Category: Daily Life

Heard this on NPR this morning and was appauled appalled! Appalachistan sums it up.

My child owns 2 of these. Work safe but some dirty words and could potentially deflower innocent minds.

Oh look! Wikipedia might explain some of Amy’s 3 year old behaviors:

Amy is a given name, a variant of Aimée, which means beloved’ in French which in turn is a derivative of Latin’s amicus or amica which means friend.
AND
In demonology Amy is a demon, a Great President of Hell.

Strangely enough, I must give Tim credit for pointing this out.

Student: Change hurts.
Master: Not changing hurts more.

Woohoo!

Goodbye woods. Goodbye calming walks. Goodbye thoughts of grooming a walking trail. Blasted developers.

The nine year old stares intently into the microwave containing the stash of glazed doughnuts scavenged from Krispy Kreme last night. Krispy Kreme gives one free glazed doughtnut for every A on a report card (limit 6) K through 8. They used to give any free doughtnut of choice but some nimrod, whiney parents brought an end to that but I’ll save the rant for another time. Noah scored a full half dozen. Sarah got 2 but received 4. Tommy aged out. The hot doughtnut sign was on and to keep peace in the house I bought another dozen which if divided evenly between Mom, Amy, Dad and Tommy would give each of the non-qualified eaters 3 doughtnuts.

Let’s return to the nine year old staring into the microwave as if he’d discovered the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything (amz). Upon inquiry he reveals that he is trying to decide between eating out of the large box or his box. "That way once all those doughnuts are gone I still have these." I am taken back by the selfishness but amused at the ingenuity of the thought process. A quick math discussion, along with a definition of "staleness," and Noah makes the right decision.

Student: The rain is here.
Master: Even Mother Nature needs to cry and is better for it.

Student: I cannot do what I must do because of things I have to do.
Master: Perhaps you should separate yourself from the things you have to do.

Student: I acted irresponsibly and this time people got hurt.
Master: Irresponsibility always hurts someone.

Big class today.

If you have been caught up in the blue ball craze (a Rube Goldberg animation) and tradegic accident then you will really appreciate Amanda Congdon from Friday, Nov 18.

Read about the origins of the blue ball machine as a collaborative project.

Oh yes! Colored bubbles!

8 foot of speaker wire for $11,700.

Wahoo! Another billable done! Now for some chores.