Your “Good Morning” caught my notice just as I plugged my phone into the charger before walking the last 20ft to my bed.
We’re in “Distance Learning” mode; three kids in three schools on three Chromebooks in three different rooms working three different schedules, AND I’m working from home, as well, and am supposed to be productive. What that amounts to is I am mostly inefficient during school hours, I get a burst before dinner has to get on the stove, and then I get clear after the youngest are in bed — usually around 9:30, depending on how long I read to them. Recent selections include “Doctor Dolittle, Alice in Wonderland, some of the “Misty of Chincoteague” series, and — presently — Tom Sawyer.
The GREATEST OF ALL THORNS IN MY FLESH has proven to be YouTube.
SO MANY education websites host their video content on YouTube that I can’t block it or the kid’s can’t access stuff their teachers are assigning.
BUT I NEED TO BLOCK YOUTUBE, ‘cuz GARBAGE!
What WERE these education sites THINKING mixing their content in with all the mindless rot on YouTube?
In other news...
Friends had to relocate and couldn’t take their pool table, so...
Dear wife said to me on a weekend, “Let’s put it here in our garage.”
And, “OBTW, they need to be out of their house by Friday.”
Unfortunately, the “here” part was quite well occupied with many shelves of things.
We cleared a 17 x 13 foot area, and it’s all languishing in the backyard waiting for the advent of a new shed to hustle it into before the rains come, but I cannot just GET one — no — I have to SHOP FOR one, first. Oh, and it seems I’m expected to ask every male descendant of Adam if they might perhaps be able to BUILD one from the ground up for less, and choose the best deal.
Delays, delays — and the rains loom out there somewhere.
I’m praying for drought to persist through Christmas, at this point.
AND the water heater is leaking, so that’s getting replaced Tuesday before we have either fire or flood, ‘cuz it’s not only dripping, but there’s a faint odor of gas about the control box.
A good mechanic friend told me about a 1965 GTO convertible I could get for $20,000 that — if I spent about $5,000 on it — would be worth about $60,000+ OH HOW I’d LOVE to, but... where would I put it??
AND, being in CA, we’ve been relegated to the status of an online congregation lo these many moons, and the lack of fellowship is taking its toll.
Oh, and FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! NOT that we’ve seen any actual flames near my house, thank God, but...GEEMINY! The SMOKE and ASH — all my cars turned grey in the driveway, and it looked like The Apocalypse for about a whole week. Seriously, the sky was exactly the color of the atmosphere of MARS seen in so many of the color images we got back from our two rovers.
Oh, but look at me rambling...
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How’re you and yours getting along? Mask-free, yet?
There was a lot in there, but I can offer two thoughts.
Just tell the Wife that Home Depot guarantees the lowest prices and they CHECK.
And put the GTO on top of the pool table. The neighbors surely won’t mind.
We’re doing fine, thanks. In year 25 of homeschooling, we really didn’t notice anything different, except that new people, often with only one child, are turning up in places that used to be the purview, at least during weekday/daytime hours, of people like me.
DP and I have been going to church since April, because of the Spanish music for the streaming service. The congregation is up to about 100. One Mexican lady died of Covid, but she was very sick already, which doesn’t make it any less sad, of course. Quite a few people have recovered from it.
We went camping last weekend in the mountains with the Envirothon team, and last night we had a bonfire and cookout at the house of one family (in the woods, very fun). I’d still be in bed, unusually for me, but the cats staged some hostilities outside the bedroom door at 5:15, because they wanted to go out.
I agree about the “educational” websites. They’re all set up so that it’s literally impossible to keep the students from doing all kinds of time-waster activities. Either that or DP only tells me that it’s impossible because he wants me to go crazy.
We’re supposed to have someone come to look at the back door today. Frank broke the screen door - Frank has the deportment of a young elephant - and the frame really needs to be replaced along with the door. They were supposed to come Thursday afternoon, but (DP says) the employee told him that they’d called to reschedule, but when nobody answered the phone, they just hung up instead of leaving a message. Fill in my standard rant about millennials who literally can’t go to the bathroom without a phone, but also can’t manage a simple *phone call*.
I’m a rule-follower by instinct, so we wear masks where the sign says “mask required,” and otherwise don’t.