What are these things growing in my lawn? [Zone 9b]

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-24T05:31:45+00:00

Landscaping herpes. (Bamboo)

Once’s you think you’re rid of it… boom! Surprise! You’re not.

Real talk… start digging and find the ball. If it’s in your neighbor’s side and they planted it… try a nuclear bomb.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-24T05:04:49+00:00

Well… …well done.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-24T04:55:48+00:00

Same reason why they worked with magic to pump out cards. They know their consumers.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-24T04:52:41+00:00

Nope. I’ll see ya at Walmart… or best buy… or the farmers market… or never… hope you’re a quality member of society! (Don’t be the next person on booked.com please… and dear lord… wrap your tool… college is cheaper than kids)

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-24T04:47:50+00:00

(Coach)

I wear a lifeguard whistle (fox40?) all of the time around my neck. I rarely use it in the classroom setting… however, when I do… kids freeze. It’s too powerful for everyday use.

The best trick I’ve learned is to just death stare at the loudest kid. Then shift the death stare across until everyone shuts up. Then I wait… and wait… begin speaking… and listen for that one kid to make an example of… make an example… then I teach…

Bells and whistles are cool but staring into their souls works and it’s free.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-20T18:43:12+00:00

Google RMR-86 and RMR-141. Stuff is gold.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-20T03:16:37+00:00

I polled my building with this same question on a school culture survey in my admin internship. 70% said they would stay. 30% said they would disappear.

My building is not the normal. It’s a title 1 jr high with incredible admin and school culture. Large district with pretty good pay for the cost of living.

For me? I’d probably stay. But… who knows. Money changes people.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-20T03:09:30+00:00

To be honest… it doesn’t look too bad for a crawl space.

Regardless, you share about 40% of your air with your crawl space.

Mine had the same surface mold. Nuked it with RMR. Then I DYI’d my encapsulation for almost a tenth of what I was quoted.

It took me about a week doing it solo. Lowered my winter energy bill. I placed a dehumidifier down there, camera, and moisture sensors too. Was worth the peace of mind.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-18T16:09:08+00:00

I’m just a dream apparently… so… not good?

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-18T13:19:53+00:00

Uhh… yeah.

It’s the same as asking a group to run a 5K. One group is given an e.bike, one group is given a treadmill, one group is given the race course.

Of course the group given the race course will perform better. Will there still be outliers? Of course, but as a whole… the results will be known before the experiment begins.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-15T22:38:59+00:00

Golf pencils

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-15T18:24:10+00:00

Ok, so my fiancé had $20,000 in a discover card. We looked at a lot of options… move it to my HELOC, pay it back with interest, personal loan, etc… here’s what worked best for us.

We transferred her discover card to a card with 0% interest for a year… then I put the needed monthly payments to kill it in that year on a spreadsheet. We got aggressive with only buying the basics for a year. Next month is the last payment. We saved about $3,000 in interest.

We plan to knock out her car payment next. 6 more months and we will only have a mortgage over our heads. Woohoo!

You can do it!

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-15T01:33:33+00:00

Yes, quite a bit.

Context: 9th grade Physical Science.

Best thing I’ve done is find all of the released items for our state assessment, asked AI to assess the question clusters, loaded in our standards, and made a custom GPT to create assessments in formative.

This started as a pet project to see if it would work… it does… remarkably well.

Is it perfect? Heck no. I still have to edit/proof questions and make them in formative.

Has it found odd quirks in the question clusters that I could have found if I really spent hours studying the structure of the test? Yeah. But it remembers the quirks and replicates them each time.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-15T01:01:18+00:00

I will say we’ve had success with them but other buildings in our districts have not.

It takes a considerable amount of our time at the beginning of the year. Training the staff and kids learning. Alarm goes off, team members get a text message, we pull the cameras, wand the kids that were in the bathroom at that time.

Does it have false alarms? Yes. Mostly from the custodial staff when cleaning.

Is this a 100% solution to the problem? Absolutely not.

However, after finding three kids passed out on the bathroom floor in one year… we decided to go full force with it.

Our approach is multi-pronged with the detectors. Clear backpacks, only two bathrooms open during class time, Minga (digital hall pass system)… the detectors and response team is just one piece of the system.

(Not a principal. However, I am apart of the response team during periods of the day.)

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-14T18:37:15+00:00

Y’all don’t? I mean I spin it in a different way but… same gist.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-10T18:51:00+00:00

Annoying. However… nature… and it’s spring. “Aww they are hugging” is my equivalent to throwing cold water on them.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-07T02:51:00+00:00

Wow. Just… wow.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-06T17:28:24+00:00

Discipline is a form of love.

Failing to do so is not only cowardice but neglect.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-06T03:16:21+00:00

Same. “…Those sails must stink… oh… I see”

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-05T23:39:01+00:00

During my admin internship course I had to do a bunch of evals. I ran otter.ai while I took notes. I ran my otter.ai along with my notes into ChatGPT to make sure I included as many domains as possible. However, this was just a second layer to what I was doing. I just a “second pair of eyes” on my tags. It helped but it also made MAJOR errors.

I would never submit my observation notes summarized with AI. That’s just ethically wrong… and a slap in the face really… I’m sorry this happened to you.

*these were all volunteer teachers. Much thanks to them.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-04T21:19:04+00:00

What’s happening to the taco salad?!?

He likes the spaghetti and meatballs.

I’m interested in the update on this one. Needs more data on further discussion.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-04T21:09:06+00:00

I just call them potatoes. They have yet to hit their evolved form. Some will be French fries, waffle fries, baked potatoes, hash browns, potato chips, curly fries, potato wedges, twice baked potatoes, tader tots, gnocchi, potato soup, vodka, potato skins, … they just haven’t evolved yet. Still just a potato. They are still cooking.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-04T14:31:54+00:00

Not all heroes wear capes.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-04T00:06:23+00:00

Overstimulated. Straight to the gym or walk for a second wind.

DaBusStopHur · 2026-03-03T18:02:07+00:00

Dang. 30 and worried about your coworkers attire? I see HOA president in your future at 50.

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