Home now! We went by Border’s on the way home, as we’d promised shadowkatt a visit there. sambear, then I were shanghaied into the Town Center Border Pagans meeting by grizzlydan. I wasn’t expecting that at all, but seeing folks…
School & Book Notes
Note to self: WEAR SHORTS TOMORROW YOU IDIOT! It’s ridiculously hot in this room, and I have another class here tomorrow night. This whole building just doesn’t have good air circulation, period. I hate being cold, but at least in…
Homework
So we got some of my books today, and will order the rest at Border’s so I can use the 20% educators’ discount we get as homeschoolers. I have four chapters to read before my 6pm class, so I’d best…
More Hard Drive Woes
So yes, fixed the MBR on my hard drive. I used the disk utility that came with the drive when we bought it 3 years ago—one victory for being a packrat! 😉 I ended up having to do a low-level…
MBR Problems
Grrr. The master boot record on my hard drive is screwed up. That’s a first for me, in over a decade of working with PCs.
Problems With the Schooling System
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can’t pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck.…
Reclaiming a Stitched Piece
Oh! waya reminded me of a stitching bit I meant to share! I actually did everything but the backstitching on this alphabet piece for Katie’s nursery. Three months before she was born, her father informed me that he hated it…
Weekend, Geekery, & More
We’ve had an absolutely lovely weekend together. I didn’t get my dark chocolate, but I did get something better 🙂 I took the hard drive out of my machine for reasons I won’t go into right now. Now that machine…
Appetites
Mrowl 🙂 I want Chinese food now. And dark chocolate. Current Mood: 🙂content
Sore Point Ex-SOs
Hmm. Is there anyone in your past who is a particularly sore point for your current SOs? Someone they don’t even like to hear mentioned, or come across reminders of? Is there someone in your SOs’ past who you don’t…