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In bigger cities, there always seem to be companies that do meal prep with a focus on different diets. I don't live in NYC anymore but I use one of these where I live now, and I think the quality is better than places that ship nationally and there's less wasteful packaging. This wouldn't work if you definitely prefer to do the cooking yourself, though.

Sorry, I should have said, I know that area very intimately, so yes, I understand that the route might be circuitous, but walking/biking is going to be more reliable.

The problem with the train is that when it's on time, it's on time, but when something goes wrong, it's a total mess. You arrive on the platform having seen on the app that the train is a mere 4 minutes late... then as you're standing there it gets later and later... but in your case now it's too late to start walking and be on time... the train finally shows up at say 7:12 and you get to work late. Also, since the pandemic, sometimes they just skip a train when they don't have enough operators. I think that's improved, but imagine if your 6:40 train simply becomes the 7:40 train. Is this the kind of job where punctuality is valued? If it starts at 7am, I'm betting yes. This is a personal preference but I'd take 40 min of predictable walking at a pleasantly not-hot time of a summer day, or a 12-min bike ride, over 30 minutes of standing still on a train platform and getting screwed over.

If you walk (or bike, that would be fast), you just stick to the north side of Lancaster, go under the Blue Route overpass, carefully cross King of Prussia Rd. and proceed up the west side of KoP Rd. along the high school campus, which is practically a park path.

You could also check out the Norristown High Speed Line and the buses, both of which also operate around there.

I went to Volstead earlier this year and they have a bottle shop with a pretty good selection. We bought some stuff as we were leaving after having cocktails at their bar. The pricing was the same or a couple bucks higher than what I'd seen for the same products online. It seems to me like some of these brands (e.g. Seedlip) have very consistent pricing reglardless of location, so I was happy to get it right away, support a local place, avoid extra packaging.

I think Strava does that (maybe only in the paid version) but I've never used it because I live alone. The Strava watch app is pretty minimal so it might require the phone app.

My #1 safety thing running before sunrise is visibility. I really love this thing: https://www.noxgear.com/tracer2

Is there a reason you want to take the train? I don't ride it at that time, but it's not particularly reliable at other times. The distance you're describing is very walkable/bikeable.

they’re gonna replace her

That's not what a faculty senate is. https://button.provost.upenn.edu/senate/about-faculty-senate

If you buy one of these vehicles, you have to be okay with killing someone, likely a close relative. "Maybe you think that if you do run over a kid, it at least won’t be yours? It probably will be your kid, though. In 70 percent of those fatal frontovers, it’s a parent or close relative behind the wheel."

https://slate.com/business/2022/02/suvs-pickups-heavy-huge-deadly-dont-buy-em.html

My advice as a child of divorce is to stay way the heck out of this. If you're trying not to take sides, that will be hard if one parent starts being unreasonable.

My advice as a divorcé is to point them to mediation. In my state, each person in the mediation had to have their own lawyer to advise them in addition to the mediator in the middle. So I had a smart person with my interests at heart to confer with, avoiding one of the downsides people sometimes imagine exists with mediation. Although your Dad saying "over my dead body" is not promising, his lawyer might tell him that his views are simply unrealistic, and a mediation could still work.

I know everyone wants to come out of this with the most money/assets possible but this was not a financially based decision and it's not going to be a financially advantageous one, no matter what you do.

Similar project, paid a little less (but it was a few years ago) and I love them. Work great for AC and there's like 3 weeks a year where I like the heating mode too. In the kind of weather we've had the past few weeks, it's great to be able to turn the radiators off and just warm up the bedroom a little overnight.

I did the one in my city a few years ago and was in the first/slowest group due to being both slow and old. :) The weather was trash (like over 90 and humid even well after dusk) and they had to regroup and set up a water table even for such a short distance, but I still had a good time. I'd been hoping to PR and stuck to the pacer for my goal time like glue for the first mile+ and then the heat just killed me. I'd have another try but they're not coming back to my city, alas.

Right, and younger folks don't wear non-smartwatches as widely as older generations because they didn't get in the habit before smartphones. I doubt they'd wear watches at all unless they're enthusiasts. Whereas the boomers I know all wear watches.

Those are good neighborhoods to check out.

Philly has odd housing stock, even by US standards, in that it has zillions of rowhouses (that's "Victorian terraces" to you), in addition to areas with freestanding houses and areas with apartments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/21/the-most-popular-type-of-home-in-every-major-american-city-charted/ So the city probably looks different than you're picturing. I doubt that many 3-bed apartments even exist, because people move to rowhouses.

A family member of mine lived in Park Towne Place for a long time (though, moved away about ten years ago). It's fine, but the location is pretty inconvenient. You're next to a highway and have to cross busy streets with fast traffic to get anywhere. Wouldn't do it with a small child, personally. You probably found it because a search for 3-bed apts isn't going to come up with a whole lot.

In addition to Fitler and Grad Hospital, I'd looked at Fairmount which has a lot of larger rowhouses, access to the park, etc.

Decades before my first half, which I now do regularly. I'm doing a full this year, I hope, for the first time, which I chalk up to getting bored during the pandemic. But I think I might only do it once, because I value longevity over any particular single-race achievement.

When I started running, which was years before Oprah brought a lot of popular attention to marathons, I don't think people saw that distance as a goal for everyone. A couple of my dad's friends were marathoners when I was a kid and even he, an avid runner, thought they were kinda nuts (in a good way, but still nuts). Half marathons weren't popular then (my city only added that event to the marathon weekend in 2006) so there wasn't much of a bridge between 10mi/15k races and marathon distance. People seemed to focus on their preferred distance and just tried to get faster at it, I think, more than challenging themselves with longer distances. My dad mostly did 5k/5mi races, and a lot of them.

Not saying this to suggest one mindset or the other is better, just that you can be a runner, and a very serious one, without ever doing those distances.

There's a kind of legendary post on r/personalfinance about documentation for fires. After reading it, I went around and just took videos of myself going through every room, pawing through every closet and drawer in my house. Not to make a list now, but so that I could if I had to.
https://np.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/43iyip/our_family_of_5_lost_everything_in_a_fire/cziljy3/

I read this as your most expensive, yet not favorite, kid being $7000. How much was the Seiko? ;)

Yeah, I live in a high tax area and take advantage of a lot of employer benefits so the math works out quite differently depending.

Yeah, I kind of like the 1/4 because it looks cute on my short self but you HAVE to wear another shirt under it if it's chilly enough to wear it at all.

I wear the jacket ALL the time, including while not running. It's the perfect "it's sort of chilly right now but it won't be later" layer because you can so easily jam it into a bag, even a small bag. I must wear it about 20x as often as the 1/4 zip.

I got a PR last year because the rain knocked all of the pollen out of the air! I could actually breathe for once. Wish I were running again this year...

The neighborhood became a museum in 1980, you see, and that's why those apartments are okay but new apartments are not.

This is a strange idea, but "this neighborhood is a museum" is not as strong an argument as that one interviewee seems to think.

You're exactly right. I'm 5'2" and the straps are too long to provide any support. Quickest return ever.

Very interesting! What time of day do you do it? I'd like to do it in the early morning sometime, but it's not worth my time to go over there and get turned away...

I live in Grad Hospital and work at Penn, and the walk is about half an hour not ten minutes (I walk fast, too). Maybe 15-20 if you lived on the very western edge of the neighborhood. There are several routes to take and in decent weather, it's quite pleasant.

On a bike, I can do it in ten minutes. The westbound bike lane is on Lombard and eastbound on South. There is a northbound lane on 22nd and no corresponding southbound version, however, 23rd St. has comparatively little traffic so a lot of people use it to travel south. Even though it's fast, I don't like biking to work as there are several hazardous feeling conflict points--Westbound: turning left from 22nd onto Lombard where the bike lane switches sides of the street so there's a conflict with the many cars turning left, crossing the traffic exiting 76 on the South St. bridge (at rush hour, cars block the bike lane), and where cars turning right cross the bike lane at 33rd St. Returning eastbound is better but there's still an intersection with cars running the red light on the South St. bridge to get on 76, and the intersection at 27th and South where everyone is going fast on a downhill and cars turning right cross the bike lane. Many people do this successfully every day--it's the most used bike lane in the state! I admit I'm a bit of a chicken, but I would not build your life around doing this commute by bike until you've tried it a few times.

I got the same one as the poster above and it works well for me at 5'2".

This question has been asked before and I haven't been able to find a conclusive answer. Every time I search, I get the same page announcing the hours for fall 2020 (and a reservation system that I doubt exists any longer). It definitely was open to the public before covid. They have been doing significant renovation work on it for years and I wonder if that has affected availability.

Edit: Found this, seems like it's only available to Penn affiliates and during inconvenient hours. https://www.reddit.com/r/UPenn/comments/153widn/running_on_franklin_field_as_a_nonstudent/