*gets dressed* (edit; well that’s a delayed post!)
Re: parenting teens
There’s a show about that: Cobra Kai
:V
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Don't get me started on parenting teenagers.
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I made a joke.
ALL (DE) messaged me about her shopping, saying she now had fish fingers coming out of her ears.
I messaged her back, saying if that was the case, she should put them back in!!!!!!!!
Ha
ha.
*cough*
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Yeah, my huge issue right now is watching Impus Minor being a normal teenager.
Which is:
(1) Get assigned 3-4 assignments per day. With each assignment taking about half an hour, and only 4 hours of school time, I think this isn't an unreasonable load.
(2) Instead of actually doing any of the assignments the day they're assigned, complain incessantly about his workload and how tired he is. He spends at least 30-45 minutes a day complaining about how exhausted he is. Which is more than he spends on his homework.
(3) Once the homework is all nice and piled up on Friday, point out the impossibility of doing that many assignments in a single day, throw up his hands and declare the task impossible and the teachers unreasonable.
As a functional, semi-obsessive-compulsive adult, I want to be enraged. I want to shake him and yell at him and tell him what a fool he is, and to just frigging shape up and do the work when it's assigned.
As a human being with a memory, I remember that I was exactly like that when I was his age, and I feel horrible that I can't do more to support him.
Next week I'm trying "assignment post-its".
"Do these two assignments today and call yourself done."
SOoooooo aggravating... and SOooooo human!
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I did ask for the defective air sensor of the car.
When the polish mechanic asked me (in bad german) why, I told him so I could ritually burn it once we got home.
He found that reasonable.(since the b%$$% ass component got us stranded in rural poland on a sunday)
Where? When?
Also, been there, done that, though it was usually... v-belt (?), not air sensor. It was in the eighties so mom's tights occasionally were harnessed as temporary belt so we could get back home.
This was back in oktober 2018 on the way back from Książ Castle, near Wałbrzych
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Yeah, my huge issue right now is watching Impus Minor being a normal teenager.
Which is:
(1) Get assigned 3-4 assignments per day. With each assignment taking about half an hour, and only 4 hours of school time, I think this isn't an unreasonable load.(2) Instead of actually doing any of the assignments the day they're assigned, complain incessantly about his workload and how tired he is. He spends at least 30-45 minutes a day complaining about how exhausted he is. Which is more than he spends on his homework.
(3) Once the homework is all nice and piled up on Friday, point out the impossibility of doing that many assignments in a single day, throw up his hands and declare the task impossible and the teachers unreasonable.
As a functional, semi-obsessive-compulsive adult, I want to be enraged. I want to shake him and yell at him and tell him what a fool he is, and to just frigging shape up and do the work when it's assigned.
As a human being with a memory, I remember that I was exactly like that when I was his age, and I feel horrible that I can't do more to support him.
Next week I'm trying "assignment post-its".
"Do these two assignments today and call yourself done."
SOoooooo aggravating... and SOooooo human!
I was never like that but my brother was and I did not get it because I always did my homework the day it was assigned and I had a wonderfull stress free weekend while he did nothing and then tried to do it all at once on sunday evening.
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I did not succeed in a school environment, all my fault.
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*gets dressed* (edit; well that’s a delayed post!)Pants thief identified.
So now, if you're at the top of the page, Tacticslion stole your trousers?
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But, I don't usually wear trousers..
*gets dressed* (edit; well that’s a delayed post!)Pants thief identified.
I mean, my life is basically:
the wizard of TOZ
... so you can't expect me to know who's pants I happen to find lying around! I can't keep up!
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I was never like that but my brother was and I did not get it because I always did my homework the day it was assigned and I had a wonderfull stress free weekend while he did nothing and then tried to do it all at once on sunday evening.Yeah, my huge issue right now is watching Impus Minor being a normal teenager.
Which is:
(1) Get assigned 3-4 assignments per day. With each assignment taking about half an hour, and only 4 hours of school time, I think this isn't an unreasonable load.(2) Instead of actually doing any of the assignments the day they're assigned, complain incessantly about his workload and how tired he is. He spends at least 30-45 minutes a day complaining about how exhausted he is. Which is more than he spends on his homework.
(3) Once the homework is all nice and piled up on Friday, point out the impossibility of doing that many assignments in a single day, throw up his hands and declare the task impossible and the teachers unreasonable.
As a functional, semi-obsessive-compulsive adult, I want to be enraged. I want to shake him and yell at him and tell him what a fool he is, and to just frigging shape up and do the work when it's assigned.
As a human being with a memory, I remember that I was exactly like that when I was his age, and I feel horrible that I can't do more to support him.
Next week I'm trying "assignment post-its".
"Do these two assignments today and call yourself done."
SOoooooo aggravating... and SOooooo human!
Oh, no. I *never* sat there at 10 at night, thinking, "Well, I could play for 2 more hours, sleep from 12-5, and then do my homework tomorrow morning. 5 hours of sleep is plenty, right?"
Never.
suspicious
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I did not succeed in a school environment, all my fault.
Weren't you homeschooled? I'd say that the environment is at least partly at fault too.
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But, I don't usually wear trousers..
Then you'll be safe, providing he isn't also a fiend for purloining kilts, or culottes, or cargo shorts.
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I did not succeed in a school environment, all my fault.Weren't you homeschooled? I'd say that the environment is at least partly at fault too.
Yeah, but my mom was an investigative reporter and my dad was a high school chemistry teacher.
They were not your typical home school parents.
But yes, I definitely would have benefited from public school if only to socialize more with other people as I did not relate to my brothers and I'm a pretty social person.
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The General and Tiny T-Rex doing math homework.
The General: .. Why?.. that's so stupid?!..
Tiny T-Rex (yelling futilely at his chromebook): Why would you do this to me?!!
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There is a math problem where if a cat costs 4 dollars how many cats can you get for a hundred dollars.
The General: Too many!! How are you going to feed that many cats!! My god, they'll shit everywhere!!!
the non-bureaucratic
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhow, tho, autocorrect.
HOW
>:I
I'm now having to take supplemental HIPAA training regarding COVID-19. Fine. I consider it unnecessary since as far as HIPAA is concerned medical information is medical information.
But.
This training starts with denoting the differences between COVID-19 and...wait for it...ebola.
WTF???
Ebola outbreak was the closest thing we had to this before and its still thr best thing we can compare it to.
There is a math problem where if a cat costs 4 dollars how many cats can you get for a hundred dollars.
The General: Too many!! How are you going to feed that many cats!! My god, they'll s*#% everywhere!!!
CATS FOREVER
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Holy cow, Ghost of Tsushima!
A truly magnificent display of artistry!
This, this is how a video game is done right!
2020 sucks. I would love for it to be over but I worry that 2021 is going to be worse.
2020 sucks. I would love for it to be over but I worry that 2021 is going to be worse.
i have waited for 2021 since 1978.
Ebola outbreak was the closest thing we had to this before and its still thr best thing we can compare it to.I'm now having to take supplemental HIPAA training regarding COVID-19. Fine. I consider it unnecessary since as far as HIPAA is concerned medical information is medical information.
But.
This training starts with denoting the differences between COVID-19 and...wait for it...ebola.
WTF???
But there's no point in regards to HIPAA.
Ebola outbreak was the closest thing we had to this before and its still thr best thing we can compare it to.I'm now having to take supplemental HIPAA training regarding COVID-19. Fine. I consider it unnecessary since as far as HIPAA is concerned medical information is medical information.
But.
This training starts with denoting the differences between COVID-19 and...wait for it...ebola.
WTF???
Um.... Spanish Flu? 1918 Pandemic? The one that had a disease that spreads in nearly the exact same manner and has relatively similar effects and lethality rates? The one that we are nearly exactly mimicking every social misstep in the exact same order as? Hello?
I was never like that but my brother was and I did not get it because I always did my homework the day it was assigned and I had a wonderfull stress free weekend while he did nothing and then tried to do it all at once on sunday evening.Yeah, my huge issue right now is watching Impus Minor being a normal teenager.
Which is:
(1) Get assigned 3-4 assignments per day. With each assignment taking about half an hour, and only 4 hours of school time, I think this isn't an unreasonable load.(2) Instead of actually doing any of the assignments the day they're assigned, complain incessantly about his workload and how tired he is. He spends at least 30-45 minutes a day complaining about how exhausted he is. Which is more than he spends on his homework.
(3) Once the homework is all nice and piled up on Friday, point out the impossibility of doing that many assignments in a single day, throw up his hands and declare the task impossible and the teachers unreasonable.
As a functional, semi-obsessive-compulsive adult, I want to be enraged. I want to shake him and yell at him and tell him what a fool he is, and to just frigging shape up and do the work when it's assigned.
As a human being with a memory, I remember that I was exactly like that when I was his age, and I feel horrible that I can't do more to support him.
Next week I'm trying "assignment post-its".
"Do these two assignments today and call yourself done."
SOoooooo aggravating... and SOooooo human!
I tended to do my homework - what I didn't get done in class - on the bus ride to school the next morning rather than at home. This worked out about 75% of the time in junior high and the first year of high school. After that the homework suddenly got a lot harder and my ability to get it all done in the approximately hour and a half bus ride severely less successful.
I only played Final Fantasy 7 and Tactics (which is a ton of fun!).
I love tactics. Probably my favorite then 8 then 7. I have tactics on my phone but honestly its practically unplayable with the touch screen.
OK. I may end up canceling my Pandora account. Its algorithm is the most "culturist" thing I've ever encountered, and it's reached the "downright offensive" level.
As I've mentioned before, I added BabyMetal to my list, and suddenly *all* Japanese pop music was open game. So their top-level categorization is "country of origin" rather than style. I can even see that; most U.S. listeners don't want to hear Brazilian metal or German pop. But you'd think that if you did that, you'd at least have the same genres in every country, and you'd carry the genres from one country over to the other.
So I've been working hard at training it that no, just because I like one Japanese band doesn't mean I love every anime theme song every written. And after a couple dozen thumbs-downs, Pandora responded by...
...adding J-Pop boy bands. In spite of my having thumbs-downed every boy band that's ever had the audacity to appear on my channel.I mean seriously. Pandora's entire attitude is, "If you like ONE Japanese song, you have to like ALL things Japanese, and we won't take 'No' for an answer."
I could tolerate anime theme songs. But J-Pop boy bands? Nope! I'm ready to walk away with my wallet.
Spotify did a lot better when I added baby metal I got more metal songs with them.
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Let me say that high school was so bad for me that I had nightmares well into my twenties.
My middle school expereince was awful got into fights like every week. Highschool however wasn't half bad. I moved so new kid so first year I was super quiet but by senior year I did pretty well. I like to think it was because of the mystery man vibe. (not the mystery men with the bowling ball)
The PSP version is so much better.
I in fact did play it on PSP until my PSP died on me.
CATS FOREVERThere is a math problem where if a cat costs 4 dollars how many cats can you get for a hundred dollars.
The General: Too many!! How are you going to feed that many cats!! My god, they'll s*#% everywhere!!!
Me and T-lion appreciate that sentiment.
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Whee! I just got to Disintegrate an enemy for the first time with this character. It failed the save and took 119 damage (32d6). I feel so good.
Sorcerer turned my Megaladon into a gold fish today in my game. :( baleful polymorphed I rolled a 3. made the will save tho so it was quite the vicious gold fish... I was sad...
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Whingey Wizzard is 51 today.
I got him a bag of haggis-flavored potato chips.
Some other stuff, too, but that's what he'll appreciate the most.
Whingey Wizzard is 51 today.
I got him a bag of haggis-flavored potato chips.
Some other stuff, too, but that's what he'll appreciate the most.
... wow... well I guess if soy sauce and wasabi can be a potato chip flavor why not haggis?
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Happy birthday WW!
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Mom's stitches came out yesterday. Her hand is looking so much better. Can't make a fist yet, but that will come with time as long as she keeps up with the phys therapy.
I'm pretty sure that her appointment on Monday will be the end of the IV antibiotics.
Mom's stitches came out yesterday. Her hand is looking so much better. Can't make a fist yet, but that will come with time as long as she keeps up with the phys therapy.
I'm pretty sure that her appointment on Monday will be the end of the IV antibiotics.
That's fantastic news! I'm so glad!
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Whingey Wizzard is 51 today.
I got him a bag of haggis-flavored potato chips.
Some other stuff, too, but that's what he'll appreciate the most.
Wish him Happy Birthday from me... and where in Texas did you get haggis-flavored chips?
Tell Whingey Wizard Happy Butterscotch Pudding Day!
on the bus ride to school the next morning
Every. Single. Day.