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Even though a doctor's note is excused as of this year it will still count against the child. So really it is unexcused.

Per the .gov site. - Ohio law no longer references the distinction between medical and nonmedical excused absences -

And just like every year since my daughter has been in school she is 11 days in and she is sick. It's not horrible yet but still. A few years ago we were told if your kid is sick and especially if they have a fever keep them home. Last year she got wrecked. Took her to urgent care and turns out she had influenza B. was down for like 6 days. Couldn't get the fever to break. This year if that situation happens again she is already over the limit.

They will send you a letter laying out all the things that could happen up to and including suspending the parents drivers license. It's bullshit.

I get they are tying to combat chronic absenteeism but as with everything they are over correcting. There are some kids that miss a total of months of school. No notes. Parents don't call in the morning. Those kids are the issue. Kids that get sick often and/or have frequent appointments but who get doctor's notes and who turn in work from the days they missed and whose parents call in to call them off with a reason are not the problem.

/end rant

I was thinking about this last night. I distinctly remember having to line up so the teachers could comb through our hair with popsicle sticks. I also remember having to be inspected for scoliosis. we would have to stand straight and then bend over and they (not sure if it was a teacher or someone brought in) would run their hands down our spine. Lastly I remember them checking our BMI old school with calipers. They would grab a piece of our skin and measure.

I remember having to do fluoride rinses every so often too.

What was the point of this? I suppose I can understand lice because other kids could get it but you can't pass on scoliosis or fatness so why did they care?

Did you have to go through this?

Seems like weird shit back in those days. Today my daughter just goes to school you know.

Yes I know merchants have to pay but in my opinion that should just be part of running their business. I scheduled an appointment last week to get 4 new tires installed for tomorrow. I got a reminder text today saying that they charge 3% for paying with a credit card. I promptly cancelled. I was already going to pay $877 so there is no way I am going to pay an extra $26 because I am using my card. I'm just tired of everyone wanting more. Fees for everything. Service charges. I'm over it.

Yes I know. I could pay cash or use my debit. I can also cancel and go somewhere else which I am doing.

Just a small rant because I am mildly infuriated.

Quick backstory. She met a guy on tik tok and he is lovely. He is like 40 years younger than her and lives in Miami and is a stock trader. This is what she thinks. During the Superbowl there was a guy who streaked. Remember? Apparently that is the guy she thinks she is talking to. She told my brother he wasn't supposed to be in whatever city the game was and she was going to talk to him. My brother told me this. This is the first time I caught wind of it being bullshit. My wife and I looked into the name he was using and started snooping and doing reverse image searches. Yes there is a guy with that name. Yes that guy is some sort of trader. No that is not who my mom is talking to. We tried to explain to her that there is some person out there using the real guys name and images and passing it off as him. The real guy has tons of pics online.

My wife and I told her to call him or video chat. It has never happened. They only ever send messages. Several months back she told me he was coming to visit. I asked for flight numbers and shit and she said there are none cause he has a private plane. Of course this is bullshit. She told me they will be leaving together to go to Miami and if the vibe is right she is moving. Still has never heard his voice.

Now I am salty cause she is just going to split for a guy she has never met. I have health problems. She has her granddaughter here. Nope. She is going. Well dude never comes. She told me she would stop talking to him and has not. Now her and I hardly talk and I just get info from my brother.

Apparently all day every day she is talking to this guy. Her investment account is gone. She told my wife this. She says it is because the tariffs. About a month ago she sold her car. Told my wife she had to pay off a tax bill. I talked to my brother yesterday and he said she didn't pay the bill off. He asked her what she used the money for and she wouldn't tell him. So yep. I do not know for sure but I am pretty confident she drained her investment and sold her car to give money to this guy for X reason.

One of the last times her and I talked she basically told me I am an asshole for treating her like I did proving she is not talking to who she thinks she is and that I just don't want her to have a life. Nice right?

And not for nothing she is 70 and the guy she thinks she is talking to is younger than me. Even if she is talking to that guy it's fucked up she would want that relationship. The whole Instagram is him with chicks in thongs on boats and helicopters and shit. Total shallow seeming asshole.

So for 6 months or so now she has been talking to a person and has never heard his voice. No phone Calls. No video chats. He was going to come on a private plane to visit and then take her to Miami where she was maybe going to move. Now because of tariffs her investment is gone and because of a tax bill she sold her car.

WTF.

I have been using a Resmed Airsense 11 since February. I use a full face mask and rotate between an Airtouch and an Airfit. One has a memory foam seal and the other silicon. I do not have a beard. Since February everything has been fine until 3 weeks ago. I check my app every morning and it has been saying I need to adjust my mask. Some nights I can feel it leaking from the seal onto my neck. Also my water tank is usually about 1/3 full in the morning but now it is totally empty.

I checked my climate line and there are no leaks. I got a new cushion for each style mask and it still happens. I got new headgear and it is still happening. I called Lofta support and they said there are no error codes on my machine and insist it is something I am doing. I don't think it is. I use the same machine and settings and masks since when I started. I use the same pillow. Everything is the same. They said maybe I need a chinstrap to keep my mouth closed more so they sent me one. Nope. Still leaking.

It is driving me nuts because it was sudden and it is happening every night. Has anyone experienced this? How did you solve it?

They say it is me but my face and sleep habits are the same now as they were 3 weeks ago as they were in February.

I have been using a Resmed Airsense 11 since February. I use a full face mask and rotate between an Airtouch and an Airfit. One has a memory foam seal and the other silicon. I do not have a beard. Since February everything has been fine until 3 weeks ago. I check my app every morning and it has been saying I need to adjust my mask. Some nights I can feel it leaking from the seal onto my neck. Also my water tank is usually about 1/3 full in the morning but now it is totally empty.

I checked my climate line and there are no leaks. I got a new cushion for each style mask and it still happens. I got new headgear and it is still happening. I called Lofta support and they said there are no error codes on my machine and insist it is something I am doing. I don't think it is. I use the same machine and settings and masks since when I started. I use the same pillow. Everything is the same. They said maybe I need a chinstrap to keep my mouth closed more so they sent me one. Nope. Still leaking.

It is driving me nuts because it was sudden and it is happening every night. Has anyone experienced this? How did you solve it?

They say it is me but my face and sleep habits are the same now as they were 3 weeks ago as they were in February.

I am American. Been here all my life. Personally I would like to see a Universal Healthcare in this country. I don't understand the arguments against it. The common ones.

Taxes will go up. Yes they will go up. But the flipside to that is deductions from your paycheck will also go down. No more deduction every pay period for health insurance. Also no more copays for office visits and prescriptions. No more deductibles. No more copays for imaging and mobility devices. Seems like it would wash out to me.

It's not fair or I don't want my taxes to pay for people's food/healthcare. when they are lazy or don't want to work or whatever. That's socialism. How about these programs that are paid for with tax dollars and can be used by people that don't work? Between Federal/State/local taxes we have

Infrastructure

Public Universities and Community Colleges

State Police

State prisons

Court systems

State parks

Road Maintenance

Public schools

Libraries

Fire departments

EMS

Water/sewer lines

Public transportation

Jails

Economic Developments

So I would like to understand. Why is all that acceptable and not socialism but food and healthcare is? Why is is not your tax dollars when it comes to people eating or going to the doctor but totally cool with them going to school and using the roads and calling on the fire department?

The two main arguments of taxes going up (when it comes to Universal Healthcare) and it's socialism just don't seem to hold water.

I am a 48 year old male. I take 80 milligrams of Valsartan a day. I am so anxious about my BP all the time i take my readings constantly. Any number that is not amazing sends me on a spiral. I don't have my log just now but a few readings I remember are 126/64 from March 3rd.127/82 from March 18th. 117/74 from May 11.

My doctor finally convinced me to stop taking my readings unless I have symptoms. He said we will just check it in the office. So yesterday I had to go to the ER and my BP was 157/105. The doctor was not worried about it but now I am freaking out again. I just can't seem to get out of my head about it. I want to see 126/64 all the time.

What is your average reading and how did you finally relax about your readings?

People born the last 20 years or so have never known anything else. We came up in a time where we were not on camera all the time. These days you are pretty much on camera everywhere you go.

Another difference is while for the last couple decades we have been on camera a lot of the time with this surge of data centers and processing that footage can now be stored and also analyzed in real time. First cameras were in banks and on ATM machines. Then the store you shopped at would have a camera. Then multiple cameras. Now you go to Wal Mart and there are cameras all over the entire store and parking lot. They are on every register. Now the employees are wearing body cameras too.

When you are out an about you are on peoples Ring camera. You are caught on camera passing by stores. Now Flock cameras are all over the place. There is one right down the street from my house tracking everything all the time. There are about 100,000 Flock cameras in the US. They track every vehicle that passes. The license plate of the vehicle. The color. Identifying marks like dents and stickers.

Basically we went from in the 80's to being hardly ever on camera at all to then being filmed on camera to today where we are basically being tracked. Then throw drone capabilities into the mix. Law enforcement can use real time Flock data to find you then track you with a drone.

Those are all things we dis not consent to. We all carry phones and while it sucks they track where we are we consented to it. Same with GPS tracking in cars and such. We did not consent to tracked via these 100,000 cameras where the information is shared with who knows what agency be it government or private.

We are clearly in a surveillance state. How do you feel about it compared to how it was when we were growing up?

I really enjoy an interesting computer hacker/tech expert character. Who are some of your favorites?

Two off the top of my head are Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Series and even more than her I like Joey from the Orphan X series. Joey is probably my favorite. I wish Hurwitz would write a series with her as the main character.

I don't get it. She has only published three novels. Two of them were made into movies and one into a show. Gone Girl was published 14 years ago and is constantly talked about in the great thriller book conversations.

I wish she would publish more. Somewhere in the middle of 3 ever and Freida levels would be nice.

Most authors go on some sort of a run once they have a successful book. A new book every 1-2 years maybe. At least for a while.

Anyone know why? Did she just decide it writing was not for her?