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One of the things I like doing is helping other content creators out.  It doesn't matter if they're bigger or smaller, new to the whole content creation thing, or have been doing it for long periods, I just like helping.  

It's nice to be able to tell people you know who are going to watch your videos that there is someone else they might like.   It's just nice.   People have done the same for me and I always like it when it happens.   It's one of those things that makes you feel good either way it happens.

I wanted to put a video up this afternoon.   I wanted to have a nap.  I was tired.   The way things go here it is now 11:43PM and the video is still not up.   We do put up pretty good content quality-wise, I think.  But it takes time.  

And it isn't the time to make the one video.  If that was the only single thing we had to do in all the whole world of content creation, it would be fast and quick.  But getting all the things to the point where you can record, and dealing with software, hardware and in my case, plasticware, is all prep work or debug work.   Then there are the things you have to do after the video is ready to put up the video.  This is is subject on which I frequently complain, I know.   It just amazes me for the very small amount of content we put out minute-wise, the whole huge amount of work that has to be done surrounding it.  

The Big Boy Update:  My son got screens today.   He wasn't angry, he was too busy to be angry.   He forgot to eat dinner he was so happy he was online.   We will find out if he is in a good mood and nice tomorrow. 

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter wanted to go play on the playground after school.  She and I went together to play and she told me about how we would go around this one large structure together.   At one point she was going to go over a very tall arch and I asked her if she knew where it went.  She said, "no, but I have an idea."  I said, "I know where it goes."  She said with absolutely no malice, "well of course you do, you can see."   

Tomorrow I Need to Not Sleep. Or Something

I have got to stop being tired and get some work done.  We've been getting to sleep earlier because we've both gotten fed up with the late nights but I'm still tired.   Tonight it's 12:30 and I am going to bed in just three minutes so this will be fast, I hope. 

My jaw is still sore from the dental work, mostly the injections, which is odd for me.   But it happens.   I am trying with all my might to get work done on the architecture documents for delivery to him at the end of the weekend.  Tomorrow is Friday and from the amount, I still have to do, it's going to be a long weekend.  

The Big Boy Update:  My son has been nice, but he is on edge, wanting to have screen time and he is still liable to explode when he doesn't get it, and he hasn't been getting it.   Even so, he was so nice today and spent time with me doing his puzzle of The Mandalorian.   He is learning that being polite and nice has advantages.  Inside, he is still very short-tempered still.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter had to write a bio for herself and include things about how she got started with Braille and what she was looking forward to for the Braille Challenge.   I have no idea where this is going to be used, but it is somewhere we'll find out about soon enough.  

Dental Migraine?

I had some dental work done today.  Some fillings, nothing major but he had to numb me in multiple places and in one case twice and it took hours for my mouth to regain consciousness.   Then I had something unusual happen.  It may have been nothing related to the dental work but I got a terrible headache.   Was it the anesthesia, no, numbing, wearing off?   

I'm not sure but I had to lie down after picking my daughter up from school.  It's a good thing she wanted to talk and play some new game because I couldn't focus well and I needed her to keep my mind occupied so I could let the other half of my brain work on the driving.   

The Big Boy Update:  I called my husband after he had picked up my son to tell him two things.  My son started in on the, "we were in the middle of a conversation" and then he caught himself and was exceptionally polite.  We had a nice interchange and I said I didn't want to keep them from the conversation.  It was very nice for a change.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter wanted to play The Candy Store game.   I like candy and this candy store was a full block of a building with basements and amazing edible things.   She would grow up to be Willy Wonka if she could, I bet. 

Fifty Five Hour Pop

My night was going well.  I had gotten some things done today and the children were going to bed.  I came downstairs to change the filament in the print that had been printing on livestream for fifty five hours.  People were asking me questions and I heard a 'pop'.   Then the printer went a little crazy. 

We're not sure what the issue was, but the print wouldn't start working normally again and I had to terminate it with a little over ten hours to go.  Sad, that.   

So now I'm sweaty from having to deal with all the questions and advice and kind people who also had questions for me about 3D printing all while my newest printer may be broken in a way none of us had ever heard of before.   

I'll find out if it's okay tomorrow.  After some more dental work.   Tonight I'm tired and going to bed. 

The Big Boy Kindness:  My son is being kind.  And nice.   It's like that hard lesson sunk in.   How long will it last though?

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter's VI teacher emailed asking if they could have a mini assembly and have my daughter and Aditi, the other VI student talk about the Braille Challenge and have my daughter talk about going to Nationals.   Everyone is excited.   

He doesn’t hate me

I totally forgot to write a post tonight and I’m in bed and it's so late.  Tomorrow I shall write something more. My son got grounded from attitude this morning but tonight he was nice and kind and he went up to bed and then came back down and surprisingly said, “mom, I don’t hate you.”  I told him I loved him very much and then he turned and went off to bed. 

I Got a Bouquet!

My daughter sweetly came downstairs today and gave me the nicest bouquet of paper flowers she made at school.  We picked a 3D printed  vase to put them in.  They look so nice beside my computer.   My son and husband came down with a nice handmade card.   They were all kind and let me work and do my own thing for a lot of the day.  

I got some more done on the architecture worksheets that are far more information than I ever thought I would need to know about for the house, but it's all helpful information, I suppose. 

The Big Boy Update:  My son I am sad to say has been acting up more and more.  He disregards rules, is incredibly rude and insulting and can be just downright mean.   He pushed his father today.  He pushed his sister and then he pushed me.  He is nice and sweet when he's getting what he wants and the second he doesn't, for instance the doughnut he wanted had already been eaten, he comes down the stairs, yells at us all that we're awful for eating the doughnuts and we shouldn't be eating so unhealthily and there is nothing to eat and huff huff huff.    I ignored him.  He later tried to get his sister to make his lunch for him and then told her she'd melted the handle of the pot (that was only dirty) and proceeded to be nice to me if he thought I was going to make his food and mean and insulting or hiding avoiding responsibility otherwise.   And then he pushed me one more time when his father got home.   He is in his room now, he had no dinner and has not been let out.  He cried a lot.  Good.  He is exhibiting all the behaviors of a spoiled brat and a bully.   And we don't know where we failed.  Everyone else says he's nice and polite.  At home, he is most certainly not.  In particular if he's had a day or two of screens.   He is on a short chain.  A very short chain now.  My husband and I can't figure it out.  He's made his father so angry so many times lately.  And it takes a lot to my my husband mad. 

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter made me a chocolate chip cookie cake today.  She made the vast majority of it all by herself.   I don't know how she does it but she just never gives up.  She really is so amazing. 

All Alone With the Smoke Detectors

My daughter came to tell her father a smoke detector was beeping.  He decided to replace all the batteries and this time mark on them the month and year of installation for next time.   He asked if I remembered how many smoke detectors we had.  I told him I thought I knew but I could find out quickly.  I had written a blog post about it some time back because we had no idea how many smoke detectors we had until we did the first battery replacement.   

I used the blog search feature and found a post back in 2012 with the information we needed.   Search engines are just amazing things.   This evening we left our children for a few hours while we went to three houses on our street.  Two directly across the street and one two houses over for a street cocktail crawl.  

We have had people move in since COVID-19 started and have only waved at them in passing.  It was odd to be at a social event but things do seem to be getting back to normal, which is good and scary at the same time.  

The Big Boy and Big Girl Away Time:  While we were away at the street gathering I came back in the middle of the event to check on the children.  They were fine and didn't seem bothered at all that we had left or were even gone.  They had carried on about their day without missing us at all.  My daughter had fixed her own dinner and was eating it at the bar.  My son complained that he was starving and of course, didn't know what was available and if could I make it for him.   My children are very different in some ways.