Random Facts About You #55

i hope you do it quietly

out-loud sighers and noisy yawners are really fucking annoying

 

Morrow, I hope that before long the reasons that make you sigh are resolved.

Our budgie was very interactive and could say about 20 words and phrases. She talked clearly and loved to be out with us. Only in her cage when we were not home or with her. If yours in doing that with his head he is receptive to learning to talk so you could teach him. Buttercup lived to be 11 so lets say Sweetpea is going to do so as well.

Celeste is a Blue split fallow peid Paciffic Parrotlet so her plumage is more colourful as she is one of the smallest parrots. It will get more intense when her permanent feathers come in. Also her flight wings are trimmed right now until she is fully hand trained so her wings are not showing full feathers. She will grow to be about 2.5 times larger than a budgie but with a short tail and their bodies are more chubby kind of like a pigeon in looks. We are not telling her all this stuff so she does not go on an ego trip. They have a lot of the same mannerisms as budgies, like the head bobs but also the parrot behaviours as well.

Today I am going to work on introducing her to Lace (our dog). Lace is totally good with birds as she was raised with one but I am not sure Celeste is going to be as easy to convince. The breeder has huskies but the birds were not on the floor with them.

 

I wasn't really stressed about that. Maybe a little but I had a lot of fun and those dudes are great people. I think my brain felt more frazzled from having to go to a party last night where I only knew a few people. I had to have a bunch of small talk with people I didn't know very well all evening. I just wanted to go home. It was like...long drive>play show>long drive home>don't chill out on the deck>instead...immediately go to stupid party and hate it.

 

Helping my daughter with her homework. I think I've identified one of the problems with our education system. This may end up being a rant and I may even email the teacher about this (but I don't want to cause any problems for my wife at work).

Problem: An object can fly 366 km in one day. How many meters can it fly in a day?

Ok....first issue...why the fuck are 7th grade kids still working on trivial bullshit like this? I'll come back to that in a second.

The answer is 366x1000=366,000. That's it. That's the fucking answer....end of story. Move on to the next question. I was probably doing this shit in 3rd grade.

But no.....that isn't the end of it. There is now a long ass complicated equation with a bunch of useless fractions representing minutes per hour and hours per day, etc. to come to the same answer. That is the reason why 7th graders are wasting their time with this crap. Because it is needlessly complicated. There is never going to be a day in your life that you would actually solve a day to day problem by sitting down and writing out that bullshit equation to get the answer.

This is probably why I was very good at math and nearly failed algebra. Because it's stupid. "Show your work!" I don't don't need to show my work because I solved the problem in my head in about 2 seconds and didn't use that dumbass system to get the answer.

 

^^^

 

Oh, boy.

I'm getting ready to unplug the computer and move it. It needs a good vacuum inside of it anyway.

 

This video came to mind a little while ago. While I don't endorse dropping out of school, it does occur to me that my kids have been "home-schooled" in the sense that they are well-aware of and informed on many of the topics in the video because I made sure they knew about things that will affect their lives. The sad thing is that there are so many adults who don't understand things like finance, the legal system, how the real world operates, etc.....much less being able to decipher silly math equations to help their kids with homework. They are not able to teach their own kids because they simply don't know themselves. I don't think this is by accident. (Trust me...I have an entire theory about this which is probably incredibly accurate) I'd estimate that about 10% of the people really understand how things work. The other 90% are either too busy with real problems and events in their lives to pay attention or they just don't care for one reason or another. They just wave that flag and bake apple pie....living on the idea of our own "exceptionalism" and that if they work really hard and don't challenge "authority"....someday things will work out. I've made damn sure that my kids are not a part of that 90%. They are well-educated but it didn't come from some math equation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0


On a related topic.....a few minutes ago, my wife told me about a student who said....

Student: Have you ever used calculus in your daily life outside of school?
Wife: Hmmm....no.
Student: Never?
Wife: Never.
Student: I didn't think so.

 

I think you almost have to go extra-curricular to get any real life teachings. There is an after-school club at my granddaughter's school that's called "All Grown Up". I think that kind of reinforces what parents should teach beyond school lessons.

 

everything after grade 7 is a waste of time

most before is also the same but it sure is a handy babysitting service

 

School teaching isn't about learning what you will need when you are older. It's indoctrination, for shutting up and do what the corporate masters tell you what to do/think/say. Don't ask questions, don't think for yourself, and gods forbid don't show emotions.

 

You are exactly right! And they don't even make it a big secret. They will tell you "This is what you need to do to get a job. Here are the college classes you need to get hired here or there." Toe the line! They never say "This is what you need to know to start your own business and these are the reasons why workers will never get paid for the true value of their work". You never earn what your effort is really worth because capitalism....for better or worse....does not allow for that in its basic equation. I figured this out at a very young age and left the job market at about 22-23 to start my own business. I'm still doing that. My oldest son works for me with the idea that he will take over some day but that isn't what I really want. He's 20, kind of a rock star and reads books about quantum physics. He did plan to go to college to be an English teacher but I think he's leaning towards physics. He is exceptionally smart and I don't think I can let him waste that following my footsteps. I was in his place when I was his age but he was born and I had to take a different path. No regrets but......he is too smart to settle for running this company. It's a decent life but he can do so much more. I was going to school to be a doctor and that got cut short because of kids but they can have more.

 

And...I was actually going to be a psychiatrist and I'm glad that didn't happen. I love the topic, case studies, etc but I think I would hate going to work every day if I had to work in that kind of environment. Sometimes shit works out for the better.

 

I have my desk and computer moved, and obviously back up and running. There are a phenomenal amount of wires.

Hubby got my desk braced up so it wouldn't lean. That means I don't have to prop it against the dog kennel anymore.

There was tons of dust in the tower. It'd been far to long since I cleaned in there.

Lots of dog hair up under the edges of the dog kennels, which I'm cleaning up and moving.

This room just wasn't working for me. I go crazy when I want a change in a room.

I'm getting things toward a stopping point for the night, but I also have to have stuff moved where it needs to be so my daughter can bring Piper in at 7:30 a.m.

This is fun. I'm going to enjoy getting things the way I want them in here.

 

Dances with Trees strikes again...


Now I gotta clean up the mess. I dropped 6 trees and there's more in that area that need to come down. All Pines except for two small Elm. Not sure what killed those Pines... The Elm come down next.


Culling dead Pines for "lumber". Well building materials, anyways, for the firewood storage bin. (hella large bin) Gonna be made mostly from local wood.

 

I disagree with your guys take on schooling.
It comes down to the kid and their parents as to what a kid will or won't get out of school.
you guys are also forgetting that a large part of having kids take courses that they may never actually use is to expose them to possibilities.
Sure your wife and kid may never use calculus, but one of my daughter fell in love with math and chemistry and it is serving her very well in college.
Other daughter had/has no use for the hard sciences, even though she rocks science, but really clicked with literature and writing, again something she was introduced and exposed to at high school.

If the kid is intelligent enough to realize school is a very small part of life and approaches it with the attitude that all life should be approached with; get as much out of every moment, then they will "get it" about what school is about.
for those kids who are a bit dim and view it as a forced ordeal, well at least they will hopefully be able to read the menu board at McDonald's when filling orders by the time the graduate.

 

But those that work at Mickey D's might very well need "schooling" in psychiatry.

I have a degree in psychology...and during my time served at McD's I feel like I used my degree in psychology everyday. lol

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I think the Very WORSE thing to ever happen to the school system is the bullshit "no child left behind"...from what I've seen of students around here what they receive is ALL children are left behind.

Simple things are taught in the most complicated way possible. Spelling does not matter...as long as it is "phonetically spelled", the teachers "let it go"...I seriously doubt many of the teachers can spell phonetically...punctuation does not matter.

If a child is in a gifted/talented program, perhaps their spelling and punctuation matter. Otherwise it is up to the parents to stress that it DOES MATTER, even though the teachers don't care. :dizzy2: My bff and her grandkids (2 boys) have been going through this bs for 2 years now.

imo, the school system overall has gone to hell in the past 20 years.

 

well here in CA. they have removed cursive writing from the elementary school required curriculum.

KIDS have begun a petition/movement to bring it back, at least in our district.
so yeah, whomever is making decisions certainly don't make wise ones all the time.

I will have to say that we have been lucky in that the schools my kids have attended have always ranked in the top ten in the state.
It very often has to do with the particular principle and staff at a school.

 

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative in the United States that details what K–12students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade. The initiative is sponsored by theNational Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and seeks to establish consistent educational standards across the states as well as ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared to enter credit-bearing courses at two- or four-year college programs or to enter the workforce.[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative

 

i just sold a boat that i never use..

gave the guy a nice little outboard for it too that i bought and fixed a few weeks ago

turned out to be a good deal for me...and the guy was happy paying $480

basically it was all profit because i got the boat free with trailer that cost $50...then i sold the trailer for $150....motor cost $100 or maybe it was $80 i dont remember...but just took a half hour to fix


now i have more room to buy new things that ill never use

 

Martin Milner star of Route 66 and ADAM-12 passed away.. He was 83. Im a fan of both shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Milner