When my wife was pregnant we went to a lawyer recommended by a friend and drew up all the standard estate documents.
We have an updated will but need to do a medical directive.
I’m retired so I get every day off. When I worked we were open 24/7/365. The opportunity to take off was by seniority. Near the beginning of the year each person had an opportunity to put in for blocks of time off. Some positions didn’t have a minimum staffing requirement so if you were in those positions you could take off. You still had to use your vacation days.
Which is totally fine. But I tend to assume that once you leave out the dramatic and artistic elements of being a director, it’s actually a ton of work. And since it’s not something I’m personally interested in… I wanna get paid. 
Which is not to say either of us is wrong. Just different priorities. We’ve had quite a few other polls along that line, at which point you sold out a work for various degrees of financial renumeration vs. accurate adaptation for one. Or for critical fame vs commercial success.
Granted, this particular poll gave us a lot less to work with than the prior options.
I’m a medical courier so I work when I’m called. I volunteered to be available on Friday but it’s no different than any other day to me.
“Liar” and “fire” have the same number of syllables: halfway between one and two.
ETA: I’m going to give the movie whichever ending I like better. I can’t say which that is without knowing the rest of the movie.
ETA again: The “r” in “firing” attaches to “ring”, not to “fi”. So it doesn’t have that weird r-after-an-i half syllable.
Of course, it’s Sloppy Joe and not Sloppy joe. Just like it’s not “Baked alaska,”
(and now I’m hungry)
I’m not sure that’s quite the same. “Baked Alaska” is obviously referencing the state of Alaska, so it should be capitalized. “Sloppy Joe/joe” isn’t referencing a specific person named Joe (as far as I know) so I feel like it doesn’t really need to be capitalized in spite of the fact that my spell checker is claiming it’s misspelled. I supposed if someone were to name a dish after the 46th President and called it a “sloppy Joe Biden”, then it would need to be capitalized.
And of course it’s “sloppy joe”, not “Sloppy joe”, unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence.
I’ll grant you “sloppy” but I’m sticking to “Joe.”
Yep. I concur. You can slur either for one, and emphasize to make it two.
I assumed the question was for proper pronunciation, not slurring the words. “How many syllables?” loses its meaning if we allow slurring
I’'m hearing “only to wake her”.
And it’s “Sloppy Joe”, both of them capitalized. But “a cup of joe” (coffee) doesn’t need to be capitalized. I appear to be inconsistent on this one.
Merriam-Webster goes with “sloppy joe,” for what it’s worth. That’s good enough for me.
They also note that it’s “often capitalized” when it refers to a loose-fitting sweater, and I’ll admit that’s a usage I hadn’t run across before. But then again, no one has ever accused me of being a fashion maven.
Hire / higher:
In isolation, they’re the same or pretty close.
“Hire and fire” becomes “High ran fire,” though, while vs “higher and higher” is still “hire and hire.” (in other words, the R of “hire” bleeds into the next word if that word starts with a vowel, but the “-er” of “higher” never does).
Wikipedia also uses all lower case.
I get annoyed when filmmakers give me a happy or unhappy ending (or event, like killing off a character) when it feels like it’s contrived to manipulate me into feeling a certain way and not because it’s an integral part of the story. But unhappy is worse, because you’re trying to manipulate people into feeling bad.
I don’t have a will, but all my main sources of money have at least one (and most have two) beneficiaries. My sister and I own our townhouse as Joint Tenants in Common, so that’s a wash. There’s not a lot I need a will for.
I do have a lot of art and antique/vintage pieces that are worth some money. It might be worth my time to identify those with their current value, so they’re not tossed with things like my old clothes.
Some of my favorite movies have unhappy endings, so I don’t think @ParallelLines will be making any money from me. Oh, and I find contrived happy endings worse than unhappy ones. How they make me feel is based on the artistry of the movie. If I feel that it’s contrived, I’ll probably hate whichever way the director goes. Didn’t vote btw.
All of my big money buckets have a beneficiary - my 25yo son. But I still think I should have a will to make it clear he inherits.
I’ve got an advance directive that names him as decider what happens to me, and made it clear to him that he should let me go if there’s no hope, and inherit with my blessing.
Both of these still have stuff to do - signatures and witnesses, but it’s clear to everyone what I want to happen. I just need to get my shit together and sign and witness everything. Soon.
I work for a company that works for a company that contracts to a 3rd organization. The final organization is off Friday. If I worked for the middle company I would be required to use a floating holiday. I haven’t actually looked at what I will need to do, but it’s probably a floating holiday.
I think that’s one of the things my phone doesn’t do. It’s possible that it’s just a buried setting that I haven’t tripped across yet; but aside from the miniscule size of the screen it’s legible enough as it is, so I’m not going to go hunting for such a setting.
Same here.
They are both one syllable for me, and I said them that way long before I moved to Texas. But the vowel is drawn out a bit more - something more like aahrn and faahr.