So, Son #1 is coming over to visit this evening bringing my grandson...to a house I have not cleaned since December 2019. This is going to scar them for life. When I last spoke to him I told him I'd need a month or two to make a place for them to sit down. Apparently he thought I was joking. I was not.
Dirt is good. It promotes resistance to germs. The old man (89) we rescude from his collapsing trailer and the space prevented from freezing by the accumulation of his feces, refused to change his clothing except when he consented to shower about once a week when he had become too odorous to ignore across the table. He was, otherwise, perfectly healthy. I made usre of that by taking him for a general medical exam. And, indeed, after his transfer to the care of grandsons, he lived another five years.
When we took our walk this morning the air quality wasn't the greatest, but it was OK. When I made a run to the Chinese take-out place 4:00 to 4:30 PM it was definitely smokier--not really bad, but definitely worse than in the morning. So we decided to skip gardening we had planned on after dinner.
I exercises super-human control tonight. My sons and grandson and I went out to a pizza place to eat. When we were finished I put my mask on again and looking up saw an old guy in a Trump hat sitting directly across from me at the next table. I got up, walked behind him to get out and DID NOT snarl "asshole!" at his back.
Math Is Personal [Click] “How one professor changed the culture of mathematics for his students.” Oh, boy—the same feeling of exclusion can definitely afflict white males as well. My feeling of exclusion from the dominant social group began in 11th grade and coincided with second-year algebra. There was *something* in that class that escaped me, and I struggled all the way through graduate school with that lack of mathematical knowledge. The effects continued long afterward. Gee, I wish I could have had such a teacher for that course.
So, Son #1 is coming over to visit this evening bringing my grandson...to a house I have not cleaned since December 2019. This is going to scar them for life. When I last spoke to him I told him I'd need a month or two to make a place for them to sit down. Apparently he thought I was joking. I was not.
ReplyDeleteDirt is good. It promotes resistance to germs. The old man (89) we rescude from his collapsing trailer and the space prevented from freezing by the accumulation of his feces, refused to change his clothing except when he consented to shower about once a week when he had become too odorous to ignore across the table. He was, otherwise, perfectly healthy. I made usre of that by taking him for a general medical exam. And, indeed, after his transfer to the care of grandsons, he lived another five years.
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ReplyDeleteWhen we took our walk this morning the air quality wasn't the greatest, but it was OK. When I made a run to the Chinese take-out place 4:00 to 4:30 PM it was definitely smokier--not really bad, but definitely worse than in the morning. So we decided to skip gardening we had planned on after dinner.
ReplyDeleteI exercises super-human control tonight. My sons and grandson and I went out to a pizza place to eat. When we were finished I put my mask on again and looking up saw an old guy in a Trump hat sitting directly across from me at the next table. I got up, walked behind him to get out and DID NOT snarl "asshole!" at his back.
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DeleteMath Is Personal [Click] “How one professor changed the culture of mathematics for his students.” Oh, boy—the same feeling of exclusion can definitely afflict white males as well. My feeling of exclusion from the dominant social group began in 11th grade and coincided with second-year algebra. There was *something* in that class that escaped me, and I struggled all the way through graduate school with that lack of mathematical knowledge. The effects continued long afterward. Gee, I wish I could have had such a teacher for that course.
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