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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 13:02:17 EDT 
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https://nu.federati.net/url/293578 .
I donโt know whether this means heโs ending the Mr Weatherman channel, but he has not posted a video in a few days.
I will share this with #sonTwo and his wife, so we can look for an alternative channel if needed. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:11:26 EDT
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Daughter-in-law said that #GS3 is physically a clone of #sonTwo, but his brain is a clone of Grandpa. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 14:34:29 EST
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#sonTwo will be at work on 2024-04-08. Hopefully, his wife will take a day off. I would like to take grandkids to see the total solar eclipse (passing through SE #MO) ... the next time it happens in the lower 48 US states will be something like 20 years later.
In particular, I think #GS3 will enjoy it. #GS4 seems to be more interested in ocean life (penguins, dolphins, orcas, seals, etc) than space. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 14:29:49 EST
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Reading about the Odysseus lander on the Moon, I'm glad I did not have time to inform #sonTwo about it. #GS3 loves space stuff, and would have been looking for video. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 21:55:07 EST
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#sonTwo says that #GS3 and #GS4 know Grandpa is coming. #GS5 does not know why he got kicked out of his room.
#sonOne has not said whether #GS1, #GD1, #GD2 know I'm coming. I'm not expecting to see #GS2, as he lives some distance (2-3 hours drive time in each direction), on top of him being 25.
I expressed that it would be great if #Daddy_A could visit during this time. It has been something like 20 years since all three of them were present at the same place and time. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 12:23:54 EST
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#sonTwo: Where do you want to sit? Window, aisle, or middle?
Me: Aisle. I'm old and I need to pee. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 15:03:44 EST
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"Men in Black" was playing at the laundromat today. I took #sonTwo to see that when he was around 9 years old. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 21:54:32 EST
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I was on a phone call with #sonTwo when I said "I hope I'm not that frustrating when I'm that old" (referring to something my mom had done). He said, "Oh, you're already that frustrating now." -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 14:25:01 EST
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#sonTwo and his wife took the kids bowling ๐ณ for their first time. I donโt think they hit any pins, but they seemed to have had a good time. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 20:26:26 EST
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#sonTwo has not given me any updates on the kidsโ conditions. If they were worsening, I know he would have called. He did tell me that the doctor believes that all three boys and their mom caught #RSV and that the pneumonia that #GS4 and #GS5 got is a residual from that.
Unfortunately, the doctor didnโt do any tests because he said the primary cause was over and done with. (I had asked whether the doctor had tested for any of the diseases that are filling emergency rooms right now: #COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV, RSV, #influenza / #flu ) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 14:17:51 EST
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@clacke Are you watching a movie or the "Arrow" TV series? #sonTwo used to watch Arrow (so much that he streamed it when he visited #SoCal from his then-current home in #FL).
I don't think that's the show that the dog got its name from though. I think that was some other series. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 14:18:26 EST
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@clacke "tight" ... I haven't heard that term since #sonTwo and one of my nieces were around 10-12 (they're 35 now). We were talking about a vehicle we'd seen that looked like it came from a 1930s gangster movie (PT Cruiser) and she said "that's tight!" -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 21:56:59 EST
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#sonTwo's family is visiting his in-laws for Christmas, so there won't be another #videochat with #GS3, #GS4, #GS5 until January.
I'll try to ask the four year old if he got to observe the storm that hit #FL and is headed toward the Northeast this weekend. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 21:41:36 EST
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I also recall that when #sonTwo was in high school, he found an article in which #SoCal theme parks (including #Disneyland, which was mentioned as being known for its low pay) were building apartment buildings for their employees to live in because their pay was insufficient to pay then-current rental rates.
I'm not saying this to disparage #Disney. I get it. Theme parks are a service business and the easiest way to make them profitable is to constrain labor costs. But you know, pay down your debt, so you can use some of your current interest payments to pay your employees a decent wage. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 22:27:57 EST
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Someone implied that my favorite child is obvious.
* #sonOne: mailed his birthday card the day before, so it arrived late
* #sonTwo: mailed his birthday card and a book two weeks early
* #Daddy_A: no birthday card mailed
But once they grow up and move out, your "favorite" is the one who stays in touch most. Second son currently calls me about 4X/week, plus does a regular weekly #videochat between me and his family. The older and younger boys are a lot less communicative.
But honestly, I bought both sons' cards the same day, after I got unemployment benefits. The other child's birthday is earlier, when I had no funds. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:39:31 EST
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I've recently seen some discussion of Millennials. As a Baby Boomer, I can say that tagging two decades worth of people with a label and somehow expecting that label to accurately describe the entire group's views, beliefs, motivations, and actions ... that's a mistake at best.
People are individuals. Maybe more people in certain ages hold one view versus another, but it is unlikely that *all* of them do so.
Yes, the things that happen in the world around people affect them. So for example "9/11" happened while #sonTwo and #Daddy_A were in middle school. 2nd son's school actually pulled the kids into an assembly room and put the news on for a couple of hours. So they watched the 2nd plane strike a tower and they watched the towers collapse repeatedly.
People in #sonOne's age group did not have that. He was already out of school when the "Jonesboro":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Westside_Middle_School_shooting} and "Columbine":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre} school massacres happened. Thus, he even missed out on the demand for police departments to provide on-campus school resource officers to local school districts.
That said, I don't think everyone born in any of those years is the same as all (or even most) others that age in any significant aspect. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:18:20 EST
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#sonTwo suggested that I may have an issue with testosterone levels.
I had mentioned that a few decades back, I was working full time and taking classes at the local college and taking online classes toward a Master's Degree and teaching a weekly class at church and actively involved in raising him. But these days, despite having a lot less going on, I'm really struggling to put in enough time on these training programs. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 14:21:22 EST
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#sonTwo sent a picture of their Christmas tree. Looks almost as wide as it is tall.
Thanksgiving photos show each child at his plate. #GS4 made a face for the camera. They say he looks most like his mom's brother, but in terms of on camera behavior, that is something I would have done. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 03:57:41 EST
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On tonight's phone call with #sonTwo, we were discussing some of my learning activities, because I mentioned that I need to start exploring using AI / LLM. I mentioned that I'd purchased "Raku Fundamentals" and that so far, it seems to be written for someone who uses programming languages a lot more consistently than I do.
#Raku is a descendant of #Perl (same creator; indeed Raku was originally Perl6, but by the time it was released, most people were aware it was a completely different language, so they eventually changed its name).
I've pretty much not used Perl in twenty years (I used it once in a project at work about 18 years ago, as part of a report processing pipeline, alongside #Python, Windows #Batch, and #KiXtart), so the demo programs seem to have purposes that are too large for language starters. I feel like it is supposed to glue itself onto "oh, I know that from Perl!" memories, but I don't remember Perl.
What I remember most was that I liked it a lot when I learned it (college class), but as soon as I started trying to use it in real life I found that "there's more than one way to do it" equals "write once, read never". I used it in that pipeline because it excels at what I needed it to do (text processing) which helped take an ever-growing log file and find relevant events from the past day ... and because I knew the script would never need to be edited. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 02:58:58 EDT
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Talking with #sonTwo about the kids. Thereโs now a telescope, so even though 4 1/2 year old #GS3 is really too young for it, they can occasionally have an evening observation. He likes space, stars and planets, the moon, and weather. I asked whether 2 1/2 year old #GS4 has started expressing his own preferences yet. The answer is he currently likes what his older brother likes, but heโs less emotionally invested in those topics.
The exception is TV. GS3 likes โBlueyโ and GS4 only likes โOctonautsโ. And colors: GS3 likes blue and GS4 likes red. #GS5, at age 1 hasnโt shown any preference yet, but Iโve been looking for clothing in green for now.
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