Notices tagged with sonone
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@geniusmusing The routers at work are centrally managed by another agency, so no experience to recommend by. I know #sonOne is using a #Ubiquiti router with #Wi-Fi, but I don't know specifics.
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The hydrocortisone cream seems to have helped. Skin is a lot less itchy than it was earlier.
I don't think the cream is the reason I am sleepy and have a mild headache. Skipped this week's #videochat with #sonOne, #GD1, #GD2. Probably #naptime.
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Weird. When I look back to junior high school (technically, my school was an "intermediate school" with 7th and 8th grades; a real junior high adds 9th grade), I see some of the most "challenging" times of my life. So it was really odd to see the widespread change from junior high and intermediate schools to middle schools in the ten to twelve years between when #sonOne went through and when #sonTwo and #Daddy_A went thorough.
(The younger two wound up going from public middle schools to a charter school because of the less violent and more learning centered environment. 2nd son got to take college classes as part of his curriculum and the youngest was no longer terrified by race-related fights that were happening at the public school.)
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#sonOne tells me Hardees now has the Famous Star and Western Bacon Cheeseburger (staples of the Carl's Jr menu; they have the same corporate owner).
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#coin_laundry day. Also shipped a package to #sonOne ( for #GD1 and #GD2 ) and one to #sonTwo ( for #GS3 and my granddoggy ). I may ship to #Daddy_A on Thursday.
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#sonOne told his daughters ( #GD1, age 12; #GD2, age 8 ) about the two cops that used to stop me every morning on my way to school (at gunpoint, naturally) to harass me. Including a daily Interpol check, to make sure I wasn't an international terrorist. Something about a Black kid with an armful of books, I guess.
He's trying to give them more personal connections to the events of the day.
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In a #videochat with #sonOne and #GD2. #GD1 is asleep.
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Got a new picture of #GS3. Eating breakfast. Wearing his Batman logo shirt. Reminds me of his uncle ( #sonOne ) ... around age 12-14, his favorite shirt had a bat logo and the words "Bat Attitude" on it.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/270132 [abcnews go com]
This must be the “no knock warrant” case that #sonOne was telling me about yesterday.
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As #sonOne reported during today’s call, Kansas City’s protests have not been as destructive. But they did destroy a cop car. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article243140811.html
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#sonOne is using the protests and riots and the police abuse that precipitated it to teach #GD1 and #GD2 about racial issues in the US as well as police brutality and authoritarianism.
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Talked to #sonOne, #GD1, #GD2 for about an hour. #sonTwo is at work. About to call #Daddy_A.
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#sonOne is working 10-12 hours per day, mostly remote. #sonTwo is working 16 hours per day on-site. I need to ask them both whether there is any rioting near them. I already asked #Daddy_A, but he has not answered yet.
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My #Star_Trek piece:
I watched reruns of ST:TOS (the original series) for many years. I enjoyed it immensely. I will never be a Trekkie. I just like the show.
I saw an occasional ST:TNG or ST:DS9 episode if I lingered while dropping off #sonOne after a visit, but by that time, I had no TV, so other than probably 5 the next generation and probably 2 deep space nine episodes, I never saw them.
I have never seen any episodes of any other ST series.
The original ST movies were awful garbage. I enjoyed ST:Generations (the movie in which Capt Kirk dies), but the ones that preceded it were not good. The movie with the whale was so fake that it felt like "hey, we're running out of money, let's pump the franchise again to refill our accounts".
I saw the first JJ Abrams Star Trek movie. I actually enjoyed it. I can see why Trekkies hated it, but the earlier movies were chasing off normies. This movie made it possible for regular people to enjoy Star Trek again. That said, I have not seen any later ST movies.
I like ST, but I'm not ever going to be obsessed with it.
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I remember two slightly older friends of #sonOne’s. Both had gotten jobs and bought mini pickup trucks after high school, but were both broke and single. One of them bought a blow-up doll and tied it to the bed of the other one’s truck. They passed it back and forth for a few months. Finally, one young man’s mom saw the doll and blew a gasket.
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During today's #videochat with #sonOne, we talked about network stuff (CLNS, IS-IS, OSPF, token ring, FDDI, the OSI protocol stack, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX), job-hunting, updates on #sonTwo's work status and #Daddy_A's birthday ( did I mention that "we" ordered his NAS box? ), vehicle repairs, Star Wars/Mandalorian, imported Japanese-market Transformers toys, and idiotic people whose behaviors are putting other people at risk for #COVID-19. Oh, and fried chicken places.
What did not happen:
Usually, #GD1 and #GD2 join us for 10-30 minutes; occasionally his wife joins us. Today, none of them joined.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Almost 1/3 of cumulative confirmed #COVID-19 cases are in the US. Part of that is just “free dumb” people who object so strongly to someone else telling them what to do that they endanger themselves and others by disobeying. Also, as I told someone earlier today (US-Pacific), bosses/managers can and will overrule people’s common sense if we allow it.
#sonOne told me he went to #Target yesterday and saw a couple (sans face masks, naturally) that had cornered an employee to tell the guy how dumb it was that employees have to wear masks at work.
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#sonOne tells me one of their dogs would not go into the backyard for four hours after a crew was there repairing a damaged cable. The dog just does not like to meet new people.
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Talking about ancient network technologies with #sonOne. FDDI, token ring, CLNS and ISIS, IPX/SPX. Most of these were just a chapter in a networking book for me, but his prior employers have actually used some of these.
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https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS220j maybe this one.
The two older boys have some professional use for the devices along with being the family Plex server. #Daddy_A does not. He’s probably going to be off for at least three more years (until #Little_Girl_A3 is in first grade), assuming the next back surgery goes well.
The DS220j is probably a step down from the DS218 model that I bought for #sonOne, but the $80 price difference might be the difference between “look what our Dad sent me” and “why am I the only one that didn’t get one?”.
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