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Super fun, kids were great.

But we’re getting the Dino fossil tour and the docent explained that there was soft tissue found in a TRex fossil and that theoretically they could splice it with chicken DNA and essentially clone it.

I have not stopped thinking about this for about 3 weeks.

You’re telling me that we’re basically living through an accelerated apocalypse and you have the audacity NOT to give us a TRex?

I think I’ve earned a goddamn TRex.

Don’t come at me with ethics because those are long gone. Every time I see the news I think ‘okay we can do that but not clone the TRex?’

I actually think it’s borderline unhealthy that this consumes my brain space (even if it’s mostly humorous) but what am I supposed to do? Call a therapist? How’s that going to go?

“Yeah I am just really frustrated about a fun fact I learned”

Anyways, I’m hoping writing it down will subdue it and get it off my chest so fingers crossed.

Season 2 episode 21 all hell breaks loose.

I’m on a rewatch and I can’t remember if we ever figure out what Ash wanted to tell Dean before the Roadhouse was attacked by demons.

Genuine curiosity/discussion question.

If the Knight King hadn’t killed and revived Viserion, would he have been able to break the Wall’s shield?

This is purely show perspective, I have not read the books. But the Wall was imbibed with ancient magic to keep the Walkers out, right?

Even with an army it seems like only the Whights (hope I have that right) had true thought and comprehension. The raised dead were just mindless and appeared to only have the “kill” mindset so they wouldn’t have been able to break through using trebuchets or catapults.

So if they wanted to get through the Wall there would only be what, four leading White Walkers to do all of that damage. Easy targets and not really possible if the Nights Watch is armed with dragon glass.

So back to my question, if Dany hadn’t ridden north would the White Walkers even have made it through?

Hello everyone! I’m a lurker on this sub, sometimes I feel like I know enough to comment but not super often.

Anyways I’d like to offer some unsolicited advice on documentation and a story where it’s been very useful to me.

If you track work output, write manuals, create documentation in a team using Word there is a thing called Version History. Going through this will show you what user did in each document and when. It will even redline (cross out changes) made between versions.

My unsolicited advice is that you start downloading copies of these before you notice there’s a problem with someone taking credit for your work (save it to your onedrive so it’s not infringing on company policy).

The story, I have several, is I worked in Legal Document Processing where one teammate would work on a document and a second and third person would review it. One of the reviewers would spend all day huffin and puffin on documents that should take maybe an hour to review. The job was not that fricken hard lol

Anyways, one day she gets one of my documents for review. She’s mumbling loudly, slamming on her keyboard, taking an entire fricken shift to make this scene. I didn’t say anything to her but went and checked the review notes later and they were scathing. I should’ve been written up by the apparently awful work I had done but everything she said she had corrected I knew for a fact I had done right.

But, I knew about version histories so it took me about 2.5 seconds to run the comparison just for it to show that the only change was putting the document id in the footer. I sent it to my boss with a screenshot of the review notes, just said putting this in front of you for future audits (because only review notes were audited).

The woman still works there, fine. I don’t know if she was spoken to but she didn’t try anything with my work after that.

Version histories save lives, or at least sanity

I will try not to write a whole book here.

My kids’ dad and I shared week on/week off custody. I knew this wasn’t going to work out. My family knew this wasn’t going to work out. Therapists, everyone just knew this would turn into me having full custody in short order. However for the sake of expediting the divorce due to finances I offered 50/50.

But, anybody who has gone through, or knows someone who has gone through, attempting full custody is very aware that documentation is key. My dad won full custody of us kids and yeah, it took years and a lot of documenting even though in the states eyes we were old enough to make the decision.

So, I built my case and wrote down when the kids asked to come to my house early, when he lost his job, when they asked me to send food, when they told me their dad hadn’t been home all night, every time he had an engagement with the police or he was acting weird (cocaine I could never prove that because it was hearsay).

All in all the hardcore stuff was maybe two weeks. The first week of school they were with their dad who brought them to *his* dads and just dipped out of town.

Now it was a shitty move on my part but I knew I finally had him. He couldn’t keep food in the house, was not consistently home, and now was neglecting their education. I was in contact with my kids, their grandfather that they were staying with and my ex spouse at the time. He was always “on the way.”

Two days in to missed school my dad and grandma started texting me group chat style. Grandma was concerned, dad was irate and started calling me a shit mom, bla bla bla and said he was going to go get the kids so they get to school. I told him no he absolutely isn’t because he’s an alcoholic and has never been allowed to drive my kids anywhere.

What I don’t think I’ll ever understand about this is *HE* went through this same process when my parents divorced and won full custody. He knows exactly what you need to be prepared to explain to a judge why a change in parenting like full legal and physical custody requires every possible detail. Especially only 3 months after the divorce was finalized.

Anyways grandma agreed that they would go get them and I said absolutely not. The kids are safe, I’m working with the lawyers who advised me to let them stay there and have my ex spouse to continue to dig the hole and to pick them up Sunday and gave them the date set for a judge to review our parenting schedule.

They disagreed, dad started calling me more names and said he was just going to go get my kids and take my kids from me entirely. Aside from having to let my kids deal with a shitty situation for a month (in order to save them from years of it) I’m an okay mom so I’m never worried about that but it just pissed me off.

So I responded back again saying “I have a process here, that you’re familiar with. We don’t have to like it but I’m paying a lawyer a lot of money to make sure this goes the best way it can for the kids and if you go near them I’ll have you arrested for attempted kidnapping.”

Now my grandmother is an amazing human. She was a little pissed but as a retired teacher was only thinking about school not big picture things. I actually lived with her most of my teen years instead of at my dads. She’s forgiven me for being harsh but my dad loves a victim opportunity and refuses to speak to me (which is normal with alcoholics, or at least my dad).

I’m not sorry I said it. I have full custody of my children now but I’m wondering if maybe I was the full asshole here with how I handled the communication.

Was I the asshole to my dad here?

My kids are in solid therapy that I pay for to work through everything the best they can. It’ll be a lifelong process because having an addict for a parent has a very vicious mental cycle for children.
I wish that wouldn’t have happened to them because they deserved to have their dad in their lives but he did not deserve them. He’s now looking at solid jail time and hopefully rehab after/during I have no idea. He hasn’t called them in about 8 months.

Edit: I apologize, I need to clarify that I didn’t tell either my dad or my grandma anything. She texted the kids to see how school went and they told grandma where they were, grandma told my dad. It never crossed my mind to tell them not to say anything but I wouldn’t have done that anyways.

Edit: thank you all very much. I think I came across like I wanted my dad around. I do not, but being raised by addicts a lot of times you can feel like you’re wrong for absolutely zero reason. Just because you’re right doesn’t mean you get to be a dick about it. I think in retrospect maybe I was more worried about my approach being wrong for my children than my harsh words to my family.
I feel better with your help.

What happened to the midwives?

I find it very hard to believe that Jon was kept a secret his whole life.

The marriage between Rhaegar and Lyanna was legitimized, written in the histories of the Cept, there was a witness (the officiant) plus a Grand Maester to write it down.

In the last few days we’ve covered that the Knights with Ned were so loyal that they kept the secrets of Jon’s birth.

But what about the midwives? Were they sent off to the silent sisters so they couldn’t speak of it?

And with Spiders and Little Birds everywhere how was it possible that the birth of a Prince’s son in such a salacious manner was hidden given the opportunity for so many witnesses?

I don’t know how far the books go but if spymasters knew as much as they did, it seems almost impossible they didn’t know Jon was born as Aegon Targaryen.

That’s probably the only thing I have difficulty with in the series and would love a conversation on.

So I moved to a new town and there’s quite a few parlors in town. I’ve been lurking at the work on Instagram and asking people when I’m out and about where they get their work done.

It’s *always* this specific shop and their portfolio looks incredible. So I know they don’t necessarily need my business lol.

I’m also looking for something that’s probably pretty basic and likely boring to do for the upteenth time but still a 4-5 hour piece. So not trying to get their attention over a quick flash. Im also hoping to scope out their advice on who could help me finish a sleeve I wasn’t able to complete.

That’s a lot of explanation to say I filled out their form but haven’t heard back in a week lol. Is it rude to follow up directly with the shop?