Loved him on Diff'rent Strokes. I thought he was dead, someone update this please and thank you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Coleman

yeah that or they're among the too-large town admin and employee population that benefits from the bloated and corrupt system

It's clear and obvious CT needs to move to county-based governance, for all the reasons the article states. Nice to see this kind of wisdom rising. It'd be nicer, not to mention better for all Connecticut residents, to see it acted upon.

aaaaah, there ya go. Yeah okay, well there might be fewer people in one of those Connecticut Long Island Sound beach towns, although I've seen them pretty jammed up, too.

Be ready for gray sand, cold, kinda murky water, average food with the occasional stand-out place, and local town rules that might make for rare and/or expensive parking. You might luck into a craft brewery with food trucks parked out front, best of all worlds.

Have fun regardless. Wish I lived in the UK. I know, I know. Still. Wish I did.

Wow that was a weird suggestion on their part. If you're going to USA northeast coast and want beach, why not go to Cape Cod, if the weather's warm enough. Hit Provincetown, the beaches etc. Nice night life there in season, weekends during May and then most nights starting the end of May, Labor Day or whatever that holiday is.

If beach ain't such a thing, go Boston. Fun place to hang. Great food, night life. Plenty of everything. Swell town.

Failing that, NYC.

I hope you guys have a great time regardless.

Interesting inclusion of a wind-up vibrator in the D, but that factory closed down in the 1940's. Come on people that's hilarious.

yeah but it's next to a comics joint so like you're gold on the 2 days the comics joint is open

you might consider calling Rheem if you haven't yet. Even if it's not still on warranty. They might have something useful to tell you about this problem.

Also they have a Twitter account. Often it's for crap like this, https://twitter.com/rheem_water - maybe if you tweet over there they'll have something to tell you.

fwiw I have a water tank with a very slow leak. Different situation I realize; still. I called the company with the model info and they talked me through pressurizing it. Saving me $1200 replacement cost. fwiw. ymmv.

She did not want to get with you. GET OVER IT.

No one's going to trace her marker plate to get her contact info for you. GET OVER IT.

STOP BEING STALKY.

thanks

Last time I tried to get Comcast to just give me internet without TV, they told me they cost the same: TV + Internet for $X, just Internet also for $X. fwiw.

Enjoy your feelings. When you're up on a ladder painting your house for the third or fourth time in 20 years, or shelling out thousands for someone else to do it, that party sound you hear will be the rest of Connecticut and the majority of America's home-owning population enjoying the sweet appearance, environmental sanity, and worry-free convenience of well-made siding.

Normal. As noted below, the cluster of 70-degree days was abnormal, but I don't believe it was anomalously so.

The lake-effect snow up in Buffalo is also, to my understanding, not extraordinary.

edit: Downvoting dingdongs, anthropogenic global warming is real. I never said and would never say otherwise. These events aren't proof of it. There's plenty of drying rivers, melted glaciers, and serious meteorological havoc going on worldwide to support agw without flinching at a rare cluster of warm days in November. In CT we've had 60's in January in the distant past. Snow in May, again in the distant past; not a storm, just snow. Stop twitching.

That's the big challenge with landscape painting right on the spot. Everything changes constantly. The Impressionists dealt with the same thing. I haven't worked that way in a long time, and I may have to start again, inspired by what you're doing.

Part of it for me will be 'just getting started,' as in trying not to be too picky about a scene before starting. Out on the Cape I've seen painters a lot of times just sort of in front of anything, and the scene doesn't look super perfect -- and I think it's likely because if I wait for the too perfect I'll never find it, just talk myself out of starting. fwiw. Any advice?

Anyway thanks for the inspiration.

No she's def picked up. Her color sense has gained all kinds of dimension, and she's got this wonderful sense of touch that comes out in things like the way she handles leaves, tree branches and so forth. The painting before this had sun coming through a tree and it almost made you squint, the way she handled the light. I'm hoping she sells these things, it'd be a nice move.

!!!! It's almost seamless. Your eye for color is like right on. And of course your sense of touch is terrific. Good going. Have you tried selling these at galleries yet?

River's Edge, Avon

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Paul Davis Restoration out of West Hartford.

Thanks for that clarification /u/fatherfatpants -- yes you can start under for example a DSAP - District Shortage Area Permit - and have a bachelor's only, but then you still have to go through their intensive certification program (it was called BEST when I went through it, not sure what it's called now) and you're expected to get your Masters within a few years. It's intense. Just teaching, doing it well, with all the reflection etc involved, is exhausting in and of itself.

Totally worth it though.

Additionally, public schools require teachers to have master's degrees, to complete intensive programs to attain certification, to earn CEU's through continued staff development throughout their careers, and to teach to established skills standards.

Private schools make no such requirements of their teachers.

The one private school requirement I've seen, which is never spoken, is that the applicant come from a private school background. No Townies Need Apply.

Ask this guy what to do. http://www.ctdogbitelawyer.com/?keyword=dog%20bite%20attorney&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqc6aBhC4ARIsAN06NmOabpKhD2Uz_EqPNbqYUpJp_PnGESjGyUeBWeaO1fnOEGlfUU2u2DgaAsx6EALw_wcB

Thanks Zebra. Nice to hear the occasional voice of sanity here on Reddit, where kiddies and trolls prevail. cheers -

A DEEP guy told me the reason we're seeing more and more bears in CT is because NY and MA have bear hunting season and hunting pressure drives them into Connecticut. Open and shut.

He added that DEEP has agitated for a bear hunting season with the legislature for years now. This past session they lost by only a couple votes.