A good number of years ago, I took a community college sign language class with a coworker so we could chat during meetings. It was fun, and more so because some of the others in the class were medical staff at a regional youth detention facility of some sort who specifically wanted to learn some of the “spicier” words so they could know what was being said to/about them by deaf teens and understand descriptions of physical needs. Definitely vocabulary not in the usual intro curriculum.

Is that one yours? Did you have any trouble getting everything working? I tried setting up Mint on mine (same year!) a couple years ago. The WiFi was a pain to get working, and the Bluetooth touchpad kept dropping out.

One of my teen twins decided to do my nails in black a few months ago, and I decided I kinda liked it, so I’ve periodically kept it up. I’m claiming it’s me going for a punk look.

Worth touring for the architecture and great view from the back lawn, though some of the rooms are really gaudy, clearly meant to show off wealth more than decorative taste.

It helps to think of it very much as Canterbury Tales: a frame story in which a group of pilgrims traveling together have spare time and share their life stories. In this case there’s enough overarching story to make you want to know what happens when they arrive at their destination, but that’s not this novel. It is very much the following ones.

I knew Tendi’s family house looked familiar!

Misspelling detection in the Spanish course for English speakers is highly hit and miss.