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rowmyboat

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Different hellsite, same old rowmyboat. I’ve got a cute cat, a union card, eight bicycles, zero cars, and a house from the 1890s. #LibraryLife occasionally veers into hard left politics, bike bullshit, and weirdlife personal tales.

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People who are good with money, I have a question. What am I (big, long term)saving for? I already bought the house; I have no debt besides the mortgage, which is at a low rate & I pay extra principles every month. I don’t & won’t have kids, so no saving for college. I’m paying into the (very good) state pension system.

I do save, quite a bit, but it’s primarily what I label the “house fixing fund,” as the house does need a lot of that. What else am I supposed to be worrying about?

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Academic library folk, have any of you tried to figure out coat-per-use of only the paid for (and not the open) articles in hybrid journals? I think the use stats we get aren’t doing that & I want to work it out.

rowmyboat, to random
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I love living down town. Trashpanda & I popped up to a coffee shop on Main St that opened yesterday, before I caught the bus for the first leg of my trip. A guy I went on a couple dates with lives across the street; I texted him my review of the new coffee shop & waved to him up in his window. Then at the bus stop I ran into a coworker waiting for a different bus to work.

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It’s a big round number birthday for me today, send cake.

rowmyboat, to random
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Librarians who are faculty, does your institution have the possibility emeritus status for you?

rowmyboat, to Massachusetts
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, I’m irritated by the new e-bike rebate thing, because it has goofy income ceilings. 400% of federal poverty level (~$60k for single) is not actually that fucking much money in much of this expensive ass state, especially the parts in which cycle transport makes the most sense — Boston area, CT River valley, P-town, etc. $60k doesn’t let you rent a 1br apartment in some of those places.

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    rowmyboat,
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    @seachanger Solar-Powered Trolleys Connect Downtowns — Fare-Free

    rowmyboat, to random
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    Just started watching John Wick 3 & I’m an irritated librarian. He goes to the main branch of the NYPL & goes to the stacks to get a book.

    That library does not have a circulating collection or open stacks!!

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    @Neblib asks something I've been pondering too:

    Q3. Cargo bikes are cool, but if your main cargo is small kids, a bike trailer w/ your current bike is more affordable. Unfortunately, they usually tap out at 100lbs/45kg of weight yet work trailers usually have higher capacities. Is there anything for older kids that gives the seating features of a box bike but in a box on a trailer you pull with a regular bike? Is this a bad idea for an obvious reason?

    rowmyboat,
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    @ascentale @Neblib A3: I agree that you might be better off with a longtail. If trailer is def the answer for you, you might need to at least partially build it yourself. You could, like, bolt some seats onto a Bike at Work or something. I, a large adult, rode in ours for a while like that after foot surgery a while back.

    metacat, to random
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    The degree to which everyday life assumes all adults have a backup adult at the ready anytime is ridiculous.

    rowmyboat,
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    @metacat I’m considering ending my cohabitating relationship, and I’m thinking about this A LOT. What happens next time I’m very sick or need surgery? What happens when my old house needs a next-day plumber but I have to be at the office? What happens in a few years when I plan to have major work done on the house & someone will have to be home every day for several weeks? Even, like, who’s [doing small errand] when whatever small town shop is only open my working hours?

    ascentale, to random
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    The last question is maybe oddly specific and I've wondered about this for a while:

    Q8. Have you ever cycled up to and used a drive-through? How did it go?

    (I assume drive-throughs less common outside of the USA?)

    rowmyboat,
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    @ascentale A8: No, but as a teenager I walked though one a few times. There was a drive-through convenience store across the street from the movie theater in the town I grew up in. We’d get snacks there to sneak into the movie. A bunch of us would stand in formation like we were sitting in car seats & walk up making car noises. It helped that we knew one of the kids who worked there & was frequently on shift when we did this.

    ascentale, to random
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    Most are friendly, but I have felt a little uncertain while riding by dogs in the past; my partner has been aggressively chased by one. @MartyCormack asks:

    Q5. In the past 9 months I've been bitten twice by off leash dogs while riding my bike; one was quite painful. The prior year an off leash dog caused me to crash my bike; I fortunately escaped injury.

    What techniques do you use to protect yourself from threatening dogs while riding your bike?

    rowmyboat,
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    @ascentale @MartyCormack around here my problem is more exuberantly friendly & poorly trained dogs than dangerous ones. But an unleashed or on long leash dog that REALLY WANTS TO MAKE FRIENDS is still a danger — to me & itself. If an irresponsible dog owner landed me in the position of having hurt the damn dog because it took a runner at me (aside from my own injuries), I’d be really, really upset with them.

    rowmyboat, to random
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    One of my nearby book stores, which hosts a lot of great events, continues to do a bang up job with covid safety — masks required & provided, CR boxes, etc., and also are trying to provide same to other people & spaces. They’ve started a PPE fund, asking for support to continue that, so they don’t have to burden operating expenses with it. If you are so moved, you can contribute here: https://www.bookendsinflorence.com/product/covid-ppe-fund-donation/341

    rowmyboat, to random
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    My library is hiring an archivist, a Native American & Indigenous Studies Librarian, and a science librarian or two. Might that be you?

    josh, to architecture
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    Stumbled across this lovely post by photographer Darren Bradley and it made me feel very differently — warm and fuzzy, even — about our campus architecture, which he describes as being "one of the finest collections of Modernist architecture in the United States."

    https://www.darrenbradleyphotography.com/post/umass-amherst-the-reluctant-modernists

    @academicchatter

    rowmyboat,
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    @josh @academicchatter I HATED the brutalism when I first moved to the valley 20 years ago. I came back in 2019 with much more appreciation & now kind of love the concrete. Still find the library unbearable, though, but maybe that’s because I have to put up with the damn elevators.

    rowmyboat, to random
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    Was just thinking about the absurd life I led when I worked in art. Taking auction phone bids in surprise! Italian. Running my hands over Mucha & Lautrec prints to check for repairs (they feel waxy). Jean-Claude Baker flouncing in for lunch. The time we all dressed as circus characters for an auction, my boss wielding his gavel in a clown suit. “Can you translate Flemish?” “I can try.” [I did.] Nicho from Swann coming in with an obscure print & me immediately pulling the reference off the shelf.

    rowmyboat,
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    Everyone in New York City has had at least one completely ridiculous job, and that was mine.

    rowmyboat, to random
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    As quadrant chart for library software vendors, with the two axes being “incompetent” and “evil.”

    rowmyboat,
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    I should probably make this, huh?

    EBSCO: not particularly evil, extremely incompetent
    OCLC: very evil, pretty darn incompetent
    ProQuest/ExL/III/Clarivate: extremely evil, somewhat competent
    FOLIO community: not evil, somewhat incompetent

    etc etc

    evacide, to random
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    I did not have "unauthorized secret Lubovitcher tunnels" on my 2024 Bingo card, yet here they are: https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf

    rowmyboat,
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    @mxk @evacide entirely related, actually! That was an exit from the tunnel to street level. A local pal went by yesterday & said it had been welded shut.

    rowmyboat, to random
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    I hope you all saw the news about the tunnel/riot at 770. I used to live across the street and am absolutely losing my mind and keep busting into laughing guffaws in my office as I learn more.

    rowmyboat,
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    Come ON, Mastadon, I NEED people to talk about this with. Twitter would have been ALL OVER it. The jokes would have been GLORIOUS and we’d have all the inside info.

    rowmyboat, to random
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    My wake up alarm just went off and, oh man, the amount of I would prefer not to.

    futurebird, to random
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    I just saw a sport drink labeled "3x the electrolytes!"

    Talk about missing the point. The idea of a drink with some salts and vitamins to replenish you after sweating isn't totally crazy, although most of our diets have too much salt, the idea of a carefully balanced, tasty drink for after a sweaty run ... made a little sense at least.

    You'd be paying for them to put in a little salt and potassium but not too much since then...

    Clearly I'm overthinking this. More is better drink seawater.

    rowmyboat,
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    @futurebird this is… wow, 3x actually makes it work less, because oral rehydration solution is an actual think with actual well established ratios of salt & sugar to water. It has been life saving for children especially. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy

    rowmyboat, to cycling
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