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Comment Re:Congratulations (Score 1) 6

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

 

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 6

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 6

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

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Journal Journal: Verbiage: Kids are heavy 6

So, my son is around 20 pounds now. At my age, that's heavy. My left shoulder became sore from holding all the time he wanted to be held. So sore, i slept on my right side the last few nights just so it wouldn't hurt. But not only that, my daughter just had her one-month checkup and is at 7lb 9oz. She's also getting heavy. Sometimes, i want to hold her all day, but after a few minutes, i have to give up. She lying on my right shoulder as i type this right now. :)

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Journal Journal: 30 years on the net

Well, that escalated quickly. Or not so quickly. Looking at my post from 20 years ago, if you had told me just how much shittier the Internet would become, I wouldn't have believed you. There's a proverb that the web mainly consists of five websites, each full of screenshots and reposts of the other four, and it's not far from the truth. Social media brought us a social web usable by anyone, just as we imagined it in the 90's, but it didn't bring the democratization of knowledge, the social s

Comment Re: Incormation coding (Score 1) 284

No, they are not. The fork is female and the spoon male in German.

When I learned French, one of the hardest things was remembering gender of French words because they often differ from the German ones. Car (female in French, neutral in German) or the sun (male in French, female in German) come to mind.

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Journal Journal: Chronicle: 51 2

Oh me, oh my. I'm old and just getting older. But this year i got the best birthday present ever. My son was born just a couple days ago. I can't wait to take him home from the NICU.

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