u/BostonZamboni

Very long post...

Do you guys regularly volunteer?

Did you grow up in such a family, maybe everyone participating in some way? I did not.

It could be teaching underprivileged children, fostering pets, working at a pet or homeless shelter, delivering meals on wheels, at your church, senior help, road races for charity, teaching pottery, coaching youth sports, library help, computer tutoring, helping an lgbtq organization, teaching English to newcomers, regular beach and city organized cleanups, donating money to a college radio station or community newspaper, giving tours...maybe travelling internationally or locally for relief efforts.

Do you currently volunteer, or if not able to now due to age or whatever, you did so often over the years?

I've had a lifetime to do so. No excuses?!

&But...oddly and sadly, I really have no hobbies, talents or skills to share after all these years.& Shameful.

Sure, I think I'm "nice" and like to occasionally look for ways to help strangers and others in simple and little ways. Or as low income, donate $1 a couple times a week to beggars in the subway or street, or subway musicians, when few seem to. But they're maybe donating lots of money or time in major ways, so I can't judge them for not giving $1 or more to a beggar, right? Or they might have already given $1 earlier that day.

But...I have nothing to offically put on a resume or obituary.

My family didn't volunteer; it was never discussed or expected.

Even in high school and in a large university, volunteering didn't seem expected in my very small circle as a loner, although my college roomie was a volunteer (?) orderly while studying pre-med.

In recent decades, it seems expected to list several high school volunteer activities on college applications and later on professional job resumes? Maybe in some high-end urban circles even to be on a board at a museum or a charity.

Sure, one could volunteer 20 hours weekly helping a grandparent or neighbor or friend, but if not done and organized thru an agency or organization, one can't officially list it on a resume or obituary. But some here might think "Who cares"...right?

It seems some or many high school and college students, and even employees, do so because it's often expected (?), especially for advancement, right? Sonetimes that than for true generosity?

Do you guys inquire on dates if your guy volunteers, and in what form?

Does your partner have a history of volunteerism?

Or there are other ways to assess someone other than volunteering?

I religiously use the 311 app in my city or call public works in others if no app, for years, to report graffiti, debris, lights out, noises, dislodged bricks on sidewalks, broken or ill treees. I guess I'm volunteering in a way, but can't list it on a resume or obituary.

I might report 10 or even 50 things to the app on my occasional long strolls thru Boston. This has been going on for decades: occasionally calling the city's 311 to report an issue or two prior to apps, and now with the 311 app for over a decade, submitting at times dozens of photos with issues on a simple stroll in Boston. I enjoy it and feel I'm helping the city.

I've had various forms of distracting OCD since age 15 or so, noises and sights, but especially starting in my mid 20s. Yes, I've sought mental help and been given meds here and there over the years, but haven't bothered in a long time. I just try to manage live with it.

So with OCD, reporting on the 311 app comes naturally to me and I enjoy it...and I'll stop and take time to do it, even actively checking and looking to report things. After all, OCD is a checking disease.

But...am I really volunteering? After all, I'm often doing it not just for the city but for ME as well. Doesn't some volunteerung involve doing unpleasant things just for others, not just for self gratification? Cleaning animal shelter cages, bedpans, shoveling a neighbor's driveway or sidewalk regularly, helping friends move heavy furniture down the stairs to a U-Haul...

Am I making too much an issue of my lack of volunteering, feeling unusually worthless and selfish and guilty for a lifetime of this?

Or...just don't worry, just do what I can...and look for and enjoy the little daily or regular things I can do for strangers, friends, family and neighbors? One doesn't need verification on a resume or obituary to be useful to society, correct?

I don't live in Colorado but may move to an income-based senior apartment in Denver when I get to the top of the waitlist of 2 to 8 months.

I am often online reading the news, even subscribe to a couple online newspapers. But still like the print version on Sundays.

Are Westword and your lgbtq Outfront papers now just online?

I assume the Denver Post still prints daily? Because the Newark Star-Ledger and Atlanta Journal-Constituton recently stopped print editions, just online nowadays...any such plans for the Denver Post?

Any neighborhoods like Capitol Hill publish a free weekly print newspaper? Here in Boston, we still have several free weeklies or monthlies for several neighborhoods.

Oh, how much is the print copy of the daily and Sunday Denver Post? The Boston Globe is $4 daily, $6 Sundays.

Is the national print edition of the Sunday New York Times, maybe even daily, even available at select stores in the area?

Thanks.

It's a repeat at 12:50 am on a Saturday, a few hours after the Sixers-Knicks game 3.

I live in Boston, but spent my adolescence in the 70s in south Jersey, so still follow the Flyers and Sixers...and have enjoyed tuning in overnights in these playoffs for live shows.

I checked the audacy.com schedule and it's supposed to be live til 1:59 am. Cherry/Charry is listed as the host tonight?

Then best of shows til 7 am. But it's a best of now.

Tomorrow night, same thing with best of shows overnight.

So only Monday to Thursday overnights are live and local? And 97.5 The Fanatic is always syndicated overnights?

Here in Boston, neither sports radio station is local overnight. Just syndicated after 10 pm or 11 pm depending if it's baseball season, then 98 5 The Sports Hub goes live weeknights to 11 pm. Weekends are live and local sports talk on both til about 5 pm, if no local team is on.

Hmmm...it seems WFAN 660 AM in NYC is the only sports radio station in America that's live and local overnight? I'll have to tune in there now to get some live game 3 talk -- but it'll be Knicks fans rejoicing.

Uggh.

Not sure when I began noticing them. Maybe 5-10 yeas ago.

Is it common when one hits age 60 or so to start seeing them? I always equated them with folks much, much older.

Any remedy? Can a dermatologist help in any way?

Just don't worry about it? (But I do and will)

Long post...

I realize in the past few years, AirBnBs in different cities and towns seem to maybe have their own rules regarding minimun stays. It's changed from when they first burst on the scene.

Especially on popular holiday weekends in certain places, one must rent for more than the long weekend in order to deter wild group parties onsite?

But has anyone here rented for 6 months, maybe a year, especially if relocating or scouting an area? I assume it's cheaper than a hotel or motel in most cases, depending on amenities and size?

I have bad credit, so an apt. is out of the question.

Maybe an AirBnb is still cheaper nowadays than one of those Exrended Stay America places?

Although, reviews online as of last year when I last checked seem to indicate AirBnBs are nowhere the value they were when the concept was new...some or most folks seem to say might as well get a moderare hotel which can sometimes be about the same price?

I believe the AirBnB host doesn't check credit for short stays...but maybe the specific hosts might independently do so for very long stays, even though AirBnB itself, I think, doesn't do a check even for long stays?

I went to his wedding and gave a monetary gift.

But we're not super close.

He lives 7 miles away but I've never been invited over to socialize or for a meal. I can-t host in my studio apt. and don't feel comfortable asking him to take time to meet for lunch. I see him for Christmas Eve and a family birthday or two each yesr...but no deep conversations.

I text him a couple times each month with restaurant suggestions for him and his wife or just inquire about work, and he texts a response.

Is no acknowledgement common, or most of you would at least mail a greeting card, maybe a $50 giftcard for local ice cream or whatever?

I've been listening online from Boston for Sixers and Flyers talk the past couple weeks. I lived in south Jersry in my adolescence in the 70s..

At 10:40 pm on Sunday, WIP is local and live, but I think the other sports station is syndicated on weekends at night (and weeknights? after 6 pm or so.

I checked the 97.5 fm schedule, but it doesn't seem detailed enough for its weekend lineup unlike WIP. I think WIP airs local best of repeats overnight on Saturday and Sunday, but live on weeknights with various male hosts depending on the night.

Here in Boston, self-proclaimed "greatest sports city in the world," depending on the station and season, we don't have local after 10 pm, 11 pm or 12 am weeknights, just syndicated.

I think WFAN 660 AM in NYC is 24/7 live and local, save perhaps for an hour or two of 6 am community programming on weekends?