Those look like the leaves, but the flowers are purple, not blue. The other thought has been ground ivy.View attachment 185968Margret , I love flower puzzles!
Is it Ajuga?
I haven 't read all the messages yet...maybe someone else got you the answer...
Lisa
And while I'm wishing for pie-in-the-sky, I'd also like to be limber enough to suck my toes, the way babies can. (Not that I would suck my toes; I'd just like to be that limber.)
Yesterday I left early to go to PT. I put my laptop back into the office on my docking station, restarted it and left it at the Windows log in screen so IT could push some upgrade to it overnight. This morning I walked in to find my desk chair not where I left it and random Post-It notes on my desk. I turned my laptop back on and the user name on the log in screen was the supervisor, not mine. 
When I turned my work cell phone on, there was a text message from the supervisor saying that she used my laptop to check her emails. She has her own laptop and an iPhone on which she can check her emails. Why did she need to use my laptop? 
You don't use someone's work laptop for your own use even using your Windows log in credentials 
It's not cool
From now on I'm turning my laptop off. If she tries to use my laptop again, she can't get past the laptop password screen to get to the Windows log in screen. I briefly onsidered warning my co-worker about the supervisor using other people's laptops but decided not to because my co-worker is getting chummy with the supervisor and may tell her what I said and then I'd get in trouble.
She seems nice and all that. Probably won't have to work with her directly too often. The supervisor plans to put her BFF in the new building with my other co-worker. That way the supervisor can easily drop by and visit to chat when she feels like it (the department office is right up one flight of stairs). Whatever. Those three can go ahead and be clique-y. I'm fine with having the contract person when he starts. I need his muscles anyways for the heavy lifting and stuff.
LTS3
My immediate assumption when someone uses a computer without permission is that that person is completely untrustworthy. As you point out, she has her own phone and computer to check her email which makes her story pretty unbelievable. My suspicious mind says that anyone who uses someone else's computer when they have their own is either snooping, doing something they don't want a record of on their own computer, or making a show of dominance. Or maybe I've watched too many mysteries and cop shows. Either way, I think keeping it turned off when you're not around is a very good idea.
Margret
There are several species of ajuga so that might explain the color difference. The leaves in @Docs Mom's post look like those of Ajuga reptans but because new varieties are being developed, colors may range towards blue shades or purple, depending on the variety. Here is a variety known as "Black Scallop" in which flowers may be both purplish and bluish on the same inflorescence. (I only know these things because I grew Ajuga reptans for years).
Considering that Panthera has been with me for 6+ years and now is 10, weighing in at 19 lbs while Chamouti has been here for 8 months, is 12 and is weighing in at 13 lbs one would wonder who would be the dominant cat. Chamouti LOOKS bigger because of all the fur and Panthera is not fat, just BIG, well, Chamouti is a lover just like Panthera, not a fighter and he defers to just about everybody here. He does go after Patrick, the foster, when that one has been chasing him around too much, he also will defer to Bebe, the Persian, if she hisses at him, she hisses at everybody. Mostly my cats leave each other alone, they just like to cuddle with me and sometimes one will chase another away from the favorite spot. There is some fuss going on regarding who sleeps next to me, whoever is there first keeps it and that would be either Panthera or Capucchino, and Bebe likes to sleep next to my head on the other side but then runs into Chamouti if he happens to be there first above my head. He also gets up several times during the night to patrol the premises and that scares her away. Sometimes she comes back and sleeps next to my knees where Chamouti does not go. Patrick never sleeps with me as he is locked in "his" room at night so I can monitor his poop.
LTS3
, while you're at it, you need to run a thorough malware scan. Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials are both good, but you may want to also use AVG Free or one of the other free virus scanners. And you need to be looking for spyware; in fact, this is probably the most likely, under the circumstances. Both Spybot Search & Destroy and Super AntiSpyWare have excellent free versions available. Note: When running Spybot S&D, be sure to open it as administrator or it will refuse to actually fix anything it finds. Of course, always make sure to check for fresh database updates before running any anti-malware programs.
The new supervisor has been here for just 3 weeks and she's already pissed me off
Met the new co-worker today. It was clearly obvious that she and the supervisor are BFFs
Despite her help, I managed several solid hours of sleep, and am now all ready to try watching those last two episodes of Torchwood in the middle of the night tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will go better in the wee hours, when there are (I hope) fewer people watching.
Maybe I'd better make a pot of coffee, as well. And I know I'd better feed Jasmine first.
I'm sorry, word problems are math. They require math skills to answer. I don't care how good you are at communicating, you won't be able to solve word problems without math. Yes, they require communication as well, but so do most things in life. I'm sure your daughter is very good with math, and I understand that she has a problem with dysgraphia, but that means that she also has a problem with this particular part of mathematics. Redefining word problems as "not-math" isn't the answer, because it's a falsehood. And no, word problems don't test communication skills, or at least they don't just test communication skills; they test certain math skills.
I think that would be a great idea for a teacher to do! I know LS was doing simple algebraic equations when she was small--until she showed how AWM taught her how to solve the problems to the teacher and the teacher said, "Oh, that's algebra!"No, most people wouldn't, just as most people wouldn't know what the parentheses and asterisks mean. That's why I included that information. (Not intended as criticism of you.)
Roger doesn't remember, and I don't remember the story at all except from what he told me last night. He read it a very long time ago.
Have a good rest. You need it.
Margret
Speaking of music, I like Peter and the Wolf, but then I would.
I remember being a kid in the same situation. I got put in a group with rowdy, angry kids who didn't want to be labeled as "slow" by being in the group and I just wanted to figure out how to do what the teacher was asking me. (I would like to take this moment to point out that I have not only gotten my high school diploma, but also an Associates.)
True.
I think that at least half the problem in teaching word problems that there is, at least in my area, an entire generation who was never taught how to actually do a word problem. In our school systems a child will go from learning 152 + 63 to seeing, on a test (and I looked this up so I could copy it), "Alice sits three seats behind Dave and John is two seats away from the teacher. Where does Bill sit?" (I didn't even get into the theory behind this problem until college, and kids are getting them marked wrong on tests when they never learn how to solve them. It's really no wonder that the state's test scores are so low.)Math comes into everything. Art, music, commerce (obviously), how we move, everything. I once saw a hilarious Onion article (The Onion was a parody newspaper and is now a parody website) titled: Microsoft Patents Ones and Zeros. (This was at a time when a lot of computer programs were being patented, as a way to prevent other people from writing similar programs without stealing actual code.) In this parody article it was pointed out that anything with 2 options involves ones and zeros, so Microsoft was going to be requiring payment from people for breathing. I repeat, this was a parody, but it did correctly identify the mathematical underpinnings of biology.
I don't deny the link with music. What I deny is that it should be a part of algebra class. It should be an imperative in education, as should art, but they should be separate classes. I could easily see art, music, and math teachers getting together to show students how their subjects interconnect; I just can't see the math teachers doing the whole thing.
For math books, the only way to get at those skills is through word problems, because books are word and picture based. It would take a very skilled teacher to get beyond that bias that comes from the books. Yes, there are some very skilled teachers out there; I honor them, and we need more of them, but we also need ways to help the less skilled teachers do their jobs better.
I didn't go to a public school; I went to a small 12-year parochial school. In the school I went to, we didn't have a separate math teacher until 8th grade; except for P.E. and music, the homeroom teacher did it all, in the lower grades. (And "music class" wasn't really music class, it was band practice, it was optional, and it was deeply concerned with teaching young fingers and lungs how to get the high notes on the clarinet without screeching [or whatever the similar problems are with other instruments].) Is this how it works in the public school system, now? Because, if it is, we need ways to get elementary school teachers, teachers whose first love is not math, on board. They need better text books, books with a system that they can understand and follow, and they need some specialized training in how to teach math. They also, probably, need a sort of roving super-teacher, who can visit various classes, identify individual teachers' weaknesses and strong points, and provide encouragement and assistance.
It would also be nice if we could find a way to tap into that early, instinctive understanding of logarithms that toddlers give up when they learn to count.
By the way, for a wonderful story that, IMO, really taps into the wonder of math, see Janet Kagan - Fermat's Best Theorem
(This, also, is probably pie-in-the-sky; considering what it took for Andrew Wiles to prove the theorem, chances are good that what Fermat actually found was one of the false proofs. The errors in some of those are extremely difficult to spot.)
Margret
Be careful. Heat exhaustion (the precursor to the better known heat stroke) is a real thing and not, as local media has attempted to suggest, a figment of the imagination.
The new supervisor has been here for just 3 weeks and she's already pissed me off
Met the new co-worker today. It was clearly obvious that she and the supervisor are BFFs
Oh, yes. And if you do find any porn stashed on your computer, don't just delete it. Windows "deletes" by moving files to the Recycle Bin, so that they can be easily recovered, which is the opposite of what you want. First delete, then empty the Recycle Bin. And then (assuming you found any porn) check into free programs that will do multiple overwrites of your free disk space, to completely destroy all traces of those files. You can find some here: https://www.colormango.com/security...tion/index.html?filter1=File-Eraser/Shredder; I've no idea how good they are, but it's a start toward researching this. As always, run a virus checker on any programs you download from the internet, both before and after you install them!!! I don't care how much you trust the recommendation or the company that wrote the program, protect yourself anyway.
The other option, of course, should you find something illegal added to your computer, would be to call the police. This would be a public-spirited thing to do, but it's also dangerous. Think carefully first. If you know someone in your local police department who won't automatically leap to the conclusion that you did it yourself, you're probably safe from the law. Being safe from your employer is another matter.
You've already been told this, but it can't be said too often: Document EVERYTHING! Keep a record of what happened, when, and what you found when you cleaned up afterwards. And bookmark your post about it in this thread, so that you can demonstrate that you were so outraged that you posted about it to your friends (The "What's on your mind?" Thread -2017). All of this helps to document your own innocence.
Margret
Totally get it. Sleep rules.Well, I decided I needed a nap this afternoon, and the resident nap expert decided to "help" me. Unfortunately, Jasmine's idea of helping me to nap is to lie next to my head and solicit head scratches from me.
Margret
I love the video, but word problems can only be solved if the child is taught how. I agree that it is up to the teacher to make sure that the child is taught, but the effort to teach how to solve a word problem has to be made.
Must not run out of cat food. It will not end well for the human.
They might test certain math skills but first you have to have a solid command of communication just to ferret out what math is in there. That makes it an English problem not a math problem. It is so language based that it ceases to be math.
At least I'm supposed to see fireworks on Friday 
(because no one understands the concept Fourth of July around here). 
