Go Emmett! I'm excited for him!

He's needed this for a while.

In other news about my children, Matilda's able to begin her course selection starting today. So that's exciting too.

Forward movement on both children at the same time!

Go, Emmett, indeed. A great field with an abundance of opportunities to follow.

I mean..."My Mercedes doesn't adjust my seat before I get to the car" is kinda up there with my diamond shoes are too tight.

Well, yeah. But I deserve better! I'm all about the tech. I am looking forward to the road trip north in the new wheels. It drives like a dream. I have zero complaints about the 5 varieties of seat massages. It is far and away the fanciest thing I have ever owned, and quite a step up from the $75 used '64 Chevy that was my first car.

Go Emmett! Go course selection! If I won the lottery I’d go back to school and take all sorts of random courses.

Laura the lack of dog mode is a shame! Rivian does have dog mode—my friends got one and love that part of it for their dog. It’s totally something I would want in an electric car! The rest I can’t fathom but could see how I’d get used to having it and miss it if I didn’t anymore. What do you do if your phone dies or is broken or lost though, for the Tesla?

What do you do if your phone dies or is broken or lost though, for the Tesla?

You do get a key card like a credit card that will open and start the car. I use that for valet or whatever, or when the phone is dead. My condo requires us to leave a key in case they need to move the car, so they have one of my key cards.

Forward movement on both children at the same time!

Yes! Awesome!

If I won the lottery I’d go back to school and take all sorts of random courses.

Me too, wouldn't that be great? I have been toying with the idea of going back to school once I retire but I suspect tuition might be too expensive for that to be practical. The possibility is a ways off, still, so who really knows. Maybe one course a term or something, just whatever takes my fancy

Just to say hi, and that I'm still alive (now with hosting house #2 to give the family I was staying with a break), and that I still hate this shit. I wrote here a long paragraph on how much I hate this shit, but I apparently hate it so much that I lost all coherence mid writing and it became a long incoherent rant. So that's how things are.

Also, happy birthdays, and good news~ma all around. Love you all.

it became a long incoherent rant

I hope venting a long rant helped, regardless of its level of coherency.

I wouldn't mind going to lectures and learning new stuff, but I'm never writing papers or taking tests again. I still have nightmares about papers being overdue or failing to complete incompletes.

I hope venting a long rant helped, regardless of its level of coherency.

Actions, my friend. Actions are the only thing that truly helps, so checking in here helps.

Always helps on this side to see you checking in, Shir.

An arrangement has been made for my brother's granddaughter to move in with her paternal grandparents. That has to be a better situation than living in an adult community bored out of her mind. Of course, she moved in with her maternal grandparents because living with her parents was impossible; now she is moving again because the grandparents are proving to be just as difficult. I feel bad for my brother because he will be heartbroken. I don't know what or how much they have told him. I'll be over there to visit him in the hospital tomorrow.