I’ve been wearing 990s in a 14 or 15 6E for a while (12 years or so) for work and exercise, but the newer 990v6 just doesn’t hold up or fit quite the same. I’m still wearing a (tightly laced) 15 in them, but I’ve had trouble finding alternatives, and I definitely feel like I need more of a 14/14.5 with more width (which doesn’t exist).

Given how expensive NB has gotten, I’m eyeing whatever other options turn up and wondering if I’ll have to go custom. I’ll give xelero a look over, though, thank you for sharing this. :)

For boots I just wear thick socks in my red wings, but that’s not too often.

There’s a sort of inertia within the organization, you both can’t get rid of those people not make them care more than they currently do. I think management has been trying to kill them off for decades. :)

This isn’t relevant, even when we’ve been slammed local offices separate the ballots and bring them to a hub or county seat if it’s within a week of an election. Postal workers actually care about doing their jobs.

This mostly would harm older Republicans, but it’s also not an actual change. Postmarks aren’t applied on receipt unless you give your mail to a window clerk, FCM hasn’t been next day guaranteed for a decade, and we separate out ballots if there’s any time concern before it goes to a sorting facility.

Yeah, I saw this getting spread around and facepalmed, I’m a carrier and it’s basically not a change – just logistics changes that can have an impact +/- a day. When first class mail went off the next day standard a few years ago is when this really changed, and it was about business efficiency and prioritizing packages. I also facepalm when I see ballots in outgoing the day before an election, but we run those separate to the county seat or a closer hub office to get them delivered on time.

Yep, the Undying Lands over here.

Secret identity of Corn Man, who wears a suit powered by ethanol?

Not a furry, but thicc.horse is a crazy good instance name.

A year ago. It took about 9 months to find something which was a good value proposition beyond just being a home to live in, and my wife wasn’t ready to move before that.

Just as a real example, 70-80k/year is very feasible in the Philadelphia area. I saved up around 90k across a decade (with a worse income…) and bought a place for slightly over 350k. The thing is you NEED that initial down payment amount to make those numbers work, PMI with less than a conventionally mortgage down payment is a debt trap. Most people aren’t financially literate, and people with large amounts of capital take advantage of that in the lending and real estate industries.

If you can settle or pool resources this all gets easier, and if you have disabilities or make poor financial decisions it becomes impossible and you rent trap yourself. Renting still makes more sense for people with jobs that move around, though.