Neither the nephew formerly known as #lazyNephew nor his younger brother #Papaya were present for that discussion, but they did get tablet computers in the mail that Summer. My recollection is that Papaya was staying with my mom for some sort of youth empowerment training, so I shipped his tablet to the house ... and despite "signature required", the UPS driver left it in the driveway.
When he returned home, his brother suddenly contacted me to ask whether he was getting one. I had already planned on visiting Jeremiah (employee at the Best Buy store ... I made sure that every sale went through him ... they weren't on commission, but that doesn't mean they don't keep track of how productive an employee is) after work the next day.
#faveNephew is working on getting a state license for the next phase of his career, which may mean switching to a different agency within the county government. In the current agency, he's not getting enough applicable hours ( he's working up to 60 hours per week, but most of those hours are doing tasks which don't count toward the license ).
Meanwhile, his cousin ( formerly known as #lazyNephew ) was recently fired from his job. Also, his girlfriend broke up with him (but her mom and siblings like him, so he's still welcome to stay with them) and the apartment building has new management which is evicting everyone so they can renovate and raise the rates.
It wasn't that important. He was a small child. But he says it tipped him to something he wants to have checked sometime.
Now, when I tell the other nephew (ex #lazyNephew) about things he did at that age, he's immediately embarrassed. To which I say things like "Almost every child in the country was wearing Barney underpants at that time." and remind him that there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
That’s #lazyNephew … but I’m trying not to call him that anymore.
Now that he’s in his 30s, I can see that he’s almost a clone of his dad … not just physically, but in the way he approaches life, work, and relationships.
The other party in Mom's accident, the one that ran a red light to turn at the poorly designed intersection, is claiming an injury. And of course, my mom was not using either one of her dashcams that her children have paid for.
One of my brothers says that he thinks it is time for her to give up driving anyway, but living in a place that is not pedestrian friendly (and her being mobility impaired anyway), she won't voluntarily give up driving.
#Internet speeds ranked from fastest to slowest, by nation.
I don't know where this link came from. I had it in a tab.
I was speaking with #lazyNephew about #INET speeds recently. He was complaining that home was only getting 90Mbps up and 90Mbps down (it had been 50Mbps/50Mbps when I was there) and I reminded him that it used to be 6Mbps down, 1 to 2 Mbps up.
Being that he's only working part-time, I know it will take a while to save up the funds, so I agreed to send him some money to enable him to buy something used on Ebay or a similar site.
I haven’t been doing it since Puerto Rico, but it is traditional that the grandkids all get t-shirts with the local university’s name and logo. I have not started looking for those yet.
It is also time to start thinking about replacing my backpack. I’ve only had it for a couple of months (I bought it in New Jersey #NJ)