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September 9, 2015: And There it Goes

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Yesterday I had to sign something in front of a notary, and while I had no trouble with the month and day, I sat there with the pen in my hand trying to remember what year it is.

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        1. that's low enough humility that you could probably rub two sheets of newspaper together and start a fire.

  2. Moving the potty discussion to today's thread (why? I don't know... I just feel like it. Stop hassling me, man.)

    Aristotle will turn 4 in 11 days. I cannot say she is fully potty trained. However, she has had legitimate medical issues causing her potty training hiccups. Trying to figure those out has been an immense headache. As has the fact that we refuse to put her in diapers, because that sends the wrong message. As of a few weeks ago, we had a successful urinalysis test that ruled out the most concerning issues, but identified a real problem... basically, her bladder and her sphincter were working against each other, making it hard for her to figure out the right muscles to use. Peeing always seemed like she was taking the effort of pooping, and sometimes when trying to poop she would basically just seem to sit there, with no effort. It was maddening. But we have her on some medicine now (Basically it's the same stuff that keeps old guys from having to pee every hour.). Results are mixed, so far, but mixed results are better than none...

    1. Feeling kind of spoiled...Kernel turned four two weeks ago and has been potty trained for at least a year and a half. Can't recall her ever wetting the bed but has had a couple of accidents at school over the past two years. Biggest complaint is the inefficacy of her wiping process. She's always in such a hurry to get back to whatever she was doing that she does a half-assed job.

      1. Half-assed? I see what you did there.

        What you describe matches pretty much perfectly with what we had with Aquinas, minus the accidents at school, plus a rare bed wetting.

    2. My daughter had no such medical issues.

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          1. GRZ wasn't the fastest at potty training, but she was completely accident free by 3.5. OGZ basically trained herself just before she was 2, didn't have any accidents for a week, then completely reverted. We actually started potty training around 3, and we still have very mixed success. She has weeks where she basically doesn't have any accidents, and then she has weeks with two or three (or more) wet undies a day. It certainly seems like she doesn't particularly care , which makes it all the more frustrating.

            1. My third kid trained herself at two and didn't revert. It was completely remarkable. We pushed too soon on our first and I think that backfired. The second child would vindictively pee her pants while staring at my wife, but wouldn't have an accident anywhere else. Those two are still butting heads to this day. With the fourth, she just turned four. She has an accident every once in a while, but I would be shocked if she had an accident at preschool. We'll see.

              Basically, medical issues aside, I would just throw up my hands and do the laundry. They will figure it out.

              1. Throw your hands up and do laundry is about where we're at with the older boy. He's 4, and generally has at least one accident at school each day, and frequently 2. He just doesn't go unless someone tells him. I think he just gets distracted, or doesn't want stop what he's doing, so he just pees. He always makes it to the toilet for poop (thankfully....) but seems completely content to just wet himself, and then sit in wet clothes for hours unless someone notices and makes him change. We've had a bunch of conversations with him about it, but it doesn't seem to change anything.

                Big contrast for kid number 2 (hehe, number 2....). The little one is about 20 months now, and often makes it through the whole day at school without an accident. It's a bit frustrating for the older one to have accidents almost every day, while the little one is dry. But, oh well, start up the laundry.

                1. I would say find a reward that you're older boy really likes that he can have if he goes the whole day at school without an accident. Even better is if the same reward works for both. It might help older child to see younger child being rewarded while he does not.

                2. What worked best for us with the pee training was to have the boys walk around without any anything on the bottom half for several hours at a time to get them used to going in the toilet. We would block them off from walking in carpeted areas, just on tile, so that helped. But I don't remember too many accidents this way. They get so used to going into a diaper, pull-up or underwear, that it becomes no big deal, but it's completely different when they are exposed.

    1. I watched it. It was... uneven. I thought his Oreo bit was funny, but the Jeb! interview felt choppy and that's because it was heavily edited. I hear that the show was taped over two hours and shoe-horned into 1:06, so there were a lot of obvious cuts and that's what made it feel choppy. I think he'll hit his stride, but he's gotta get used to the time frame and stay within it.

      1. I'm certainly less interested in the interviews, so maybe I'll try to find the first half. Thanks.

        1. Highly edited. I think the whole interview is online. I did like the line about Vito Corleone being an anti-hero.

    2. I watched through the first commercial break and thought it had all the silliness of the Report without the wink wink ignorant host to hold it together.

    1. Tigers, Rockies, and Twins as the only teams with 2 players on the 1st team. Not sure that really means anything, but it's nice to think of the organization as still having some depth when they've graduated several of their top prospects this year. Two is depth, right?

    3. #3 is driving me crazy. That film style suggests that it's like a flashback scene or some other similar such cut, or from a movie trying to recreate the feel of a particular era (ala Grindhouse, or something along those lines). But none of the ones I've tried has worked so far. I think I probably haven't seen whatever movie it is.

        2. It has been a long time since I've seen that one. I might have gotten there eventually, but... I might not have. Well done.

          1. Your "recreate the feel of a particular era" is what got me going in the right direction. I think it was one of those weird things that was sort of stuck in my memory bank, it just needed a little poking to get it out of there.

  8. Same OF alignment tonight, however Vargas is at first and Mauer is DHing. Sano and Hunter both on the bench, although Sano was healthy enough to take grounders at third base.

    1. Have the Twins said whether Sano is not playing because of the hamstring or if it's a manager's decision?

      2. From Phil Miller:

        The Twins are without Miguel Sano again tonight, because Molitor decided that with an off day coming Thursday, he can give the rookie’s hamstring three straight days of rest in hopes there is significant improvement. Sano did take a few ground balls at third base before Hughes’ session, but only to move around a little. He’s not likely to play the field anytime soon.

        1. Good. Not "good" in the sense of it being good that his hamstring is still bothering him, but "good" in the sense of it being good that they're not getting overly worried about his strikeouts.

  9. NBBW calls from her car on the way to the airport, saying the bottle of water she pulled from the fridge this morning was not cold.

    Not a cooling expert, I called Mike's appliance (who is in frantic mode with the high temps here in H'istan, but making hay while the sun shines (92F), so to speak).

    I could tell that the freezer was freezing fine, but the lower fridge area was not as cold as it should be. I'm thinking lower fan failure, or such-at.

    Finally, at 6:30PM, Mike wheels in (after I have been waiting all day at the house) and points out that the gasket on the lower part of the door was shot (my untrained eye didn't see this) and that I could get replacement gasketry from Home Depot (he pronounced it differently than I), but the fridge was working OK (albeit overtime). He added that a new fridge would easily pay for itself with the Energy-Star savings, etc. as opposed to my 1960's HotPoint model.

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