Supposed to be cool and clear again today.\u00a0 Chamber of Commerce weather yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Beautiful day to be out and about.<\/p>\n
Returned the visiting child to her family, fed and undamaged.\u00a0\u00a0 Kid eats a lot for a skinny girl!\u00a0\u00a0 Did my errands.\u00a0 Spent some time going through stuff at my secondary.\u00a0 Came home.\u00a0 Ate.\u00a0 Wasted time on the internet with my friends.\u00a0 Put the kids to bed.\u00a0 Currently reading The Thread that Binds the Bones- Nina Kirriki Hoffman, with the 11 yo, and Restaurant at the End of the Universe- Douglas Adams, with the 9yo.\u00a0 The 9yo was howling with laughter at tonight’s\u00a0 chapter.\u00a0 Even if a whole bunch goes over her head, there is enough slapstick to keep her laughing.<\/p>\n
It’s fun to share the books.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know when they’ll stop wanting to read together at bed time, but I’m not looking forward to that day.<\/p>\n
The school year has been very strange.\u00a0 We’d gotten in the rhythm and busy-ness of school pre-corona.\u00a0\u00a0 There are always events, meetings, sports, coming and going.\u00a0 Not so much this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Add in all the times we’ve been off school and it’s a completely different feeling.\u00a0 Having the kids home seems normal, and when they are at school feels like the exception.\u00a0\u00a0 I like it.<\/p>\n
There’s a lot of wailing and lamenting about the kids not learning anything this year.\u00a0\u00a0 I got news for people.\u00a0\u00a0 They don’t learn it in a regular year either.\u00a0 You just don’t see it when it’s all taking place elsewhere, and they get passed from one test to the next.\u00a0 Jerry Pournelle used to talk about it fairly frequently, and even his experiences were out of date.\u00a0\u00a0 The top kids will learn in spite of school.\u00a0 The middle kids will learn to repeat back what the school tells them, and the lower kids will do neither.<\/p>\n
At least with solid reading skills they can self educate when they finally get it.<\/p>\n
With that cheery thought, I better start doing some actual stuff today.\u00a0 Make hay while the sun shines and all that.<\/p>\n
In the absence of orders, keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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Supposed to be cool and clear again today.\u00a0 Chamber of Commerce weather yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Beautiful day to be out and about.<\/p>\n
Returned the visiting child to her family, fed and undamaged.\u00a0\u00a0 Kid eats a lot for a skinny girl!\u00a0\u00a0 Did my errands.\u00a0 Spent some time going through stuff at my secondary.\u00a0 Came home.\u00a0 Ate.\u00a0 Wasted time on the internet with my friends.\u00a0 Put the kids to bed.\u00a0 Currently reading The Thread that Binds the Bones- Nina Kirriki Hoffman,<\/p>\n