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June 13, 2016: Major Life Events

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Yesterday Philosofette and I cataloged our major life events (births, deaths, leaving or starting jobs or schooling, home purchase or sale) of the past just-over-two years. We counted 14. That seems extreme.

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  1. In the last two years, we've had seven of those. So your stress is exactly double of ours (I won't count new jobs within my own company, of which there's been five in the last two years)

    1. Seven for us, too, I think. The past two years have definitely been less stressful than the two preceding it, particularly since we went from NINKs (no income, no kids) to DINKs in 2014. Keeping Mrs. Hayes out of the hospital has also lowered our stress significantly.

  2. Since June 2014:
    Moved across Austin (Feb 2015)
    Quit Austin Job (May 2015)
    Moved to St. Paul (May 2015)
    New job in Minnesota (July 2015)
    Got engaged (August 2015)
    Niece and nephew born (August 2015 - not my kids, but as close as I've ever gotten)
    Papaw died (November 2015)
    Got married (May 2016)

    Pending
    Staring school (Fall 2016)
    Finding a new home/apt (Soonish)

      1. History isn't really going the way I wanted, so I'm switching to GIS to make use of my twin interests in computers and geography. There's a market for GIS web applications that should also work nicely with my previous front-end studying.

        1. I've seen a number of GIS positions posted in government and education too. Should be a smart move career-wise. Hopefully you enjoy it too!

        2. A co-worker was a GIS grad. He left us and moved to SD to do more GISy things. We'd take you if you wanted to not do (m)any mapy things. I don't know when you'd be looking for a job but he used to work for the DNR doing web stuff and presumably still has some contacts there.

          1. I might be interested, thanks. I'll send you an email. Is the katron email still your best?*

            *We really should make a directory and put it somewhere secure. I have like 4 emails for everyone.

  3. Just one for us, a birth in December 2015. Go back an additional year and it triples with another birth and buying a home.

  4. As long as we're going to continue with pitchers facing live pitching, might as well enjoy it and have a home run derby for pitchers.

  5. This counts a couple pending items. The next few weeks bring moving out of our home, having a baby, and starting my own law practice. So... our lives will look different, shortly.

        1. Good luck buddy. Practicing law is challenging enough without being a small business owner, but having clerked in both solo and small practice offices, I'm happy to report that people do make a living in this way. Will you be staying in 'Greater Minnesota?'

          1. Thanks.

            We'll be moving to my wife's hometown, which is near Redwood Falls. Despite being a town of just ~700 they've comfortably supported an attorney for 30+ years. The local guy retired in January, so there's an opening. I'm not able to start as lean as I'd like, since I'm buying his building and his mentoring along with it, but I've put a lot of work in on a business plan, and it seems like it will work. I have a lot to learn, both about business and new areas of law, but I'm excited.

            A little sad we'll still be as far out from the cities as we are, but at least we'll be close to my in-laws.

        2. All of those are very challenging steps to take in your life. Best wishes with them.

  6. Is hip replacement a major life event? If so, I'm expecting to have a second major life event in October.

    That said, I'm going to give the 5K at the county fair "back home" a whirl in July.

  7. This is probably out there somewhere and I just haven't seen it, but how many times has someone's first major league home run been a walkoff? I'm sure it's happened before, but I can't think that it's all that common.

  8. Byung-Ho Park has apparently been dealing with a wrist injury for an unspecified period of time. This could explain much. It's very difficult to hit if your wrists and hands aren't healthy.

  9. Hmm, I don't think we've had as many major life events in the last couple years as we've had before that. I've been at the same job now for the last 9 years.

    For my 40th birthday (next year), I was pondering putting a list together of a top 40 major life events. I wouldn't rank them so much as put them in Chronological order. I don't want to have put my kids' births in any particular order.

  10. I've only had one (graduating college in May) relatively recently. I'm hoping for 3 more in the next 12 months.

    1. Dr. Chop and I moved (on average) once every 7 months for 6 years. We had so many apartments, lofts, crash outs, and students houses in that stretch. We got to the place where we could pack our stuff in about 3 days, and were completely unloaded and art installed on the walls in 8 hours. We can't do that now. We've been settled in NOLA for the last 4 years accumulating shit at a fast clip, but we're thinning the stuff out in anticipation of a move. Yeah, buying a house wasn't on our radar until Saturday, and now we're going at it full steam ahead.

      1. I can no longer pack all my belongings into my car in about a day. I know how you feel, to some degree.

  11. Big events have grouped together for me; each of the four times I've changed jobs came along with either buying a house or having a kid.

  12. One other thing on Twins: Perkins injury isn't a fluke. There were clear indications that he was still hurt last season. The FO doesn't get a pass on this.

    1. Sucks for him that they only face the Twins seven times. I'm putting my money on Kinsler then. The Twins even have two series in September against the Tigers for him to wrap it up.

  14. One of the Twins' first day selections was compensation for failing to sign 2015 second-rounder Kyle Cody of the University of Kentucky. Cody fell to the sixth round this year (Texas Rangers), and the big righty will have a substantially smaller signing bonus as a result.

    1. you know what's lame? the single team option does NOT include the radio feed as a standalone option. i can only listen to the TV feed if i want to listen on headphones without video.

      1. I got At Bat Premium for my Smartphone so I could listen to games while at my boys' Little League games. I've been able to switch the announcers on single team mlb.tv to the radio guys as well, but I think it's probably because I'm paying the $3 a month for At Bat.

    2. I went halvsies with my brother, who got it with a military discount. I don't get the Twins, but I can listen to radio feed on my tablet when I'm wrenching on bikes or gardening

  16. As promised (many weeks ago) my write-up about my time at Geekway to the West (nerd board game convention) is now live. In the post are some details about a new highly anticipated game called Scythe. I'm super excited about this game. In fact, so excited that I downloaded and printed out the print-and-play version. Now I just need to find some pieces to use for it.

  17. At the Scandia house for the last several days (around car camping), heading back to H'istan tonite.

    On Thursday, noticed that the microwave wasn't on, and also that a power strip on the 2nd floor wasn't working. Suspect a surge.

    On Friday, whilst looking at the microwave, heard a strange buzzing sound from the range. Suspect timers or power-lock. Turned off the breaker to the range. Also, there is no warm water. Looked at the water heater, and tried to re-light the pilot light to no avail. Put out the bat-light for help.

    Scandia heating dude (Broadway) shows up earlier and was able to re-light the pilot light on the water heater (light it, but hold the switch down for 45 seconds to let the heating unit (sorry I had to get technical here) get hot enough to carry on. One down.

    Appliance guy from St. Croix Falls shows up in the afternoon today, begins forensics on the range. Oven timers making noise - can't buy replacement parts after N years - cuts the cords and voila, Brenschluss. Moves next to the microwave - shows me the burnt out parts in the micro-mother-board. Surge might have worked for Petraeus but not for me in Scandia. New microwave on the way, but was advised that they all go on sale on the Fourth.

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