Procedural memory codes much differently than rote memory.
A famous example was a piano player who suffered a brain injury and could no longer read music at all, nor had ability to speak.about music as he had before. However, he could still play.
Things that frustrate us all
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A famous example was a piano player who suffered a brain injury and could no longer read music at all, nor had ability to speak.about music as he had before. However, he could still play.
My mom and I are getting worried, for the whole time we've been going to the park to see they donkeys they've had water troughs set up for them and the cattle that are released out there, but for the last couple weeks they've been disconnected from the water pipe that fills them and sitting empty. A few days before we first found them empty there was a bull or steer laying down by them who appeared to be sick or injured, so there's a chance they might have damaged them when were helping him, but it's been a couple weeks so that's more than enough time to fix them. The thing that really has us worried is that one of the park workers told us that they're going to be doing work back where the donkeys are and are going to be getting rid of them. If they are purposefully leaving the troughs empty as a way to get rid of them, it's an absolutely horrible way to do it, because as far as we know this is their only water source out there, and we are now reaching the hottest part of the year, with temps getting up to around 112º this weekend. We went out there yesterday and there were still very, very fresh hoofprints, and we have still been seeing donkeys out there, so they're still there and they're still coming to the troughs looking forward. This could literally be a death sentence for them if they leave the troughs empty and the donkeys and possibly the cattle who are out there too can't or won't leave to find a new water source. The cattle are domesticated, so there's a pretty good chance the people who own them could move somewhere with water, but the donkeys don't have that option.
Same. When I make up a new route where I just have a general idea of the direction I'm going, I call it "driving by carma".
Meanwhile, my wife gets lost if the map isn't turned to line up in the direction she's pointed. N/S/E/W have no meaning to her!
If they DID exist, there'd be no such thing as TikTok.
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Same. When I make up a new route where I just have a general idea of the direction I'm going, I call it "driving by carma".
Meanwhile, my wife gets lost if the map isn't turned to line up in the direction she's pointed. N/S/E/W have no meaning to her!
Me, either. I have zero sense of direction. The main reason I take my phone in the car is Google Maps. "North" and "East" mean nothing to me at all. What I need is "Turn right immediately after the Buc-ees."
I'm the exact opposite. When I need to drive somewhere unfamiliar, I look it up on Google Maps and figure out the route myself. I don't like blindly following instructions from a machine (or from a person, for that matter). And I always (well, nearly always) know in which direction I'm headed.
I'm similar. I will review a route and land marks and directions and then identify alternatives.
Or America's Funniest Home Videos either.
All the world's stage is never more applicable than now with cameras everywhere.
I experienced Buc-ees for the first time on my baseball trip last year. Our tour bus stopped there for lunch. It was almost like a tour destination in and of itself.
(I'm not knocking it, BTW. The food was VERY good.)
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Tik Tok is terrible and spyware
We've been trying to find someone at the park to talk to since we first found the troughs empty, but we haven't been able to yet.
Yeah, look up the department on the city's website and call them directly.
So, my fiancée and I moved into a new home this past weekend, and it's literally three blocks away from one of the city's pools. Because we're low-income at the moment, my stepkids were able to get free pool passes. Now, I don't swim, because of two bad legs (and a particularly wicked ligament sprain in my left knee suffered while hooking up a TV on Monday night) and my broken back, so I just go to the pool to supervise them, since they're 10 and 13 years old.
But in order to enter the pool to supervise them--again, not going anywhere near the water, just sitting in a chair and getting sunburnt while they have fun for a few hours--I have to pay five bucks every time.
Highway robbery, I tell you.
But in order to enter the pool to supervise them--again, not going anywhere near the water, just sitting in a chair and getting sunburnt while they have fun for a few hours--I have to pay five bucks every time.
Highway robbery, I tell you.
So, my fiancée and I moved into a new home this past weekend, and it's literally three blocks away from one of the city's pools. Because we're low-income at the moment, my stepkids were able to get free pool passes. Now, I don't swim, because of two bad legs (and a particularly wicked ligament sprain in my left knee suffered while hooking up a TV on Monday night) and my broken back, so I just go to the pool to supervise them, since they're 10 and 13 years old.
That sucks. You're a good dad.
But in order to enter the pool to supervise them--again, not going anywhere near the water, just sitting in a chair and getting sunburnt while they have fun for a few hours--I have to pay five bucks every time.
Highway robbery, I tell you.
Eh, let's not take things we can't say back.
Generally speaking, the stepkids and I have a pretty good relationship and normally things are hunky-dory when they take their ADHD meds. But sweet mercy, on Monday, one of them pitched the mother of all tantrums because he wanted to use the air fryer to make chicken nuggets for breakfast--whatever, I'm not their dad, and we hadn't gone grocery shopping yet--but I told him not to use the air fryer while I was gone, because I had to drop something off at his mom's work.Well, 35 minutes later, I got back home, and the air fryer was still hotter than the fires of Hell, so he clearly used it. I had to remind the child that when his mom isn't around, anything I say is exactly the same as though she were saying it. His response was to call his dad and complain that I'm acting like ... well, a parent.
I might if we don't run into anybody next time we go out there. We both absolutely hate talking on the phone, so we try to do everything we possibly can to avoid it.
When you clean the windows and think you've done a great job, then the sun comes out and it looks like someone smeared cheese all over them