Notices tagged with sontwo
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One of my goals for today is to turn on the #PS4 and / or #Switch and play for a while today. I should see if #sonTwo is available. I know both of our "FIFA" and "MLB: The Show" versions are years old, but maybe we can still play.
I think #sonOne is moving one or both of his 20-something sons to their grandmother's apartment in SE Kansas today. I should call the granddaughters also.
#Daddy_A is going to be busy with family tasks today. I may still ask.
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And if I decide I don't like it, don't want it, or can't use it frequently enough, I'll send it to #sonTwo.
I'm not really making plans for it yet. Until it arrives, I shouldn't and won't expect it.
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@tk That's what #sonTwo (who was a photography major) says, too.
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#sonTwo says I should not watch a Disney movie called Togo. He says I’d cry.
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According to my granddaughter #Little_Girl_A3, her uncle ( #sonTwo ) is older than I am. She tries to celebrate his birthday every day since the actual birthday (months ago). #Cute.
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People talking about video stores reminds me that I never even owned a VCR until 2002. My ex and #sonTwo bought me a VHS player / NTSC TV combo unit and an external DVD player to connect to it.
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Realization sinks in: I had (have?) "Demolition Man" and "Groundhog Day" on VHS, but not on DVD or Bluray. I'm going to have to change that soon. (I'm pretty sure I had both of those, but I have not seen them since #sonTwo left home.)
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I saw a few minutes of the #SuperBowl after my call with my brother. Didn’t get to call #sonOne or #sonTwo. Since the older one lives in #KCMO, I was not surprised to hear that he was watching. Still waiting to hear from the second kid and #Daddy_A.
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I love #GS3. Even when he's a snot, he's wonderful. He's like his dad--until #sonTwo turned 16, he was almost the perfect child. (There was some family garbage that happened then along with the normal teen stuff. Tough for all of us.)
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#Daddy_A had gone silent again. I was just about to ask his brother #sonTwo whether I had said or done something offensive when I received a meme image from him.
I feel like that commercial for Clairol's "Son of a Gun" blow dryer: "Rain! Our crops are saved!"
You'd think I'd get used to these random silent periods by now (he's 30 years old), but I never have.
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@sim Most US higher ed campuses have on-campus police. I almost always felt safe on campus, except after 21:00 when the campus and its parking areas were almost empty.
I even enrolled #sonTwo in classes starting when he was somewhere between 12 and 14 years old, continuing until he was 16-17 without worrying about his safety.
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When I was younger, I worked all the time because we were almost always one paycheck away from eviction and starvation. When my income picked up, it took well over a decade to get away from that.
I want to thank my grandkids and #sonTwo (who actually flew in from another state one time for a surprise "you're going to spend time having fun and not doing anything work related" weekend). These days, I can hardly wait for time to call and videochat with my (12 years and under) grandkids. I'd probably be just as glad to talk with the two 20+ year olds, but they don't really have time for older people.
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Now that I’ve been listening to all this great music from the #1970s (and a few songs from the #1960s and #1980s), I’m going to have to revise the list I sent to #sonTwo of what to play at my memorial service.
(No, I’m not planning for or expecting a departure any time soon. I’m hoping to stick around at least until #GS3 reaches adulthood.)
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I still have an hour and forty minutes until bedtime, but unless #sonTwo and his wife put #GS3 on videochat, I will try to get to bed early tonight.
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#GS3's day: discovered a pantry door that hadn't been closed. Goes in there, peeks out to see if his parents saw him, then "Oh, no! I've been caught!" expression when #sonTwo gets up to retrieve him. Very funny.
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Stopped by a place I used to work twenty years ago. There was still one person I recognized there. This was the first time in years that I saw someone I knew there and the first time since I left that no one asked where the mascot ( #sonTwo used to come there after school and do his homework in the employee breakroom ) is now.
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I'm reading people's comments on "net neutrality" and thinking "you're missing some facts".
1. During the dial-up days, we inherited the telcom and radio "common carrier" rules, which kept the last-mile provider from interfering with customers' communications.
2. Between 1999 and 2001, the FCC decided that these rules did not apply to "high speed" Internet from cable providers.
3. They later decided that these rules did not apply to "high speed" Internet from telcom providers.
4. Once cable companies started to interfere with customers' connections in order to force them to buy extra services from the cable company instead (for example), Vonage; and then started trying to charge fees to companies like Netflix who were delivering content to their mutual customers, both Congress and the White House (and therefore the FCC) decided it must be stopped.
In short, net neutrality is about restoring the balance that was previously part of the legal regime under which all electronic communications were regulated. It has little to do with freedom of speech (and in fact, under any regulatory regime, illegal content is still illegal to transmit or receive and the providers are subject to enforcement orders to monitor, block, and report it).
Anyway, Net Neutrality has some interplay with QoS requirements, but if ISPs charged all providers (including those which they own) equally for special connectivity requirements, no one would be complaining.
If every major "high speed" provider had not taken federal funds to help with building out their networks, maybe it would not be an issue. If someone helps fund your activities, whether you like it or not, they get a say in those activities.
( #sonTwo found this out one time when I was off work and he needed tuition money. One of my brothers and one of my brothers-in-law paid his way that semester, then they both got on his case if he spent too much time on Facebook or they saw too many photos of alcohol. When he complained about it, my brother told him "you opened the door to it when you invited us to pay your tuition". )
I felt at the time that there might be some corruption involved in the FCC's wrong-headed decisions, but I did not bother to investigate. It would be interesting for someone to follow the trajectories of the then-current commission members to see where they went after their FCC terms ended.
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Parents of a sleepy baby ( #sonTwo and his wife ) called late (after 22:00 CST). #GS3 tried to give me his pacifier (stuck it right up to the tablet screen) and hairbrush (same).
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84 minutes phone call with #sonOne, #GD2, #GD1, and with my daughter-in-law. Going to try to call #sonTwo and his family and maybe #Daddy_A, too.
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Informed that #GD1's surgery is postponed because the co-pay is $7,000. I was surprised, because I thought #sonOne's health insurance was better than #sonTwo's, but when the younger kid's son #GS3 had the same surgery, it only cost $300 out of pocket.
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