And... he's up saying he's hungry. So, he just ate half a banana...

I brushed my teeth...

So, we cleaned up the mess, I gave him a bath, got him tucked in again...

(he did not throw up broccoli though)

Broccoli threw up.

Vopo!

And then...

Stayed up too late... was just going to bed at like 2:30...

We watched a horror movie (DW and I).

Wow, everybody must've gone to bed early.

Is that problem going to last only one night, or indefinitely? The funny wasn't funny. I wasn't thinking. It wasn't even a bad joke... it just wasn't, I dunno. Brain not awake at the time or something.

I may have done that very, very, rarely. Not sure how to vote.

I was only responding to your statement that countries with well-performing school systems generally don't have a school choice. I don't know about other countries - but Arcadia has mentioned Singapore, I have mentioned NL, and both tend to do pretty well. Whether you want to play a semantics game about it being choice within a public system (which a lot of kids don't have in the US) is up to you. And no, for the most part, kids aren't trying to get out of schools because they're that bad. A school like that would have gone under ages ago, because of school choice. It's not like school choice is a new thing in NL. The US has many issues, but banning charters, magnets, private schools, and homeschooling isn't going to just solve the problem - if you make people use the public schools, people with money would just move to a better school district (just like many already do).

Hm, I wonder how many more posts I can pad giving the latitude of world cities in terms of Buffalo and/or NL?

Or, 10 degrees further north than Boston (which is at about the same latitude as Buffalo).

Or, if you prefer, NL is as far north as somewhere between the Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas is south. Or, way to the south of Africa, Tasmania, or New Zealand (parts of Tasmania & New Zealand are at the same latitude as WNY - well, S instead of N, of course).

I like being felpful. Maybe the comparison to Irkutsk in Siberia was more felpful? If we were to go straight north to 52 degrees N, we'd be in the James Bay (part of the Hudson Bay). Maybe that's felpful. And, WNY is the same latitude as Corsica.

Or Irkutsk.

Btw, NL is about the same latitude as Saskatoon (I finally bothered to look up what city would be comparable).

It's a thing, but living in NL, I'd never heard of special tires. We don't get as much snow as WNY, but people do slip on ice every now and then every winter. BTDT, more than once. Not many people here (WNY) bicycle in winter. That said, not that insanely many people bicycle here in summer either. In NL, almost everyone bicycles (not everyone bicycle commutes, but they might still bicycle to do groceries, or to visit friends, or for fun, etc). E.g.

DW put the spiked tires on a week and a half ago or something, iirc. She says that they are annoying to ride on when there isn't snow/ice, because then there's less road contact, so, it's always a guessing game. Also, they're a pain to put on.

(((Mr. Mallerd))) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mallerd

I'd assume an icy patch on the road, not on the ice rink or a frozen lake. Anyway, maybe he could get spiked tires for xmas? I also hope his wrist isn't broken.

NL has school choice, including the choice to send your kids to publicly funded schools of a particular religion* (and, if the only school of your minority religion is super far away, the state will even pay for transportation - this is very rare, since most kids walk or bicycle to schools within, well, walking/bicycling distance, but anyway). For secondary school, often the student decides which school to attend, rather than the parent (though of course the parent is the final decision-maker... but many parents let their kids choose). *Religious schools have two options - either only take kids of that religion, or take everybody. They can't just make some exceptions but not others. The vast, vast, vast majority take everyone, and they're generally also quite secular.

N/m.