I have an odd relationship with games-- every once in a blue moon I'll play a game obsessively for a 1-3 days and then I wouldn't play a thing for a year or two. I really dislike the ones that feel juvenile-- but thanks to this thread, I am now playing Pepper Panic. I tried CC.. didnt love it.. moved on to Pepper Panic and well.. "my name is Funky and I am a pepper addict!" I'll soon give it up though-- I am going to bed later, letting laundry sit longer, cooking more simple meals. I hate when I let a game affect my life!

As with everything else, not every individual learns the same way or masters a skill the same way. Great teachers present alternatives for students in the hope that one will make sense and stick. Absolutely. My son also had a difficult time in school because of teachers who refused to be flexible to address his needs. He was in middle school when home PCs were not prevalent. That poor kids could simply not put his thoughts down in writing. We know now that has dysgraphia. I went and spoke to his teachers asking that he be allowed to use his computer for assignments. His Science grade shot up to straight A's. His science teacher suggested oral presentations. On the other hand he had an ass for a Social Studies teacher who continued to mark correctly answered answers wrong because the handwriting didn't meet his criteria. DS's problems started with ear and speech problems, leading to spelling problems in elementary school. It took a second grade teacher to recognize the issue. He said DS spelled just fine if you took how he heard and spoke the words into consideration. Previously they wanted to hold him back. By the fifth grade he was put in a special "focus" reading group. Stuff like you would see in kindergarten. This despite the fact he had been reading sci-fi novels at home since 2nd grade and his most requested gift every year was the world almanac. After a huge war with the district I had him moved to a different school. He was immediately place in the high reading group at that school His new teacher wanted to see how he did by starting him at the top, not the bottom. He did just fine. From D and F grades from the previous school to A and B grades with an occasional C. Then in middle school the struggle began again with the writing. By high school he detested school. He purposefully failed his classes so he would have to go to night school. The tech magnet he looked forward was horrendous for him. He knew far more than the teachers who were supposed to be instructing him. One teacher would frequently call DS at home for tech support for the teacher's home computer. Same teacher almost failed DS for not completing lab work. LOL Those were extremely rough years for us. We couldn't afford private school and homeschooling hadn't become secular yet. I became "that mom" who actually blackmailed the district into moving my kid out of the horrid 5th grade he was in. Basically DS turned out to be a kid with a "genius" (we hate that word) IQ, who has a photographic memory of the written word. Unfortunately he fell through the cracks of the public school system. Got passed over for gifted programs in the name of diversity, never had his achievements recognized. He was too "different".

Rita I truly admire how you write..and what you write..I was thinking hard about penny's question and knew that it'd be long messy post with a very strange ending that I wouldn't know myself until I'm there but at least it gives some assurance, penny, that no, not only you don't know the answers..I don't know my own answers myself for example:) (of course I loved university. I had very turbulent youth though. So I had some wonderful things going on-and some s-tty aspects lets call them so. Interestingly whatever happened-I continued to study..and continued to study..well 6 years was my limit though (and of course the best were actually studies after bachelor's degree..even though hard logistically already, the level was just so much deeper. Very challenging, in every way possible. Then I wanted to continue to study again-several times-and weighed some additional directions too...but something always happened. It's like you're swimming down a river..whenever you choose to swim to the left-you miss on right turn. Or it's chosen for you, and then you just swim further. It's kinda hard to cover the whole river.. so..now, it's the same in terms of quantative distribution:) just totally other aspects of life are wonderful. and totally others yet are s-tty. I guess I'm happier now. Strangely so. Even though I do remember all happy things of then. Success? I think we all hold kind of scales..of things most important to us. And maybe even vocabularies differ. Success is not exactly my word (even though Rita's definition is simply too good so i might reconsider), so it's not exactly part of my scale either. Some, their scale is "strength vs weakness". Some, "freedom vs dependency". Mine? I thought I know it. I thought it's more like "being close vs being far"... Great. Still wrote the post. Started with how I shouldn't write it. Another great job lol.

Connections Puzzle #142 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Now look, I could swear I had entered the right combination for yellow, but I guess I didn’t. Never heard of two of the blues, it was a look-up of one of the words that, by chance, led me to a clue of the category.