In real life, Arlo wouldn’t even have to turn the light on, but then I’m allowed to draw him flipping a light switch.
Home & Away
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132 responses to “Home & Away”
Rick:
Amen, and God bless you for the kids you saved. As a college prof I had it easier, but many were out there. Seemed to be a strong correlation btw home situation and class performance. Many seemed to read at about grade 6 level, had no real writing ability, and little reasoning ability. Many also got nothing out of JHS/HS science experience, or were deliberately misled there. Collected many data on that, but never analyzed it or published anything on it. Could have.
Good reason to expect some [term escapes me] degree of alcohol-related developmental syndrome, illiterate home environment or support, and abuse [often sexual] at home. Of course, mammoth frosh lecture sections didn’t help. I’ve mentioned that our Biol. 101 class had more students than the populations of some students’ home towns. I don’t know that I prevented any suicides, but am sure I helped some graduate who would not have without personal support [several have told me so], and maybe some tutoring. College has a tutoring program; don’t know how effective.
JJ has added some automatic spelling correction, and there’s always a wavy red line under emb. Peace, emb
emb
Use asterisk (*) for degree
Nature was excellent again tonight
Nova was confusing. But then Math always has confused me.
debbe
14 turkey farms in 5 counties have been infected in MN by Flu.
900,000 birds. They think it is migratory birds doing the infecting.
In “Big” Tom Hanks asks his girlfriend to come back with him –
her reply was basically she was not going though her teens again
This was on the Yahoo home page – Cats communicating with us
http://news.yahoo.com/cats-chat-us-meows-blinks-roving-whiskers-141741791.html
The experts said cats don’t purr when humans are not around – I had Tiger that proved the
exception to that rule – she would purr when she did not know I was around.
I’m a real person. I couldn’t make me up.
emb, when you type “emb” and the red line appears under it, right click on it and you should get a drop-down window which includes the option Add to Dictionary. Left click that and it should accept emb as a correct spelling in the future.
Rick and emb, thank you for your service to our country. Our military protects us from our enemies. Teaches protect us from ignorance, if we let them. My favorite teachers in the higher grades were teaching biology, human anatomy, etc. So what do I end up with for a career? Coding medical charts where I deal with medical terminology, anatomy, etc, everyday. Thank you Mr. Washington, wherever you are.
Teachers, I really can spell, but it’s been a long day.
(*) emb Looks good. Let’s see what that (*) does. Thanks and peace, emb.
Mark: I guess I deserve thanks because I served +/- willingly. I don’t think my service did the USA much good, but that was mostly USAF’s fault. speelczech: Yay! I will teach my A&J dictionary lots of stuff. Sciurus carolinensis Upupa epops. More as they come.
Bedtime, Nighty bunch, emb
Ghost, if you are not a real person then you couldn’t have made yourself up. Also if you are a real person then you didn’t make yourself up. Of course we may have made you up, but then we would not have you denying that you are made up. Based on a lack of evidence to the contrary, I think that we are forced to conclude for now that you are real, in spite of the name. I know that we hope so as your intellect would be missed.
Good morning Villagers….
Guys, you are the greatest….thank you all for your concerns and prayers for Rachael. She is on the mend. Little Kyler is with his Uncle as she is restricted to lifting no more than 5 pounds, and that little feller loves to be picked up and loved. And yes, Gal, prayers do work…in His way.
My husband started feeding the birds back when we were snow covered….and still is….on the front porch railing. I came home the day before and my innie-outtie cat (Hampton) had killed a cardinal and brought it up on the porch….he was enraged and physically slam dunked her….I was p-off. I told him it was her instinct. Then later in the evening, he goes back out and puts out more bird feed….I told him that “you are only creating a buffet out there!!”
So, yesterday morning, I told him he had to start feeding them elsewhere because of the “red alert” and I am not walking to my car from the porch possibly stepping in bird poop. He has stopped. Told him to clean the porch off. He is very much aware of how diseases can be transmitted in the agri business. He also use to work in loading hogs, and worked in hog buildings. He would have to shower and put on clean clothes in-betwee hog buildings.
This is a very serious situation, this Avian flu, and has the poultry business on high alert. Look for poultry and egg prices to go up….
Indy Mindy….that was a groan, wasn’t it. 🙂
GR 😉 , I always did like that song
Hey…ya’ll have a blessed day……
=^..^=
🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8329340416
….and Jerry, thank you for your compliment……smiles on me today everybody 🙂
Everyone:
I hope it didn’t seem as if I were fishing for compliments; I assure you that I was not.
My intention – albeit clumsily attempted – was to illustrate the true and deep pain in which many children live every second of the day.
Thank you for the kind words, but I don’t deserve them.
The teachers who do deserve them are the ones whose dedication to the kids keeps them in the classroom past thirty years.
I wasn’t strong enough.
Now, I have an office job in a business.
Rick….I use to substitute teach in-between jobs…..it is an under appreciated job from the parent’s perspective. They send their children to school expecting the teachers to ‘babysit’ and I could always tell, by the kids’ actions, what type of parents they had…..
I am positive you gave it your best…thank you.
Good morning Debbe and be careful out there. Although obviously it was not made public, we had a friend who died of mad cow disease several years ago. She was not a farm worker. She worked in a lab and was somehow exposed there.
I always smile, Granny Carol, when I see your name above an entry because I know you will have posted something that will make me reflect, be thankful, or laugh…sometimes all three.
Rick, emb, c ex-p, and the other teachers out there: every person you will ever meet can tell you a story of at least one teacher who changed their life in a positive way. We probably never told you then; we probably didn’t know how. We were just kids, teens, young adults…awkward and unsure, conflicted and battered, normal and not normal and downright crazy, we were. You meant a lot to us, you meant the world and life to us, and you still do. We think about you all the time, all our lives long, lives that you changed in a positive way. Thank you.
From today’s AWordADay [which I’m guessing many of you get]:
Never lend books; nobody ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924). [Punct. tweaked.]
Anu Garg, for 2015, has apparently decided that AWAD’s daily quote will be from someone born on that date. Questions: 1. Will he run into a date with no worthwhile quotes? [Probably not.] 2. AWAD comes only M-F. What will he do / the 104 dates he misses? He could catch them all in ’16-’17, + 29 Feb. in ’16, unless it’s a Sat. or Sun.
Peace,
Denise: Thank you. emb
“Ghost and Mrs. Muir” alert! TCM Is running the movie this evening at 6 pm (that’s here in Michigan—your time may vary). Since this was recently discussed, I thought I’d point it out. Jackie, I do hope you see this post!
Gal, I’ve always imagined Ghost as looking rather like Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
emb: “I may have done some of that here, but none of it worth apologizing for…” You are a scientist, and those of the scientific nature usually do not “embroider”. Neither do mathematicians. It is usually we who lean toward the various “liberal arts” that have to be more careful!
Debbe, drawn by a local MN artist for the Fargo paper.
http://www.inforum.com/opinion/cartoons/3723441-trygve-olson-cartoon-041615
@Jerry in FL 12:01 AM AGH! get out of my head, the entire world is only a creation of my mind, help me !
I should never have gotten this book . ..
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-World-Exist-Existential/dp/0871403595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429200458&sr=8-1&keywords=why+does+the+world+exist
I managed to find time to read (thanks, Wayne) BM’s “paean to grandiosity” (good one, Gal, although I might be more inclined to call it a “paean to pomposity”). As is so often the case with his proclamations, he seems to have swallowed a thesaurus before he sat down to belch, ah, write out this obiter dictum, but from what I can gather, he took offense at someone proposing that a single word be banned from usage. This seems at odds with what I had been led to believe was his previously stated reason for (ironically) banning *all* words from the comments section of his “bog”, namely that it had been inundated with trolls.
Actually, I share his opposition to word banning, but I would have to question his “baby with the bathwater” response to such a proposition. But then he, in his wisdom, already felt that comments did “no good”, so I’m sure that was an easy, if not knee-jerk, decision for him to make, especially about something that so grievously offended his sensibilities, and since he obviously felt that the comments section of his “bog” was populated only with the unwashed plebs of his tidy world. We may all be thankful that Jimmy does not display that brand of “wisdom” here.
(Now, again, enough of what BM calls “grandstanding” and back to what I should be doing. Damn, this place is habit-forming, isn’t it?)
It’s like the Reader’s Digest. You never know what funny joke, inspiring message or interesting tale you’re going to find. John-good Charlie Brown imitation.
Nodak Wayne, thanks for the cartoon — it’s awfully clever. And may be awfully true!