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Jiggy-Z

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  1. There is hole like that out a Reimers Ranch over by the sex cave area. My kids go in there while they are fucking around waiting to climb. Makes me nervous every time. Opening is small, no way I can fit in there.
  2. As always, there is a 30 Rock scene for this.
  3. Ojo: I have a 16 yo boy with pretty severe ADD. He has been on medication for about 6 months and it works great and he is happy with his school. He is way behind his peers in the classroom due to his condition and some serious slacking on his part, but is an otherwise intelligent and fully functioning person who is on the right track. However, getting to this point has been years in the making starting when he was 5. Many interviews, psych evals, electrodes, testing, different schools, and lots of heartbreak along the way. Nonetheless, still a very rewarding parental experience with knowledge and acceptance of my son's true identity and personality. Now, I doubt your son's ultimate diagnosis is anything close to what my son's is, but some things are still going to apply from my experience. Public school: No matter what the law says and what school says, there is only so much that those guys can do with the resources they have. It is certainly worth checking out and trying, but they deal with certain things better than others and we did not have any success there. Home schooling: We tried this too, but it is hard to sustain and educational effort consistently and it lacks the interaction with peers and that seems like it would be a big deal for your son. Growing up: This helps as the child becomes better at expressing their frustrations and guides you as a helper as they develop communication skills and maturity. It is hard to imagine that with effort and a nurturing upbringing that issue will persist into adolescence or even adulthood to the point where it inhibits your goals for his happy life Diagnosis: We had a few wrong ones along the way by competent professionals. The most egregiously wrong one was a diagnosis of severely impaired gross motor skills. We tried some physical therapy after the diagnosis, but the exercises were so hard my wife and I could not even do them, so we ended that after only about 6 weeks. Long story short, shortly after that we noticed that he really liked to climb trees at school. We guessed it had something to do with avoiding contact with others and it otherwise engaged him. We were concerned since he had "severely impaired gross motor skills" and we didn't want him to hurt himself, so we got him into rock climbing in a gym with ropes, so at least he wouldn't fall. Well it turns out out he has exceptional gross motor skills and despite being a bit of a space cadet when it comes to putting in the time to read and solve routes due to his "condition" he made up for it with exceptional coordination and outside the box route solving and from the time he was 8 to now has been a competitive rock climber in all disciplines and ranked in the top 50 for his age group in the US and has also become a really good skateboarder. Another one was a completely wrong diagnosis of dyslexia. Turns out that he was so far behind in school, he didn't understand the questions at the time and could not express the issue to us. Learning issues yes, but no dyslexia. So moral of the story is don't put too much into any diagnosis right now. There will be more and you will find what will work best. BTW, The psych eval was very good and did get us the info we needed to really deal with the issues he was facing. He was older, I want to say about 10, so he was able to have a really good one on one with the Dr. that I don't think he could have handled when he was younger. Just don't expect answers all at once. Your on the right track.
  4. I was going to guess pay phones or pagers.
  5. What's up with the jet camo? Are they attacking a a Salt Life convention?
  6. China's reaction reminds me of this:
  7. Go with a comedian. Yakov Smirnoff is Ukrainian so cross him off.
  8. Defense Supplying of Lithuania for Make Benefit Glorous Nation of Ukraine.
  9. Yeah, Big Molotov never really was able to gain any traction.
  10. Strict smoking in designated areas only policy enforced.
  11. That should buff right out.
  12. ...and we all get stoned on drugs and beer.
  13. How many investigations is that worth?
  14. I'm sure he got a nice severance package. In Russia, golden parachute made of lead, maybe polonium.
  15. It's fog of war type of stuff. That is kind of how Jack Donaghy of 30 Rock fame ended up with a time share in Port Arthur.
  16. More like wee peat.
  17. Charlie should have just skipped half time like I did. 70's and 80's Up With People swore me off Superbowl half times forever.
  18. Pretty Good game. Two pretty bad calls. One on each. Some sloppy throws and drops by both teams in 4th. Not exactly vintage Superbowl clutch history making but some great players (Donald and (Kupp) getting after it. Would have liked to have seen ot. Sure beats the ho hum blowouts from the 80s and 90s. I hate the Rams, but they earned it.
  19. Kathy Geiss. Crazy Daughter of deceased GE CEO Don Geiss. She was also fond of unicorns and desk gnomes and engaged to Deven Banks, gay rival of Jack Donaghy.
  20. Not to be confused with the other great master of the same name.
  21. Kind of out of my area of expertise. Get a builder. Good to ask questions though. Hope some of this helped.
  22. Nothing on this in a coupe of weeks. You better not be slipping.
  23. What I usually see is the architect draws something up but with very little detail-more of a memory jog for the engineer. The structural engineer will detail the drains with the architectural drawing in mind, routing the system around any possible architectural obstructions etc. Either way that stuff is usually not left to the builder. Either the plumber or the concrete sub will do the drains. Pump and exit piping is the plumber. Keep in mind this is what is done in central Texas. Also, for residential here, concrete sub usually does the mass excavation. Electrical sub will route conduit etc. I don't do a whole lot of residential, but on commercial projects, these details will appear in Civil, Arch, Structural, and MEP drawings. Additionally each of the subs will submit shop drawings with their interpretations of the drawings for approval by the appropriate designer facilitated by the GC.
  24. Agreed. In fact, I have found that it is a source of confidence rather than anxiety. I don't weigh on the weekends (I weigh at my office), but often I come back and weigh on Monday and I have gained weight over the weekend probably due to factors other than actual fat gain but sometimes there is some discipline slippage. After a day or two that usually weight is gone with some additional weight loss to boot. It is just good to get some affirmation that even though you may have screwed up, all is not lost and that things were not as bad as you thought. Without doing the daily weigh in, you might let things slip a little more due to lack of confidence and start a downward spiral.
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