Red Mosquito

Bammer wrote:The kids are back at the house now and, just…. Ugh.

B wrote:My kid just left the house in a rainbow tank topand a fedora to go see Barbenheimer.

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As with his trip to the US last year, I post a Daily Banger to a shared Messenger Chat we have each day. Yesterday's was possibly the most legitimate actual Banger I've posted this trip so far:

Higgs wrote:My 20 yo daughter had been working in the disability support industry here the past 12 months or so. Unfortunately she was in an organisation with a really shit corporate culture working in a particularly toxic area. She got some good basic skills and was paid well there but I was very happy when she chose to not re-up her contract with them as I feel they were messing with her mental health in the end.

So she's been bumming around the place as an unemployed yob the past few weeks. She's not an academic but is smart and funny and personable. I've never been concerned about her as far as prospects go as she has (imo) the 2 most important characteristics of a good employee - reliability and common sense. She kept at it and applied to jobs at a similar pay grade to where she left and just got news that she got a permanent job at a similar organisation doing straight admin work, same pay, better hours (no shifts) and (seemingly) a far better corporate environment. I'm really proud of her.

My son is still on holiday in Europe for another few weeks. He's done Greece, done Croatia, done jumped out of a plane above the Swiss alps and has done Tomorrowland. Currently in Amsterdam, I assume blazed off his scone. I'm proud of him too.

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As with his trip to the US last year, I post a Daily Banger to a shared Messenger Chat we have each day. Yesterday's was possibly the most legitimate actual Banger I've posted this trip so far:

Higgs wrote:My 20 yo daughter had been working in the disability support industry here the past 12 months or so. Unfortunately she was in an organisation with a really shit corporate culture working in a particularly toxic area. She got some good basic skills and was paid well there but I was very happy when she chose to not re-up her contract with them as I feel they were messing with her mental health in the end.

So she's been bumming around the place as an unemployed yob the past few weeks. She's not an academic but is smart and funny and personable. I've never been concerned about her as far as prospects go as she has (imo) the 2 most important characteristics of a good employee - reliability and common sense. She kept at it and applied to jobs at a similar pay grade to where she left and just got news that she got a permanent job at a similar organisation doing straight admin work, same pay, better hours (no shifts) and (seemingly) a far better corporate environment. I'm really proud of her.

My son is still on holiday in Europe for another few weeks. He's done Greece, done Croatia, done jumped out of a plane above the Swiss alps and has done Tomorrowland. Currently in Amsterdam, I assume blazed off his scone. I'm proud of him too.

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As with his trip to the US last year, I post a Daily Banger to a shared Messenger Chat we have each day. Yesterday's was possibly the most legitimate actual Banger I've posted this trip so far:

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dad wrote:I don’t think I have misophonia, but goddamn do I get irritated af with all of my kids and their smacking and open mouth chewing and gulping and chugging liquids followed by a guttural breath.

jfc.

Transition to an all-smoothie diet

Higgs wrote:My 20 yo daughter had been working in the disability support industry here the past 12 months or so. Unfortunately she was in an organisation with a really shit corporate culture working in a particularly toxic area. She got some good basic skills and was paid well there but I was very happy when she chose to not re-up her contract with them as I feel they were messing with her mental health in the end.

So she's been bumming around the place as an unemployed yob the past few weeks. She's not an academic but is smart and funny and personable. I've never been concerned about her as far as prospects go as she has (imo) the 2 most important characteristics of a good employee - reliability and common sense. She kept at it and applied to jobs at a similar pay grade to where she left and just got news that she got a permanent job at a similar organisation doing straight admin work, same pay, better hours (no shifts) and (seemingly) a far better corporate environment. I'm really proud of her.

My son is still on holiday in Europe for another few weeks. He's done Greece, done Croatia, done jumped out of a plane above the Swiss alps and has done Tomorrowland. Currently in Amsterdam, I assume blazed off his scone. I'm proud of him too.

Spoiler: show

As with his trip to the US last year, I post a Daily Banger to a shared Messenger Chat we have each day. Yesterday's was possibly the most legitimate actual Banger I've posted this trip so far:

Higgs wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:if they or even one LOVE baseball, nut up and let them go for it. damn the torpedoes.

He’ll have to decide if he wants to fully commit to this (which means skipping birthday parties and all the rest) at age 7. I don’t think he’ll choose that even if he makes the team.

Don't make it his decision. That's too much to give up (imo) for most 7 year olds.

Party on Wayne. Party on Garth.

Bammer wrote:

Higgs wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:if they or even one LOVE baseball, nut up and let them go for it. damn the torpedoes.

He’ll have to decide if he wants to fully commit to this (which means skipping birthday parties and all the rest) at age 7. I don’t think he’ll choose that even if he makes the team.

Don't make it his decision. That's too much to give up (imo) for most 7 year olds.

Party on Wayne. Party on Garth.

After tryouts, some kids made the team, some didn’t, and some were invited for a second tryout to finalize the roster.

My kids are both in that middle group - didn’t make the team nor got cut after first round of tryouts, invited to call-backs.

They both decided to take a pass at this point because even if they did make the final roster, they don’t want to commit to baseball over birthday parties and such.

Maybe next year.

tree_ wrote:Just celebrated eldest's 5th birthday by gathering some neighborhood friends and their kids to the lake pool/restaurant for some cake, presents and swimming. He had gotten quite close to one of the families, along with my wife to the mom. Shame they're all moving across the country soon. I'm sure he'll make new friends. Just sad though.

wease wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Higgs wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:if they or even one LOVE baseball, nut up and let them go for it. damn the torpedoes.

He’ll have to decide if he wants to fully commit to this (which means skipping birthday parties and all the rest) at age 7. I don’t think he’ll choose that even if he makes the team.

Don't make it his decision. That's too much to give up (imo) for most 7 year olds.

Party on Wayne. Party on Garth.

After tryouts, some kids made the team, some didn’t, and some were invited for a second tryout to finalize the roster.

My kids are both in that middle group - didn’t make the team nor got cut after first round of tryouts, invited to call-backs.

They both decided to take a pass at this point because even if they did make the final roster, they don’t want to commit to baseball over birthday parties and such.

Maybe next year.

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