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Fantastic Friday
It’s Friday and it is a beautiful day! Sunshine and warmth! The day is a total bust for school. With prom tomorrow and spring carnival today the students are in no frame of mind to focus on class. My first period is playing monopoly. Capitalism. Scarcity. Trade-offs. Opportunity costs. Great game to supplement our economics lessons. I will probably take second period outside and have them share their UN country’s position with the group and make notes. The rest of the day…carnival. I would rather not have it at this time, but since it is not my choice I might as well embrace the fun. My group will be responsible for the pie a teacher contest. I have cash to buy out if it is me that they want to pie. Whipped cream and a hot day…not the best combo. I would love to say the money raised will go for a good cause, but it is to supplement the prom budget. Students need to have fun, but I also think they need to plan within their needs and not depend on the last minute fund raising of spring carnival.
What’s up for the weekend? It is supposed to be very nice so I’m hoping to spend a significant amount of time outdoors. Going to the theme park may be an option if the preteen will clean her room and adjust her attitude. Why can’t girls just get along?!?!
She took my clippy.
She’s using the straightener and I need it!
She’s invading my space.
She’s copying me.
She’s breathing my air…
Live From The Field
Testing the Postie plugin
*update*
New Plugin! Postie
Blog updates was one thing I wanted to use Twitter for. However, when I enabled the tool that would do a blog post the Twitter plugin went a little schitz. WP has an email-post function, but it required manual action to get the post to show. Not interested in that. If I wanted to manually update after an email post then I would just manually post! After periodic searches and a solid hour of wasted time (it took me that long to give in and read the instructions) I installed, activated, and configured Postie. I like it. Perfect for techno geeks like me! If you choose to play with Postie I recommend that you read the instructions FIRST. That whole part about creating two new folders in your WP directory…yeah, he meant that. It has to be done or the plugin won’t work. Simple to install (if you follow directions) and simple to use. Make sure the email addy you use is secure. Kind of an important point if you don’t want some twit posting to your blog for kicks and giggles.
Family fun night
Best purchase ever…Wii! Family fun nights are always a lot of fun, but the Wii has taken it to a whole new level. My favorite games are tennis and DDR. It is highly amusing to watch our 8yo take on the family. She has the ability to beat anyone in tennis, bowling, DDR, and depending on the song, Guitar Hero. There’s talent there baby! It has really be awesome for us. DDR is a great workout. The problem for me is finding uninterrupted time to complete a calorie set. I am not a gamer…not by any stretch. However, I do believe the Wii is the best game system ever. No, not for gamers, but for families. It is a system that is, or can be, a full body experience. Get off your tush and move people! It exercises more than your thumbs!
Way awesome. Way fun. Way cool.
Kontan Jou people, happy day!
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