NeuroTypical

When people don't follow directions and then complain that the recipe was terrible.

https://www.boredpanda.com/bad-recipe-substitutions-reviews-complaints/
This happens in the church too.
And with my patients…

Not tasteless, not offensive, not even a joke, but I wanted to share:
"Yesterday, someone was so wrong on the internet, that I caught a 5 day posting ban!"
- NT, to his wife this morning

The Berenstein Bears was a staple of my childhood, and my kids' as well.  Honest look at family life, dealt with real issues.  Before congress got involved and made GI Joe devote a portion of each episode to some stupid messaging directed at how kids shouldn't bully but should brush teeth or whatever.

It’s so late this year.
I love to celebrate it the Thursday before Easter but it’s supposed to be celebrated beginning at sundown on Monday, April 22 thru sundown on Tuesday, April 30.
What are yall doing?  This will be our family’s 4th year to partake of the Seder.

I'm only 2 years away from starting the first one as a way of coping with the second. 

I discovered one I admittedly haven't finished yet, but my husband did and says it's awesome, despite being cancelled after the first season. Night Sky. Sissy Spacek and J. K. Simmons happen to have a tunnel in their shed that leads to another planet. And there's weird cultish secret societies and the tragic realities of aging. 

I watched Raya and the Last Dragon for the 2nd time.  Still excellent.  All I really remembered from the first time, was best animation I'd seen in a decade, and I won a facebook argument about it's worth.  I still find wholesome and correct principles throughout the thing.  I had forgotten what a huge emotion dump it is, although some of that is unique to me because I've lost both parents and the movie is filled with broken orphans.

And, to top it off, Big Brother starts in the summer and I’m glued to that show. Been a fan since 2001! 

I've been streaming the '90s tv series Sliders on the Roku channel.

Ooh, look who's fancy and snobbish with media.

Hmmmmmm --- I would think that graph ought to indicate even greater concern.
 
The Traveler

To be fair, I’m sure some people probably did see it coming, but it’s like a historic college football game-more people say they were there then actually were there.  

Meanwhile on the TravelerCam, we see him sitting on his front porch watching some teenagers.

Why did @Vort go fishing?
Just for the halibut.

Meanwhile on the TravelerCam, we see him sitting on his front porch watching some teenagers.

It's fascinating watching GenZ/Alpha starting to expound on stuff they're learning about the BoM.  So much political and social commentary goes with it:
 
 
 

Well, Israel has been attacking targets in Iran for a lot of decades.  As well as killing Iranian targets in other countries for decades.  There's a longer history than even this article mentions: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/world/middleeast/iran-attacks-israel-history.html  Or even this one-sided history from Al Jazeera.  The Wiki article does it better justice. 
I'm guessing Israel figures this round of tit-for-tat is over.  "We finally hit them hard enough, and publicly enough, that they had to give their first actual response launched from their own country.  And it was a pretty pathetic response."
Although you read the comments section of the IDF twitter feed, and you'd think it's kicking off armageddon, end times, apocalypse, millennium, and the 2nd coming, all rolled into one.   That video of missiles in the background of the dome of the rock, is really riling up the sign-seekers from 3 different world's faiths.
 
 

Saddest thing in the world - I saw a post from someone near the bottom of the 2008 economic downturn, saying he was selling all his retirement stock while he still had some left and putting it somewhere safe.    
The market has gone up roughly 500% since the 2008 bottom.   If dude put it in cash or gold or something, it's probably lost like a third of it's value, because of inflation.
And that's how you end up spending your golden years working, unable to retire.  (Divorce is the other reason people end up there.)

It's fascinating watching GenZ/Alpha starting to expound on stuff they're learning about the BoM.  So much political and social commentary goes with it:
 
 
 

Laban was just a misunderstood guy with a temper problem. He lost his head. It happens.

When it comes to economic predictions, everyone became a prophet in 2009. I met so many people who “knew the economy would crash” and say they saw it coming. Oddly, their prophecies didn’t stop them from losing everything. Or warning the rest of us. 

Since He's one of 'em, it would be sort of hard for Him to be there without Him present...

Since He's one of 'em, it would be sort of hard for Him to be there without Him present...

For Iran to say that the matter is "concluded" pretty well tells me that Iran won't do anything further. They've made a show of force, and they don't want to do anything else lest Russia and China not protect them against the retaliation.