I don’t know, my wife taught high school for 15 years in what would be considered the rough parts of town and never had any problems. She always treated her kids like people and understood that their behaviors were coming from unmet needs - be it poverty, hunger, lack of sleep, family issues, peer conflicts, etc...…

Ah, but think about it - Establishment Republicans can’t stand Trump, but they’re incredibly happy to ride in on his coattails. I imagine 6 months in they’ll start the impeachment process. This will give Pence the presidency and Ryan the V.P. position. If they haven’t thought of this scenario they’re stupid. It’s what…

What’s her stance on pillow forts, naps, and Legos? Because that’s what my son and I did today. Not adulting. 

I’m noticing gym stagation in general. I live in Southern California and the weather is fine but I’ve held a few gyms for over a week now (with average 2300 characters) and last weekend we had 11 gyms occupied for over 48 hours. So I think interest is dying down although I did witness a Snorlax stampede for the the…

Ah, just as my son and I were weaning off the game my wife goes and gets hooked. This isn’t going to help.

Does this have Frontier Defense “horde mode”? That was fun.

This is a good playlist. Props for digging deep with Bel Canto and Black Tape for a Blue Girl.

Getting the band back together for Horde 3.0 - my friend list is comprised of Horde players from all the way back to GOW2, and every few years we come together when a new game comes out and play for a few months. Stocked up on cold brew coffee and bourbon (not together, obviously). 

I found a planet that has caves like swiss cheese and inside are vortex cube clustered in patches of 8 to 10. Oddly, there are trading posts everywhere as well. Originally was going to mine all these cubes but then started finding all the caves look the same and I’d walk up to a patch and they’d vanish (I assumed…

I read this thinking Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake trilogy would be good, and then thought, “oh, the Southern Trilogy would be cool, but I’m the only one thinking that.” Seems I was wrong ;-)

My son hates his name, it’s his birthfather’s name but when we adopted him at three, we decided not to change it. We gave him his middle name, which he wants to go by these days, but everyone knows him by his first name. We call him his middle name at home per his request. He recently read “Little Thunder Jr.” (great…

Son just saw it with his grandmother and had her call me after the movie to tell me it was the best movie he ever saw and can we go see it again tonight? (We’ll go Friday). Never heard of it until this morning but saw it was by Laika. Sold.

I picked one up last week. Love it. Great console. And placed next to my Xbox One it looks slim to me ;-)

I, for one, love the meditative, lonely, contemplative feel of this game. Multiplayer is not needed for this one.

I’m just a few days with this game but I use D.Va pretty much exclusively. I rarely die and more often than not get the POtG with her ult multikill. So, I’m new to the game, suck at shooters, but 8 out of 10 times have ranked up the most kills + objective points. Either Overwatch is my game, or she’s overpowered.*

Comic Con had “Learn to Play D&D” sessions pretty much every day, all day. It has been 20 or so years since I played so was interested to see how the new rulesets translated - loved it. Now I need to find a group to play with on a regular basis. Or try Roll20

Keep only the strongest Pokemon. Is this correct? It was explained to me the curve was the thing to look at. Say, I have two Rattatas - one is CP 115 and the curve is all filled in meaning I cannot upgrade it any further. The second Rattata is CP 70 but the curve is only 1/3rd filled in. The second Rattata has the…

Son had me download it while we were on vacation and we walked around Squaw Valley catching Pokemon. We had a blast. I came back to work and for giggles turned it on as I walked into my office. Said there was a Pokestop, right at my office building - a sidewalk compass. Now, I’ve worked in the same building for the…

Finally replaced a dead battery on my old Nintendo DS so my son started The Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap. It’s his first Zelda game. I’ll be stalling finishing the end of Blood and Wine. I might try The Division now there is a new update. Any better?

I know the zoo named a tiger Conrad after him, so it makes sense that’s where the Debbie came from. He once joked “I have an edifice complex. I like to see my name on buildings.”