We had a busy weekend, with Kizzy entered into an agility trial. I was pit crew. Woke up at 5 to grill Kizzy’s steak (which I cut up into treat sized pieces), feed the horses, and walk the dogs.
Kizzy took two first place ribbons, one of which earned her a new title ribbon. The mini rant is because Kizzy would have received a third first place, but my gf misstepped on her approach to a jump, causing the judge to disqualify her. She had the best time, no dog faults, just one human error.
My gf was devastated. She watched and rewatched the video of the run and really beat herself up over it.
Not quite a rant, but it won’t fit anywhere. Chuck Schumer poster a pic of him “grilling” for fathers day, which he later deleted after everyone commented on the fact he placed a slice of cheese on a raw burger on the grill. No one is saying hes cognitively confused. Maybe just stupid.
The jumper landed on my sister and BiLs car. My sister, thankfully, escaped with no serious injuries. My BiL is in ICU with 2 broken vertebrae. Yesterday his pupils were not responding to light. Waiting on the results or more tests…
Oh, my god, this is deserving of far more than a mini-rant. What a horrible, shocking thing to happen to your sister and her spouse. I will keep good thoughts for your BiL and hope he may yet somehow recover. I am so sorry.
When I moved to NC from Chicago in 2006 to get my NC state ID I think I just had to show them my IL state ID and proof of address, for which I think I showed them the lease for the condo I was renting. I got my TSA Pre-Check using the BC I had at the time, along with a copy of the name change with no problem. Same with the Real ID, which I got before the pandemic because I fly up to Chicago a lot. I had never thought of trying to get a passport until now, since I hadn’t had any plans to leave the country.
I wonder if they’re now going to give me grief because my BC has my full middle name but the court order only shows the middle initial.
Sorry, but call center workers are required to adhere to scripts decreed by management if they wish to stay employed. Call center managers do not generally permit the phone drones to exhibit any independent thought of their own, since they do not wish the machinery interfacing with customers to get ideas above its station, such as that the phone drone is itself intelligent life. I’ve done more than a few years in call centers as a drone, so I know about this. We don’t enjoy the “robotically rattle off the script even when the caller has already answered that question on their own or the script is completely irrelevant to the purpose of the call” any more than you do, trust me.
You’re having better luck than we did with Dweezil!
He was 5 before we persuaded him out of diapers during the day. He had absolutely zero interest. We finally bought him a scooter, and “whoops, we’re out of diapers, you’ll need to wear underwear to go out and ride it”. Aside from one or two accidents at school (the teacher used the phrase “sock drencher”) he did mostly OK. We still put him in pullups at night.
Unfortunately for him, after a year or so he developed encopresis. Which meant he was soiling fairly regularly during the day, to the point where we put him back in daytime pullups. I’m the one who stumbled across a description of that problem when he was nearly 7. We had a long journey dealing with that - I think we finally got to quit treating it by the time he was 11 or 12 (the treatment at that point was a small daily dose of Miralax).
Encopresis is not uncommon with kids on the spectrum; hopefully you won’t have this, but if it does happen, you’ll have a better idea, earlier, than we did!
He also wet the bed at night until a fairly advanced age. The one thing that helped was a fairly expensive underwear alarm that would sense wetness and wake him up, but it was defective and needed new batteries EVERY NIGHT, so we gave up on it. I don’t know if this is more common with kids on the spectrum; it was something that one of my brothers had until a similar age, and I had some trouble though not nearly as bad.
Mention of passports etc upthread reminded me, my Global Entry application has still not been processed.
The initial membership, back in 2018, went through in a matter of a few months including the interview.
When I did the renewal last August, the website said “taking a long time, we’re giving everyone a 1-year grace period”. It’s been nearly a year. And from what I have seen, they are currently claiming it should take 4-6 months. Yeah… pretty sure they’ve passed that.
It’s not really “urgent” for me - we aren’t planning on flying out of the US any time soon, and we have passports anyway, but yeesh.
Wow, never knew the term but we went through the same. In 6th grade he started soiling underwear. At the time, he was going through anxiety issues related to leaving his previous school and we assumed it was related and spent way too long treating it as a purely emotional/psychological issue. Close to a year’s worth of pads, wet wipes and using the faculty restrooms to keep “supplies” in. I don’t know what finally made us look into it medically but, yeah, compacted bowels with leakage. A few failed attempts to treat at home and finally a trip to the hospital but it’s been a year of clean underwear and a TON of Miralax. Doc says if he looks good this August we can finally start weaning him into smaller doses.
In retrospect, it’s a bit frustrating that none of the counselors or similar professionals we talked to mentioned this as a possible medical problem since it doesn’t sound uncommon but we’re grateful to have found a treatment.
I’m a bit concerned about this as he holds it in all day and only poops once he’s back in pullups for the night. As far as I can tell he’s only pooping once per day!
The plan we discussed with the BCBA is to pull out all the stops and do underwear all the time at home including overnight and when we’re out of the house. And it will be messy because I know he doesn’t want to use the toilet to poop and he will probably be reluctant to use public toilets. But we gotta do it. Eventually hopefully he will catch on that the options are poop in underwear, yucky mess, or poop in toilet, easy peasy. No more pullups.
Marginal bit of good news: Daycare reports in the app that he used the potty today - even though he was in pullups, so we have to verify that he actually did this, if he did that is a step forward! He’s never chosen the potty over pullups ever before.
I’m doing better today. Trying to focus more on the gratitude part, and be grateful we weren’t there, whether by some twist of fate or whatever, we have the privilege of being together another day.
My therapist said the universe was protecting me and I wasn’t about to get into it with her but why protect me as opposed to those other ten people? Why did I get spared and not a ten year old boy? I can’t understand this thinking.
Staged badly because raw meat might get you very sick.
( Or Amy Schumer was pranking him. )
PS- Does anyone really believe he grills regularly? He’s elected as a legislator, not some cook Gordan Ramsey can curse at to feel better about himself.
Magas can go back to worshiping their Tan Gyrine… I mean Draft Dodger.
False alarm. Teacher said he was resistant to even going into the bathroom today, but I think we solved it. The bathroom has an automatic hand dryer and he hates those things.
When we renovated the bathrooms in the main library, we weren’t allowed to install them in the bathrooms near the stacks, only the ones back in the admin area. The ones in the stacks might interrupt someone trying to read.
