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It was way too cloudy here so we couldn't see anything. It just got darker for a little while.

I'm playing Subnautica on PS5. It's pretty fun but I think I'll uninstall after beating it. There's only so much room on the console and I have a hankering for Ghosts of Tsushima.

The wife is going through her monthly cycle and apparently the object of all her frustration tonight is freaking BUTTER. We were eating corn on the cob with dinner and the pat of butter slid off her corn. “This butter didn’t stay on. Don’t just sit there. Help me!” “What do you want me to do...

I pass the attendance sheet around 10 minutes into class, then collect it 20 minutes in. That way I don't penalize the students who are just a few minutes late (parking can be a major problem). Anybody who comes in after that can stay but they certainly won't be counted as present. Students...

I’m rewatching Samurai Champloo after about 15 years. It still holds up.

Ever since I was a graduate student, I've been known as an even-tempered instructor. That's something I've taken pride in. That changed today when I blew up at a student. I gave him a dressing-down after class because he'd been habitually tardy, absent, or on his phone the entire semester. This...

I have a feeling that some of the wife's extended family pre-ordered them.

I’m noticing more students who aren’t turning in work because of family issues. These are assignments that they’ve known about since the beginning and they “forget” about it because “granny had an episode.” One even wanted an absence excused because she’d been arguing with her Mom. I used to be...

Given how underfunded and outdated so much of the school was, I was surprised the map didn't call Belgium the Spanish Netherlands.

I hear that. When I taught high school it was in an underfunded rural district. Our school used to be a fallout shelter. The school-supplied world map in my classroom was probably from the ‘70s because it still showed the USSR, Yugoslavia, and two Germanies. I left months after it was announced...

I postponed my usual workout so I could help the wife at her school. She needs to take down some classroom decorations and is too short to do it herself. That wasn’t a problem and I was done in minutes. But she still can’t leave the school because one of the kids is still here. Their parents...

I have donated money to a Romanian animal rescue organization that shelters cats that were abandoned in Ukraine after the Russians invaded. These cats are often starving, sick, and/or injured. What I'm noticing on their Facebook videos is a lot of "funny" reacts. Apparently a large number of...

You just KNOW those kids are illegal immigrants who are being paid under the table. A few months back some teenager working at a chicken processing plant fell into one of those shredding machines. The employer had filed him as a 30-year-old and he was undocumented.

My wife has seriously thought about quitting over this past year. Her school has a new principal who is flexing and making everyone else do more work. That means more meetings and reports. If my wife's schedule changes for any reason (example: the class spends ten extra minutes on an activity)...

That could work. After we got engaged, I told her that she'd be seeing a lot less Walmart and a lot more Williams Sonoma. Since I buy the vast majority of groceries, we have largely phased out the Vienna sausages and Great Value stuff in our pantry. @ThatNickGuy - Maybe you should get a new...

I know this is a petty whine but it's what we're here for. I really don't like Ragu sauce. It's too smooth and watery, like what you might get at a school cafeteria. It also has that too sweet Chef Boyardee aftertaste, like the onions had caramelized too long. The chunky versions have a...

It came out at the worst possible time. What I've noticed is that a certain breed of fanboy didn't really bat an eye when Black Adam, Blue Beetle, and Love & Thunder had disappointing releases. They were quiet when Quantumania, The Flash, and Morbius bombed. Maybe they made a few comments about...

We live in a mostly working-class Hispanic neighborhood. The wife and I do fine, but you can spot the telltale signs of poverty on our street. It's common to see four or five cars parked in driveways, indicating that maybe 20 people live in a house. It's also not uncommon to see dogs running...

I've got 100 students in my US history surveys, and I found that 19 had cheated on their first papers. One of them was old-fashioned plagiarism (they'd copied a paper from one of my former students) and the others were AI-generated. Hunting down cheaters is no longer a sport. It has become busy...

True. They give off the same vibe as a professor and the grad assistant with whom he is in a totally inappropriate relationship.