18 months. Once you're a parent of an only child for about 18 months, you get the hang of it, stuff becomes easy. The timing will never be better to get away. And the chances of prevailing on your wife that she's totally being "That Mom" is best right now when there's only one kid. There are all sorts of ancillary benefits beyond simply recharging. My wife found our babymoon to Italy for 5 days to be wonderful for getting away from son number one to really connect with the baby growing inside her. She realized she hadn't spent nearly as much time just focusing on that because she was so tired with all her other responsibilities from the first boy.


But honestly, I am not nearly as strident on a babymoon for a couple reasons - 1. not everyone can afford it and 2. Bill can't get this woman to have A DATE NIGHT. How the hell is he going to convince her to leave the zip code for multiple days. Baby steps.

Pratt without the Macho Man avi really threw me off after logging in for the 1st time in 2 weeks.

jeff2sf wrote:There is approximately a 0% chance I'm wrong though. No, swish, the timing will not be better for at least 18 months. Once you're a parent of an only child for about 18 months, you get the hang of it, stuff becomes easy. The timing will never be better to get away. And the chances of prevailing on your wife that she's totally being "That Mom" is best right now when there's only one kid. There are all sorts of ancillary benefits beyond simply recharging. My wife found our babymoon to Italy for 5 days to be wonderful for getting away from son number one to really connect with the baby growing inside her. She realized she hadn't spent nearly as much time just focusing on that because she was so tired with all her other responsibilities from the first boy.


But honestly, I am not nearly as strident on a babymoon for a couple reasons - 1. not everyone can afford it and 2. Bill can't get this woman to have A DATE NIGHT. How the hell is he going to convince her to leave the zip code for multiple days. Baby steps.

I went back and read the original post, and the fact that the child is 4 years old changes things. We're well past nipping this in the bud, and are into a significant problem here that might involve getting help from people who are actually qualified to dispense advice.

It's funny, I don't think I've said anything nice about anybody in the 15 posts since I came back - oh, I said I followed jamiethekiller during his running journey. Man I'm a mean spirited guy.

The Azores are pretty far from everything.

jeff2sf wrote:It's funny, I don't think I've said anything nice about anybody in the 15 posts since I came back - oh, I said I followed jamiethekiller during his running journey. Man I'm a mean spirited guy.

Back on the running path, going every other day. Kick up my biking regiment here too. Work out weather is upon us!

jeff2sf wrote:There is approximately a 0% chance I'm wrong though. No, swish, the timing will not be better for at least 18 months. Once you're a parent of an only child for about 18 months, you get the hang of it, stuff becomes easy. The timing will never be better to get away. And the chances of prevailing on your wife that she's totally being "That Mom" is best right now when there's only one kid. There are all sorts of ancillary benefits beyond simply recharging. My wife found our babymoon to Italy for 5 days to be wonderful for getting away from son number one to really connect with the baby growing inside her. She realized she hadn't spent nearly as much time just focusing on that because she was so tired with all her other responsibilities from the first boy.


But honestly, I am not nearly as strident on a babymoon for a couple reasons - 1. not everyone can afford it and 2. Bill can't get this woman to have A DATE NIGHT. How the hell is he going to convince her to leave the zip code for multiple days. Baby steps.

Yeah, I was being unnecessarily conciliatory. The big hangup really is not the timing but that both parties have to buy into this. If she feels like this is something she's doing for him she's definitely going to feel she's being ripped apart by pressure (squeezed by opposing forces? I can't seem to get my metaphors aligned) and even if it's just because she thinks it's intellectually a good idea then it will probably be a one and done deal without addressing underlying issues. You're right, but it's almost certainly more complicated than saying, "Here we go, and you'll be grateful we did."