Jacen123

The lows here in west Texas are supposed to be in single digits for the next two days.

Yeah, but I’m surprised you have the means to try to kick me when I’m down.

19 hours ago, Hobbes said:

In case anyone was wondering....I have yet to get my shoes. 

They took the money and ran…away in them.

At least now we will know who the drunk guy she almost runs over is on the next Zoom

22 hours ago, Destiny Skywalker said:

Do you get paternity leave, paid or unpaid? How long?

It’s not official leave, per say, but we both have modified duties for the spring and don’t have to teach classes, just work with our grad students, work on our research, and various service obligations.  This term, we officially got nothing, but my wife finished designed her class to finish material early so the end was review and I just didn’t realize how mine numbingly difficult this would be.  I made one video lecture a few weeks ago and felt out of breath halfway through it and realized I could barely think.

overall, we are very fortunate.  The end of this term just messed with me horribly.  It’s mostly overseeing all sections of one course that has caused the worst of it.

I hate all the bullshit that comes with the end of the semester.  Even having other people helping cover my classes while I am at home with the baby isn’t helping too much.  I am beyond ready for this semester to end.  Thankfully, at least, finals start tomorrow.

I guess it would be more like Han234.

Thanks!  The first two weeks, especially, were very tough, but we pushed through them.  It didn’t help that we didn’t have everything we would need, in part because he got here two weeks before his due date, but also because there were some things we just didn’t expect to need until he was older.  It is nice. It to have to run out to Walmart or Target at least once per day anymore.

fortunately, my wife's parents have also been staying with us to help us out with a lot of things.  This would have been so much harder without them here. My parents came out, too, for a while, which was also good.

We celebrated our son being one month old today.

Side note: All mentions of him have been purposefully kept off Facebook.

On 11/16/2022 at 11:43 AM, Darth Krawlie said:

There’s a pun in there I’m not smart enough to figure out

Foiled again!

I just realized it is Thursday, as I haven’t been looking online at anything or watching at all.

I imagine the game had started, but I know nothing about any of it.  My pick is Atlanta, though.

I might not have time to make picks for the upcoming bit anyway. We’ll see, though. 

We completely forgot to get candy to give out this year because we didn’t do it the past two years due to the pandemic and we have had a lot going on recently, so it didn’t occur to us to buy any until we went out on our walk early in the evening. We made sure to turn out the lights anywhere near the front door. However, we still had someone ring our doorbell later in the evening.  We just completely ignored it, so I was initially worried we might get an egg or two thrown our way, but fortunately that didn’t happen.

We went for a brief walk around the neighborhood early in the evening and saw some young kids out trick or treating with their parents. One of our neighbors ors had a bunch of decorations and relatives or friends dressed up as vampires for people to take photos with.  It was a nice atmosphere, which was great to see.

It would have been even better if the church just down the street wasn’t blasting music with heavy bass for hours on end even before their trunk or treat event started, but clearly nothing can be done about that.  

Thursday, October 16th

New Orleans at Arizona: New Orleans

Sunday, October 23rd

Atlanta at Cincinnati: Cincinnati
Detroit at Dallas: Dallas
Indianapolis at Tennessee: Tennessee
Green Bay at Washington: Green Bay
Tampa Bay at Carolina: Tampa Bay
NY Giants at Jacksonville: Giants
Cleveland at Baltimore: Baltimore
NY Jets at Denver: Jets
Houston at Las Vegas: Las Vegas
Seattle at LA Chargers: Chargers
Kansas City at San Francisco: Kansas City
Pittsburgh at Miami: Miami

Monday, October 24th

Chicago at New England: New England

It was most definitely a butt fumble on my part

Thursday October 13
Washington at Chicago: Chicago

Sunday October 16
San Francisco at Atlanta: San Francisco
New England at Cleveland: New England
NY Jets at Green Bay: Green Bay
Jacksonville at Indianapolis: Indianapolis
Minnesota at Miami: Minnesota
Cincinnati at New Orleans: New Orleans
Baltimore at NY Giants: Baltimore
Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh: Tampa Bay
Carolina at LA Rams: Rams
Arizona at Seattle: Seattle
Buffalo at Kansas City: Kansas City
Dallas at Philadelphia: Philadelphia

Monday October 17
Denver at LA Chargers: Chargers

Sunday October 9
NY Giants at Green Bay: Didn't pick in time for
Pittsburgh at Buffalo: Buffalo
LA Chargers at Cleveland: Cleveland
Chicago at Minnesota: Minnesota
Detroit at NE: New England
Seattle at NO: New Orleans
Miami at NY Jets: Jets
Atlanta at Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay
Tennessee at Washington: Washington
Houston at Jacksonville: Jacksonville
San Fran at Carolina: San Francisco
Dallas at LA Rams: Rams
Philadelphia at Arizona: Arizona
Cincinnati at Baltimore: Baltimore

Monday October 10
Las Vegas at Kansas City: Kansas City

Denver

Thursday, September 29th

Miami at Cincinnati: Cincy (as above)

Sunday, October 2nd

Minnesota at New Orleans: Minnesota
Cleveland at Atlanta: Cleveland
Washington at Dallas: Dallas
Seattle at Detroit: Detroit
Tennessee at Indianapolis: Indianapolis
Chicago at NY Giants: Giants
Jacksonville at Philadelphia: Philadelphia
NY Jets at Pittsburgh: Jets
Buffalo at Baltimore: Baltimore
LA Chargers at Houston: Chargers
Arizona at Carolina: Carolina
New England at Green Bay: Green Bay
Denver at Las Vegas: Las Vegas
Kansas City at Tampa Bay: Kansas City

Monday, October 3rd

LA Rams at San Francisco: San Francisco

MCYou?

Cincinnati

You’ll do great!

Thursday, September 22
Pittsburgh at Cleveland: Cleveland

Sunday, September 25
Houston at Chicago: Chicago
Las Vegas at Tennessee: Las Vegas
Kansas City at Indianapolis: Kansas City
Buffalo at Miami: Buffalo
Detroit at Minnesota: Minnesota
Baltimore at New England: Baltimore
Cincinnati at NY Jets: Cincinnati
Philadelphia at Washington: Washington
New Orleans at Carolina: Carolina
Jacksonville at LA Chargers: Chargers
LA Rams at Arizona: Rams
Atlanta at Seattle: Seattle
Green Bay at Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay
San Francisco at Denver: San Francisco

Monday, September 26
Dallas at NY Giants: Giants