What's everyone up to right now?

[ApeNotKillApe]

Watching The Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism.

[Jackalope]

Checked out of hotel #1, checked into better hotel #2, enjoying a frappe in the shade.

[Angrboda]

Getting used to my new office chair.  It's not as comfortable as my old one.  Is this buyer's remorse?

Teething issues? How long til you need to return it if necessary.

I already threw away the box that it came in, and threw away my old chair. I'll get used to this new chair. It will just take some time.

[Alex K]

Just got back to the hotel after dropping off laundry and having breakfast. We set an alarm and got up early today. Moving to a different hotel. Originally we were going for one outside of town. Then we came across a beautiful one in the heart of everything, changed gears and check in there today for our last 2 nights.

I'm already a bit sad that you have only 2 nights left. I got used to staring at the rain and hail outside and read about your cocktail adventures in the sun...

[Joods]

Just read Drippy's latest thread and am currently laughing my ass off.

[c172]

Going off to a movie, as per Drip Bear's thread. Also looking at the wiki for Survivor, trying to remember what tribe everybody's in. I always go for individuals, not tribes.

[c172]

Oh, and now a toilet leak. Guess I'm sticking around here.

[The Grand Nudger]

Obviously, posting and decompressing on AF. After dealing with child services and the county schoolboard these past 24 over a mystery pill found in my daughters backpack.  Turns out my house isn't a pill den bursting with neglected children and irresponsible adults in positions of authority.  The local elementary school is. That's what they get for assuming I'd be a toothless uneducated neck hiding in the woods, that they could bully around to cover their own incompetence.

[Joods]

Rhythm,

Sorry you had to go through that. Don't you just love it when the government assumes the worst about parents instead of looking to their own agencies, in this case the school, first?

[The Grand Nudger]

I had alot of fun with it when I was done sweating bullets, that's for sure.  Tried every civil way to resolve the problem before I turned into the stereotypical offended american.  They had me terrified, first, when a couple of unmarked cars came out here -here being the middle of nowhere- for a surprise inspection of my home.  Then when I thought my daughter might have gotten some meds out of my cabinet without me knowing it.  Then when they told me it was amphetamine...which it turned out not to be.

It got really weird when we found ourselves treated like drug dealers, after it had already become apparent that they were totally off-base, at a school we support, have two children in, and two more registered to go to...and when I learned that both of my daughters..1st and 2nd graders no less, in the school office, had been interviewed by law enforcement without my knowledge or any legal representation present, about me and my wife.  

To top it all off, when their little ruckus imploded even more quickly than they'd manufactured it, they stopped responding to our phone calls and wouldn't see me no matter how long I sat in their offices.  They got the "evidence" out of their hands ASAP so that even figuring out what it was or whether or not it came from our house came down to me doing their fucking jobs for them by dumping the contents of my cabinet on a social workers desk and demanding that I be informed as to what my daughter had.,....and where and when she had gotten it.  All information previously withheld from me.  

Now, all parties knowing all of this, they are completely uninterested in any situation which involves the question "how did my daughter get this at your school, or on your bus?" despite offering half assed -still sneering like I'm a pill pusher- apologies.  

They expected me to defend myself, rather than go at their throats, against seemingly endless "anonymous reports of" this or that....and the way I figured out the names of anyone involved...which they, to my face, told me they "didn't feel they were required to divulge" was just to ask my daughters who had spoken to them.  Did they think my children wouldn't tell me?  How did they expect to get away with any of this shit, honestly?  

So the uptake of this is that not only are they off the bus, they're out of the school as soon as we can get them registered elsewhere and my daughters have been told that in any circumstance in which they feel uncomfortable or are being questioned by adults the only words that are to leave their lips are "I want to see my daddy"...which just -has- to be great for their confidence in other adults and specifically educators.  

Well fucking done, cunts. Really looking out for the kids on that one.