| cmaloney | Evening | 01:24 |
|---|---|---|
| rick_h_ | party | 01:29 |
| _stink_ | yes | 02:50 |
| cmaloney | Good morning | 12:04 |
| brousch__ | yes | 12:42 |
| rick_h_ | morning | 12:42 |
| rick_h_ | but ugh ugh ugh | 12:43 |
| brousch__ | I didn't even have to use my ABS | 12:43 |
| brousch__ | Crap. Supposed to get 9" of snow over today and tomorrow | 12:45 |
| cmaloney | brousch__: yeah, we're looking for a few inches of snow | 13:42 |
| cmaloney | Not looking forward to shoveling | 13:42 |
| cmaloney | will wait until spring. | 13:42 |
| rick_h_ | lovely, open weather.com to "Deep Freeze Sweeping Several States: Record Temperatures Expected" | 13:44 |
| * rick_h_ notes to make sure hte snow blower is fueled and working today | 13:46 | |
| cmaloney | Yeah, no kidding | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | JoDee was upset that noaa.gov had the "chilly guy" for today. | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | I swear my son doesn't want to live another year. | 14:26 |
| cmaloney | heh | 14:27 |
| cmaloney | What did he do now? | 14:27 |
| rick_h_ | threw a fit that led to saying things best not said which led to a timeout which led to just trying to poke the bear | 14:29 |
| cmaloney | Ah, so he's learning tact the hard way | 14:30 |
| brousch__ | Probing the boundaries | 14:33 |
| rick_h_ | being a whiny little snot too smart for his own good who's going to end up without a single toy in his room more like it | 14:34 |
| brousch__ | "What would actually happen if I said x"? | 14:34 |
| rick_h_ | the issue is he's still not learned he's got one of those stubborn "I'll do what I say" dads | 14:34 |
| brousch__ | They hear the threats, and occasionally must see if they are not idle | 14:34 |
| rick_h_ | and it sucked the one time I had to go into his room and find somewhere to put every stuffed animal he owned (that was last year maybe?) | 14:35 |
| rick_h_ | only has 50 of those dippy things | 14:35 |
| brousch__ | My goal is to never threaten a punishment that I am not actually willing to enforce | 14:35 |
| rick_h_ | +1000 | 14:35 |
| rick_h_ | it's like dog training | 14:35 |
| rick_h_ | I swear it's so much like learning to train a dog | 14:35 |
| brousch__ | Yes | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | with a dog that is trying very hard to be smarter and more clever than you | 14:36 |
| brousch__ | I banned my son from the movie theater for 12 months | 14:36 |
| rick_h_ | consistent, same correction every day, inconsistent rewards to keep them wanting more...I've got a 5yr old lab and a 49yr old lab | 14:36 |
| rick_h_ | if only the older would teach the younger | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | 49y/o lab? | 14:37 |
| rick_h_ | jordyn (doggy year translation) | 14:37 |
| * brousch__ hopes he doesn't mean his wife | 14:37 | |
| cmaloney | Ah | 14:37 |
| rick_h_ | lol | 14:37 |
| cmaloney | Was having trouble parsing that | 14:37 |
| brousch__ | rick_h_: But if your son is being unusually naughty it could also be because of something unrelated that he is having trouble talking about | 14:40 |
| rick_h_ | brousch__: no, he just had a melt down because his mom said he could play the lego batman game on his tablet but it wasn't charged | 14:40 |
| brousch__ | It can be hard to extract the true reason for the behavior, but enlightening if you can get there | 14:40 |
| rick_h_ | so dad had to explain it, he had meltdown, and then he had to take it 100x father than it needed to go :) | 14:41 |
| brousch__ | Those are fun | 14:41 |
| cmaloney | "This wouldn't have happened had I had an iPad. Stupid Android Household" | 14:41 |
| rick_h_ | good old fashioned case of "here's some candy...oh you can't have this candy right in front of you" and therefor...the world has ended | 14:41 |
| rick_h_ | no, in an apple household we'd all be taking turns on the 30pin charging cable and nothing'd be charged :P | 14:41 |
| cmaloney | heh | 14:41 |
| brousch__ | I always ask him, "Do you really think this behavior/attitude is going to fix the situation?" Then toss him in his room while he contemplates it | 14:41 |
| rick_h_ | yea, we did the "have I ever given you something you wanted because you threw a fit?" "then do you think throwing a fit is going to help you this time?" | 14:42 |
| brousch__ | Eventually it will stick ;) | 14:43 |
| rick_h_ | and then it turns into "I don't like this winter coat, please take it back and get me a new one" | 14:43 |
| rick_h_ | or "I don't want to wear these shoes, I want to wear my nice ones today...in the snow/slush...they won't get dirty" | 14:43 |
| rick_h_ | and so on and so on | 14:43 |
| rick_h_ | wheeeeeeee | 14:43 |
| rick_h_ | while daddy takes deep breaths "I will not just pick him up by the scruff of his neck with my one good arm and throw him into his bed!" | 14:44 |
| brousch__ | How old is he? | 14:44 |
| rick_h_ | :) | 14:44 |
| rick_h_ | 5 for a week | 14:44 |
| brousch__ | Seems like 4yrs was the biggest problem for mine | 14:44 |
| rick_h_ | yea, he's too smart for his own good but not yet bright enough to go big picture | 14:45 |
| brousch__ | 5 was similar, but the fits got shorter | 14:45 |
| cmaloney | He needs management traning | 14:45 |
| rick_h_ | "my leg hurts, I can't put my shoes on" "if you lie to me what happens?" "well it hurts just a little bit, |-| much" | 14:45 |
| rick_h_ | and you can hear the "now prove to me my leg doesn't hurt just a little bit daddy" | 14:46 |
| brousch__ | Think of the patience he is teaching you | 14:46 |
| rick_h_ | between him and work I should be giving seminars :P | 14:46 |
| rick_h_ | and GSoC is coming again gah! | 14:47 |
| rick_h_ | anyway, back to work now that he's left the house with mom. she can now swoop in and save the day | 14:48 |
| _stink_ | rick_h_: haha i love it: while daddy takes deep breaths "I will not just pick him up by the scruff of his neck with my one good arm and throw him into his bed!" | 16:14 |
| _stink_ | those are pretty much verbatim things my kid has said | 16:15 |
| _stink_ | you are not alone | 16:15 |
| brousch__ | No, no, you pick him up by the waist and set him in bed | 16:16 |
| cmaloney | Neck is more effective IMHO | 16:18 |
| cmaloney | (no, I'm not serious) | 16:18 |
| greg-g | I see it was a "dad's vent" morning :) | 16:38 |
| rick_h_ | it's a rick_h_ vent morning. /me needs to just go crawl back into bed | 16:43 |
| greg-g | I wish | 16:44 |
| greg-g | I mean, not you, me :P | 16:44 |
| rick_h_ | lol | 16:44 |
| rick_h_ | I think my next project is to start a manager support group | 16:44 |
| greg-g | haha, I'll sign up | 16:44 |
| rick_h_ | or maybe that's my startup, manager therapists | 16:44 |
| greg-g | "life coaches" are popular, should bank on that somehow | 16:45 |
| rick_h_ | hmm, yea we'll go for the niche manager market | 16:45 |
| rick_h_ | we'll need an app though | 16:46 |
| greg-g | leadrs.io | 16:46 |
| rick_h_ | and a mobile plan that's VR ready | 16:46 |
| rick_h_ | so you can use your oculus to attend support meetings | 16:46 |
| rick_h_ | with built in hipchat backchannel communication | 16:46 |
| _stink_ | what about hugs | 16:48 |
| _stink_ | it needs support for hugs | 16:48 |
| rick_h_ | some people don't like hugs I've recently found out | 16:48 |
| rick_h_ | find them creepy | 16:48 |
| greg-g | I find those people creepy | 16:49 |
| greg-g | :) | 16:49 |
| _stink_ | robots arms for virtual hugs | 16:50 |
| brousch__ | hugs by proxy. You each find the nearest person to hug | 16:56 |
| brousch__ | Uber for hugs | 16:56 |
| _stink_ | huggr | 16:58 |
| greg-g | .io | 16:59 |
| brousch__ | Looks like it's for sale http://hug.gr/ | 17:00 |
| brousch__ | Only 1000 units of some money | 17:00 |
| greg-g | dogecoin | 17:01 |
| cmaloney | Life Coaches are so 2000s | 17:02 |
| cmaloney | Maybe a Life-Guide instead | 17:02 |
| cmaloney | Life-Conductor | 17:03 |
| greg-g | Choo Choo! | 17:03 |
| cmaloney | OH, how about Life Guard. I'll bet that hasn't been thought of yet. | 17:03 |
| greg-g | nope, totally original | 17:03 |
| cmaloney | I'm sure there will be a pool of money waiting for us. Perhaps even an ocean | 17:04 |
| greg-g | I'm happy with a small lake, don't want to be greedy | 17:07 |
| _stink_ | yeah you only need a small lake for your first one | 17:08 |
| _stink_ | you use it to fund the ocean maker | 17:08 |
| greg-g | oh right | 17:09 |
| greg-g | I really hate the new floating (+) to create new whatevers on google properties (gmail phone app:new message, docs.google:new document, etc) | 21:35 |
| greg-g | also, seriously, their QA sucks | 21:44 |
| greg-g | I click on the little vertical 3 dots next to a document, click on "open in new tab" and nothing happens | 21:44 |
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