mine often itch, especially in winter. Today though, it is sunny and above freezing outside and my ears don’t itch. Yay!
For me, pretty much the same as @puzzlegal, itchy ears, along with some mild pain, probably because I keep sticking my finger in there to try to scratch them. Also I think my eyes were a bit itchy at the time I responded to the poll.
My hip has hurt off and on today
I have an old shoulder injury that’s painin’ me. Where does that go?
Shoulders and hips. Of course.
Polls should be allowed no less than 1,000 options.
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I’ve had two different outdoor jobs that took up my entire adult life. Umbrellas were not an option. I’m not going to start now.
Ribs.
Now I’m hungry.
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People have gotten smarter, but access to other crazy people has made them crazier.
On the work time poll, I had to answer “depends.”
At my last job, we were expected to be clocked in one half hour before the open of business. That half hour was used to prepare for opening, which did in fact include personal things like getting coffee or using the rest room.
The job I had before that required us to be at our desk and ready to accept a call exactly at the assigned start time. Pee and get coffee on your own time.
I don’t have a problem with either philosophy, as long as employers and employees are on the same page regarding what’s expected.
Seems to me that gullibility has risen as a result of this, which I wouldn’t characterize as getting smarter.
I don’t know how to answer the mental-age poll. I think I’m a bit more forgetful, and even worse about time, than I was 50 years ago; but I think I’m a whole lot more sensible, more skilled at dealing with people, and better able to deal with bad moods.
Ten years ago? Probably some change over ten years, but again in both directions. I’m a lot better at sudoku, because 10 years ago I didn’t do that, or maybe was just starting to. What metric am I supposed to answer the poll by?
ETA: I occasionally think that I ought to still be 7, or 27; but that I think is a different sort of issue entirely.
The metric I was aiming for was something along the lines of “inner maturity.” I’m in my mid-30s but my maturity feels like it’s only in the college-to-mid-20s age.
I’ve always felt older than I am. That feeling has persisted. Maybe when I’m 50 I’ll feel like my age.
Oh, OK, I think I do feel my age, then, and will vote accordingly.
When I was in my mid-30’s I do think that my maturity felt more like being in college-to-mid-20’s, though. Maybe your sense of it will catch up, eventually.
Physical age poll coming right up…
Good, that’s how I voted. I think I generally feel (interests, activities, etc) younger than my actual age.
I thought it was more “what’s your mental image of your age”. Mine has been well behind my physical age for years – I often forget just how old I actually am. So that’s how I answered. I’m old enough that I don’t think you really get more “mature” at this age, more like “more senile”.
Yeah, me too. It depends so much on the job. I currently work two jobs, a “real” job that’s salaried, but where I nominally keep track of my hours, and once I’ve booted up the PC, I’m “at work”, and another extremely part-time hourly job where I need to arrive early, stay late, and do a lot of prep on my own time, but I only get paid for the hours that I teach, and yes, I need to be ready to roll when the class starts.
I’m torn on the keyboard poll. On the one hand, I prefer a full sized keyboard with all the keys, and some distance up and down. But in practice, I greatly prefer using a laptop, and when I’m using a laptop, I prefer to use the integral keyboard, and not have another thing to drag around. I also often use a laptop on my lap, or other small spaces, where there isn’t room for a separate keyboard. And I care enough about the keyboard on my laptop that I’ve gone to the shop to check out the keyboards on laptops I’m considering, and vet how they feel. (Also the touch pad.)
But if I AM using a separate keyboard, I want those nice spacious keyboard features like keys that go up and down and a number pad.
I voted according to the standard or semi-standard working-for-somebody-else jobs I’ve had. The question’s entirely inapplicable to what I’ve been doing for the last 35 years. (Old joke: somebody asks the farmer what time they go to work in the morning. Farmer answers: I don’t go to work in the morning. I just get out of bed, and there it is, all around me.)
ETA: I checked that I prefer wired. I actually loved having a wireless keyboard – until I realized that they kept dying on me. Wired appears to be more reliable. (I hope. If this one just dies fast of something else, maybe the problem is just that relatively recent keyboards were designed to be disposable items.)