Reply To: [unofficial weekender] I'm late but not sorry

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And just like that a week has come and gone. Given the current state of the forum (from the last 5 entries 3 are mine and the second to fifth entry are older than 3.5 days) I would guess barely anybody is active here currently.

That being said I will continue this thread for this week and start a new one on Friday/Saturday. If I don’t forget.

Why wasn’t I so much active in the forum the last week? Simply put: I had almost no time to sit down and use the internet for hobby. Multiple reasons.

My daughter had to do a group assignment with two other girls on a subject they never had done before and that is supposed to be the replacement for a written test in two different school subjects. Deadline was Saturday midnight. Group assignments are bad to coordinate at the best of time but for 13 year olds with a task they have never done before this turned out to be a nightmare. The teacher really did a number on the kids with this one. Luckily the school year is almost over and next year the class is getting a fresh set of teachers. The kids were told to use a piece of software they never used before to write a song (what most of them never did before) about a subject they barely touched on in school. I’ve never seen my daughter cry that much in any of her 13 years prior to this week. (And by her records, everybody was weeping at some point). And to put some icing on that cake: last week also contained 3 written exams in other school subjects.

So by Sunday we (daughter, wife and I) where pretty much completely done for and could have stayed in bed for ever. But Sunday was Mothers Day in Germany and so of we went to the dragon my mother in law. An hours drive there, nice dinner in an Indian restaurant and an hours drive back. With some sitting around and talking in between. We started at 8am and where back at home 5pm. Absolutely wasted.

So as I’m writing this I am in the office and coffee (all hail coffee) is doing it’s thing. Pardon my ramblings but that needed venting.

Though I didn’t get to do much hobby I did build something on Saturday. I’m pretty sure @avernos will approve of this.

[Here should appear a picture of a squirrel feeder but the forum doesn’t accept the picture]

Parked the picture in my project:

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