The Coffee House

[JonA_CT]

Today's inspiration: I only need to make my current salary minus the $1600 I'd pay for daycare, and be able to spend the daytime watching my children. Adjuncting and telecommuting/flexible work might make this not so bad.

 

[jcdeboever]

Today's inspiration: I only need to make my current salary minus the $1600 I'd pay for daycare, and be able to spend the daytime watching my children. Adjuncting and telecommuting/flexible work might make this not so bad.

Excellent attitude. I made sure no one raised my kids but their mother and I. I never trusted anyone to take on what was our responsibility.

I guess I am an old fashioned, nuclear family traditionalist.

Generally speaking, kids are not being nurtured, and the man has lost his place in the family unit. Generally speaking, men are only needed for romance.

Our society has changed and will continue to evolve.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary just finished watch a Dutch Western on NetFlix. It was titled 'The Salvation" and it was really good. A lot of attention to detail in the costumes, most of the actors were white and blond (lol), good plot with a odd reference to "The Dutch Defeat". Gary had to Google that and discovered that as best he can determine, it was the defeat of the Dutch by the Balinese in the East Indies. Somehow, the Dutch soldiers ended up in the American West and became the protagonists in a Clint Eastwood type western. Gary rarely watches westerns, but when he does, he is not disappointed.

The oddest thing, besides all the Dutch actors, was the title idenfying the movie's location as "America". A Hollywood movie would have said, Utah, or the Arizona Territories, et al. Gary thinks that to the Dutch, all America is like the Wild West, dry, rocky with plateaus and table mesas.

I'm Belgian, Dutch derivative

You guys make a mean western.

My wife likes it when I wear chaps with no pants. She likes to ride a cowboy now and then.

As previously stated, you guys make a mean western.

 

[Gary A.]

Today's inspiration: I only need to make my current salary minus the $1600 I'd pay for daycare, and be able to spend the daytime watching my children. Adjuncting and telecommuting/flexible work might make this not so bad.

Excellent attitude. I made sure no one raised my kids but their mother and I. I never trusted anyone to take on what was our responsibility.

I guess I am an old fashioned, nuclear family traditionalist.

Generally speaking, kids are not being nurtured, and the man has lost his place in the family unit. Generally speaking, men are only needed for romance.

Our society has changed and will continue to evolve.

The 'ex', wanted to be home and raise the kids, so we lowered our living-level to accommodate a one income household. Gary remembers reading studies showing that children who were 'nannied' are pretty much equal to those children who were raised by their parents, (no real psychological harm). From what I see by looking at parents around me, many of them seem so completely unfit for parenting, that a professional parent seems better for the kids than their self-centered, untrained biological parent(s).

At $400 a week, how many kids would you need to make a profitable day-care?

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Gary is having tea this morning, herbal tea. Gary has brewed the last of Jon's wonderful coffee yesterday and failed to roast any beans for this morning. The tea was already made so Gary is being lazy. JC is off to Florida, Peg is off to California ... Gary is home.

 

[limr29 2]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Gary is having tea this morning, herbal tea. Gary has brewed the last of Jon's wonderful coffee yesterday and failed to roast any beans for this morning. The tea was already made so Gary is being lazy. JC is off to Florida, Peg is off to California ... Gary is home.

Leo is still in New York. For now, anyway. Got some travel coming up in May (Colorado for vacation) and then in June (Tampa for AP scoring.)

For now, I think I need more coffee.

 

[jcdeboever]

 

[smoke665]

Today's inspiration: I only need to make my current salary minus the $1600 I'd pay for daycare, and be able to spend the daytime watching my children.

Lot of people do it. It's also difficult for some to stay focused with so many distractions at home. After I sold out the trucking company, I kept the freight brokerage alive for a bit working from home. I hated it. Even though I was highly mobile due to technology, I resented the business interfering with my personal life. Before things were segregated work/play, but working from home they got jumbled up.

 

[jcdeboever]

Landing in Tampa. At the condo.

 

[Gary A.]

Is that a United wing?

 

[jcdeboever]

Delta

 

[Gary A.]

Welcome to Florida.

 

[jcdeboever]

Welcome to Florida.

The airlines were kissing major booty today. Thanks United.

 

[snowbear114 46]

I'm Belgian, Dutch derivative

I'm (part) Scottish. Hadrian had the foresight to built a wall across the country, trying to protect civilization from a bunch of my ancestors.

 

[Gary A.]

Dinner is finished. Watching the news panels, sipping a Sonoma Albariño and eating cheesecake. Life is good.