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3 little ones start 4th and 2nd grade today, in person.  Wife is walking them up to the school and then she and her cousin are hitting a winery.  Almost 600 days home with these......creatures.  If the antivaxers and antimaskers screw this up and school gets cancelled again, I may kick over more than rope stands and throw something larger than pennies.

 

 
the rover said:
roverkid started her senior year today.  they do senior sunrise and watch the sun come up over the water and then head to coffee and school.  she had a good day, enjoys her classes, has friends in every class but one (6 guys and her in a marketing class), and had her first session with a new therapist after school today which went well.  overall a great start.  ACT this weekend and her application to NYU film school needs to be in by Nov 1.  

Couldn't be more proud of her.  
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Got a senior now.  We skipped the ACT/SAT.  Once he overheard that colleges no longer require them, he had his mind made up.  Can't really blame him.  He told the other night he plans on taking advantage of Oregon's free tuition offer for all HS grads to attend community college, knock out his core credits and then transfer.  Think I'll buy him a car if he follows through on this.  Oh, he's the varsity starting RB this season.  That came out of nowhere.  We never let him play football until last year.

Taking his older brother to Eugene on the 20th.  First bird out of the nest.  Different kid; crushed the ACT, got a full ride to Oregon (minus some housing) and already has a full year of college under his belt through AP Tests.  Pleading with him to spend the following year abroad, my biggest regret in life. Think he's all-in on that idea, so that's good.  He's not going to like it when I go with him, but we'll manage.  

I'm really gonna miss him when he's gone. 

 
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Bob Sacamano said:
WT... My daughter has been in school for a month.
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This state is stupid.
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14yo floppinho starts his new fancy NYC private school (9th grade) tomorrow along with Gary Kasparov's kid and other fancy types who aren't poor and on full scholarship. Juilliard pre-college starts this weekend for him. excitement abounds for both.

10 yo Floppinha (5th grade) and the rest of NYC public school kids start this Monday, the 13th. usually starts right after Labor day, but Jewish holidays gummed up the works this year...it's never started so late.

but starting in the middle of summer at the beginning of August is still insane to me.

 
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14yo floppinho starts his new fancy NYC private school (9th grade) tomorrow along with Gary Kasparov's kid and other fancy types who aren't poor and on full scholarship. Juilliard pre-college starts this weekend for him. excitement abounds for both.

10 yo Floppinha (5th grade) and the rest of NYC public school kids start this Monday, the 13th. usually starts right after Labor day, but Jewish holidays gummed up the works this year...it's never started so late.

but starting in the middle of summer at the beginning of August is still insane to me.
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Yeah we normally start the Tuesday after Labor Day.   

 
My dog was sitting outside the sliding door just now so I said his name (Chip) in a normal voice and he did that head-cocking thing where he tries to figure out where the sound is coming from. I don't think he can see in due to glare (and dogs having ####ty eyesight generally)

So I spent a minute or so on variations of "Chippy can you hear me?" a la the Tommy soundtrack, and watching him move his head around.  Dogs are hilarious.

 
heckmanm said:
My dog was sitting outside the sliding door just now so I said his name (Chip) in a normal voice and he did that head-cocking thing where he tries to figure out where the sound is coming from. I don't think he can see in due to glare (and dogs having ####ty eyesight generally)

So I spent a minute or so on variations of "Chippy can you hear me?" a la the Tommy soundtrack, and watching him move his head around.  Dogs are hilarious.
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my old kick-### cat's name was Chip.

I spent a lot of time saying "####### chip".

still say that when one of our newer cats is an #######.

 
General Malaise said:
Got a senior now.  We skipped the ACT/SAT.  Once he overheard that colleges no longer require them, he had his mind made up.  Can't really blame him.  He told the other night he plans on taking advantage of Oregon's free tuition offer for all HS grads to attend community college, knock out his core credits and then transfer.  Think I'll buy him a car if he follows through on this.  Oh, he's the varsity starting RB this season.  That came out of nowhere.  We never let him play football until last year.

Taking his older brother to Eugene on the 20th.  First bird out of the nest.  Different kid; crushed the ACT, got a full ride to Oregon (minus some housing) and already has a full year of college under his belt through AP Tests.  Pleading with him to spend the following year abroad, my biggest regret in life. Think he's all-in on that idea, so that's good.  He's not going to like it when I go with him, but we'll manage.  

I'm really gonna miss him when he's gone. 
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This is awesome.

 
General Malaise said:
Got a senior now.  We skipped the ACT/SAT.  Once he overheard that colleges no longer require them, he had his mind made up.  Can't really blame him.  He told the other night he plans on taking advantage of Oregon's free tuition offer for all HS grads to attend community college, knock out his core credits and then transfer.  Think I'll buy him a car if he follows through on this.  Oh, he's the varsity starting RB this season.  That came out of nowhere.  We never let him play football until last year.

Taking his older brother to Eugene on the 20th.  First bird out of the nest.  Different kid; crushed the ACT, got a full ride to Oregon (minus some housing) and already has a full year of college under his belt through AP Tests.  Pleading with him to spend the following year abroad, my biggest regret in life. Think he's all-in on that idea, so that's good.  He's not going to like it when I go with him, but we'll manage.  

I'm really gonna miss him when he's gone. 
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Yeah roverkid wants to go to school 3000 miles away.   That's a tough one to process.   She's taking the ACT in hopes of acing it; if she does well it helps, if she doesn't she just won't submit it.   

 
I may be going senile. 2 or 3 times over the last couple of months I’ve been driving and suddenly felt a weird sort of disorientation. All of a sudden I felt like, instead of traveling along the road, that my vehicle was staying in place while the world was spinning beneath me. Kind of like if my tires were the thing spinning the earth under me to advance me to my destination.

Anyone else ever experience it?  :oldunsure: :drive:

It was weird because I knew where I was and wasn’t dizzy or anything, but my perception of how driving/physics works just sort of got altered and perceived differently in my brain and felt really odd.

 
GroveDiesel said:
I may be going senile. 2 or 3 times over the last couple of months I’ve been driving and suddenly felt a weird sort of disorientation. All of a sudden I felt like, instead of traveling along the road, that my vehicle was staying in place while the world was spinning beneath me. Kind of like if my tires were the thing spinning the earth under me to advance me to my destination.

Anyone else ever experience it?  :oldunsure: :drive:

It was weird because I knew where I was and wasn’t dizzy or anything, but my perception of how driving/physics works just sort of got altered and perceived differently in my brain and felt really odd.
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Vertigo?

 
The one drive-in theater that is sorta near where I live has a pretty fun looking double billing this weekend: Shang Chi followed by Free Guy. May have to see if I can find some friends to go make a night of it.

 
GroveDiesel said:
The one drive-in theater that is sorta near where I live has a pretty fun looking double billing this weekend: Shang Chi followed by Free Guy. May have to see if I can find some friends to go make a night of it.
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Free Guy was a fun movie- the whole family went into a theater to see it last weekend. most of us came out ok.

 
GroveDiesel said:
I may be going senile. 2 or 3 times over the last couple of months I’ve been driving and suddenly felt a weird sort of disorientation. All of a sudden I felt like, instead of traveling along the road, that my vehicle was staying in place while the world was spinning beneath me. Kind of like if my tires were the thing spinning the earth under me to advance me to my destination.

Anyone else ever experience it?  :oldunsure: :drive:

It was weird because I knew where I was and wasn’t dizzy or anything, but my perception of how driving/physics works just sort of got altered and perceived differently in my brain and felt really odd.
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How much pot do you smoke?

 
im really grieving so forgive me for putting it down here for my internet friends who dont really even know us but thats what makes this site great anyhow just so you know the backstory i got a call from my mom about 1015 on sunday night and i knew what it was going to be she never calls that late and both her and me are normally asleep by then anyhow she told me emts had been trying to revive my dad for 40 minutes and they had read his last directives and they were done so i should come down she didnt ever say he had passed probably so that i would not drive like an idiot but in my heart i knew and i live about 30 minutes away so i hopped into my car and went to thier condo thing and was met by the police outside who said he was gone guys that was the hardest thing ive ever heard but hey said that it was fast and he didnt suffer so i helped my mom and the cops call the funeral home and they came and got him at about midnight my dad was a great man who helped anyone he could did meals on wheels worked with vets and was active in whatever church he lived by at the time and who was always striking up conversations with total strangers at any of my kids games and who was basically like a permanent fixture in most bleachers where me or my kids played and for his part he had been a hell of a football player as a center and was maybe the last guy to ever wear a leather helmet for one of the best football programs around and was literally just a huge man when he shook your hand his hand just sort of swallowed yours up but as mean as he was as a center he was that nice off of the field something about taking that helmet off and he was just the nicest man anyhow he was a teddy bear of a guy and fought all sorts of demons and who had a hard life to be honest but everyone loved him in part because of how he fought those demons and how he beat them back so the hardest part has been calling his remaining family and my moms side and telling them because they all start busting up and it makes me relive the cops telling me hes gone and that starts to get to me and i guess in the end im just going to miss him but i did see him over the holiday and hugged him and told him i loved him and he got to go at home and not in some bed or hooked up to a machine and without suffering and i guess that is all that any of us can hope for thanks for reading and being kind i appreciate it a lot 

 
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SWC said:
lost my dad last night maybe say a prayer or two for big m if you would thanks gang
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SWC said:
im really grieving so forgive me for putting it down here for my internet friends who dont really even know us but thats what makes this site great anyhow just so you know the backstory i got a call from my mom about 1015 on sunday night and i knew what it was going to be she never calls that late and both her and me are normally asleep by then anyhow she told me emts had been trying to revive my dad for 40 minutes and they had read his last directives and they were done so i should come down she didnt ever say he had passed probably so that i would not drive like an idiot but in my heart i knew and i live about 30 minutes away so i hopped into my car and went to thier condo thing and was met by the police outside who said he was gone guys that was the hardest thing ive ever heard but hey said that it was fast and he didnt suffer so i helped my mom and the cops call the funeral home and they came and got him at about midnight my dad was a great man who helped anyone he could did meals on wheels worked with vets and was active in whatever church he lived by at the time and who was always striking up conversations with total strangers at any of my kids games and who was basically like a permanent fixture in most bleachers where me or my kids played and for his part he had been a hell of a football player as a center and was maybe the last guy to ever wear a leather helmet for one of the best football programs around and was literally just a huge man when he shook your hand his hand just sort of swallowed yours up but as mean as he was as a center he was that nice off of the field something about taking that helmet off and he was just the nicest man anyhow he was a teddy bear of a guy and fought all sorts of demons and who had a hard life to be honest but everyone loved him in part because of how he fought those demons and how he beat them back so the hardest part has been calling his remaining family and my moms side and telling them because they all start busting up and it makes me relive the cops telling me hes gone and that starts to get to me and i guess in the end im just going to miss him but i did see him over the holiday and hugged him and told him i loved him and he got to go at home and not in some bed or hooked up to a machine and without suffering and i guess that is all that any of us can hope for thanks for reading and being kind i appreciate it a lot 
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😭 :bro hug:

 
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im really grieving so forgive me for putting it down here for my internet friends who dont really even know us but thats what makes this site great anyhow just so you know the backstory i got a call from my mom about 1015 on sunday night and i knew what it was going to be she never calls that late and both her and me are normally asleep by then anyhow she told me emts had been trying to revive my dad for 40 minutes and they had read his last directives and they were done so i should come down she didnt ever say he had passed probably so that i would not drive like an idiot but in my heart i knew and i live about 30 minutes away so i hopped into my car and went to thier condo thing and was met by the police outside who said he was gone guys that was the hardest thing ive ever heard but hey said that it was fast and he didnt suffer so i helped my mom and the cops call the funeral home and they came and got him at about midnight my dad was a great man who helped anyone he could did meals on wheels worked with vets and was active in whatever church he lived by at the time and who was always striking up conversations with total strangers at any of my kids games and who was basically like a permanent fixture in most bleachers where me or my kids played and for his part he had been a hell of a football player as a center and was maybe the last guy to ever wear a leather helmet for one of the best football programs around and was literally just a huge man when he shook your hand his hand just sort of swallowed yours up but as mean as he was as a center he was that nice off of the field something about taking that helmet off and he was just the nicest man anyhow he was a teddy bear of a guy and fought all sorts of demons and who had a hard life to be honest but everyone loved him in part because of how he fought those demons and how he beat them back so the hardest part has been calling his remaining family and my moms side and telling them because they all start busting up and it makes me relive the cops telling me hes gone and that starts to get to me and i guess in the end im just going to miss him but i did see him over the holiday and hugged him and told him i loved him and he got to go at home and not in some bed or hooked up to a machine and without suffering and i guess that is all that any of us can hope for thanks for reading and being kind i appreciate it a lot 
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Hang in there, GB. The part about going quickly at the end there is notable. I lost my mom a couple of years ago and she was in the hospital for about a week before she was gone. I miss her terribly but I've often thought over the past couple of years if she had to go, it was fortunate that it wasn't a long and painful drawn out thing as many have to endure.

That's also great to hear you got to tell him you loved him when you saw him last. That's so big. And a good reminder if folks are able to, to not leave important relationships unpatched if it's possible. 

I know neither of those things seem like much right now probably. Right now, it just sucks. I'm sorry. 

 
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im really grieving so forgive me for putting it down here for my internet friends who dont really even know us but thats what makes this site great anyhow just so you know the backstory i got a call from my mom about 1015 on sunday night and i knew what it was going to be she never calls that late and both her and me are normally asleep by then anyhow she told me emts had been trying to revive my dad for 40 minutes and they had read his last directives and they were done so i should come down she didnt ever say he had passed probably so that i would not drive like an idiot but in my heart i knew and i live about 30 minutes away so i hopped into my car and went to thier condo thing and was met by the police outside who said he was gone guys that was the hardest thing ive ever heard but hey said that it was fast and he didnt suffer so i helped my mom and the cops call the funeral home and they came and got him at about midnight my dad was a great man who helped anyone he could did meals on wheels worked with vets and was active in whatever church he lived by at the time and who was always striking up conversations with total strangers at any of my kids games and who was basically like a permanent fixture in most bleachers where me or my kids played and for his part he had been a hell of a football player as a center and was maybe the last guy to ever wear a leather helmet for one of the best football programs around and was literally just a huge man when he shook your hand his hand just sort of swallowed yours up but as mean as he was as a center he was that nice off of the field something about taking that helmet off and he was just the nicest man anyhow he was a teddy bear of a guy and fought all sorts of demons and who had a hard life to be honest but everyone loved him in part because of how he fought those demons and how he beat them back so the hardest part has been calling his remaining family and my moms side and telling them because they all start busting up and it makes me relive the cops telling me hes gone and that starts to get to me and i guess in the end im just going to miss him but i did see him over the holiday and hugged him and told him i loved him and he got to go at home and not in some bed or hooked up to a machine and without suffering and i guess that is all that any of us can hope for thanks for reading and being kind i appreciate it a lot 
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That’s a wonderful testament to your dad. So sorry for your loss.

 
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im really grieving so forgive me for putting it down here for my internet friends who dont really even know us but thats what makes this site great anyhow just so you know the backstory i got a call from my mom about 1015 on sunday night and i knew what it was going to be she never calls that late and both her and me are normally asleep by then anyhow she told me emts had been trying to revive my dad for 40 minutes and they had read his last directives and they were done so i should come down she didnt ever say he had passed probably so that i would not drive like an idiot but in my heart i knew and i live about 30 minutes away so i hopped into my car and went to thier condo thing and was met by the police outside who said he was gone guys that was the hardest thing ive ever heard but hey said that it was fast and he didnt suffer so i helped my mom and the cops call the funeral home and they came and got him at about midnight my dad was a great man who helped anyone he could did meals on wheels worked with vets and was active in whatever church he lived by at the time and who was always striking up conversations with total strangers at any of my kids games and who was basically like a permanent fixture in most bleachers where me or my kids played and for his part he had been a hell of a football player as a center and was maybe the last guy to ever wear a leather helmet for one of the best football programs around and was literally just a huge man when he shook your hand his hand just sort of swallowed yours up but as mean as he was as a center he was that nice off of the field something about taking that helmet off and he was just the nicest man anyhow he was a teddy bear of a guy and fought all sorts of demons and who had a hard life to be honest but everyone loved him in part because of how he fought those demons and how he beat them back so the hardest part has been calling his remaining family and my moms side and telling them because they all start busting up and it makes me relive the cops telling me hes gone and that starts to get to me and i guess in the end im just going to miss him but i did see him over the holiday and hugged him and told him i loved him and he got to go at home and not in some bed or hooked up to a machine and without suffering and i guess that is all that any of us can hope for thanks for reading and being kind i appreciate it a lot 
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hey gb- your dad sounds like an amazing guy... like his son. So very sorry.

A lot of what you've been writing has been resonating with me. I was flying on Chrismas Eve to my wife's family's place for Christmas when I got the news about my dad as I stepped off the plane to check my messages. I didn't even know that he was sick- diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer the week before and they were waiting until after the holidays to let everybody know. It was like getting drop-kicked in the gut, heart and head all at once.

He went very quickly, like your dad- instead of what would have been 6mo-year of miserable pain. He was a terrible patient- always the care-giver- and I'm sure this was exactly how he'd have wanted to go. My main sorrow is that my wife was pregnant with our son, and I would have loved for them to have met- my dad would have gone absolutely ape for him. I know his goal was to make it until floppinho was born. 

I too remember flying out there and taking care of as much as I could for my mom- including calling everybody. What you wrote brought me right back into that repeated body-blow of having to deliver that news to unsuspecting family and friends. Eventually, the telling of the story and responding to the newly grieved helped me process some of everything I was going through. I think it helped ultimately. 

Gah. :(  

Just been thinking about you and your family and hoping you've been able to process and heal, if just a little bit. 

 
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