OT: OT-“Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.”

[MarkusKetterer]

 

[MOGlLNY]

Happy Birthday @Chainshot there's a ton of people I know with August birthdays. I just survived mine, now I need to manage the new one every other day as they come out to celebrate.

I had the birthday, grand opening of bar #8, and the celebrations that went with it. The girls made me a money necklace and were stapling 20 and 50 baht notes to it, whilst some of my crazier friends came up with the ass squeezes while stapling 100 or 1000 notes on it. A packed new bar, 187 working girls, a full money necklace and face covered in lipstick, plus a rambling diatribe in Korean while shooting soju with Korean youtubers made for an interesting night

My girlfriend and I are planning to do Jeju Island for our eventual honeymoon (popping the question in a few months). Jeju Island sounded nice and different also she’s ethnically Korean and speaks fluently.

But we may have to take a plane to Thailand as a side trip though!

 

[Old Navy Goat]

My girlfriend and I are planning to do Jeju Island for our eventual honeymoon (popping the question in a few months). Jeju Island sounded nice and different also she’s ethnically Korean and speaks fluently.

But we may have to take a plane to Thailand as a side trip though!

Jeju is pretty nice. Went there when I lived in Seoul. As for Thailand, it's a quick flight from Incheon albeit there's a layover in Hong Kong or Singapore. The good thing about that is it gives you options for where to fly into Thailand. Romantic getaway, I'd probably go to Krabi as it won't be so overcrowded like Phuket. Krabi is also the jump off point for places like James Bond island, beautiful clear water for scuba/snorkling

 

[Chainshot]

My wife is having daily heart attacks from my daughter being gone.

Crazy how fast they grow up.

How soon to her first game?

 

[Der Jaeger]

Crazy how fast they grow up.

How soon to her first game?

Early October. I think it’s against Mercyhurst or Navy. It's not posted yet and I’ve got in on my home computer.

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Auroras headed to the US again in aftermath of gargantuan 'X-class' solar flare

Auroras may once again be visible in northern parts of the U.S. this weekend as Earth braces for impact from a powerful coronal mass ejection.

www.livescience.com

If any of you Northerners are able to see the Northern Lights then please snap some pics

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Auroras headed to the US again in aftermath of gargantuan 'X-class' solar flare

Auroras may once again be visible in northern parts of the U.S. this weekend as Earth braces for impact from a powerful coronal mass ejection.

www.livescience.com

If any of you Northerners are able to see the Northern Lights then please snap some pics

@Mattilaus would be your best bet as he lives really north.

 

[Chainshot]

Auroras headed to the US again in aftermath of gargantuan 'X-class' solar flare

Auroras may once again be visible in northern parts of the U.S. this weekend as Earth braces for impact from a powerful coronal mass ejection.

www.livescience.com

If any of you Northerners are able to see the Northern Lights then please snap some pics

I have some former classmates who snapped some in Montana and Maine. Impressive stuff.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

 

[sabremike]

 

[KiwiGriff]

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Or February the 1st?

 

[TehDoak]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

My son is a lot more compliant (when his medicine for ADHD is working) and also very smart. He is probably going to be more of a 'destroy the room' kind of kid. His obsession with water will probably lead to at least one flooded sink in that school (he needs to make a whirlpool, he tells me).

I'm just hoping it takes them a while to realize that if they get in trouble at school, they get sent home where their tablets are.

 

[Chainshot]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

My son is a lot more compliant (when his medicine for ADHD is working) and also very smart. He is probably going to be more of a 'destroy the room' kind of kid. His obsession with water will probably lead to at least one flooded sink in that school (he needs to make a whirlpool, he tells me).

I'm just hoping it takes them a while to realize that if they get in trouble at school, they get sent home where their tablets are.

Ummm... getting sent home, get no tablet. Don't reward shitty behavior.

 

[Jacob582]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

My son is a lot more compliant (when his medicine for ADHD is working) and also very smart. He is probably going to be more of a 'destroy the room' kind of kid. His obsession with water will probably lead to at least one flooded sink in that school (he needs to make a whirlpool, he tells me).

I'm just hoping it takes them a while to realize that if they get in trouble at school, they get sent home where their tablets are.

My daughter had trouble in kindergarten.
She was loud and energetic.

She was also coming from montessori pre-school, and their self-motivated approach matched her independent personality. The teacher said my daughter thought she ran the classroom. The teacher loved her and let her be a helper and mother hen to the younger kids.

Didn't translate easily to kindergarten.

 

[Jacob582]

Ummm... getting sent home, get no tablet. Don't reward shitty behavior.

I hid tablets so well I forgot where I put them. (I didn't do parental controls at the time)

 

[MarkusKetterer]

 

[Chainshot]

I hid tablets so well I forgot where I put them. (I didn't do parental controls at the time)

I did parental controls and promptly forgot the control passwords.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Crazy how fast they grow up.

How soon to her first game?

First weekend of October against Rowan

 

[Butt Ox]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

My son is a lot more compliant (when his medicine for ADHD is working) and also very smart. He is probably going to be more of a 'destroy the room' kind of kid. His obsession with water will probably lead to at least one flooded sink in that school (he needs to make a whirlpool, he tells me).

I'm just hoping it takes them a while to realize that if they get in trouble at school, they get sent home where their tablets are.

Educate yourself as best you can in fluid dynamics, create many vortices with children, propagate memories.

 

[cybresabre]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

heh, I'm a couple years ahead of you with one just like this (well two, but this is the younger to a 't') and just have to say... good luck, brother.

 

[Mike McDermott]

Speaking of getting old, my littles 1st day of kindergarten is next week.

Pretty sure they are going to send them back pretty quick.

My daughter can already read, write (she needs SOME help here), do math (she even knows the multiplication tables), and is stubborn as a mule. She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

My son is a lot more compliant (when his medicine for ADHD is working) and also very smart. He is probably going to be more of a 'destroy the room' kind of kid. His obsession with water will probably lead to at least one flooded sink in that school (he needs to make a whirlpool, he tells me).

I'm just hoping it takes them a while to realize that if they get in trouble at school, they get sent home where their tablets are.

That sounds…. Fun But it’s also great that they are where they are with learning.
Meanwhile, I’m in the 10 going in 17 phase with my daughter. The sass is strong with this one.

 

[sabremike]

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[TehDoak]

Ummm... getting sent home, get no tablet. Don't reward shitty behavior.

Taking away the tablet is probably the 1st line of punishment before timeout around here.

 

[KiwiGriff]

She's also understands that (in a bad way) that just because an adult says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Pretty sure she is going to be the most frustrating kid to teach there.

Combine your two kids and you get my son. ADHD combined with arguing about everything he can because he doesn't have to listen to anyone. Its a real challenge. He's 10.

Two nights ago we had a bad evening. He had a meltdown because it was family movie night and he didn't get one because his big sister was out. So we played some games of Mario Kart as a family. Then it was bedtime. He spent the next 45 minutes doing everything but, actively defying us and looking for any reason not to do abything related to bed. My wife finally convinced him to go downstairs to brush his teeth but as he got up she finished her sentence "with daddy" and then he was like "I'm not going with him" (because if I went, he'd actually have to do what he was asked to do and not go play in his room) and tried to walk past me back to the couch. For the first time in months I did what I hate doing. I physically walked him down to the bathroom, pulling hands off doorframe and furniture along the wag and being screamed at the whole time I was hurting him. To be clear, I wasn't hurting him, apart from maybe when he tried to throw himself on the ground and I mightve tripped on his foot. He then worked his way through abusing me with every horrible word he knows and proceeded to lament that everyone in the house hates him and we are all so mean to him all the time, nobody loves him. This was the third night in a row of this and the first where I lost patience and manhandled him to what needed to happen. I feel like absolute shit afterwards because when it gets to that. I feel I've failed.

Kids are fun.

 

[TehDoak]

Combine your two kids and you get my son. ADHD combined with arguing about everything he can because he doesn't have to listen to anyone. Its a real challenge. He's 10.

Two nights ago we had a bad evening. He had a meltdown because it was family movie night and he didn't get one because his big sister was out. So we played some games of Mario Kart as a family. Then it was bedtime. He spent the next 45 minutes doing everything but, actively defying us and looking for any reason not to do abything related to bed. My wife finally convinced him to go downstairs to brush his teeth but as he got up she finished her sentence "with daddy" and then he was like "I'm not going with him" (because if I went, he'd actually have to do what he was asked to do and not go play in his room) and tried to walk past me back to the couch. For the first time in months I did what I hate doing. I physically walked him down to the bathroom, pulling hands off doorframe and furniture along the wag and being screamed at the whole time I was hurting him. To be clear, I wasn't hurting him, apart from maybe when he tried to throw himself on the ground and I mightve tripped on his foot. He then worked his way through abusing me with every horrible word he knows and proceeded to lament that everyone in the house hates him and we are all so mean to him all the time, nobody loves him. This was the third night in a row of this and the first where I lost patience and manhandled him to what needed to happen. I feel like absolute shit afterwards because when it gets to that. I feel I've failed.

Kids are fun.

They are both going to be a huge handful when they are older. My son especially. He's probably going to be 6'4'' 6'5'' (Wife has tall people in her family and he's been consistently in the 99th percentile height wise). He has much worse blowups that my daughter, especially when his medicines send him in a tizzy. I'm just hoping he'll have enough coping mechanisms to get by that tough part of life by then.