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GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (4 Viewers)

Dan Lambskin said:
I've spent the bulk of the day building a farmhouses style dining room table.  I guess they cost a rack or two to buy and I'm doing it for about $100.

Of course now that's I'm almost done the wife thinks maybe it should be a foot longer.  So instead of being finished and getting to go get drunk at a party I have to wait for her to decide, probably run up to home Depot to get new wood, and then spend like another hour finishing this thing 
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cstu said:
I've been going through this myself since one of the issues my 7 yo daughter has is APD.  Things that have helped her are speech therapy (they work on listening as well as producing sounds) and having an aide in the classroom.  Recently I've been listening to audiobooks (Magic Treehouse series) with her at night to help her practice comprehending what she hears.  The stories are read by the author and about 40 minutes so they are short enough to hear an entire story before she goes to sleep.  
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Good info. Thanks. Her school is doing a pretty good job with speech therapy doing the same stuff. And her classroom is an integrated class with a team of teachers including a special ed teacher. So I'm pretty happy with the school side. That's a great idea doing the audio books. I'll have to try that.

 
GroveDiesel said:
No, the 2015 animated version. 

I've been struggling with a lot of anxiety lately about what life is going to look like for my daughter. With her auditory processing disorder, I don't know what adulthood looks like for her. She's 7 and has no friends for a variety of reasons mostly related to her APD and I don't know if she'll ever really have friends. She's not dumb, but it takes her a lot longer to learn and understand things. So I worry about not only whether she'd even be able to go to college (seems unlikely), but what kind of job she could even do. I'm not even sure she'll be able to live on her own independently. If she can, I'm not sure that I want her to if she's just going to be totally alone.

And if that's how it plays out, I'm perfectly fine with her living with us. But somewhere down the road, I'm going to get old. And we wouldn't be able to look after her. And I don't know what would happen to her. And that terrifies me.

So when I watch or read something about childhood and life being magical, it's been hitting me pretty hard because I know that life is hard and cynical and that's why we need to remind ourselves of the beauty and magic in the world. When I think about how hard life could be for her, it kind of crushes me.

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Damn, stuff like this is heartbreaking to read.  

With all the goofy #### we do in here 99% of the time it's easy to forget everyone here has problems they are dealing with.  

You are obviously a great father.  

 
Pretty nice little football game in Austin last night. I think I'm going to like this team.

My local gym had two rowing machines set up outside the stadium before the game. Decided to race a friend on the rowers after several tailgate beers. I fell off. And, because I was strapped in, I had to sit there on the ground and wait on someone to pick me back up.

 
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There is video. Somebody shot the race with my friend's phone. Got this from his wife this morning.

That video made me literally laugh until I cried. You guys are good sports! Hilarious!
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It will not be posted.

 
bentley said:
Pretty nice little football game in Austin last night. I think I'm going to like this team.

My local gym had two rowing machines set up outside the stadium before the game. Decided to race a friend on the rowers after several tailgate beers. I fell off. And, because I was strapped in, I had to sit there on the ground and wait on someone to pick me back up.
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That game drove me to drink. And pills. And illegal burning. 

 
for the first time since floppinha was born (she's 5), the wife is going back to work- full-time freelance with an old consulting gig. 

I have been scraping by for a long time... this could be a game-charger

 
MT's thread and some other experiences being relayed in there (like Koya's) has me scared ####less right now. I had a fairly bad pain in my upper right quadrant of my abdomen in mid-july and then also milder pain in lower abdomen, side and back. Had an ultrasound to check gall bladder and other organs and because my doctor's office ####ed up it took 3-4 weeks to get results, which were basically normal, but I Lost a month! Had hida scan which showed normal gall bladder so now they want to do CT scan and have me see GI guy for what I assume will end up in a colonoscopy.  

Aren't we all too young and healthy for this ####?  Im 37 and a little overweight, but not obese etc  

Hoping it is just stress or muscualar, but now i am more scared than before, even after going down the webmd/google Rabbit-hole 

 
El Floppo said:
for the first time since floppinha was born (she's 5), the wife is going back to work- full-time freelance with an old consulting gig. 

I have been scraping by for a long time... this could be a game-charger
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tbh... I have mixed feelings about this. we made a point of having one of us home to be around the kids as much as possible while they've been growing up. feel like the best way for them to learn what we think is important and to become the human beings we hope they'll become is to have that type of person modeled by us and then reflected back. 

the money could/should be transformative- and at 5 and heading off to big-kid school, floppinha is now being primarily fed to the world anyways... but I'm still reticent about giving up even those few parental interactive hours after school for them. even if it's just the 20 minutes ferrying them from school to extra-curricular stuff... especially my daughter- it's a time for her to get to immediately reflect with the best possible person on school and life. 

but paying bills will be nice too.

 
Leeroy Jenkins said:
MT's thread and some other experiences being relayed in there (like Koya's) has me scared ####less right now. I had a fairly bad pain in my upper right quadrant of my abdomen in mid-july and then also milder pain in lower abdomen, side and back. Had an ultrasound to check gall bladder and other organs and because my doctor's office ####ed up it took 3-4 weeks to get results, which were basically normal, but I Lost a month! Had hida scan which showed normal gall bladder so now they want to do CT scan and have me see GI guy for what I assume will end up in a colonoscopy.  

Aren't we all too young and healthy for this ####?  Im 37 and a little overweight, but not obese etc  

Hoping it is just stress or muscualar, but now i am more scared than before, even after going down the webmd/google Rabbit-hole 
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gl... probably, maybe, definitely nothing.

 
i'm an inveterate hip hop fan with a weakness for the Allman Brothers

this Dan Rather interview with Gregg is tickling my undercarriage in just the right way :thumbup:

 
Leeroy Jenkins said:
MT's thread and some other experiences being relayed in there (like Koya's) has me scared ####less right now. I had a fairly bad pain in my upper right quadrant of my abdomen in mid-july and then also milder pain in lower abdomen, side and back. Had an ultrasound to check gall bladder and other organs and because my doctor's office ####ed up it took 3-4 weeks to get results, which were basically normal, but I Lost a month! Had hida scan which showed normal gall bladder so now they want to do CT scan and have me see GI guy for what I assume will end up in a colonoscopy.  

Aren't we all too young and healthy for this ####?  Im 37 and a little overweight, but not obese etc  

Hoping it is just stress or muscualar, but now i am more scared than before, even after going down the webmd/google Rabbit-hole 
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You're Leeroy ####### Jenkins. You'll be fine

but just incase, TPW

 
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