u/Individual99991

>In short, careful research was the first step in writing a successful essay, Smith wrote.

In this sentence, Smith actually wrote that careful research is the first step, and this rule has not expired at the time of my writing, so this makes more sense:

>In short, careful research is the first step in writing a successful essay, Smith wrote.

However, she didn't use those exact words so I can't put it in quotation marks. Is the second formulation OK?

Making two terrible things somehow worse.

>The page shows an article titled “He Feng Shan’s Last Visa”, which misspells his last name and compares Ho’s efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust with Yiyang offering refuge to Silicon Valley workers displaced by artificial intelligence.

Insane.

And 106 hours of playtime. Though not entirely fairly.

I'll be honest, my hitherto boundless enthusiasm for the game evaporated a little bit when I found out that I'd need to draft room after room to accumulate the Blue Memos. I hadn't been bothered by the RNG up to that point (the various tools I'd found had helped me finesse it to perfection for my needs), but that became such a chore that I just looked up which ones were essential online.

I also cheated a bit to find out where to look for the angels' names, because I hadn't taken those notes and the thought of scouring absolutely every room from scratch to piece it all together made me want to cry.

And when I got into the Atelier and discovered I'd have to do a billion Mora Jai boxes, I just gave up entirely and looked up the solution to both them and the subsequent route.

But I reckon that's fine, really. That final part is clearly for the hardcore puzzlers and people who love Mora Jai boxes (ugh!); I am neither. And I'd rather see the "true" ending, as underwhelming as it is, than just sack the game off - even though I think just dropping out at any of the other endings (Room 46, Throne of the Blue Prince, parlour puzzle) is also totally fine.

But anyone who genuinely figured out the whole thing from beginning to end with no outside help has my overwhelming admiration (and mild fear).

Anyway, best game ever. At least, until Dirigiblocks releases.

My dad is going to undergo chemotherapy in a month or so, and I (US resident, dual UK-US citizen) want to go back for the duration to help out him and my mum.

Thankfully I can work from abroad, and my company is fine with it. But I don't know what tax issues this may create. It's unclear how long his chemo will take, but it can run to 6-8 months, from what I understand.

Presumably I'll be on the hook for UK taxes if I'm in the UK for a certain period, but I'm not sure how long that period is, how I would pay it, how much it's likely to be, or even how they would know.

All help gratefully appreciated, thank you!

...I really have no idea what to expect, in terms of when it would be best to be there, and what would be most useful.

He's got Stage IV prostate cancer - it's spread to his bones, but the doctors are talking about using a particular kind of chemo (don't know which kind, but it's for his specific situation) to knock it into remission. The course should start in 4-5 weeks, and in the meantime he's on hormone therapy to strangle the prostate cancer. He's in his early 70s and is otherwise fit and active (relative to an old British man). My mother is quite frail, so is limited in how much she can help him.

I'm lucky in that I work from home full time, and my boss has been incredibly understanding and has said I can work from the UK for an extended period (I'm a dual US citizen, so no worries about returning), so I plan to go back for as long as possible to help out. My sister lives close to my parents, but she's got kids and I don't want her run ragged dealing with my mum and dad (who are like big kids themselves these days) full time.

I don't yet know exactly when the chemo will begin, or what kind it is, what the schedule for it is or how long it's projected to go on for. I know the answers to these questions will help, but I don't have them yet.

So I guess my questions are:

1. If the chemo treatment is to go on longer than I'm able to stay there, would it be better to go later in the course or at the start? Or maybe split it so I'm there at the beginning and at the end?
2. I'll probably be staying at my parents' place. I'm picturing him vomiting and being quite weak, and I expect to help with that, but is that a 24/7 thing, or does it come and go?
3. He's quite a proud man, and is trying to keep a stiff upper lip; I can imagine this clashing somewhat with his physical issues. Although he has also seemed quite realistic about the conditions in our phone calls. Anyone have experience in negotiating this?
4. For those who've looked after parents going through chemo, what sort of things did you help them with? I'm expecting to be doing a lot of shopping, cooking (although his appetite will come and go, I expect), cleaning up (possibly vomit and other messes), driving him around and so on - what other things should I expect to do? Are there any things that aren't obvious?
5. What other things did you experience as a family member of someone going through chemo, and what advice do you have?

I'm just a bit adrift at the moment, so basically any insights you can give me would be super appreciated, thank you!

Next month I'm going to have to go back to the UK to help care for my dad, who'll be undergoing chemotherapy, including driving him around when he's not feeling well.

Unfortunately, his car is a manual, and I actually learned to drive over here on an automatic. While I did have some lessons on a manual gear car, I never passed my test (and it was ages ago).

I was hoping I could either pay for "lessons" from a local driving school, or else rent a manual and practise driving around at night when I wouldn't be in anyone's way, but apparently these cars are like gold dust in Westchester, if not the whole US!

Does anyone know of anywhere that offers either manual lessons or rentals? Thanks!

(If it's impossible then I'll just bite the bullet and rent an automatic out there, but obviously that's more expensive than just paying the extra to be on my dad's insurance.)

EDIT: Sorry, when I say quiet, I mean quiet bearing in mind that it's an AC unit. I know they're all noisy to some degree, but there are ones that have a background hum and there are ones that sound like an aircraft taking off. I want one that's as quiet as possible for a big refrigeration unit strapped to a fan.

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I live in the US, so I'm used to AC, but my dad is really struggling to sleep in the UK heatwave and is worried that an AC unit's noise might keep him awake at night (I'd argue he'll sleep better than if he's melting, but...).

Can anyone recommend a good, quiet free-standing AC unit (ie. not fixed into walls, no structural remodelling required)? One with a hose he can run out of the window (I see there are window seals that stop hot air from coming back in)?

His bedroom isn't that big (and is stuffed with shelves etc, so not a lot of airspace even then), probably 20x20 feet?

I built up a pretty elaborate version of my family tree on Ancestry, then somehow I seem to have replaced it with the one my mother made (and messed up, because she's not very tech-literate). Now when I go to my family tree, I only see my mother's.

Is the one I made lost forever? Can I get it back somehow?

I'm a UK-US dual citizen living in New York. My dad has just been diagnosed with advanced cancer, so I might have to go home to the UK for a bit to help him and my mum when he undergoes treatments. All that is TBC.

For now, I'm wondering how that would affect my taxes. I wouldn't be moving permanently to the UK, but if I stayed there for (say) a year or more, would I be "ordinarily resident" in the UK for tax reasons?

I work for a company based outside the US who pays through the US HR system TriNet. Our company's HR is always antsy about any changes to taxation, so it'd be nice to be able to assuage their worries by assuring them that they wouldn't have to do anything on their end - they could keep paying me through TriNet and I'd sort it all out when I filed taxes as normal. Is that the case?