Are they choreographing the daddy-daughter dances themselves, or some sort of group performance by the dance team at the same event?
The dance team performs during halftime shows in general. This time all the daddies (not just Jammies) are invited to dance one number together with their daughters. It's choreographed by the dance teacher.
It's extremely faintly ridiculous but all in good fun. Also there will be a non-trivial number of non-daddies playing the role of daddies, but being a heteronormative location, we'll still use daddies as the collective noun.
I'm fine. I don't even have a daughter though.
I have various pains. The hidden horror of physical therapy is that you can't ever quit the therapy if you don't want the problem to return.
I thought I was supposed to get $725 million from Facebook, but it turns out other people also applied. So I'm probably looking at less than $50. Which really lowers my price range on the yacht.
Next week I go to address 2 longstanding ailments:
1. a few years ago I developed ganglion cysts in a couple knuckles of my right hand. Other than making it hard to knock on doors, they didn't affect much, but a couple months ago they grew dramatically, and now it's difficult to tightly grip small things (eg to tear tape off a box). So going to a hand guy.
2. Last summer, when I got COVID, it coincided with tremendous jaw pain. Dr. Internet swears dental stuff is not a COVID symptom, but the bottom line is that my long-dormant wisdom teeth have spent several periods of the last year shifting, disaligning the rest of my teeth. So I'm finally going to a dentist to begin what I'm sure will be a painful, expensive process. Ugh. This wasn't really procrastination on my part, just the impossibility of getting a new dentist these days, plus various insurance-related things. Anyway.
Separately, my dad, in reasonably good health, turns 80 next weekend, and I'm hosting 18 for dinner. My idea of fun? It was supposed to be more like a dozen, but....
10 sounds awful!
Heebie, I hope you share video of the dance at the other place (or message me a video; I've got to see this)!
So going to a hand guy.
Would you say that he does hand jobs?
You aren't supposed to say it that explicitly.
Just lost power in a crazy storm. On back up for the internet for another 30 minutes. Looks like we'll have to call an arborist.
So my daughter has been hyper-vigilant on Covid, masking in school and all other public environments until a couple of weeks ago, when she moved into her dorm as a freshman and started attending classes.
She immediately got Covid and has been at home this week, missing the beginning of school. (She's doing fine, medically, but still tested positive today.)
I'm running for re-election to my local position, because its been four years already. I've drawn an opponent who was once escorted out city hall by the police for being disruptive during the mask ordinance discussion.
18: Does the school have an infirmary or are students who can't go home SOL?
If the whole house hadn't had covid in July, I'd probably be worried about catching covid doing college visits.
17: in Boston the electricity comes from trees.
20: The schoolmate that she probably caught it from comes from the Left Coast and has gone to a hotel. So yeah, apparently you are SOL if you can't get home.
My daughter's roommate (an old friend) has got asthma, so my conscientious daughter is going to be very careful about all of this.
Sorry, PF's daughter. Cassandane had covid a couple weeks
Ago.
Sorry, didn't mean to post that so fast.
I'm reviewing a paper that I don't like and I find myself subconsciously making the wording nicer after I learned that I was Reviewer #2.
22: so many trees down - just ripped from the roots. One woman was trapped in her house. A tree fell in someone's car, crushing it. Miraculously, the person inside was unharmed. One of our neighbors has lives here for 40 years and said this was the worst storm hehad seen.
My oldest kid got married last weekend, my middle kid is a freshman in college, and I have a colonoscopy scheduled in a couple of weeks. It's a world of new frontiers.
I have a reminder to schedule a colonoscopy next week.
Which I prioritize over getting my colon photographed.
The main difference is Ohio has better lighting at least part of the time.
If your kid had married a gastroenterologist and you then had her take pictures of your intestines I'd be impressed.
"I can't put something up this man's ass, he's my father in law!"
I got a loop recorder installed in my chest this week. It looks like a usb drive. It connects via Bluetooth to an app on my phone and sends reports to doctors if my heart does anything weird. The future is full of unexpected ways to be a cyborg.
Cleveland, city of light, city of magic.
Someone was played Ultravix and Laura Brannigan tonight. It's making me want to get an iTunes account.
Apparently, you can play the Star Wars cantina song on a jukebox.
My oldest kid got married last weekend
Oh my word. Congratulations.
I had a colonoscopy and my oldest isn't even dating yet.
The daddy daughter dance was great, though.
Dance Dance Danseur is, topically, great. Once their eyes stop weirding you out.
I have not been able to figure out a persona that lets me post on Bluesky comfortably so maybe I'll try dipping my feet back in here? I had Covid again recently after a January 2022 bout led to long Covid. Paxlovid sure is magic and I'm doing okay now. Also had a second ankle surgery and a breast reduction this summer, both of which will be huge improvements in quality of life. I'm still pretty socially isolated but doing well.
My girlfriend Odile has lived with us since early in the Covid era, spent two years teaching a dead language to high school students and now is the behavior intervention teacher who comes into classrooms to help struggling kids at our primary school. She's loving the job and also that the commute is five minutes if she drives and parks, twice that if she walks. She asked me to marry her and for a number of reasons I've kept that in limbo, but we're finally making plans to do something tiny next fall and I will perhaps knit myself a sweater for it at least.
Nia is 17 and has struggled a lot. She's now in a residential program where we expect her to stay until she's 18 and can move into some sort of supported housing or the like. She just finished 10th grade through the only-the-basics program her new place uses, which suggests she may be able to get through to graduation during the nine months she'll be there. Getting her into a placement was an awful process that took almost a full year, though it was a bit of a relief to hear all the experts we work with say that I'd done everything possible to support her and find care for her outside that system. I'll always have what-ifs, but I do also know how hard we all tried to keep her and everyone safe and secure.
Mara is almost 16 and has not had any contact with my ex for the last 3+ years, which has improved their quality of life and stability. They play drums in the summer rock camp and flute in the school symphonic band and still do a lot of art. Language remains a struggle and I wish I had pushed for some diagnoses sooner because that would have made help from the schools easier to get. They also have a lot of health problems, so we're constantly balancing how many specialists they need to spend time seeing to be able to have a manageable life with enough freedom and time to live it.
Selah is 11 and 5'5" or maybe more because she's had another growth spurt since her last doctor's appointment. She is a cheerleader and has a lot of hilarious opinions and vocabulary. Right now we head about what she "shall do" all the time. She sees Lee every other weekend when they're both up for it, sometimes more when it's hot and she can use the pool at the apartment complex, often less. I'm sure she'll cause us plenty of stress as she gets older, but she is (as she likes to say) delightful.
So that's me, even as I notice I'm leaving off a lot of what's actually me doing things and being things. I'm involved in competitive trivia/quizzing a bit and would like to get better and hope to actually start studying now that life has settled down a touch. I still do a lot of crafty things, knitting and hand-sewing. I start more than I finish. Most of what I read is fiction. Physical therapy cleared me to start gentle hikes again and I'm looking forward to doing that this weekend. Life is never easy but at least I'm spending it with people I love and enjoy, though I sometimes enjoy it more when they leave me alone.
Moby, if you're looking for recommendations on stuff to do (or potentially want to grab a beer or whatever) in the Best Location in the Nation, holler.
Thorn! I'm having issues with Bluesky too, because no one liked my movie marque photo.
48: Thanks, but probably not a good trip for me to be meeting people since I will be traveling with both the family and an agenda. There's a possibility I'll be going to Ohio lots next year, but also maybe not.
Thorn! Welcome back! Glad to hear things seem to be going well.
Thorn!! So good to hear from you, you've been missed.
Power just came back on!
Thorn!!!
I'm starting a new job on Monday, after having been laid off back in January. Currently trying to figure out what kind of "First Day Of Work" photo op I should set up, to go along with all of the "First Day of Nth Grade" photos running around. I'm nervous about it, just because it'll be new and different and I had kind of gotten used to just being a househusband.
62: I've been wondering whether you found a job. Glad to hear you did.
Since I don't own the land the deer is on, I'm not worried about adverse possession. Just unnerved.
Thorn, it's so nice to hear an update from you. It sounds like things are going well. I'm glad.
I am on Bluesky. I like it.
I feel like there's so few people on there that you'll just see me if you ever go on there. Like a small town, eventually we'll run into each other.
Thorn, I am so happy you got a placement. There's not enough out there to help children and teenagers.
I have an invite code. No one I am actual friends with on Twitter wants it!
Now I simply need to delete my Twitter.
Wait. I'm having distant memories of an Ozma from easily over a decade ago. Is this the same Ozma?!
I remember a long time ago and I don't remember an Ozma. But then I don't remember names very well.
I remember an Ozma but I was only 9, I think, so probably not the same one.
Well, I remember that Ozma too. But the one I'm thinking of from the 2000s may have been connected with AWB? Or maybe they were just concurrent commenters? And she had a daughter whose age has probably changed since the 2000s.
There we so many people then, but some of them were Shearer.
Figuring out how to pick a colon scoper is hard enough that I feel I can now put it off under I can discuss with my doctor next month.
I haven't been this happy with private health insurance in decades.
Today I took my kid to the New England Pinball Expo, having seen Nathan Williams go on social media. This was the last day of the event so I think we missed a lot as things were being packed up, but we did get to play a lot of pinball.
I'm kinda disappointment by a lot of the modern pinball aesthetic - license some mid-level IP that appeals to Boomers or Gen X and build a bunch of audio catch phrases and video content into the pinball game. Like, I accept that a certain amount of that is necessary to the genre, but I really don't need my pinball game spiced up with Guns n' Roses concert footage. When the theme of the game cabinet takes precedence over the quality of pinball gameplay, its a problem.
Heebie-- Yes, I am that Ozma. I was first on Blogspot and then on Typepad then on Twitter and then on Facebook (FB just to keep track of my blogging peeps after all their blogs shut down),
Now I am on Bluesky.
So many years. My oldest kid is starting college now.
I am always deleting one version of my internet existence to try and avoid the distraction. Then creating another account. I can't stay away for good. Maybe it's time to simply see it as my hobby, and stop the endless struggle against myself
I remember you had another, more brightly colored blog. But I hung around Unfogged also since about 2002 or so. Iraq War Days, basically.
It is very wonderful to see you have kept this same site with the same layout. It's like going to my childhood neighborhood and seeing the local diner is still flourishing.
It's shining like a National guitar.
I'm glad you made it to the pinball expo! To be fair, the tie-in style has been part of the scene for a long time - Addams Family in 1990 was part of that trend, and it's a great game and sold more copies than any other machine in history. But lots of other adaptations sank beneath the waves as rapidly as the similarly-branded breakfast cereals. JJP Pirates of the Caribbean, a very modern tie-in, is excellent. The rock band themed games haven't thrilled me so far.
(I found the place so noisy that I couldn't hear the game I was actually standing at, which diminished the appeal somewhat)
80: A place I was about this time last year.
Forgot to say this earlier on but congratulations to Jammies and Hawaii.
I remember you had another, more brightly colored blog.
The brightly colored blog is still around, more or less unchanged, as well!
I think I have some sort of rigid compulsivity when it comes to certain routines. Of which blogging is most definitely one.
What I appreciate is pinball games that make their own IP. Back in the day, Comet and Cyclone were my two favorites, based on roller-coaster themes. There was another one I yesterday played that involved aliens abducting cows. Good stuff! Creative! Alas, that stuff gets pushed aside by machines built to engage us with our favorite entertainment brands.
Adams Family was good though, that's true.
88: Before it closed, there was a bar near me that had Taxi; a different bar had Gorgar until it broke (and they replaced it with IIRC The Shadow).
Speaking of bars, if dalriata is still reading, the bar that replaced Silky's closed.
I miss having these check-in threads, and I appreciate having a new one. Lately I don't feel up to the task of reading a whole linked article, or formulating an intelligible thought about current events. I just want to hear about everyone's quotidian happenings. (The Jammies/Hawaii dance is great! Very well-executed.)
I've hit pause on my ADU construction plans for now - interest rates are too high to finance most of the construction cost. Maybe in a year or two.
88, 89: Gorgar! Xenon! Eight Ball Deluxe!
92: An underappreciated factor in the continuing housing crisis.
92, 94 - This is the exact impact the Fed has been trying to achieve.
90: personal history alert, BOGF was working at Silky's when we first hooked up. I'm pretty sure I never patronized it though, before or after.
We would be so much better off fighting inflation by raising taxes instead of interest rates. It would even fix teh Deficit.
thorn it is lovely to have your update!
RE colons, my doctor is fine with Cologuard (or whatever it's called) for now, so someday soon I'll poop in a box.
To the OP, AB read T & T & T and has wanted to talk about it at length forever.
I've had a box sitting on my desk for a couple months that I have yet to poop in. Procrastination is a terrible thing.
We would be so much better off fighting inflation by raising taxes instead of interest rates. It would even fix teh Deficit.
How has this never occurred to me before?!
someday soon I'll poop in a box
You can start practicing now with any old box.
I'll lead by example.
He'll never learn. He hasn't even finished Mort in, what, six years?
How hard can it be to shit in a box?
You could just turn off the water, flush the toilet, shit in the toilet, and then lift it out with the dog-poop bag.
I didn't mean this kind of quotidian happening.
A process of pure reason is often less than attractive.
I had an awful dream. I was at the library, sitting at a table with a bunch of strangers, and I was under the understanding that sometimes people just peed in their seats here. That it somehow worked that way. So I did. (Of course I had to pee in real life.)
A little bit later, I realized that the custodian was circling in order to clean up after me, and the full horror of what I'd done descended on me: there was no pee-outside-a-bathroom social norm here at all.
Rather than turn tail and run, I felt like I should own it and apologize to the custodian. So I went over and apologized profusely. She responded graciously and said it was fine, it happens. My shame was so deep and I was so grateful for her response, that it felt like her response alleviated some of my anguish and I wanted to pursue more of this. So I kept following her around and apologizing, hoping to elicit another gracious excusal or something. Like the more I pestered her, the more I might get that sensation of relief again if she said her magic words.
Finally I woke up. It was like an actual descent into madness, where I had just the most unpleasant misunderstanding of social norms but then lucidity would flicker in. It was so awful.
yes, yes, of course I know other people's dreams are the dullest thing on the planet. But we were being so quotidian...
111: I generally completely disagree with that, and specifically I found the dream in 110 to be both hilarious and fascinating.
112: Not to mention that it gave me a more profound understanding of heebie's unconscious, and insight into how the trauma of toilet training has influenced the course of her whole life. Also, 112 was me, of course.
I've never pissed at my seat in a library, but if I did, I'd probably use a Gatorade bottle.
On library norms, I recall there was a trend in college for women who got engaged to confirm their diamond was real by using it to scratch glass and that the glass of the library copiers suffered from this. There was a sign, but not a judgemental sign.
I recall there was a trend in college for women who got engaged to confirm their diamond was real by using it to scratch glass
Classy. One thinks of the stereotyped street pedlar in a Victorian novel biting a coin to make sure it wasn't counterfeit. Presumably the marriage proposal was accepted only conditionally, pending the result of the assay.
I think it was more about vandalism and the thrill of science.
So, apparently the deer can get covid, at least in Ohio. Maybe it will be like with bubonic plague forming a reservoir in American rodents? I should read the whole article, but I'm mostly wondering how they nasally swabbed that many deer. The authors used a Bonferroni, so I'm assuming they know what they are doing.
There was a sign, but not a judgemental sign.
The judgmental signs are about copyright.
I'm taking the timing of the Sevastopol strikes as a big fuck you to Elon Musk after last week's news.
No, I doubt it. I think Ukrainian command probably doesn't integrate the Latest Twitter Thing into its targeting cycle.
And they're still heavily dependent on Starlink, so why go out of their way to antagonise Musk? Especially as it would mean sacrificing the chance to hit, ex hypothesi, a target with more military value. (If we assume they were planning to hit something else this week, and then decided to hit Sevastopol instead to annoy Musk, then presumably their original target was whatever they thought would make most operational sense to hit at that time, and it wasn't Sevastopol...)
And don't forget that Musk turning off Starlink is only news to us. It isn't news to Ukraine; they knew it happened right away. "Look, Martha, Starlink's been turned off, I said." "That's right, he did." (ObDoonesbury)
And they're still heavily dependent on Starlink, so why go out of their way to antagonise Musk?
Since the time Musk was rolled, the DoD successfully got SpaceX to spin some of Starlink off into Starshield, which they pay for and are responsible for deployment decisions of. Should probably have been done much earlier, but it's not up to his whim anymore.
A top Zelensky adviser already called out Musk and gave him shit about it. I think they're past that now.
https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/1701909293631504473?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
For context, they actually hit Sevastopol the first time* about a month after the incident everyone is talking about and they have continued to do so regularly ever since.
*I think that was the one with the drone into Naval Headquarters?
It didn't go right into so much as hit the side. It was naval grazing.
Coincidentally I'm sure, Starlink went down in Crimea around the time of last night's Sevastopol strike. Elon Musk is a national security threat.
122, 130 that doesn't cover all Starlink usage by AFU, not even most.
Also that doesn't help if Elon decides to flip the off switch on the entire network over a covered area as he appears to have done.
It might be the only coverage in Crimea, at least. Someone on Twitter said there's no Starlink coverage there period - although I didn't rule out that they're an Elon fanboy, but they had a map.
I mean, no kink-shaming or whatever, but I just don't get it. I'm very straightforward. Shove some tentacles inside me and I'm satisfied.
I keep meaning and forgetting to have a post on Starlink. There was some NYT article over the summer that I was going to post, and then I forgot and you all probably got a post about my tickly nose hairs or something instead.