It's been a while and I'm just checking in. I hope everyone is doing well.
I've got got nothing new to report. I'm still happily married (second time was a charm) and have been busy raising step kids, doing a lot of charity work, practicing law, and trying to develop my little real estate vacation rental business so I can hopefully retire in about six years.
Hurricane season remains stressful as always and the pandemic is not without its financial and health anxieties but work from home rocks. All of the courts in my area have moved to video proceedings so I almost exclusively work from home. I believe when all settles down, this is the future and I love it.
Anyhow, carry on...there's nothing much to see here.
But...but...but...how is the boat?
Wow! Blast from the past!
You probably won't be surprised that not much has changed here, either. I used to bitch about the Shrubbery, not I bitch about the Trumpeters. :lol:
I retired from teaching for about six weeks this summer, but they pulled me back in to teach one course of my choice, because they needed to keep class sizes down. I'm kinda liking the four-day weekends every week.
Good to hear from you.
I thought you'd been poisoned, stabbed and drowned! How the heck are you still alive? :ph34r:
WB LJ :cheers:
Quote from: PDH on September 17, 2020, 09:32:59 PM
But...but...but...how is the boat?
Which one? :)
I have an addiction, but for which, I'd have already been retired.
I've downsized to a 23' center console that's on a lift behind my house. I cruise up and down the river but the Bachnalia is over.
Once a year I bareboat charter a 50+ footer somewhere for nine days. Last year we rented one in in raietea (French Polynesia) with an ambition of seeing all of the Society Islands. We reached bora bora on day three and loved it so much we just circled bora bora for the next five days. For any who have ever thought about going, it's the prettiest place I've ever seen, and was worth the nineteen or so hours of flight to get there.
This year we have a 51 rented in st Lucia and we will be hopping the grenadines to the south. I've been to Saint Lucia but not to the islands to the south so I'm excited.
Quote from: grumbler on September 17, 2020, 09:36:03 PM
Wow! Blast from the past!
You probably won't be surprised that not much has changed here, either. I used to bitch about the Shrubbery, not I bitch about the Trumpeters. :lol:
I retired from teaching for about six weeks this summer, but they pulled me back in to teach one course of my choice, because they needed to keep class sizes down. I'm kinda liking the four-day weekends every week.
Good to hear from you.
What do they have you teaching?
I've missed your keen insight into the only sport that matters, college football, but alas it's already painful to be a nole and we are only one week into the season.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 17, 2020, 09:41:57 PM
I thought you'd been poisoned, stabbed and drowned! How the heck are you still alive? :ph34r:
WB LJ :cheers:
I don't worry about the death threats; they are like barking dogs. It's the quiet ones that just stare at me that cause me to exercise my concealed carry rights. :P
Hi!
I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.
Hi! I hang out on Languish these days.
How the lowly have fallen. :(
Hello :)
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 17, 2020, 10:52:33 PM
Hi!
I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.
Congrats on both. What do you teach?
Hey Ras - about a year ago you PMed me about a Canadian law question. You wanted me to call you, but I couldn't because out-of-country calls are blocked on our government phones. :rolleyes: I PMed you back asking you to call me, but I never heard any more about it.
What was that all about?
Hello! :w00t:
Quote from: Barrister on September 18, 2020, 10:24:09 AM
Hey Ras - about a year ago you PMed me about a Canadian law question. You wanted me to call you, but I couldn't because out-of-country calls are blocked on our government phones. :rolleyes: I PMed you back asking you to call me, but I never heard any more about it.
What was that all about?
Someone defrauded one of my clients. I had a $9mm judgment against the fraudfeasor who ran some of the money through the a Royal Bank of Canada do I was trying to figure out who to hire to open a proceeding and follow it. It turned out to be a dead end. We only collected about 2.4 on the 9 and the fraudreasor is going to be in federal prison because of the other 12 victims of his crimes who got nothing.
Quote from: Rasputin on September 18, 2020, 05:53:28 PM
I had a $9mm judgment against the fraudfeasor
Is that like Judge Colt and his jury of six?
@brain. :D Nope, just money.
Quote from: grumbler on September 17, 2020, 09:36:03 PM
but they pulled me back in to teach
Was it kinda like that?
https://youtu.be/UneS2Uwc6xw?t=57
Quote from: Rasputin on September 17, 2020, 09:29:37 PM
It's been a while and I'm just checking in. I hope everyone is doing well.
Welcome back! :)
Quote from: Rasputin on September 18, 2020, 05:07:07 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 17, 2020, 10:52:33 PM
Hi!
I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.
Congrats on both. What do you teach?
This is my second semester.
So far, I've taught 'English Conversation', 'Basic English Conversation', 'Practical English Conversation, 'Basic English Composition', 'Internet English', and 'TOEIC English'
TOEIC is a big professional English exam that corporations and government agencies in Korea and Japan use to evaluate employee English.
Is Internet English mainly going through the various memes? :lol:
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 22, 2020, 02:27:58 AM
Is Internet English mainly going through the various memes? :lol:
We will have a class on memes, but that's not all.
Part of it is learning English that is useful in using the web. The biggest part of it is learning how to best use the internet to study English independently. Part of it is learning about English speaking web culture and American and British culture more generally.
Normally, this would be taught in a computer lab for 3 hours. But with COVID, I'm posting 75 minute video lessons and having them go to the websites I cover, give me some screenshots of them doing X and write a short review.
Week 1 was the class introduction, which we did by Zoom.
Week 2 we went over Duolingo and Memrise.
Week 3 we went over Reddit.
Week 4 we over BBC.com, BBC News and BBC Learning English
Week 5 I've made a video for Youtube, but haven't posted it yet. In it I go over a plethora of channels that focus on learning English.
Future classes will focus on E-commerce (i.e. Amazon), Wikipedia, Podcasts, News Media, Social Media, Memes, etc.
Back at my job in Hungary I think a big advantage I had over most colleagues when speaking English is that mine didn't sound straight outa' a language course. Thanks to all my time watching movies in English and hanging out on forums I had at least some grasp on current everyday expressions