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#sonTwo just introduced me to a show called “Neighborhood”. I think I will watch a few episodes and see whether it lives up to its premise (White family moves into a Black neighborhood).
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#GS3 to #sonTwo: Turn on the TV. There's a #baseball game!
But the local station was not showing a game, so the TV immediately got shut off. Good to see that he's learning.
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#sonTwo is teaching them to watch and cheer for the Dodgers and Angels, a lesson I remember transmitting to him.
I'll be there soon. I'll get to meet the younger child face to face for the first time, get to see the older child face to face for the first time in two years, and I'll meet their soon-coming brother.
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A nice 90 minutes long #videochat with #GS3 and #GS4 this evening. The younger grandchild was in the chat almost the whole time. The older was in and out. #sonTwo told me that the tail end of my visit may coincide with his in-laws' arrival, and he's thinking of ways to encourage ethnic enlightenment.
I missed loosely scheduled chats with #sonOne's family and #Dadfy_A's family.
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When the newest batch of consoles released, I decided that I was not going to participate, and the kids would have to buy their own if they wanted them. (I bought 4 of the #PS4, though #sonTwo paid half of the price for his unit.) Now I sort of want to get a #PS5, but only if I can find some games I'll want to play regularly.
The newest #XBox versions still seem to focus on people who play Call of Duty, which is 100% not my thing.
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Today is #coin-laundry day. I also noticed a nearby #pizza and #pasta shop where I used to take #sonTwo (I think we brought #Daddy_A one or two times; I took #sonOne there a few times when he was in high school), so I considered buying something ... until I read their health grade placard. At last inspection, they had major violations, but still got an "A".
Major violations could be #cockroach infestation, sewer backup, rodent infestation, employees not handwashing after using the restroom, sick employees coughing and sneezing all over the food, and other such issues.
No thank you. Kill somebody else.
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#sonTwo is teaching #GS3 the right way: They watched a baseball game (Miami Marlins against the Los Angeles Dodgers) together.
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Speaking of memories, for all these years, I have been shopping at the #Target store where #sonTwo and #Daddy_A worked. I have seen the service slide, followed by stockouts -- even before #COVID-19 -- of specific products, followed by general inventory shortages, followed by replacing known good products with low quality store branded products.
I still go to "Super Target" instead of #Walmart or the nearest supermarket. Or I go to the cross-town supermarket and stop by the Target in that area.
But I'm not happy with them. If someone opened a clean and well-stocked store within walking distance with the quality products I want, I would switch in a heartbeat.
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Clarification from #sonTwo: #GS4 finds the toddler crayons require more pressure than he can exert, so when he's reaching out to his parents in the photos, it is because he is asking them to help him draw.
Also, it was good that there were two sets of crayons, as #GS3 decided he wanted the crayons when his younger brother had them.
The adults in his life will have to try to ensure that he knows there is enough of $ITEM available for both kids to enjoy, so he does not feel that his younger brother is cutting into his supply.
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Toddler crayons (egg-shaped to make it easier for their hands) and finger paints arrived today. #GS3 and #GS4 are coloring.
The 1 1/2 year old keeps offering the crayons to his parents when they are trying to take photos.
I think #sonTwo and his wife are waiting until they can buy long smocks for the kids before allowing the finger paints to be used.
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Speaking of patching broken relationships, #sonTwo had avoided speaking with his mother for several years, despite my urging him to get in touch. I know part of it was that her current(?) hubby had not wanted a teenage stepchild.
In one of our recent calls, he mentioned that his mom had bought some clothing for #GS3 that was years too large for him. Later, he said they'd been occasionally talking on the phone.
So I guess they've patched things up.
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Instead of the traditional #pizza Friday, I am having teriyaki chicken with rice and noodles today.
I’m probably not going to have pizza 🍕 again until I visit #sonTwo’s family. I’m hoping to cook our own, so I will have to find a crust recipe that works with the kinds of flour that they eat.
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#GS3 and #GS4 received some art supplies today, so they got to draw and color. According to #sonTwo, it has been rainy today, so the kids did not get to test out their sidewalk chalk.
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It looks like Kenan Thompson is starting to lose weight. I have mostly seen him when he was a Nickelodeon star in the 1990s, from watching “All That” and “Kenan and Kel” with #sonTwo.
(I did try to watch “Spongebob Squarepants” with #Daddy_A, but I just never enjoyed the show. Like when I tried to watch “Ren & Stimpy” and “Beavis & Butthead” with #sonOne. Sorry, I just can’t do it.)
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Booked my flight to #sonTwo's place. Since I'm staying for at least a month (possibly six or seven weeks, depending on the situation in #MO and #SoCal), I went with a one-way ticket.
#GS4 still thinks I live in the computer screen. #GS3 has seen me in person, but that was half his life ago.
Because I was in #NYC so long, this trip is later than expected. Thus, because of school schedules, I cannot be sure that I will get to visit the older grandchildren during this trip.
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I should clarify: those feelings come because when I'm deeply engrossed in these songs, I am in touch with *me in 1982* or whatever. I see the plans and dreams of what I intended to accomplish, and--no plan survives contact with the real world--the contrast with the actual. But a few minutes or hours later, I'm fine again.
I discussed this in tonight's daily call with #sonTwo and it occurred to me that without access to my internal transcript, readers would not understand the process.
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My sister: #GS3 is a little clone of #sonTwo. Same hair, same grin.
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Sitting in the city "lunch park" and observing the trees where #sonTwo and I lost a couple of model rockets. One of them was returned to my workplace by a city worker. The other worked itself free and blew into someone's yard.
We only did rocketry for a year or so, so we never got to bring #Daddy_A into it.
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Thanks to timezones, I missed my regularly scheduled #videochat with #sonTwo and his family.
I was unsuccessful in scheduling a chat with #Daddy_A and his family. I also planned to do an unscheduled chat with #sonOne and his family.
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The temperature here is about 10°F warmer than it is in #sonTwo's hometown, but due to humidity there, the heat index is the same.
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