I'm glad you enjoy the cat photos and Fred's masterful captioning. The photos are great fun to do.
Not having had daughters, I really can't make a comparison, either. It's an interesting one, though. My son has a lot in common with your daughter as you tell it, so it can't be strictly a gender thing. He doesn't take to "being assigned" at all. In his early school days, he resented not being included with friends who were placed in the "gifted" curriculum. As a boy he fought that decision and still resents it, but he graduated above all but one of the "gifted" crowd after it was all said and done. Like you said, quietly, head down like a bull, prove 'em wrong. It doesn't always go to the "brightest".
All the medical shitte, the best I can do is empathise, though I am discovering the limits of range of motion are closing in on me. There are also long-term residuals from Covid, I'm finding, which I have to wait a bit before I find out whether they go away or not.
My previous primary has left the practice for a job at Johns Hopkins and her place taken by a new person who has proven to be very weak on analysis and follow-through, yet pushes the party-line on various superficials, such as a shingles vaccine even though I have never had chicken pox and was vax'd for it in the military. So, the New Year will find a shift in first tier quacks as she has no imagination nor any notion we are individuals, not identical boxes on a conveyor belt. I really need to get passed off to my old physical therapist to get cracked loose again, then come up with a structured exercise programme that fits the condition of my spine. The idea is well beyond the depth (or perhaps the industry; perhaps its laziness on her part) of the new quack; my old one would have been on it.
I very much like the base on Healey's tree and want to replicate that sort of thing; toy trains, whimsical buildings, &c. I'm with you on the workshops, though, and can't help thinking they keep the atrophy of arthritis at bay and the mind sharper than it otherwise would be. The shop out back, the one with the cars, is a little frustrating at the moment because of the range of motion issues mentioned earlier. If I can't get the situation mentioned in the previous paragraph resolved, I might be approaching the end of my ability to work on cars so that space might then have to be given over to something else. We'll see what that might be.
I'll email you my phone number again.
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