Reading Writing , rithamatic

The debate for and against Cursive writing has gone on for nearly a decade,,  for the life of me ,, I don;t get it.

If you want to teach children how to sign their names,,, fine,, but IMHO - there are many other things that they should learn that will serve them better than knowing cursive writing - seriously - think of the last time you wrote more then your name .....  see .....

- Better math skills - and I mean problem solving.  Knowing the times tables is great,,, but actually solving a problem with Math is completely different.  And Great - you have a Computer, and apple watch and a Calculator .. what numbers you put is more important than that ! The skill of calculating areas of Triangle, or Angles them selves, or thinking thru - being able to buy enough wood or food ,,,, is sorta important. Getting Gallons to Liters, and feet to Meters.   If a train is headed south at 30mph and another is headed north at 50 miles an hour, they are 1500 miles apart when they start and the 30mph train leaves 90 minutes before the 50mph train. Where on the tracks with they pass each other and how long in Hours will that take ???  And logic problems,  of every sort.  Plus how to know what is the Better deal - 6  eight ounce cans for .$1.29 or  8 - 5 ounce cans for $1.55  ??? 

- How to plan out and complete a project. What tools, materials , are needed and about how long will this take to complete. What skills are required to do it ?

- Budgeting - or How not to end up in debt over your ears !?!? A Little finance ....  how long will it take to pay off Credit card debt of $2000  at 22% interest if you make the Minimum payment of $25 a month. 

- Team work, and individual work. Both are necessary and both important !  Along with how to present an idea to others so that it makes sense. 

- COOKING ! ... Basic Life skill.... you can't / shouldn't eat out every night. you need to pan a menu , shop and then cook the food. As much as you like Pasta or Hamburgers,,, they get old.  and you need skills for restaurant ordering and behavior.

- Computer and really these days tablet skills......  what APPS are available to do what ? and how to interact with them. How to Send / Receive and DELETE or Sort  E-mails . How to set up an online account and protect yourself for Scams.  How to search for information on the Internet, so that when you type in something into google - you know what the results you are looking at are.  That it is not data from 3 years ago . and how to spot a scam when you see it.  And how not to post and repost garbage that is NOT TRUE !  how many stories that if you do a simple fact check or Snopes - you see that it is NOT true. 

Ok - so these are just  few of what I think at Skills for the next century besides knowing how to write words in cursive just cause that is what we taught kids 50 years ago !

I'm sick !

Geez - I lost  4 days of my life being sick . like I have not been on a long long time,, Fever Chills, a cough and headache,,, my god,, now it compares little with what real sickness is ,, but - I was out of it for a few days,,,,, I am not the kind to sit still - ever - andI could not get up off  the Couch,,,,   I am feeling better , and went o work on Thursday - so there is that !

The ground swell against the  Astros cheaters continues to grow - if the MLB commissioner thought it was going away - think again.  and the season has not started,,,

A few of the Most pathetic statements have been :

The Commissioner  of Baseball calling the World Series trophy - Just a piece of Metal .

Th Astros Owen saying that - they cheated,  but Knowing the pitch that was coming was not an advantage to the Astro hitters = all stats aside and the stats  lean heavily on the fact that the Astros were a different team at home and on the road,,, .  oh yea  ?  Listen -  then have Verlander tell the Batters of the opposite team what pitch is coming and lets see what his record is at the the end fo the year  !!

Altuve did not want his shirts ripped off after he hit the game / series winning homer off Chapman because  A) His girlfriend did not like it when they did that to him earlier in the year ( this was the 1st excuse given)  or B) he had a tattoo that was only half done and he did not want it seen yet !
I hot a home run to send my team to the World Series off one of the best Closers in all of Baseball in the Bottom of the ninth inning  - and my 1st thought is about a Tattoo ?? NO ONE is buying this. NO ONE - so in between all the Playoff games they were playing , travel back and forth to NY  = you had time to get a Tattoo Started ???

Eve of the Commissioner does nothing  these players will forever be thought of as Cheaters . that Cheated to win the W.S. The League MVP, etc,,,,,  and I am waiting for the Report to come out on the Red Sox - cause remember this - one ALEX CORA was  AJ Hinch's  bench Coach with the Astros in 2017 and it would not bea very long walk to take the cheating he KNEW worked for Houston in 2017 to Boston with him in 2018 -

My Shit's Fucked up

Kinky Friedman said that this song "is not a song about a guy that is dyin of cancer (Zevon) , but almost perfectly describes the state of our Country today" .
and while not rising to anywhere near the level of what others are dealing with - I do have few things that - let's say - need attention.
Plus I doubt the women that is my MD would describe it this way,

anyway - Here is a Zevon take on it !

in addition : 

I need a strategy for dealing those that I have to interact with (read that as "be in the same room with") that I cannot stand to even Talk to ... and by talk to I mean  in the same room when they talk ..... and talk about and talk about   the Same shit that I have heard for the last 2 decades...... really the same subject - essentially - for 20 years !  How much am I spose to take ?!?!? I am sure that I can no longer hide my disgust at this ,,, and sure that they and others know what I am thinking - SHUT THE FUCK UP ! 

For now -  I ignore it  - and we will see how that works going forward.

Let's try these ,,

and a Dylan song,,,