Hahaha outstanding

I miss you too, but you're having fun with Kevin and Duffy!

So really when YOU'RE asking someone for help, you're giving THEM happier lives. How kind of you!

But what so many Americans either forget or just don't know is that most people not only LIKE helping, but get significant benefits themselves - lower blood pressure, stronger immune system, a flood of lovely brain chemicals (serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin, oh my!), and lots more.

For example, post-surgery. Lots of people have offered generalized help - I've taken several of them up on it: picking up my meds from the pharmacy, returning a library book, taking care of Banjo, and picking up stuff I've dropped on the floor (I can't bend over and apparently I drop things a LOT).

I have never seen Time Bandits! Unfortunately my painkillers made me barf, so I'm just Tylenol-ing it up.

Depends on how much money she has, probably

Noooooooo

I hope she just enters a guilty plea and gets it over with already.

My ex-husband is a degreeless geek and there's nobody smarter.

Hard. Same.

systems thinking, while self-taught folks brought out of the box solutions because often learned every in and out of a code, project, documentation convention, language, etc., so they knew what was possible in ways textbooks didn't venture into.

Mmk.

I had a really fascinating discussion with a CIO about recruitment once - he had a philosophy that a successful IT team/department purposefully had people with degrees and people without. The theory being even though degrees become obsolete relatively quickly, they tend to teach big picture/

I have not found that in my career, but your experience is your experience.