“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Awesome health. Closing on an awesome house on a huge damned lot (thanks Brigham Young!). I'm retired. Adopting a rescue bulldog and a damned stupid cat. My wife is hot. Hrm... What else... Oh, my oldest is in Boot Camp and has a great follow-on job. My youngest in moving in with me to get ready for her Boot Camp next year. My in-laws like me! Oh, I'm done paying my ex-sloth $$$ FOREVER.
crap, man. This is a great year! All this good crap happening, and I'm an apostate! Huh! Go figure!!
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Oh, my oldest is in Boot Camp and has a great follow-on job. My youngest in moving in with me to get ready for her Boot Camp next year.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:My youngest in moving in with me to get ready for her Boot Camp next year.
She needs a YEAR to get ready for Boot Camp? What is she joining, the Spetsnaz Spartan Delta Force Green Beret Ranger SEALs?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Dr. Shades wrote:[She needs a YEAR to get ready for Boot Camp? What is she joining, the Spetsnaz Spartan Delta Force Green Beret Ranger SEALs?
Ha. I wish!
Under her current situation she isn't getting the attention, support, and mentoring she'll need to transition to adulthood with basic life skills. I have ~7 months help her make the transition smoothly.
Anyway. She wants to train up for some 5 and 10k's, eat right, and get her driver's license (she's 17). Dad's gonna make it happen.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.