Month: June 2024

  • You Call That a Mess?

    You Call That a Mess?

    Clearly we have different standards. It’s not a contest or anything, but — let’s just say that I am definitely winning on how much of a disaster my house is.

  • Units of Patience

    Units of Patience

    I mean, yeah, it’s nice that there’s music and stuff so I know they didn’t forget about me on hold.

  • Documented Pattern

    Documented Pattern

    How often are we supposed to read that stuff again after we implemented everything?

  • Strongly Encouraged

    Strongly Encouraged

    So it’s not required, but here’s a report showing your team’s participation levels so you can feel bad about it quantitatively.

  • Ronald McDahlnald

    Ronald McDahlnald

    One of my kids was also having trouble with this author’s name for her own book report (in a different class). We helped her remember it as “Rolled Doll” and when she practiced her presentation and had trouble I would mime like I was tossing something low to the ground (the imaginary doll) to help…

  • Hashtag Numerology

    Hashtag Numerology

    Now I’m just waiting for all the automated phone messages to start telling me to enter a number “followed by a hashtag” because it will surely resonate better with the next generation than “pound sign.”

  • Idle Chit-Chat

    Idle Chit-Chat

    Certainly it was not the best night of sleep I’ve ever had, but at least I was able to remember some of these night-time kid pronouncements for comic purposes.

  • Quiet Hours Fits

    Quiet Hours Fits

    We received a very sweet apology note in the morning from one of the other bunk rooms for their having re-created the Eras Tour during quiet hours. Somehow I didn’t notice that with everything going on in our own bunk room.