We had a ton of stuff we wanted to do today, but the hard drive on our Linux computer went bad. We had almost everything backed up, but I decided we ought to take this opportunity to get out backup situation a little better under control. Troy has been talking about what he is going to do in terms of archiving stuff. We bought a computer online from Dell, then ran down to Staples to buy a terabyte external drive to perform backups. Then, while I worked on the program I owe to my buddies in Oregon, Christian, archived all the stuff we had on our old backup drive to the new one, consolidated two smaller drives onto a single drive so he could use the other one as a replacement for the one that went bad, and installed Linux Mint onto the computer that previously had the bad drive. In the meantime, Lorena found a table on sale and bought that. So now we have a new computer table for the living room, a new setup for Lorena to browse Facebook and for me to administer the homeschool, a much better disk backup plan, and a new computer to look forward to bringing on line a two or three weeks.
I am going to revamp the homeschool system later this weekend, too. I have a much better plan going forward now that the kids have finished with the ACT. I have been looking into the local community college catalogs, trying to figure out what is the best program and classes for them to take so I can figure out which CLEP tests would be the most appropriate.
