YAY!

[conuly]

Dear Kensington Customer,

I have placed an order for new adapter and you will recive it within next 10-12 days.

Thank you for contacting Kensington Technical Support.

Regards

Abhijeet
Kensington Technical Support.

Whee. I'm so so SO happy :) *does the adapter dance of doom*

Ana didn't do anything especially cute today, though we're making great strides with the question "What's your mommy's name?" I hope we make similar progress when we get to "What's your daddy's name?" I don't think I'll do "aunt" or "grandmother's", because I doubt those'll be asked.

Progress is one of those English words that used to bother me a lot, like interject or detail. You've got a prefix, and you've got a stem, but the stem doesn't mean anything. Progress, regress, agression, digress, gress is meaningless. Ject is meaningless, tail has a meaning, but that's not one that's related to detail, retail, entail. Of course, now I understand why that happened, but those words still bother me. I wonder if I can start using "gress" in sentences....

Oh, and Jenn complained about how I moved Goldilocks to a park, saying that "woods" is just fine, vocabulary building, so I filled the rest of the story with bears that enter their houses "full of trepidation" and girls who "defenestrate" themselves. I'm not sure that's what she meant, but it was fun, anyway.

Actually, she did do a few cute things today. First, while trying to find a radio station she could dance to, she found Air America Radio (at least, that's what I think it was, it sounded "liberal" to me, whatever that means) and kept it on there. She lowered the volume a lot, but she never changed stations. So we listened all about the hunger strikes at Gitmo while I brushed her hair. I'm so proud :)

And then today... See, at the Museum, at the end of the programs, they sit on a parachute and go around singing "ring around the rosy", two or three or four times. And then they go under the parachute for a while while the adults lift it up and down. At Battery Park City, there's more kids, so they sit on the parachute while singing a song and telling a story, but that's it. No going around, no going under. So for the past two days, Ana's been sitting on the parachute at BPC, lifting the edge and going "Aka? Aka?", while I'd say "not today". So today, when she realizes what they're doing at the museum, she could've lit up the room. "AKA! *scrambles to the middle* AKA!"

I do love her. She's so cute and sweet.

Comments

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Yay!

You might want to consider trying to get a good surge protector somehow, so it doesn't happen again. (I think I mentioned that I speak from experience there, having had several adapters and at least 2 - 3 motherboards fry.)

About how you figure out whether it's the top or bottom half (since I never did get around to answering it) -- basically, you disconnect the bottom half and plug it into another adapter that you know does work. Or, if you have the type my computers usually use (Sony, Toshiba, Averatec, etc.) you can also plug that bottom half into just about any cord-powered radio or stereo, since it's an identical piece.

[conuly]

Ah. Well, I don't have another adapter which I know does work, so that probably wouldn't help... wait... *glances down* Oh hey! My mom's works! Heh.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Oh, and rats, I forgot to also comment with this...

Have you considered working/volunteering at a preschool, or do what foxxxyben is and work/volunteer with preschool-age autistic spectrum kids? (He said that he is having a blast doing it, and that it's handled/structured in a way that is OK with his autism -- not requiring extra self-motivated responsibility, which is what you've mentioned worrying about, so the usual difficulties don't apply.) It might be something to consider if you don't get SSI and could use the money.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I told her she could certainly become a nanny after all this experience - and she's great at it!

[conuly]

People *do* keep suggesting that - I do like kids, even though there's no way I'm having them (but you know that). But right now, I don't have the free time. That's one reason I'm not having kids - I *like* having a few hours to myself every day, and parents of young children just don't have that luxury.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the soon-to-be-there adapter! :-)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Gress seems to imply movement. "Progress" is movement forward, "regress" is movement done over again, "aggression" is...
You know, I need to work on my roots. 'Cuz I don't really know what agg or di mean.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I'd guess that "aggression" is not "agg", but "ad-g". I can't remember the word for that. It's the same reason that we have "communicate" instead of "conmunicate". (Maybe conuly knows the word for this, I'm drawing a complete blank.) And "ad" is "towards".

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

If you want to continue in that vein, "aggression" could mean "trying to move someone else through intimidation" and "digression" could mean "moving away from the main topic."

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I have quite a few days off in October - I can't wait to go with you guys and see her in action! Though a few of those days will likely be spent on errands, but what can you do...)

[conuly]

Man, you'd better. You'll love the blocks time, I think - it's small, but nice.

I'm thinking about bringing her to the *tuesday* classes. I'll try that next week, and just go to the playground on Thursday.

[adina77.livejournal.com]

1) Yea for the adapter! :-). If you need a surge protector, let me know. I may have one that you are more than welcome to use.

2) Ana is a cutie patootie. Good to know that you are helping her with her vocaublary :). Kids at her age absorbs soooo much! Early communication is great. I can't wait to read about her talking more and more.

[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

Gress is from the Latin "gradior, gredi, gressus" meaning "go." It's commonly compounded (ad+gradior, a+gradior, pro+gradior, con+gradior and many others). "Gress" however, has no meaning in English, all the English words are Latin compounds

So, now you know.

[conuly]

Psst - I already knew that. See, I said it in my original post. Now I'm wondering if I could back-form the word "gress" based on those words.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Yay!

You might want to consider trying to get a good surge protector somehow, so it doesn't happen again. (I think I mentioned that I speak from experience there, having had several adapters and at least 2 - 3 motherboards fry.)

About how you figure out whether it's the top or bottom half (since I never did get around to answering it) -- basically, you disconnect the bottom half and plug it into another adapter that you know does work. Or, if you have the type my computers usually use (Sony, Toshiba, Averatec, etc.) you can also plug that bottom half into just about any cord-powered radio or stereo, since it's an identical piece.

[conuly]

Ah. Well, I don't have another adapter which I know does work, so that probably wouldn't help... wait... *glances down* Oh hey! My mom's works! Heh.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Oh, and rats, I forgot to also comment with this...

Have you considered working/volunteering at a preschool, or do what foxxxyben is and work/volunteer with preschool-age autistic spectrum kids? (He said that he is having a blast doing it, and that it's handled/structured in a way that is OK with his autism -- not requiring extra self-motivated responsibility, which is what you've mentioned worrying about, so the usual difficulties don't apply.) It might be something to consider if you don't get SSI and could use the money.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I told her she could certainly become a nanny after all this experience - and she's great at it!

[conuly]

People *do* keep suggesting that - I do like kids, even though there's no way I'm having them (but you know that). But right now, I don't have the free time. That's one reason I'm not having kids - I *like* having a few hours to myself every day, and parents of young children just don't have that luxury.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the soon-to-be-there adapter! :-)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Gress seems to imply movement. "Progress" is movement forward, "regress" is movement done over again, "aggression" is...
You know, I need to work on my roots. 'Cuz I don't really know what agg or di mean.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I'd guess that "aggression" is not "agg", but "ad-g". I can't remember the word for that. It's the same reason that we have "communicate" instead of "conmunicate". (Maybe conuly knows the word for this, I'm drawing a complete blank.) And "ad" is "towards".

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I have quite a few days off in October - I can't wait to go with you guys and see her in action! Though a few of those days will likely be spent on errands, but what can you do...)

[conuly]

Man, you'd better. You'll love the blocks time, I think - it's small, but nice.

I'm thinking about bringing her to the *tuesday* classes. I'll try that next week, and just go to the playground on Thursday.

[adina77.livejournal.com]

1) Yea for the adapter! :-). If you need a surge protector, let me know. I may have one that you are more than welcome to use.

2) Ana is a cutie patootie. Good to know that you are helping her with her vocaublary :). Kids at her age absorbs soooo much! Early communication is great. I can't wait to read about her talking more and more.

[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

Gress is from the Latin "gradior, gredi, gressus" meaning "go." It's commonly compounded (ad+gradior, a+gradior, pro+gradior, con+gradior and many others). "Gress" however, has no meaning in English, all the English words are Latin compounds

So, now you know.

[conuly]

Psst - I already knew that. See, I said it in my original post. Now I'm wondering if I could back-form the word "gress" based on those words.