Month: January 2007

  • Our January 2007 Trip

    I am very tired. We had a crazy last several days and today is the first day to even really have the opportunity to recover. On Friday morning we left for a trip to Janesville, WI, east of Madison. We flew in to Milwaukee’s Int. airport from Atlanta. Going through security was my biggest advanced…

  • Fly Pen #2

    My Fly Pentop Computer bundle, ordered from Leap Frog online, came via UPS a day earlier than they ‘said’ it would be delivered. So, it’s been here since early Tuesday afternoon, and I am enjoying using it here and there ever since. Now I have to wait to get some of the FlyWare titles that…

  • The Positive Method

    The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto, from Chapter 8 on “The Positive Method”. … To understand all this you have to be willing to see there is no known way to stop the social mutilation positive science leaves in its wake. Society must forcibly be adapted to accept its own continuing…

  • Education in America

    The Underground History of American Education Someone reminded me of the book linked above, and I’ve begun to read it, online. I have read PARTS of it in the past. I find John Taylor Gatto’s writings to be fun to read, informative and knod, knod, knod respective. Myself I was part of public schooling from…

  • HP “Shift+@” fix

    I have an HP Pavillion dv5224nr laptop computer, I had a different dv5000 series laptop before this one (which was sent back for support due to an accidental liquid problem and I got to pick a new one out of stock to replace it –BestBuy’s best “insurance” program for electronics pays off–) and my husband…