Gaashk
8d ago
He was never on my side, but he used to be able to show that he understands it.
That's true for me as well, but I really liked "The Colors of her Coat" a lot, and do enjoy seeing aesthetic takes from Scott, more than political lately.
Gaashk
12d ago
Orthodox Pascha aligns with Easter this year. No discount items in stores, but I got Holy Friday off. My daughter had half of last week and all of next week off, since this district is still proud of their Spanish Catholic heritage.
The Orthodox churches flip the Matins and Vespers services, so that Thursday evening is the Holy Friday service, and Friday evening is a funeral, Lamentations. Holy Saturday morning, we are already throwing bay leaves of victory, and focusing on the Descent into Hades icon. "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" replaces the Cherubic Hymn.
I had hoped to bring my 5 year old to Pascha, and she wanted to, but it's been snowing all day, we're up a twisty mountain road, and I'm not up to driving back at 3 am, or staying until sunrise. We've got a fire going, and baked tsoureki together today.
Gaashk
17d ago
Since it's Holy Week this week, it might be worth visiting a service if it's feasible -- Friday evening (Lamentations), Saturday Morning (Descent into Hell), and Saturday night (Pascha) are all highlights, but next Sunday is also very Paschal and lovely.
Gaashk
21d ago
It’s like having a family budget, and saying you’ll make big changes to protect yourself from too much debt, and never getting around to asking if you’re spending too much on housing.
This is very common, though?
Hence all the back and forth about "you're accusing me of eating too much avocado toast, but I can't rent a tiny apartment for less than $3,000 a month." Or people with 30 year mortgages -- they aren't usually just going to sell their home and move to a cheap house in the rust belt.
In the case of home economies, the solution is often more earners -- move in with their SO, crowd more roommates in, AirBNB the casita. In the US economy, the main thing coming up is increased automation, and I'm a bit surprised that after hearing so much about US economic policy changes, and so much about AI driven economic changes looming, that there seems to be so little overlap in the conversations as of yet. Or perhaps I've just missed them?
Gaashk
24d ago
I do recall a lecture at SJC about Hume and Eastern thought, I don't remember which strand.
Gaashk
24d ago
St John's main program is indeed Western Classics based, though they have an Eastern Classics MA program at their Santa Fe location, which looks pretty interesting. You imply there isn't a language requirement, but there is -- Classical Greek and a bit of French, as I recall. The way they study science, math, music, art, and language aren't entirely captured in the book list, since they are actually working their way through some of the texts as textbooks (or listening to the musical selections and singing them), not just reading them.
Mainly, they can't necessarily update their Books List in Current Year, because they know perfectly well that if they do that, it will open up the floodgates to the kind of purges many libraries have been going through, which would kill their niche.
Gaashk
26d ago
Electricians have to pass trigonometry. Plumbers must be able to contort themseves into rather small, awkward spaces, which is more weight and age than IQ limited. Poster Plumber on DSL said there’s a standardized test to become an apprentice plumber in CA.
Gaashk
27d ago
I'm finally starting to appreciate baby toys with baby boy (7 months).
The girls basically ignored their toys until they got dolls, and I wondered why all the rolling things, sliding things, wooden gears and whatnot even existed. But baby boy is into them! He has something with gears on it, and he actually turns the gears!
Gaashk
28d ago
It's perfectly reasonable for a parent's preferences to run artist>engineer>war>400 lb NEET who acts like an ungrateful wretch>homeless addict.
A son who reads poems at coffee shops and has interesting friends is nice. A son who's mostly known for eating all their family's food, messing up the plumbing and leaving it that way is not. The latter is surprisingly common among the working class families in my life.
My sense is not that, based on acquiring an education degree and teaching in public schools for quite some time. The trainings lately are so anodyne they are actually contentless -- like to the point of having the ice breaker take up literally the entire training time. For hours if necessary. "Have you heard about the iceberg? Let's talk about your Meyers-Briggs type and your own set of lenses for a few hours."
My sense is more that the teachers lately are very low on autonomy, mastery, and purpose in respect to their main job duties, and some of them have a savior complex which comes out in things like that, or filing false abuse claims against families they don't like.
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