Baby Yoda mastered the army crawl a while ago, and he's also been rocking back and forth on hands and knees in preparation to crawl.
Yesterday, Husbinator and I finally saw him take two shaky "steps" on hands and knees. Yay! Within the next 30 minutes, we also witnessed Baby Yoda demonstrate how to crawl up a step, pull himself to standing, and walk while holding onto furniture.
As long as Baby Yoda doesn't use the Force, we're fine, right?
Last week, I lost work multiple times due to power failures. A few days later, while taking copious notes on a hard copy of a patent, I was stopped by a feeling of momentary panic. I glanced to my side and saw my left hand outstretched, pinky and ring finger desperately extended in a failed attempt to press control-S, while the tiny piece of my brain that wasn't analyzing the patent frantically screamed for backup.
I laughed at myself. But I only laughed after I used the entirety of my attention to check and double-check that my work was indeed safe.
I have already seen personal, concrete results from the establishment of official diplomatic ties between Israel and the UAE.
In fact, had I opened my Spam folder, I would have seen these results three days ago:
Ah, opportunity! Nice to see that people don't waste time.
We went to Ashdod today, and we had a lovely, low-key time at the little zoo there and then the beach.
The subject of this blog, however, is a headline in a local paper:
"There is nothing new under the Sun!" The Teachers, According to Their Well-Established Tradition, are Threatening to Strike at the Opening of the School Year
Will there be a strike? The answer is as always, there will apparently be a strike on the first day of the new school year, starting at 7 am."
The article is very short expansion of the headline, and ends with the reminder that we know the drill: the teachers union generally threatens to strike on the first day back, but they almost never actually do. But seriously, what a great headline.
BSM and FF have been really been enjoying (and learning a lot from) ABC Mouse, which is a full curriculum of online lessons dressed up as a computer game.
After each lesson or activity, the kid gets a few tickets, which can be redeemed for accessories in the game, such as pets or room decorations. BSM swings between hoarding and spending his tickets, and lately he's been saving up to get to 2,000 tickets. I commented today that he had over 2,000 tickets, and he said, "Yeah, I wanted to see if things would cost more tickets since I got so many."
