It has to do with the history of how the terms have been used, not the terms themselves. So you're not going to find a logical explanation based on the grammar of the words.

I know. I’m just saying if you have a dog that can’t handle free reign you don’t have to banish them, and it wouldn’t be a terrible thing for a dog to have to stay home except when taken out for regular walks.

Or you keep the dog in the family residence and take them out on a leash for walks. Like normal people do.

So quitting in a fit of pique when a coworker points out your trollish behavior is "cancel culture" now? That's rich.

I'm not evaluating this with a homeschool mindset, I'm evaluating it as a teacher who has taught online synchronous, online asynchronous, and in-person classes. This policy is dumb. The kids are getting an asynchronous class but have to log in at six specific times per day for no pedagogical reason whatsoever. If you care that students are doing things at specific times then run a synchronous class. If they're assigned independent work on their virtual days then let them work independently.

I think it’s a dumb policy. Have them log in once for “home room” and then let them get on with their work. Having to stop what you’re doing every 50 minutes to log in to the next class is disruptive to the people who are doing work and doesn’t do anything to keep the people who aren’t on track. Some schools seem determined to eliminate the only advantages that virtual learning has, like getting to set your own schedule.

I read a different quote saying that there was no biting incident and the dogs always stay in Delaware when Jill Biden is on extended travel. Has anyone seen an official source on this? All the newspaper accounts seem to be “people on Twitter are saying.”

Maybe something for their room to make it more “adult.” A new bedding set or bookshelves or other furniture.

Wild! It would kind of defeat the purpose, for me.

Paper piecing with a machine, aka foundation piecing, is a whole different thing. Instead of cutting the paper pattern apart you have an outline of the whole block and you place each fabric piece on the back of it one at a time so that when you sew on the lines you’re sewing your pieces together. When you’re done you have an entire block with a paper copy on the back that you tear off.

You pin the paper pieces to the back side of your fabric and cut around them with a 1/4 allowance. Then you iron the edges around the paper and either glue or baste them in place with a running stitch. I baste — you can see the basting stitches that I haven’t taken out yet. Then you hold two pieces with their faces together and whip stitch along the edge. Unfold, and it’s a seam. After all the sides of a piece are done you cut the basting stitches and pull the paper out. If you glue I’d guess you have to wait until the whole project is done and wash it out.

I like it because it’s portable. I’ve done some machine quilting, but I always envied knitters’ ability to take their projects with them. And quiet — you can work on it on a Zoom call.

Everything except the pink and orange for the stars. Edit: and the yellow and purple in the center star.

I started EPP this year too. Here’s mine so far:

He might find out he has less control over that than he thinks. Once you get the courts involved, which he has done, they are less amenable to manipulation than a wife who is trying to make the marriage work. You don’t have to go along with what he wants, no matter how stubborn he is.

I wouldn’t try to get anything in writing now, but it would be perfectly reasonable, when working out the parenting schedule with your lawyers, to specify that the kids alternate parents for Spring break and since they were with their father in 2021 they are with you in 2022.

I think anyone who qualifies, even “technically qualifies, but” should get vaccinated as soon as they can. And while I don’t think anyone should lie to get it, the liars and cheaters might actually be helping, in that they make the vaccine look like a good and valuable thing and might tip some borderline not-sure people into the yes column. It won’t be long before willingness rather than supply is going to be the limiting factor in progress toward population-level immunity.

Sounds like he noticed.

Suggest to him that in case you both have strong reactions it would be better not to have them at the same time so that you can take care of each other. That made my dad feel better about getting it before my mom. Update: my arm now only hurts if I poke it. So stop poking it. But then how will I know if it still hurts when I poke it?

Right there with you. Which makes this my current favorite COVID song parody:

My mother-in-law was miserable for almost three weeks after her first dose. But I’m not sure how much of it was direct vaccine reaction and how much of it was that she got into a spiral of not eating well and not sleeping well during the initial reaction.

First. It hurts enough that I can’t really forget about it, or get distracted enough not to notice it, but it isn’t bothering me, because I’m just so happy to have gotten the vaccine. It’s like a constant damn that hurts and that means life will be back to normal sooner, hurray!

Twelve hours post shot my arm hurt enough to wake me up at 2 am. Twenty-four hours post shot it feels like I was punched (hard) in the arm and the area around it is hot, but no other symptoms.

I’m just over two hours post shot, and my elbow joint on the arm the shot went in is a little achey. But that’s the elbow I shattered as a kid, and it gets achey if someone so much as looks at it crossly, so I’m not sure that counts.

My state reports daily deaths by 5 year age bracket. I haven’t seen it nation-wide (but I also haven’t looked).