Changes

I took a very strong painkiller about an hour ago so I’m not sure this will be coherent.  But I’m willing to give it a shot.
It’s still chaos in our household.  I’ve become resigned to the fact that it is status quo for us, so expecting anything else would be nuts.  Todd’s changing from one [...]

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Warranted Nostalgia

Halloween is just not the same as when I was a kid.  Of course, it could be said that most things have changed since then.  Homemade goodies are out… the same repetitious miniature candy bars are in.
sigh.
I miss being excited about what was hiding in my bag at the end of a night marching around [...]

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Calvin and Hobbes

Brennan and I are reading C&H.  It reminds me a LOT of him.  Actually, the mom and dad remind me of us.  One of the panels had the dad decked out in mountain biking gear while the mom laughed at him.
Yeah.
It’s us.
Next week is Bren’s parent-teacher conference.  He told me tonight that he’s working in [...]

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Odds and Ends

I’m in my latest class, Project Management Systems.  Interesting class.  Still wishing that I could take a break from school.  I have two years to go.  It feels endless.
Reading “Upgrading and Fixing a PC”, “Headfirst Networking”, “Stranger in a Strange Land”, and a couple science magazines.  Must not forget that I’m also reading “Successful Project [...]

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kindred spirits, lemon cake, and applesauce

Bren has a great friend in his class…  She’s a fantastic kid – a great influence and she has spunk, which I like.  Her mom is also super and this week is driving back and forth to pick up our short guy.  The mom invited Bren to come over after school for today.  So I [...]

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bed time

I survived the final (3 hours) and finishing up my last assignment (it was fun).
Weird to say that class is done.  It’s good, but weird.  Now I have a week to rejuvenate, at least as far as school is concerned, then it’s back to the day in/day out of class.  My next one is Project [...]

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Where The Wild Things Are

In surprising ways this was a sad movie.  I think adults and children come away with two very different things.  Brennan (will be 7 in November) enjoyed it and thought it had a happy ending.  I’m not so sure that I saw it as a happy ending, so much as an “opening of the eyes” [...]

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Improvement

(Bren’s reading Shel Silverstein to us…)
So.  I got my assignment from last weekend.  50/50.  This means that both my quiz grade and my assignment grades have gradually improved over the course of the class.  Nice.
And now, it’s time for a bit of reading and finishing up the week seven assignment, plus a couple discussion board [...]

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99/99

I got my grade for my quiz taken last weekend… 99/99.  Honestly, I’m blown away.  Once again I don’t know that I necessarily deserved that grade, but I’ll take it and be glad of it.  Means that my final this weekend is going to be relatively low stress.  I’d love to know how I did [...]

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Tired

I’m worn out.  I had high hopes for the day.  I thought I’d get to work, plug in my little light and get on with the back to back grind of dialing out the queue.
Got in the van this morning, started out of the driveway and it was like driving in sludge.  Immediately stopped and [...]

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