BlueGlow

Thank you, and happy birthday!

I recently enjoyed Solutions and Other Problems. I am very excited to read her first book!

Also, on ours the mini seat eventually scratched up the adult seat underneath. I was very happy I'd kept the original when we were ready to ditch the dual version.

I really think every org/school/employer/whatever needs an official reference that distinguishes between, like, the 1st 2 nights of Pesah vs Tzom Tammuz.

They were trying to schedule a week-long professional event, and I bet they found a calendar that looked like

May
2 Ridván ends
14 Feast of the Ascension
21-23 Shavuot
23-24 Declaration of the Bab
24 Pentecost
26-27 Eid-ul-Adha
28-29 Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
31 Trinity Sunday

and gave up.

I just spent a little time searching for a *good* reference. A calendar that doesn't just list everything, but has notes for which events require accommodation. Here's the best I found so far:

www.swarthmore.edu/human-resour...

Anyone know a better resource?

I recently spoke with an inexperienced scheduler who had to move an event due to a religious holiday conflict. They told me they'd tried to check ahead, but "there are always religious holidays".

Organizers really need to find and use a good reference that notes *which* events require attention.

I hung crystal suncatchers in all the windows that get good light. I don't know if sudden scattered rainbows whenever the sun comes out counts as whimsical, but it makes me happy.

... I can make a trifold version of your pages, and prop our set on a mantle for a few weeks, then collapse it to tuck away somewhere.

Thanks for the inspiration!

That looks really good! And it gives me an idea for a project I didn't really know what to do with--

My mother, daughter, and I all painted the same hummingbird together. I thought of framing them as a triptych, but honestly they aren't good enough. But...

Serious question: how do you handle cleanup? I don't like the idea of sticking used gunky utensils back in the pouch.

The last time I had really serious congestion, after flying w/ a bad cold, I started getting panic attacks every night when trying to sleep. It was awful.

I don't tolerate Sudafed well, so now I proactively use Flonase anytime I have cold symptoms, or when I have allergies and a flight coming up.

Article was paywalled, but I think this is the app. (Found via reddit, where folks were saying it's Android only, at least for now.)

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I live in a timeline where a satirical online publication is dropping poetry that should be given a Nobel in Literature.

This is genuinely one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

Sounds similar, but I'm pretty sure it was the Diva Dance from the Fifth Element.

I think it was a cover version by a Kazakh artist, maybe the same artist who did the first part of the music?

Yeah, I genuinely don't think I could survive a third baby. But I could totally do a 3rd puppy someday.

The sleep deprivation part was much easier 20 yrs ago, but having a house w/ fully fenced yard and hardwood floors makes up for it.

RIP the ankles of all my pajama pants.

After having a dog for 16 yrs, it was so bewildering to start over with a puppy who didn't even know the word "No!", and who didn't have the attention span or impulse control to remember anything from one moment to the next.

A couple weeks into puppy-parenthood, I found myself searching "post partum depression but puppy". Very validating to see I wasn't the only one.

The most heartening was the reddit poster who observed that "babies are a marathon, puppies are a sprint". It really did get better so fast.

To me (American, grew up in WASP country but definitely not part of WASP society), it has strong additional connotations of country clubs and expensive schools. Preppy clothes (eg, polo shirts). Old/inherited money.

The only solution is to have at least one person in the family with obvious ASD and someone else with textbook ADHD, so you have a useful frame of reference for everyone else.

Once my children had their separate diagnoses, everyone else snapped right into place.

Don't forget too that ADHD/ASD assessment typically relies heavily on self-reporting or parental observation.

My husband fell through the cracks on anxiety screening for years, because they basically ask if you have anxiety ("do you worry too much? Always/sometimes/never"), and he kept saying no.

The thing I find odd is that her HS doesn't offer any honors classes, but they do offer an AP option for almost everything. So whereas I basically took all honors for 3 yrs and then all AP senior year, she's jumping right in with classes like AP Pre Calc, that I never even had the option to take.

That's reassuring. I suspect my kiddo, like yours, will be fine rising to the challenge level of AP classes. I'm mostly worried about the time required, but it makes sense that math and physics don't really add much time if you can grasp the concepts reasonably quickly.

Not only can a colonoscopy catch cancer early and save your life, it can also *prevent* cancer if they find and remove any polys.

If you're old enough to qualify, you owe it to yourself and to your loved ones to get it done.

My freshman is in AP Human Geography, and wants to sign up for APs in math, science, English, history, and psychology next year. A little worried about how that might go-- I've heard her current AP history class is considered an "easy" AP, concerned she may have a false sense of what's realistic.

The hateful rhetoric is what caused the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman.

That's what he's talking about, right?

Right?

I found it on her website! I hope it's okay to post this...

redwombatstudio.com/2006/09/28/e...

Now US W coast, area developed in 1970s (attached garages facing street), we use front door because we park in the driveway in front of house. Back door is only for backyard access. Everyone I know out here has pretty much the same setup, unless they park in & enter through their garage.

Growing up, US E coast, house built in 1920s, we used the back door because the driveway went behind the house. Didn't even have an exterior key for front, but used it from inside to retrieve mail etc. But I knew plenty of folks who used their front door or entered their home through a garage.

Today's PSA:

If your email to your reps includes the phrase "Defund ICE", don't forget to edit after autocorrect turns it into "Refund ICE".

A refund would be even better, but baby steps.