Notices tagged with daddya
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There’s a possibility that #Daddy_A is going to get some sort of implant soon. They are trying to cut his pain level way down and restore sensation below the waist. A series of back surgeries have helped, but after each one, it isn’t too long before the pain and numbness are back near their former levels.
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Weekly communication summary
*One call with my mom and one brother.
*One conversation over SMS with one sister.
*Three calls with #sonTwo, one call with #sonOne, zero calls with #Daddy_A
*one audiochat with #GD2 (she wanted to know my shirt size and favorite color).
*Two bursts of text messaging when the two earthquakes struck in the Mojave Desert.
Co-workers:
*Two phone calls with Mark.
*SMS conversations with S, K, Mark, Kenny (discussing the new pay scales).
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#GD2 drew the two of us together. She put X X for her eyes, so uncle #Daddy_A thought she drew herself dead.
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Three deliveries today. So far, one is confirmed. #Daddy_A received the tablet and toys.
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No phone call with #sonOne, #GD1, #GD2 today (network issue at work, so he was on conference bridges all day), but I did get a nice message on Wire.
Had a nice videochat with #sonTwo and his wife and doggy ( #GS3 was having a nap ). Also got a photo of him and the baby wearing #Dodgers gear.
Nothing from #Daddy_A today. I expect I'll get a "Hey, I forgot; I hope you're not mad" message in 2-3 days.
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Shipped some toys to #Daddy_A in #NE. Forgot to ship the baby clothes to #sonTwo in #MO.
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It sounds weird, but now that my mom and I prefer the same brand of #yogurt, we call each other more often to say that $SUPERMARKET_CHAIN has it on special than we ever called before. I would like to see whether this would help #Daddy_A increase the number of voice calls.
(Before you ask, I’m very grateful that he communicates on Wire and SMS almost every day and often several times during the day. I appreciate the effort he makes to stay in contact. I would still like to hear his voice more often.)
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Communication summary for this week:
Telephone calls with mom (2), 1 brother (1), #sonTwo (4), co-workers Ken (1) and Mark (1)
SMS conversations with 2 brothers, 1 sister, #sonOne, sonTwo, co-workers Ken and Mark
Online chats (text) with sonOne, sonTwo, #Daddy_A, two nephews, a couple of people from the Fediverse, #GD1 and #GD2 (plus exchanged drawings and photos with GD2); (video) with sonTwo and his family, joined by GD2
I did learn that this is important during my year in #PR, far away from all of these folks (Ken was there, but he was in another city).
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#Daddy_A turned thirty years old recently. How did the youngest of all get so old?
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I talked to my “no answer” kid ( #Daddy_A ) for a few minutes recently because of birthdays. It was good, but uncomfortable. I ended it pretty quickly.
Our last actual phone call before now was Christmas of 2017. (But we do communicate over #Wire regularly and sometimes via #SMS.)
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@bthall The funny thing is #sonOne and #sonTwo each contact me to ask how the other is doing, but they contact each other directly to talk about me or #Daddy_A.
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I’d really like it a lot more if delivery drivers rang the doorbell, so people that are there inside the house would come out and receive packages. I see by the tracking that they left it on the porch at 14:00 CDT, but neither #sonTwo nor his wife have texted to say they received it.
#Daddy_A received his package and acknowledged it earlier, so I know they got their stuff.
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#Daddy_A tells me that the shipment arrived. #Toddler_A3 and #Little_Boy_A2 went straight for the books, ignoring their clothing.
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Shipped some stuff for #Daddy_A's kids and #sonTwo's kid. I have to wait for payday before I buy & ship to #sonOne's kids.
The reason I shipped these now is that I included clothing and three of the four recipients are two and under. If I wait, they might outgrow their gifts.
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Really wishing it wasn't already 22:00 where #sonOne, #sonTwo, #Daddy_A are. I'd like to videochat with them so they can see the new haircut and shave and tell me how they think I look.
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It is hard to believe my little Sponge Bob fan, #Daddy_A, is going to be thirty soon. It seemed like he would stay twelve forever.
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In today's phone calls with #sonTwo, we're trying to arrange a videochat between him and his wife & child, me, and #Daddy_A and his wife & children. #sonOne's work schedule changed recently, so we'll skip involving him this time.
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@kai @bthall
https://emojipedia.org/grimacing-face/ 😬 is what #Daddy_A sends me when I call him by his childhood nickname.
"I still think that for most people, the value proposition of college is very poor."
I agree. I don't think we're helping by telling people they *have to* pile up $100K of unsheddable student loan debt or they'll spend their lives working in #Gree-C-Burger. Most people would probably be better off in an on-the-job training program or apprenticeship, or even a trade school / vocational school.
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#sonTwo was in too many fights as a 6th grader, even though "fight" was him standing there and letting someone else hit him. The school threatened to send him to the county's juvenile detention center for his daily classes.
Meanwhile, #Daddy_A's school was near a racially-troubled high school, and the bigger kids' mass fights (school district: "they were not race riots") spilled over onto his campus, so he was afraid to go back.
Thank God for charter schools. Neither one of them would have made it without them.
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@moonman It sounds like a cool idea. One of the local schools (where all the kids had food nicknames like "Cheese" and "Pork Chop", so they weren't starting out with the most fitness-oriented people) had a yearlong "prep to run a marathon" program during #Daddy_A's senior year. A few of the kids actually did wind up doing a marathon.
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