Family decided to go to Vegas for Christmas in our continuing tradition of saying to hell with Christmas. On a whim I decided to see if Pen and Teller were in town performing not really expecting it. They were and on Christmas Day so I bought tickets.

Maybe just maybe instead of makeing ADHD meds so difficult to fill we should punish the living shit out of the people who abuse them. I swear if I ever meat someone who does Im going to not react well. My family has to deal with all this bullshit and it sucks getting them filled.

Decided I need to stay away from information for a bit so I started watching Gundam Witch from Mercury. After the prologue I am super hooked. The sound design is beyond awesome.

Of course the administration of this craphole government is doing more to make my life more complicated and worse.

The utter ridiculousness of the modern student cannot be overstated. Gave open note assessment. Kid will not use notes and failed test. Given an opportunity to retake and told to use notes this time. Still does not get out notes and failed again. This is what teachers are dealing with.

Not sure what it says about me but I will always choose a female character if I have the option. My time is so limited at this stage that if the game doesn't have the option there is a good chance I wont even play it.

The essay was garbage and the grade was correctly given.

Animal holondass games. Endurance is oddly appropriate given the weather I just drove through to get home.

Played Hansa Tutonica again tonight. Still an awesome tabby but of school Euro. So much more game than so many modern ones. Tabby simple rules are the best.

One of the things I love about my new science curriculum this year. Its almost no technology. I tried to encorporate more tech the last few years because it was expected. It made everything worse. Worse turn in rates, worse engagement, worse everything.

Whenever I encounter someoen on or off line that says something about I didnt like school or school didnt work for me because I didnt get to do only what I wanted my opinion of them plumets. The point of school wasnt about you it was about society being better with educated people.

Looked at Arkwraight Anniversery Edition and the changes. This is falling into the same category that Tinners trail and Polis did. They rounded off corners so nope Ill keep the old version with actual character.

Welp been meaning to get Endurance for awhile and I love Persuasion so this was an easy yes. Check them out and order some truly unique games.

Finally played Lisboa for the first time last weekend. Out of all the Lacerda games its probably my second favorite at this stage under Vinos.

Test Retake -Student: Can you tell me exactly what I got wrong so I can fix only that. -Me: No you need to understand the answer thoroughly this is not a one little thing was wrong situation. -Student: This is unfair -translation;: Wait I have to know things?

One thing I am quikly coming to the conclusion to is that with more and more AI and the inability for young people to understand how to use that to help them rather than use it to be lazy and avoid work that computer based anything and multiday projects where they can work on it beyond.....

Watched this woman over the years do some awesome stuff. But Power Metal on a Hurdy Gurdy is a whole new level of awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SasP...

I guess that is a sign of how busy my life is. I just now realized people were posting about Essen. I wonder what things in America could be destracting me from enjoying things about the things I love.

One of the things I hate about education unions in my state is teachers can refuse to join but still get the same contract as the ones in the Union. They should have to do their own negotiations and deal with whatever they get.

I freaking give up. My life is never going to get better. The entire structure of the world is built around o make sure of it.

I may be self diagnosed but hells yeah. Also dont come at me that self diagnosis is invalid because that means you are not on the side of autism and you are full of crap.

Tylenol causes autism..........this is the world I live in now. People actually voted for this. This is why I cant take certain people seriously. If you think these people know what they are doing its amazing you remember to breath. *head desk*

You know my teacher training was pretty good about warning me how hard managing kids would be. It did not prepare me for how would crushing professional development usually is.

OK current top most awesome bands for me. Nightwish, Battle Beast, Unleash the Archers, Sabaton.

I am really starting to wonder if I can keep teaching.

I swear to freaking god I have found the best music in my life in the last year. Just by accident found Battle Beast this last weekend. It goes on permanent rotation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9peS...

I had this one built for awhile but a piece was broken to attach one of the guns. Managed to find a replacement part and fix the problem. Looks awesome now.

One thing that I have seen more of in the last three years. Parents taking their kids out of school to do on week long vacations. I seriously question your parenting priorities on this if you do it.

Maybe I'm in the wrong, but whenever I see a video of a content creator bitching about high school and how it didn't work for them and they had to do things they didn't want to, I just think of them as completely selfish. School is not about job skills it's about being a less dumb person.

So I have really turned towards Metal as a music genre the last few years. Mostly Power and Symphonic Metal though. I dont need the angry stuff I have enough angry stuff in my life. At this state I think I can say Unleash the Archers has topped Nightwish as my favorite band.

I made the mistake of looking up the freak out over the Cracker Barrell logo. Seriously humanity sinks to new level of stupidity every time I turn around.

OK Airbrush Gunpla journey continues. Bout myself a cheep high table to work from and a super bright adjustable lamp with a wide light surface. The desk and chair is nice for working. The light was a game changer though. Getting the parts looking good is so much easier.

Education Research shows that just talking at people is an awful way to teach and learn. Almost Every Professional Development for Educators Every: Proceeds to talk at you for hours.

If you like heavier rock or metal, check out Unleash the Archers. I am so glad I finally heard of this band because dam,n they are just so good. Plus, Brittany Slays is objectively more awesome than any female pop singer. youtu.be/FncsXDmWUEg?...

I am normally not a fan of doxing but someone needs to break into an ICE database and dox the crap out of these masked cowards. Then absolutely protest where they live and terrorize their families. In this case that would be Karma.

I just found this group last night and OMG I am blown away. Usually takes me a few listens to get used to a new metal band. Loved this group from the first song. youtu.be/gqUPGa15Oto?...

I once heard subsets of Power Metal described as Pirate Metal bands look like they are having such a great time. But Viking Metal bands are absolutely having a great time. This video is absolute proof of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRvI...

There are people that don't believe Tommy Johansson is one of the best musicians to every exist. Those people are wrong and negative and you don't need them in your life. 😀🤣 youtu.be/tAkG9P4rDbA?...

I just learned what a Bed Party is for college. This is right up there with gender reveille parties as the dumbest parties I have ever heard of. Ranks up there with one of my wife's relatives throwing an apartment shower for a college apartment.

Airbrushing attempt 2. Slightly better and more lessons were learned. Got some parts actually painted with ok results. Lesson 2 overthinning is much better than under thinning as I took 1.5 hours to clean out the air brush. Hope I didn't break it.

Do annual trainings for jobs make fly into near destructive rages? Is this an autism thing or do you all neurotypical experience this.

My cat will ignore all cat beds for this.

Well I decided to try airbrushing some Gunpla just as a new hobby to pick up on. Lessons are being learned. Not cheep lessons but lessons none the less. Mostly because of wasted paint and supplies.

This is awesome. historyfacts.com/world-histor...

This is how you handle a mistake. Please get this some traction as the article talking about it has spread and I think Devir is handling it right. Especially compared to some other board game companies.

So the new Codenames is at the top of the BGG Hotness list. hmmmmm I mean there is certainly traffic in communication going on. Still not sure that is what you want to be doing with it.

Been watching some stuff this summer. I self diagnosed autism about a year ago and the more I look at the more it fits. My child is clinically diagnosed. I don't get a clinical diagnosis because I don't really need supports that much and mental health services are strained in Iowa. I don't want to..

So the Iowa Government wants to end the public employee retirements fund known as IPERS. This is because they cant get to that money to play with because Iowa law keeps politicians out of it. So the proposal is any new public employees will not be allowed in.

Caught the GoFundMe and sent some money your way my dude. Hope it works out with everything. Though 11 years. I think I started around 10 episodes into the podcast. You seriously making me feel old 😁 @heavycardboard.bsky.social

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