Like 1.5x per week. Urban school with small play yard. City field next door, which they rent several times per week. But that’s to cover like 8 grades. Granted I grew up in the burbs – not that far from HSB and HAG – but it seems such a small amount.
No. I want to say it was 1 to 2 days a week, most likely 1. No 1 went to St Elizabeths (around 1999-2003) in Oakland and maybe he had it a couple of days a week. In Louisville for 5th grade and on it was once a week I think (Catholic school). No 2 and 3 were definitely once a week.
I wish! It’s just 2x a week and not so much by design as by the fact that they don’t have the money for a full time PE teacher so in our district the PE teachers cover multiple elementary schools. Also the PE teachers’ salaries are funded entirely by donations from parents, and we have been getting desperate emails from the school district about how the donations are a bit low so they may have to let one of the PE teachers go. Prop 13, baby!!! What a stroke of genius. When these kids become overweight and diabetic and need to go on meds, who will pay for that?
By the way, I this is just one manifestation of a failure begging for a reframing of how we think of kids. Currently, our government views them simply as a liability on the balance sheet, and so the focus is just on cost control. In reality, our citizenry is our biggest asset, and we need think of spending on childhood education as an investment that (a) will pay dividends in the future, and (b) is necessary to compete with other countries in an increasingly globalized and competitive landscape.
yes, 10th grade they still do. but they dont have to do anything physical if they dont want to!
also, it is just "go play basketball" as opposed to any sort of organized effort around playing or learning basketball.
i had PE thru 11th grade and it was graded HARD. i got B's in PE all thru high school because of all the various forms of athletic achievement (or lack thereof). and it was certainly from no lack of trying ...
As I look back, PE is where I realized I kind of liked and was decent at running. I can remember both in junior high and in HS the PE teacher getting pissed off at us and making us run all period. It never bothered me.
Physical coming up on Thursday. I lost 20 pounds of fat on advise from my last physical six months ago and put on about 10 pounds of muscle since then, but I suspect that I will still get a chin wagging about my blood work. I mean, he won't be wrong. I enjoy pork way more than I should.
We had Schintzel steaks last week, covered with thin layer of bread crumbs, fried with a thin layer of oil, eaten with a super tasty flavored sour cream thing, and purple cabbage & apple salad to go with it.
In the middle of PT. Just came back from it. Sore but getting a bit stronger. Still can't lift my heal with my body weight. But it's only been about 10 weeks since surgery.
1 - annual physical today, probably high cholesterol, etc etc
2 - surgical procedure tomorrow getting metal plates taken out of collarbone from cycling injury last year. probably a week of recovery and 3 wks before working out again.
Agreed! And they have beaten some really good teams to get here! Bucks and Celtics were arguably the two top teams in the East. It’s not like they got lucky with match ups, as sometimes happens
As an Arsenal fan (for many decades) I deeply resent and am angered by this remark. Arsenal supporters are among THE BEST in England, far outshining the yobs at such places as ManU, Chelsea, Millwall, Leeds, Newcastle and other clubs followed by neanderthals. Arsenal itself is a relatively progressive clubs in such areas as its early embrace of players of color and from other countries, it's support of LGBTQ fans etc.
Sorry. It was meant to be a joke. I don't think badly of Arsenal fans, nor do I doubt their efforts for positive social impact. Jokes are more impactful when they are specific, so I googled "who are the worst fans in the EPL" and multiple articles came up Arsenal - so I ran with it. So, you have my apology at my glib drive-by hack.
Fully accepted. I tend to over-react and be a drama queen. Surprised that Arsenal fans would come up. Within England the clubs I mentioned along with Wet Ham and Stoke have the worst reputations. BTW I could tell you stories about my encounters with opposing fans while living in England in the seventies and my encounters in my many visits over the years including last month. some other time....
Leeds had a bad rep back in the day. All the teams had their "firms". I wouldve put Millwalll and West Ham as the most notorious but they ALL had baddies. I was bemused to see fond remembrances from older Oxford United fans about their days in the "South Midland Hit Squad" and causing various opponent firms to "run". Quite the culture...
Was at the Giants game Friday night. Before first pitch was explaining to a Japanese student about splash hits and how the Giants have hit 99 in their 23 plus years in the park. A few minutes later Lamond Wade Jr. hit the 100th.
The Diplomat (Netflix, 16/19 WB). Finished the series. Very well acted, engaging story line, and smartly written. It's not perfect, but it's a tidy little first season. I am looking forward to S2.
Yes, I quite enjoyed that show - watched an episode of Transatlantic last night - which is ok, not quite a great show, but set in France in 1940, so I'm kind of sucker in wanting it to be good.
Saw boygenius yesterday at Stanford's Frost Pavilion - great show, Lucy, Phoebe and Julien are having so much fun. Each of them did a solo song from their own discography as well.
CNN is there to help broadcast bigotry, misinformation, and hate again as Nikki Haley says teenage suicide is partly because they have to share locker-rooms with trans kids.
Breaking: Trump lawyers spotted at DOJ. While it's not known why they are they, experts are saying that this is usually the courtesy "last chance to convince us why your client shouldn't be prosecuted" before they indict Trump on the classified document matter
UPDATE: The pool boy drained the pool in October 2022 at Mar A Lago and it ruined all the backup tapes at Mar A Lago. I, for one, totally think this is not suspicious at all - just a beautiful, perfect coincidence. Ask anybody.
Rep Boebert missed the debt ceiling vote and caught flak for it despite rumors that she just plain old missed it because she was tardy. She then doubled down that she skipped it as a protest. Now there's video evidence and it's clear she is, as everybody knows, was just tardy as a kid who never graduated from regular high school.
Stanford softball got to the 9th inning with Oklahoma tied 9-9. . . then Oklahoma got two more runs across. Oklahoma softball has now won 51 games in a row.
Saturday morning I did my usual stop at the farmer's market. One of the booths had a young woman working it wearing a Cal hat. I stopped and talked to her and she's an incoming freshman. Said she was going to study international relations. Go Bears.
I wore my Cal soccer jersey to the gym. Got a favorable reaction from a guy at the gym because he father went to Cal. It wasn't a "Go Bears!", but I'll take it.
Parents of the DBD: do/did your kids have PE every day?
No. 1 semester of PE in four years of HS.
Like 1.5x per week. Urban school with small play yard. City field next door, which they rent several times per week. But that’s to cover like 8 grades. Granted I grew up in the burbs – not that far from HSB and HAG – but it seems such a small amount.
No. I want to say it was 1 to 2 days a week, most likely 1. No 1 went to St Elizabeths (around 1999-2003) in Oakland and maybe he had it a couple of days a week. In Louisville for 5th grade and on it was once a week I think (Catholic school). No 2 and 3 were definitely once a week.
I wish! It’s just 2x a week and not so much by design as by the fact that they don’t have the money for a full time PE teacher so in our district the PE teachers cover multiple elementary schools. Also the PE teachers’ salaries are funded entirely by donations from parents, and we have been getting desperate emails from the school district about how the donations are a bit low so they may have to let one of the PE teachers go. Prop 13, baby!!! What a stroke of genius. When these kids become overweight and diabetic and need to go on meds, who will pay for that?
I just heard a story on the radio that Alexandria, Virginia may have teachers of PE, music, and art have to cover more than one school in the future.
Yup, our music teachers all cover more than one school. We have no art teachers
By the way, I this is just one manifestation of a failure begging for a reframing of how we think of kids. Currently, our government views them simply as a liability on the balance sheet, and so the focus is just on cost control. In reality, our citizenry is our biggest asset, and we need think of spending on childhood education as an investment that (a) will pay dividends in the future, and (b) is necessary to compete with other countries in an increasingly globalized and competitive landscape.
yes, 10th grade they still do. but they dont have to do anything physical if they dont want to!
also, it is just "go play basketball" as opposed to any sort of organized effort around playing or learning basketball.
i had PE thru 11th grade and it was graded HARD. i got B's in PE all thru high school because of all the various forms of athletic achievement (or lack thereof). and it was certainly from no lack of trying ...
It definitely wasn't like when we were in school. We had it every day and it rotated sports every 2-3 weeks.
As I look back, PE is where I realized I kind of liked and was decent at running. I can remember both in junior high and in HS the PE teacher getting pissed off at us and making us run all period. It never bothered me.
plus during block scheduling we go extra long periods to actually get good at something.
Doctor
Physical coming up on Thursday. I lost 20 pounds of fat on advise from my last physical six months ago and put on about 10 pounds of muscle since then, but I suspect that I will still get a chin wagging about my blood work. I mean, he won't be wrong. I enjoy pork way more than I should.
Pork doesn't have to be bad for you.
You've eaten pork several times with me, Cugel. Are you surprised?
We had Schintzel steaks last week, covered with thin layer of bread crumbs, fried with a thin layer of oil, eaten with a super tasty flavored sour cream thing, and purple cabbage & apple salad to go with it.
Tasted very very good, and not at all unhealthy.
Cabbage and apple salad. Sounds healthy to me.
Also, not all fried, that then roasted on a metal grid in the oven to finish.
Bad for the pigs who get slaughtered for it, also bad for the environment.
No where near cows 1/5 vs. 1/13
As of last month our doctor's office no longer requires face masks. After three years, it feels weird not wearing one in a medical setting.
Doctor, Doctor by UFO
https://youtu.be/FwNOmS78q-o
Iron Maiden play this song every live show just before they hit the stage.
I just bought that album!
how is achilles recover @HAG?
Dead, apparently.
In the middle of PT. Just came back from it. Sore but getting a bit stronger. Still can't lift my heal with my body weight. But it's only been about 10 weeks since surgery.
Foot surgery next month. Nothing major. Miss a day of work, wear a "boot" for two weeks than good to go back to the gym.
They put something in my blood today, takes at least a half hour.
2 appts this week
1 - annual physical today, probably high cholesterol, etc etc
2 - surgical procedure tomorrow getting metal plates taken out of collarbone from cycling injury last year. probably a week of recovery and 3 wks before working out again.
I didn't realize plates were later removed after recovery from a broken collarbone. Good luck with the surgery!
they said i can keep them in if i wanted. however there is a pesky little screw head that is right where a backpack strap would be.
normal backpacks are mostly fine, but a hiking or backpacking type weight would be long term annoying.
Turns out I have a lot of ear wax
I'm guessing dry ear wax? I think Asians are dry ear wax.
Got a physical today too. Being over 50 now means the doc will talk colonoscopy, I'm sure.
oh right. i got to ask about that too. but only because it has been 2 years already.
All went well and I lost 18 pounds since my last visit, so lost all the COVID weight and then some.
PRO
RIP Roger Craig, former skipper for the SF Giants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/roger-craig-former-giants-manager-for-eight-mlb-seasons-dies-at-age-93/ar-AA1c7UhY
Didn't realize he was a pitcher for dodgers and Mets
Former pitching coach for the Padres in the 70's
Humm baby.
Heat beat the Nuggets 111-108 in Denver to even the series 1-1
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401544847
From losing the first play-in game to now reclaiming home-court advantage in the finals. This Miami run has been incredible.
Agreed! And they have beaten some really good teams to get here! Bucks and Celtics were arguably the two top teams in the East. It’s not like they got lucky with match ups, as sometimes happens
Miami played an amazing 4th quarter before the furious comeback at the end by the Nuggets.
Not to be outdone by the Yankees, the Red Sox gift a little league home run to the Rays
https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1665440337458786306
Zlatan retires at 41
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65806224
Long live Zava!
Arsenal fans are going to have to step it up if they want to compete for the worst fans in football
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65804465
On a tangential note, a Man U fan was arrested after his poor-taste jersey went viral
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-65800061
Typical..
As an Arsenal fan (for many decades) I deeply resent and am angered by this remark. Arsenal supporters are among THE BEST in England, far outshining the yobs at such places as ManU, Chelsea, Millwall, Leeds, Newcastle and other clubs followed by neanderthals. Arsenal itself is a relatively progressive clubs in such areas as its early embrace of players of color and from other countries, it's support of LGBTQ fans etc.
Sorry. It was meant to be a joke. I don't think badly of Arsenal fans, nor do I doubt their efforts for positive social impact. Jokes are more impactful when they are specific, so I googled "who are the worst fans in the EPL" and multiple articles came up Arsenal - so I ran with it. So, you have my apology at my glib drive-by hack.
Fully accepted. I tend to over-react and be a drama queen. Surprised that Arsenal fans would come up. Within England the clubs I mentioned along with Wet Ham and Stoke have the worst reputations. BTW I could tell you stories about my encounters with opposing fans while living in England in the seventies and my encounters in my many visits over the years including last month. some other time....
LEEDS!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?????
Leeds had a bad rep back in the day. All the teams had their "firms". I wouldve put Millwalll and West Ham as the most notorious but they ALL had baddies. I was bemused to see fond remembrances from older Oxford United fans about their days in the "South Midland Hit Squad" and causing various opponent firms to "run". Quite the culture...
Leeds United Service Crew are still around and still active.
Was at the Giants game Friday night. Before first pitch was explaining to a Japanese student about splash hits and how the Giants have hit 99 in their 23 plus years in the park. A few minutes later Lamond Wade Jr. hit the 100th.
DBD AV CLUB
The Diplomat (Netflix, 16/19 WB). Finished the series. Very well acted, engaging story line, and smartly written. It's not perfect, but it's a tidy little first season. I am looking forward to S2.
I need to continue. I think I got through 2, maybe 3. Need to watch the rest. Been catching up on my other TV shows.
Keri Russell deserves a Golden Globe/Emmy nomination....whatever they do for series'.
I don't need to see her naked butt gyrating on Rufus Sewell's belly however.
Well, I don't need either, but not bad...eh
I have 3 episodes left. I have enjoyed watching it.
should we ask, why you continue to watch?
Haha, that was a typo.
Yes, I quite enjoyed that show - watched an episode of Transatlantic last night - which is ok, not quite a great show, but set in France in 1940, so I'm kind of sucker in wanting it to be good.
i have a couple episodes left. figure i'll watch more TV than average in the coming week recovery from the surgery thing ..
Saw boygenius yesterday at Stanford's Frost Pavilion - great show, Lucy, Phoebe and Julien are having so much fun. Each of them did a solo song from their own discography as well.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 5 star movie. No notes. So much fun.
seeing it tomorrow evening
Silo continues to be an intriguing show and I am enjoying it.
Are you an Up Top or a Down Deep kinda guy? Maybe the Mids?
So far, I’m thinking the safest place to be is the mids.
I’m in Judicial, keepin tabs on all you fooskies
Man, Judicial can take their Pez dispenser relic and fall off the stairwell.
Janitor room, baby!
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
CNN is there to help broadcast bigotry, misinformation, and hate again as Nikki Haley says teenage suicide is partly because they have to share locker-rooms with trans kids.
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1665529822909456384
Breaking: Trump lawyers spotted at DOJ. While it's not known why they are they, experts are saying that this is usually the courtesy "last chance to convince us why your client shouldn't be prosecuted" before they indict Trump on the classified document matter
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1665723334418415619
UPDATE: The pool boy drained the pool in October 2022 at Mar A Lago and it ruined all the backup tapes at Mar A Lago. I, for one, totally think this is not suspicious at all - just a beautiful, perfect coincidence. Ask anybody.
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1665813254118199296
UPDATE: It appears that is exactly what the DOJ was doing because Trump just posted his rage at being imminently indicted. Suck it, Orange Julius
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1665821264198479872
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1665827460347207684
tweet already removed.
DeSantis sends a dozen asylum seekers to Sacramento, again deceiving them about their journey
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/04/california-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard-00100121
kidnapping
Trump's Former Director of Communications called Trump a sociopathic grifter and it only took him one Scaramucci to find out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/he-really-wants-to-hurt-people-anthony-scaramucci-calls-trump-a-grifter-worse-than-most/ar-AA1c5Nus
Fox Anchor says Democrats are wrong for trying to save the Earth because they don't believe in an afterlife.
https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1665468327353896966
Rep Boebert missed the debt ceiling vote and caught flak for it despite rumors that she just plain old missed it because she was tardy. She then doubled down that she skipped it as a protest. Now there's video evidence and it's clear she is, as everybody knows, was just tardy as a kid who never graduated from regular high school.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/video-disputes-lauren-boeberts-silent-protest-debt-ceiling-claim/
She's the worst.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Indiana State takes a page out of Cheers' Coach playbook and get beaned TEN times to help eliminate Iowa from the NCAA Baseball Tournament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZJE1A_Igc
https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/boxscore/_/gameId/401551085
https://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/lists/iowa-baseball-social-media-reacts-record-hit-batters-indiana-state-sycamores-ncaa-tournament/
Connor Vanover is transferring to his fourth university - Mizzou. He turns 24 in a few weeks.
https://twitter.com/tiptonedits/status/1665538946359599106
That's also a superb neck beard
The extra COVID year + transfer portal has made a bunch of these situations something of a joke. Suiting up for 4 schools...smh.
Stanford softball got to the 9th inning with Oklahoma tied 9-9. . . then Oklahoma got two more runs across. Oklahoma softball has now won 51 games in a row.
HAHAHAHA! SUCK IT FURDIES!
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Saturday morning I did my usual stop at the farmer's market. One of the booths had a young woman working it wearing a Cal hat. I stopped and talked to her and she's an incoming freshman. Said she was going to study international relations. Go Bears.
OSKI 🌈👸
https://twitter.com/Oski/status/1664445987048521730
I wore my Cal soccer jersey to the gym. Got a favorable reaction from a guy at the gym because he father went to Cal. It wasn't a "Go Bears!", but I'll take it.
From the Front Page: Cal gets a commitment from a 2024 Safety
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-adds-2024-3-s-brooklyn-cheeks
From the Front Page: Cal Men's Crew back-to-back national champs!
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-mens-rowing-repeats-ira-champions-crew
Yay!!!
Katmai Park: re-enter the food chain at your own peril
https://twitter.com/KatmaiNPS/status/1665720916071022592
It's always fun to watch when they get the webcams turned on again.
I didn’t realize xkcd was interested in his retirement plans… https://xkcd.com/2784/
Extra EXTRA large parka - in case it rains - think about it.
100!