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I make up chicken strips and put it in ranch dressing with extra packet of ranch in a packet mixed with it. Then I crush up some potato chips and use that as the breading...it is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds tasty! Nom nom.
 
Except for school shootings. Those definitely did not exist when I was going to school. But that still does not speak to the safety of the kids going to/from the school bus.
 
I'm happy with the ukes I have. If I ever win the lotto, maybe I'd have Kerry Char build one for me. He made some for a Hawaiian festival that were gorgeous.

OOOh, I have played a couple of those that Kimo Hussey had at his place. Very nice!
 
We live less than a mile from the spawn's elementary. I made them walk to school if they missed the bus from dragging their butts in the morning. They got ready on time after a couple of times of that.
 
I make up chicken strips and put it in ranch dressing with extra packet of ranch in a packet mixed with it. Then I crush up some potato chips and use that as the breading...it is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do the cornflake thing - soak boneless skinless chicken breasts in buttermilk for a while, smash a handful of cornflakes, add some Hawaiian Sea Salt, Granulated Garlic, fresh crushed pepper, and a teeny pinch of cayenne,
mix that all together, then put it in a bowl, take the chicken breasts out of the buttermilk and dredge through the cornflake mixture, bake at 350 for 30 mins.
 
My cat, Silly, used to walk to the bus stop with me in the mornings when I went to elementary school. He was never there when I got home though!
 
Except for school shootings. Those definitely did not exist when I was going to school. But that still does not speak to the safety of the kids going to/from the school bus.

Those scare the crap out of me. We had a lock down once at Chris' high school based on a rumor that someone had a gun and had been posting some kooky stuff online. Fortunately it turned out to be false, but those hours waiting for them to be released were stressful.
 
I like your list. And your "not necessaries". My Beau uke pretty much slayed my desire for other ukes, and I rarely play the others in the stable now. I could deal 6 and not miss them. Though the KoAloha l/n pineapple is the last I'd get deal. Here's the order in which they'd go:
Martin T1K
Martin C1K
Cocobolo Concert
Martin T2K
KoAlana Concert sapele (one of the early ones from the batch with the cracking problems. This one is solid.)
KoAloha l/n pineapple

The keepers:
Hannam Tenor
KoAloha Tenor 6-string
Pono ATD
Clara
Imua concert
(Of this list the Hannam would get 75% of the playing.)

Is the Martin C1K of recent manufacture, or vintage? I'd absolutely LOVE a vintage one (or a mahogany one, C1M)....?
 
I often wonder about the actual safety of the children today vs. when I was a kid.
Is it really more dangerous than it was? Or is it just the media sensationalizing everything?
Are there actual statistics to back up the fears?
Just like you see those things on facebook or whatever, like how we would drink from the hose and no one actually died from this.
Now I understand, with the severe allergy that is a little scary, but really, truly, are the children at risk?
I took the school bus, and I walked by myself to the stop and back home every day by myself, I have memory of doing this since first grade.
Now, we did live in a gated community in Newport Beach, so that counts for A LOT, but I was also able to ride my bike to school by myself starting in 5th or sixth grade (6th grade for sure - I don't remember for sure if I could in 5th grade).
I am searching my memory banks - I totally remember locking my bike in the bike rack at Elementary School, and that only went to 6th grade.
School was 1.4 miles away and across PCH.
I also rode my bike to school in 7th grade (different school) and in High School. Ironically, the ride to Elementary school was the longest ride.
Sure we learned about stranger danger etc. and I know it was Newport Beach, not East LA or Compton, but hey we were still on our own, unsupervised, with no cell phones, and no one I know had anything bad happen to them.
I think I got my bike stolen once, in 7th grade. I had to walk home that day.

I may have told this story before. . .
I was in 6th grade in 1964. The Republican National Convention was in San Francisco. A friend and I put on our suits and ties, rode the Greyhound bus up the Peninsula to San Francisco, walked Market Street past the Pussycat Theater (XXX) and then took the cable car to Nob Hill. There we roamed the halls of the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins hotels, sharing an elevator with Nelson Rockefeller, going into the Scranton hq, and more. We had only one another for oversight and protection. We made is back home safe and sound. It was probably the last year that one could possibly do that. SF became less safe soon after. Easier now to send a 12 year old to the Moon than unescorted into any big US city.

I think we are an overprotective society. I also think that it is probably 70% warranted. Helicopter parenting? That should end by about age 15. Taking chances? Kids need to learn that and the unintended consequences which follow. I also think that there isn't a one size fits all solution to this. Places differ. But the Midwest is no better than anywhere else in this regard.

Lastly, I think we don't have enough fatalism in our society these days. Up until about 3 generations ago "sh!t happens" was part of the national psyche. Now it's always somebody else's fault. Who can you sue? Who can you blame? What did you do wrong that brought on your cancer? Sometimes things happen outside the cycle of blame and denial: natural disasters, military deaths, accidents, disease, random mutation, and more.

Some of this thinking is the result of being a Down Syndrome dad. Trisomy 21 (aka Down Syndrome) happens 890 times per 100,000 pregnancies among all primate species. It is a chromosomal anomaly which operates outside of of evolutionary processes. Except that now we have screening which leads to terminations in 80-90% of pregnancies where pre-natal testing is done. But Trisomy 21 cannot be eliminated from the population because it is a mutation which happens regardless of the fitness of the parents. It can be eliminated from society through terminations (which I wish didn't happen), but not from procreation itself.

Bad things happen. Deal with it. But also exercise appropriate caution. We cannot anticipate and protect against every hazard. A good life is inherently risky.
 
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Those scare the crap out of me. We had a lock down once at Chris' high school based on a rumor that someone had a gun and had been posting some kooky stuff online. Fortunately it turned out to be false, but those hours waiting for them to be released were stressful.

We were visiting a school that might have become RL Kid's school. The school went on lockdown while we were there. Turned out that we were the perceived threat.

This school was on an Army post. No one got onto the piost who wasn't pre-screened. Paranoia much? Or, it was only a couple of years post 9/11. Fears were still running high.
 
Is the Martin C1K of recent manufacture, or vintage? I'd absolutely LOVE a vintage one (or a mahogany one, C1M)....?

3 or 4 years old. Made in Mexico. I think I like the sound and playability of the Mexican Martins better that those from Nazareth, PA. It is a nice uke, but it is nothing special.
 
I often wonder about the actual safety of the children today vs. when I was a kid.
Is it really more dangerous than it was? Or is it just the media sensationalizing everything?
Are there actual statistics to back up the fears?
Just like you see those things on facebook or whatever, like how we would drink from the hose and no one actually died from this.
Now I understand, with the severe allergy that is a little scary, but really, truly, are the children at risk?
I took the school bus, and I walked by myself to the stop and back home every day by myself, I have memory of doing this since first grade.
Now, we did live in a gated community in Newport Beach, so that counts for A LOT, but I was also able to ride my bike to school by myself starting in 5th or sixth grade (6th grade for sure - I don't remember for sure if I could in 5th grade).
I am searching my memory banks - I totally remember locking my bike in the bike rack at Elementary School, and that only went to 6th grade.
School was 1.4 miles away and across PCH.
I also rode my bike to school in 7th grade (different school) and in High School. Ironically, the ride to Elementary school was the longest ride.
Sure we learned about stranger danger etc. and I know it was Newport Beach, not East LA or Compton, but hey we were still on our own, unsupervised, with no cell phones, and no one I know had anything bad happen to them.
I think I got my bike stolen once, in 7th grade. I had to walk home that day.


I think it's like if you were able to predict earthquakes. People would be hyper vigilant and live in greater fear for the "Big One." But since we can't predict earthquakes we go about our lives in blissful ignorance and on those rare occasions it happens, it's a full blown news story.

We, for the most part, track pedophiles now days. With electronic surveillance we can even track movement and because of Megan's law we know when they live in our area. I think that is what makes people more paranoid. Knowing who and where they are.

I read a statistic a while back that said there isn't more predators than there were 40 years ago, we just know more about them now. And I do think we learn about more of them in real time rather than a day old newspaper.
 
Those scare the crap out of me. We had a lock down once at Chris' high school based on a rumor that someone had a gun and had been posting some kooky stuff online. Fortunately it turned out to be false, but those hours waiting for them to be released were stressful.

In my twenty years of teaching I've had five actual code reds where we had to lock down. All of them have been in the last 8 years or so.
 
Damon do you have free time tonight? I want to try a video chat app out.

Unfortunately my home PC just died!
I know, I want to try zoom too. One of my clients uses it for video conferencing to California.
 
I'm just glad my kids are raised and I don't have to make decisions about their safety. That being said over protective parents drive me batty.
 
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