CCE
(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
1919
This level of self-awareness and intelligence is impressive in one so young (I’m including/referencing some stuff Natascha mentioned after the posts I quoted). Hope he gets lined out because I’m guessing he’s got a lot to offer the world in the future.
He kind of reminds me of my son, who’s had his own struggles (depression, near fail-out first semester college in EE, despite 36 ACT, etc.). He got it back on track and seems to be flourishing (other than the extreme introversion) and is otherwise doing well.
He will be moving into the ‘open’ station this week if he’s ready for it, where therapy can be more focused on his depression and other issues.
You must be terribly relieved that your son pulled through and is thriving (in his own, personal way).
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(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
1921
Thanks. Hope your nephew does well - I think he will, but of course I don’t have more than “gut” to go on…
My son waxes and wanes, and has his doubts about finishing the degree at all (which admittedly is a tough program), but has in the 5 semesters since the first really bad one been at 4.0, so that’s good.
But we’ve got to flog at him (gently, of course) to get him to revise the resume & upload it for career fairs, and the like (esp because the Junior-to-Senior summer internship around here almost guarantees the first full time job), so his inability to interact is still a problem.
It’s so strange because with people he knows, he’s gregarious, engaging, smart and funny as hell. But with strangers he clams up. I guess this isn’t too unusual, but with the rest of the fam being pretty gregarious, it’s hard to make it work.
His brother is the complete opposite: extroverted (to the point of obnoxiousness ), makes friends easily, works out more than he reads, ‘what, me worry’ attitude.
Hard to believe they both grew up in the same household.
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(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
1923
I def get that. My son is the youngest (of 4), and his two oldest sisters (also engineers) are such drill sergeant/hard charger mentality types that it’s hard to figure they’re his sibs. Kind of hard to believe how different they are. Daughter 3 (his next closest aged sib) is kind of in-between, but still extremely gregarious, but more of a “flower child” gregarious vibe vs the drill sergeant vibe her older sisters have.
It’s when I feel a student is likely to carry out harm upon themselves or others, I chapter them to stay in a facility for 72 hours.
Doing it for attention. No.
Learned this week that we’re getting unwanted visits from a coyote eating fallen peaches from our elderly neighbor’s trees (property abuts, no fence). The coyote comes for the fruit both day and night, as evidenced by bites taken from peaches that fall during the night.
None of us want the coyote getting comfortable close to our houses, so my husband and I offered that we’ll do peach pickup patrol. We hope the person who was promised the fruit shows up soon to pick the rest from the tree.
I received some good news this morning. I had taken Neighbor #2 for a second “Outpatient” procedure on Thursday. This one should give her back some independence. She called me this morning feeling great and a lot more mobile – no more pain. I’m guessing in the next week or so, she’ll want to try to prepare her own meals.
I didn’t mind cooking for three vs. two. That being said, I am quite happy to see her feeling better and getting back to her old self.
Neighbor #2 did tell me she is going to miss the homemade hot pockets the most. I told her anytime she wants them, just give me a call.
Update on the tale of Wile E. Coyote and the neighbor’s peach trees: Yesterday the coyote became bolder and ventured up into our peach-free yard in its search for fruit. Then it started waiting under the trees for peaches to fall. Smart.
A bit later, it gave my husband the stink-eye as it grabbed a peach and gobbled it at the woods’ edge.
We don’t want an incident with our dog, so my husband and I decided to clear the trees of fruit with our neighbor’s blessing.
No more peaches now. After the coyote did an initial sweep to check if all the fruit was gone, no more coyote either. So far.
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(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
1932
Also - do they freeze well? Thinking air-fryer resurrection from frozen might work well in a pinch, just not quite as good as fresh.
Wish everyone was as neighborly to neighbors as you are. You remind me of an Army buddy who’s “adopted” an older lady from his old neighborhood, who has no living family members.
She’s got dementia and the DoD refused her vet benefits, so he got her moved to his “other” home state and covered her memory-care nursing home for a couple of months, got his senator involved to kick DoD in the (censored), and got her the benefits.
Yes, they freeze just fine. I’m going to make up a big batch of them, put them in a couple freezer bags and she can heat them up in the oven anytime she wants.
Whoa - 80 bucks worth of cauliflower. Even a die hard cauli fan might find that a bit hard to justify. I could probably buy an entire wheelbarrow of cauliflowers for that and cook them very nicely.
I checked out the website online - it’s clearly not a vegetarian or vegan restaurant, so maybe the cauliflower will be prepared with fancy and non-vegetarian ingredients. Please report back if you try the cauli tasting menu.
), makes friends easily, works out more than he reads, ‘what, me worry’ attitude.
