I far prefer it when someone refers to themselves as the parent of a pet over when someone refers to the pet as a kid.

Ideally neither, but one is less off-putting than the other, IMHO.

… g?

I still remember looking up alt codes on the character map.

I haven’t had to represent degrees in decades, but for some reason I remembered the code being 0961. According to this page it was 0176. What a classic blunder!

It’s been that long?

That’s depressing for a few reasons

Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.