Monthly Archives: June 2009

Last night was another night of programming on my water projects after Christian spent the day working at NCSU to get our experimental camera running in the Ag Engineering lab there.  Troy made some slow progress and believe they now … Continue reading →

Even though I worked (programmed) most of the the time, we had quite a nice weekend.  The kids went to their swim meet on Saturday and played with the neighbor kids some yesterday.  Kelly also got some time in on … Continue reading →

As I mentioned yesterday, I have a TON of side programming work to do over the next little while.  So, when I got home from work yesterday, after reading aloud to the kids, I got right to work.  I had … Continue reading →

My side projects are starting to catch up with me.  Right now, I have two volunteer programming projects on which I am working that have need of my efforts before the they can move forward.  My long term project with … Continue reading →

I almost forgot to write about the fact that we went to see a play called Charlie’s Aunt at Raleigh’s Theatre in the Park last Saturday with the Steppes.  The play was first performed in 1892 and is absolutely hilarious.  … Continue reading →

I finished a couple of crafty things this weekend. Herb being one of them: This bulletin board being another. I made it Sunday afternoon just for fun. It’s in my closet now Right now I’m working on finishing a little … Continue reading →

Woo-hoo!  Troy took Christian into one of the Ag Engineering labs at NCSU to set up a server to which we plan to send images from a remote camera.  Incidentally, I STOLE the picture from Troy’s Water Blog, a very … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we had lunch with Troy, Youngin, Troy’s dad, mom, sister, and brother-in-law after meeting.  The food and conversation were great, but two things kind of went south on me.  First, Lorena saw the leather recliner Youngin bought for their … Continue reading →

Lorena and I both got new telephones earlier in the month.  We were very impressed with their shininess.  Now I am beginning to wonder if something else is going on with them.  A little after we got them, I started … Continue reading →

Luke over at the Sonlight blog has a very interesting post that comments on another post and some comments from another blog about educational freedom.  It is all a very interesting read on a topic of great interest to many … Continue reading →

I have been brought up to call adults by their last names.  Mr. Smith, Mrs.Jones, Mr. Pedraza.  All that.  Through the years there have been numerous adults who urge me to call them by: a. Their first namesb. Their first … Continue reading →

I got pretty well hammered, maybe justifiably, in the comments yesterday on the post about the evils of Facebook and Twitter.  I got more when I got home and talked to my family about it.  I was sticking to my … Continue reading →

I received an email note this morning with a request that I join Facebook so that I could be someone’s “friend”, post on their wall, and share photos and pithy comments with them.  I have watched this whole Facebook thing … Continue reading →

We had a great weekend.  We just did our regular hang-out thing on Friday night, but then we had a VERY full Saturday.  We got up at 6:30 in the morning so we could drive up to the Wake Forest … Continue reading →

This was too good to pass up Thanks for passing this on Kathy Carpenter!!!  I hope Christian achieves such elegance and joy in his guitar efforts!

This will be a very busy weekend.  We have the first swim meet of the season at a YMCA summer camp well north of Raleigh on Saturday morning.  My first audio CD’s arrived via inter-library loan at the Holly Springs … Continue reading →

Note: This post is one in a series on how we prepared our homeschooled children to take various College Level Examination Program tests. The introductory post for this series explains why we take these tests, what parts of the preparation … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had all kinds of drama in the neighborhood. The big dog of the neighbor in the house on one side of us attacked the little dog from the house on the other side and did a bunch of … Continue reading →

Christian will have his first guitar lesson today with his new teacher Alex Gorodezky.  You can see a short biography of him on this page.  Lorena, Kelly, and Christian met him last week at his home in downtown Raleigh.  It … Continue reading →

Our homeschool has always been very goal oriented.  Every year so far, we have surpassed most of our goals by a lot, but fallen short by a week or two in one or two minor areas.  In the summer, I … Continue reading →