Just make sure you get the unlimited mileage if you go that route...

Just reserved a car for the weekend.

Window is still OK. Think it may be the fuel pump. We'll be at the Nissan door waiting for them to open. Until then the kids are enjoying the waterslide.

Luckily there is an Enterprise down the road if things go from bad to worse.

fixing a window?

Inch by inch, mile by mile I'm gona make to Indiana...

doughers making an unscheduled stop at the rapiid city nissan dealer for repairs.

yes, I just got a text from her with that garden song on it.
Like I'm not already surrounded by that.

Last day of school here too...
Tracy must be on the road already...

lots of important business up here including the last day of school and last day of being six.

The wedding party has begun in LaFayette, can't wait for the rest of you to arrive to join in!

It doesn't really matter, just seeing if you were aware of discussions around that phrase.

The other term I've seen discussed a lot on reddit is "ad hominem". That one's funnier though, because its usage has changed three times, so the people arguing for the "formal" usage are actually arguing for a non-original usage.

Oh, and there's a lot of discussions on whether something is truly "irony" or not. Apparently that word is heavily misused, which for some ironic reason leads me to the odd pleasure of intentionally using the word entirely incorrectly.

All that tells me is I should have known my audience better. Apparently, I'm talking to mathematicians.

Who has been listening to The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe?

Writers who were not taught logic in school — evidently a great many — will think that 'to beg a question' means 'to give rise to a question.' In that they are like the multitude of writers who have appropriated technical but dimly understood language. A parameter, for example, is 'a constant, with variable values, used as a referent for determining other variables.' If you are a mathematician, that definition from Webster's New World College Dictionary probably means something to you. If you are not a mathematician, you are probably using parameter to mean a boundary or limit or guideline, or perhaps nothing in particular. People do write this way. Some even talk this way. Eventually, loose applications of technical terms to different contexts find their way into the dictionary, some embedding themselves in the language. That is fine. But in the interval, anyone who wishes to write precisely will be cautious.

Yes, she was wearing her new helmet that she won at the school safety week. However, it had not been adjusted properly and it flew off her head as she flew off the bike. I think the poison-ivy was a soft landing because the only thing really hurt was her pride.
Thomas and Veronica went on a 14 mile bike ride yesterday. Guess they had lots of fun.

thank you reddit lite.

Begging the question (or petitio principii) is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premises.

The phrase begging the question, or some variant thereof, is sometimes used to mean "a question that begs to be asked, usually because it is obvious to all." Using the term in this way, although common, is considered incorrect. This incorrect usage is the result of confusion over the translation of petitio principii, which literally translates as "assuming the starting point." However, petitio also means begging; as a result, the phrase "'this begs the question' seems to mean that this begs us - asks us earnestly, entreats us - to raise and consider the question."

That begs the question: What kind of workers rights exist in Russia to begin with? Perhaps, Putin could begin there?

Was Daniela wearing a helmet? Because I had a friend get hit by a car that wasn't wearing a helmet, and that was pretty gross.

interesting read about problems in Russia

Hopefully Daniela will not be experiencing poison ivy after her fall into the ditch. We went bike riding with Aunt Veronica on the Montour Trail yesterday. It was beautiful until that little mishap.

hagenbaugh. damn lefty.

must be expecting the curveball standing up in the box like that. who's pitching them curveballs?

Yeah I weeded some out of my garden yesterday too.

Let the annual battle with the poison ivy begin.

great news here: Payton found a plastic egg from Easter while we were cleaning this morning. Easter is officially over!
eo.

it was a present to me for graduation or birthday, or both. The flower contact paper was to cover all the stickers and sticker remains on it when I got it

I am so proud of my wife!

When I bought it from Sarah, she said Eric had purchased it. Note also, the price she charged me was higher than the price Eric purchased it for.

I don't remember buying a fridge. I think my roommate had one. But I could be forgetting....I am almost 40, you know.

does it smell like an egyptian racing dog or a starving indian?

I thought that was Tracy's fridge first?

if that fridge is really the same one, it was bought used for $39 in 1988 in front of LAR in Urbana. Didn't have flowers on it when I bought it though.

Taod, I was thinking I would probably drop them off at your place, anyway. I'm glad you're on board with it.

the Youngs don't know it yet either

Love the shirt, Michele.

And by the way - I am in the boat behind Eric. You just don't
recognize me.... for various reasons.

Mom, Edgardo said you are wrong...we made a little place for the kids in the basement (not even finished yet) and they think it is so cool (like Lauren's Basement) that they hang out there even when we are not down there. Or maybe they realized that ALL the toys have migrated down there with them, but mostly they play cards. Daniela is teaching Thomas how to play spit.