PEOPLE!

15 DAYS!!!

Please don’t make me lose that challenge, please, please, please…...puuuhhhlleeeezzzzeeee….

Are you new here? Are you shy to say hi? To post here even though I’m BEGGING????

Are you a seasoned Litmocrat, looking at this post and going ‘meh’.....???

What’s YOUR excuse for not posting?

I wanna know.

Come on people.

Iz easy…

:(

Uuummm. Ok. I’ll fess up. I keep thinking everybody else will do it. I guess not. I would hate for this challenge to fail, I find it hard to believe that we are all to busy to say “boo”.

Boo!!

AAAhhhh!!!

Well thanks for saying BOO TheresaJean.

I got scared, but at least I got happy.

Anyone else wanna scare me by proving me right???

How many challenges do I have to post on here for this to work?

Careful, I’ma gonna start calling names to come up to the blackboard…

And yes, I can do that.

heh.

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meh…

Oh har har Mr. Dave…

Still, one more post, and two with me just HAVING to reply to it.

Thanks!

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Ok, this might be interesting:
We are home-schooling our kids, but using a curriculum from K12/CAVA because Kim is worried that the kids might not learn the right stuff otherwise.  This is a conversation I had with our 9 year old:

[11:29:56 AM] Anna Scotese says: My whole unit is OPTIONAL!
[11:30:05 AM] Anna Scotese says: That rocks!
[11:30:49 AM] Dave Scotese says: lol
[11:30:51 AM] Anna Scotese says: So can we get through the first lesson now?
[11:31:13 AM] Anna Scotese says: Oh I’m not joking.
[11:31:17 AM] Dave Scotese says: You really shouldn’t have to do all that work.  Reading is enough.  You just have to be curious and smart, which you already are.
[11:31:28 AM] Dave Scotese says: Then you’ll WANT to do the kinds of things that you learn from.
[11:31:39 AM] Anna Scotese says: So should i just mark it off?
[11:32:14 AM] Dave Scotese says: My role is not to get you through a lesson.  I’m daddy, and that means I asnwer questions and help you accomplish things you want done, and I also ask you to do things for me and you do them if you can.
[11:32:20 AM] Dave Scotese says: That is all it takes for you to learn.
[11:32:30 AM] Dave Scotese says: We need to discuss it with mom.
[11:33:02 AM] Dave Scotese says: If you feel you understand it well enough to satisfy her then I guess you can, but I suspect that you’re usually wrong when you feel that way.  She’s very demanding.
[11:33:18 AM] Dave Scotese says: I will always ask what you learned.
[11:34:05 AM] Dave Scotese says: When the material says “MAYBE something (let’s call it X) happened, and that is why things are the way they are,” and I read that to Jenna, she things that X happened.  She doesn’t pay attention to the MAYBE.
[11:34:08 AM] Dave Scotese says: Do you?
[11:34:32 AM] Anna Scotese says: Not really
[11:34:39 AM] Dave Scotese says: But it’s not that bad - because she is 6 and knows that what she knows might be wrong - IF she learned it from a book or a school.
[11:34:40 AM] Dave Scotese says: BUT
[11:34:50 AM] Dave Scotese says: and this is a big BUTT kind of BUT…
[11:35:02 AM] Anna Scotese says: lol!
[11:35:09 AM] Dave Scotese says: If you try to do something and you need help and you get it and then you can do it, you have DEFNINTELY learned something.
[11:35:15 AM] Dave Scotese says: AND you KNOW it for sure.
[11:35:20 AM] Dave Scotese says: That is real learning.
[11:35:28 AM] Dave Scotese says: That is what Benjamin Farnklin did.
[11:36:00 AM] Dave Scotese says: He went to school for only about 3rd grade through half of 5th grade.
[11:36:06 AM] Dave Scotese says: Do you know who he was?
[11:36:31 AM] Anna Scotese says: Thats good because when i do History i dont pay attention to anything but the important parts

Dave, that’s an awesome moment in time. It’s a perfect window of truth, a glimpse into something too many of us have forgotten. Fortunately for me, I haven’t quite passed that stage yet, so I get to relive it often. Fortunately for so many others, you posted it here.

I love it.

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Ok.

K.

I know when I’m beat.

So far this month…

I lost a very important football game and, to add insult to injury, fell asleep half an hour in and didn’t even get to enjoy the good moments. Now Don has full bragging rights and I have to eat my cowboy hat - which I really do like.

I bragged about not getting sick when everyone else was, and now, 2 days before Christmas, I am getting the motherload of colds. Which means I probably won’t get to hold my godson on Christmas day, or even get to give him a kiss. Guess I’ll have to wait another six months before doing that because he lives so far.

I learned a very important lesson about selfishness vs selflefness and couldn’t handle it proprely. I went back to being selfless when I should have been selfish and once again my good intentions went down the drain. So I didn’t get what I wanted and on top of that gave something very valuable to someone who doesn’t deserve it and will probably use it against me.

AND….drumroll please…

It looks like I lost my challenge to Litmocrats everywhere. I now very much doubt we’ll get those 100 posts by Jan first. Woulda been a great New Years present. Yes, it meant a lot to me even though it seems very to be such a little, insignificant thing.

That said…

I am extremely proud of Litmocracy and its members. I am extremely grateful to be part of such an exceptional community. I am blown over by the talent out there, and by how much I learn from all of you every day.

I am transported at every new submission I read, I am excited at every new notification I get, I feel like I can be different yet belong. You guys rock, silent or otherwise, and you make my world that much better every day.

Happy Holidays everyone.

May your lives be merry, may your songs be filled with passion, may the ink in your pen never stop flowing. May you find solace in your inspiration, strenght in your moments of writer’s block and relief in knowing that everyone here feels your pain, joy and in-betweens.

May the New Year, or next year, or one year down the road, open your eyes to the endless possibilities that lay before you. My eyes just opened recently, and I wish to thank all of you, and a special thanks to Dave and Don, for giving me the tools to light my own way. Matches and candle or Duracell and flashlight, may you all find your way.

Iz a big world out there - and I intend to see as much of it as I can. Hope you do the same, and who knows…our paths may just cross out there somewhere. Hope there’s hot cocoa

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As the joker says, I’m a man of simple tastes, don’t forget dynamite and gasoline!

...or an icicle that magically supports an eternal flame?  Light generally comes from making things way hotter than they’re used to being.  Hmm.

I was coding today and found some code I figured was unnecessary.  If it is necessary, and I remove it, something will break.  Then I will know it was necessary and I can put it back with a comment to explain.  So I removed it.  Invite the pain, my friends.  Invite it, and welcome it, and dare it to hurt too much, and laugh when the benefit proves worth the suffering. And don’t forget the gas and the TNT.