<p>I don’t wish I knew how to drive a stick but I wish H had learned! When we rented a car in Germany a couple of summers ago, we had to pay a fortune for an automatic.</p>
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<p>Remember the book titled “Let’s Talk LISP”? lol. BTW I took Pascal too, and liked it. Also learned some ADA (whatever happpened to that?). When I hear that kids are learning some language nobody has ever heard of, I think back to those (and other) languages.</p>
<p>DD will take C++ this summer, her 1st programming class. I’m hopeful she’ll like it a lot.</p>
<p>kmccrindle, your son’s issues w/driving sound like my D’s - if it was kinder and gentler around here, she’d be more willing to learn given that she’d have less need for split-second reactions. I more or less insisted that she learn (again) this summer, since we hope to make a lengthy road trip next winter and she should help out w/driving. But I’m not looking forward to sitting in the passenger seat w/her!</p>
<p>Good Morning! Thanks for all the laughs! I bet we’d all be friends in the psychiatric ward! Thank heavens we get our therapy here!
At this point it looks like D2 will stick with living at the Transfer House. Apparently her friend is thinking about transferring AGAIN! Can hardly wait to hear this story.</p>
<p>Off to get my hair cut!</p>
<p>Ooh. Total sympathy for those in the “teaching to drive” phase. I’d rather do labor and delivery over and over rather than do that again. But we all do survive. It is SO hair-raising. My kids hated that I would “hiss” sometimes (I thought it was better than screaming, really!). And when you are in the passenger seat that angle makes everything look much closer somehow? Anyway, my mantra was “thousands of people learn to drive each year, most people do not want to hit another car and will avoid this driver, youthful reflexes are better than mine…” </p>
<p>And when I need to console myself about decreasing eyesight, bone density, increasing girth I can at least say, "well, I don’t have to teach anyone else to drive!) Hang in there all.</p>
<p>I actually did learn to drive a stick as that was all that was available when we lived on Crete. That car (a VW station wagon), which was passed down from airman to airman, had to be pushed or rolled down a hill to start. Luckily, Crete is a pretty hilly place or if we were at the beach (always at the bottom of a hill), one strong guy was enough to push it while I popped the clutch, so that never seemed like a huge problem. I think we paid $50 for the car and it was so rusted out on bottom you could see the road as you drove.</p>
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<p>I had one of those when we lived in Buffalo. Someone actually tried to steal it and my H stopped them. To this day I’m still wondering why. Finally sold it for around $250.</p>
<p>Relief here on many fronts. D all set to do some research work this summer. Met with prof this am. Has cheap place to stay with good friend instead of super expensive place that would end up costing money instead of enabling her to make money. </p>
<p>S starts work on Monday. Got all paperwork, etc. turned in this morning. Offered to cook dinner. He must want something.</p>
<p>Congrats Sabaray</p>
<p>I also wanted to point out that I have finally gotten the hang of quoting. That’s going to be a highlight for me for a long time. </p>
<p>It has occurred to me in going through the job search/research/apartment hunt how very little she knows/understands about business communications. I think I mentioned this before in the context of responding to emails. As in, when a professor emails you about times he could meet with you, you should respond. Promptly. If you email back to accept a job offer and ask questions and don’t receive a response, then perhaps calling is a good idea to be certain they received your response. Or maybe I’m just neurotic beyond belief. I just like everything to be tied up nice and neat and it doesn’t always happen that way.</p>
<p>Good news re: son , Sabaray!!</p>
<p>H and i also had one of those “no floor” cars. We used it to drive from NYC to VT. We called it our Fred Flintstone car and had to make sure no one in the back seat ever fell asleep. (Didn’t want them to lose a foot!)</p>
<p>Good to hear the great news sabaray!</p>
<p>My dad insisted we learn to change a tire and drive a stick. We did the same with the two older, but somehow the younger got away with not learning either! The ability to drive a stick has come in handy more times than I can count… and too! son’s PT job in the summer as a valet has allowed him to drive some pretty awesome cars since he’s the only one of the guys who knows how to drive them!</p>
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<p>We get baby lawyers who still don’t understand about business communications.<br>
Me to baby lawyer: “Why was this lien filed on our client’s property? You were supposed to have taken care of that six months ago.”
Baby lawyer: “I called them once six months ago but they never returned my call.”
Okay then, I’ll just tell our client that we don’t know how to follow up…</p>
<p>Congrats sabary on all fronts–S’s job, D’s apartment and job, and your ability to quote (I still have to look each time–just a brain freeze thing!)</p>
<p>I think you are absolutely doing your kids a favor in instructing them on proper business etiquette. S1 and I have been emailing back and forth just this morning on these types of topics (who to cc on emails), how to make his questions clear and easy to see in the email, how to do his homework before asking a question and then using email to confirm his assumptions, getting all of his questions together in one large email rather than multiple little ones to be respectful of people’s time, etc. I also recommend he pdf and keep important emails (archived emails are harder to find).</p>
<p>You know, Analyst, you should do seminars (if you don’t already). </p>
<p>And missypie, I love hearing about babylawyers. I was assigned to babysit one recently and it has led to some very interesting “learning opportunities”.</p>
<p>Sabaray, what a nice thing to say. I have done my share of managing and training over the years, both new grads and interns. Now, I am in semi-retired mode, working part-time for myself as a happy recluse, where I try to get out as little as possible. I just turned down a request to give a speech in L.A., much to my H’s disgust as he used to like to come on a lot of those trips. I have told him to feel free to get his own travel job. I’m done.</p>
<p>Amen on the “business communications.” D has an offer of an excellent paid internship/research position this summer, but it has required a lot of emailing and some phone calling. I feel like I’ve pushed as much as I can – but the idea of prompt response and follow up doesn’t seem to be an instinct she was born with (unless it’s a quick reply to a text from a friend …) …</p>
<p>Exactly, Zetesis! This summer D will have a paying job, a volunteer research job and a class. She also needed to find a place to live fairly quickly. Follow up, follow up, follow up!</p>
<p><em>Follow up</em> may as well be LISP (or a foreign language) as far as my son goes. Speaking of whom, called him last night and got a text back saying :not a time to talk. celebrating.</p>
<p>hmmph well I hope he was celebrating a good physics and Calc IV final and not just being finished for the year.</p>
<p>gotta go move the guitars and saddle out of his room - or maybe I’ll just leave them there…</p>
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