Wee lad’s computer arrived yesterday. He calls it “Mac ee tosh.” We have a couple of games he likes, although I won’t be buying more from the JumpStart series. They claim to be Mac OS/X compatible but they don’t work well on the iBook, and according to some searching on the web, this is a problem common to all the
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In between my school paper and clean-up from the painting and bookcase project, I managed to get my bookcases and storage shelves loaded. You can almost see the dining room table now (not pictured) and I only have a few more boxes to go through, two of which are destined for the filing cabinets. It’s beginning to feel “done,” even
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Thanks to the help of a great many people, the painting was finished yesterday. I touched up the stained spots this morning and they have not bled through the new paint, so the blocker works. You just have to let it cure, otherwise it continues to bleed through. Applying more blocker dissolved the blocker and lets it run, also! The
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The room is a lot brighter. When everything is dry it will be very nice, and hopefully less… stinky! Love those paint fumes! Tomorrow is the bookcase build-out. Jen put up some progress pictures on the gallery. Hopefully this one spot on the wall will bind with the stain blocker. It’s inkjet tint, and it’s been bleeding through the blocker
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Tonight we start the taping and moving and preparing for the painting of the den and build-out of the bookcases. 🙂 Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. With luck, I’ll get my paper done for class, too.
Moving my machines to the closet under the stairwell was the year-end project. Had to run my own power, network, and telco cables. We had an electrician inspect it and do the final circuit hookup. Jen has put up pics of the new desks from IKEA in January. We have since managed to sift through every box, stack, drawer, cabinet,
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It looks like Wee lad is nearly ready for a computer he can explore with less supervision. We’ve weighed several options, including cobbling a PC together from spare parts, and come to the tentative conclusion that he is better off with a Mac mini. Among the reasons are the fact that some of the programs we want him to use
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Most people who know Wee lad know that in addition to some of his other favorite fascinations, he is a big fan of fish and Pixar’s Finding Nemo. For about four weeks now he’s been making big progress in assigning names to everything. Usually he uses a close approximation of the actual name, but sometimes he makes interesting connections of
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We went down to Gruene, TX last weekend to see Cowboy Kringle and Wee lad seemed to like that. He also got to run around at the Gruene Hall. It was a long day for him, and he was wiped out by naptime, but it was a good visit with Grandpa.
lil dood made nana’s day. he said “nana” and meant it 🙂 other new words this week: nice, nose, mouth, ear, eyes, and phone.