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  1. I'll PM you when we get there. Someday.... (I own the Giancoli text from the first kid who took this class. She tanked the 1st semester final because she needed more on-going review after finishing material. I built it in for her during 2nd semester.)
  2. As of this year, DerekOwens's PreCalc no longer uses the textbook he previously used. [I'm debating using him for PreCalc for my kid#3 next year. Physics is going very slowly this year with his course.]
  3. My #2 & #3 are my biggest gap: over 2 1/2 years. They were the easiest to combine academically once #1 outstripped #2 & I couldn't pair them anymore (about 4th & 2nd grade). Even now with #2 in college, #3 is basically doing the same math & has similar essay-writing abilities. My #3 & #4 are my closest in age: 17 months. I have never been able to combine them. Not even for history & religion studies. I planned to before #3 was 4 yrs old, but it became obvious then how stupid that would be. My #4 & #5 are 27 months apart. I've combined them since #5 was in K. Occasionally, I have to separate them for skill subjects, like in Spelling, but then find #5 has caught (and passed) #4 again. So, you just never, ever know.
  4. I called time & temp for the temperature or to reset the clocks on the oven/microwave after the circuit breaker reset. You couldn't trust anyone's watch because everyone in my house set their watch forward/ backward depending on their personal preference. I remember calling the movie theaters to hear which movies were showing at what time that day. My kids wouldn't understand this because 1) we only have one screen at the one movie theater in town where the movie is clearly shown on the front of the building and the time the movie shows is always the same and 2) you can look up online the schedule for what movie will be there for the next two weeks. The first time their aunt took them to a multi-screen movie theater, they were very impressed.
  5. This was an interesting read. I have no idea if this is a minority of cases or if transitioning/gender disphoria is often rooted in some unrelated & unworked-out psychological trauma. I found myself shocked and unhappy with the therapist's feelings, reactions, and opinions throughout the article. Kind of mad at her for "blaming" (my word) the patient's mom for the patient's every problem. I can only imagine the (additional) trauma on moms of trans kids if they were told it was their "fault" (again, my word) their kid felt they did not match the body they were born in. Plus, thinking it was good for a daughter to anonymously troll her mom on social media to purposefully get the mom to lose her cool? Nope. Not a fan of this psychotherapist. But it was an interesting read and likely at leaat some of her points had merit for the mental health professionals to think about and possibly debate.
  6. "This can include wildlife management operations, field research, recreation, tourism and hunting." "It has also been suggested that water sources contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 might provide a pathway for transmission, although this has yet to be proved." "There is the possibility that viral mutation in a reservoir host, such as white-tailed deer, could lead to new variants of the disease. These variants may lead to greater infection rates, increased virulence (severity of symptoms) and prove more effective at evading the human immune system. Likewise, any reinfection from wildlife reservoirs could also complicate our long-term efforts to fight and suppress the disease." https://theconversation.com/white-tailed-deer-found-to-be-huge-reservoir-of-coronavirus-infection-171268 If it jumps back to humans, there will always be more strains mutating no matter what the vaccination status of the world population. So far, no evidence of deer-to-human transmission. Hunters might be the first ones to experience it if it happens.
  7. RootAnn

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    We use Revolution Plus on the cats, but here, we need a Rx from the vet. For our foster kittens, we bathe with Dawn and comb out with flea comb as best as we can. If they are big enough, we put Frontline Plus or Revolution Plus on them once they are dry. The older cats usually just get treated, no bath, because no one wants to be mauled trying to bathe a full size cat...
  8. I have seen two cases of this in my small community. If you do not fit a certain model and you are unhappy, you must be in the wrong body. I think there is some social contagion in one case and mental health struggles in the other. I don't know what the long-term outcome will be. I suspect we won't know for another 5+ years. Even in my rural area, it was not difficult for one of the young females to find a doctor to prescribe hormones (at 17ish). The irreversibility is what concerns me.
  9. @kiwikI assume you checked CLRC classtimes? Clrconline.com Their classtimes are listed as Pacific so they tend to be later for us. Not sure if that helps or hurts you.
  10. I can wear my progressives but I usually shove them up my forehead to read anything because it is just easier than messing with how they make my brain feel. [Expensive local place, not a chain store] I try to only wear them for driving or in stores where I need to be able to see long distances bevause I couldn't get used to them. Of course, I couldn't get used to the multifocal contacts either. I still have most of the trial pack.
  11. Which level? Any prior Latin knowledge? My kid did the first semester of level 1 with some prior Latin. She spent 4-6 hours most weeks, I would guess. [Unrelated, but just in case anyone wonders why only one semester.] It was not a fit for her. As one example, she didn't like the competition aspect (top certain # of scorers on the test each week got congratulated in weekly emails). It didn't matter if she was in the top or not--she was not a fan. She's a collaborative learner who likes interaction among classmates in a live class, so while she loved her teacher, Lukeion's focus & format were not for her.
  12. Yeah, sorry, @cintinative. We, too, just used the colleges' own websites. I assume your DE college uses transferology?
  13. @goldberry Hugs to your dd and I'm glad she has a mom like you & such supportive advisors/profs.
  14. Definitely the playing cards first. Chocolate 2nd
  15. Florida has something like the 3rd one. My dd#1 decided against going to UCF partially due to their excess hour surcharge. Any credit hours over 120% of baseline for your major will be charged an excess credit hour surcharge (per credit hour). so, if your minor causes you to go over, too bad. DE doesn't count but transfer credits do. Not sure how that works for people like my kids who take classes but it isn't officially called "DE." (The college is very particular about what they call DE.)
  16. We pick up our local paper (it is a weekly) vs having a subscription (which is mailed out). It is the same cost to pick it up as to have a subscription which is weird but true. We end up spending less because there are some weeks we don't get it.
  17. At my dd#1's college (which is mostly engineering, comp sci, & nursing majors), no 100 & 200 math classes allow calculators to be used on exams and heavily discourage their use for homework. They use MATLAB on some assignments, though. Of course, the students do have graphing calculators. Unlike high school calc classes, it seems to be completely normal to discourage calculator use in 4 yr U calc classes. Fyi.
  18. I'm not a fan of long hair on guys. But that's personal. I can't imagine an employer having a double standard on hair like that, especially against guys. That's wrong. So's the makeup requirement. When I worked, I did have a (male) manager ask me to see what type of pants the female managers wore and to buy those. Shrug.
  19. I guess we have a smaller house than most who have posted. Our living room is "open concept" with our kitchen/dining area. There is a couch, TV, half-size bookshelf, and a piano. The couch is much in demand all day long as a rest area, a study area, or a place to hang & chat while someone else is cooking. On weekend nights, you'll find the family on & surrounding the couch to watch a movie. Sometimes the floor is taken up with a solitary game, but that's for the younger/limber members of the house. We have a basement homeschool area but no comfy place to sit like a couch or recliner. The living room is the natural gathering place.
  20. Yay! This is a winner!!! Much appreciated @whitestavern! Thanks to everyone for advice & tips!
  21. Hm. Interesting @Bootsie. My kids might say there was an interesting person & tell about what that person said/did. They likely did not engage with them at all in terms of speaking to them. Is that what you were getting at with an introvert's interaction vs an extrovert's interaction? I don't actually know which of my kids might be an extrovert. Some definitely lean more ambivert.
  22. I'm sure social anxiety is part of this for some people but not all of us. I have no problem chatting up strangers on an elevator or mingling with groups. (I do NOT like public speaking, however.) But being outgoing is more like an outfit I can don & doff (but having it on saps me of emotional energy). I prefer my books to hanging with friends. I don't mentally shrink from human interaction, but it does drain me. DH & I both need our alone time after lengthy interactions with people-- even our own kids if there has been "too much" from all of them in one day.
  23. I've always tested just on either side of the extrovert/introvert scale on the MBTI. It would sometimes be one (extrovert) & most often be the other (introvert), but always just barely over the line. My friends through the years would tell you I'm an extrovert. No question. I can "turn on" my chatty, reach out, "comfy" persona. But I could go for an awfully long time without seeing anyone other than DH or a kid & be perfectly content. People interactions drain me. I get exhausted. I used to have a higher tolerance level before being drained. My cup was fuller, perhaps. Easier to drain me now. I suspect I would test much further over on "I" now
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