She could say no, but she won’t. Because of the implication.

Will I crush my enemies? See them driven before me? Hear the lamentations of their women?

You would also say it “five or so eggs”. The “or so” gets tied directly to the number, not the eggs.

I feel like that’s context dependent. Or maybe regional.

I’d certainly say “I need 30 or so feet of rope”.

But if asked “how much rope do you need?” My answer would be “30 feet or so”.

My wife and I love going to the theater. We have a couple of local playhouses, so therefore options, but still find it difficult to go with any regularity.

I think the last thing we saw was Primary Trust in 2024 (!! I can’t believe it’s been that long)

Me too!

Although someone (steam maybe? I don’t remember) updated their system and won’t take it anymore. So now it’s 1930-01-01.

You should try it. It’s like I’m 30 years younger!

I think it would be more interesting if you could change at will. Wake up and pick your gender like you pick your outfit for the day.

Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn’t work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn’t be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren’t backups unless they’re tested.