Saturday, February 01, 2025
Swish Family Robinson 3!!!! 66-61
He did it! He said he would today, and he did.
Trump imposes tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, risking trade war
(Reuters)
The Heat begins its road-heavy February with a 23-23 record, hoping to find some consistency in the middle of an up-and-down season.-Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald
"Up and down," Tony? We've been two games under .500 twice and three games over thrice. That's not up and down, it's right in the middle all season.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Another plane crash (?)
This one in northeast Philadelphia. A medical plane crashed. That's two this week. (?)
Ew Esse Em Elle Ee
My daughter-in-law and I worked our sixth day straight today, a new record. We worked six and one-half hours. That's exclusive of breaks. Six and a half work only. I'm beat.
Ana is an elite, high-performance racing sail boat with an enormous sail. I learned studying with her months ago that the slightest breath from me sends her racing off at high speed. I don't know anything about medicine, but I know the first rule of medicine: Do no harm. I study Ana in addition to the subject and watch what I say.
I do know American test-taking. Ana had been studying by herself for months before I got involved. When I first sat down with her I studied whatever she studied. The Sketchys, the video lectures, I thought they were great and really enjoyed them.
Over the months though, I didn't think the videos were causing us to get the answers right to the actual USMLE questions, which seemed the whole point! I mentioned this to her. "No, the videos really help me." Okay, what the fuck do I know.
Over the holidays Ana got a long-distance tutor. "You learn from the questions", Dani told her. That same day I noted in my notebook, "Two videos??? When are we doing questions???" I didn't tell Ana what I had written when we got done. She called me that night and told me what Dani had said and then I told her, read her my notes verbatim.
But the videos have a hold on Ana that has persisted and they blow her off course. We watched two one day this week, and were going to watch a third when I said no. Today, after four hours, we took a Starbucks break and before we left my place Ana said she wanted to watch a video on the subject of the week, the gastrointestinal system. I was already tired. "We're not watching a video," I said. So we didn't. We did more questions and she did really well. As we got up to leave, Ana said, "Thank you for saying no to a video."
I haven't leared much medicine in these months, but I have learned when and where to increase my wind speed.
