Month: August 2009

I love homeschooling, but I originally only planned on homeschooling my academically precocious son. In November, Kelly joined Charybdis and Scylla when I saw her class and couldn’t leave her in there. But it was tough. No matter how we framed it, for Kelly, being pulled out of a class with her peers seemed like…

Credit Card Type Credit Card TypeVISAMasterCardCard number First Name Last Name Update: Gosh, sorry all. I wanted to test some code for my work, and my blog happens to be the most convenient server for me to post things into. Then I got access to a real serer, became all caught up in the joys…

Last year I pondered why do homeschoolers take the summer off, like everyone else. The intelligent thing to do, it seemed to me, would be to have school during the summer when everyone else is packing the vacation spots and prices are high. This year, I discovered why: it’s nearly impossible to get any schoolwork…

When we stayed with my friend Chris in North Las Vegas last year, we were delighted to find a Dunkin Donuts near her house. Peter thought we’d left the franchise behind east of Chicago, but here it was, appropriately enough, in Sin City. So for breakfast on this trip, we wanted to go to a…

I heroically fought the battle against the Ghastly PowerPoint and can declare victory, but I was still dealing the the trauma of it as we headed off on Saturday to Albuquerque. I checked the emails I’d been ignoring, and found out the filming of the Comic-Con scenes had changed to the 11th and 12th, and…

Last week, my supervisor asked me to research and put together my thoughts on two subjects…by Friday…in PowerPoint. I hate PowerPoint. No, I loathe PowerPoint. For years, toiling away in the bowels of magazine land, I had to endure PowerPoint presentations droning on and on about market share and strategic opportunities when I just wanted…