I'm in the USA in a house built pre-1900s. Our washing machine is in a nook off the kitchen (as in the same room, but in the corner). Growing up our washing machine was in the bathroom. From a plumbing standpoint it makes a lot of sense to have the washing machine in the same area as other plumbing.
Your spirit is there, but you have the wrong A state. It's Arkansas pulling this crap, not Alabama.
Oh Arkansas.... This is one of the many reasons I left my home state. I'm sadly not surprised to see this headline. This is also coming from a state that still has desegregation rulings on the books because even though the Little Rock Nine is a celebrated event - there are people who still oppose it. I am a product of that school system and am so happy my children won't be.
Anecdotal, but I remember them shipping in the white kids to my junior and senior high schools because of those rulings. It was also a running joke among us then students about where Arkansas fell in the overall education rankings for education - we were consistently in the bottom three.
Business Calendar (by Appgenix Software)
I have multiple Google calendars to keep track of pretty much everything; birthdays, anniversaries, bills, when school is in session (I have kids), scheduled days off, various appointments, etc. I've been using this since 2011/2012 with their first version, and moved over to the 2nd version after that came out. It gives me more control over how my calendar looks on my phone, I can easily toggle calendars and tasks on or off...
Honestly, I can't use another calendar app now. I love my color coded (you can change calendar colors in the app to any color you want) month at a glance calendar.
And I also can't recommend KWGT enough for widget making. I originally got Zooper to try to emulate Conky (from Linux), but Zooper stopped being developed. I have a lot of fun trying to get my widgets just the way I like them - even if my code is a mess.
You are not alone.
While a little annoying, they are what are known as HTML entities: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
& is used for ampersand (the and symbol, &) and is for non breaking space (a line break without a space between lines/paragraphs). The link I posted lists a lot of them.
Edit: & and & come out the same way in the comments! ಠ೧ಠ
My 12yo ASD child hates making eye contact. I've told him to either look at someone's nose or forehead because people will expect him to. It's sad that the world expects him to conform to it because he's "more normal" than his 7yo brother who also has been diagnosed with ASD. When you interact with 7yo you know he's a special needs child, but when you interact with 12yo you might think he's not on the spectrum. ... And I'm just over here with ADHD and major executive dysfunction. TL;DR eye contact is hard no matter what
I love my child. This is so true...
I grew up watching the 70s version. It's okay. It's strongly condensed, but I feel it keeps fairly true to the source.
I didn't know it was a thing until my second child got it in 2012. He had recently turned 1, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been (baby danger is for those 1 and younger). It took a while, but it cleared up. He was put on an emergency inhaler to help with the symptoms. I'm convinced that the RSV infection plus the fact that he was a small child (25th percentile for height and weight, but otherwise healthy) contributed to him developing asthma. His asthma doctor told me that is a very real possibility (there's no way to know for certain). He's gotten better as he's gotten older, but I'm forever on edge with new respiratory infections.