Or just enjoy this open thread.
PS: My kid has a softball game tonight, and, don’t laugh — it’s COLD! By our standards anyway; it’ll be in the 40s during the game. I hate the cold so very much. The high school stadium has these ass-freezing metal bleachers that no amount of blankets can insulate.
My husband won’t go and says I shouldn’t feel obligated to go either. The kid is 16 and has her own car, so she doesn’t need to be shuttled to and fro, and she claims she doesn’t care if we come or not. In fact, she seems annoyed and embarrassed by us pretty much all the time these days.
But I think she really does care, so I’m going. Is that stupid?
boatboy_srq
It was 12 F when I left the house, and 16 F on the platform at WMATA.
Go. It’s for you to enjoy her successes as much as for her, and someday she’ll be unreasonably upset that you didn’t seem interested.
JMG
I know you’re a Floridian, Ms. Cracker, but we here in Mass. would kill for a 40 degree day right now. We get another blizzard instead.
Yatsuno
Eh just go. It’s your ojb to annoy her as much as possible now so she’ll miss you terribly when she gets up to college.
piratedan
nope, you’re a Mom, a Mom who supports her kids, may never be stated but they DO notice….
buddy h
Cat and kittens encounter a toy robotic spider. Hilarity ensues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1nXXSB65E
R-Jud
Wow, it was actually warmer in England than it is in Florida today! A balmy 51, and the daffodils are poking out of the soil all along the roads.
I’m heading to a wedding in Boston in March. The bride frets that, the way things are going, there will be 16 feet of snow on the ground by then. I said I’d pack my wellies.
As to the softball thing? Go, at least for a couple of innings. If she’s anything like I was then, she does care that you’re there and she is also simultaneously embarrassed by you. I remember alternately dreading and yearning to see my mom and dad in the stands at swim meets. Although that may have had more to do with the fact that they were always at my brother’s sports events. Anyway, go, for a bit.
notoriousJRT
I think it is great that you go. The opportunity won’t last forever.
NeutronFlux
No. It will matter in the more difficult years ahead.
Bob Marshall
You have to go. She will forget her annoyance now but always remember you supported her. You are playing for the long game and your future relationship with her.
K488
I’ve spent my share of time on cold bleachers, hockey practices at 5:30 in the morning, swim practices at 5:00, football games in the rain (in order to hear youngest son in the band), and while I groused on occasion, I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. But oh, those cold bleachers!
trollhattan
Go to every sporting event–every one you possibly can. These times are fleeting and once gone, really gone.
Foam pad for those damn aluminum bleachers is the only thing I’ve found to work. And not slippery or it will just squirt off and disappear down into the framing and discarded crap.
Also, too, lookee there, it’s 70 degrees. In February!
srv
I have a hysterical joke:
Damn cowards.
h/t dreddit
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
Is that stupid?
No, it is adorable. Plus you only have so much time left to embarrass her.
To bad you don’t have an inverter, can park the car close, and sit on a heating pad.
…
Pogonip
@buddy h: “Come on, come on, throw the disk already!”
Once again the humble ping-pong ball proves itself the second best cat toy ever.
Josie
I will put summer swim meets in steaming humid natatoriums without air conditioning up against any sporting event for misery. Go and take a pillow to insulate your butt from the cold seats.
Pogonip
Betty, we’re going to ten below tonight. Stop whining and get out to that 40-degree softball game.
Major Major Major Major
I woke up this morning with the PERFECT opening scene for a pilot script I’m working on burning a hole in my head. So it’s been a good day.
Jacks mom
It’s in the 50s here in southern colorado & if we don’t get some more snow in the next few months we are f@cked for the spring and summer. I’ve done my part by washing the cars and a few windows.
Go to the game. “Here’s your baby. Here’s your guilt/inconvenience/obligation.” Didn’t you get the memo?
Tinare
Yep. You need one of those foam stadium seats. They make bleachers a little bit better anyway. If it makes you feel better, it’s 19 here and we have a forecasted high of 7 for Sunday. So, it’s still warm where you are.
Villago Delenda Est
@piratedan: Exactly. This is good. VERY good. They may complain, but it’s all just a show.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Of course she finds you annoying and embarrassing. She’s 16. It’s the natural state of things. Go anyway.
The Ancient Randonneur
GO! She wants you to go. You’ll never get these days back. Savor it. Ten years from now you can dig through the Balloon Juice archive to find this post, forward it to her electronic device of choice, and both of you will get a little verklempt thinking about those good old days.
Betty Cracker
@buddy h: OMG, those kittens are the cutest damn things ever. And I am not a cat person. Cool robot also. I wish I had one to send into my chicken coop. I’ve been practicing with a quad-copter drone in hopes of one day harassing the hens with it, but I’m not quite chicken-proximity competent yet. (My dogs would just bring it down and maul it.)
Villago Delenda Est
Louie Gohmert
gussie
Don’t go if you don’t want to. If she really does want you there, she can ask.
Tree With Water
“But I think she really does care, so I’m going. Is that stupid?”.
I’m sorry, but yes, yes it is stupid. Just think back to being her age. That’s all it takes to realize why you are so very wrong. That said, put a bail bondsman on retainer, and the sooner, the better. That’s the flip side of the coin.
Waynski
@piratedan: Depends on the kid. Some of them play worse with a parent in the audience. Puts more pressure on them.
Villago Delenda Est
Oh, those cards at Wonkette. First thing you read on their coverage of Kitzhaber’s resignation is “All ‘Guess he’s Ore-GONE’ comments will be deleted.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Villago Delenda Est: Nice
My childless gut tells me your kid is glad you’re there, and will be even more so twenty, thirty et cetera years from now.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Villago Delenda Est: and the tweeties tell me America has its first (openly) bisexual governor in Oregon now?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Waynski:
From the way Betty’s explaining it, though, her daughter isn’t saying, “Don’t come.” She’s saying, “Whatever.” And having been a 16-year-old girl myself, “Whatever” usually means, “I want you to come but I don’t want to be uncool and ask.”
Arclite
My daughter’s a swimmer, and I go to every meet. I don’t interact with her much, she needs to hang with her friends. But I volunteer to marshal, and take photos of the kids and put them on the team website. Even older kids appreciate parental involvement, as long as your not being a helicopter parent.
? Martin
Nope. I go too but I go because *I* want to be there and they need to respect that too. So if they don’t want the attention, I don’t give it to them. I drop them off where they want to be dropped off, I give them space. Basically I treat them like any other member of the team/performer, cheer for the group, and meet up with them later. I can gush over them when we get home and away from their friends – plenty of time.
But we’ve also put a lot of energy into not judging our kids on their time, and they know that. They need space and you can either give it to them without curtailing doing the things you want to do, or they will curtail you by cutting you off. So we give them space.
Keith
Go to the game. When she leaves home, you will have plenty of time to wrap up and and warm.
burnspbesq
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’ll see your Louie Gohmert and raise you a Sam Brownback.
BGinCHI
Scottish:
What’s the difference between Dean Martin and Walt Disney?
Dean Martin sings and Walt disney.
Bob In Portland
Good analysis of the Minsk 2.0 agreement.
BGinCHI
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 ate 9.
/my favorite joke for little kids
Bob Munck
I have absolutely no idea if my parents ever went to any of my football games or wrestling matches. I was generally too involved in the competition to notice if there was any audience at all. I am pretty certain they never went to my track meets; shotput is definitely not a spectator sport.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t even like the guy and this is becoming hard to watch
BGinCHI
Bob in the joke thread.
Perfect.
burnspbesq
If you want to know who is going to clean up at next year’s Grammies, here’s your answer.
http://www.rhiannongiddens.com
Villago Delenda Est
OK, I posted this on the thread below, but I’m going to repost it here on the active thread.
This from Kitzhaber’s resignation statement:
Kitz, for the love of FSM, stop fucking digging.
BGinCHI
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m starting to wonder whether even Jesus was perfect….
Arclite
@Waynski:
That’s true, but it depends on the kind of parent you’ve been vis a vis the sporting activity. We had a swimmer who completely kicked ass in practice, only to choke at the meets. Coach couldn’t figure it out. Then one day, she finishes well below her practice time and looks up to the stands, at mom. Lightbulb goes off, and coach bans the parent from the next meet. Girl blows her personal best out of the water, goes on to be one of the top swimmers in the state for her age. Coach never let that parent return.
It might be obvious, but you’d be shocked at how many parents play armchair QB: “You should have done this.” “You need to be doing more of that.” etc. etc. That’s coach’s job, not dad’s or mom’s. It just ruins the kids. They resent the sport and resent the parents.
My own approach is just to make sure she goes to practice and meets, cheer, say “How is (your friend) Jenny doing?” and “Want to get something to eat?” and to make sure she has “play” time after practice and the meets to hang out with her friends. Also, I volunteer with all the things that need to be done for the meet like marshaling, timing, cleaning up, etc. If she sees me working hard for her and involved, and leaving her alone, that example should inspire her to also work hard.
Parents don’t need to push their kids in sports. That’s the coach’s job. And kids push themselves as well. Parents should just support.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@BGinCHI: Hey! That reminds me of about the only joke I remember.
The crowd has gathered to stone the fallen woman when Jesus stepped forward and Jesus said: “Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone.” The crowd grumbles and one by one they drop their rocks and walk away. All the sudden a rock comes whizzing by Jesus’s head, hits the fallen woman square between the eyes. Jesus turns around and sees a little old lady jumping up and down and clapping and giggling, and Jesus said: “Goddammit, Ma, sometimes you can be a real pain in the ass.”
Professor
I understand that Americans are superstitious of the number 13. Well I found a word that aptly describes that state of mind: TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA.. Now chew on it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Kate is that, but she’s been a very good Secretary of State and I don’t give a flying fuck who she cares to spend her off-duty sexytime with.
Of course, there are plenty of Oregonians who are probably totally outraged at that, most of them living east of the Cascades, south of Eugene, and in the more dumbshit parts of the Portland suburbs.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@BGinCHI: There’s also the homophone joke:
What did the fish say when he swam into the concrete wall?
Damn
Iowa Old Lady
Go to the game, Betty. I regret not spending more time with my kid.
Question for those who know more than I do: I keep seeing all these news items about how so and so has undercut the ACA case by saying some dumb thing that contradicts the case’s claims. Do the justices attend to anything other than the documents filed in the case? Are they supposed to?
BGinCHI
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I also like the “punchline without a joke” variety.
Such as, “Jesus said, ‘Hey, I can see your house from here’.”
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Villago Delenda Est: Exhibit A for cognitive issues.
BGinCHI
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): golf clap
BGinCHI
@BGinCHI: My favorite of this genre:
“The father replied, ‘Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking'”?
Major Major Major Major
@Professor: Pff. I learned that word days ago. ;)
ThresherK
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Are you sure BriWi wasn’t just going with the flow of being at the Reagan Hall of Misrememberies?
buddy H
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I remember a whole bunch of those Jesus jokes. Another one: he walks to a hotel front desk, throws a bunch of nails down and asks “can you put me up for the night?”
gogol's wife
@buddy h:
So cute! I love the kittens.
BillinGlendaleCA
@burnspbesq:
Weak tea.
The Pale Scot
Betty, go to a sports/hunting store and pick up one of these, the price is right. This is old school, there are probably more hi-tech solutions available.
Keeping the bum warm is half the battle.
Heat-A-Seat Cushion
catclub
@Iowa Old Lady:
Broccoli mandate. Scalia brought it up in oral arguments. I suspect it was not in any briefs.
They can do whatever they like. Stare decicis is like the Pirate Code, only less firm. They can make a ruling and demand that it never be used as a precedent for other cases.
So ‘supposed to’ is pretty open ended.
Mike in NC
@ThresherK: Ah, Brian Williams is simply very modest about his brushes with history, in the same way John McCain steadfastly refuses to discuss his time as a POW.
catclub
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well, the only way to stop that is to not resign and prove your case, showing that the media got it wrong. Or to go through the process even if they are right, by insisting on ‘having a day in court’.
Now, if they have not gotten it wrong, that might be hard to do.
The real trial is that his own side has tried and convicted him.
Any one wonder if Kitz is Catholic? His resignation takes effect on Ash Wednesday.
LABiker
Go! Rip a page from the Joni Ernst playbook and wrap your ass in a Wonder Bread bag.
cmorenc
@boatboy_srq:
THIS. Exactly.
She’ll be fine with you’re being there, including knowing you’re there from catching an incidental glance at you up in the stands – SO LONG AS you don’t do anything to draw attention to yourself, either intentionally or unintentionally. You can give a discreet wave and smile to her if she happens to look up at you, but avoid doing anything that look like yahoo-parent behavior to 16 year old eyes (i.e. any momentary vocals or behavior that sticks out from the crowd around you).
Cephalus Max
Betty, I will 2nd, 3rd, (100th?) the sentiments about going to your daughter’s game. Be there! (But be low key about it.)
I was around 25 years old or so before I retroactively realized how grateful I should be about my parents’ support, even during my horrible teenage years. I think that is a universal constant.
Gin & Tonic
I went to nearly every gymnastics meet, and I’m glad I did. But at the lower levels, they play the same piece of music for the floor routine of *every* competitor at *every* meet *every* year. If I ever have to hear that piece again I will poke pencils into my ears.
And like some others here, I’d gladly switch places with Ms Cracker. I’ll sit in the balmy 40, and you can come shovel two feet of snow off my roof in below-zero temps.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Bob In Portland:
I was wondering why you were so obsessed with the deputy speaker of Ukraine’s parliament since, according to you, the whole shebang is run by Nazis. Well, come to find out …
http://tinyurl.com/nwtwq62
But, hey, I guess he’s not really Jewish or something, right? After all, there’s no way that a bunch of Nazis would let an actual Jewish guy be their boss, so it must all be one of those false flag operations and the guy is just pretending to be Jewish.
Eric U.
@BGinCHI: there is a joke where the prisoners have heard all the jokes so many times that they gave a number to each one, and just yell out a number and everyone laughs. A new prisoner thinks he’ll join in, and yells out a random number, but nobody laughs. His cellmate explains, “that joke isn’t funny”
I stole the idea from that joke, and just tell the punchline. My current favorite is, “electric fence”
jl
” But I think she really does care, so I’m going. Is that stupid? ”
No, it means B. Cracker is a kind and caring mom.
And you mean 40 degrees above zero,right? Unless it’s raining or a stiff wind, that is not cold (says a Californian).
Look at it this way, it will toughen you up, BC, and build even more character and inner resources.
And BC can add to her little black book of guilt trips for use later on.
BGinCHI
@Eric U.: Nice.
You’re gonna get an HBO special if you aren’t careful.
Burt Hutt
Go to the game. By all means, go.
My In-laws went to every game of every sport that my BIL participated in. He remembers that. They went to none of my wife’s field hockey games. At 45 she hasn’t forgotten that, with resentment.
Lee
Some good news from West Virginia. Hopefully John sees this.
All 5 residents vote to ban LBGT discrimination.Here
trollhattan
Letters, we get letters.
Am in my teevee happy place at the moment, with Justified, The Americans & John Oliver back and now, Better Call Saul. Good times.
MattF
@burnspbesq: Indeed. Here’s some clips:
http://www.npr.org/artists/99046725/carolina-chocolate-drops
BGinCHI
@trollhattan: Also, The Musketeers (BBCA).
Matt McIrvin
Here’s a joke for my fellow Massachusetts people.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Death.
JPL
Betty have fun at the game.
MomSense
@Arclite:
I remember going to meets to watch my kids and some of the parents were terrible. That being said, the worst sports parent has nothing on stage moms. They practice psychological warfare on their kids’ competition.
I practiced a sort of quiet sports partnering. I cheered for the team and never said anything rude or criticized my kids’ play.
Betty, glad you are going. Hope you are having fun.
Also, too I would kill for 40 degrees. I can’t even remember what that feels like what with all the single digit and below zero weather we’ve been having.
trollhattan
@BGinCHI:
And since you mention the Beeb, a new Top Gear series. This week’s ambulance episode had me waking the family with my howling…yes, I’m a fullgrown 14y.o., much like the presenters.
Just One More Canuck
@Major Major Major Major: “It was a dark and stormy night when there was a pounding on the door. It was a naked man holding a mop.”
BGinCHI
@trollhattan: They need more mysteries on that damn network.
jl
BC should also be old enough to understand that with family decisions of this nature, and decided upon these grounds, the reverse sympathetic magic curses tend to kick in.
Like, BC does not go, and her daughter hits a home run every time she is at bat, and turns a triple pay single handed.
trollhattan
@MomSense:
Had to take up sports photography to keep myself from joining the yelling grownups at my kid’s soccer games. And of course I don’t even understand the sport, but @#$%^it that was OFF SIDES.
(A warning: sports photography is the second-most expensive type of photography.)
Chris
Reread this Calvin and Hobbes comic today;
[minutes of G. R. O. S. S. club]
9:30: meeting called to order. Dictator For Life Calvin proposes resolution condemning the existence of girls.
9:35: First Tiger abstains from vote. Motion fails.
9:36: patriotism of First Tiger called into question.
9:37: philosophical discussion.
10:15: bandages administered. Dictator For Life rebuked for biting.
10:16: forgot what debate was about. Medals of bravery awarded to all parties.
BGinCHI
Anyone watched the new Bosch series on Amazon?
jl
@Just One More Canuck: And whether or not his feet are checked for pet slop before he steps in the house, determines whether it turns into a comedy or a tragedy.
No one would turn away a naked mopping Cole, would they? He’s so cute!
Bass
@JMG: @JMG: It’s 75 right now in Tucson, just after 4 p.m. Yes, I’m rubbing it in. Why do you people stay there?
jeffreyw
Thread needs this puppeh!
Major Major Major Major
@jl: you guys are ruining my quirky dark comedy.
MomSense
@trollhattan:
That cracked me up! Now professional sports is another matter. I was a diehard bleacher creature at Fenway back in the day. Then there was the time one of my wealthy friend’s parents got us really expensive seats but we brought our bleacher sensibilities with us. Bunch of incredibly displeased Boston Brahmins that day. The best part was the first baseman (usually an outfielder) laughed so hard at something salty my friend said that he tipped his hat to us.
trollhattan
@Bass:
Before you get all mean with the poor sods (hah, now 72 here, yo!) if your addy is Tuscon or Phoenix or Austin or Dallas or…you have to asterisk your note and add a footnote giving the record high temp, average annual highest temp and average number of days over 100.
It’s only fair they get back at us in July.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Cripes, I don’t like him either, but this may be the beginning of the end.
trollhattan
@MomSense:
It really is a fine art–I don’t have it but admire those who do (am betting Betty has bleacher chops). I’ve stopped going to (basketball) Kings games but there used to be a couple of regulars with seats above the visiting team bench who were brilliantly ruthless.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow. It is getting cring-worthy.
Just One More Canuck
@Major Major Major Major: “ruin”, or making it the best book ever!
Major Major Major Major
@trollhattan: I was brutal in college. I was in the marching band so we had the perfect spot for taunting during free throws.
Although “two girls making out” was always the most successful distraction…
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
Did he deny the allegations? It’s kind of obligatory if you’re going to make this type of statement.
Just One More Canuck
@jl: tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
MomSense
@trollhattan:
Same here. I absolutely admire the people with “bleacher chops” but I spent too many years sitting in the preacher’s family pew to say those things out loud.
jl
Still, sunny 70, (that feels more like 80 in the sun) in San Francisco. Late Autumn weather, not Winter weather.
Just heard weatherperson say next rain possibility is late next week (just maybe).
Occurred to me that while Central California has had rain, no old fashioned storms from NW out of Alaskan Gulf have gotten this far south since drought started. At least that I can remember. All of those have petered out in Northern Ca long before they get as south as SF.
All the rain has come from SW ‘pineapple express’ storms. That is big change, since used to get a mix of both, and mostly storms coming from NW. And the ‘pineapple express’ storms tend to drop a huge amount of rain in a short time. Or, a huge amount of rain over a long time, when they get stuck and sit overhead. Not enough to really break drought though.
I think snowline in Sierra is between 7000 and 8000 feet, which is way too high!
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Just One More Canuck:
That song made no sense to me until I finally saw the movie of “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum.” Then it clicked.
Same with “Send in the Clowns,” which turns out is actually an angry, bitter song in the musical.
SiubhanDuinne
It’s the day before the Met Opera Live in HD broadcast (tomorrow: Tchaikovsky’s last opera “Iolanta” and Bartók’s first and only opera “Bluebeard’s Castle”), so I have been busy printing out and collating synopses, cast bios, etc. to distribute at the theatre tomorrow. I have been hearing from some of my fellow Met HD fans that several cinemas in New England may just cancel everything tomorrow because of the additional snow, so I guess I should be glad to be in Atlanta.
Betty. Go to the damn softball game. For all the reasons.
trollhattan
@jl:
We got about three inches in that last storm after, what, a six-week hiatus and I think Lake Shasta got a whopping ten or so, which was nice, but the southern Sierra and Valley missed the proverbial boat yet again. Cherry trees were blooming here two weeks ago and I have iris blooming in the yard today.
mdblanche
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: She really could be one.
SiubhanDuinne
@BGinCHI:
He couldn’t swim.
SiubhanDuinne
@BGinCHI:
I always heard it as “Why do you ask, Broken Rubber?”
A distinction without a difference.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Being that we’re in a multi year drought and the reservoirs are depleted, rain is almost as good as snow.
Elie
I don’t think its stupid for you to go, Betty. Years from now your going will be cherished – CHERISHED — by all of you… I remember better now than then the times Mom and Dad were at things — seeing their faces….
You will never regret it…
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I think it’s very interesting that Iolanta is a story about going from darkness to light, whereas Bluebeard goes from light to darkness. I’m really curious as to why the Met chose to present these two operas in this sequence — beginning, and ending, in darkness and gloom and despair. There may be compelling musical and/or dramatic reasons for doing it the way they are. Once I’ve seen and heard them (I am unfamiliar with both works), it may make more sense.
Just One More Canuck
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): “A funny thing happened on the way to the forum” might be the perfect antidote to my week – just need some pure escapism and mindless fun
Can’t think of Send in the Clowns without hearing Krusty the Klown in my head
Any more word from your recruiter?
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Ain’t no “Cav and Pag,” that’s for sure.
SiubhanDuinne
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=541HKD8alfg
Boop boop diddum daddum waddum choo.
piratedan
@Bass: be ready for rejoinders in four months when we’re at 107… but yeah, today looks awesome outside although the wind played hell with my stuff in the backyard a couple of nights ago….
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Oh. My. God.
What. A. Cute.
Pogonip
@Just One More Canuck: “It was a naked man holding a mop in one hand and two puppies in the other.”
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Just One More Canuck:
Not yet, but I wasn’t really expecting to hear about specific interview times until next week. I’m still sending out internal resumes just in case.
Wayne
“In fact, she seems annoyed and embarrassed by us pretty much all the time these days.”
Been there, experienced that.
“But I think she really does care, so I’m going. Is that stupid? ”
She does and it is not.
Just One More Canuck
@Pogonip: “He was followed by a cat with a shaved ass”
Pogonip
@Just One More Canuck: “…and a Jack Russell terrorist. ‘My other dog’s at home asleep,’ he explained, to which Major X 4 replied, “Well, don’t that just shave the cat’s ass.’. Offended at such insouciance, the naked man yelled, ‘I hate you all!,’, shouldered his mop, and stomped off in a huff.”
Pogonip
@Pogonip: Apologies for all those extra punctuation marks–FY Autocorrect strikes again!
Pogonip
And what really shaves the cat’s ass is when I do make a typo, half the time FY Autocorrect lets it stand!
Mike E
NC State’s opening day for their baseball season was today, middle of Feb…sheesh. I think it might’ve gotten up to 36°.
Major Major Major Major
@Pogonip: one of my favorite such constructions is from futurama, “well this really toads the wet sprocket.”
Pogonip
@Major Major Major Major: God knows what FY Autocorrect would make of that. I’m afraid to find out.
Just One More Canuck
@Pogonip: “He went to look for his car, but it was gone. A stranger told him, “Some young kids drove away in it – they left it in that field over yonder.”
Ripley
@BGinCHI: I watched the first episode a few months back when it was part of the “throw stuff out there and see what hits” pilot-a-thon. Enjoyable story and performances, nice evocation of sunny/dark LA, and good to see Titus Welliver in a lead role. I’ll be watching the whole season.
Hope The Man In The High Castle gets picked up for a full run too.
KG
I wouldn’t admit it at the time but it was always nice knowing my folks were in the stands for my water polo games in high school. Hell, mom even went to most of the meaningless summer tournament games. The only time I hated them being there was when we lost the league title in the last 20 seconds of regulation (we tied the game and thought we were going to overtime and winning)… Two reasons, I wanted nobody on the deck after that game (as my wearing sunglasses at 9 pm and covering my face would attest) and because my dad insisted on taking pictures for our end of season slideshow thing. I played a year of JC polo and my folks didn’t make many of those games, totally wasn’t the same
K
My SO’s nephew played football through all 4 years of high school and she didn’t miss a game. By his junior year he was far too cool to acknowledge our presence, but we did notice that the one time when we were late (three hour drive and traffic) that he was checking for us on the sidelines.
Just One More Canuck
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): good luck with the process -it’s nice to have options within the same company
currants
@piratedan: Yep, and they really really do care, even when they’re at an age where it pains them to show it. You’ll hear about it much later down the road, but it’s the right thing to do.
Zinsky
Tell a joke:
A guy walks into a bar and sets a piece of asphalt on the bar . He tells the bartender, “give me a shot of whiskey and one for the road.”
Chris T.
@trollhattan: It was mid-70s in the SF Bay Area and in summer it’s also mid-70s (much depends on precisely where in the Bay Area, but you can pick your weather by position: if you don’t like the weather in SF, walk ten blocks…).
We are all going to die of thirst when all the water runs out, but the weather can’t be beat!
jafd
Two lawyers went to the shopping mall.
One said to the other, “Let’s go to the food court, and try some food.”
Fred
She seem pretty much annoyed and embarrassed by you all of the time?
SHE’S 16 EFFIN’ YEARS OLD! That’s in her job description.
weavrmom
As noted above, going to stuff is part of your current mom-job, although I also take breaks for cold weather (my excuse: allergic to it, it can kill me, yes really). You model how to handle real-life relationships that contain real-life ambivalence. Sounds totally par for the course, and good job, mom! Just adding, now that mine are flown, my mom-job has morphed partly into following the social media they allow me on (plus care packages, phone/skype, and 24/7 availability for IMMEDIATE consultation once in a blue moon). They make occasional comments about it, like, “After that tweet, remembered my mom follows this”, etc, but they don’t ask me to stop. Still part of that love-hate growing up phase, I suppose. It’s nice to be included, now that they are calling the shots. Your daughter isn’t telling you no, just that she’s not so dependent on attendance at one game or another; she’s loved. And you already know this, of course! :)
brantl
No, it’s not stupid, but you’re teaching her deliberate feedback doesn’t work. Kind of a mixed lesson, there,