“Arcane color names”
Would you choose the same time in history?
VERY surprised that most voted for the same period, given the dire effects of AGW going forward. Here I retire, move to a more northerly state so I could enjoy the summers w/o sweltering-and I can’t, literally been cooped up for almost 2 weeks now-it’s either been raining, overcast, and/or hot and humid if not smoky. We just had the weakest cold front I’ve ever seen move through, dropping the last two needles on the H& H hardly at all.
The thing is, while changing gender, ethnicity, nationality, or religion would be interesting, I probably would not have met Mrs Magill if any of those were different. That’s just not worth it.
That’s why I didn’t want to go forward. But the potential negative effects for me going backward, considering that I’m a woman and of Jewish heritage, would be significant. Plus which, the treatment I recently had for a health condition didn’t become available until not very many years before I needed it.
And I managed to come of age during that lovely sweet spot between the availability of the Pill and the discovery that there were STD’s that couldn’t be cured with a dose of penicillin.
All of this for me as well.
It truly was “the best of times,” wasn’t it? 
Would you choose the same family?
This one depends on whether I’d be randomly assigned to a different family (likely worse than my own) or if I could choose an ideal family (if such a thing exists)
As phrased, I said yes. My family (including my deceased parents) share my politics, left me alone to find my own way, and were financially secure enough to launch me without debt. I could do a lot worse.
Well, except for those little things like an ongoing war, some major civil rights problems, and half expecting nuclear destruction to break out any minute –
It was a comparatively pretty good time to be an apparently healthy straight white female from a comfortably middle-class family in the USA, anyway.
Mine didn’t share my politics, or at any rate I left their politics by the time I was about 17. But they loved me, and they did the best they could; and while they got some things wrong they got some really major things right. A different family might well have gotten some of those things wrong, whether deliberately or accidentally. (Some of what was right for me was apparently entirely wrong for my oldest sister.) I wouldn’t want to take a chance on it.
I live 5000 feet from the Pacific ocean. I’ve been to the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean.
Not a swimmer, and I don’t really care for it all that much, but yes, I’ve touched the Atlantic Ocean many times.
I am currently 30 feet from the Atlantic Ocean but I unfortunately don’t live here.
Ditto.
As a teen and well through my 20s I’d spend every summer bumming at the beach, surfing and drinking and generally contributing to the Downfall of Western Civilization. Been in salt water in the Pacific, Atlantic and Med.
I’ve swum in the ocean since i was little, although maybe i haven’t for more than a year, now.
I love the ocean, and was hoping to see it this summer. I like where I live, but miss being a two hour drive from the beach.
Hmm, I’ve been in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Lots of seas, but you didn’t ask.
I’ve swum in both the Atlantic and Pacific many times, the first time being a beach in Fort Lauderdale when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old.
And for 10 years I lived about 1000 feet from the Pacific. Once in a while I’d walk over and get my feet wet. Not a safe swimming beach, though people do swim there, and people die every year, despite the abundance of warning signs.
I have a BEF, but when we remodeled 20 years ago, our contractor discovered that it didn’t vent to the outside. It wasn’t a true exhaust fan. He corrected that, and now I have condensation only on rare occasions. Also, my shower/toilet are in a separate space from my vanity, so my vanity mirror rarely steamed up – even before the fan was fixed.
It takes us an hour and a half to get to the beach from where we live. Circumstances are such that we can’t even think of moving now but in a year we may start looking to move closer.
Our master bathroom is quite large. The mirror is not close to the shower, so it never gets steamed up. Also, our shower is a “steam shower” so I guess the normal regular steam from a water shower gets trapped in there too. I do sometimes turn on the fan when I exit the shower and opening the door lets steam escape.
In our main guest bathroom there is also quite a distance (and also a pocket door) between the area the shower is in and the mirror. I only experience fogged up mirrors in hotels these days.