Celery seems to use the Greek alphabet as a stim, chanting it a zillion times a day if I don't make him stop. Anyway, he made a Scratch program, in which the cat says the Greek alphabet too. Just thought that was funny.

Better, thanks.

That's not surprising at all - I had a visa problem and couldn't get on my Icelandair flight back home last December, had to reschedule for the next day, and it cost more than the roundtrip had cost too. And that was with their special "rescheduling" prices... not sure if it would've made a difference vs just buying a one-way ticket, but they were going to call me a no-show in just a few more minutes (I'd already stood there for over an hour trying frantically to sort out the visa problem, but the Canadian visa application website was down, and then had a bug when it was back up, etc), so I didn't have time to look up the difference. Last minute prices suck. I could've saved like $50 if I'd stayed in NL an additional month, because flying mid-January is cheaper than mid-December. Yeah, no.

I don't think we own a timer. And the lights don't have a switch, so, the options are to leave them plugged in or to unplug them - can't just "turn them off".

Our indoor xmas tree lights have been on since I put them on the tree a week ago or so. They work great as a nightlight, plus, DW has been working till 6am the last few nights (at home), and the kids wake up at 8-something, so it's not a big deal either way. We don't have outdoor lights.

Never? We don't have a vacuum cleaner... (okay, we have a little handheld, which gets used occasionally for the couch or w/e) We also have zero carpet/rugs/etc.

In which case you could probably delay it till spring of senior year, if you're concerned about it taking up too much time and dragging down his GPA causing him to lose a scholarship. Obvious downsides are that if he's done a language in high school, there'd be a big gap, and, that spring of senior year might not be the time he'd want to be spending a lot of energy on a foreign language, but rather on trying to secure a job or who-knows-what, but, at least at the schools I've attended, there are no rules on *when* you have to take your gen ed courses.

Oh, I thought she meant that your secret motto was the "hiding your laughing behind your hand" emoji she had in her post. #obviouslynotpayingattention

I started the laundry an hour or so ago. Maybe that's it?

I started what? Yeah, I missed it too.

DW and Broccoli camped in the backyard a week ago. They made s'mores and slept in a tent, until DW had to go pee at 1am and was too cold after that, so they came back inside. They'd wanted to camp out in the woods, but there were 3+ft of snow in the woods, so, that didn't work (there was only slightly over a foot in our backyard).

You could do a campfire outside.

DW worked till 6am. On one of her vacation days (one of those "use them or lose them" kind of days). And now she's working again. She does say that she's planning on leaving work early a bunch of times in January.

Can I Jump Into WWE3? You mean like this, but with books (specifically, WWE3)? Um, I don't know. You could try. Though the chalk drawing would probably be more fun to jump into.

Maybe. Nauseous, and my back hurt, and now my neck hurts, and I don't know what. Just not a good few days.

You don't use a vet for that?

I'm not feeling good.

I got in-state tuition a year after moving to a state because I moved there because I got married to a resident of that state. I.e. I didn't move there in order to attend college. Generally, proving that you didn't move there for college is harder, afaik.

#felpful

It's when the government makes you give them part of your money so they can do with it whatever they want to do with it.

(((Spuds)))

Not too young... the first book mentions millions of people dying in various famines, wars, etc, with nice infographics. That said, my 10yo read some of it this past summer and was fine (I hadn't expected him to read it, he just picked it up because I had it lying around), but iirc he didn't touch the 2nd book in the series, nor did he ask for the second book. ETA: I just looked it up. When the Ming dynasty fell, 95 million people perished (book 1, page 29). Dozens of millions for most of the other dynasty changes (71% of the population perished when the Han dynasty fell). Also, some of the words would be too hard for young kids (it's written for adults, iirc). So, middle school and up-ish and ymmv-ish?

I agree with STEM and Sebastian, but presumably the other schools would have the same required core classes and similar issues... I'd take it seriously, and definitely try to talk to a few current students majoring in that subject (and also glance at reviews for profs in other subjects).

Boeja! Night night.

...and is back in bed now... and...