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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
smonster, easy for you to say. She's like Miss Princess already. She's been imitating the teacher shushing people. At soccer (where she won the sportsman award -- again, kid you not... this is the kid who made herself throw up when she didn't want to play), the volunteers love to pick her up and spin her around and Alexie, the little boy in a walker, actually said today, "I have a crush on Gracie. She's cute!"
Oy.
They are politicians. Of course they're stupid.
Not seriously, right?
Quick, Kat, make Noah (my keyboard suggested mpreg for that) legally cute, or something. This cannot stand.
Well, the org I worked for in NC put metal cages around all the A/C units. We had the wiring stolen out from under a house we worked on. They got about $100 of copper; it cost about $5K to rewire, IIRC. There I worked in the hood. New Orleans is mostly hood, or the hood is only ever a few blocks away, I should say.
Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.
Yep.
Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.
Blighted/abandoned properties here have long been stripped for parts. What's heartbreaking is when people were trying to rebuild and literally overnight they'd lose $8K worth of copper and wiring that these fucking crackheads would sell for $500.
HA. Noah is not mpreg, thank god! I don't know how to make him legally cute. Nor do I know how to unmake Grace legally adorable.
Not seriously, right?
No, of course not. My point was more that terrible laws are made all over the country, not just in the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Vortex of Hickitude.
Stealing copper piping was a huge issue up in Central New York, too.
Grace is officially adorable! That's adorable in itself.
Or terrifying. Grace asked for Signing Times by signing. yay!
TV Works... I don't care what the pediatricians say. But granted, she's over 2.
Noah has a sword stuffed down the back of his t-shirt.
My kids are weird.
Thieves pulled the copper from the AC across the street a few years ago, as well as from a nearby house owned by a friend. They were apparently using "for rent" ads to look for vacant houses. I know another guy who bought a house in a somewhat blighted area who had the copper pulled from the HVAC system twice before he moved in.
There's also been a rash of thefts of semi trailers for scrap, and while the scrap dealers are supposed to get all the information from the sellers, that frequently doesn't happen.
This week, I gave four students zeros on written homework for plagiarism -- all of them had several sentences copied directly from the textbook. I'm puzzled as to why now -- I hadn't noticed any plagiarism before, and now four people all the same week?