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My husband and I (we are both men, some people feel like this is important) have differing opinions about his hobbies.  He has two, both of which I was supportive of at first until he became obsessive.  The first one is crossfit and the second is baking.  The baking has completely taken over our weekends, because he does all these multi day recipes which take hours at a time.  I end up having to do all the errands, alone, on the weekend so he can stay home and make his sourdoughs.

The other, Crossfit, is the REALLY problematic one.  Today he was gone from 8-3 for work, and as soon as he got home he went to the gym for 4.5 hours. FOUR AND A HALF (crossfit is a very camaraderie kinda thing, so he was socializing).  Our son was napping at three and in bed by the time he got home.  Which means, he didn't see our son the whole day.  He regularly makes the rest of his schedule around the gym.  Leaves places early (but never arrives to things late, mostly because he never allows things to be scheduled during gym time) so he can do the day's workout.

Yesterday night he had a livestream of the announcement of the special workout on during our son's bath time (I put our son in bed and did story time so my husband could watch the livestream).

I have tried to bring this up to him several times over the past year, and it always turns into an argument where he says it's not fair for me to be mad at something that's good for him.

What can I say to show him it's a problem?

I have had this indoor palm for about 4 years, in three different apartments.  It has grown about 8 or 9 feet tall, but in last 3 months three of the bottom frond pairs have turned from green to tan to brown over the course of about a week each. First was the lowest frond, then the second lowest, and finally the third lowest.   After I lost the third one I dug up the tree and checked for root rot (there was none) I added some pellet fertilizer, and put it back in its pot.  I also added three grow lights to it as I thought maybe the new position received less light, but the problem persists with the fourth leaf set.  What could be the cause and the solution?

I have a very large backyard that I want to convert into flower gardens, however whenever it rains, large parts flood.  I could either fight the water runnoff, and risk pushing it toward my house, or I can embrace it.

I choose to embrace it.  I need a few recommendation of showy flowers that will grow in zone 7b in very wet soil conditions (my backyard is a sandy clay loam and I get moderate winds).  I strongly prefer perennials.

Thanks!

I am filling out paperwork for a business loan and they want to know if I am a minority but they do not specify what that includes.

My little truck is rated to tow 3,400 lbs according to the manual, but is that on perfectly flat ground? or is that up a medium hill or is that based on some legal limit for roadways?

I am going to be opening a mobile food truck which will primarily be selling ice cream by the scoop (not prepackaged like most ice cream trucks do).  Is hand dipped ice cream sold by the scoop going to require me to collect sales tax?  i tried to find the answer on the Ohio Tax website, but was not able to find any information or rules that I can get answers from.  First person who can find me the information on the Ohio Tax website gets the Best Answer points.

https://tax.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/tax/home

I am starting a food truck business and I need a garage to work on my trailer over the winter (to install all the equipment/ electrical/ plumbing/ and so on.  I can't get ti in my garage as it is taller than my 7 foot garage door.

What sort of search terms should I google, or how should I look for a place willing to rent me some indoor space in a warehouse or something?

I am starting a food truck business and I need a garage to work on my trailer over the winter (to install all the equipment/ electrical/ plumbing/ and so on.  I can't get ti in my garage as it is taller than my 7 foot garage door.

What sort of search terms should I google, or how should I look for a place willing to rent me some indoor space in a warehouse or something?

I am looking for a logo design for my new business, and I have a friend that offered me their services but he is too expensive.  He is very good, and as an artist, I understand how shitty it is when people downplay the value of your skills by asking for a discount.

How do I tell him he isn't hired while not jeopardizing the friendship?

I'm not a car guy nor an engineer, aso please by kind in your replies:

So if I am driving at 60 mph on a flat road in 5th gear my tachometer is reading 2,000 rpms.

This is all fine an dandy, I get it, the pistons drive the crankshaft which connects to the transmission where gears create different ratios which then connects to the drive train which is connected to the wheels which move the car.

But here is the part I don't get.  My car only has 5 gears, and when I put my foot down on the accelerator I can see that my tachometer jumps up to 4,000 rpm, but I am not instantly going twice as fast.  this means that SOMEWHERE in this system, something is not physically connected to whatever causes it to move.

Where is the break in the system that allows the engine to double it's speed without the car doubling it's speed while staying in the same gear?

My husband I are were fine and dandy this morning, till it was 10:30 and I went to wake our 5 month old up from his morning nap. I woke him up at the wrong time, 15 minutes too early, which is a mistake I make pretty often as he usually goes down and is woken up on the half hour (wakes up at 7:30 am, goes down at 9:30 am, down at 1:30 pm, up at 3:30 pm, down at 5:30, up at 6:30, bedtime routing starts at 7:30). You can see how it is hard to wrap your brain around anything not happening on the half hour!

I brought the baby out to the living room, and my husband was upset that I had forgotten YET AGAIN. I said “oh! I forgot!” and admitted my mistake without any argument. But he wasn’t satisfyde with this and said things along the line of “how do you always do this?” I told him that don’t know how to get myself to remember not get him up at that time.

I tried to change the subject to deciding between whether we should go swimming with him at 11 or take him for walk… apparently we had already decided this last night; swimming if the water in the pool isn’t too cold. But of course he didn’t gently remind me of this, he started getting heated about how I never listen. So I said “I am going to go check the water temperature” and walked out the door.

I got in my car, turned off my cell phone, and went to Dairy Queen, then Children’s Place to exchange some wrong sizes, then to the arboretum to walk around a bit. I just got home 4 hours later and he is asleep on the couch.

I work for a company that I am looking to leave for many reasons, but one of my friends (who is no labor lawyer by any means) said that it is illegal for a company to pay employees flat salaries while making them work inconsistent shifts.

The part that is really driving me to quit is that for these shifts they do not schedule enough people and we are told we must stay later than our scheduled time to complete the work.

Is there any legal stance on this?

I am making something out of wood (pine i picked up from the store) and i want to make sure that it doesn't crack over time so I oiled it just a moment ago. I need to know how long I need to wait for it tall all absorb before I go the next step of routing out channels.

It was wood oil, but it doesn't give much more explanation than "mineral oil"

About 3 weeks ago my boss called us all in for a meeting and told us that we were furloughed due to COVID-19. SO I went home and applied that night for unemployment. On the 23rd I received notice that my application was accepted and I would receive ## dollars per week. I have since recieved that amount twice. Now that there is a chance in the legislature and CARE is providing an additional $600 in unemployment benefits weekly; do I need to do anything like re-aply to get the increased amount or will it just be tacked onto my current amount of ##?

I am in Ohio. First person to post a link to an actual government site which answers the question gets a gold star.

I have been listening to the same 1000 songs for far too long. I need some recommendations. Please no top 40 and no mumble rap.

My top 10 most played are currently:

K'naan

James Arthur

Rob Dougan

Michael Buble

Sarah Brightman

Blue Swede

Frank Sinatra

John Denver

Mumford & Sons

Matt White

I work a salary job that comes with 40 hours of PTO a year. I am to work 45-55 hours a week (this range is actually written in the job description) but being in the industry I am in (live events), I sometimes work up to 75 hours with no additional compensation (it's salary, I get it) and have been told that things slow down in the slow season and that it will balance out.

Two weeks ago weeks was the start of our slower season, and I worked 34 hours last week and 42 he week prior, but when I looked at my paycheck I se that my employer put me in for 8 hours of PTO.

I expect that I should have this conversation in person, then follow it up with an email recapping what was said during our conversation, but how should I say this to them? I want to remind them that I often work far more than 55 hours a week and it is not fair that I should be expected to do that without additional compensation while at the same time they are going to use my PTO to fill out short weeks.

I work for an events company, but have a decade s history with theatrical lighting design. One of the things that I asked during my on boarding process was about their non-solicitation/non-compete agreement and how it would effect my theatrical designs I continue to do. They stated that they don t do theater work, so there wouldn't be a problem.

Now, a year later, they asked my to quote a school for some rental EQUIPMENT, and during the conversation with the client he mentioned that he might want to hire my employer (the company) to send me as the lighting designer for the show.

I would like to do it, but I also am hesitant because I don t want the company to take credit for my design.

I work for an events company, but have a decade s history with theatrical lighting design. One of the things that I asked during my onboarding process was about their non-solicitation/non-compete agreement and how it would effect my theatrical designs I continue to do. They stated that they don t do theatre work, so there wouldn t be a problem.

Now, a year later, they asked my to quote a school for some rental EQUIPMENT, and during the conversation with the client he mentioned that he might want to hire my employer (the company) to send me as the lighting designer for the show.

I would like to do it, but I also am hesitant because I don t want the company to take credit for my design.