car contemplations

We are talking about maybe getting a new, larger vehicle.  It’s difficult fitting all three kids in the back, and I’d really like to be able to pick up a fourth kid.  Basically, I’d like at least 5 passenger seating.  The law says kids shouldn’t ride in the front seat until all other seats are…

this and that

S started coughing three nights ago.  It was kind of a nasty cough, interspersed with nasty sounding breathing.  Croupy breathing, I’d call it, and my first thought was croup, along with a stomach-dropping fear that it might be Covid.  In any case, it disappeared during the day and worsened the next night – classic croup…

a couple of good things

A couple great things. We’d been wanting new knives for years . . . and finally bought some.  Cheap and awesome.  Recommended. I pretty much despise sunscreen, but as the only person in my family (of birth) that hasn’t been diagnosed with skin cancer, probably due to living in Seattle the cloudy, I feel obligated…

For the want of a booster

Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized for Covid-19, along with his wife.  He was vaccinated starting in January, and is fully vaccinated.  (No word on his wife’s status, but it’s venture to guess that she, too, was vaccinated early in the year.)  If he lived in Israel, he’d have gotten a booster, since he’s over 50…

Masks in school

One of the most controversial issues right now is masks in school . . . in the US.  Across the world, different approaches have been taken to this, but people with differing opinions aren’t treated like anti-science selfish idiots or controlling zealots.  Reasonable minds can disagree on this issue, as evidenced by the fact that…

bio and orgo

I got my grades back on Bio, and ended up getting an A in the lecture class and an A+ in the lab class.  I also got the high score (out of about 120 students) on the lab final.  The funny thing is, after I took the lab final, I figured I’d gotten the high…

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travel

With the rise of Covid again here in King County, we’ve altered our plans for travel.  Jonathan will go with L, and Bri and S will stay with me.  There were a number of reasons for our decision: 1.) MIL is on oxygen part of the time and is extremely vulnerable.  We felt the chance…