Backaches, Bimbos, and Breakups

[Merrytooth 5,748]

I bought my Acer laptop from walmart for $350 4 years ago, still working

[rlogan 2,036]

It is for socialization mainly and $670 is very very cheap.

You mean like the post I was responding to with the religious nuts calling their child spawn of the devil - and meaning it? That kind of socialization? lol.

We're accustomed to the first line of attack against homeschool being the socialization fallacy. That's why I responded to his post. My God, the gang/drug culture in some schools is postitively frightening, and they're graduating kids that can't read. So it's pretty clear you don't give an automatic "A" for "socialization" to anyone hanging the sign day care or school on their door. Nor assume homeschool is somehow lacking in socialization skills.

We're bringing the kids to school ourselves. Before it was just to the playground when the other kids are on the equipment. The administrators told us they recognized us, and they have been cool with that. They were so gracious with us on our visit! And we loved the school, especially the way the grades are mixed. First graders take the lead with kindergarteners. Then they become second graders where the third graders mentor them. Two grades in every class, about ten kids per grade. K-8, less than a hundred kids in the whole school. It's a wonderful atmosphere. Only four classrooms going in a one-hallway school. So charming!

So he was introduced to the K-1 class and teacher formally yesterday. It is a tiny rural Alaska community so these kids see each other outside school too. Remember he is only four, not even qualified for school yet and we already have him in the building a year ahead of his age cohorts. The socialization is on our terms and the school is on board with us. We told them we'd do more field trips in there, using the library or maybe do workshops with the classes. We're thrilled that they were so welcoming.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

Quick question/concern relayed from my well trusted HVAC guy, do you have a gas/oil furnace, water heater, or boiler?

(Rare non-vampire appearance, see me man) Gas furnace (attic), gas water heater, si ma'am.

No it will soon be -Many where you live.

Minus Many or any is too cold, brrr man.

One of the dogs bowls has been getting visited by ants. Food does not reside in this bowl all day, if she doesn't eat it all it gets returned to the bag, but apparently the smallest crumbs attract a few ants, look very closely si man. After feeding, I now move that bowl to the other side of the dining room, and the ants stopped showing up. Many feet away and they don't care, I think I have lazy ants, or the amount of crumbs left does not justify the longer walk.

A thought on the any traps, have you considered putting some cat food in them, as they appear to like it?

Cat's dry food is left out Many hours/day, miu man. Wet food is served once daily. Previous cat would eat it all in one gulping, but current cat eats some and leaves the rest for later, meaning for the hormigas, sigh man.

Not much latitude for bowl-placement, no and sigh man. Mrs. T-B. is all over the kitchen (never watching where she walks, no see man), and Mini-B. gets in there, too, wee man. Furthermore, we have mobile, athletic hormigas, sigh man.

The cat food won't poison the hormigas, oj nie and sigh man, but I'm concerned that further spraying will harm cat or Mini-B., worry man.

Little sleep again.....

No zzz man.

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[TBoneTX 44,792]

I'm not sleeping well lately tho.

With whom, huh man?

That's a symptom of being old. Or too much on your mind. Could be a bit of both.

Or of or with whom, see man.

I need tools, why didn't I marry a man who owns tools.

Harbor Freight lavishly publishes Many%-off coupons, see D ma'am.

It is for socialization mainly and $Many is very very cheap.

By definition, how can $Many be cheap, huh ma'am?

my computer with monitors was $Many... I'd hate to have a under $Many computer.

I'll have to figure this one out and get back with you, math headache ma'am.

After school care for my daughter in elementary was $Many a month (unsubsidized) and it was from Many-Many pm.

Depending on the expense, that's a lot of hours, whee ma'am!

My wife [...] is afraid of the freeways here. Oh and Many way stops too, they terrify her

"She's defective! How can I send her back, huh man?", huh man?

Visiting Gringo earlier this month actually grabbed the steering wheel out of Mrs. T-B.'s hands to get her over to a different lane, whee man. The way she drives would undo Many years of back-therapy, ouch man.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

No it will soon be -30 where you live.

And people keep saying to us "Sooooo, yooou've never [inflected r] ben throoough a Minnesoooooota winter then?" Or "Ya know last winter it didn't get about freezing for 3 months?"

I've been trying to build up our winter wardrobes and emergency kits for the cars because it is desolate up this far North and if you go off the road during a snow storm into those big flood ditches....

-30 in the winter

super Spring floods

Mosquitos in the "summer"

Paradise, am I right?

[TBoneTX 44,792]

I really want a mac desktop too, but I think my husband would shoot me down.

Got one a couple of years ago (to replace an ancient indigo iMac running System Many), and (discounting any jinx or hex that the following places on it) it has performed flawlessly so far, si and whee man.

I bought my Acer laptop from walmart for $Many Many years ago, still working

Financial and time specifics aside, I think I love you, smooch man. Don't tell Mrs. T-B. or Mr. Tooth, no man.

1. First graders take the lead with kindergarteners. Then they become second graders where the Many'rd graders mentor them. Two grades in every class, about Many kids per grade. K-Many, less than Many kids in the whole school. It's a wonderful atmosphere. Only Many classrooms going in a one-hallway school. So charming!

2. We're thrilled that they were so welcoming.

1. Do they offer Polish Math in the curriculum, huh man?

2. Seriously, cool man.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

1. a Minnesoooooota winter

winter wardrobes

emergency kits for the cars

go off the road during a snow storm

-Many in the winter

2. super Spring floods

Many. Mosquitos in the summer

Many. Paradise, am I right?

1. Compare vs. Texas (at least outside the Panhandle), whee ma'am.

2. Sometimes, drench man.

Many. And in spring and fall, too, bite me man.

Many. Texas = Paradise, right man.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

Everybody is missing, no see man:

Bro D

Sleepy Steveklar

Part Many

Many others, oj tak and oj sigh.

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Rant: People who squirt their car windshields while they're moving, grrr man. Wait until you've stopped, please man.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

Courtesy of a coupon in the latest weekly rainwater newspaper (Many extras of which were cleaned up from uncaring neighbors' sidewalks, whee man), I get to take Mrs. T-B. to her favorite restaurant for as many times between now & September Many'rd as we can go, for buy-one-entree-get-one-free, $i man.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

Rant, see man: Just somehow caught my beautiful navy-blue silk tie in a Velcro wrist-splint, yank man, and have ruined the former, bye man. What a waste of $2 for a silk tie, $igh man.

Non-rant, see man: As everyone knows, I have the honorable career of selling pre-owned toilet seats door-to-door for a living. Despite having lost essentially a month with the back stuff and its aftermath, I have officially caught up and made quota 2 days early, whee man. Conversely, my chief colleague is still 1.Many weeks behind, sigh for him man.

[Ontarkie 14,145]

Harbor Freight lavishly publishes Many%-off coupons, see D ma'am.

See I've been in there and the tools are poor quality, I no like!!!!

Everybody is missing, no see man:

Bro D

Sleepy Steveklar

Part Many

Many others, oj tak and oj sigh.

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Rant: People who squirt their car windshields while they're moving, grrr man. Wait until you've stopped, please man.

I just got back from getting the man.

Hey if ya throw mud on mty windshield when I'm driving how else am I supposed to see?

[TBoneTX 44,792]

It is as much fun talking to myself during the daytime as it is during vampire hours, whee man. We must enliven current contributors, reinvolve old contributors, and recruit new contributors, contribute man. Remember that it costs $Many more to recruit anew than to retain, oj tak.

[TBoneTX 44,792]

1. I've been in there and the tools are poor quality

2. I just got back from getting the man.

Many. Hey if ya throw mud on mty windshield when I'm driving how else am I supposed to see?

1. Whaddayu mean -- most come straight from China and are Many% off, D ma'am!

2. What did you get him, huh ma'am? Did he like it, huh man?

Many. Pull over and lick it off, see here ma'am; do not fling it onto my windshield behind you, oj nie.

Edited August 27, 2014 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 44,792]

Hmmmph, man. Off-logging till eve in hopes of vigorous communication in the interim, oj tak.

[Ontarkie 14,145]

1. Whaddayu mean -- most come straight from China and are Many% off, D ma'am!

2. What did you get him, huh ma'am? Did he like it, huh man?

Many. Pull over and lick it off, see here ma'am; do not fling it onto my windshield behind you, oj nie.

Yes and it shows that they were made there

I got his a truck full of kids!

If you were not driving so close the mud would miss you, sigh man!