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THE DAILY UPDATE
Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- A third WFH day each week.
- My every-other-week space trip.
- The variety of clients I have through Johnny Boy Marketing.
Pursuit of Wordle Godhood: Today’s result: FAIL. I hate this game.
Wordle 1,034 X/6
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Pursuit of Connections Godhood: Today’s result: PERFECTO.
Connections
Puzzle #312
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The song in my head when I woke up: Hey hey, Bob Marley! Thanks for bringing “No Woman, No Cry” into my head this morning.
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: Everything’s gonna be alright/So no woman, no cry
Commute Tunes: No commute today. But yesterday’s commute home was done to The Tony Kornheiser Show.
Something I’m looking forward to today: The coming thunderstorms.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: AEW Dynasty with Boy The Younger on Sunday.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: My chiropractor appointment. Craaaaaaack.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved a story for a Johnny Boy Marketing client about a master’s student whose thesis project was to develop the concept for an app that will help people who had braces remember to wear their retainer as scheduled.
What I’ve written: “Helping Mold Ethical AI” A new MSAI course coming this spring will focus on the risks and moral issues behind the development of artificial intelligence, other modern day technology and how today’s students can work to create a brighter tech-assisted future.
Today’s Stoic Though of the Day: “What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflicts, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions, and more than that, they are opinions that lie outside of our own reasoned choice.” — Epictetus
John’s translation of Today’s STD: “Stop looking so hard at the world around you just to layer your opinion on top of what’s happening. No wonder we’re so pissed off all the time. Things simply are. Your opinions about them are what make you so unsettled. So how about just letting things be and moving on with the things in life you can control? Dumbass.”
The homeschool community to which I belong, simply because we have homeschooled our children, is an interesting one. The outside world has lots of opinions (see above STD) about homeschooling, and I’ve learned to take them all with a smile.
What the homeschool community is not is problem-free. There’s this conception out there that people homeschool to shelter their children from the world, and, to an extend, that’s true. I would even go so far as to say it’s a warranted and responsible response to a world that is increasingly fucked-up.
But that doesn’t mean it is not problem-free.
For roughly 24 hours, a 16-year-old boy in our homeschool community was missing. He was seen leaving his co-op classes at a local church around 5 p.m. on Tuesday night and didn’t come home. Around 10 p.m. Tuesday night, his car was found in North St. Louis, in a neighborhood that has been beset by crime. But there was no sign of the boy.
Last night, around 8 p.m., we got word that he was home. There was no word of where he had been or what had happened, and, truthfully, I don’t need to know that information. I’m glad he’s safe, and that’s all that matters.
One thing I’ve learned — a thing that has been underscored big-and-bold by social media — is that the outward appearances of families and marriages and relationships often give a very different reflection than the reality. The homeschool community can be a big shiny happy group of people who put on really big smiles. But underneath? Dude. Homeschooling is hard. And the problems we might be trying to successfully navigate our children through and around have a nasty way of finding their way in regardless of our best intentions.
I don’t know what happened in this situation. But the kid is home. That’s what matters.
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