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September 12, 2013
First comes Megan McArdle, refusing to check her unearned race and gender privileges:
... what do you do about women who freely make choices that perpetuate structural inequalities? Do you stop them from making the choices? Neither Harvard, nor Kantor, seems to have a good answer. But that is the core dilemma. Maybe women drop out because they have a deeper biological connection to their kids. Maybe they do so because they're raised to be nurturers, or maybe because they don't feel the same personal anguish that a man does when he gives up on the dream of a top-flight career. Maybe if men felt they had the option to stay home, more would. And maybe women find the role of breadwinner more stressful than men do -- all the women I know who are the primary earners are neurotic about it in a way that the men I know don't seem to be. I'm not talking about the fear that your partner will resent your success; these are women married to admirably feminist men. I'm just talking about a near-constant fear that you will not be able to provide, and your family will end up horribly destitute. I'm not saying that men don't experience that worry, but they don't seem tormented by it the way the women I talk to are.
Or maybe it's that women just don't want it badly enough. In my experience, one of the reasons that women drop out of finance, and 80-hour-a-week fields more generally, is that they just don't want it as badly as the men. In their 20s, they're happy to work those kinds of hours, even at tasks they find boring. They do well at them, too. But a lot of these jobs aren't actually that rewarding as work: The investment banking associates I observed seemed to spend most of their time on basically clerical tasks, tabulating data and proofreading PowerPoints. And eventually most of the women seem to say "You know, I just care more about relationships than I do about success." There are always exceptions on both sides: women who will sacrifice anything for the career they feel called to and men who would rather be home. But on average, the women I talk to just aren't nearly as willing to sacrifice close friendships, and family relationships, for the sake of their jobs.
We can say that they shouldn't have to, of course, but the sad fact is that there are trade-offs in this world. In your 20s you can finesse them -- work super hard and also have a roaring social life -- because you have boundless energy and no one depending on you. This is the age at which young women write furious articles and Facebook posts denouncing anyone who suggests that women opt-out of high pressure jobs for any reason other than the rankest sexism.
As you age, your body refuses to cooperate with your plan to work from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and then hang out with friends. Your parents start to need you more, if only to lift heavy things. And of course, there are kids. You start having to make direct trade-offs, and then suddenly you look up and you haven't seen your friends for two years and your mother is complaining that you never call. This is the age at which women write furious articles defending their decision to step back from a high-pressure job and/or demanding subsidized childcare, generous paid maternity leave and "family friendly policies," a vague term that ultimately seems to mean that people who leave at five to pick up the kids should be entitled to the same opportunities and compensation as people who stay until 9 to finish the client presentation. These pleas usually end (or begin) by pointing to the family-friendly utopia of Northern Europe, except that women in Europe do less well at moving into high-test management positions. Whatever the government says, someone who takes several years off work is in fact less valuable to their company than someone who doesn't.
Ouch. How's a sistah to raise awareness of the Deep Unfairness of Life with all these deniers
thinking for themselves wandering off the ideological reservation?
"Can you say that word? PATRIARCHY?" This woman was not gunning for a laugh; she was dead serious, and pretty angry. She looked to be 30 or so, and from the way she spoke seemed well-educated—the type of woman I portray in the book as benefiting from the new era of female dominance, when women are better prepared for the current economy and have more independence to choose their life path.
As the woman spoke, I started to think of my own Slaughter moment, when, after the birth of my first child, I decided to work four days a week, a capitulation that sank me into a terrible depression. (If only Sheryl Sandberg had been around then to tell me to "Lean in!") I tried to figure out who, in the series of events that led up to that decision, had played the role of the patriarch. My husband? He couldn't care less how many days I work. My employer? Relatively benevolent and supportive— willing to let me work four days or five, willing to let me leave early. I suppose the patriarchy was lurking somewhere in my subconscious, tricking me into believing that it was more my duty to stay home with our new baby than my husband's. But I didn't see it as a "duty." I wanted to stay home with her, and I also wanted to work like a fiend. It was complicated and confusing, a combination of my personal choices, the realities of a deadline-driven newsroom, and the lack of a broader infrastructure to support working parents—certainly too complicated to pin on a single enemy.
I said some version of this out loud from the stage, partly because I was looking for sympathy, and partly because I wanted to convey that the "patriarchy" was not a fixed monolith we could never get around but something shifting and changing and open to analysis. But that confessional approach only brought more ire. "Lucky for you that you have the luxury to agonize about your choices," the young woman said. "What about the woman who picks up your trash after you leave at 5?"
This is when I knew I was dealing with some irrational attachment to the concept of unfair. For my book I'd interviewed plenty of women who might find themselves picking up the trash, likely as a second job after a full day of school or another job, or both, because their husbands—or, more likely, the fathers of their children—were out of work. My young interrogator might be annoyed to learn that many of those women who pick up the trash yearn to bring back at least some aspects of the patriarchy. They generally appreciate their new economic independence and feel pride at holding their families together, at working and studying and doing things on their own, but sometimes they long to have a man around who would pay the bills and take care of them and make a life for them in which they could work less. And they want the men in their lives to be happy. It's elite feminists like my questioner and me who cling to the dreaded patriarchy just as he is walking out of our lives.
This bean counting and monitoring—an outdated compulsion to keep your guard up, because sexism lurks everywhere—has found new life online, where feminist websites (including our own) and the Twitter police are always on the lookout for the next slight.
Sometimes the critical eye is useful, such as this week when outrage over sexist and racists tweets got Business Insider exec Pax Dickinson pushed out. (Though this is not a sign of THE PATRIARCHY—this is relatively easy victory.) Sometimes it's just petty, like when Jennifer Weiner recently complained about a critic calling her "strident." As a form of blogging or tweeting, pointing fingers is endlessly satisfying. But as a form of political expression, it's pretty hollow and out of tune with reality.
This strain of feminism assumes an exquisite vulnerability, an image of women as "creatures too 'tender' for the abrasiveness of daily life," as Joan Didion put it in her 1972 essay "The Women's Movement." (Is this why we now put "trigger warnings" on stories that mention rape or sexual harassment?) Maybe now we pay such close attention to words like "strident" because they are all we have, the only way to access the outrage of darker days. If so, we should treasure them as tokens of how far we've come. After all, if the most obnoxious members of the patriarchy can be brought down by a few tweets, how powerful can they really be?
Both these women's observations match my experience in the workplace.
The life of the Editorial Staff has been lived backwards by feminist standards. We married and had children early, giving up education and career prospects to follow the spousal unit from state to state as he pursued a career in the Marine Corps. His job was to earn a decent salary and map out our long term financial strategy. Mine was to raise our sons, run our home, pay the bills, and support his command whether he was in a B billet or a deployable unit. Never for one moment did he or I assume this was the way it would always be, or that there weren't alternatives.
It's just that when we crunched the numbers, this was the plan that made sense to us and reflected our joint priorities. Someone needed to stay home and focus on raising our children, keeping our home running smoothly in an environment of near-constant change and frequent moves. Someone needed to be there to unpack 300-something boxes every time we moved, to find new doctors and dentists and schools, to pay the bills, to squeeze every last drop of value out of his salary. To make an endless parade of bland temporary dwellings feel like "home".
And even when there are no children to consider, two career households simply aren't as efficient as those run by someone who has made it their career to manage the home full time. What's true in the workplace is equally true at home: if you want a job to be done well, someone needs to be put in charge of it (and to be held accountable when things don't go well). Ad hockery is just amateurism, writ large.
To believe that somehow, the same quality work can be done by a person working 1-2 hours as by a person working 8-12 hours a day is a gross insult to the hundreds of talented, smart, and hard working women I've known over the past 3 decades; women who could have done well in the job market but instead made an conscious decision to prioritize their marriages and families over monetary gain and intellectual stimulation.
Not that being a homemaker is necessarily stultifying to the mind. Some of the most thorny problems I've considered over the years were issues related to raising our two sons. I read widely from both the classics and modern works, and played an active role in our children's education and reading lists. It's a shame that the leadership functions inherent in motherhood and homemaking are so rarely acknowledge or appreciated. Being a military wife offers many leadership opportunities: mentoring of younger wives, community activities, helping senior wives with the myriad family issues that crop up during deployments.
These are functions the military has largely outsourced now, and the federal government is paying real money for services they used to get for free from civic minded military spouses. Surprise: jobs performed voluntarily by mostly stay-at-home wives and mothers who saw a need and filled it turned out to be indispensable services with real monetary value (they are, to use an overworked cliché, "force multipliers").
Having finished my education in my late thirties and entered the full time career arena in my forties has given me a different perspective on many things. Conservatives seem just as prone to idealize the motives of those who adhere to traditional gender roles as liberals are to lampoon them. In our world, female homemakers are described as selfless givers who generously sacrifice career and personal fulfillment For The Children. Male breadwinners are unappreciated, selfless protectors who cheerfully trudge off to work to provide for their families; sometimes enduring soul crushing drudgery and hardship.
And the thing is, many of these things are true. That's how traditional gender roles are supposed to work.
But I've also observed the polar opposites of these stereotypes: women who stay at home but don't actively manage their homes, nurture and teach their children, or support their husband's careers or their marriages. Men who use work to escape the demands of maintaining personal relationships; who aren't involved in their own marriages and who don't take an active role as fathers. Entering the work force as an adult, I've often observed the same egotism and destructive behaviors in men that I observed in women who turned volunteerism into a white knuckle demolition derby. Because we're human, our motivations are often an odd mix of nobility and self centeredness. We are driven by duty, but also by our own selfish desires.
If one truly sees women as intelligent beings with agency, it seems patronizing to assume that we are helpless bits of flotsam drifting aimlessly in a flood tide of patriarchal oppression. Why not give women some credit for having enough smarts to figure out what matters most to us and go after it. I suspect that's what most men do, too.
And if they don't (or we don't), shame on us.
Posted by Cassandra at September 12, 2013 06:18 AM
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Must... get... to... duct... tape.
Posted by: spd rdr at September 12, 2013 10:31 AM
I hear WD-40 can also be useful in these situations ;p
Posted by: Uppity Womyn at September 12, 2013 11:11 AM
There are, apparently, no bounds to female complaints and feminine angst. I have no proof of it, of course, but I believe purgatory more than a concept. It's where the impulse is purged from women so there would be no complaints about heaven.
Posted by: George Pal at September 12, 2013 11:21 AM
There are, apparently, no bounds to female complaints and feminine angst.
So, I link to two essays by women who aren't complaining (and in fact have gone to considerable trouble to point out that some of these complaints are essentially meritless), add my opinion that they're meritless, and somehow this shows that there is no limit to female complaints?
Oddly, I have not noticed any shortage of men complaining about various things they think are deeply unfair. How do the complaints of a vocal minority of women come to be representative of "femininity", while the plentiful complaints of male pundits mysteriously say nothing about "masculinity"?
More importantly, where have we seen this type of thinking before? Oh yeah - in the context of faux racism, where the acts of some whites speak volumes about white racism while the acts of some blacks say nothing about black racism :p
Part of the reason I write these posts is that I'm constantly amazed at how we all amplify some things and ignore/minimize others, and how our skewed perceptions drive the generalizations we make about others. I do it, though I try hard not to.
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 11:34 AM
"Must... get... to... duct... tape"
Ahhh, duct tape...the Force manifest for it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. (Not to mention the cookie jar lid in place.)
Remember, spd, silence is golden.
Duct tape is silver.
And the Uppity Womyn has a crappy throwing arm.
Posted by: Evil Twin at September 12, 2013 01:25 PM
And the Uppity Womyn has a crappy throwing arm.
That's because I throw like a girl.
Or possibly it's the duct tape George swiped from spd's garage and liberally applied to my faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace :)
This is why no one wins the battle of the sexes. We spend too much time fraternizing with the "enemy".
Hope my comment didn't offend, George. It honestly wasn't meant to. I realize you were kidding, but we womynfolk are notoriously humorless :p
/running away before he finds that duct tape and clobbers me with it
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 01:58 PM
"Or possibly it's the duct tape George swiped from spd's garage and liberally applied to my faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace :)"
Aw, man, why does HE get all the fun? All these years, all those times of fantasizing about just such a moment, he shows up just a few months or so ago and HE gets the big Lebowski?
Not fucking fair.
Posted by: DL Sly at September 12, 2013 02:06 PM
The Spousal Unit often has similar fantasies, God help him.
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 02:37 PM
Hooo-boy! I now know what a hornet's nest in a cannibal's pot feels like.
Had I not made it known that I am one of the 1%; the few, the proud, the unperturbed. The next time I am offended, for myself, will be the first.
In the battle of the sexes, one need not always fight; reconnoitering can be fun.
DL Sly.
The spot must be rubbed in just the right way – no higgledy-piggledy.
Posted by: George Pal at September 12, 2013 02:44 PM
If one truly sees women as intelligent beings with agency, it seems patronizing to assume that we are helpless bits of flotsam drifting aimlessly in a flood tide of patriarchal oppression. Why not give women some credit for having enough smarts to figure out what matters most to us and go after it.
Yup. I didn't become a feminist to spend 40+ years hearing about how women are incapable of figuring out and managing their own lives.
I contemplated a long comment on how real life is always about trade-offs, working within constraints, disappointments (as well as joys), not always getting just what we want. And about how real life is the day to day stuff, not the manning the barricades stuff. Then I clicked through to the Joan Didion piece linked in the Slate article and realized she said it all - 41 years ago. How depressing is that? (Okay, not too depressing because her question about doughnuts and room service cracked me up.)
What is depressing is that now men are complaining about being oppressed, put upon, warred against, treated badly - while women are still doing the same. Stereo whining - ugh! I don't get why people want to be seen as the biggest victim. I find victim-hood embarrassing rather than empowering.
Posted by: Elise at September 12, 2013 02:51 PM
"The Spousal Unit often has similar fantasies, God help him."
Well, if He won't, I know where a volunteer or three can be found.
And, George, the only spot I rub on the Princess is the one that goes the "wrong way". It's a natural talent that I cultivate every time she presents the opportunity.
And, she loves me anyway.
Posted by: DL Sly at September 12, 2013 03:06 PM
What is depressing is that now men are complaining about being oppressed, put upon, warred against, treated badly - while women are still doing the same. Stereo whining - ugh! I don't get why people want to be seen as the biggest victim. I find victim-hood embarrassing rather than empowering.
Amen. That whole "war on..." meme from both sides is cringe inducing. I would be ashamed to seriously make that argument from either viewpoint, but that's just me.
It's funny - one of the things I said most often to my sons was, "Life isn't fair and I wasn't put on this earth to make it so."
Usually followed by... "Figure it out", or words to that effect. That may be one of the few things I did right as a parent.
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 03:23 PM
The spot must be rubbed in just the right way – no higgledy-piggledy.
I see what you did there, George.
Posted by: Sister Mary Bag O'Metaphors at September 12, 2013 03:25 PM
I've always been the primary breadwinner, but I can't say I felt a lot of angst about it. The main difference I saw between myself and my male colleagues was that I never complained about how my husband wanted to spend all my money and how I had to stay on the treadmill just to keep up with his demands. It was amazing how that theme preoccupied my richer (male) clients' thoughts. It wasn't quite as prevalent among my male colleagues, who tended to be younger and a bit more politically correct.
Posted by: Texan99 at September 12, 2013 03:36 PM
The main difference I saw between myself and my male colleagues was that I never complained about how my husband wanted to spend all my money and how I had to stay on the treadmill just to keep up with his demands. It was amazing how that theme preoccupied my richer (male) clients' thoughts.
I've noticed the same thing - guys mainly seem to complain about their wives or girlfriends (or just about women in general. Except for non-American women, who apparently are A Different Breed :p). I have often wondered whether other men don't interpret that sort of thing as "complaining", though it clearly is, because they understand where it comes from and can sympathize. While women don't hear interpret some complaints from other women as "complaints" because it's easy for us to understand and sympathize.
Sort of a "My complaints are completely understandable, yours are a bunch of whiny nonsense" sort of thing :p
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 04:10 PM
"Sort of a "My complaints are completely understandable, yours are a bunch of whiny nonsense" sort of thing :p"
So, it's political humor redux...it's only funny if it's *your* guy in office.
Either way, I say, "Blech."
Posted by: DL Sly at September 12, 2013 04:15 PM
This probably doesn't apply to Tex's case, in which male clients were complaining to her about their wives. In my experience, though, men who complain about their wives or girlfriends are often trying to sympathize with another man who is suffering difficulties with his wife or girlfriend. It's often the only way to discuss the matter without creating offense.
The first man knows that if he were to criticize his friend's own wife or girlfriend, that second man would feel obligated to defend her against the intrusion. That won't help his friend deal with his troubles, and it might cause a fight that could wreck the friendship. By framing the criticism as a criticism of his own wife, the first man allows his friend to express his troubles without it feeling to the second man that he's letting somebody from outside the relationship beat up on his wife (metaphorically).
It's of a piece with how men rarely respond to another man's problems by saying, "Wow, that is awful, I feel so bad for you." What they will do instead is say, "Wow, that's like the time when..." and then tell a story of one of their own troubles. That keeps things even between them: one isn't pathetic and the other pitying him, but rather, both of them have problems that they have had to deal with at different times.
It may seem disloyal -- perhaps you shouldn't criticize your wife to another man -- but I don't think it's usually meant that way. Again, though, I don't know how well it applies to Tex's case.
Posted by: Grim at September 12, 2013 05:23 PM
The main difference I saw between myself and my male colleagues was that I never complained about how my husband wanted to spend all my money and how I had to stay on the treadmill just to keep up with his demands.
I think of this as the kind of complaining that's really bragging; like complaining about how much it costs to keep up the pool or moor the yacht in the marina or pay taxes on the ski lodge in Vail. The point is not really to complain about how expensive these things are; it's really to make clear that the speaker is so successful he can afford them.
To me, that's what a trophy wife really is. Not a wife who is unusually young or beautiful or desirable but a wife who is unusually expensive. And besides, the statement "I'm so successful I can afford a wife with expensive tastes who demands I provide everything she wants" sounds a lot better than the statement "I'm so stupid I married a woman who has no concept of a budget."
Posted by: Elise at September 12, 2013 05:51 PM
Gosh; back to basics!
Duct tape, WD-40, tie-wire and a Leatherman.
"Oddly, I have not noticed any shortage of men complaining about various things they think are deeply unfair."
> Males, or 'Men?'
(Real) Men don't whine. Life ain't fair, tough sh*t, get over it and do you d*mn job. Wanna whine? go talk to Alan Alda & Jimmy Carter. No one else wants to hear it.
. . . plus the current POTUS throws like a girl . . . ;)
Posted by: CAPT Mike at September 12, 2013 06:04 PM
I think there's a difference between privately commiserating with someone (what Grim describes) and public complaining. The first, to me, is understandable so long as it doesn't devolve into airing private things. That's a betrayal of trust.
But the fact that I've heard so many men running down their wives/girlfriends/women in general pretty much suggests that the motivation for these folks isn't commiserating with a friend who has just confided in you. I imagine people have different motivations. On the rare occasions where I've heard a bitter woman running men down (I don't associate with people like that voluntarily), I have been extremely uncomfortable and have not been inclined to agree with them.
Complaining, to me, is when everything is framed as, "Women always..." or "men always...", and you find yourself thinking, "Gee - I don't know anyone like that. So surely 'all men' can't be insensitive jerks. And 'all women' can't be mercenary users"?
Posted by: Cassandra at September 12, 2013 09:18 PM
"And 'all women' can't be mercenary users"?"
Wait...some women get paid to use people?
How did I miss that memo? Dammnit.
Posted by: DL Sly at September 13, 2013 12:13 PM


text: So completed week one and learnt the following. Its easier to run in the morning before you get tired. Its a lot harder to run the warmer it is. So I did the first run four times and I'm not convinced the last one was any easier but that was the warmest most humid day. But I did it. Today I need to start week 2, I'm not sick but I'm not 100%, bit of a sore throat, bit chesty and looking for excuses :-(. However my health and fitness journey has taught me that sometimes you just need to man up and get on with it. So I'll go out after work and see how I go. I'll listen to my body and if I can't cope I'll go for a long walk instead, At least I'm moving. Its the mindset that is the hardest thing to master with any health and fitness programme I am learning. But I'm getting there, however slowly.

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Gift Test
After I got too close to this test, I took a break from this. And finally, I finished to revise. It was great to put up this on ACME online, and all the feedbacks from Proswere very helpful. I also got feedbacks from Justin and Mike, and it was very helpful, too. I realized the ending was not clear enough, and I've should re-do some keys. So I finished. And there are still many things that should be improved, but for now, I decided to move on to next test!
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Foster family
Right now, a group of us at school are working on a project for PSA, promoting Foster Parent. We put each positions to work on this project for a month, and it has been very great! It's really fun to work together in my group. Everyone has different ideas, and everyone seems very excited about it ;) I really enjoy the class. ( Dana is awesome!)
I am doing a character design and also animating. We are forcusing on one girl's view, a girl who still has a hope in happiness, around 5 or 6 years old. Our teem came up the final design, ( I will post again..) and this has been fun :)
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I wrote many posts in this blog about troubleshooting crash and hangs issues. In some of those posts (here it is one example) I used a tool called DebugDiag in order to either capture the dump or perform the initial analysis. Today the team that it's developing DebugDiag announced a new version of this tool, I'm talking about DebugDiag 1.2. Below is the list of the new features introduced in this version:
Analysis Automation
- .Net 2.0 and higher analysis integrated to the Crash Hang analysis.
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This is the place to come when you're craving comfort food with a twist and a cheerful, crowded atmosphere that guarantees to dissipate any bad mood. How could anyone not crack a smile with entrees such as "Fidel's Capitalist Pig Roast?" My personal favorites are the Pescado Ahumado (a light, citrus glazed swordfish with creamy guacomole), Siggy's Naughty White Tiger Roll (a shrimp tempura roll covered in Scottish salmon and Ahi tuna sashimi perfectly paired with a spicy aioli).
For those still not satisfied with the abundance of savory dishes and crazy rolls, an even more sinful and suicidal list of desserts abounds. Fear not. How's this to either perk up a slow work day or end a date night? Hot Funky Love- deep fried snickers topped with vanilla ice cream. The Fire Goddess' Sacrificial S'mores Platter- exactly what it sounds like. Need we say more?


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Overwatch came out a couple of weeks ago. A few short days later, Blizzard's foray into the FPS genre quietly rescinded itself, rendering its data inert and reminding us in the process that Overwatch was never really out. Now, to many people's excitement, the game is returning for an official—and hopefully much, much longer—encore. What happened two weeks ago was just a free, unfettered taste. The internet, predictably, is now thoroughly hooked, and its people gather at the gates of the Blizzard Castle, clamouring for more.
My first impressions were mixed. It wasn't the game design itself—we'll get to that—but the characters, writing, and artistic direction really rubbed me up the wrong way. It felt like the same dumb pandering on display in Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2's wooden dialogue. The forced attempts at humour paired with thorough lack of self-awareness make the game, much like Blizzard's other recent offerings, seem very concerned with guarding the oh-so-serious sanctity of its primary cast. Even jokes at the characters' expense are actually in the service of making them look more—as I imagine someone might say in a design meeting—'bad-ass'. The characters are advertisements for themselves, and sometimes this comes across as cringe-inducing. It's a powerful self-confidence that belies the game's creative limitations. What's worse than a bad comedian? A bad comedian who thinks they're a genius.
The game was accompanied by CGI short films exploring the characters, but even these felt overcooked to me. In one, Winston the gorilla-man spends a lot of time staring out into space, twinkly-eyed, flashing back to his childhood, facial expressions cueing an emotional response in a way that seems a little calculated. I imagine the word 'feels' used with full seriousness in the same design meeting; I start to 'feels' a little unwell at the thought.
"The game was accompanied by CGI short films exploring the characters, but even these felt overcooked to me."
Anyways, the characters feels to me like they're missing something, which is at odds with how exuberant their animations are. Overwatch desperately wants its characters to instantly become iconic, as was the case with Team Fortress 2, but this misses the point that Valve's game, as well as being a masterpiece of visual design, was actually blisteringly funny. The jokes worked, but more to the point, it felt like the writers really understood their characters. Even though the game felt outlandish and, for lack of a better word, 'wacky', there was something perfectly natural and believable about the whole affair. Thinking of TF2 makes me wish Overwatch was a little more aware of its own clichés.
One more point of contention: the game continues Blizzard's track record of "bad British accents done by people who do not have that accent naturally and oh boy can you tell," in the vein of Hearthstone's "Scottish" innkeeper. In Overwatch it's the cockneys' turn to take a hit, and this is made all the more cringe-worthy by the attempts to inject dialect as well. Every time Tracer utters "Cheers, love," Ronnie Kray no doubt turns in his grave.
That's not why we play Blizzard games, though. We play them because Blizzard has been running World of Warcraft since 2004, one of the biggest online experiments in games, which has provided them with reams of player data and feedback for almost any design concept imaginable. As a result, the company has mastered the art of compelling people to repeat the same basic tasks over and over; doling up sensory rewards via a perpetual Skinner box.
And what a Skinner box this is! Progress bars filling up, enemy health bars depleting, all reinforced as bullets hit with a satisfying thud of audio. Meters charging, licks of electricity sparking from the UI as they fill, before flushing empty as their power is released. Yes, there's the associated spectacle of the game-world itself, the cast of functionally varied heroes blasting each other to bits with all manner of colorful weaponry, but these things just hide the fact that this is a game about managing varying amounts of different values—health meters, timers, progress—all present on the UI overlay. Keep your values maxed out and your opponents' empty—or if you have to trade, do so efficiently.
"And what a Skinner box this is! Progress bars filling up, enemy health bars depleting, all reinforced as bullets hit with a satisfying thud of audio. Meters charging, licks of electricity sparking from the UI as they fill, before flushing empty as their power is released."
As a child, I used to sit, cross-legged, in a big office chair, watching progress bars fill in file sharing programs like LimeWire, an illegal download of The Matrix taking weeks to complete as pieces slowly fell to the hard drive like feathers. The program was a precursor to torrents—you'd push out pieces you'd already obtained to other users, and in return they would give you the pieces you needed, and if it all worked out you'd be drawing in more bandwidth than you were putting out. The to-and-fro of data transfer, data churning data, point to point, and through the chaotic soup, assorted scraps—the bit where Neo first takes the red pill at one IP address, but at another, the bit where Morpheus is wearing that nice purple shirt but is very sweaty because he is being tortured. Each bit marked, catalogued, tracked, resolutely slotted into the right place until everything is woven together at the seams and you have in your possession an illegal download of The Matrix. It's the same itch scratched by whoever first organized a pond of scattered ducks into a straight line, and thought: "Now there's a fine looking idiom."
And that is exactly what Blizzard taps into. Overwatch tells you precisely what is going on at any time. It knows how to make you feel whether any object or action is good, bad, when to reinforce and when to discourage. It has deep, flesh-wrenching hooks that kept me playing throughout the game's beta period.
"And that is exactly what Blizzard taps into. Overwatch tells you precisely what is going on at any time."
Bottom line: the characters made it weird for me. An overwrought line of dialogue, an indulgent victory pose—these were the minutiae that made 'this is designed to be a compelling loop' bleed into 'this is designed to make me experience the feels'. It gave me the sense that Overwatch was nakedly trying to 'trick' me into thinking a character was sassy, or smart, or brave, or cool, or happy-go-lucky. And this bothered me for a while—until it didn't.
My beady critical eye held out for two days until Blizzard hypnotized and indoctrinated me; such is the psychologically-assured inevitability of the game's addictive systems. One more day and I simply didn't mind that the characters were stiff and the writing somewhat lifeless. By the end of the Beta, I was praying at the looping altar like the rest of the converts. Interwoven with the moreish gameplay loops, the characters become part of the package. Nobody likes their first cigarette, but after a while, the harsh sting in your chest lets your brain know the nicotine has arrived, and you learn to miss it when it's gone.
I haven't bought Overwatch yet. But I can only hold out for so long.


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Kids Kreate | November 12 | 1-4pm
Kids Kreate is this Sunday November 12th from 1-4pm at the Yukon Arts Centre.
This is a free event generously sponsored by ATCO Electric Yukon. We will be learning to paint like legendary artist, Van Gogh with local artist Helen O'Conner.
Dress accordingly. All children must be accompanied by an adult. No registration required!
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My sweet little pie give me a big hug! Love my sweetie pie! She say Thanks for her lovely dress that I made for her yesterday. She said, she will wear it in our vacation or whenever we go for a ride. She looks adorable on that dress and will absolutely make her more dress this spring ;-)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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gifts for the groom
How many friends of yours are getting married this year? Do you have anything to give for the groom or bride? I think this year, I have 2-3 of my friends in the Philippines are got married but I never get a chance to send them gifts. I wish I could send it to them personally but maybe next time when I get back to my hometown. I am not sure when but hopefully soon! Anyhow, when people ask me what kind of gifts to give for the groom and bride, I end up thinking maybe a kitchen set or whatever. But this time, when they ask me again about wedding gifts for the groom, I already know what website to recommend to them and that is the redenvelope.com. With the help of their website, it gives me ideas on what gifts I can give to my husband, brother, friends and love ones. Why not get your gift ideas now at redenvelope.com!
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pandora jewelry
Do you like jewelry that has European charm beads in it? I like them! Do you? I bet you do. I have a friend where she has this European charm beads jewelry and it looks fabulous on her. I wonder where she got those jewelries and how much those jewelry cost. I look up online and find this amazing jewelry that almost the same as her. That's what they call the pandora jewelry at bajulimports.com. You can get a free first class shipping on orders over $50. So if you like this type of jewelry then look no further. Get your Pandora jewelry now at bajulimports.com!
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Homper for Spring!
I made two brown homper for me and Dana, this is perfect to wear this spring. It's easy to make and instead of short, I decided to make it a skirt and instead of tube homper, I decided to make it a backless type where you can tie the thing on your neck. Dana loves it and I am so happy for my new creation for this week :-)
Monday, March 26, 2012
pool safety net
When you have kids in the house, it is really important to get a pool safety net in your swimming pool, you will never know what will happen, maybe the kid will fall in the pool accidentally without you knowing especially if you are not watching them. Some people usually use gates for their kids to make sure they can't get out on their room. But if you have a big pool in the yard, it is really important to put safety net in it just to avoid danger for babies and young children. So if you don't have pool safety net yet, you better get it now at poolsafetyfences.com!
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Monday, March 19, 2012
baby hats
When the kids was born, the hats that the nurses put on them are very cute. We have a friend before, she loves making crochet baby hats and they look really adorable. She can sell it online if she wants too but she said, she only do it for fun and whenever she feel like doing it. She can make a lot and give it to some of her friends who are expecting or have a toddler kids and give it as a gift. Isn't that wonderful? Wish I can make those cutie crochet hats but I am not really good at it. I guess sewing baby dress is my thing.
Hats is one of the best Baby gifts you can give. They can use it in any season to keep their head warm. Love to see those babies wearing hats, they look adorable. Actually I still have those hats that Dustin and Dana wear when they are babies, I keep it because I like them and if ever I see a baby in our congregation, I might give those hats. I am sure they would love it. By the way thanks to one of our sister who gave my kids a wonderful present, it was another crochet hat and a scarf. Perfect in this cold weather and my little girl love her purple hat and scarf. So if you don't know what baby gifts to give, you might like to give them a cute baby hats either made by yourself or you can get it online as well.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
2012 Our Family Photo
This is the latest photo we have for this month of March. Very proud of my family and I am thankful for all the blessings we have.
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affordable scrubs
Why spend a fortune for a scrub? Does it need to be expensive or it doesn't matter? For me, it doest matter as long I like the quality and its comfortable to wear. That is all that matters to me, how about you? I have some friends who work in the medical field and I think their scrub are affordable and it looks good to them too. I saw this flower print scrubs for $14.99 at Marcusuniforms.com and the style and designs are really nice. I am sure everyone would love it and guess what? You can get a very affordable Marcus nursing uniforms at their website, you don't have to worry about spending a fortune for your nursing uniforms. So if you are looking for unisex scrubs in a low price, this is the right website for you to visit.
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Setting up new utilities
This guest post from Lewis Beck
The thought of moving to a new house is really quite a daunting task for me. First of all I have three small children that still expect to be fed and take naps and all the normal routine things that we do at the house every day. Second of all our house even though it is not all that large holds a lot of stuff. We have stuff everywhere in ever nook and cranny. All of the stuff is the main reason why my husband and I decided to move in the first place and now that we are actually moving it is the reason why I don't even want to think about the packing process. I know we have hired movers to come in and pack up most of the big stuff and transport it to our new home with more room for more stuff and new stuff but I am exhausted just thinking about doing all the work. Luckily the least of my worries is going to be getting my utilities set up with Dallas Texas Electricity Companies. They make it really easy.
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(BLOOMINGTON) - A Bloomington man told police he was physically assaulted and robbed by three men at Peoples Park, Wednesday night.
According to Bloomington Police Sgt. Joe Crider, the 41-year-old man told police he was in the park and got into a an argument with the three men he knew.
The man told police he attempted to leave, when the three men followed him down Kirkwood Avenue and punched and kicked him and stole his bag of personal items.
The man ran into a restaurant where a patron called police.
The man's bag was found in an alley, but the man's and his MP3 player and headphones were missing.
Crider says detectives investigating the alleged attack and robbery, were questioning the man when he then became uncooperative, refusing to give police additional information about the incident.
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Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon insists he has plenty to be positive about heading into Thursday's second leg in Brondby.
Lennon's managerial debut for the Leith side ended in defeat in midweek after goalkeeper Otso Virtanen's costly error gifted Kamil Wilczek the only goal in the Europa League second qualifying round clash at Easter Road.
But Lennon, who was sent to the stand for protesting after Jason Cummings' goal was ruled offside, saw enough to give him hope that they can set up a clash against Hertha Berlin in the next round.
He said: "There was rustiness there and we're lacking sharpness but some of our approach play was brilliant and we scored a brilliant goal that should have been given. I thought we matched them physically for the game, which surprised me. The will and desire in the team was fantastic. I did think we'd wilt but we didn't, we were the ones trying to put our foot on the pedal. We just lacked a wee bit of sharpness in the final third but overall I was pleased."


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Five different digital collage sheets filled with love hearts.
Digital collage sheet with a selection of 20 little hearts outlined with ribbon trim and filled with beautiful patterns...
These hearts are part of a huge collection of over 10,000 heart prints that I have made and collected over the years ... . Hearts in all colors of the rainbow, different textures and patterns.
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This is an unusual 19th c. mourning brooch. It is made of inexpensive pressed back glass cemented to metal with pitch--very inexpensive manufacture and yet the reverse intaglio glass scene looks very much like a real sulphide. I am sure it is not, but I like the look :) The glass in sealed under a brass frame. It measures 1 & 5/8" by 1 & 3/8" and is in remarkably good condition--still sturdy throughout.
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Raccoon Creek Tub Girders
Raccoon Creek Tub Girders
Raccoon Creek Tub Girders
The Raccoon Creek Bridge in Pike County, KY is part of the new alignment of US 119, replacing a winding two-lane road with a modern four-lane expressway. The bridge, owned by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, was built by contractor Bush & Burchett and designed by Palmer Engineering.
The bridge, which spans 200 feet above the valley floor, posed numerous design and construction challenges requiring the designers to stretch the span lengths. The longest of the four spans crossing the 1,275 foot valley is nearly 400 feet.
Because of the curved geometry of the roadway, traditional I-girders would have resulted in excessive rotation of the bridge deck and potential deck cracking. The flexibility of the long girders and installation of cross frames would have also caused problems during erection. The designer and owner chose trapezoidal steel box girders as a solution that would provide greater resistance to this rotation.
High Steel was awarded the 4,953-ton contract to fabricate the 68 steel tub girders for the project. The girders, which are among the largest ever fabricated at High Steel, are 10 feet deep and 13 feet in width. The weight and length of the units – up to about a quarter million pounds each - required 13 axles under some of the largest loads.
Erecting the tub girders 200 feet above the valley floor with limited room for cranes presented challenges to the contractor. The erection sequence called for temporary girder supports called "angel wings." The supports, fastened near the top of the tall piers, created stable platforms for the girders and allowed for balanced cantilever construction. After completing the balanced cantilever portions from the piers, construction progressed with simultaneous drop-in girder sections.
The complexity of the project and creative collaboration among the project team in overcoming the obstacles involved have earned the Raccoon Creek Bridge two prestigious awards: the state level 2006 Grand Conceptor Award by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), and the National Award, Long Span, by the 2007 National Steel Bridge Alliance Prize Bridge Competition.
Project Specs
Bridge Type: Trapezoidal Box Girder
Steel Tonnage: 4,935 tons
Steel Type: Grade 50W
Coating: Painted interior
Project Team
Project Owner: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Contractor: Bush & Burchett
Designer: Palmer Engineering
Detailer: Tensor Engineering
Steel Fabricator: High Steel Structures, Inc.
Steel Erector: Bush & Burchett
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What kind of 'development' is wanted for today's world? The idea, study, and policy field of 'development' emerged in the 1940s, in a time of decolonization, the Cold War, and Euro- centric high modernism. Seventy years later the scene is one of new emerging economies, migration crises, multiculturalism, climate change, and new patterns of infectious and chronic diseases. Given such profound transformations, do we need, again, to rethink 'development'?
Development can be rethought in terms of concepts, issues, methods and policies. For example, does it still make sense to speak of a 'North' and a 'South'? Do the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) go far enough in redefining the research and policy agenda? Do we need to redirect research attention to new and re-emerging issues such as diasporas, digitization, food security, religion, intellectual property, and health surveillance; or is an older agenda of trade, democracy and conflict resolution as vital as ever? Do we need to 'rethink' the migration-development nexus in global development research and policymaking? What place, if any, remains for 'aid' in today's altered development landscape? What new relationships can be forged between developing country scientists and international research partners when setting local research priorities and government policies? Has the moment arrived to construct a truly transdisciplinary development studies – and what does such a methodology entail more precisely? How does development research handle the question of scale in the face of trends towards localization, regionalization and globalization, along with resurgent nationalism? Do we need renewed debate on ethics and positionality in global development research and practice? Indeed, are ecological and other critics right to question the very notion of 'development' – and, if so, what takes its place?
We hereby welcome panel proposals on the various theoretical and substantive challenges of rethinking development, as well as on other pressing issues of development research. Panel sessions are 90 minutes long and will consist of 4-5 papers plus one or two conveners/chairs. Larger panels can be spread across two or more 90-minute sessions. Panel proposals may specify papers, but should also keep slots open for additional papers. Panel conveners will be in charge of the selection of papers once the call for papers is issued in early 2018. Panels should maintain gender balance as well as a mix of senior, mid-level and junior researchers.
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26,male,176 cm,76kg bad breath for at least ten years. No smoke, no drink, brushing teeth twice everyday. Saliva turns smelly about half an hour after brushing teeth. Three times of gastroscope examinations. Shows chronic superficial gastritis and maybe a little helicobacter. Mouth. A little inflammation. Throat. Still a little inflammation. Chest x-ray examination. Nothing. I am suffered from bad breath for almost ten years and don't know why. Really appreciate if you can help find out the reason. Thank you a lot.
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text: Ingredients Fudgy Brownie Layer 1 cup butter, melted 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 4 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups flour 1 cup cocoa powder, sifted 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp kosher salt 1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips Chocolate Chip Graham Layer 1 cup butter, room temperature 3/4 cups sugar 3/4 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips Toasted Marshmallow Frosting 20 regular marshmallows 1 cup butter, room temperature 7oz jar marshmallow fluff 2 1/2 cups icing sugar 2 tsp vanilla extract Graham cracker crumbs, for garnish Mini marshmallows, for garnish Melted semi sweet chocolate, for garnish Bite Me Bit "I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!" -Gayle King Directions 1) For the brownie layer, preheat oven to 350ºF. Coat two 8-inch round cake pans with non-stick cooking spray. Line both pans with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk melted butter, sugar and brown sugar until combined. Add eggs and vanilla and continue to whisk until smooth. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and chocolate chips, stirring until flour has disappeared. Spread into prepared pans and bake 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely before assembling cake. 2) For the chocolate chip graham layer, preheat oven to 350ºF. Coat two 8-inch round cake pans with non-stick cooking spray. Line both pans with parchment paper. Using an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, combine well. Add vanilla extract, mixing until combined. On low speed, add graham cracker crumbs, flour, salt and baking soda, mixing until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips and spread into prepared pans. Bake for 25 minutes until golden. Remove from oven and let cool completely before assembling cake. 3) For the toasted marshmallow frosting, place marshmallows on metal skewers and toast carefully over an open flame. Set aside. Using an electric mixer, cream butter, toasted marshmallows, marshmallow fluff, icing sugar and vanilla, until fluffy and a spreadable consistency. 4) To assemble the cake, place 1 brownie layer on a serving plate. Spread ½ cup marshmallow frosting over the top. Top with chocolate chip cookie layer. Spread ½ cup of frosting over top and place remaining brownie layer. Spread ½ cup frosting and top with remaining chocolate chip cookie layer. Spread the remaining frosting on the top and sides of the cake. Gently pat graham cracker crumbs around the sides and top of the cake. Garnish with baby marshmallows on top and drizzle with melted chocolate to hold them in place. Serves 12-14


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A senior U.S. defense official said Friday U.S. officials were seeing signs that Iranian fighters were engaged in Iraq, a development the source described as "concerning."
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The defense official told Fox News the United States had been watching the swift gains made by the Sunni group known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) for months, adding "this didn't just happen."
"This is bad," the official said, adding that "there is not much we can do (militarily). We are way behind the curve."
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On Friday, ISIS fighters made fresh gains, driving government forces at least temporarily from two towns in an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad. The assault threatens to embroil Iraq more deeply in a wider regional conflict feeding off the chaos caused by the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The fast-moving rebellion, which also draws support from former Saddam Hussein-era figures and other disaffected Sunnis, has emerged as the biggest threat to Iraq's stability since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It has pushed the nation closer to a precipice that could partition it into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish zones.
Some 150 fighters from the Revolutionary Guards elite Quds force had already been dispatched to Iraq by Tehran, and the division's powerful commander, Qassem Suleimani, met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Thursday and offered to send two notorious Iranian brigades to aid in the defense of Baghdad. That could amount to as many as 10,000 soldiers sent to fight the ISIS.
In addition to protecting the strategic border to Syria, Iran's government has interests in safeguarding holy shrines and sites in Najaf and Karbala, significant to the Shiite Islamic religion. Many Iranians make pilgrimage to these sites every year.
Predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran will combat the "violence and terrorism" of Sunni extremists who have launched an anti-government offensive in neighboring Iraq, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned on Thursday. On Friday, Iraq's top Shiite cleric urged Iraqis to defend their country.
President Obama urged Iraq's leaders Friday to "solve their problems" as they face Al Qaeda-inspired militants overrunning cities and marching toward Baghdad -- but said he was reviewing possible U.S. military responses.
Obama, speaking on the South Lawn before departing for North Dakota, reiterated that the U.S. would "not be sending U.S. troops back into combat."
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However, there were a few things that I read and revisited after he was born that really were helpful. As well as some things I did while I was pregnant that I'm glad I did.
1. The Happiest Baby on the Block
I read the book, but I think you can get the idea from their DVD (library) or videos on youtube.
Newborns don't really have a lot of self soothing mechanisms. They are used to constant food, holding, and movement. The 5s outlined in the book worked REALLY well for us.
There were times that Tanner wasn't hungry... he just needed to be soothed. Holding him on his side, bouncing him, giving him his pacifier, and shooshing him instantly calmed him down.
2. Baby Wise
The first couple weeks is about survival - just eat, sleep, and rest. You are recovering and you're both learning how to breastfeed. But after about 2 weeks, we started using the babywise principle of "Eat - Wake - Sleep".
The idea is that you are not nursing or rocking your baby to sleep. You feed them, wake them up if they fall asleep and let them "play" (which for a newborn is only like 15 minutes), and then put them down for nap/bed when they are awake but tired.
We also let Tanner fuss if he needed to. "Cry it out" is very controversial. For us, it was very gentle. He would fuss a little for a few minutes, and fall asleep. We would often pick him up, give him his pacifier, and settle him again if needed. I believe because we started this early, we never had to go through the traumatic screaming and crying...
The biggest thing I learned from baby wise was that there are optimal wake times. You want to watch for sleepy cues like fussing, rubbing eyes, and yawning. Then your baby is ready to go down for nap. If you wait too long, baby will become overtired and have an even harder time falling asleep.
Tanner is a really happy, content baby, and I think he is a "good" sleeper. But I do believe that the babywise rhythm has helped him immensely. He slept 6 hour stretches at 6 weeks, and 8 hour stretches at 8 weeks. He was sleeping 12 hours by about 4 months old.
There is a lot to learn in the baby wise book. We took a loose interpretation of it. If Tanner was hungry, I fed him. We don't have a rigid, strict schedule. But following a routine did wonders for us.
Also, don't let your newborn sleep more than 3 hours at a time during the day. This will help them to learn day time vs. night time.
3. "Sleep when the baby sleeps"
This phrase has always bothered me. Newborns sleep a lot during the day. So I always felt like I should be sleeping constantly like my baby was.
I decided instead of "sleeping when the baby sleeps", I would take 1 nap a day. Usually in the afternoon. This made me feel like I wasn't "wasting" away the day. And I felt well rested. Especially for the dinner / bedtime hours.
4. Make freezer meals
The last couple months of my pregnancy, I made freezer meals. I would choose 1 or 2 dinners / week to double. This way, I was already cooking - I just made more of it. Then I froze the extras. I made:
- Soups & Stews
- Breakfast Burritos
- Energy Bites
- Fajita Filling
- Stuffed Peppers
- Banana Bread Muffins
I also stocked up on non-perishables like granola bars, spaghetti, and sauce. And frozen meatballs.
Between the freezer meals, friends & family, and occasional take out, I didn't cook a meal from scratch for 10 weeks.
5. Enlist Help
My mom came almost daily for the first month or so. She would visit for half hour to an hour and help me with what I needed. She would hold the baby while I showered, vacuum the floor, make me lunch, scoop the litter box, throw in a load of laundry, load the dishwasher.... little chores around the house that made me feel like dirt wasn't piling up.
My husband also made dinner most nights - especially in the early weeks. He did cleaning as well.
Pick a few things that are important to you, and that will make you feel like you can rest. And then ask for help. Usually there is an army of people waiting to do something for you.
6. Wonder Weeks
There is a book that describes developmental milestones that all babies go through - generally at about the same age. I didn't read the book - the app tells you about what you need to know.
Usually when your baby is trying to learn something new - like rolling over, or grabbing toys - they get fussy and needy. This has happened with Tanner at each of his "leaps". We have found that the fussy periods are easier to handle if we know they are coming, and if we know the reason behind them.
7. Follow Your Instincts
I love to read blogs and forums about babies and parenting. Sometimes I find good tips, and sometimes I drive myself crazy. I see what other babies are doing, and I want to be there too.
An example is when Tanner was about 4 weeks old, he was still napping in his swing. I read that a swing could be a sleep prop and that you should have your baby nap in their crib ASAP.
I decided to cold turkey the swing, and put him in his crib for every nap all at once. This was a miserable experience for me and Tanner. I decided to just go back to the swing, and take things slower. He now sleeps in his crib perfectly at every nap and at night time.
I have to remind myself that he will keep going through seasons and phases. He doesn't have to be just like the baby I read on a blog. If what I am doing is working for us - keep doing it. Until it doesn't work, and then gradually change to something else.
8. Clean Your House
I "deep cleaned" my house a few times in the last couple months of pregnancy. I wanted to come home from the hospital with clean bathrooms, fresh bedding, and no dust.
Some of the best advice I have received is this: "The newborn phase isn't real life."
And it's so true. I thought I would never eat a meal with two hands again, or drink a hot cup of coffee, or feel like I wasn't about to fall over from being tired.
Your baby will sleep through the night. Your body will heal. And you will feel like yourself again.
Good luck, momma! Comment with tips that you have for the first months with baby :)
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Here's the evidence of some unselfish sewing I was working away on over the festive period. I actually made two of these Men's Surf to Summit Tops in quick succession as I made a sample one to check the fit on Angus as he and my dad are a similar height and build (tall and skinny) and I wanted my dad's one to be a surprise. Unfortunately for Angus this means that his one is a little less well-executed and is about 2 inches short in the body (although he is 6 foot 2 so don't let this worry you if you're making one up for a man of more average height). Here's my Pa in his one! I'm not actually sure if he's worn it out to cycle in yet, as the temperatures have been steadily dropping below zero since I gave it him at the start of the year.
As it's winter I chose to make this up in microfleece for a bit of extra warmth. I've never worked with it before but other than the fact that it left a lot of fluff on everything it was quite nice and stable to sew with. It definitely has less stretch than the spandex I was also using so I thought assigning it to the main body pieces would be best, as the arms really need extra mobility. I made it up so the fleecy side is outside, I don't know if this is right! I couldn't find too many tips online about this so if anyone knows better please leave a comment. I chose silver spandex for the arms as although it isn't super-reflective, I think it adds a bit of extra visibility for road safety.
In making my first Surf to Summit for myself I found making the half-zip a bit of a faff so wasn't looking forward to doing it again twice in a row! Practice makes perfect however, and there's nothing better than learning to conquer your fears. A few things that may make it easier for others (it's really not as hard as I'm making it sound) are:
- Don't worry about marking the stitching and cutting lines for the half-zip placket during the cutting stage. The pattern piece is cut on the fold and you remove the section for the placket in the first step of the instructions, but until you get to that stage you're unlikely to know which bit is going to be the placket so it's a waste of time making markings through both sides when it's only necessary for one piece, which you would only go and cover up with interfacing anyway! Cut, make sure you mark the notches, but only mark the cutting and stitching lines on the placket after you interface it.
- I also strongly recommend checking your placket placement with a set square before stitching in your zip opening as it's easy to veer off slightly to one side or another and end up with a wonky zip!
I decided to change the steps in attaching the neck facing slightly so that I could overlock around the neck facing and zip placket neatly on the inside. Next time I would go further and reduce the amount of interfacing I use so that it doesn't show after I've trimmed off the excess around the placket.
What I did for the neck facing was:
- After completing step 13 as instructed, I pinned the neck facing in place in line with the seams but didn't stitch in the ditch there yet. Instead I formed the zip underlap, and then very carefully overlocked from the top of the placket (concealed under the neck facing) around the zip and the underlap, trimming off any excess along the way and securing the underlap in place. When I got to the start of the neck facing on the other side I disengaged my blade and kept going continously around the bottom of the neck facing til I reached the side where I began.
- My first go at this (on Angus's sample jersey) I didn't manage to catch the edges of the zip tape on either side of the placket so I had to stitch in the ditch along the sides of the zip from the outside as instructed, but on my second go on Dad's jersey I dared to go closer which meant I could forego stitching in the ditch by the zip, so a neater finish outside and in! I then stitched in the ditch as instructed on step 14 to secure the facing along the shoulder seams and a short way down one side of the zip that didn't have the underlap.
I hope that makes sense! I didn't get construction pictures as I went as I was sewing fiercely to a deadline, but I'm much happier with the finish of this than I was with the one I made for myself. Doing two cycle jerseys in quick succession I definitely saw my skills and execution improve rapidly, next time I make myself some activewear and I'm confident with the fit I think I might make two things side-by-side as it is way more efficient.
Other tips:
- Don't cut your notches too deep! I stupidly cut mine as though I were making a garment with a woven 5/8" seam allowance instead of the 3/8" and did have to end up reinforcing a few places with handstitching where the nick ended up too close to the seam.
- I ended up using a sewing machine for FOE elastic attaching, zip insertion and attaching the neck facing and hemming the sleeves, and I needed to use 3 feet; my regular foot (for the FOE stages), my zip foot for zip and placket sewing accuracy, and my walking foot for everything else that needed a sewing machine. Straightforward seams were done on the overlocker.
- One thing fitwise to watch out for is the armsyce. One both my own jersey and Angus's one we found this to be too close to the armpit. My dad's one seemed to be fine so it's obviously a personal fit thing and can be tweaked easily even after the garment is finished using the overlocker.
This seems to fit Dad pretty well at the chest and shoulders, although perhaps I could have taken it in a size for the waist and hips, and maybe made the sleeves a tiny bit longer. Overall though I'm quite pleased with this and hope it gets lots of use on his daily urban hill rides. Now to make a more polished version for myself - hopefully there's enough of that silver left!


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Four Steps To Success
The Four steps to success comes from traditional NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programing). It is a very simple , but effective way to basically get whatever it is that you want . The problem most people have is that they don't really know what they want , or they have such a vague idea of what they want they don't even know where to start to getting what it is that they so desire. So the four steps to success is a great model for achieving your goals .
Step one . Know your outcome. So the first part of this model is to know your outcome . you have to know what you want in order to be able to go after it . The trick is to be specific . For example lets say you would like to get in shape for summer . Well that is a great goal to shot for , but what is getting in shape ?Is it putting on muscle , is it losing body fat or a little of both . So you need to chunk down ( get specific )
So let say that getting in shape for you means losing body fat. So how much fat do you want to lose ?
How fast do you plan on losing it ? Give yourself a deadline . What exercises are going to get you to your goal the fastest ? What are some things you can do with your eating that will also contribute to you losing the weight .
So knowing your outcome is so important to getting what it is that you want . I should say being specific in knowing what you want is really the important thing . So that is step one .
Step Two . Take Action. So once you know exactly what you want the next step is to take action.
Taking action really inst as hard as a lot of people think it is . The challenge that most people have as far as taking action is concerned is that they are not totally clear on what it is they want . So they haven't gotten past step one . Once you know exactly what it is you want then you can start to take action . One of the reasons this system works so well is that in most cases the thing we want can be broken down into very small actions . For example if the goal is to lose 25 pounds in lets say two months. Well we can set up some very small actions to get us to that goal . If we educate ourselves on the goal and make a plan then there is little that will stop us from reaching it . So to sum up step two just take action its that simple , but here is a little hint if you did step one correctly then the actions that you will need to take should be pretty small , and not be to much of a pain .
Step Three. Be Aware. OK in NLP there is a term called sensory Acuity which is just a really fancy word for awareness . The whole idea behind this step is to be really paying attention to the results that you are getting from knowing your outcome , and then taking action. So if your goal is to lose that 25 lbs in two months maybe you figured on losing twelve lbs a month for two months .
Well maybe after two weeks you check your progress on the scale , to see your results maybe you only lost four lbs that week . So instead of giving up go back and really Analise everything you been doing .
Step. Four. Be Flexible.So the last step in reaching your goals is to be flexible . This step should be part of step three really . So you figured out exactly what it is that you want , you have taking massive action ,and you been really paying attention to your results , and low and behold you are not getting the results you want . So what do you do ? quite simply do something different. Keep doing something different until you get the results your looking for .