Re: Meta, and all the things!

On 11/03/12 23:12, Jax Goss wrote:
> 1. It is so frikkin' cool to have TH clogging up my inbox again. I
> missed you crazy folk. :D

Yeah, 1100 unread messages as of yesterday. I'm catching up.


>
> I missed a bunch of threads what with happy birthdaying my little guy
> this weekend, and general slowness and lack of quick responsiveness,
> so allow me to do a run down.
>
> * The first book I remember reading was one of those read-along Disney
> things. Alice in Wonderland, the Disney version. "I'm late, I'm late,
> for a very important date"... Somewhere between following along with
> the tape, I figured out how to read the words. I could read when I
> started school, and, yes, to my teachers' credit, I was always
> encouraged to read above my age.
>
> (Which led to me asking my mother at the ripe old age of about 7 what
> a "period" was, because I'd been reading Judy Blume. But that's a
> whole nother tale.)
>
> * I do not have Aspergers. I am what nowdays they call "pre-diabetic",
> but that's about it.

That's like being a little bit pregnant. By the time you get diagnosed
as "pre-diabetic" you have probably had diabetes for ten years. Email me
offlist if you want any tips. I've been diagnosed for over ten years.

I'm definitely Aspie or similar. Typical geek, although there's no way
for an adult to be diagnosed as autistic around here. I manage software
developers and try to hire Aspies if I can.


>
> * I am also not left handed. But my grade 1 teacher believed me to be
> dyslexic because I drew my bs and ds and ss backwards. Turns out I was
> closer to ambidextrous, and my brain was getting confused. I can still
> use scissors with both hands. But definitely right handed. Left-footed
> though, strangely.

Definitely right-handed here.

>
> * I identify, if anything, as secular humanist. I had a brief
> Christian phase when I was about 11, but I got over it.

Agnostic here, although taught by Jesuits so you don't really want to
debate religion with me.

>
> * I am named for my great grandmother (my second name is "Mary").
> There is something of a tendency in my family to use family names, but
> it is haphazard at best. My child's second name is my father's first
> name. Had he been a girl, he'd have been called Kathleen, which, as it
> happens is both my grandmother and my husband's grandmother's name. It
> probably would have been a second name.

As far as I know I'm the first Bernard in our family for at least four
generations. I have no idea why.

>
> What else did you guys talk about?
>
> Oh! Buffy! *sigh* I miss Buffy. Nothing has really captured my heart
> the same way since Buffy. Doctor Who might. If I ever get around to
> watching the newer ones. I saw up to the end of Tennant. And then
> stopped.

I saw the first episode of the revival and haven't looked at another since.

>
> I suppose I might get back to it one of these days.
>
> Right. I think that brings me up to speed. I'm gonna make coffee.
> Anyone want some?

Mine's brewing now.


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Bernard Peek
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