What did you do today? 2017 version

[Bestwifeever]

There are actually two different issues. The first is the issue of a student cutting class. The rule may be arbitrary and not tied to academic performance, but it is the rule. But if they are willing to face the consequences, I see no problem with them skipping class. The second and more important ethical issue is that they are lying about their actions and that their friends are also lying to to cover them. I see that as more serious because it corrodes the trust necessary for the system to function.

I was also thinking the people who signed in for the absentees should be the ones punished (perhaps a punishment to be rescinded at the end of term). Maybe the absentees didn't even ask to be signed in; those who signed them in broke the honor code. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment to see if the friendships survived the experience.

 

[street]

Well it stopped snowing for a day so I went to the cabin. Had a nice warm fire going and enjoyed the day.

 

[Fedup]

I was also thinking the people who signed in for the absentees should be the ones punished (perhaps a punishment to be rescinded at the end of term). Maybe the absentees didn't even ask to be signed in; those who signed them in broke the honor code. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment to see if the friendships survived the experience.

I say punish both of them then you find out the truth. I hate this sort of cheating.

Years ago when I was working for one company and we had to sign up for lab time, I almost never got the early time because somebody always signed up for somebody else. It's not fair.

 

[RetiredGypsy]

I say punish both of them then you find out the truth. I hate this sort of cheating.

Years ago when I was working for one company and we had to sign up for lab time, I almost never got the early time because somebody always signed up for somebody else. It's not fair.

You sound a little fed up.

I'll show myself out.

 

[Philliefan33]

Spent the day on the beach, and came in this evening to see that the winter storm predicted for home on Tuesday looks like a big one. Jet Blue is offering free changes to our flight since we are scheduled to fly back to PHL on Tuesday. After a twenty minute hold time I got through to a rep who helped me reschedule. Our best option is to leave very early Monday so we will cut our stay short by a day. I wanted to just stay here in PR until Wednesday or Thursday but DH nixed that idea. He doesn't want to arrive home after the storm, he wants to be there to keep a eye on things and clean up when it ends. Sometimes he's just too logical and responsible.

 

[Lisa99]

Day 2 of a 6 day trip to Arizona for a 6 day pickleball tournament. DH took bronze yesterday in his men's doubles, 4.5, 50-59 division, no medal today.

I'm reffing which I enjoy doing. Having a terrible time with sciatica though so it makes for some long days standing on concrete.

 

[RetiredGypsy]

Day 2 of a 6 day trip to Arizona for a 6 day pickleball tournament. DH took bronze yesterday in his men's doubles, 4.5, 50-59 division, no medal today.

I'm reffing which I enjoy doing. Having a terrible time with sciatica though so it makes for some long days standing on concrete.

At least you won't have to spend any time tomorrow changing the clocks.

I am so easily entertained. It may tonight have something to do with the fact that I found the last of the microbrew beers hiding behind the couch.

FYI, there's a beer called Sweet Baby Jesus. It is so good. You maybe wouldn't think peanut butter and chocolate would taste good as a beer. But it do! The name offended some people so much that in some states the brewery decided to change the name to For Pete's Sake!

The more you know.

 

[Fedup]

I went to Bestbuy today and got a new IPad Pro 9.7, it was on sale. Except they don't have the version I want so it was ordered. My husband got some compact flash for his camera. We are getting ready for our trip to a national park on our spring break. Got to use our free senior pass.

 

[RobbieB]

Finished welding up my wood rack for my new stove. Hit it with primer.

Tomorrow it's flat black.

 

[Gumby]

Very nice. Welding is a very valuable skill. I wish I knew how.

As an aside -- what goes through the four holes on the uprights?

 

[RobbieB]

All thread. With an aluminum channel over it. Cord wood on the bottom and kindling on top. Silver & black.

If you want to learn how to weld, just get a welder and start burnin', that's how I learned, self taught -

 

[brewer12345]

Consulting work which amounts to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic at a handsome hourly rate, then errands and taking the kids to a cousin's party at the legendary palace of camp Casa Bonita. After a truly execrable meal, a diving show, and the show with the dude in a gorilla show running around the crowd, the party broke up.

 

[daylatedollarshort]

We attended a concert by the Air Force Band of the Golden West and then went out for Mexican food for dinner. We really enjoyed the concert. I'm looking forward to seeing the Air Force Band again next time they perform in our area.

 

[traineeinvestor]

I was also thinking the people who signed in for the absentees should be the ones punished (perhaps a punishment to be rescinded at the end of term). Maybe the absentees didn't even ask to be signed in; those who signed them in broke the honor code. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment to see if the friendships survived the experience.

Yes, but unless someone confesses I will never be able to establish who signed the sign in sheets on behalf of others.

I've given the class a warning and if it happens again I'll resort to wasting class time on a manual roll call with reporting to follow.

 

[sengsational]

Yes, but unless someone confesses I will never be able to establish who signed the sign in sheets on behalf of others.

I've given the class a warning and if it happens again I'll resort to wasting class time on a manual roll call with reporting to follow.

In cases where there is not enough evidence to convict, punish the whole class. Put an ink pad next to the sign in sheet and make them put a finger print on the sheet!

 

[Walt34]

Met for lunch with DW's brother and his wife their son and a huge surprise was their "adopted" daughter who we thought was in Bahrain (she's in the Navy) and her husband! Meetup was scheduled for BIL's birthday.

Story on the "daughter". BIL never adopted her in the legal sense but did so in every other way. The mother was also the mother of BIL's daughter four years after the first. I cannot imagine what he saw in her but she became pregnant, he did the honorable thing and married her, and the marriage dissolved in six weeks. Suffice it to say the mother is a waste of protoplasm and a waste of taxpayer's money as her main goal in life is to extract as many goods and services from other people as she can while returning nothing. She is a total parasite and the older daughter had a very rough first ten years. Not exactly a cakewalk for the younger one either.

So eventually when the older daughter was ten BIL gained custody of both girls (not easy in MD) since he was unwilling to separate them and unwilling to abandon the older one and let her suffer her fate if he could help it.

What this young lady has done to "pull herself up by the bootstraps" is impressive. BIL cannot afford college for her. Working in a pizza place she paid for two years of college and joined the U.S. Navy reserves and sought active duty. She got it which is why she was in Bahrain. Her being here was a complete surprise to everyone.

Why she is here speaks very highly of the U.S. Navy, or at least the command in Bahrain. She is here as a medical escort for another young lady (21 years old) diagnosed with a type of cancer (I forget the name of it) but the outlook is generally optimistic. Within 17 hours of diagnosis in Bahrain, about 8,000 miles away, she was at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The daughter's job is to coordinate things like initial transportation and accommodations for the patient's parents who live in Alabama and help her and her parents navigate around the hospital bureaucracy, and to let her know about other available services that the hospital may or may not tell her about. The daughter and her husband are intimately familiar with this as he is on 100% disability from the Army and was a patient at Walter Reed for three years. (Artillery training accident, long story, but he's got a lot of metal parts.)

A very nice day and visit with them at the house afterward.

 

[Fedup]

In cases where there is not enough evidence to convict, punish the whole class. Put an ink pad next to the sign in sheet and make them put a finger print on the sheet!

One more reason why we need electronic finger dentificatiin for sign in sheet.

 

[Fedup]

Despite the short day, I managed to get out for a walk, had one of those built it yourself hamburgers and finished planting my jujube plants in this humongous container. 24x24. They are reusable woods from my previous container garden. Luckily I decided not to throw them out and recycle them. I painted them and my husband put them together. The root balls are pretty pack for just one year. I'm glad to get it done. Now I can concentrate my energy on my tax for 2016.

 

[aja8888]

Met for lunch with DW's brother and his wife their son and a huge surprise was their "adopted" daughter who we thought was in Bahrain (she's in the Navy) and her husband! Meetup was scheduled for BIL's birthday.

Story on the "daughter". BIL never adopted her in the legal sense but did so in every other way. The mother was also the mother of BIL's daughter four years after the first. I cannot imagine what he saw in her but she became pregnant, he did the honorable thing and married her, and the marriage dissolved in six weeks. Suffice it to say the mother is a waste of protoplasm and a waste of taxpayer's money as her main goal in life is to extract as many goods and services from other people as she can while returning nothing. She is a total parasite and the older daughter had a very rough first ten years. Not exactly a cakewalk for the younger one either.

So eventually when the older daughter was ten BIL gained custody of both girls (not easy in MD) since he was unwilling to separate them and unwilling to abandon the older one and let her suffer her fate if he could help it.

What this young lady has done to "pull herself up by the bootstraps" is impressive. BIL cannot afford college for her. Working in a pizza place she paid for two years of college and joined the U.S. Navy reserves and sought active duty. She got it which is why she was in Bahrain. Her being here was a complete surprise to everyone.

Why she is here speaks very highly of the U.S. Navy, or at least the command in Bahrain. She is here as a medical escort for another young lady (21 years old) diagnosed with a type of cancer (I forget the name of it) but the outlook is generally optimistic. Within 17 hours of diagnosis in Bahrain, about 8,000 miles away, she was at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The daughter's job is to coordinate things like initial transportation and accommodations for the patient's parents who live in Alabama and help her and her parents navigate around the hospital bureaucracy, and to let her know about other available services that the hospital may or may not tell her about. The daughter and her husband are intimately familiar with this as he is on 100% disability from the Army and was a patient at Walter Reed for three years. (Artillery training accident, long story, but he's got a lot of metal parts.)

A very nice day and visit with them at the house afterward.

Impressive story, Walt. Thanks for sharing it. So there is hope for kids who had it tough early on in life.

 

[Bestwifeever]

Just finished shoveling out the snow (my new job as doubtful DH is going to be allowed to touch a shovel after he sees the doc on Weds about his recently detected thoracic aortic aneurysm). Not too much here in Chicago burb, but omg you guys east of us into New England--that weather is going to be awful!!

 

[iloveyoga]

It snowed overnight here in Iowa and it is so nice not to have to go out and drive in it. So I slept in a bit, got up had coffee, made monkey bread, and then helped DH with the shoveling. And then we walked in the neighborhood for a mile.

 

[Nemo2]

his recently detected thoracic aortic aneurysm

Hope the visit with the doc results in an upbeat prognosis! All the best to you both.

 

[Christine]

I am just about to take my RV onto a ferry towards Germany via Denmark.

My local grage managed to damage the side wall and toe short story is I'm taking it down to the factory to get it repaired. Since I have the time. And think it's quite fun.

The ferry is like a mini cruise ship so I'll have a nice meal, visit the tax free shop and then netflix until I fall asleep.

 

[Music Lover]

I spent a couple hours on the phone with my former supervisor, pay and benefits, and the pension centre finalizing my retirement date and taking care of the other remaining details. I've been on leave since April 2016 and will be going back "on strength" (on paper only) in May on the day I turn 55. There are still a few hours of vacation and other leave on the books to cash out, which will be followed by my "official" retirement. I thought I might have to make a trip back to the office to sign papers, but it seems that I don't have to as this can all be done via email, phone calls, and some snail mail!!

 

[Fedup]

I'm up my exercise starting today. That's what happens on the first day after DST change. My husband went out very early with his camera for a walk while I did a trade on my kid's IRA. When he got back I went for a walk with him, this time we brought along our long pruner and a bag to go hunting for some lemons. There is a tree down our street and we talked to the owner before, he gave us permission to snip the outside of the yard, where he couldn't reach. At the time we still had tons of lemons. Today we are finally ready to get some. We got nearly 30 lemons. It's a win win for all. There were lemons on the grass, if we didn't pick them, they would be a big mess.
Since the weather getting much sunnier than the last few weeks, we are going for our first swim in the year 2017. I'm looking forward to it.