• Kaizen
  • Thanks to W-‘s tips, I found it much easier to hang up my bicycle on a hook.
  • W- built legs for the cabinet at the front.
  • I reglued part of the organizer. Since the 90-degree clamps couldn’t fit, I clamped it together using a couple of blocks.
  • I’m pleased with the evolution of my coding skills. I think I’ve gotten the hang of async, and my markup conversion functions even have Mocha tests.
• Us
  • I hopped on my bike to do some errands.
  • We went for a bike ride. That was pleasant!
  • W- and I enjoyed homemade cake with homemade ice cream.
  • My neck was a little sore from working on the computer.
• Field trip
  • I took A- to Home Hardware and Creatron so that we could get motors, gears, and a battery case for the ATM project. A- clutched her yellow dual-shaft motor all the way to E-‘s house.
• Gross motor
  • A- really liked riding on my shoulders as we walked through the neighbourhood. I figured she was still getting balancing practice.
  • The babysitter took A- to the little zoo and playground.
  • The babysitter turned a large sheet of cardboard into a skee ball arcade game.
• Language
  • A-: “Can I get a Mason jar? With a straw?” Me: “How does it fit?” A-: “Perfectly well.”
  • “We have to tidy up for the babysitter. Otherwise, the babysitter will see a mess. I want even the boys to clean up,” A- said, telling W- to put things away too.
  • We were saying goodbye to E-. He said, “No bye bye! No bye bye!” A- said, “Yes bye bye! I have to go home.”
• Music
  • While having a bath, A- made up her own version of Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word. My favourite lines: “If it breaks, don’t say anything.” “If you push the donkey, it may hurt.”
• Emotion
  • A- climbed over my arm several times. As she did so, she said, “Brave A-.” She alternated that with sitting on my laptop and saying, “Scared A-.”
  • I absentmindedly hung my pants on the towel hook. When I returned to the bathroom with A-, she found that hilarious.
• Household
  • A- was curious about the hand plane and the drill press. She also practised using the power driver.
  • A- helped W- unclog the drain.
  • A- and the babysitter baked and decorated sugar cookies.
• Social
  • A- opened the cutlery drawer a few times, exclaiming variants of “Very cool!” I’m not entirely sure if she was buttering me up to get popcorn or imitating my satisfaction with the organizer I made.
  • We visited Joy and J-. We read books and made playdough. It was good to catch up. We swapped A-‘s wooden puzzles for a playdough extruder.
  • At the parenting workshop, we learned more about positive parenting and behaviour. A- played with the childminders for most of the session.
  • A- and E- played with a ball game, a hose, and a sprinkler.
• Pretend
  • I made dust masks for A- and me so that we could pretend to be dentists.
  • A- said to W-, “Let’s play Dead Bird!” W- said, “Dear kindergarten teacher: it’s not what you think.” We had cleaned up a dead baby bird this week, so she wanted to pretend to pick up more birds.
• World
  • A- enjoyed chasing rainbows made by a prism.
• Oops
  • We forgot to round up all of our garbage. Oops!

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• 2019-07-01 Emacs news

Time

So much consulting this week! There was an interesting time-sensitive challenge at work, so I jumped on it.