Monthly Archives: April 2004

An old friend from my days working at Intelledex is willing to collaborate with me on writing a book on Beginning Robotic Programming with Projects. It is time to start putting down some goals and scope for the project. This … Continue reading →

This weekend was a great weekend for new ideas. Lorena, Kelly, Christian, and I needed to go to pick up a metal cutting bandsaw to take up to my father in the Portland area this weekend, so we decided to … Continue reading →

Building computer controlled automation systems is a lot of fun. There are a lot of new and inexpensive devices coming onto the market all the time. Many of those devices can be connected to a computer via an RS-232, a … Continue reading →

Christian is always wanting to do a project of some sort. I need to find some things we can do together both this summer and then when homeschool starts in the fall. I do not have any idea what they … Continue reading →

StepperControl.com has a stepper motor controller on their website that controls three stepper motors and costs only $100. I bought that along with three 45 oz-in. stepper motors that were also available on the website for $30 each. They should … Continue reading →

Lorena and I drop the kids off for piano lessons every Monday at 5:30 in the afternoon. That gives us about an hour and fifteen minutes to have dinner or just go for a drive in the country. We are … Continue reading →

It is time to start checking into the Home School Legal Defense Association. They are an organization that provides legal representation to Home Schooling families around the country. Planning:I view the $100 per year subscription fee to HSLDA both as … Continue reading →

Planning: I thought I was going to be going through the Sonlight catalog last night, but it was the RealScience-4-Kids curriculum that arrived from Access Research Network, not the catalog. It is great! We ordered the first of a six … Continue reading →

The trip home from South Carolina was really very uneventful. I went out to dinner with the sales team, we got the technical and sales information we need to move forward on the project, and the customer promised us a … Continue reading →

Trip report – April 20, 2004 Today I am travelling to Florence, South Carolina for work. On the flight between Portland and Denver, I sat with a family from Scapoose that is homeschooling their four boys between the ages of … Continue reading →

We went down to Costco as soon as it opened on Saturday morning because we wanted to buy a filing cabinet and a barbeque. We got both and a round table that we think will be a great platform for … Continue reading →

Planning The first time we did homeschool when Kelly was in the first grade, I read a book by Raymond Moore about the subject. He highly recommended that a small business be a part of the homeschool experience. The point … Continue reading →

Planning We are still waiting for the Sonlight catalog to get here, so I have not started in yet on the Language (grammar, reading, and spelling), History, and Writing portions of our curriculum. I am really conflicted about whether to … Continue reading →

This is just a first pass at a schedule based on my thinking based on estimates of how long each item should take from the Well Trained Mind. Christian’s tentative schedule Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8:00 Math Math … Continue reading →

Planning In the Well Trained Mind, the teaching of formal logic is highly recommended. The idea is expressed that the understanding of language is absolutely critical to the understanding of formal logic. The fifth grade is the year recommended to … Continue reading →

This afternoon, I spoke with a friend at work named Joe Sullivan. He has thirteen children all of whom were or are being homeschooled. I told him that we were going to use the RealScience-4-Kids program we found at the … Continue reading →

Planning I check for new articles at the Access Research Network website a couple of times each week. They have articles and announcements about events and news that has to do with Intelligent Design. I have always thought that it … Continue reading →

Planning This is just a stab at curriculum choices for the kids. This will take some refinement, but I believe it is a good first pass. The areas that I have not investigated thoroughly are History, Language (English), Writing, and … Continue reading →

Progress We went to Gospel Meeting last night, so we really did not have a lot of time to work on anything to do with homeschool. The one thing on which I did have a chance to work was working … Continue reading →