You tell them you don’t work for $500.

Or you tell them that you do.

Per hour.

But since they’re clearly such great mates with dad, you can cut them a deal.

I generally remap to swap caps lock with left control. Having control on the home row makes Ctrl shortcuts way less of a contortion act.

Useful in general but especially so on laptop keyboards.

PEDS aren’t limited to bulking up via steroids. A lot of PEDS use is about shortening recovery time. As an example, cycling is the kind of sport you’re describing where increased bulk is a disadvantage and doping in the sport has been absolutely endemic for years. It’s what the Lance Armstrong controversy was about and Armstrong was more representative of the norm at high levels than not.

I feel the same about frozen lasagna. Either my wife, myself or both of us can spend hours in the kitchen making a good lasagna recipe and it doesn’t taste much better than a store bought frozen one that didn’t take any work.

Speak for yourself on that one. I can do a home made lasagna that’s far better than anything that’s available mass produced and frozen.

But I’m still gonna bake a Stouffer’s most of the time because it’s way less work.

And, based on recent events in Crimea, may be of limited effectiveness in any future conflict.