Just bought a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro from this website for <300AUD. I heard they were pretty decent for used PCs. The price difference isn't too far off from the USD equivalent here.

I actually (anecdotally) heard a similar issue with Pentosan that it stops working after 12-24 months due to the immune system so you have to "time it" at an appropriate time in a dog's life. To be blunt, by appropriate I mean you'd want to start using it 12-24 before the dog is expected to pass and not at the first sign of osteoarthritis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan_polysulfate#Dogs

On the bright side, I also have mine on Pentosan which did have a noticeable difference for him so that's great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan_polysulfate#Dogs

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When you purchase a ticket from them and resell it on their marketplace, once someone purchases it, they(Ticketmaster) hold your funds and only give you the money ~7-14 business days after the event is over. They say this is to verify the validity of the ticket.

On the buyer side, you purchase the ticket from the marketplace and it gets added to your account immediately. (I think) You get the barcode some time ~1 week before the actual event begins.

The confusion for me? Ticketmaster owned the ticket and all logic relating to the validity of it. The logic to validate this shouldn't be complex at all. They OWN the ticket. They KNOW it's legitimate because it never left their database. Yet they double dip and hold both buyer and seller funds. Events can be close to a year in the future but the seller won't see that until after that event ends.

>Just writing things down gives some resolution of that task/thought so that we can fully show up for our main thing.

Anecdotal but there was a time in my life not too long ago where I found myself stressed out because I had so many life admin tasks to do but would also have to remember not only the task, but what I had to do, when I could do it, how far along it was. I was unable to sleep properly and day to day tasks were being affected.

It sounds so bloody simple in hindsight, but simply writing them into a kanban style app removed a lot of this stress. Every time I remembered I had to do something new I would just add it to the board. I also have issues with starting these tasks so while it's never going to be finished, at least the tasks are there and not in my brain

I vaguely recall they did this in Australia and solar panel installers just increased the price by the government rebate anyway so it didn't actually make it cheaper.

What you've wrote about time with our parents is sad but in a beautiful way.

I personally have chosen not to have kids - one reason is doomer level but the other is time and independence. I have a dog that is a relatively (to kids) minor responsibility but in my day to day life feels like the biggest responsibility, I compare that to having a kid which I would say is a lot more and I wouldn't want to take on as I've already experienced a dog and that is as far as I'd go. But while you haven't changed my mind, you have negated a lot of my feelings towards a previously thought "lifelong responsibility"

But it's a double edged sword. I am not the most articulate person so sometimes the information ends up becoming more confusing for the reader which doesn't help either.

Is it something to do with calculating the cost of splitting off a monolith into a microservice vs. some other method?

The reason I say this is that my post reads like everyone gets the day off to individually learn and some of your suggestions reflect that.

1) I've never heard of these terms however the PSP sounds like something worth looking into, it helps people improve themselves on an individual level.

2) This sounds like more of an individual thing and I'll look into this in my own time

3) This looks like a good group task to introduce but it would mean having to think of relevant problems which may lean more to the "work" side of things, not sure how I could make this more engaging

4) This feels like something that needs to come from the business but unsure if this applies here, I'll need to read the link you posted to get a better understanding of how/if it fits into the purpose of this day

I'll look into 1 and 3 but at the end of the day I don't know if I'd be confident enough to read up on this and understand it to the point I'm able to lead the entire team on how to approach it. But you've introduced me to a lot of new things I've never heard of before and I'm keen to delve further so thanks

I would say that while I really like these sorts of exercises for us devs because it's underrated, I would expect these thing to be run by at least a Psychologist who has training understanding the background of why these things are good for us rather than a dev like myself who would just be reading from a book to explaining it to others without verifying it myself.