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Monday: school, sick kid
Jun. 8th, 2020 03:55 pmA.’s school assignments this week are unusually enjoyable: a Prodigy tournament with a classroom, week long goal of 2000 correct answers (collective goal, not competitive goal — altho I gather other classrooms are also doing this, so a little competition on timing, who gets there first, etc.) and a Memory Book set of slides to fill out.
T. was sick last night (as in, two visits to the WC to vomit). That is a puzzler! None of us has been sick (other than allergies, and occasionally an excess of flatulence due to poor food choices such as eating an entire avocado plus chocolate avocado ice cream in one day. My excuse is that I did not know! I know now). Vomiting is a possible side effect of using his inhaler, so it could have been that — but that had never happened before. It looked so much what used to happen before we figured out to give him lactaid when we were at theme parks, and to limit ice cream consumption.
Well, apparently the daily yogurt he had until he recently ran out was doing a lot to keep that under control. Two big glasses of milk, a package of cheezits and a couple york peppermint patties for dinner and up it all came. *sigh* Dragging out of him what he consumed took until today. I was really worried about what he might have gotten and how. But if it is lactose overconsumption, well, everyone in this family has been there, so no surprise.
ETA:
Twitter claims that I have been on Twitter since 2008. Shocking. I almost never do anything on twitter. I mean, I used it to track impending weather related school closures in previous years. But I literally would go years between even checking in over there. I think probably because at one point, I realized that very occasionally, publishing industry people would hate-tweet posts from this blog when it was over at LJ and I was much more active commenting on the transition to ebooks.
Anyway. Room Rater / ratemyskyperoom is soooo much fun. I love those posts. They make me happy, and I could explain why, but you can probably figure it out, and figuring out why those posts are so much fun is easily 40% or more of the fun.
I have also noticed that when I am grazing the media, I am often puzzled by things that, if I go over to twitter and track down the author of the piece, I can often get a satisfying answer to. “Were you being snarky?” “Why yes, yes I was.” Type of thing. [ETA: Do not ask the author! Jeez! They will answer, you will develop a relationship, do not do that! OMG, it does not go good places. Awkward. So very awkward. But if you take a look around, usually someone else asked and it was answered and they get to have the Awkward.] Since I am now on twitter with some frequency, I realized that in addition to being able to follow the protests in more or less real time from a distance, if I populate my list of people I follow, I can get a news feed that is very, very high quality. OK, totally my jam, but now that I think about it, probably needs further adjustment. Ahem.
Anyway. In addition to answering questions about authorial intent, it turns out that when there is no Money Stuff column, and it was not a planned skip (which I would know about, because he would have said something the day before), I can find out why by looking on twitter. How incredibly useful!
I know twitter has a terrible reputation. But really, it is just a massive sea of people, and it will be enjoyable if you pick enjoyable people, and it will be horrible if you take whatever random serves us. If you picked people, and it is still horrible, that is on you. (Pace sometimes the world is horrible, and curating twitter is not the correct solution to that problem.)
T. was sick last night (as in, two visits to the WC to vomit). That is a puzzler! None of us has been sick (other than allergies, and occasionally an excess of flatulence due to poor food choices such as eating an entire avocado plus chocolate avocado ice cream in one day. My excuse is that I did not know! I know now). Vomiting is a possible side effect of using his inhaler, so it could have been that — but that had never happened before. It looked so much what used to happen before we figured out to give him lactaid when we were at theme parks, and to limit ice cream consumption.
Well, apparently the daily yogurt he had until he recently ran out was doing a lot to keep that under control. Two big glasses of milk, a package of cheezits and a couple york peppermint patties for dinner and up it all came. *sigh* Dragging out of him what he consumed took until today. I was really worried about what he might have gotten and how. But if it is lactose overconsumption, well, everyone in this family has been there, so no surprise.
ETA:
Twitter claims that I have been on Twitter since 2008. Shocking. I almost never do anything on twitter. I mean, I used it to track impending weather related school closures in previous years. But I literally would go years between even checking in over there. I think probably because at one point, I realized that very occasionally, publishing industry people would hate-tweet posts from this blog when it was over at LJ and I was much more active commenting on the transition to ebooks.
Anyway. Room Rater / ratemyskyperoom is soooo much fun. I love those posts. They make me happy, and I could explain why, but you can probably figure it out, and figuring out why those posts are so much fun is easily 40% or more of the fun.
I have also noticed that when I am grazing the media, I am often puzzled by things that, if I go over to twitter and track down the author of the piece, I can often get a satisfying answer to. “Were you being snarky?” “Why yes, yes I was.” Type of thing. [ETA: Do not ask the author! Jeez! They will answer, you will develop a relationship, do not do that! OMG, it does not go good places. Awkward. So very awkward. But if you take a look around, usually someone else asked and it was answered and they get to have the Awkward.] Since I am now on twitter with some frequency, I realized that in addition to being able to follow the protests in more or less real time from a distance, if I populate my list of people I follow, I can get a news feed that is very, very high quality. OK, totally my jam, but now that I think about it, probably needs further adjustment. Ahem.
Anyway. In addition to answering questions about authorial intent, it turns out that when there is no Money Stuff column, and it was not a planned skip (which I would know about, because he would have said something the day before), I can find out why by looking on twitter. How incredibly useful!
I know twitter has a terrible reputation. But really, it is just a massive sea of people, and it will be enjoyable if you pick enjoyable people, and it will be horrible if you take whatever random serves us. If you picked people, and it is still horrible, that is on you. (Pace sometimes the world is horrible, and curating twitter is not the correct solution to that problem.)