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Yeah, I've told him that a few times. Gotta remember that Volo is working with a monochromatic justice system.

They are replacing all 4 tires, it is a 2010 Ford Fusion. I probably am getting fleeced. The surgery went well, she was pretty miserable for a few days but today she is moving around, and wants to go back to work tomorrow. Her gall bladder was calcified a bit, so it was good they got it out. We'll know more after the post-op appt. in a few days, but so far so good. We had a crazy issue with the hospital though. They wanted her to give a $1500 deposit for the surgery. We have insurance, and regardless the hospital cannot make you pay in order to receive treatment, it isn't elective surgery. We ended up calling our insurance company, and the lady on the phone was like "Oh hell no, let me talk to them." She yelled at them for a bit, it was pretty entertaining but weird. Medical care is a mess right now.

I'm probably not explaining it well, but I think they replace the entire control arm. That's like $200 and they are charging me $200 in labor. The tires and alignment are $560. That's expensive, and I know I can get a better price elsewhere. But this is a good shop and I know they will look out for me if anything goes wrong, so the peace of mind might be worth it. I've been struggling with this car for a couple years, it seems to get out of alignment easy and has had tire issues for awhile. I'm hoping this will give me a few years off from that.

I wish I was handy!

All the Falcons had to do was not lose 23 yards on their last drive. They were in perfect position for a field goal. Crazy.

Took my car in for an oil change, it may cost me $1200. Bleh. I knew I needed to replace a control arm bushing, and expected that might cost $400. But they also want to replace the tires. They are at 1/32 thread life. I could go somewhere else for cheaper tires, although the warranty is better here and they cover the alignment for the first year if it gets out of whack, which has been a major problem with this particular car.

You are wrong! I mean, I disagree.

This game is hard to watch. Gaga was amazing. She did a bunch of crazy acrobatics, danced, sang live, played the piano, changed wardrobe and sets a ton, and just kicked butt. She is probably top 5 with that performance. the

Some music classes are pretty decent...

That has got to be the best funny or die skit ever.

I like to think he was promoted and had a hand in the DNC stuff.

I have never understood this whole "lets belittle a movement by completely mistating what that movement is." People do that with BLM too. You can state a reasonable objection about a movement without coming across as daft.

Episode 14 - Red Ales and Gall Bladders:

The Nice Guys - Ryan Gosling and Russel Crowe are fantastic in this. It was hilarious.

Yep, I dusted off my old Xbox PC controller and it worked like a charm. The game is fun!

I posted a little mini-episode with some friends. We had a bit too much background noise, but the beer was interesting: And right now I'm drinking a beer from a brewery named after the Sumerian goddess of fermentation. Little teaser for the next episode.

Maybe don't do the bolded part.

Little levity:

I hope they have some good strategy elements under the gameplay. Like managing injured players and replacing those who get killed over the course of the season. Not quite on the Blood Bowl level, that game overwhelms me a bit, but at least something similar with the GM options in Madden. And of course I'm hoping they make a hockey version next.

Cool, they sent me the demo code as well.

OMG, take my money! They've already got some pretty good work done on it, based on the gifs.

Yeah, people get all mad when we use the stick on kids nowadays.

So private schools are clearly not the solution.

That's kind of the gist I'm getting at, typically you get what you put in, particularly in High School. It's incredibly arrogant to just call all the teachers **** because KP didn't get anything out of his time in High School. As I said in an earlier post, each teacher is going to have good and bad moments, good and bad lessons, good and bad connections to students. When a student sits through a class for a year and picks up no useful skills, it is a failing of both parties. But that student probably only has 6 classes, whereas the teacher probably has 150 students, so there is quite a difference in scale. I've never met a teacher who doesn't strive to help their students reach the next skill level, and they tend to do so with any tools they have at their disposal. Some are better than others, some are more burnt out than others. It's not an easy job, you've got 150 students with different needs and abilities, and it is pretty tempting to give more time to the students who want to be there. It's funny, but most of my friends in High School were stoners. They were all smart, they could ace tests without studying while I was stuck working my butt off. I was a bit frustrated at that, but then by graduation I realized they had no motivation or work ethic, and I ended up feeling sorry for them. KP deserves a lot of credit for breaking out of that spiral and getting through college, of course. Also recognizing subject-verb agreements may be important, but I still had to look up the rule right now. I haven't taught Language Arts in a decade. The goal is to help people write competently, not memorize grammar rules. Those are just tools.

Well you brought up your individual experience, so it shouldn't be a surprise that someone would question it. I'm saying your personal experience makes it very clear that you wasted your time in High School. Don't try and pin that on anyone else. It sounds like you weren't being challenged, which is a fair criticism, but why the heck would a teacher bother to challenge the stoner who never does any work? You set yourself up for that, have some accountability. You have no idea if those teachers were **** or not, you were tuned out. Also they idea that learning to read = access to books is absolute BS. Kindergarten teachers do a bit more than just hand kids a few books.