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On a final note, speaking of your kids growing up and granting them their independence, the alternative is truly horrifying. One member of Impus Major's peer group is 18 and:
- Is not allowed to drive
- Is not allowed to use public transportation
- Is not allowed to cook
- Just got in trouble for lighting a candle when no one else was in the house.This person is not handicapped. It's just nightmarish parents who believe that they're protecting their child, when what they're really doing is preventing that child from ever becoming a functional adult.
Really, really scary s***.
I live in a big collega/university city.
You see them every year. Finally from under their parents thumb. They try all the things, and it generally goes badly. Luckily most of them learn quick.
There’s a reason, “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble” is a thing.
EDIT: Too perfect.
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Aaaaaaand... crappy car for the win #2 (I consider "cheap insurance" and "not paying for body work" pretty much equivalent):
Impus Major admitted last night that while dropping a friend off, he'd accidentally scraped the car against a stone wall, but there was "no visible damage" to the car.
Well, make that, "No visible damage at night," along with, "Minor enough damage that it blends in well with all the other scrapes and dents."
So yeah, Impus Major scraped the car along a wall last night for his second collision with a stationary object. And this time, since it's just cosmetic damage to an already-crappy car, we don't even have to pay attention, much less report it to anyone. (The wall was unsurprisingly unharmed by the encounter.)
Woot!
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I mentioned the first one: A week into his driver training he took a right turn too sharply and hit the back tire against the curb, popping it and revealing to us that we desperately needed new tires.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHI got the line from 3rd Rock From The Sun. "It's okay, Dick, I don't mind being the woman. I can handle the catcalls and punitive underwear, because when I think of the alternative, I just have to laugh!"....punitive undergarments?Christmas was a rousing success!
Crookshanks is now substantially richer in llamas, unicorns, and llama unicorns. Also I guess she joined Jughead's gang, which I didn't know he was in a gang, but apparently he's hardcore now, I blame rap music.
Tiny T-Rex is now able to reenact several key battles between Optimus Prime and Megatron with numerous fan fiction revisions ("I know every time they fight they're supposed to die, but that's not how I roll").
The General got the high end Victoria's Secret bathrobe she's wanted for years (and all I had to do was buy her a bunch of punitive undergarments, win-win!), Bohemian Rhapsody (the movie) and a couple of books she's had her eye on.
I got the Rise of the Runelords pawn set, so even if we don't play it I have more pawns of people in peacock regalia then I know what to do with.
An Excruciating Brassiere would make for a good cursed magical item.
Or perhaps not...
Step one. Go winter camping in your panel van with no generator when it's ten degrees F.
Step two. Decide to leave your underwire brassiere hanging from a clothes hook against the steel wall, instead of putting it down at the bottom of your sleeping bag as is sensible, because you don't want it to smell like Old Sleeping Bag.Step three. Put it on in the morning.
What?
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Perhaps you need to consult with George Miller on armoring the car if he's going to keep hitting stationary objects (which are always the last object you expect to hit).
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On a final note, speaking of your kids growing up and granting them their independence, the alternative is truly horrifying. One member of Impus Major's peer group is 18 and:
- Is not allowed to drive
- Is not allowed to use public transportation
- Is not allowed to cook
- Just got in trouble for lighting a candle when no one else was in the house.This person is not handicapped. It's just nightmarish parents who believe that they're protecting their child, when what they're really doing is preventing that child from ever becoming a functional adult.
Really, really scary s***.
I live in a big collega/university city.
You see them every year. Finally from under their parents thumb. They try all the things, and it generally goes badly. Luckily most of them learn quick.There’s a reason, “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble” is a thing.
EDIT: Too perfect.
Nice.
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Aaaaaaand... crappy car for the win #2 (I consider "cheap insurance" and "not paying for body work" pretty much equivalent):
Impus Major admitted last night that while dropping a friend off, he'd accidentally scraped the car against a stone wall, but there was "no visible damage" to the car.
Well, make that, "No visible damage at night," along with, "Minor enough damage that it blends in well with all the other scrapes and dents."
So yeah, Impus Major scraped the car along a wall last night for his second collision with a stationary object. And this time, since it's just cosmetic damage to an already-crappy car, we don't even have to pay attention, much less report it to anyone. (The wall was unsurprisingly unharmed by the encounter.)
Woot!
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I mentioned the first one: A week into his driver training he took a right turn too sharply and hit the back tire against the curb, popping it and revealing to us that we desperately needed new tires.
Been there before.
Glad the not so little guy is okay.
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousandsWhat's funny is that when I was a college professor I never even bothered with attendance after the mandatory first 2 weeks.
I told the kids, "Either you or your parents are paying for you to be here. If you honestly think you can pass without coming to class, then more power to you; I'm not your baby-sitter. But if you don't come to class and you fail, don't come crying to me."
In 8 years I only ever had one student who failed because she didn't show up often enough and actually cared.
Attendance is one of those things that let me know if I was dealing with a professor or a tyrant.
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Also I'm currently in the ER with chest pain. It's probably just muscle strain, but holy carp the pain without pain killers is unbelievable. Also, not being able to breathe properly is no fun.So it turns out I have pneumonia and pericarditis. (Inflammation of the heart-sack. Didn't even know heart-sacks are a thing.)
So I'm back at the hospital proper, again, and taking sweet sweet painkillers. Sadly not enough to completely kill the pain or make me loopy, but I suppose my first adventure in addiction will have to wait.
Dammit man, be careful. You are the first person I met from these message boards. I dont want to lose you in this way. Or any way, really, but still.
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** spoiler omitted **...
what are you talking about? I HATE blue laws.
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Also I'm currently in the ER with chest pain. It's probably just muscle strain, but holy carp the pain without pain killers is unbelievable. Also, not being able to breathe properly is no fun.So it turns out I have pneumonia and pericarditis. (Inflammation of the heart-sack. Didn't even know heart-sacks are a thing.)
So I'm back at the hospital proper, again, and taking sweet sweet painkillers. Sadly not enough to completely kill the pain or make me loopy, but I suppose my first adventure in addiction will have to wait.
Ow man that sucks.
I hope you feel better soon.Also, if you have questions about the heart-sack, I can answer a lot. (its a brilliant piece of your body)
Is there anything you DON'T know?
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** spoiler omitted **...what are you talking about? I HATE blue laws.
I was simply pointing out that I understood their purported purpose when many of them were passed in the 1970s: In O'Connor v. Donaldson in 1975, the Supreme Court made it illegal to hold the mentally impaired against their will. A lot of well-meaning politicians jumped on the "criminalizing self-destructive behavior" bandwagon under the auspices of, "If we can't hold them against their will, we'll make them criminals so we can, and then we'll get them the treatment they need."
And of course the second part of that never materialized because of budgetary shortfalls, so we just criminalized self-destructive behavior and gave no hope of treatment.
The 1980s were an ugly, ugly time for drug users...
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I know. I was there.
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EDIT: I'm pretty sure I mentioned the first one: A week into his driver training he took a right turn too sharply and hit the back tire against the curb, popping it and revealing to us that we desperately needed new tires.
Something similar happened to me about a year ago with my old car, I swerved because of something some idiot did in the lane next to me, ran into the curb, and absolutely shredded my front-passenger tire. Thankfully I was less than a block from Wal-Mart and could limp my way to the auto department, and leave the car there for the day to have the tire replaced and walk just back across the street to the office.
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I know. I was there.
Are you admitting you're old?
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Speaking of old, here's yet another ode to the passage of time: Way, way back before we bought this house (so pre-2002), I bought myself a Fellowes cross-cut shredder at Costco. As a borderline obsessive-compulsive, I keep 10 years of records of everything: Medical, taxes, repairs, expenses, etc. After 10 years, I shred them.
So, every December and January, I shred hundreds and hundreds of documents. Over the rest of the year, I shred hundreds more. My little workhorse Fellowes took nearly (if not over) 20 years of this abuse, and finally this year gave up the ghost not because of a motor failure, but because the plastic around the feed was so eroded from so many years of use that paper shreds were feeding back upwards and jamming things.
If I had to guess, I'd say that little thing shredded somewhere around 100,000 pages, and possibly a bit more. Not bad for an $80 shredder.
This morning I (of course) ordered a few Fellowes.
And all I can think is, "It's been 20 years. They're probably just like Craftsman and are now utter crap and living off their reputation."
But it was still one of the highest-rated shredders available, so we'll see whether it lives up to its ancestor's legacy.
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I get to go to my family Christmas party now, oh joy.
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Thanks to Christmas, I now have Kingmaker, Dragon Age Inquisition, and Skyrim...all loaded up with DLC galore. Yeah, they're all kinda old, but they run on my laptop swell, and are classics.
I had the week of Christmas off, and will likely be off until New Year's. Sadly, I am only paid off for Christmas itself, but there's just not enough work until after the new year at my job. :-(
We are floating on without being behind on bills (yet), which is a blessing compared to last year, but March is getting ever closer, and we're wondering how we will be able to afford maternity time. I have a week of vacation I can use, but Tala...not so much. And if she has a C-Section or any other complications - it can mean a lot of time out of work.
Tala's dad lives in town when we end up needing babysitters, as do two uncles and four cousins, but...dude, you need that "just got born, let me get to know who this little person is, and bond with them, and let that oxytocin flow like a mofo" time.
In other news, I lost 10lbs in the last two weeks, making me now 10lbs less than the fattest I've been in my life! You know, it sounds sarcasticly depressed, but honestly - at least I hit a point and freaking stopped.
Drinking only water goes a long way. As does reverting to vegetarianism. (I was one for 8 years until about 6 months before my divorce, and at that point was about 50lbs lighter than currently - going back to meat caused me to gain a LOT of weight in the last 3 years - so f#$& it - meat tastes delicious, but high blood pressure and being fat suck.)
I'm not making Tala stop eating meat, but she keeps *trying* to join me - but her entire mindset for food is "big chunks of meet surrounded by everything else that is a side" so she has no idea how to shop for vegetarian meals - she just gets fake crap to replace it, which - fake meat is not that great (it's ok, but it's better to just make a meal designed NOT to have it in the first place, like eggplant parm, or bean burritos), so I gotta do the food shopping from now on.
So in short, I'm like...no longer stewing in a black hole hiding from the world, growing fatter, lazier, and generally turning into Vagrant the Hutt. Despite my nature to do so.
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I get to go to my family Christmas party now, oh joy.
I'm sorry, cap. I know your brothers all suck. But...you did say a few times your dad was cool. Can't you grab a beer/joint/etc with him and talk s@%# about your brothers until it's over?
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Oh my god! My brother is making everyone watch his play he recorded, of a play he was in from a tiny ass town this n da nort.
And to top it off he has tornado footage on his phone to show everyone.
Also, if someone else mentions that it snowed in Los Angeles again, I'm not responsible for what happens.
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I get to go to my family Christmas party now, oh joy.I'm sorry, cap. I know your brothers all suck. But...you did say a few times your dad was cool. Can't you grab a beer/joint/etc with him and talk s&&* about your brothers until it's over?
My dad is cool, we usually hide in the same place during family gatherings.
Unfortunately since mon passed away everyone else has picked him to fill the social void and he's too nice to retreat.
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I'm pretty sure the "baked" salmon is raw.
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Has it only been an hour?
F$&&.
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You could offer to do dishes. Head down, back turned toward everyone, no need to converse. Play with the bubbles, use a spoon as a warping mirror to see faces in, etc.
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So, remember how I keep going off on how great the teen generation is?
Today Stoner Boy came over, took Impus Major out to lunch, then apologized to all of us for making us worry about him last night.
Class act all the way... (other than spending 70 minutes in the bathroom last night, but we'll let that one slide...)
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You could offer to do dishes. Head down, back turned toward everyone, no need to converse. Play with the bubbles, use a spoon as a warping mirror to see faces in, etc.
I have dishes at home that need doing.
Also, dad already did them.
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My brother and his wife are putting on a clinic about how to not treat your children.
I don't care how nicely you say something mean, it's still mean.
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I mean, seriously, who wants to watch a small town theater production on DVD.
Life is too short for b+*#~$$% like that.
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I mean, seriously, who wants to watch a small town theater production on DVD.
Life is too short for b$#$@!!$ like that.
Nobody. Not even the guy making you watch it. He just wants you to want to.
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You could offer to do dishes. Head down, back turned toward everyone, no need to converse. Play with the bubbles, use a spoon as a warping mirror to see faces in, etc.I have dishes at home that need doing.
Also, dad already did them.
Pass LOTS of bad gas.
Like...next gathering, eat a bowl of turnips, broccoli, and beans, covered with hot sauce before you go. Force them out loudly. Do not apologize. Comment on how bad they are. Name them after your brothers for bonus points. Should get rid of most folks.
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Nobody. Not even the guy making you watch it. He just wants you to want to.I mean, seriously, who wants to watch a small town theater production on DVD.
Life is too short for b$#$@!!$ like that.
That's the f$*!ed up part, he's sitting there providing commentary!
I don't sit for that s@$~.
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Not gonna lie, I get some kind of weird catharsis out of reading Cap's ranty posts about his family.
I guess because so many things about them remind me of my own.
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Also, if you have questions about the heart-sack, I can answer a lot. (its a brilliant piece of your body)
Yes please, starting with "What is the purpose of the heart-sack?"
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Not gonna lie, I get some kind of weird catharsis out of reading Cap's ranty posts about his family.
I guess because so many things about them remind me of my own.
I feel so lucky reading Cap's family rants. I like pretty much everyone is my entire extended family, I can talk politics and religion at least civilly with all of them, and I'm so bummed that I missed our Xmas gathering this year. (Would have missed it even pneumonia notwithstanding, I can realistically only get to the east coast once a year.)
It must absolutely suuuck to have a family that doesn't fit.
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Three years old is too young to give your child a manbun.
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Also, apparently there is infected fluid sitting below my left lung. So today they shoved a tube into my side to drain it out. And it will remain in my side for a couple of days. They doped me up with a new painkiller for the procedure, but sadly it just made me drowsy.
If I were a diary-writing guy, this kind of stuff would probably make a great entry.
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I got a ceramic baking stone (the feel of ceramic makes my teeth curl), a homemade candle (I have almost no sense of smell), some s*##ty Yahtzee like game (I've always hated dice games, always), cherry cordials (my least favorite chocolate candy) and bath salts, because apparently I changed my name from Captain Yesterday to Florida Man without realizing it.
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I reached my limit, the kids are on their own.
We'd arranged for them to spend the night beforehand.
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Three years old is too young to give your child a manbun.
Any old is too young to give your child a man-bun, or to have a man-bun, for that matter, but still... Wow yikes.
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I got a ceramic baking stone (the feel of ceramic makes my teeth curl),
REALLY? Wow.
some s%*@ty Yahtzee like game (I've always hated dice games, always)
then what are you doing playing Starfinder?
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Not gonna lie, I get some kind of weird catharsis out of reading Cap's ranty posts about his family.
I guess because so many things about them remind me of my own.
I feel so lucky reading Cap's family rants. I like pretty much everyone is my entire extended family, I can talk politics and religion at least civilly with all of them, and I'm so bummed that I missed our Xmas gathering this year. (Would have missed it even pneumonia notwithstanding, I can realistically only get to the east coast once a year.)
It must absolutely suuuck to have a family that doesn't fit.
As my sister Eve and I say to each other , "I'm sorry, I don't mean to mock your pain, but I really needed to laugh and you were convenient."
I propose Cap stay with his family for another day and a half to provide our Mr. Sunrise with diversion in the hospital.
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Also, if you have questions about the heart-sack, I can answer a lot. (its a brilliant piece of your body)Yes please, starting with "What is the purpose of the heart-sack?"
To keep blood from pooling in your shoes?
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Not gonna lie, I get some kind of weird catharsis out of reading Cap's ranty posts about his family.
I guess because so many things about them remind me of my own.
I feel so lucky reading Cap's family rants. I like pretty much everyone is my entire extended family, I can talk politics and religion at least civilly with all of them, and I'm so bummed that I missed our Xmas gathering this year. (Would have missed it even pneumonia notwithstanding, I can realistically only get to the east coast once a year.)
It must absolutely suuuck to have a family that doesn't fit.
As my sister Eve and I say to each other , "I'm sorry, I don't mean to mock your pain, but I really needed to laugh and you were convenient."
I propose Cap stay with his family for another day and a half to provide our Mr. Sunrise with diversion in the hospital.
Only if I can bring my favorite saw and shovel! And maybe one way tickets to a non extraditional country afterwards.
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Grampy Yesterday (to my brother with the play on video): You can play it later after everyone has left if you want
Yesterday's Brother (oblivious): Oh no, that's okay, I'll just pause it until everyone has a seat, I wouldn't want anyone to miss anything!
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wowsers,
Cap's family adventures are SO much more 'exciting' than mine.
Of course I actually LIKE my family, but they Do have their idiot-sychrocies, and we do tend to know how to push the others buttons,...
So far so good, saw the new Star Wars movie today with most of them (We were waiting til we got together with them. Everyone ELSE didnt wait of course!) ;P
Well, we'll see how long this lasts. Usually by the time we have to return home, they are ready to wave bye to us too. :P
If I miss ya, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!
:)
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Also I'm currently in the ER with chest pain. It's probably just muscle strain, but holy carp the pain without pain killers is unbelievable. Also, not being able to breathe properly is no fun.So it turns out I have pneumonia and pericarditis. (Inflammation of the heart-sack. Didn't even know heart-sacks are a thing.)
So I'm back at the hospital proper, again, and taking sweet sweet painkillers. Sadly not enough to completely kill the pain or make me loopy, but I suppose my first adventure in addiction will have to wait.
This is terrible. Praying for you, my dude!
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Also, if you have questions about the heart-sack, I can answer a lot. (its a brilliant piece of your body)Yes please, starting with "What is the purpose of the heart-sack?"
Biology story time!
The heart sac is a marvelous piece of biological engineering.
The heart sac is also called the pericardium. It is double-walled, containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels.
The sac has two layers, a serous layer and a fibrous layer. It encloses the heart cavity which contains pericardial fluid.
The fluid is your own heart-lubricant. It reduces friction within the heart sac by lubricating its surface allowing the membranes to glide over each other with each heart beat.
The sac and the fluid are also a bit of a shock absober.
This is the general overview. I can go deeper if you want to.
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