Kay in Cal
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This is on the far northwest corner of Chatsworth, up against the hills. Lots of horse properties, etc. There is a tunnel there that goes under a big rock-climbing and state park area. That's where the wreck is. They keep saying in the paper that this is "northwest of Los Angeles", but of course Chatsworth is part of Los Angeles.
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I was just hopping around the net and saw there was a train wreck just a few hours ago, right near our old home. Some of you might know we moved two weeks ago--this is a few hundred feet from where we lived. We were just up there today at our old bank, literally a few minutes before it happened.
http://us.cnn.com/2008/US/09/12/train.collision/index.html?iref=nextin
Seeing familiar places in video of disasters is really quite disturbing... for some reason this has me feeling somewhat nervous tonight. I hope all you hurricane area folks are keeping safe this evening...
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I know nothing about Maine (despite having been born there... we moved when I was 10 months old). It looks beautiful.
I DID however learn while watching Jeopardy this week that Phi Beta Kappa started at William & Mary, and thought of you. Good luck with the next book!
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If you have been interested in following the startup of CERN this week, you can check out the Large Hadron Rap (if you have not already):
You can download the MP3 (and vocals for remixing, all you rap artists) at:
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html
Soooo.... now I'm looking for other science geek music for my ds. We've burned a CD with this, Tom Lehrer's elements song (an old favorite) and a bunch of Jim Weiss science stories, a couple of other chemisty songs... but he wants more science songs! Suggestions, please?
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My older son loves it, and even the younger enjoys listening--though I don't think ds4 retains it. It doesn't take long to read, and even with review question, a narration, map work, and an occasional craft (we don't do nearly all the crafts from the AG) it still takes less than 30 minutes or so. We do it twice a week.
Here's a link to my workbook/schedule for SOTW1:
http://www.lulu.com/content/796912
Try it, you may just like it. If not.. there's always time in the future.
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I'm another who is surprisingly in the "let people use their metaphor" camp. In person I don't use baby language for body parts or actions... but I think that the original discussion got far more participation than it would have using the real words. I also think the mild humor value makes it easier for many people to jump in with honest questions and concerns that they wouldn't have raised otherwise. There really are people out there who have very little access to community discussion about sexuality, and wouldn't want to hang out at the more "adult" areas of the internet because that isn't the type of info they are looking for.
For myself--I have an insomniac six year old who sneaks up behind me to read what I'm posting, and while I've gotten much faster with the screen changes, I would have had to drop the thread repeatedly otherwise. While I'm open with my children about sexuality, I am not ready explain female pleasure appliances to him.
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and were married in 1993. So, it was not a NEW song at the time, but current to our youth (copyright 1984).
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Hmmm... Ok, it is marked as "Sterling". Though I don't know if it was manufactured before or after 1958 -- it's Towle Old Colonial, a pattern that has apparently been around since 1895, and is still made, yet I inherited it from a great aunt who died in her 90s about 10 years ago.
I washed it by hand. :tongue_smilie:
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Me too! I'm sports challenged. Team sports particularly befuddled me... I'd sort of wander around looking confused and people eventually just ignored me.
In college:
I struggled with Calculus... eventually dropped it and took Statistics instead to meet my math requirement. In retrospect I think the teacher was less than stellar for a non-math-head like me, as I have enjoyed reading and self-educating about math since then.
International Monetary Economics was also a doozy.
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I enjoy tea, but I do prefer someone else to start the brewing process, if you know what I mean. I often don't think about it until I'm so tired I just want to fall asleep. Unfortunately, as my dh is a busy SAHD he often feels the same way. So we have had to intentionally schedule some tea-time.
It's much easier to have tea parties in our new house--in our old place not only didn't the door to the bedroom lock, it couldn't even be closed.
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We start by running over it when we reach it in the book, I type up a copy and put it in our "memory" notebook. Each piece (list, definition, etc.) moves back in the notebook as it is mastered, until it is only reviewed periodically. My oldest memorizes fast, so there usually isn't THAT much in there on a daily basis...
The memory notebook: I have "daily", "weekly", "monthly" and "archive" section dividers. If he does it perfectly for a run matching the next period, it moves towards the back. For example, he repeats the list perfectly every day for a week... it moves into the weekly section. He repeats it perfectly once every week (on Thursdays, for us) for a month... it moves into the monthly section. If he does it correctly for several months in a row, I move it to the "archive".
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My dh and I share meal cooking responsibilities... we meal plan together before we shop (often together, or just him if I don't have time) and as we plan we note which one of us will cook which meal. My dh isn't a big veggie person either, but I simply write "grilled summer squash" next to the "burgers" and he'll do it.:001_smile:
I enjoy cooking, so even though he is home more I tend to cook when we don't plan in advance. And I'm much better at "winging it" by using up pantry staples when there is nothing in the house.
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Sigh. I was afraid of that.
It's been over a week, and there is no sign of the box with my everyday silverware! Arrgh! I sure hope it hasn't been lost... we almost accidentally threw out our wedding album in this move when a box of pictures got mixed up in the boxes of trash for the dump. During our "decluttering" as we moved we had dozens of boxes for goodwill, a bunch of stuff freecycled, as well as three big truckloads of trash. Luckily the friend I had hired to haul the trash to the dump for us noticed as he was about to throw it and made a quick rescue!
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My ds has memorized the definitions and lists orally, first using FLL and now reviewing with GWG. He doesn't write fluently, and learns best by hearing rather than writing, so that's worked fine for us. My younger son is more visual, so when he gets to that point, perhaps I'll have him write them down as a memory tool...
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I have one burn scar from the top of my toaster oven--a pretty big scar, actually.
I have no iron scars because while I'm a klutz... I almost never iron. It has been at least 3 years since I turned one on.
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A favorite luxurious snack around here is a banana and a bowl of almond or cashew butter to dip it in... mmmm.... delicious!
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During our move we have managed to misplace the box with our everyday cutlery--it's Oneida stainless steel. However, I was able to find right away my big wooden box of inherited sterling. So, of course, the "good" silver that I only use once a year has become our everyday silver for now.
I'm getting tired of washing this stuff by hand, but my mom always said that good china and good silver had to be washed by hand. My china has gold on it, so that seems to make sense--it might wear off. But the silver? Will I really ruin it with a run through the dishwasher?
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I agree... we shop first at Costco, second at TJs, only then at the local grocery store. The "basic" prices at TJs are less than I spend couponing at the "regular" store, for the most part.
Lots of inexpensive basics I buy there: rice, pasta, cheese (I love cheese--TJs is the only place to get good cheese at a decent price), veggies (the ones they carry, which do change), lunch meat, eggs (best place for eggs!), yogurt, milk, juice, frozen veggies, nuts (my dh eats lots of almonds), cereal, peanut butter, jelly, olive oil, maple syrup... all soooooo much cheaper.
Ds6 says his favorite thing to buy at TJs is gouda.
Ds4 say his favorite thing to buy at TJs is chocolate muffins.
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Two weeks ago someone stickered my car with "Liberals are stupid", next to my Obama sticker. It peeled off pretty easily, but my boys were pretty upset--we had been in a matinee kid movie and came out to find the sticker.
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Banks are the worst... we're in the midst of arguing with ours about fees that we were "told" wouldn't be added, but were. I don't think we'll have much luck, so we are going to switch to another bank.
FWIW, I don't know if your bank is really a "local" one or a branch of a major national bank, but my sister in law (the banker) advised us to make sure all our money was in larger national banks. Only a few smaller banks have gone bankrupt thus far, but more will be going under as the year goes on.
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I have never done it myself, but I did sit through an oral report in the 7th grade when a young boy gave a lot of information on "living orgasms". Like fish, and birds, and mammals. Even at the time, I was highly amused... and some kids didn't notice at all.
Mostly I type "United Methodists" as "Untied Methodists". Now I have someone to check my typos... but back before I had a secretary, I once listed a hymn as "Come Christians, Join to Sin". Instead of "Sing".
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See, I approach this question another way.
I would indeed consider early loss of implanted fetuses as miscarriages, but I answered "another time in pregnancy" because don't think that they are without implantation and detection. Otherwise, every time you get your period and have had intercourse, it is likely a "miscarriage". I think I've read up to 80% of fertilized eggs don't implant, or do and are lost in the first day or so before the time of your next period.. yet I don't have a mourning period or funeral every time I get my period. In fact, pregancy tests only detect successfully implanted fetuses, not fertilized eggs, so there is really no way for the average woman to know. If you truly believe that those balls of cells that might be lost each month are human beings, then is menstruation a time of death and mourning?
I don't know that this is that relevant to the abortion debated (other than the "morning after" pill that prevents implantation--although IUDs also prevent implantation, and for some reason that isn't considered abortion, per se), but it is an interesting question about the meaning of "life".
As for individuals, of course my reply would be according to their own feelings of loss...
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Last year we used an idea from these boards... a chess timer.
When ds was behaving, one side timed. When he started fussing or causing disruption, the other side timed. All "fussing time" was subtracted from activities he enjoyed.
It worked pretty well, and he liked to be the one to hit the timer... so he would get it together, walk back, hit the "behaving" side and say "I'm ready to behave now!"
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I do try to ask that question every day... but it sure would be nice to have a clear and direct answer instead of muddling through as I do.
Commuter train crash near our old house...
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We live in Reseda now, so it's about 10 miles from here... and didn't know until I saw it online.