That's pretty great. (and future proof that this was a good rule change.)
I've watched the wire through 3-4 times, and it just keeps getting better. I recently went back to the sopranos and found that the show really doesn't hold up well over time. I think that the wire operates as a time capsule, in a way, because the producers created a painstakingly 'real' Baltimore.
I just heard they are taking the HBO shows off Amazon Prime soon.
I was going to respond to you, but I figured it was time for a movie post.
Interesting. What was it about The Sopranos that didn't work this time around?
Eric Thames has 11 HRs this season, 8 of them have been against Reds pitching. This is Jim Thomes/Rick Reed territory.
If you're interested in some day baseball, Chattanooga hosts Tennessee at 10:15 (Central) this morning and Rochester hosts Gwinnett at 12:30 (Central) this afternoon.
It's fun watching a Twins highlight on the Spanish feed and hearing "profundo" used to describe a hit (Sano's HR)
I love that in a HR call
ALLLLLLLLLL PROFUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNDOOOOOOOOO SI SI SI SI SI
...and I heard a disturbing sound.
TLO is a noisy sleeper. This keeps the PR up all night. She refuses to sleep in a different room as she feels she needs to be right there. Today I am tired.
We tried keeping the Poissonnier in our room for one night. I'm a very heavy sleeper, but everyone else did not enjoy that arrangement. We have a pretty good baby monitor, fortunately.
Our kids have never slept in our bed. We made a conscious effort to move Kernel from her bassinet in our room into her crib in her own room at about 3 months. It wasn't easy, but was well worth it. Bedtime then was a nightmare, but once asleep, she mostly stayed asleep.
but became/becomes a crutch for my wife (of course, the monitor is on my side of the bed, and my relatively light-sleeper status and ability to respond from a dead sleep - to changed diapers - back to bed makes this the most reasonable but least desirable - to me - set-up).
Once we transitioned to a toddler bed, we had trouble with her staying in bed at bed time, but that has subsided, and now we can't get her out of bed in the mornings (M-F ... Sat & Sun, not so much).
The opposite is true for Niblet. Getting him to sleep was (and is) amazingly easy. He slept through the night early on until a bout of RSV and then teething ruined everything. He woke up every hour or two. Took him about 18 months to really sleep through the night again. Still, so long as we've done the "potty-brush teeth-lotion-diaper-pajamas-read books-sing" routine, he'll tell us that he's ready to go to bed.
Now, we're potty training and he sleeps in diapers (nap and night time). Although he hasn't had too many daytime accidents and is going #1 & #2 without prompting (most of the time), it seems to impact his sleep and he's been waking up a lot at night. Usually, he just needs soothing - which he could do for himself, but doesn't. He just lays there and whimpers, then cries, then screams if we don't come help out. He has a sippy cup with water, access to his blankie, nookies and knows how to turn on his Lamby (white noise generator), but would rather 'demand' that we come help him. We transitioned to a toddler bed and he could even get out and come to us if he wants, but he has us (i.e., me) trained.
Baby Monitor with lights is essential. Keeps you from getting up when you hear phantom noises.
The Boy slept in a bassinet at the foot of our bed for about 12 years. Ok, a few weeks.
excuses: (1) we spent a terrible couple of days back at the hospital soon after he was born (a few weeks early) because of jaundice due to high bilirubin. He spent a night under the lights. (2) the Mrs had had pre-term labor with him and was on bedrest for 6 weeks, so she was already waaaaaaay on edge. (3) Dude had a serious barfing issue, and we had to keep a wedge under his top third to protect against him choking on his on puke.
somehow, he turned out ok.
These days the American Pediatric Society or somesuch just upped their recommendation from six months to twelve months of newborns sleeping in the same room as their parents, on the basis of reduced SIDS. I'm pretty skeptical about their statistics on this (hence my daughter moved from our room at four months), but for the most part, the first four months weren't that bad, given that she was a pretty good sleeper and we are relatively heavy sleepers. If you can tolerate the noise of the tiny little being sleeping away, I think the main drawback to waiting longer to move them to their own room is that you might get more resistance to this idea the older they are.
Not sure I understand this. When kids die of SIDS do they give some verbal warning that allows parents in the same room to check on them faster? Or does being in a separate room make them want to die? Or is this just a recommendation based on a flimsy correlation?
It's just a statistical thing, there is no posited mechanism for prevention as far as I know. Which is why I don't put much in it.
From what I've read, the posited mechanisms to reduce SIDS are no blankets and pillows in the crib.
Our first was a noisy sleeper too. Drove me crazy because I couldn't sleep when he was making noises and I couldn't sleep when he wasn't because that was even more frightening.
You'll get to a better spot eventually. And then other things will make you tired, like multiple kids crawling into your bed with you every night.
I'm also just going to drop the "you do you" thing here, since I think we'd probably all agree with it. Meaning: we'll all offer all sorts of advice, but we all know there isn't a "right" answer except whatever works for your family.
like multiple kids crawling into your bed with you every night.
I live this. Of course, we just start with them there and then I move them once they've fallen asleep. Fortunately, moving to a different spot than where they fell asleep rarely results in them waking up in the middle of the night. Now, waking up before 7:00 is another matter...
We had the same problem with Runner daughter. We finally put her in the adjacent room, and suddenly everyone's sleeping improved. You need to lobby that, dude.
And with video monitors now, it's possible to spy on them without risking waking them up from creaks in the floor.
This.
Yup. Particularly those with infrared/night vision capabilities. We keep a very small light on in the Poissonnier's room, but that's it.
Yeah, we really like ours. Though it definitely gets a Paranormal Activity vibe at times when he's sitting there awake, not making a sound, staring directly at the camera.
The glowing, blinking eyes looking, watching you.
I should get one of these for my bird feeders, see what times the Flying Squirrels come.
I feel compelled to add that we've used audio-only monitors and it hasn't been an issue. I thought this was a totally crazy idea when she was born, but for the most part I can actually tell now by her different cries if she's just tired (sort of a long-period tremolo for her, if that makes sense) or mad about something (diaper, food.) So a lot of the time, if we just wait a couple minutes when she's doing her tired cry at the end/in between sleep cycles, she just puts herself back to bed. I like that it was cheaper and gave me one less thing to be distracted by.
Whoa! On a Saturday night as well.
Guided by Voices and Soul Asylum at the Hilde Performance Center in Plymouth on August 19. Hope PBR is allowed on the grounds.— Erik Thompson (@eriktmpls) April 26, 2017
I would have thought your head would have exploded. (if the replacements were on the bill there'd been brains all over the walls...)
Lots of layoffs at ESPN. The only baseball guys I've noticed so far are Jayson Stark and Jim Bowden. Plus, there's an indication that Karl Ravech will have his role reduced. Don't know what that means for Baseball Tonight.
Speaking of ESPN, I was behind this lady in a tight, red dress in the checkout line at the Beer Cave tonite. After too much small talk with the Beer Cave Guy, she finally leaves.
BeerCaveGuy: That was Elle Duncan.
Me: Who?
BCG: Elle Duncan, ESPN.
Me: Zatso?
BCG: I think she looks better on T. V. than in person.
Driving into work this morning, I heard that Jayson Stark was going to be on Mackey & Judd today. That may have been... awkward.
"Quillayute Airport near the town of Forks along (Washington's) northwestern Pacific coast has received 116.1 inches of rain since Oct. 1."
It's been a wet winter.
so, I had an MRI on my dodgy ankle a week and a half ago, on a saturday. They told me results would be in on the following monday. Crickets for a week. I send messages through the health care group's patient portal. I get back a null message. I send another message, finally get back an "oops, sorry," but no actual information from my primary care dude, who ordered the MRI. I call the podiatrist they had referred me to, and he gets back to me pretty quickly. Says results are sort of inconclusive (possible degeneration in my achilles tendon, which sounds weird, since this all came on very suddenly and has been given me FREQUENT spasms in my ankle). I get a call back from his office saying "let's schedule that follow-up with the podiatrist." Umm, I just talked to him yesterday, and we were gonna get me in to neurology for nerve induction study first so that the podiatrist could actually know something. "Ohhh. Let me talk to the doctor and get back to you." They get back to me a few hours later. "Neurology is scheduling INTO AUGUST. Should I put you on the list? And I have a spot tomorrow to see the podiatrist." "WTF" (said very politely). The WHOLE POINT of the neurology appt was to give the podiatrist useful information to help me.
Jiminy effing christmas. I have an acute issue that makes it hard to walk. I need a nerve induction study. I have to wait FOUR MONTHS to see someone to do a simple diagnostic so that I can have an acute issue taken care of? "Well, we could try to find someone out of network, but your insurance will probably reject it because we have that in-network." Ummm, no you fucking don't if I have to wait four months.
I hate American healthcare. And I have pretty good insurance.
Yeah, the system is awful. It's especially bad if you are trying to coordinate care between different providers, so you are in for a real treat.
I'm not sure how flexible your work schedule is, but you could consider trying to sweet talk them into putting you on some kind of standby-ish list where they call you if they happen to get an opening. A lot of people no-show without warning, but sometimes people do cancel last minute.
I'm still not done fighting my insurance company and the doctor's office for refunds of over payment. On the date of the procedure I was expected to hand them a grand to cover my deductible, and I did that without (audible) complaint. When I discover they've over charged me I ask for a refund and the doctors office tells me it'll take 5 business weeks to cut me a check. (Table flipping emoji). I lose my mind because the billing department has but one supervisor and they only cut checks one day a week. Fast forward to 8 weeks after the initial phone conversation and I call to check the status of my refund. Supervisor is out of the office, can I call back Monday? Yeah, yeah I can. Monday's phone call includes a lengthy hold that produces a totes sorry, but the check is on the supervisor's desk, and should get signed and dropped in the mail on wednesday response. Also, can you call back on wednesday to ensure that your check got signed? Me: WTF are you guys doing? How am I supposed to trust the doctor's competence if his billing department is staffed with such idiots?
I just want to chime in and agree. The system is turrible.
I think we can all agree that the Airing of Grievances is an ongoing process, not a once-per-year event.
But did you wake up for this?
That's pretty great. (and future proof that this was a good rule change.)
I've watched the wire through 3-4 times, and it just keeps getting better. I recently went back to the sopranos and found that the show really doesn't hold up well over time. I think that the wire operates as a time capsule, in a way, because the producers created a painstakingly 'real' Baltimore.
I just heard they are taking the HBO shows off Amazon Prime soon.
Phew. Maybe not?
I was going to respond to you, but I figured it was time for a movie post.
Interesting. What was it about The Sopranos that didn't work this time around?
Eric Thames has 11 HRs this season, 8 of them have been against Reds pitching. This is Jim Thomes/Rick Reed territory.
If you're interested in some day baseball, Chattanooga hosts Tennessee at 10:15 (Central) this morning and Rochester hosts Gwinnett at 12:30 (Central) this afternoon.
It's fun watching a Twins highlight on the Spanish feed and hearing "profundo" used to describe a hit (Sano's HR)
I love that in a HR call
ALLLLLLLLLL PROFUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNDOOOOOOOOO SI SI SI SI SI
...and I heard a disturbing sound.
TLO is a noisy sleeper. This keeps the PR up all night. She refuses to sleep in a different room as she feels she needs to be right there. Today I am tired.
We tried keeping the Poissonnier in our room for one night. I'm a very heavy sleeper, but everyone else did not enjoy that arrangement. We have a pretty good baby monitor, fortunately.
Our kids have never slept in our bed. We made a conscious effort to move Kernel from her bassinet in our room into her crib in her own room at about 3 months. It wasn't easy, but was well worth it. Bedtime then was a nightmare, but once asleep, she mostly stayed asleep.
Once we transitioned to a toddler bed, we had trouble with her staying in bed at bed time, but that has subsided, and now we can't get her out of bed in the mornings (M-F ... Sat & Sun, not so much).
The opposite is true for Niblet. Getting him to sleep was (and is) amazingly easy. He slept through the night early on until a bout of RSV and then teething ruined everything. He woke up every hour or two. Took him about 18 months to really sleep through the night again. Still, so long as we've done the "potty-brush teeth-lotion-diaper-pajamas-read books-sing" routine, he'll tell us that he's ready to go to bed.
Now, we're potty training and he sleeps in diapers (nap and night time). Although he hasn't had too many daytime accidents and is going #1 & #2 without prompting (most of the time), it seems to impact his sleep and he's been waking up a lot at night. Usually, he just needs soothing - which he could do for himself, but doesn't. He just lays there and whimpers, then cries, then screams if we don't come help out. He has a sippy cup with water, access to his blankie, nookies and knows how to turn on his Lamby (white noise generator), but would rather 'demand' that we come help him. We transitioned to a toddler bed and he could even get out and come to us if he wants, but he has us (i.e., me) trained.
Baby Monitor with lights is essential. Keeps you from getting up when you hear phantom noises.
The Boy slept in a bassinet at the foot of our bed for about 12 years. Ok, a few weeks.
excuses: (1) we spent a terrible couple of days back at the hospital soon after he was born (a few weeks early) because of jaundice due to high bilirubin. He spent a night under the lights. (2) the Mrs had had pre-term labor with him and was on bedrest for 6 weeks, so she was already waaaaaaay on edge. (3) Dude had a serious barfing issue, and we had to keep a wedge under his top third to protect against him choking on his on puke.
somehow, he turned out ok.
These days the American Pediatric Society or somesuch just upped their recommendation from six months to twelve months of newborns sleeping in the same room as their parents, on the basis of reduced SIDS. I'm pretty skeptical about their statistics on this (hence my daughter moved from our room at four months), but for the most part, the first four months weren't that bad, given that she was a pretty good sleeper and we are relatively heavy sleepers. If you can tolerate the noise of the tiny little being sleeping away, I think the main drawback to waiting longer to move them to their own room is that you might get more resistance to this idea the older they are.
Not sure I understand this. When kids die of SIDS do they give some verbal warning that allows parents in the same room to check on them faster? Or does being in a separate room make them want to die? Or is this just a recommendation based on a flimsy correlation?
It's just a statistical thing, there is no posited mechanism for prevention as far as I know. Which is why I don't put much in it.
From what I've read, the posited mechanisms to reduce SIDS are no blankets and pillows in the crib.
Our first was a noisy sleeper too. Drove me crazy because I couldn't sleep when he was making noises and I couldn't sleep when he wasn't because that was even more frightening.
You'll get to a better spot eventually. And then other things will make you tired, like multiple kids crawling into your bed with you every night.
I'm also just going to drop the "you do you" thing here, since I think we'd probably all agree with it. Meaning: we'll all offer all sorts of advice, but we all know there isn't a "right" answer except whatever works for your family.
like multiple kids crawling into your bed with you every night.
I live this. Of course, we just start with them there and then I move them once they've fallen asleep. Fortunately, moving to a different spot than where they fell asleep rarely results in them waking up in the middle of the night. Now, waking up before 7:00 is another matter...
We had the same problem with Runner daughter. We finally put her in the adjacent room, and suddenly everyone's sleeping improved. You need to lobby that, dude.
And with video monitors now, it's possible to spy on them without risking waking them up from creaks in the floor.
This.
Yup. Particularly those with infrared/night vision capabilities. We keep a very small light on in the Poissonnier's room, but that's it.
Yeah, we really like ours. Though it definitely gets a Paranormal Activity vibe at times when he's sitting there awake, not making a sound, staring directly at the camera.
The glowing, blinking eyes looking, watching you.
I should get one of these for my bird feeders, see what times the Flying Squirrels come.
I feel compelled to add that we've used audio-only monitors and it hasn't been an issue. I thought this was a totally crazy idea when she was born, but for the most part I can actually tell now by her different cries if she's just tired (sort of a long-period tremolo for her, if that makes sense) or mad about something (diaper, food.) So a lot of the time, if we just wait a couple minutes when she's doing her tired cry at the end/in between sleep cycles, she just puts herself back to bed. I like that it was cheaper and gave me one less thing to be distracted by.
Whoa! On a Saturday night as well.
I would have thought your head would have exploded. (if the replacements were on the bill there'd been brains all over the walls...)
Sano wants to be like Cabrera.
I'd be willing to accept that.
Lots of layoffs at ESPN. The only baseball guys I've noticed so far are Jayson Stark and Jim Bowden. Plus, there's an indication that Karl Ravech will have his role reduced. Don't know what that means for Baseball Tonight.
Speaking of ESPN, I was behind this lady in a tight, red dress in the checkout line at the Beer Cave tonite. After too much small talk with the Beer Cave Guy, she finally leaves.
BeerCaveGuy: That was Elle Duncan.
Me: Who?
BCG: Elle Duncan, ESPN.
Me: Zatso?
BCG: I think she looks better on T. V. than in person.
Driving into work this morning, I heard that Jayson Stark was going to be on Mackey & Judd today. That may have been... awkward.
"Quillayute Airport near the town of Forks along (Washington's) northwestern Pacific coast has received 116.1 inches of rain since Oct. 1."
It's been a wet winter.
so, I had an MRI on my dodgy ankle a week and a half ago, on a saturday. They told me results would be in on the following monday. Crickets for a week. I send messages through the health care group's patient portal. I get back a null message. I send another message, finally get back an "oops, sorry," but no actual information from my primary care dude, who ordered the MRI. I call the podiatrist they had referred me to, and he gets back to me pretty quickly. Says results are sort of inconclusive (possible degeneration in my achilles tendon, which sounds weird, since this all came on very suddenly and has been given me FREQUENT spasms in my ankle). I get a call back from his office saying "let's schedule that follow-up with the podiatrist." Umm, I just talked to him yesterday, and we were gonna get me in to neurology for nerve induction study first so that the podiatrist could actually know something. "Ohhh. Let me talk to the doctor and get back to you." They get back to me a few hours later. "Neurology is scheduling INTO AUGUST. Should I put you on the list? And I have a spot tomorrow to see the podiatrist." "WTF" (said very politely). The WHOLE POINT of the neurology appt was to give the podiatrist useful information to help me.
Jiminy effing christmas. I have an acute issue that makes it hard to walk. I need a nerve induction study. I have to wait FOUR MONTHS to see someone to do a simple diagnostic so that I can have an acute issue taken care of? "Well, we could try to find someone out of network, but your insurance will probably reject it because we have that in-network." Ummm, no you fucking don't if I have to wait four months.
I hate American healthcare. And I have pretty good insurance.
Yeah, the system is awful. It's especially bad if you are trying to coordinate care between different providers, so you are in for a real treat.
I'm not sure how flexible your work schedule is, but you could consider trying to sweet talk them into putting you on some kind of standby-ish list where they call you if they happen to get an opening. A lot of people no-show without warning, but sometimes people do cancel last minute.
I'm still not done fighting my insurance company and the doctor's office for refunds of over payment. On the date of the procedure I was expected to hand them a grand to cover my deductible, and I did that without (audible) complaint. When I discover they've over charged me I ask for a refund and the doctors office tells me it'll take 5 business weeks to cut me a check. (Table flipping emoji). I lose my mind because the billing department has but one supervisor and they only cut checks one day a week. Fast forward to 8 weeks after the initial phone conversation and I call to check the status of my refund. Supervisor is out of the office, can I call back Monday? Yeah, yeah I can. Monday's phone call includes a lengthy hold that produces a totes sorry, but the check is on the supervisor's desk, and should get signed and dropped in the mail on wednesday response. Also, can you call back on wednesday to ensure that your check got signed? Me: WTF are you guys doing? How am I supposed to trust the doctor's competence if his billing department is staffed with such idiots?
I just want to chime in and agree. The system is turrible.
I think we can all agree that the Airing of Grievances is an ongoing process, not a once-per-year event.