Wow, inter­est­ing how much spam the title “Home­school­ing Myself” attracted.  That may have been a record.

This week­end, I went over to a friend’s house and four of us did a lot of can­ning.  We made pick­les, pick­led eggs, and pick­led beets.  I haven’t tried the last two, but I’m try­ing to keep an open […]

This morn­ing, walk­ing the kids to school, I had the most gor­geous brain­storm!  I’ve got a lot of basic course­work to make up, and the admis­sions depart­ment encour­aged me to do the catchup work else­where.  Basi­cally, it would be a good idea not to prej­u­dice my profs against me by start­ing off from the very […]

This is not really so much a review, as much as a recount­ing of lessons learned. Dragon*Con was mostly a fail­ure, but not because the Con wasn’t cool or there wasn’t stuff to do.   I’ll try to work in what things we did see along the way, though.

Plan­ning errors were our biggest down­fall. I […]