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I'm really hoping that Em doesn't flip out.
Me, too - it's hard to leave when they aren sad about it. I'm letting my mom take Ellie on a plane in October (so nervous about that) and I'm already worried that Ellie will be crying when I leave her.
Happy Birthday, Erika!
Happy birthday, erika!
Exciting house news, Sparky! My only (unsolicited) advice is to know where your line is and don't waver about walking away if you need to.
In some nice news to come out of the McWarnigle household, Tom placed 2nd in his category of American Wheat/Rye Beers with a quite respectable score of 35 (out of 50). (the highest in the entire competition is 43.)
The beer he brewed was an American Wheat with a european style yeast that has many of the same spicy characteristics as a belgian yeast- and oddly enough, it is unnamed since we started drinking it greedily before Tom got the chance to make one of his adorable and well thought out labels. I like to think he would have humored me and called it "Wheat's Happening?!?!" (which in my weird brain is an homage to Fred Willard in "Best in Show") but that may in fact not be the case.
Here's a link to the results page; Tom's category is on Table 12.
t disclaimer He asked me to be sure to stress that he only came in 2nd in his category, not the overall competition. So, OK, now I've done that! t /disclaimer
Happy Birthday Erika!
Happy second place beer! I want some!
What kind of calculus to business majors need?
None - at least at UW-Madison when I was there. Unless you were an Actuarial Science major - then you needed the three semesters of calc as a prerequisite for the stats and actuarial mathematics classes.
When do you hear on your offer?
It's being presented this morning, so we should have a counter-offer by the end of the day. I'm thinking that if the counter offer isn't below X amount, then we just send back a "no" and walk away rather than move by inches.
I feel sorry for all the parents and kiddos now. I was that kid that never cried, and I wonder if it has something to do with having been the 3rd child and used to my parents' having to divide their attention amongst us.
eta:
know where your line is
It's only about 5K above what we bid, and we under-bid the asking price by 25K. We learned last night that when they bought the house it was in great shape, so they didn't put a lot of money in repairs.
The beer he brewed was an American Wheat with a european style yeast that has many of the same spicy characteristics as a belgian yeast
Ooh, sounds nummy. How did I not know that Tom was a brewer as well as an afficionado? Is this a recent thing?
House and Offer~ma Sparky!
Happy Birthday, Erika!
Yesterday I bought a book for my mom that I might seriously have to get for myself, called Small Batch Baking. Hopefully we'll test some recipes when I go visit my parents.
What kind of calculus to business majors need?
Well, the business calc class here is the basics of the first semester of calculus, but without any of the trig stuff. So that's limits, derivatives, power rule, product/quotient/chain rules, derivatives of exponential and logarithmic functions, implicit differentiation, related rates, integrals of polynomials, integrals of exponential functions, integration by substitution, and finding the area betweeen curves. And the textbook has more of an emphasis on word problems with "real world" applications than the regular calc book does.
Oh wait - I think I recall the existence of business calc at UW-Madison. Gawd, I'm surprised at how much stuff back then I've forgotten....
Happy expletive-laden birthday erika!
I just think it's hilarious that by "real dad" I mean her legal owner.
A dog park friend presented her new arrival last night with the story that the pooch had been liberated from his 'owners' by family members who were disgusted with the neglect he had suffered.
Who buys a Chinese Crested and then lets it get sunburned (to the point of extensive blistering) and malnourished? Apparently, the husband bought it for the ever-so-trend conscious wife who then ignored it.
Thank goodness, other family members scooped him up and gave him to my dog park friend who already has the world's ugliest little dog. Miles is a Chihuahua mixed with something truly wiry and underbity and really, really ugly. The new family member is bald all over, with black spots on pink skin and an Andy Warhol (on a bad day) 'do.
He's got scraggly white wiry hairs on his back...about 30 total. My buddy she said could have the random hairs shaved off. All I could ask was...does she honestly think that would improve the dog's look. I mean really.