Sailor here.

I’ve put those plastic shower tile mats under my mattress. The ones that help with draining water while keeping your toesies dry.

It lets enough air flow through that it can dry up under the mattress. Others just drill a bunch of airholes in their berths.

Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.

I would not go back to the previous version.

can’t even imagine what type of job I’d love

Fun fact! Most of us don’t love our jobs. We just do them to have a roof over our heads and food on our tables.

I enjoyed my time with our newborn, but it’s no vacation. I took 4.5 months of paternity leave in a row.

Sweden us pretty generous with parental leave. Me and the Mrs get 480 days to share between us. 390 of which are at some 80% of our salary. The other 90 days pay peanuts, but great to have when you need some time off to get started with preschool and stuff. You have 90 days earmarked for yourself that can’t be transferred to the other parent.

At 5 days a week those 480 days last two years.

I just bought one last year.

It’s not retro. It’s in that sweet spot where it’s irrelevant enough to be dirt cheap.

We’ll need to wait another 10-20 years before the kids who grew up with the xbox360 have enough time and disposable income to buy and play all the games they loved in their youth.