Fun stuff -- word related or not, ramblings, junk, whatever.

[crazykate]

That happens to me when I go to family funerals or reunions. They all know me & I have no clue who they are. They all live near each other & I, farther away so I only see them every 10 years or longer. I do alot of smiling & nodding & try to figure out how the heck we're related.

My husband is from a small town where everyone knows each other, but he's bad with names. So when we're there together, people will greet us and talk to us, and when I later ask my husband, "so who was that?" He'll say something like "uh I think she's friends with my mum but I can't remember her name" or something like that.
Now that wouldn't be so bad, but in the 15+ years I've known him, I've made some friends there and play in a church band on Sundays and sometimes take our kids to see their grandparents at times when hubby is busy or sick and can't come with, so I'm sometimes in his town on my own, and everyone knows me and I have no idea who they are because I've never been properly introduced, but they don't realise that.

[2cute]

Floppers...when she posts, the board lights up.

You deserve a radiant filter for your posts.

As for the wife and I keeping each other: good plan.

Can't go anywhere in this very large suburban town without her knowing someone. Sometimes when I'm out by myself, people will stop and talk with me enthusiastically--and I have no clue as to who they are. The burden of being someone's social addendum.

That happens to me when I go to family funerals or reunions. They all know me & I have no clue who they are. They all live near each other & I, farther away so I only see them every 10 years or longer. I do alot of smiling & nodding & try to figure out how the heck we're related.

[Naboka]

Im a '67 baby, and weirdly, that resonates with me. (also, strangely admiring (not jealous, but wistful) that that is something that you and your wife share. Now that I think about it, it makes me happy, that should be celebrated! ) I think you and your wife should keep each other!

Floppers...when she posts, the board lights up.

You deserve a radiant filter for your posts.

As for the wife and I keeping each other: good plan.

Can't go anywhere in this very large suburban town without her knowing someone. Sometimes when I'm out by myself, people will stop and talk with me enthusiastically--and I have no clue as to who they are. The burden of being someone's social addendum.

[floppers]

Im a '67 baby, and weirdly, that resonates with me. (also, strangely admiring (not jealous, but wistful) that that is something that you and your wife share. Now that I think about it, it makes me happy, that should be celebrated! ) I think you and your wife should keep each other!

[Naboka]

Whenever the clock hits certain numbers my wife and I get excited, point to the time and share the moment. Like this morning when it was 11:11 while we were playing wordle.

Just a thing we do.

Kind of fun.

Saw this average score and...

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Sometimes it's just the little things that make life cuddly.

And then, like clockwork...

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[floppers]

I love that!
You also described the feeling perfectly, like the meaning of life was revealed... I remember when I made my second person, my heart was already full with my first, and I was worried about whether my love would be divided up now there'd be two of them... But as soon as baby no 2 arrived, it felt like a new dimension opened up and I had twice as much love to give. It's also why I'm not getting into a "favourite child" debate, because it feels like I love each of them 100% of their own pocket dimension. (That made no sense, did it?)

That made perfect sense! I'm very much liking the dimension analogy, and particularly pocket dimesions! bwt1213, hearing that the feeling is universal is very encouraging. Good luck with becoming a great grandad, and as for being overly prideful, we are supposed to fail at that, it's our job!

One of my relatives is a great believer in pride coming before the fall, but in this instance it's irrational to think that us being proud of the people we made, they people the people we made, made, and the people that might be made by the people that the people we made, made, could somehow lead to a fall. The same relative refuses to watch the football team that she supports, or her own offspring playing sports because she believe her prescence makes them lose..she was taken aback when I told her that I thought it amazingly egotistical for her to think that her prescence would have such an effect of all the players on each team, and their supporters.

[bwt1213]

I love that!
You also described the feeling perfectly, like the meaning of life was revealed... I remember when I made my second person, my heart was already full with my first, and I was worried about whether my love would be divided up now there'd be two of them... But as soon as baby no 2 arrived, it felt like a new dimension opened up and I had twice as much love to give. It's also why I'm not getting into a "favourite child" debate, because it feels like I love each of them 100% of their own pocket dimension. (That made no sense, did it?)

It makes perfect sense to me, and I'm not even your sex. It's how I see both of my daughters. Perhaps it's universal!

[bwt1213]

I am still hoping I live long enough for the elder grandson (now 25 years old) to produce a great grandson. It would probably please my wife more than me, but it would please me immensely. The grandson in question is living with his girlfriend who is approximately a year from her PhD, while he has put his studies on hold and is working full-time to make that degree happen. He needs (Spike, your attention is requested) two courses to get his BS in mathematics, and would then immediately start on his MA in the same subject. I think, however, that I might have a great grandson from the younger grandson earlier. That one just signed a national letter of intent to play college baseball, and he has very nice young women throwing themselves at him as moths to a flame. If I didn't think the women in question were so thoroughly good I might have a problem. I'm trying hard not to be overly prideful and probably failing.

[crazykate]

Why thank you sir! It's the easiest promotion I've ever had One of the things that I love the most is that 2 and I have, for years, had a competition regarding who loves who the most, both trying to end each coversation with, "I love you more". I'm not sure if its a biological imperitive/hormonal thing, but each time I've made a person it's felt like the meaning of life was revealed, and there is no love quite like it. I tried to explain that to them all, particularly when they have been angling for "favourite child" status.

2 said to me, "I love you", I said, "I love you more"....2 said, "I know". She gets it.

I love that!
You also described the feeling perfectly, like the meaning of life was revealed... I remember when I made my second person, my heart was already full with my first, and I was worried about whether my love would be divided up now there'd be two of them... But as soon as baby no 2 arrived, it felt like a new dimension opened up and I had twice as much love to give. It's also why I'm not getting into a "favourite child" debate, because it feels like I love each of them 100% of their own pocket dimension. (That made no sense, did it?)

[floppers]

Why thank you sir! It's the easiest promotion I've ever had One of the things that I love the most is that 2 and I have, for years, had a competition regarding who loves who the most, both trying to end each coversation with, "I love you more". I'm not sure if its a biological imperitive/hormonal thing, but each time I've made a person it's felt like the meaning of life was revealed, and there is no love quite like it. I tried to explain that to them all, particularly when they have been angling for "favourite child" status.

2 said to me, "I love you", I said, "I love you more"....2 said, "I know". She gets it.

[lalatan]

floppers, congratulations on your promotion from M1 to GM1 (Mum1 to Grandma1).

[floppers]

So, maybe S1 for the second born's first. S2, S3, S4 for their siblings.

O for one, or U for uno gives Offspring 1 O1, O2, O3, O4. Or U1, U2, U3.

T for 3.

Q for 4.

Thank you for your kind input, I think I'm going here for now...it provides a bit of a mystery for all of the Offspring, one which they may not be able to solve unless the provide themselves, or each other for further clues, by way of making more people. I think 4 will be particularly pleased with the Q.

[Spike1007]

The mathematical notation would be the first derivative at the value 2: f'(2). Subsequent offspring would be the second derivative, etc. When my first daughter was born, the math department (I was in grad school at the time) was given birth announcements noting that she was our first derivative.

I like the derivative. For brevity though, 2' could just be used.

[Naboka]

Totally not word related...perhaps a mathematical dilemma..also not junk but fun stuff. You may be aware that whilst the people I made have names, and nicknames, I generally refer to them by birth order number. Offspring 1, 2, 3, and 4. SO...Offspring 2 made a person of her own (yaay!). He has been named (Joey Loyal), but I am at a loss as to the number he should be allocated. As many of you are gifted in this area, I seek your learned suggestions.

Perhaps you've boxed yourself in with numbers

which prevents imagination from taking flight.

Secundogeniture has to do with rights of the second born.

But, that's just awkward... and definitely not quirky.

Yet, historically applicable.

So, maybe S1 for the second born's first. S2, S3, S4 for their siblings.

O for one, or U for uno gives Offspring 1 O1, O2, O3, O4. Or U1, U2, U3.

T for 3.

Q for 4.

[bwt1213]

The mathematical notation would be the first derivative at the value 2: f'(2). Subsequent offspring would be the second derivative, etc. When my first daughter was born, the math department (I was in grad school at the time) was given birth announcements noting that she was our first derivative.