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Are Things Looking Up?

So the Boston Bruins. They fired their head coach last week and replaced him (on an interim basis) with their long time assistant coach. They’ve played two games since the change. How are they doing?

Well they won both of those games. That’s super good news, right? Hooray and huzzah and all that happy crappy. Of course in those two wins they have scored a grand total of three goals. So… yeah. Let’s just say I am clutching at that bright side with all that I have. They don’t play again until Tuesday (the day after tomorrow) so we’ll have to wait and see for more information. Finger crossed that they both have turned a corner from their shitty play pre-coaching change, and that they remember how to score goals. That might be a lot to ask.

What else is going on. Bellana, my step daughter, was here last night. She just left. It was great to see her, as always. Harry, my step son was supposed to be coming over tomorrow but instead he’s coming tonight! Awesome! We’re going to see both kids today! Bonus!

Jen made French Toast this morning. I didn’t have any. There is nothing in the recipe that I can’t have but I was still nervous about trying it. Next time I will. I realized that my issue with French Toast boils down to maple syrup. I don’t want to have French Toast without having maple syrup on it… so now I have to go on a quest to find a decent sugar free maple syrup. I fear that might be a lot to ask for, but we’ll see.

What else. I haven’t done my morning exercise yet. I got up early enough to do it but other stuff came up and I had to push it off for a while. It is 9:44am right now. I’m thinking I’ll try to do it after lunch. I also need to go grocery shopping again today. I did a little bit yesterday, but today is shopping-for-Thanksgiving-veggies day. I’ll be going out to do that after I post this. Most important (not really, but… really) is that I MUST play guitar today. Preferably through a speaker and not just through headphones. I need to move the air today. Not at an ear bleeding volume, but at some kind of lower volume. It’s a must.

Okay. Time to start getting some shit done around here.

In closing, here’s a cat.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54161538319/in/dateposted/

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Flickr85/365By robj_1971

Zjišťuju, že #gaming u dětí začíná bejt problematickej ve směru, kterej mě vůbec nenapadl.

Od doby, co #kids hrajou #Roblox mám problém dostat je (a hlavně udržet) k čemukoliv aspoň trochu náročnějšímu. Přičítám to dost tomu, že ty minihry jsou prostě v Robloxu tak jednoduchý, že zároveň dostanou svojí dávku dopaminu a zároveň je to nic moc nestojí.

Zároveň ale je ty hry téměř nerozvíjí, když nebudu počítat anglická slovíčka, která v některých hrách potřebují.

Chci na to upozornit hlavně proto, že je tady spousta rodičů a žijeme v době mobilní - podobně primitivní hry totiž jsou i na telefonech (takový to "tady ťukni a ono se chvilku něco bude dít").

Takže je-li vašim záměrem děti rozvíjet a ne degenerovat, je potřeba to dětem vysvětlovat a hlídat.

Hry jsou dobrej sluha, ale špatnej pán...

Meta Can Kiss My Liberal Ass

Allow me to start this post with a broad statement. I will then change the subject for a while before returning to explain the broad statement.

Hey Meta (facebook, instagram, whatever)… FUCK YOU.

Now, I’ve spent the day getting shit done. I cleaned the bathrooms, cleaned all the floors, fixed the bed in my step daughter’s room because she’s sleeping here tonight, moved my office from the desk in my step son’s room to the desk in the cellar because he’ll be here on Monday which is the next day I will work from home. I also went grocery shopping and I may or may not have stopped at the sugar free bakery in Salem too top it all off.

My step daughter, Bellana will be here later tonight. She’s staying over but heading back to Vermont tomorrow. The day after tomorrow my step son, Harry will be here and he’s staying for a few days. The house is as ready as it gets. Jen and I are as ready as we get. Bring on the kids! WOOHOO!

Now, allow me to restate the initial thesis of this post. Meta can go fuck itself. It can fuck itself right in it’s mother fucking eye.

In the months leading up to the election any time I was on a Meta social network service and I saw any post from anyone anywhere that was even the tiniest bit pro trump/maga/nazi/fascist/white supremacist/racist/bigoted anything I blocked the user. No questions, just blocked the fuck out of the racist/fascist fuckers. Good riddance.

Today I went on instagram. Every single add I saw (roughly one out of every three posts is an add, which is FUCKING INSULTING regardless of the content) was maga related. ALL OF THEM. Every single add. It made me physically sick. So much for the algorithm showing me adds based on my viewing habits, right? Nope. This was just a fascist friendly company shoving nazi propaganda into my face. This was worse than fox news. This was fucking evil. I blocked almost every sponsored account. I didn’t block them all. Why? BECAUSE INSTAGRAM WOULDN’T FUCKING LET ME.

Fuck you, meta you fascist fucks. Fuck you zuckerberg you nazi mother fucker.

If you've got #kids and are looking for good Thanksgiving #Movies that are not sappy or depressing but funny and entertaining, with a fantastic cast and abundant humor, may I recommend "Free Birds" (2013)?

Picture this: Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler and George Takei (as the time machine, STEVE) combine forces as the Turkeys who travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving to attempt to prevent Turkey from being the main course of the holiday.

When it came out, it got horrible reviews. But we recently discovered it, and when we watched it with the kids, we genuinely thought it was pretty cute and extremely funny. It has become a new #Thanksgiving tradition for us.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Bir

en.wikipedia.orgFree Birds - Wikipedia

NJ's first #Krita drawing in a long time. She got back into it pretty quickly.

I love her jumping seal and the partly-submerged one.

All I did here was be the Undo Master and Layer Creator. The rest was her (age 8 if anyone randomly finds this).

The Theme for Today

The theme for today is getting stuff done. I guess. Running errands, cleaning, straightening up. One of the kids is coming over tonight and I want the place to be ship shape when she gets here. Not that she’ll be fooled at all… I mean she lived here before… she knows a house cleaning snow job when she sees one. Heh heh.

At least I got the grocery shopping done… though I think I need to go again tomorrow.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54159753483/in/dateposted/

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #collegeKids #Family #iphoneography #Kids #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photoADayProject #photography #StepKids #visit

Flickr84/365By robj_1971

When I was in grade seven, the teacher caught me passing a note to a friend. The teacher got pissy about it. "Speak up and share what you've written with the rest of the class."

I shrugged, stood up to face the class and read, "Don't look now, but Mr. Trepanier's fly is down."

I hope he learned a lesson from that.
#memories #notes #kids #SchoolStories