You are batting 1%!

"You are batting 1%" is a baseball term, means hitting the ball very poorly, below average. The term is also used to mean you are performing extremely poorly in a situation where success is measured by a percentage, essentially indicating you are only achieving a very small fraction of desired results, similar to how in baseball, a "batting average" of 1% would be incredibly low and signify almost no hits at all. 

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Renege

To renege means to go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract. I learned this word in recent news on CNN that mentioned president Biden reneged on his promise and pardoned his son Hunter. Other synonyms include revoke, renounce, or abandon. 

Throwing a Fit

 I heard this term first when my son casually mentioned a couple of times "I had a fit" or "I threw a fit" when going over his day's events last night.  To "throw a fit" or "have a fit" means to become very shocked, angry, or worried. Other synonyms are: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, combust, go ballistic, lose one's temper.

Calling shotgun!

 Calling shotgun is an American idiom used to express your desire for the front row car seat, or claim it, when a group of people go out together. Especially if a family has more than one young kid, the siblings may compete to sit in front with the driver.  So, they usually run to car and say "I called the shotgun"! This saying has roots to Wild West era, 160 years ago, when the person next to the driver was protecting him:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wild-west-origin-shotgun-front-seat-car-2019-8

Impossible Triangle

 Here I thought I know a lot about math, geometry, patterns, numbers .... till my little son yesterday told me he wants to draw and Impossible Triangle! "What is that?", I ask.  "A triangle that you can draw but cannot exist in real world! It is an illusion." he says.  Wow, and I looked it up and it is exactly that!  I have learned many many things every day since becoming a mother that I could not keep up with in this blog, as the long pauses suggest, but never thought a triangle would be one of them!  The Impossible Triangle is also called a Penrose Triangle*.

Image Credit: https://www.andinet.de/en/images/optical_illusions/penrose_triangle.jpg

*Reference:  Penrose triangle - Wikipedia

Why people may not seek treatment?

There are many people with undiagnosed mental health issues. There are also many who refuse seeking treatment despite being asked to do so by their family, friends, employer, or primary care giver.  Why is that? Why would not want to seek help and get better, or just figure out if they need help or not, when well-intended individuals advise them to do. Well, there can be many reasons:

1. They may not trust their privacy is honored. They may think this information will be shared with others, or be used against them in future.
2. They may not have a good health insurance and not have the financial means to seek help.
3. They may be too sick, too depressed to even see things clearly or have the energy and will power to do anything.
4. They may not see anything is wrong with them since that is the only way of life they have known. They have normalized and rationalized their behavior.
5. They think they are smart and capable enough to be able to cure themselves.
6. Subconsciously they do not believe they deserve to get better or have a better life.

While they may have good reasons to believe any of the above, not seeking treatment affects their quality of life and loved ones around them. The very first step, is to make an appointment. To accept help, or acknowledge needing it.

Pt/Co scale

One of the measures of water quality, or pollution levels in water, is its color; How is this color measured? The scale for such color measurement for water quality is Platinum-Cobalt (Pt/Co) scale or alpha-Hazen scale introduced by Allen Hazen, a chemist in 1892.   This scale measured how yellow tinted water samples are. One Pt/Co unit is how much 1 milligram of Pt/Co taints/colors 1 liter of water!  How they measure it is another story, and apparently there are standard tests defined for this purpose.

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pt/Co_scale