A Day in the van

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Education, Family, Homeschooling

And it was, truly. Which is why this looks much the same as it did last night.

Katie and I drove all over metro Atlanta, test­ing out the new wheels in the process. A med­ical appoint­ment, a trip to the bank, the post office, our mail drop, a craft store, a school sup­ply place, a cou­ple of book stores, Phoenix & Dragon, and some­thing I know that I’m forgetting.

You wouldn’t believe how much “home­school­ing” gets done on the road. Had the dealer had a van in stock with a DVD player installed, I could eas­ily have jus­ti­fied it for purely edu­ca­tional pur­poses. As it is, I’m glad my lap­top has a DVD player, as we find var­i­ous BBC and PBS series pretty good sup­ple­men­tary mate­ri­als at times.

No AV mate­ri­als today, though — just books, paper, cal­cu­la­tor, and a lot of dis­cus­sion. Sci­ence, alge­bra, world his­tory, crit­i­cal think­ing, Eng­lish, vocab­u­lary, cur­rent events…

Oh! We got our Latin texts! Katie and I have decided to start study­ing Latin together this sum­mer. I’ve always regret­ted not hav­ing had a chance to study it, and it can only help her. So here we go!

The girl got some knit­ting done in the car while we talked, too. As she gets more con­fi­dence in dri­ving, I look for­ward to get­ting some stitch­ing done while she dri­ves. On the other hand, she’d get fewer lessons done. Hmmm.

I need to study to try to keep a lit­tle bit ahead of her. We’re going to have another blog where she, Sam and I post about our learn­ing adven­tures. It isn’t quite up yet, unfortunately.

Namaste,

Cyn

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Learning curve

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Geekery, Homeschooling, Relationships

Did HTML ever seem this intimidating?

The array of themes avail­able for Word­Press is absolutely over­whelm­ing, but I am a stub­born cuss. I want MY OWN theme. Of course, cre­at­ing one is not triv­ial, because I haven’t actu­ally learned CSS or XHTML yet. I’ve done just fine with my rusty HTML skills, since I haven’t been able to work out­side the home or done any heavy web work in years.

Oh well — I have a rea­son to learn now!

Please be patient :-)

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Well, here we are

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Geekery

The dawn­ing of a new age!

Okay, just the begin­ning of a seri­ous redesign. Yes, Tech​noMom​.com has finally joined the blog brigade. I was chang­ing hosts and decided to make big­ger changes at the same time. Most of the old con­tent will be back before long, but right now you’ll find things a bit sparse.

If you’re new ’round here, wel­come. It’s a very infor­mal place. Check out my pro­file. I’ll be post­ing about all man­ner of things, and will enjoy hear­ing from you.

Namaste,

Cyn

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