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I'm going to try my hand at stone etching today, I've always wanted to try that.
Edit: comfort is important when trying new things.
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My daughter needs to learn more words
Like six months ago she learned five words, and she figures that's enough. She hasn't picked up a new one since.
"Surely if I yell Mama loud enough and frequently enough father will understand that I am frustrated with his inadequacy as a parent. I see no need to articulate further."
Ok she HAS learned 1-2 more in the intervening months, but they don't come up. Mostly she just yells Mama and Dada until she gets whatever she wants as I cycle through the list of random things that could be wrong until I get lucky.
But seriously. She understands me. When I tell her to not do something, she cried a bit, but she listens. She knows words. She just refuses to try to articulate them herself.
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She also flat out refuses to play with her toys. Apparently her mother and I are her only toys.
But her mother gets mad when I recommend we toss them in the garbage. I hate holding onto things we don't use. But seriously, she will ignore all the toys everyone bought her for literal garbage. Seems like a massive waste of space to hold onto them until she can differentiate between trash and playthings.
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Aaaaaand... we have concrete proof.
After coming back from Shiro's on the 28th, I accidentally left wireless on so on the 1st I had all kinds of connectivity issues, as usual. I disabled wireless. The laptop hasn't moved since then.
On Wednesday Windows Update ran with a "major update".
This morning? Major connectivity issues.
I checked, and yes, my wireless adapter had been re-enabled.
Y'know, Microsoft, maybe, just maybe I'm disabling that wireless adapter for a reason!!!!!
EDIT: Personally, I'm convinced that it's whenever Windows updates the wireless driver. It installs the new driver, doesn't bother to check the old state, so the install auto-enables it.
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My daughter needs to learn more words
Like six months ago she learned five words, and she figures that's enough. She hasn't picked up a new one since.
"Surely if I yell Mama loud enough and frequently enough father will understand that I am frustrated with his inadequacy as a parent. I see no need to articulate further."
Ok she HAS learned 1-2 more in the intervening months, but they don't come up. Mostly she just yells Mama and Dada until she gets whatever she wants as I cycle through the list of random things that could be wrong until I get lucky.
But seriously. She understands me. When I tell her to not do something, she cried a bit, but she listens. She knows words. She just refuses to try to articulate them herself.
I know you're in Florida, land of "public services are the greatest form of evil", but if you can get a free speech evaluation for her it might be worth your while.
By the time he was 18 months old, Impus Major could say ONE word ("ball"). We got a free evaluation from the Regional Center and he was determined to be "speech impaired", giving us free speech therapy for him until he entered kindergarten. It was amazingly important, and catching such things earlier rather than later results in faster "fixes". (Impus Minor needed minor speech therapy, but because he didn't start until after he was in kindergarten it took longer.)
Being in California, it was all free for us under some law providing free services to all pre-K kids. Hopefully Florida has something remotely similar. But yeah, Florida. I'm skeptical.
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My daughter needs to learn more words
Like six months ago she learned five words, and she figures that's enough. She hasn't picked up a new one since.
"Surely if I yell Mama loud enough and frequently enough father will understand that I am frustrated with his inadequacy as a parent. I see no need to articulate further."
Ok she HAS learned 1-2 more in the intervening months, but they don't come up. Mostly she just yells Mama and Dada until she gets whatever she wants as I cycle through the list of random things that could be wrong until I get lucky.
But seriously. She understands me. When I tell her to not do something, she cried a bit, but she listens. She knows words. She just refuses to try to articulate them herself.
I know you're in Florida, land of "public services are the greatest form of evil", but if you can get a free speech evaluation for her it might be worth your while.
By the time he was 18 months old, Impus Major could say ONE word ("ball"). We got a free evaluation from the Regional Center and he was determined to be "speech impaired", giving us free speech therapy for him until he entered kindergarten. It was amazingly important, and catching such things earlier rather than later results in faster "fixes". (Impus Minor needed minor speech therapy, but because he didn't start until after he was in kindergarten it took longer.)
Being in California, it was all free for us under some law providing free services to all pre-K kids. Hopefully Florida has something remotely similar. But yeah, Florida. I'm skeptical.
I second this. Again, my experience is from outside Florida, but sometimes you can go through the local school and they'll either be able to hook you up or they'll at least be able to point you in the right direction.
But...yeah...Florida. Ohio is somewhat better in that regard. Not great, but better.
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Yep, another experience where getting early evaluation and very early treatment saved a kid with language problems from having to deal with them after starting school.
Local schools and local health department will be able to get the paperwork started for you. Pretty sure there's some federal money/programs available for this, even in Florida. If you've got a good pediatrician, they can probably help too.
Federal Program
If you, your child’s doctor, or other care provider is concerned about your child’s development, ask to be connected with your state or territory’s early intervention program to find out if your child can get services to help. If your doctor is not able to connect you, you can reach out yourself. A doctor’s referral is not necessary.
Early Intervention
Florida Contact for Early Intervention Program
Early Steps Program
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My daughter needs to learn more words
Like six months ago she learned five words, and she figures that's enough. She hasn't picked up a new one since.
"Surely if I yell Mama loud enough and frequently enough father will understand that I am frustrated with his inadequacy as a parent. I see no need to articulate further."
Ok she HAS learned 1-2 more in the intervening months, but they don't come up. Mostly she just yells Mama and Dada until she gets whatever she wants as I cycle through the list of random things that could be wrong until I get lucky.
But seriously. She understands me. When I tell her to not do something, she cried a bit, but she listens. She knows words. She just refuses to try to articulate them herself.
I know you're in Florida, land of "public services are the greatest form of evil", but if you can get a free speech evaluation for her it might be worth your while.
By the time he was 18 months old, Impus Major could say ONE word ("ball"). We got a free evaluation from the Regional Center and he was determined to be "speech impaired", giving us free speech therapy for him until he entered kindergarten. It was amazingly important, and catching such things earlier rather than later results in faster "fixes". (Impus Minor needed minor speech therapy, but because he didn't start until after he was in kindergarten it took longer.)
Being in California, it was all free for us under some law providing free services to all pre-K kids. Hopefully Florida has something remotely similar. But yeah, Florida. I'm skeptical.
We'll be in Ohio by June if all goes well, so it's something to check up there.
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Speaking of random Windows IT questions, in the "bad old days" of early Windows 10 you couldn't disable focus stealing.
Have they "fixed" that yet so I can turn off focus stealing, or are they continuing to insist "it's a feature, not a bug"?
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Speaking of random Windows IT questions, in the "bad old days" of early Windows 10 you couldn't disable focus stealing.
Have they "fixed" that yet so I can turn off focus stealing, or are they continuing to insist "it's a feature, not a bug"?
They've punted on it, mostly because no matter what they do to resolve it, the user response is going to be negative. Usually the problem is the programming in the application.
I have found some registry settings that supposedly resolve some of this, but I haven't tested them yet.
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"Surely if I yell Mama loud enough and frequently enough father will understand that I am frustrated with his inadequacy as a parent. I see no need to articulate further."
ROTFL!
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I didn't realize there was an issue of verbal delay. Apologies, no insult was meant.
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Speaking of random Windows IT questions, in the "bad old days" of early Windows 10 you couldn't disable focus stealing.
Have they "fixed" that yet so I can turn off focus stealing, or are they continuing to insist "it's a feature, not a bug"?
They've punted on it, mostly because no matter what they do to resolve it, the user response is going to be negative. Usually the problem is the programming in the application.
I have found some registry settings that supposedly resolve some of this, but I haven't tested them yet.
Yeah; I'm skeptical. If you have to use RegEdit and manually edit a registry key to turn off focus stealing like you did in the "good old" XP days, I don't see user satisfaction issues because if you're well-versed enough to use RegEdit, you're well-versed enough to know, "Yeah, that means NO window will take focus EVER, so deal with it!"
It's just exhausting at course review time when I have to open around 30 PPTs and 28 Word docs at once just to scan them all, and I have to either load them one at a time or wait for ALL of them to load, because Heaven forfend Windows loading documents in the background while I'm working.
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I didn't realize there was an issue of verbal delay. Apologies, no insult was meant.
Nah, it's cool. Truth be told she's learning remarkably fast. I just get frustrated with babies extremely easily, even my own. I'm not very good with babies. Most of my experience with kids is elementary and older.
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They didn't have a drill bit two feet long on hand so I had to order it.
Now, I wait.
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I didn't realize there was an issue of verbal delay. Apologies, no insult was meant.Nah, it's cool. Truth be told she's learning remarkably fast. I just get frustrated with babies extremely easily, even my own. I'm not very good with babies. Most of my experience with kids is elementary and older.I was the same with my own daughters LOL! When they were infants I felt like I was basically a piece of furniture that occasionally had a bottle. Even when they started babbling/talking I didn't feel quite as dialed in.
When my older one was about 20 months she loved being in the kitchen with me when I was cooking and I'd sometimes have her "help" by stirring or mixing stuff while I held her. I really started feeling that connection to her when I was making pancakes one time and was trying to reach for the batter-covered spoon and I said no and she said YES! I said no again, moved it, she was crying... then out of the corner of my eye I see her reaching back up for it. Thing is, she was LOOKING RIGHT AT ME while she did it.
I honestly couldn't help laughing. Totally wrong response, I know, but I just couldn't stop myself. And since I was laughing, then she was smiling, and long story boring... she ran around the dining room dripping batter everywhere.
Anyway, I think kids are supposed to hit a language "explosion" around 2 years so if your girl is around that age it might be coming. If she's older than that I'd second looking into some help when you get to OH.
She turned one on Wednesday, actually. So I guess she is ahead of the curve.
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I keep seeing vaccination pics and happy musings about getting back to normal, how painful pandemic isolation has been, etc.
But I like not having jets flying overhead every 15 minutes. I like the light traffic if I have to go out. I like being here in my den and not having to drive an hour each way to client sites. I like having groceries delivered so I don't have to go to the store. I like being able to walk outside sometimes without meeting a lot of people. I like meetings on Zoom so there's no expectation I have to go somewhere. I even like wearing masks. I felt weird wearing them in the cold and high pollen air to try to avoid asthma when nobody else was wearing one. Now, they're even stylish.
If this were a movie, I'd be the villain coming up with mutations so everyone has to stay home forever. Pandemic life - this is my world. Looking forward to the deaths ending. The isolation, not so much.
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Aaaaaand... we have concrete proof.
After coming back from Shiro's on the 28th, I accidentally left wireless on so on the 1st I had all kinds of connectivity issues, as usual. I disabled wireless. The laptop hasn't moved since then.
On Wednesday Windows Update ran with a "major update".
This morning? Major connectivity issues.
I checked, and yes, my wireless adapter had been re-enabled.
Y'know, Microsoft, maybe, just maybe I'm disabling that wireless adapter for a reason!!!!!
EDIT: Personally, I'm convinced that it's whenever Windows updates the wireless driver. It installs the new driver, doesn't bother to check the old state, so the install auto-enables it.
Have you deleted existing wi-fi connection to the modem? I have windows 10 now, the cable connects the computer to the modem wireless setting is on, but I don't have connectivity issues (aside of needing to reset the modem every few weeks or sometimes days when, I presume, ISP changes my IP) - I never logged to the wi-fi on this computer.
I'd like to say, if there will be cable signal coming and no wi-fi connection active (as opposed to detected), then your computer might, just might use what is available...
On the other hand... Microsoft...
Or, honestly, most of the big (and often small too) computer companies.
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I just set wireless to off just to see if anything will change. I will probably forget about it, soon enough.
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Aaaaaand... we have concrete proof.
After coming back from Shiro's on the 28th, I accidentally left wireless on so on the 1st I had all kinds of connectivity issues, as usual. I disabled wireless. The laptop hasn't moved since then.
On Wednesday Windows Update ran with a "major update".
This morning? Major connectivity issues.
I checked, and yes, my wireless adapter had been re-enabled.
Y'know, Microsoft, maybe, just maybe I'm disabling that wireless adapter for a reason!!!!!
EDIT: Personally, I'm convinced that it's whenever Windows updates the wireless driver. It installs the new driver, doesn't bother to check the old state, so the install auto-enables it.
Have you deleted existing wi-fi connection to the modem? I have windows 10 now, the cable connects the computer to the modem wireless setting is on, but I don't have connectivity issues (aside of needing to reset the modem every few weeks or sometimes days when, I presume, ISP changes my IP) - I never logged to the wi-fi on this computer.
I'd like to say, if there will be cable signal coming and no wi-fi connection active (as opposed to detected), then your computer might, just might use what is available...
On the other hand... Microsoft...
Or, honestly, most of the big (and often small too) computer companies.
My (and my kids') experience is that with wireless on and no networks Windows knows how to connect to, it badgers you incessantly telling you that wireless networks are available. Like, every 30 seconds incessantly. It's a lot easier to notice when an update enables the adapter, re-disable it, and then whine about it incessantly.
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Yay, we get to go in next week and start setting up our new trailer.
Unfortunately, I've already arranged to take the General to her eye doctor appointment on Monday so I'll miss the Insane Clown Posse Initiation certification (it's actually just called ICPI but I don't know what it stands for so that's what I call it).
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I keep seeing vaccination pics and happy musings about getting back to normal, how painful pandemic isolation has been, etc.
But I like not having jets flying overhead every 15 minutes. I like the light traffic if I have to go out. I like being here in my den and not having to drive an hour each way to client sites. I like having groceries delivered so I don't have to go to the store. I like being able to walk outside sometimes without meeting a lot of people. I like meetings on Zoom so there's no expectation I have to go somewhere. I even like wearing masks. I felt weird wearing them in the cold and high pollen air to try to avoid asthma when nobody else was wearing one. Now, they're even stylish.
If this were a movie, I'd be the villain coming up with mutations so everyone has to stay home forever. Pandemic life - this is my world. Looking forward to the deaths ending. The isolation, not so much.
I miss visiting family and friends. I DON'T miss being in the office. Per my stats from my dept metrics, my productivity has increased since working from home. I love having a 2 minute "commute," working at my own pace w/my music on in the background, not being interrupted ever 20 minutes or so by impromptu meetings, ad hoc requests, stories from co-workers and so on.
Global Megacorp's productivity rose so much that they pretty much said, "Nobody needs to go back to an office, ever!!!!"
Some sticks-in-the-mud complained so there will be some offices open, but overall Global Megacorporation has been ecstatic with the results of the unplanned work-from-home experiment.
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My (and my kids') experience is that with wireless on and no networks Windows knows how to connect to, it badgers you incessantly telling you that wireless networks are available. Like, every 30 seconds incessantly. It's a lot easier to notice when an update enables the adapter, re-disable it, and then whine about it incessantly.Aaaaaand... we have concrete proof.
After coming back from Shiro's on the 28th, I accidentally left wireless on so on the 1st I had all kinds of connectivity issues, as usual. I disabled wireless. The laptop hasn't moved since then.
On Wednesday Windows Update ran with a "major update".
This morning? Major connectivity issues.
I checked, and yes, my wireless adapter had been re-enabled.
Y'know, Microsoft, maybe, just maybe I'm disabling that wireless adapter for a reason!!!!!
EDIT: Personally, I'm convinced that it's whenever Windows updates the wireless driver. It installs the new driver, doesn't bother to check the old state, so the install auto-enables it.
Have you deleted existing wi-fi connection to the modem? I have windows 10 now, the cable connects the computer to the modem wireless setting is on, but I don't have connectivity issues (aside of needing to reset the modem every few weeks or sometimes days when, I presume, ISP changes my IP) - I never logged to the wi-fi on this computer.
I'd like to say, if there will be cable signal coming and no wi-fi connection active (as opposed to detected), then your computer might, just might use what is available...
On the other hand... Microsoft...
Or, honestly, most of the big (and often small too) computer companies.
That's weird. I have win 10 computer connected via cable to the modem, wireless enabled all the time without being logged to any wi-fi, and it doesn't bother me about available wireless networks (it might have pop-ed up a few times over the last half a year). Something like that happens a lot on my mobile phone, though, but that's combination of system AND device (android, phone). Hmmm.
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That's weird. I have win 10 computer connected via cable to the modem, wireless enabled all the time without being logged to any wi-fi, and it doesn't bother me about available wireless networks (it might have pop-ed up a few times over the last half a year). Something like...My (and my kids') experience is that with wireless on and no networks Windows knows how to connect to, it badgers you incessantly telling you that wireless networks are available. Like, every 30 seconds incessantly. It's a lot easier to notice when an update enables the adapter, re-disable it, and then whine about it incessantly.Aaaaaand... we have concrete proof.
After coming back from Shiro's on the 28th, I accidentally left wireless on so on the 1st I had all kinds of connectivity issues, as usual. I disabled wireless. The laptop hasn't moved since then.
On Wednesday Windows Update ran with a "major update".
This morning? Major connectivity issues.
I checked, and yes, my wireless adapter had been re-enabled.
Y'know, Microsoft, maybe, just maybe I'm disabling that wireless adapter for a reason!!!!!
EDIT: Personally, I'm convinced that it's whenever Windows updates the wireless driver. It installs the new driver, doesn't bother to check the old state, so the install auto-enables it.
Have you deleted existing wi-fi connection to the modem? I have windows 10 now, the cable connects the computer to the modem wireless setting is on, but I don't have connectivity issues (aside of needing to reset the modem every few weeks or sometimes days when, I presume, ISP changes my IP) - I never logged to the wi-fi on this computer.
I'd like to say, if there will be cable signal coming and no wi-fi connection active (as opposed to detected), then your computer might, just might use what is available...
On the other hand... Microsoft...
Or, honestly, most of the big (and often small too) computer companies.
I'm figuring its image dependant. Most of the issues NobodysHome runs into I've never had or experienced trough my job, but I run a custom image on my PC and laptop and we have custom images on the work laptops as well as a different custom images for the user laptops/pcs.
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I'm figuring its image dependant. Most of the issues NobodysHome runs into I've never had or experienced trough my job, but I run a custom image on my PC and laptop and we have custom images on the work laptops as well as a different custom images for the user laptops/pcs.
Possibly. My windows 10 is off the shelf Polish preinstal that was shipped with this Lenovo All-In-One (and the windows 8 was preinstalled UK version on a Packard-Bell that I bought in England).
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ALL (DE) is now obsessed with a possibly Canadian couple who like to raid dumpsters behind possibly Canadian Aldi for past sell-by date pork tenderloin, which sounds like a horribly bad idea, especially if you have to put down plastic when you get it home to show it off to the world because the packaging might be leaking, and Jim Bakker's buckets. I'm afraid the latter is my fault.
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Watching How to Train Your Dragon #3 tonight...
Me: WTF?! They're BASE JUMPING?!
WW: They're *Vikings*.
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Watching How to Train Your Dragon #3 tonight...
Me: WTF?! They're BASE JUMPING?!
WW: They're *Vikings*.
The third one disappointed me. I didn't think it was explicitly bad, but not as good as it should have been.
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I used to work at a canned fruit juice company. I got fired because I couldn't concentrate.
Lime sorry to hear that. That is Berry unfortunate. I'm sure it's driving you bananas.
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My game tonight was a bit more intense as they had to kill a Balor demon in the middle of the blood war. They succeeded now they just have to make it out of there.
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On the first day of Spring Break, I'm making miniature cherry pies to put into chocolate cupcakes to make mini-piecakens for Teensy Valeros's birthday tomorrow, since his birthday is Pi Day.
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We ran into a Shambling Mound in tonight's game. It sucked. Knocked the gunslinger unconscious, put the barbarian into jeopardy (only conscious due to rage hp), and took over half my kineticist's hp (I have the kinetic healer trait, and moved up to save the gunslinger and then got smacked hard). But we did survive. The sorcerer was pissed because he's fire elemental bloodline, and the mound is fire resistant.
But everyone keeps telling me that gunslingers are unstoppable killing machines...
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Saw an old couple walking into Walgreens, it reminded me of the South Park vaccination special.