Back to Oakland

I write this post as I travel to Livermore for three days of work. Last night I stayed at a hotel close to Portland International Airport so I could catch an early flight down to Oakland. I should be to work at the ATS facility in Livermore by 10:30 this morning. We are working on a vial inspection line for which I am doing the machine vision work. It should be quite an enjoyable job.

I cannot believe that we are not even half way through July and I have the bulk of the preparation complete for our 2006-2007 homeschool year. I think we have all the books we need on the right shelves in the bonus room. The first week schedules are pretty much put to bed. I was going to do them in the OpenOffice.org database. After doing a little programming, I realized it was going to be a whole lot more work to do it that way than the way we did it last year in an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet. I made it a little more automatic and plan to do the whole year in one spreadsheet file using one sheet per week for the 36 week schedule rather than do a separate file for each week. Weekly scheduling was really not to bad last week and it is going to be even easier this week.

Kelly will be doing the second year of her two year survey of world history while Christian will be doing the fabulous study of non-Western cultures that Kelly did two years ago. I was very surprised that we did not lose ANY books while holding them for the year between when Kelly finished the program and Christian started it. I hope it is that painless every year.