^ what games do you play?
Labor Day weekend for me. Gonna build legos, maybe play games.
Labor Day weekend for me. Gonna build legos, maybe play games.
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Scrabble and occasionally Trivial Pursuit when forced to make nice and play with others. Criptoquips, crossword puzzles, and solitaire when left alone.
Email has its place, but it will never replace snail-mail for pure romanticism.
You can't SWALK (Seal With A Loving Kiss) an email. You can't enclose a pressed flower. You can't feel the tears that the other person wept into it. That's not what email is for.
Autumn doe not seem to be retreating here in the Mountain West. High today is only supposed to be 70. Guess that ghastly hot weather we had ten days or so ago broke the dial.
Just got home from a two-day visit with my sister and her family. God I love those people. I always come away filled with joy when I visit. Yesterday, I taught five boys (my sister's sons, two cousins on husband's side, and a friend, all aged 13-16) to play Euchre. They took to it like ducks to water. We played a few games, and before long they were into the strategy! Then, this morning, I made waffles for all of them, which required they break away from the Euchre game they started on their own. They did take the time to eat, then returned to playing Euchre.
These are such great boys and they give me so much optimism about the future of humanity.
These are such great boys and they give me so much optimism about the future of humanity.
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Young people sometimes get a bad rap, but in my experience they are incredibly awesome. The thing I miss most about my teaching career is being around young people. They are so dynamic and full of curiosity and life. And they can be so funny! They love to laugh.
Essence of skunk in the air tonight. Thankfully, my dogs were not the ones hit tonight. I am rarely in the mood for de-stinking dogs.
Some people are jerks and deserve a bad rap, but you're right - not all of them are, and it's unjust to generalize. (Some older people can be jerks, too).
Yes, I've worked with the public for far too long. Why, are my scars showing?
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And apropos of nothing, here's an anecdote that made me smile.
A friend of U.S. Grant's once took the President to a golf course in the hope of encouraging him to take up the game.
After watching a beginner hack the grass around the tee for several minutes without touching the ball, Grant remarked: "That does look like very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?"
Here we are on the last day of August - but September is pretty nice, too!
My baby boy turns 36 today.
The thirties are good, but the forties are even better.
I haven't noticed much difference in work ethic between generations. If anything Gen Z has been better than the Millennials in my line of work, but that's probably because my expectations are different now than they were 10 years ago. Parenting and education has changed dramatically, though, as Gen X's like me now have children entering the workforce. There have been more than a few times when dealing with a young employee that I have the unique honor of not only being the first person to have ever corrected them in their lives, but the first person that has ever told them what to do. I can only infer that that's a result of the parents and teachers.
If there's a God, Gen Z will be that last generation I have to develop directly. If I'm still around when the next batch arrives in 10 years, y'all will be staring at tombstone avatar.
Are you still telling people you are 39?
Around here you can't tell the skunk scent from the general weed scent that pervades the atmosphere.
When I was 39, I told people I was 49 because I looked reeeeealllly good for 49. Now people are amazed when I tell them I'm 80. Well, some of them are amazed.
Weed is still illegal here, cultivated, skunk, and ditch forms of the plant.
One of my pet peeves is parents who ask their children to do something and say, "Please?"
My parents just said, "Do it."
