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Links, LJ, Paganism, ReadingAugust 25, 2003

Books & Pagans

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…

College, LJ, Reading, WritingAugust 25, 2003

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…

College, LJAugust 25, 2003

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…

Geekery, LJAugust 25, 2003

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…

Geekery, Kvetching, LJAugust 24, 2003

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.

Links, LJ, Public SchoolAugust 24, 2003

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.…