Sean, love and hugs to you and lots of health~ma for your mom.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Nicole - Oct 30, 2006 6:15:15 pm PST #9299 of 10000
I'm getting the pig!
Cass - Oct 30, 2006 6:19:47 pm PST #9300 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
~ma to your mom and you, Sean.
Me too. Maybe we should start a Buffista stationary exchange. Use your pretty stationary to send a cartoon or an interesting article or a little note to a fellow stationista. I know there's me, you, Raq, anyone else?I am so there, Vortex.
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2006 6:24:03 pm PST #9301 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Me too. Maybe we should start a Buffista stationary exchange. Use your pretty stationary to send a cartoon or an interesting article or a little note to a fellow stationista. I know there's me, you, Raq, anyone else?
Oooh, me too.
Emily - Oct 30, 2006 6:28:10 pm PST #9302 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Just helped Emmett with his math homework. Prime factorization with exponents!
Hey cool, that's what I'm teaching... tomorrow... to my eighth graders.
Sigh.
WindSparrow - Oct 30, 2006 7:00:13 pm PST #9303 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I think I'm safe from head explosions, as it sounds like they caught it early enough that we should be very happyYeah, it's utterly crappy that your mom has cancer, but at the same time there are a few of my brain cells doing a happy dance because it was caught early and there is a good prognosis.
Boo, hiss! for the Raq and vw UTIs
DavidS - Oct 30, 2006 7:03:15 pm PST #9304 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Very nice. He's in fourth grade? I don't remember doing that until sixth.
Fifth grade.
Hey cool, that's what I'm teaching... tomorrow... to my eighth graders.
You know what helped? The whole factorization tree dohickey. We wound up writing it all down with the tree.
Me: "You know what a prime number is, right?"
Emmett:
[dutily reciting]
"A number which can only be divided by itself and one."
Me: "Perfect. So take 24."
Emmett: "2 times 12. And 12 breaks down into 2 times 6. And 6 breaks down into 3 times 2."
Me: "So you've got more than one 2, so you can do an exponent for that."
Emmett: "That's the part I don't get."
Me: "Just count up the 2s; that's the exponent. If you have four 2s, then it's 2 to the fourth."
Emmett: "So...there are three 2s. That's 2 to the third?"
Me: "Right! And how many 3s?"
Emmett: "One 3."
Me: "So it's 3 times...."
Emmett: "2 to the third?"
Me: "Right. Think about it. What's 2 times 2 times 2?"
Emmett: "8."
Me: "And 8 times 3 is..."
Emmett: "24!"
I felt very mathy.
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2006 7:15:20 pm PST #9305 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That must be so cool - to see the little lightbulb go off over his head....
beth b - Oct 30, 2006 8:02:48 pm PST #9306 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Sean my best to your mom
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2006 10:35:22 pm PST #9307 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean, here's to early detection and good medics. I hope this all goes as smoothly as possible.
Volans - Oct 30, 2006 11:17:43 pm PST #9308 of 10000
move out and draw fire
OK, this appears to be National Parents Getting Cancer Month, and it can just stop.
I am hoping for a full success on removing and treating your mom's cancer, Sean.
I need to order some toddler galoshes. It's raining buckets, which combines Mal's two favorite things: Outside and Water. He's frantic to be outdoors, but Robeez aren't going to cut it.
JZ, hang in there. The newborn stage is pretty awful, but it does get better, and in a few months you won't even remember how frazzled and tired and anxious and stressed you were. (If people did remember, the human race wouldn't survive).