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Story Time #2: Math Is Hard
Follow-up to story time! With bonus story! So, Mini-Winters is now 10. She was in fourth grade last year, and she had some math homework that she needed help with. I looked at it and sent in Mr. Winters, because I didn’t understand a damn thing. But I didn’t just wander away. I’m a curious person; I like to master new skills. I sat on the couch with them and watched him take her through the problem – and didn’t get it. I asked him to explain it two more times that night. I still have no fucking idea what he was doing.
Story Time #1: The Future
Story time!
I’ve always thought that the year 2010 sounded like it was “the future”. Like, when I thought of flying cars and cool computers that talked and all that futuristic jazz, it would start in 2010.
Dippin’ Dots machines started appearing long before that, of course. But they were always out of order. ALWAYS. They proclaimed themselves “The Ice Cream of the Future”, and I had to believe it, because there was no way to sample any in that present.
Until – have you guessed it? – 20-motherfucking-10. I am not even kidding. I started seeing them working in 2010, and I haven’t seen a single one out of order since then.
Because I was right: 2010 was THE FUTURE.
Back in the kitchen…
Snowflakes, I’m so fucking happy I can’t even tell you. The kitchen is not quite done yet, but it’s close enough that I can start using it again. To celebrate I made chicken and roasted potatoes for dinner last night. It was so GOOD!
Meanwhile in the kitchen…
Sorry I’ve been MIA Snowflakes, but we’ve been busy trying to get the kitchen finished. We’ve been living off fast food and frozen dinners, and we’re craving a good old fashioned home-cooked meal.
Guys, this is my kitchen. Painting is hard. Send the elves, please. pic.twitter.com/GHPEfr1KE9
— Catherine Winters (@WritingWinters) November 25, 2014
Fourth of July
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading
Hail Storm
Independence Day
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading