**gt **- my nephew is “graduating” today. It’s in quotes because he has yet to pass the FCAT, which is required in FL. According to the website, the FCAT is given starting in the 10th grade. The kids get at least half a dozen chances to pass it. He has not. This is particularly maddening because he’s a very intelligent kid, but very stoopit and very susceptible to peer pressure. He has decided that he’s a redneck (this is the nephew who was adopted from Russia - the blood of the Confederacy is strong in this one… :rolleyes: ) Not only does he do dumb and sometimes illegal stuff - he brags about it on FB, surely to impress his buddies.
Anyway, he’s being allowed to walk with his class, but he can’t graduate till he passes the FCAT and for whatever reason, he can’t take it till the fall at the earliest. We’re pretty sure he’s going to blow it off. And on top of that, he’s legally blind - he’ll never be permitted to drive, so he’ll always be somewhat dependent upon others. So add that to the lack of a diploma and, at least for now, a real attitude, and we’re seeing a crash-and-burn on the horizon. It doesn’t help that his father is my thrice-fired-art-teacher BIL who would rather quote the Bible and threaten than be a proper parent.
Bottom line, we were going to send him a card and a gift card, but giving him a reward seemed wrong. When/if he gets a diploma, we’ll see.
Good morning! It’s slightly cooler out, so I’ve opened the house for a little while. **FCD **just got up - he’s got a Dr appt and will be leaving in about 30 minutes. I’ll amuse myself doing what little I can on our deck till he gets back.
It’s supposed to hit 90° today, so I foresee a shorter work day outside. Maybe we’ll go buy the decking today so I can paint the boards over the weekend. I’ll probably need to do some laundry also - we’re sweating up twice the amount of clothing every day. And I need to empty and reload the dishwasher, and make a grocery list.
Helen was Menelaus’ wife. Agamemnon was Menelaus’ brother and his wife was Clytemnestra who f@#'d up his s@# when he got back home.
I just read the Edith Hamilton version of the Iliad, which is much shorter and more palatable.
I just gave up on The Divine Comedy. *Inferno *was good. *Purgatorio *was good. *Paradiso *was absolutely unremittingly boring. After the first plane of Heaven, I would have told Beatrice, “Hon, I love you, but I’m going back down to hang out with Virgil. He’s more fun than you are.”
ETA: The version I was reading had the Doré engravings, too. That was the best part of the book.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up, caffienated and at irk. ‘Tis 71 Amurrkin with a predicted high of 92 for the day and hyoooooooooomid plus gnat infested out. I like hawt weather but the gnats I can definitely do without. FI N met O OYKW R for D brekkies this mornin’ at Booger King cause we are ever the gourmets.
I got all my classical learnin’ from Bugs Bunny cartoons. Ok, I did read Iliad, Odyssey, Inferno and all that there stuff in high skool and kolledge. Still, what really stuck was what I learned from Bugs Bunny.
MOOOOOOM if y’all are handin’ out gift cards for walkin’, I walked from the parkin’ lot to my orifice this mornin’. Just sayin’…
I quite enjoyed the Iliad- though it does depend on who did the translations, some are way better written than others.
Anyway… The weather is decent today, so the grass should finally be getting cut. About time, I’d need a machete if it got much taller. Apparently one guy at my allotment site used to cut the grass on his plot there to bowling-green perfection with a machete. For some reason, they had a lot less trouble with ‘yoofs’ when he was there. Funny that.
Kitchen is tidy. Watering is about halfway done. **FCD **is on his way home. Temp is rising and I’m thinking we’ll do well not to work outside today. We shall see how it goes.
I’m about 1° away from closing the house and turning the air back on. Bummer.
So today is irk, fix the storm door, and big trip grocery shopping. Sah-son made a face about it but I’m almost out of shampoo and conditioner and other supplies are getting low, so big trip it is.
Don’t worry Swampy we have lots of TP.
TP shopping isn’t my jurisdiction anyway.
I think I may be sitting for hellpup and her big sis but I’m not sure yet what they need today. I may or may not be staying there, I’m waiting to hear.
I need to make a shopping list and a to do list for today and the weekend. I’m getting behind on things.
The first person to figure out how to check a person out for apnea without having to glue a dozen or more wires to a person’s head and putting tubes in their nose will be a millionaire.
Failing that, the person who figures a way to do it without using glue that pulls hair and/or resists washing off will be at least a thousandaire.
**gotti **- **FCD **thought I had sleep apnea - he said I’d stop breathing for up to 15 seconds at times. I got a wedge pillow, and it appears the problem is solved. It took a bit to learn to sleep on my back since I’m a side sleeper, but I don’t even notice any more, and I’m feeling more rested in the mornings. So it may or may not have been symptoms of apnea, but you can’t argue with success.
Up to 75° in this area. I keep our air at 76°, altho if it was just for me, I’d probably set it higher. Heat doesn’t bother me as much as it does FCD. Plus if it was only me, that big ol’ heat-radiating fish tank wouldn’t be in the living room. But that’s another story…
We had a sad thing happen this morning. We had big storms come through last night and this morning, and while I was getting the twins ready for daycare the storm let up. So we took the opportunity to go out to the car and not get drenched. I saw on the front stoop a small baby bird that had apparently gotten knocked out of its nest during the storm. It was shivering and half dead already, but the twins wanted to try and save it . I had to explain to them that there was no way of knowing where it came from and it was beyond saving. So I took a towel and moved him to the grass. I knew when I got back home that he’d be dead. When I did get home he was laying there stiff in the grass, so I took a stone from the front yard and I placed the body underneath it so the babies wouldn’t have to see him when they got home. Kind of a sad way to start the day.
Just out of curiosity, can blurf be used at the end of your day if it’s in the morning? Because I have been “working” for over 9 hours now and I definitely am feeling the blurf… but I know it normally only gets applied when you’ve first awakened.
Maybe I’m feeling a frulb, a sort of… backward blurf.
I was going to open the windows this am but I was talking to my friend who delivers papers and she said it was so humid I should leave them closed. She was running the AC in her car.
I hate a closed up house though.
No pet sitting today or over the weekend. Plans have been changed. So when irk is done this am I am off to the store, and then off to meet up with OAOASO who is down this way today.
He wants me to pick up and bring him some lunch so we can eat together.
I have to remember to get stamps for the announcements and now people want pics too.
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Ours barks at dust motes. Or more accurately, he berfs at them.
Those sleep study people need to warn their victims that they will be scrambled the next day. I just hope something useful comes of it.
One wierd thing I’d forgotten about until doing the post-study questionnaire. There was a question about my dreams last night to rate them 1-5 where 1 was peaceful or non-objectionable and 5 was bad. I don’t dream, so I had no idea how to answer that. Whether or not I dream is not something that normally comes up, so I’d really forgotten that I don’t do this apparently common activity.
