Category: Everyday Stories
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Put a sock in it (and does one really need yoga pants to do yoga)
Yes, I’m back to trying yoga after a year’s hiatus (or should we say a false start a year ago). I have been digging around and finding yoga instruction that was much better than what I had before. Not like a drill sargent. Have only been at it a few days but Monday night, with…
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I was on my way to sleep, listening to the radiator, when…
I was lying there late last night listening to how the radiator goes click click gumph gumph gurgle gurgle as it starts up. As far as I knew I was still awake, meditating on the click click gumph gumph gurgle gurgle, playing with it in my head, when I was suddenly, something to do with…
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The Quandry
H.o.p.: Mom, there’s something I want to talk to you about. I have this problem that freaks me out sometimes. It’s about life. Sometimes when I think about life it’s like something I can’t escape. It’s hard to describe. How can I forget about it, mom? Bad mom softly laughs. H.o.p.: And I sometimes get…
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It Worked for Us – BBC Typing School (Ages 7 – 11)
BBC has an online typing program for kids ages 7 to 11, Dance Mat Typing. I thought I’d go ahead and give it a plug as it worked for us. H.o.p. began the lessons last year but his interest collapsed. He started them again this year back in November or December and finished them, this…
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Cosmeo No Longer Has Maths Mansion (durn)
We use Cosmeo quite a bit and H.o.p. really enjoys it. He really enjoyed the Brit show Maths Mansion which he discovered via Cosmeo, which was filmed about 2001 and is a math adventure game geared for 9 to 11 year olds (not to be confused with the Ms. Infinity’s Math Mansion). Then suddenly the…
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Rosetta Stone Doesn't Like Libraries
I discovered what’s going on with Rosetta Stone and libraries. They’ve decided to not license them any longer. So I was reading that a library, patrons being hooked, had ordered CDs to lend out. But the new Rosetta Stone license is for one computer alone. The librarian had felt that Rosetta Stone had used them…
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Loathsome bad cookies
I’m feeling out of sorts. I think I’ve a touch of the flu that’s been going around. Ended up sleeping most of the day, thus H.o.p. had a day off. I took a nap this morning and was surprised to wake up and found how long I napped. Then I took a nap this afternoon,…
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Wildly imaginative worlds of Yannick Puig
A couple of wonderful whimsical offerings. H.o.p. loves the animations of Yannick Puig, such as the below “I Lived on the Moon”. Another is the delightful “Krapooyo”. I like Puig’s animations as well. P.S. “I Lived on the Moon” was replayed over and over here today and probably will be for a while. I showed…
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Let's Not Watch it Again!
Netflix has some Sundance Film Festival animated shorts from 2007. H.o.p. and I watched “Ask the Insects”, “Der Ostwind”, “In Passing” and “One Rat Short”. “Ask the Insects” was the only one he asked to see again, the effects having sparked his interest, and then before I even began to replay it he had changed…
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Slinky in the Sky with Jittery Diamonds
Lo and behold the clouds cleared up and after watching for a while from the window we stepped outside for around 20 minutes of eclipse viewing with the binoculars. “Wasn’t that exciting?” H.o.p. said. It was pretty. I tried taking pictures but not having brought along the tripod the moon came out looking like a…
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Not Excited About the Lunar Eclipse…
…because I checked the hour by hour weather forecast and it looks like we’re gonna be all clouds. Drat.
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Learning the Language of Ipod
Post Valentine’s and I’m learning the language of my new Ipod. I’ve wanted an Ipod for thousands of years. Though H.o.p. has a broad musical vocabulary, there’s a major generation gap going on and I would prefer to not spend all my waking hours listening to “Carmina Burana” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. Thus,…