For many years in a row now the Mount Vernon Primary Center has failed to reach the NCLB standards. This leads to an option for us to send our kids to other schools in the area, however the superintendents of the districts have allegedly colluded to not accept students from any of the other’s districts.
Recently, [...]
And hell yes I accepted the offer. As of December 7th I will be working for School Center in Carbondale. The drive will suck a little, but the joy of doing what I want every day and being a part of a normal job will be awesome. I miss the routine of going into work, [...]
Christ. Apparently I can’t send Amaya or Erich to school with a peanut butter sandwich now because the Primary Center is now a ‘nut-free zone’. I have many wisecracks about that assumption, given this idiotic decision, but I’ll hold them for now.
I know that some people are allergic to nuts, fine. Sucks to be them, [...]
Well, another school year has begun. The kids are enjoying their time, and I think sissy is taking to the learning better than she had previously. Things are definitely looking up in that department.
The sad part for me is that I’m not going back to school. I have my degree, a few certificates, and no [...]
El yay. I finally got my AAS degree in the mail today. I now have proof that I spent two years fine-tuning my IT skills with official curriculum. Rend Lake definitely has a great program in my opinion. The instructors go out of their way to help you learn material.
While at RLC I picked up [...]
This is a reprint of an article from my Ask a Geek column in the Mount Vernon Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you like it.
You’re sitting in front of your computer after booting into the operating system and cleaning out your extra startup junk. Now what do you do?
If [...]
This is a reprint from my Ask a Geek column that appears weekly in the Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it.
Once your computer has booted into the operating system, most people think it is just sitting there waiting for you to tell it to do something. [...]
This is a reprint that originally appeared in my ‘Ask a Geek’ column for the Register-News. This is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it.
Your computer is stupid. Yes, for all the wonderful tricks you can accomplish with it, your computer only understands two things ‘1′ and ‘0′. On and off. [...]
