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I've been suffering from carpal/crapal tunnel for a while. Strangely enough, changing the mouse's configuration to 'left-handed' has helped me deal… with my right hand.

But crapal tunnel cannot stop me posting about this:
Plotinus said:
It used to be usual to have children well into your 40s. The modern notion that it's weird to have children after the age of 35 is quite a recent thing, following the advent of the Pill and other advances in both family planning and natal care.
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I think it's more of a 'keep having children well into your 40s' thing.
Plotinus said:
I learned this recently as we're having one later this year and, at 39, I'm feeling old to be doing so!
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Only a few years ago you were still being asked to produce an ID when attempting to buy wine! You'll be fine.
Plotinus said:
Well, I'm not sleeping at the moment anyway, because the constant agony of the pregnancy keeps my wife awake most of the night. We're anticipating actually sleeping better once the baby comes.
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Oh, no, just no. Once the baby comes to his senses, you mean. Which usually means that he is not a baby and can sleep on his own now.

And… wife?
 
Plotinus said:
It used to be usual to have children well into your 40s. The modern notion that it's weird to have children after the age of 35 is quite a recent thing, following the advent of the Pill and other advances in both family planning and natal care.

I learned this recently as we're having one later this year and, at 39, I'm feeling old to be doing so!
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Hmm, first son, who did not survive was born when I was 33. Our second son was born shortly after I turned 39, and our daughter was born 3 months after I turned 41. My son is now 24, and just got engaged, and my daughter is 22, and just graduating college. You guys are making me feel old.

Also, Plotinus, in about 5 years or so, expect to be promoted to being your child's grandfather.
 
In Germany, most people of academical background do not raise families until they're in their 30s. So that sounds pretty usual to me.
 
On tv yesterday, speaking for a little while about the library programs and the coming book fair :)

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Getting over this horrible crapal tunnel/tendinitis/whatever has turned out to have interesting results. I had to switch the mouse's buttons around and, lo and behold, my brain also switched around a few things, which apply, for now, only to using computers. Typing is easy, mice are worse to me than to Sylvester the cat.

Now to some reflections…
I think that the real reason why the idiots in OT (not most of the OT forum's population, incidentally) hit so close to home is because they are the same as I have to endure in the place known as Real Life™. I don't understand how you get to a mental positioning that allows you to believe (or fool yourself that you believe) that taxing the poor and giving tax exemptions to banks and big industries is not only right in the moral sense but also left in the political/economical sense. Has the world gone mad in the past five years? And somehow those nutjobs have convinced their opponents that they're leftwing… opponents who denounce their policies but would engage in those while calling themselves left-wing. I might have a brainfarct if I think too much about it, mightn't I?

Still, life isn't too pleasing when you have idiots calling everyone either a leftist lunatic or a traitor to the mother/fatherland. Having political sppeches forced onto you instead of your usual radio or TV programming is just so… so arrogantly, so brazenly invasive, and to have it be done to see and hear the self-proclaimed 'presidentess' and her ministers insult people and/or appear to be delusional is at best a turnoff.
I wonder how, in a few years, if (hopefully when) the madness has abated, people will explain it to those who weren't there.
Ares de Borg said:
In Germany, most people of academical background do not raise families until they're in their 30s. So that sounds pretty usual to me.
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I agree with Ares. It's not unusual at all these days for people with academical backgrounds or careers to start having their children in their 30s.
Kyriakos said:
On tv yesterday, speaking for a little while about the library programs and the coming book fair :)
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Oooh, interesting.
 
I've been insanely busy with dissertation research and other obligations (in fact I shouldn't even be lurking on these boards right now :mischief: ). I'm going to visit Osaka, Japan next week. Again for research.
 
On the total war forum, modding awards have just been notified... for 2013.
My Napoleonic Total War mod finished 2nd, I also finished 2nd for Favourite Modder, and my Prussian and German untis pack finished 3rd :).

Now, maybe they will organize 2014 awards before the end of this year.
 
nick0515 said:
Congratulations Plotinus!

My wife and I are expecting our first child too! In June so pretty close now.

All the best to you and your wife on your journey into parenthood!
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Thank you! You'll be two months ahead of us so you can warn me of all the mistakes we're going to make.
 
The biggest one you made was 6 months ago :p. Joking: children are really nice. My main regret is they grow too fast: in just 3 years, my son is likely to leave home to study, it's way too soon.
 
Steph said:
The biggest one you made was 6 months ago :p. Joking: children are really nice. My main regret is they grow too fast: in just 3 years, my son is likely to leave home to study, it's way too soon.
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What will also get to you is the first time he takes off with the car on his own, with no one with him. Been there, done that, with two children.
 
Well, next week, I will be a publicly elected official again, serving on the local library board. Note, this is an unpaid position. When I stopped by today to drop some books off, I was able to see what one of the first things the new board will have to deal will. The minor matter of the roof leaking.
 
timerover51 said:
Well, next week, I will be a publicly elected official again, serving on the local library board. Note, this is an unpaid position. When I stopped by today to drop some books off, I was able to see what one of the first things the new board will have to deal will. The minor matter of the roof leaking.
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Our local library systems are dying. The county dropped out of the area interlibrary loan. The city libraries are slowly closing their doors. Some branches are dark . Some are only open 10 hours a week.

Hopefully you will be able to revive and improve yours. I know you're the right person for it.
 
timerover51 said:
Well, next week, I will be a publicly elected official again, serving on the local library board. Note, this is an unpaid position. When I stopped by today to drop some books off, I was able to see what one of the first things the new board will have to deal will. The minor matter of the roof leaking.
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Well done! :)
 
Blue Monkey said:
Our local library systems are dying. The county dropped out of the area interlibrary loan. The city libraries are slowly closing their doors. Some branches are dark . Some are only open 10 hours a week.

Hopefully you will be able to revive and improve yours. I know you're the right person for it.
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Interesting; they're actually doing pretty decently here. Inter-library loan has expanded tremendously over the past 15 years, and another inner suburb joined recently. I live in one of the few inner suburbs that doesn't participate yet. They have changed a lot, though. They've remodeled their interiors and become more computer-friendly over the years. After being out of state for most of 6+ years, the difference was quite noticeable. But they do still have plenty of books, and their hours are as good as ever.

But I also live in an area that's been very library-friendly when it comes to tax levies, and has been recently as well. I can see how in areas with less historic support, and with libraries that have been slower to adopt to the digital age, may be struggling. Hopefully they're doing better were timerover51 is than where Blue Monkey is.
 
Quintillus said:
Interesting; they're actually doing pretty decently here. Inter-library loan has expanded tremendously over the past 15 years, and another inner suburb joined recently. I live in one of the few inner suburbs that doesn't participate yet. They have changed a lot, though. They've remodeled their interiors and become more computer-friendly over the years. After being out of state for most of 6+ years, the difference was quite noticeable. But they do still have plenty of books, and their hours are as good as ever.

But I also live in an area that's been very library-friendly when it comes to tax levies, and has been recently as well. I can see how in areas with less historic support, and with libraries that have been slower to adopt to the digital age, may be struggling. Hopefully they're doing better were timerover51 is than where Blue Monkey is.
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Well, what helps the most is having our own taxing authority, rather than depending on funding from another body. Against that, having taxing power does make you responsible to use the funds wisely.
 
I live in San Bernardino - until Detroit filed it was the largest city in the US to file for bankruptcy. Until the most recent administration there was lot of corruption and malfeasance. We'll survive, but a lot will be lost. Hard to replace thousands of out of print books that have never been digitized, including monographs on local history.

My neighborhood is more economically sound than a lot of them. Instead of empty stores we've got a massage parlor, three medical marijuana dispensaries, and a couple of barber shops that are open later than the bars. :lol: Thank heaven I live right behind the cops' and firefighters' favorite burrito stand, which has been in business since I graduated high school (1975).
 
As a Librarian I'm very sad to hear that BM. Good on you Timerover too! I'm furtunate to live in city that has a well funded and large public library network. However, I work for a university library that is rather less well funded and under constant pressure to reduce staff, weed books and even close branches.
 
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