Hello, Merlin, Merlin Mann.

Hello, Merlin Mann.

The O. G. Hey there he is. Hey, B MOC. There he is.

Yep. Big man on COVID.

That's stupid.

That's pretty bad.

Uh, yeah.

How are you doing?

Oh, well, uh, soosh.

You get some home schooling?

Yeah, I'm getting, um, I have a situation where the teacher of the class is providing bad garbled disorganized material and seems to be of the impression that times are tough all over and

That seems to be an emerging theme in responses to everything.

Times are tough on her too and so anyway here's some stuff that she just you know pulled down and

through and and throwing at us with no sort of context or explanatory supporting documentation,

just like, you know, like you print out a piece of paper and it says like we're

working on the states. It's like oh okay what does that mean? What are we we're working on the states what does that mean what are we we working on the states what does that mean what am I you

know what she's saying basically is educate your children and so but but because

there is this pretend packet I'm forced to sit down with it and try and interpret

it rather than just say, well I guess this

week we're learning about the state, sweetie.

You know, I'm forced to go through this garbled piece of information, you know, this sort of pile

of words. And sort out exactly what they're, and it ends up being more difficult than if they said, we're not pretending to be part of this anymore and we're just

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