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I remember in 7th grade, my parents had the bright idea to send me to a private Christian school, since I wasn't doing well in public. It was not a good fit, and I got sent to he library as a punishment regularly. This was a pretty terrible library for a 7th grader, since it was all preachy stuff. The one decent author I found was Stephen R. Lawhead. He had a scifi series about living on Mars and I enjoyed it. Then I read some fantasy books he wrote. I'd say that led me to a lot of the older fantasy and scifi stuff I eventually read. I don't really remember it being heavy on the Christian themes, at least not any more than CS Lewis. So that helped.

I just found out that the actress that plays Scarlett Witch, or Wanda, is the younger sister of the Olsen twins.

Anything by Lloyd Alexander was my jam. I never got into comics or graphic novels, it was mostly just novels. This was the kind of thing I loved going back even earlier:

Hah, I thought they were all the same pic. Which shows how well I was paying attention when I read it early in the morning.

I imagine if they were his big ones, that is what would happen. Apparently he had 45 original books, and I don't think the 6 pulled are in the top of his catalogue.

Well said. Children's books are a different matter than classic literature, and it is fine to have different standards for them. Huck Finn is important as it is capturing a very specific time in our American history. I'm all for protecting it. Some dated looking caricatures in a picture book don't get the same reaction from me. It can still be used as a discussion piece, it isn't getting scrubbed from the history books, but there are better options in the children's section of the library.

Got the Giants versus the Dodgers on TV tonight! I love watching Spring Training. When I retire I want to just spend every March in Arizona watching games.

To be fair, the Mayan definitely COUNT, because at least they had a concept of zero, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

I'm not sure where you did your research, but we use Indo-Arabic numerals, not Egyptian.

Yeah, I've always been weirded out by people who work in public but send their kids to private. You have such little faith in your chosen career that you pay to send your children outside of the system? But in regards to public schools not opening when private have been open for awhile, there really is a world of difference. Private already have much smaller class sizes. They also already treat their teachers like crap, so no biggie if they get covid.

That Roger Stone clip is golden. You can't even parody this stuff.

Yikes, that was fast. I am like an hour in. The humor does fall a bit flat for me, but I'm keeping at it!

I like how you guys talk about your backlog as if it is a number that can potentially go down. We all know that it only increases every year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-56126016 Interesting and somewhat sad story on the cost of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

That is Cole Soup, not slaw. But yeah, that brisket looks great!

How dare you.

The complete lack of any reaction is my life every day on zoom.

Breathedge releases today, so I will start a game of that in earnest.

I just don't understand how anyone complains about the game being too short. I put in about 50 hours and I don't think I was that close to the end. I stalled out, but I am pretty comfortable with the idea I will return to it. It is an enjoyable game. I think people just have crazy expectations.

I got some good news on the housing front. We are renting from some friends. Eventually they want to develop the property. It is zoned residential/commercial, and they plan on putting a business at the front and condo units behind or on top. I was worried they were looking to break ground in the next yeae, but it sounds like they are waiting. They are also interested in letting us buy a condo unit, which might be perfect for us. We love the location, so hopefully we can figure out a way to stay long term.

Damn, that was hard to watch.

There needs to be a meh option.

Hah, watch it end up with a Brian Mitsoda led studio.

Probably a good mix of people that never played it and have it just sitting in their library, and a few that just played it in offline mode. As a kickstarter game, some people might have it on other platforms as well. I never beat it. Played a ton of hours but preferred to tool around in my sub.