rsmurphy wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:55 pm

eephus wrote:Someone once I told me I looked like Drew Carey

Oh, hell no

Looking back at the context, I was being negged. I didn't know what that was back then! Didn't work!

Teacher's Pet wrote:

Teacher's Pet wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:14 pm

jimmy spako wrote: I just got a letter that my little dude, who starts first grade in September, made it into the public bilingual (German/English) school program we applied for here last fall.
I am extremely happy and relieved.

Congratulations! I know that feeling of relief. It's important to take a minute to feel the good news, and appreciate it, when it does happen...

It's been (gosh) ten years since my daughter got in to the school we'd hoped for, now there's another milestone right around the corner: we find out about high school acceptance next month. NYC high schools are kind of a mini-university process involving tests, tours, auditions, essays, rankings, etc. Kind of wild for a 13-year old.

Update: She kicked ass! Got into two top-choice schools. Choosing will be the hard part. Great problem to have. Phew.

Oh that's great. Same here with college, just being able to pick would be cool. It'll all be over in a few weeks, blessedly.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:14 pm

Teacher's Pet wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:14 pm

jimmy spako wrote: I just got a letter that my little dude, who starts first grade in September, made it into the public bilingual (German/English) school program we applied for here last fall.
I am extremely happy and relieved.

Congratulations! I know that feeling of relief. It's important to take a minute to feel the good news, and appreciate it, when it does happen...

It's been (gosh) ten years since my daughter got in to the school we'd hoped for, now there's another milestone right around the corner: we find out about high school acceptance next month. NYC high schools are kind of a mini-university process involving tests, tours, auditions, essays, rankings, etc. Kind of wild for a 13-year old.

Update: She kicked ass! Got into two top-choice schools. Choosing will be the hard part. Great problem to have. Phew.

jimmy spako wrote: I am extremely happy and relieved.

fuggin A

Way to go! Congrats to your daughter (and fam).

We are lucky in that our particular path (the public "State Europe-Schools of Berlin") guarantees us a spot down the line in an SESB junior high/high school (college prep) program. So there's some chance we won't ever have to sweat it out later on if this path turns out to be the right one up through the 13th grade here. We'll see.

For me, this milestone means I managed to get my kid to be bilingual through the first six years on my own (with the support of my native-German-speaking partner). Pre-school wasn't bilingual and I don't have family here, or any close contact to native English speakers, just peripherally, friends without kids that I don't see often etc. Had to stick it out through years of talking to him in English and him only answering in German, was reluctantly the default "boundaries/rules" parent and chose pragmatically to do most of that in German so that it would really register (which worked), lots of ups and downs. But we made it! It is a huge relief for me to know that I will have a whole community to take over from me in that regard now. And he is excited, he really likes using English and has always said that he'd like to speak both languages at school. Hip hip, still really sinking in here.

Best of luck to you and yours in the homestretch too, FM eephus/TM!

Many congratulations to you, Jim, TP, TM and your children! Fantastic stuff. Our lad had his first three days in nursery this week and seems to be enjoying it, despite the disruption to his already eccentric sleeping patterns.

Forgot to set an alarm this morning to get up extra early to get my wife to chemotherapy. She finally gave me a poke in the ribs and said "Are you taking me to the thing?"

I was up and in the car with coffee for both of us, covid masks, water, lemonheads (they help with the weird taste one gets from an IV flush), teeth brushed, face splashed, animals fed, and laptop in a bag, in seven minutes. SEVEN. I don't know how I managed to make coffee in that amount of time, but I was multitasking like a madman.

In other news: I have a rig now for practicing double bass drum technique at night after everyone else is asleep. Dbl pedal and a kick practice pad sort of thing.

I also just found a ridiculously affordable 24" gretsch kick that will soon be wrapped in pink sparkle to match the rest of the kit. So obnoxious. Someone call Matt Pike and tell him I'm ready.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:06 pm Forgot to set an alarm this morning to get up extra early to get my wife to chemotherapy. She finally gave me a poke in the ribs and said "Are you taking me to the thing?"

I was up and in the car with coffee for both of us, covid masks, water, lemonheads (they help with the weird taste one gets from an IV flush), teeth brushed, face splashed, animals fed, and laptop in a bag, in seven minutes. SEVEN. I don't know how I managed to make coffee in that amount of time, but I was multitasking like a madman.

You've got it down! I've got some go saddle bags with water, vegan meal shakes and sunscreen that help me get it down to that seven minute mark with the coffee. Animals fed is solid!

dontfeartheringo wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:06 pm Forgot to set an alarm this morning to get up extra early to get my wife to chemotherapy. She finally gave me a poke in the ribs and said "Are you taking me to the thing?"

I was up and in the car with coffee for both of us, covid masks, water, lemonheads (they help with the weird taste one gets from an IV flush), teeth brushed, face splashed, animals fed, and laptop in a bag, in seven minutes. SEVEN. I don't know how I managed to make coffee in that amount of time, but I was multitasking like a madman.

That's efficiency! Continuing best wishes to yinz all from us all!

dontfeartheringo wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:06 pm Forgot to set an alarm this morning to get up extra early to get my wife to chemotherapy. She finally gave me a poke in the ribs and said "Are you taking me to the thing?"

I was up and in the car with coffee for both of us, covid masks, water, lemonheads (they help with the weird taste one gets from an IV flush), teeth brushed, face splashed, animals fed, and laptop in a bag, in seven minutes. SEVEN. I don't know how I managed to make coffee in that amount of time, but I was multitasking like a madman.

In other news: I have a rig now for practicing double bass drum technique at night after everyone else is asleep. Dbl pedal and a kick practice pad sort of thing.

I also just found a ridiculously affordable 24" gretsch kick that will soon be wrapped in pink sparkle to match the rest of the kit. So obnoxious. Someone call Matt Pike and tell him I'm ready.

Not to hijack the thread, but goddamn I remember the chemo days of having a totally unpredictable schedule, doc appts that change at the last minute, the fucking blood tests, waiting on the results of the blood tests to see if you can even get the treatment, the parking vouchers, the shit coffee at the hospital.....fuck. Life changing shit.

On nights where I drive for Uber I pass that hospital all the time. It's weird....my wife was born at that hospital, both our kids were born there, I was basically sawed in half with a ruptured appendix, and the only memories I have are from cancer treatments.

I'm feeling for ya man.

Maurice wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:05 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:06 pm Forgot to set an alarm this morning to get up extra early to get my wife to chemotherapy. She finally gave me a poke in the ribs and said "Are you taking me to the thing?"

I was up and in the car with coffee for both of us, covid masks, water, lemonheads (they help with the weird taste one gets from an IV flush), teeth brushed, face splashed, animals fed, and laptop in a bag, in seven minutes. SEVEN. I don't know how I managed to make coffee in that amount of time, but I was multitasking like a madman.

That's efficiency! Continuing best wishes to yinz all from us all!

Making coffee with the left hand, brushing teeth with my right. I have to also hand it to my Blundstones- lotta time saved just stepping into a pair of boots.

I will be at whatever PRF autumn function there is. I need to see yr faces.

You've been on my mind, FM DFTR. I was going to send you Spanish baseball links for distraction, should have done that. Best of vibes to you and your partner.

An ex-girlfriend from Istanbul was in town for work last night and we met up for dinner, first time we'd seen each other since I visited her post-relationship some 14 years ago. It was very nice to talk and catch up and see that she is doing well and has found her way through life, found some peace.

She brought me a couple t-shirts that I forgot at her place in 2009. I am now wearing an effectively brand-new, long-since discontinued black Achewood bar coaster t-shirt that smells like a minty Turkish laundry. Like I stumbled on a somewhat underwhelming time capsule, but it does make me happy.

jimmy spako wrote: Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:59 am You've been on my mind, FM DFTR. I was going to send you Spanish baseball links for distraction, should have done that. Best of vibes to you and your partner.

An ex-girlfriend from Istanbul was in town for work last night and we met up for dinner, first time we'd seen each other since I visited her post-relationship some 14 years ago. It was very nice to talk and catch up and see that she is doing well and has found her way through life, found some peace.

She brought me a couple t-shirts that I forgot at her place in 2009. I am now wearing an effectively brand-new, long-since discontinued black Achewood bar coaster t-shirt that smells like a minty Turkish laundry. Like I stumbled on a somewhat underwhelming time capsule, but it does make me happy.

Faiz is gonna be so pissed.

Today was another frustrating fight with the dumb Subaru. Should have gotten another Honda.

More money down a rathole.

Please send Spanish baseball links!