DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009!

[Cmdr_King]

y'know, I don't think I've ever asked my mom what she thought she'd do with her life in high school.  She was never big on the housekeeping aspects of being a homemaker, but has a very obvious love of children.  She tried doing a few entry level things (I think once she was a nurse's aide, but kinda hurt herself at it) after we were all in school, but those didn't last; whether this was more pressure from my dad/his parents to stop being away from the house/kids at all or just a natural consequence of her lacking a, uh, sense of priority I dunno.
After the divorce she seemed happier for a while despite needing to work, but seemed very lost once I moved out (and very very lost in the events following).  Considering the time frame involved (she was 18 when I was born and spent her senior year of high school pregnant) this probably isn't surprising.

[Dhyerwolf]

My mom and dad are both workaholics, and no one did the housework!

[Taishyr]

My mom ended up being a stay-at-home mother when I was 10, after arthritis made her incapable of working as a nurse. They both worked beforehand. So... eh, I don't get it either.

[Xeroma]

My mom's been a home mother for as long as I can remember, though she did have a job briefly before we moved to AZ.

[NotMiki]

There's a certain amount of kid-raising, house-maintaining, and money-making that every couple with children needs to take care of.  Those three things aren't possible to quantify against one another, so you're always gonna have to accept a measure of unfairness in any relationship.  In a good relationship, love fills the gap between what one contributes and what one thinks one should have to do.

Anyway, my mother works from home, teaching piano, and does the majority of housework as well.  Dad works and contributes on housework as well.  (I was blessed as a child; they're both good cooks.)

[superaielman]

Mom stayed at home for the first eight years of my life, then had to get a job for money reasons. She seemed to prefer it to working.

I do think it's best if one parent stays mostly at home for child raising, but that isn't possible most of the time due to money concerns.

[DomaDragoon]

Ma spent most of the time at home prior to the split, though she always had stay-at-home jobs or part time work like babysitting or Avon-style stuff. 'Course, now she works for with me.

Speaking of which, it's four hours and counting to the start of "Me Want iPhone, Round 3" with the release of software 3.0. If those of you in the US suddenly get the feeling that a few hundred people are wishing all of you dead, don't take it personally, it's not aimed at you directly. Unless you're getting an iPhone 3GS. Then it is. You jerks.

(Not sure how close this is getting to breaking company policy, but there are a few notable features with the software and the 3GS that won't be available at launch. ETA is late summer. I can't tell you what they are, but here's a hint: Think of the most wanted features mentioned that weren't on 3G. It's probably those.)

[Lady Door]

I am now employed. Hooray!

I'll be working with the textbook publishing company, slightly less yay. It is fitfully ironic, though: in making fun of my own boringness when I was 10 or so, I used to joke that I was going to end up writing textbooks.

Oh well. Pays well, has benefits, not too hard to get to -- can't beat that!

This also means DLCon is about 90% go for us. Just need to figure out schedules and book tickets.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Congrats on the job, LD!

I have a great respect for textbook writers - that shit isn't easy.

I trust you'll create top-quality material!

-Djinn

[Lady Door]

I won't be in charge of any of the material published, but I will be the one writing rejection letters, responding to copyright requests, negotiating with consultants, and writing the agendas for departmental meetings. The subtlety of the power I have over the inner workings of this company is delightful. <_<

[Cotigo]

To Ciato's Question:  Both of my parents were nurses before I was born.  When I was born, I think my mom still worked but after my sister was born she quit to take care of us and run errands and stuff.  When I graduated high school and went to college she went back to work partly for monetary reasons but mostly because taking care of my sister wasn't keeping her busy enough.  And I completely agree with Otter on this; it's odd to make it a primary goal but if that's what they want then who am I to object?  It may seem like a chauvinistic or demeaning practice but to each their own.  It only really becomes problematic if both parties aren't willing accomplices to the situation.

To NegaAndy:  Congratulations.  You are part of the problem! >_>  But no seriously god I hope that's not what I'm doing out of college.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I won't be in charge of any of the material published, but I will be the one writing rejection letters, responding to copyright requests, negotiating with consultants, and writing the agendas for departmental meetings. The subtlety of the power I have over the inner workings of this company is delightful. <_<

This sounds like the first step in her inevitable path to becoming a super-villain.

[Grefter]

LD is already there, she controls the Elder Gods that we shoot in the face.

Parents do what they want now mostly.  Stay at home dad is acceptable, part time working one member with full time supporting worker is acceptable, both full time workers is acceptable.  I wouldn't really be comparing 20/30 years ago that most of our parent's dealt with to be looking for inspiration.  Second Wave had passed but hadn't really had nearly as big an effect as it has now.  The values in the western world have quite frankly shifted quite sharply on that topic in the last 40 years.  Still a ways to go, but it is mostly there.

Do what you will.

[Luther Lansfeld]

So now I have to roll down my window and open the outside handle in order to get out of my car. It makes me feel super cool. I'm going to get it looked at this week, but I suspect it will cost more than I really want to pay for something that is a mere inconvenience.

[SageAcrin]

Yaaaaaaaaaaay my main computer's HD just exploded.

Everything from the last eight years just poofed.

On the upside, that's far less than I actually would have expected to care about. Broadband actually means I can reobtain the PSX ISOs pretty easily with some searching, I always had a collection of PSFs and Touhou music for music that should not be that hard to get back, and the books...well okay some of those books will be hard to get back possibly, but I've been needing to raid a bookwarez IRC channel anyways. All the other games are possible to get back. And pretty much all the uniquely weird stuff I've had was either uploaded or sent to other people(Like the OG1 info and Eviltype) or was bookmarks and I happened to remember some key ones that I used to get at most of the rest.

Of course, I'm trying to not think about things like remaking the 250+ RPGs played list(Which will turn out a different number since I surely won't consider the same games RPGs/not RPGs as I did when I made it) or the ridiculous amount of saved GFAQs topics with obscure info that's now all gone, but it could be a lot worse, really.

Mostly right now I keep sighing at having to do everything on a 40GB HD. >_>

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Mostly right now I keep sighing at having to do everything on a 40GB HD. >_>

That's my life.

[SageAcrin]

Mostly right now I keep sighing at having to do everything on a 40GB HD. >_>

That's my life.

It's worse after having both a 40 and a 60, albeit on separate computers.

[Hunter Sopko]

I feel your pain. I had to do everything on a 40GB for 6 years until I upgraded in November.

[Ultradude]

19 GB PC up until I got my laptop about a year ago.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Mostly right now I keep sighing at having to do everything on a 40GB HD. >_>

That's my life.

It's worse after having both a 40 and a 60, albeit on separate computers.

I used to have a 120 GB one back at my father's.

;_;

[Grefter]

alsdkjflakdsjf;klsd TWO TERABYTE DRIVES EXIST

[SageAcrin]

alsdkjflakdsjf;klsd TWO TERABYTE DRIVES EXIST

And yet no computer defaults to putting in anything with a triple digit HD.

Ever. Because they hate us.

I'm going HD shopping after DLC, don't have the cash now though.

[Grefter]

It isn't that you don't HAVE one.  It is that 4 people chime in after the fact also talking about tiny tiny decades old drives.

Edit - You of course don't ever BUY a 2 TB drive.  Costs waaaay to much and is lower performance than two (or three!) drives that make up the same space.  Well unless you are desperate for space and don't want to buy a more powerful PSU, in which case what the fuck.

You can pick up a pretty sweet 200 Gig drive for not much these days is all, just saying.

[Yakumo]

My computer came stock with a 250 GB HD three years ago, I'm not sure where you've been shopping for computers. <_<

[Cotigo]

My computer came stock with a 160 GB HD five years ago, I'm not sure where you've been shopping for computers. <_<