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Drew4UTk

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1120 on: March 24, 2020, 08:55:09 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 23, 2020, 11:40:31 PM
We were told nothing until Saturday, and were given today to set up and prepare for 2 hours of lessons for tomorrow. 
Once they realized that was absurd, they were understanding that this week will be a transition week.  I spent 30 min on the phone with a parent, just trying to get them to log in with their kid's gmail account. 
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I want to do a great job and provide too much content rather than not enough, but what I'm fearful of is doing all this work for 1/3 of my class that will actually DO anything.
my kid is using something called seesaw and flipboard and some other applications... the district here provided them with iPads.... i got one for her instead of using my own after looking at the required permissions those apps want..... there is landmark case concerning these things in people's homes that is unsettling, but that is for another thread.... 

i offered to make them a forum.... there is actually classroom software out there for this same engine that allows classes to be 'attended' and of course lessons can be presented as well as testing- all nice and secure... but it appears they are married to the mentioned applications/platforms, and pay a hefty sum for them. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1121 on: March 24, 2020, 09:02:21 AM »
speaking of x's and jewelry... 

i worked early Saturday morning's for years.... i came home one Saturday by lunch, as usual, and just to witness some guy walking back to his truck with ALL my dive gear... the X decided to join her friends 'yard sale' and was hoofing stuff from the house out to the tables........ mostly 'my' stuff... i was livid. 

the only thing that remained of my items was a Tag watch, valued somewhere in the $3k range, which she was trying to get $50 for... she knew good and damn well it's value.  The Breitling Aviator and the Rolex Submariner were gone.... our course had already ran at this point, and it was one of the final tipping points.  I bought those things when i was contracting overseas.  they were keepsakes as much as anything, but anyone who has 'been there' knows that a good watch is hellacious negotiating tools pretty much no matter where you are in the world... "i need a truck... here is a watch"- boom, i drive away. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1122 on: March 24, 2020, 09:13:42 AM »
Is that when she became your Ex?

Like, that DAY?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1123 on: March 24, 2020, 09:21:47 AM »
Ouch.  My ex didn't even retain a lawyer.  She knew if anything I was honest, and she had a specific figure in mind.  My lawyer kept trying to work the numbers in my favor until I explained it to her.  I wanted to retain the house so the kids had stability and it took just about every cent I had to pay her for her part and the rest of it, but I knew in a year or so I would have recovered.  That was a rough time, but my main focus was on keeping the kids.  Had they been with her, well, I can't imagine how bad it would have been.  On her weekends, they told me later, she'd go by Blockbuster and take out 10 tapes for them to watch and then disappear.

When they got older they'd often call me on Saturday afternoon and ask if I could come get them, they were bored, and often they had soccer or whatever anyway on Saturdays.  The boy was with my flying and supposed to be back at her house one Saturday at 6 PM when the engine quit on us.  It took a while of course to deal with various and sundry to get him back to her house, and she was mad because it was some special dinner she was hosting.  They were like props to her, not people.

The good news is that Wife #2 is about her exact opposite.  I'm very thankful for that, and my kids love her also.  Life lessons.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1124 on: March 24, 2020, 09:54:07 AM »
I had joint custody, but paid the ex a bunch of money so that the kids didn't have to stay with her much.

I either paid or she'd have the Sheriff come pick up the kids

it was great
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1125 on: March 24, 2020, 09:56:46 AM »
I was married for 25 years and had 10 kids when my ex decided she would rather sleep with other men then be married.  The minor kids lived with me until I moved to Arizona, I then gave them the choice to move with me or stay with their mother. Some stayed, some moved. Only one is a minor now and lives with his mother. I am living for the day he turns 18 (1 year) so i no longer have to deal with the ex. 

My wedding ring (gold) ended up going to my church's youth group's jewelry fund raiser. They collected old jewelry that people didn't want and sold it to jewelers, for scrap, etc. to raise money. 

Married to current wife for 3 years (cobalt ring) and couldn't be happier. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1126 on: March 24, 2020, 10:06:59 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 24, 2020, 09:13:42 AM
Is that when she became your Ex?

Like, that DAY?
somewhere in the next month i called it- i finally realized what she was doing.... she didn't want to be the 'bad guy' in the face of her friends and family... so, i learned a lesson- "it's okay to be the bad guy when something so important is at stake".  

we had the house 'appraised' (by a realtor not a real appraiser but someone who was her 'friend' but was really trying to screw her)... she valued the house, in the middle of the boom, over $40k less than what a REAL appraiser (that i secured unbeknownst to her) had valued it... her 'friend' was looking for a quick sell and taking advantage of her... she told me later she (realtor) knew she was busted (by me) the second she said what she would list it for.... after paying off the note and some mutual debt, there would have been $30k left to 'split'... I offered her $25k to disappear, so long as she signed the separation agreement (which later becomes the divorce agreement as per NC law) and had it notarized within the week.  it took her greedy ass about 5 hours to sign it and we notarized both signatures together- her realtor 'friend' was the notary, which i thought was hilarious. 

i had one more run in with her later.... i made a comment to her about telling someone something, and she hung up on me and i've never heard from her since.... glory be to allah we didn't have kids.... just two dogs which i missed terribly for a spell. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1127 on: March 24, 2020, 10:07:45 AM »
Quote from: Kris60 on March 24, 2020, 12:02:40 AM
When I’m at home it is strictly basketball shorts and a tee shirt. I haven’t worn any type of pants that didn’t have an elastic waistband for over a week now. Even grocery store runs  are in sweats or shorts.  Haven’t shaved in that time either.

But I’m going stir crazy. This stay at home with the kids and do schoolwork thing is weighing on me.
As someone who was already attuned to working from home, having a routine to feel like a normal human being is important. 

Often I'll wake up and get on the computer first thing in the morning, basically doing the same thing (basketball shorts & workout tee shirt), largely because I can get work done before the rest of CA wakes up and because it keeps my out of my wife's way in the bathroom while she's getting ready for work.

But I always make sure that by mid-morning, I take a shower and put on "real" clothes. Even if by "real" it's cargo shorts and a normal tee shirt. Otherwise I get to 4 PM and feel like a deadbeat, even though I've spent all day working productively. 

Give it a try. Throw on a pair of jeans and a real shirt. Wear shoes. You might be surprised how much different it feels than wearing sweats all day. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1128 on: March 24, 2020, 10:17:04 AM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on March 24, 2020, 08:55:09 AM
my kid is using something called seesaw and flipboard and some other applications... the district here provided them with iPads.... i got one for her instead of using my own after looking at the required permissions those apps want..... there is landmark case concerning these things in people's homes that is unsettling, but that is for another thread....
Our District uses Seesaw as well.  Every time anyone in his class does anything I get a notification and an email, back to back.  I'm getting more Seesaw notifications than I am work emails.
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Drew4UTk

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1129 on: March 24, 2020, 10:31:11 AM »
fun stuff instead of old and bad memories: 

i made this for a friend to give to his wife... the board is maple (which was a log before Sunday), black walnut, and white ashe... used the CNC to pocket out the letter and filled it with resin... it bled a little which pisses me off, but... whatever.  i should have sealed it better i guess before flooding it.. 



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Drew4UTk

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1130 on: March 24, 2020, 10:34:57 AM »
here are some from the last week or so: 

ribbon cut sapele with white ashe... the inset letter is white ashe... i thought indexing the second part 90* would look cool... not so sure with final product. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1131 on: March 24, 2020, 10:38:08 AM »
Imagine this had happened circa 1980 or so.  Work from home was an impossibility.  We didn't have email yet.  Our section got one Apple 2E on a cart you could move around from office to office.  You stored your program on cassette tape, no floppy.  My first computer with a hard drive was an IBM something, it was AMAZING.  I used Symphony software, an enhanced version of Lotus 123.  Symphony had a comm capability I used to connect to instruments that had an RS232 port, and it had crude word processing.

Work from home?  Impossible.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1132 on: March 24, 2020, 11:10:21 AM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on March 24, 2020, 10:34:57 AM
here are some from the last week or so
Drew do you make those end-block type cutting board/chopping blocks?I saw those a local farmers market last year they are pretty durable because the cutting is not going with the grain - supposedly
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1133 on: March 24, 2020, 11:18:01 AM »
One quasi amusing story, the ex was paying me much reduced child support (I didn't need it).  She apparently changed her checking and didn't fix the automatic payments.  I mentioned to her I had not gotten the last couple of checks, just for information, and she exploded as usual at me for being greedy.  OK whatever.

A bit later, Child Services calls ME and tells me I am delinquent and when am I going to pay up.  I explain to the person I am not the person who is delinquent  That took a few minutes for them to believe me.  Anyway, they go away, and the ex calls me up in a few days irate as hell again that a Deputy Sheriff showed up at her house with an order for her to make the payments good.  That also was my fault.(Everything was someone else's fault of course.)

I guess she got it sorted out as I got the money in a week or so.  She was convinced I had somehow masterminded this plot against her.
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