I am so sorry. Being sick with a sick kid is in my opinion the worst part of being a parent. I’m dreading the Fall/Winter gauntlet again especially as my son is about to start Special Ed… I hear there’s a resurgence of COVID. Get better all of you sickos!
All states have self-defense laws that allow people who are threatened to use reasonable force to defend themselves or others, and to avoid criminal liability from their use of force.
Now obviously there are laws circumscribing the bounds of what is permitted and when, but I cannot cite beyond this because you are asking me to prove a negative. I don’t know what state you are in, and even if I did I can hardly show a cite that there is no law such as you claim exists. You made the claim, the burden of proof is on you.
Children are petri dishes.
My son is doing well. He doesn’t seem to care he’s sick and is acting pretty normal for grandma except that he’s not really eating well. As for me, I’m doing better than yesterday but the cough really really hurts. I’m trying to work from home through this and I’m only being marginally successful.
Please feel better…
1:20pm the day of deadline and I still do not have a basic project description or budget as requested by 12pm yesterday. This is for a county procurement bid, not something I can whip up in a couple of hours. Mad doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I stopped along side a road at Buffalo Rive aNational River to take a pickture of an old road that was covered in Black eyed Susan’s. I walked about 10 yards down the side of the road and back. by the time I got home I had over a 100+ chigger bites on my ankles. The picture was amazing but I was miserable for quite awhilewith the resulting welts.
Dave Ramsey’s book Total Money makeover, helped me a lot in trying to get myself out of debt and able to pay my bills on my own.
Is there a chapter about not having kids?
well I meant for the kid but it does talk about living within your income. So take that as you will.
I appreciate the recommendation. My kid has two kids already, I think that’s going to be hard to dig out from under, especially with a blue collar job. As his mama, I can’t just abandon this sinking ship though!
Nothing really mini rant worthy has been going on- til today. I was on the phone with a caller who spoke Mandarin as her first language. She didn’t really need an interpreter and things went fine- until I tried saying her name for the recorded consent bit. I couldn’t get it right. Rather than pointing out how I was wrong, she just kept repeating her name. I know how it’s spelled. I just have no clue how to pronounce it. She was no help what so ever. I would try my level best. She would just say her name. I realize having your name mangled is no fun. But throw me a fricking bone! You could say ‘no the H is silent’ or 'the last name rhymes with '. Nope. Just the same uttering of her name over and over.
I ranted earlier about this but I was interviewing for a new job. They jerked me around and finally put me through 3 rounds of interviews. And, finally, just told me their final decision. No. No new job for me. I’m intensely disappointed. I don’t know how I got my hopes so far up. So stupid.
So I just got back from my neighborhood pool where I was trying to swim some leisurely laps.
The pool is 25 yards x 12.5 yards, with 6 very clearly marked lanes. This is a big pool for a neighborhood HOA pool. The ONLY people in the pool at the time were myself and a family of 4……mom, dad, and 2 elementary school aged children.
All I wanted was 1 clear lane, I didn’t care which one. But every time I chose a freaking lane, deliberately picking one as far from them as possible, this oblivious family would bounce and splash right into my path. So I’d cut over to the next lane, and they’d bounce right into my path again.
I was wearing a snorkel mask and doing a leisurely slow breast stroke completely underwater when the daughter bounced into my path again. So I changed it up into a fast and splashy freestyle for several seconds and came right at her. She seemed shocked but she moved out of my way.
This kind of oblivious lack of consideration pisses me off.
Not a rant, except I guess about happened to the formerly wonderful Boston Acoustics, who’ve been taken over by some other outfit and completely changed their product line, which is now probably crap, in keeping with the fine tradition of the world gradually going to shit.
Many, many years ago, in an impulsive moment, I bought an exceptionally expensive set of computer speakers, Boston Acoustics MediaTheater. They feature really high-performance desktop speakers and a large subwoofer. I called a friend on the way home to tell him about my purchase and he helpfully informed me that I was nuts for spending that kind of money on computer speakers. Boy, was he wrong!
Those speakers have been a constant source of delight for probably more than two decades now. As I sit here listening to Leonard Cohen, his deeply mellow voice is coming directly from the center of the monitor screen, and only the musical instruments are heard from the area of the actual speakers. In stereo lingo, this is called spatial visualization, and these speakers are better at it than any sound system at any price that I’ve ever experienced. They have an adjustable feature called “virtual surround” that’s supposed to provide the illusion of surround sound. It’s never done that for me, but I suspect that whatever careful calibration was done to support this feature contributes to their fantastic stereophonic imaging.
…And I miss The Perseids due to rain… again. It’s bad enough that I have to wait until midnight for my Ahole neighbors ‘light tresspass’ lights go out from their timer but why is the weather always against me?
You live in the cloudy part of the country?
Yes, but you’d think that on occasion clouds would … move…
Clouds seem like innocent things, quietly going about their stately business. And only occasionally hurling fatal amounts of high energy electrons at people.
But in fact they are nasty mean-spirited shits with a real hate on for astronomers, and amateur ones in particular. The only thing they hate more than astronomers is picnickers. 
I hear that they hate “The Carlton Dance” too, but I’ve never tempted fate.
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And they’re lining up a special treat for me. Next April – April 8 to be exact – for the first time in my life a total solar eclipse will happen right in my immediate area. (And, FTR, over big swaths of North America.)
And April is the month where April showers famously “bring flowers”, in the imbecilic poetry of irrationally happy tofu-eating vacuous simpletons. And to get those showers, you need clouds. To be fair, April isn’t the worst month for cloudiness around here, but it’s far from the best. On an 8-point scale of average cloud cover, April is rated 4.5 by the weather service. On a purely statistical basis, there is a better than even chance that the eclipse will be ruined by clouds. But that’s statistics. It doesn’t take into account the evil plotting of clouds. Since it’s so important to not have clouds that day, the chances of a total overcast are damn close to 100%.