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It appears that I have had some success trying to install WordPress. It is my hope that I will be able to update this page on a quasi-regular basis. This blog will for the most part be on an invitation only status. I hope to be able to post some pictures of Drake and Scout, but I’d rather they not be widely available to the outside world. Mercifully, WordPress has a password feature when writing posts/pages so that should add a little more security.
Although this is the same software that we are using at Spring Hill to update the Science Division departmental pages, I am largely unfamiliar with many of its features. I have weak access to the site at Spring Hill and I’m rather excited about being able to view/modify the css and php files for this blog. That written, there will probably be some periods of downtime for this blog when I am trying to figure out how to undo what I should not have done.
On a personal note, I started teaching classes today. I taught a section of precalculus and a section of calculus. Each class was held in one of the new (to Spring Hill) modular trailers. I wonder how pleased the well-to-do parents are about sending their kids to a $20,000+ per year school and having them take classes in a trailer. Oh well. At any rate, I again introduced each class as a chance for students to learn the practical side of how to survive a zombie outbreak. There were a couple of students that seemed confused, and many other that seemed amused. It looks like it is going to be fun. Ah well, I need to head off to bed. Melinda just came downstairs muttering something about “that son of yours…” and I think my uppence is about to come.
Great blog! I love the idea. I think I’ll let you be the guinnea pig for a while and see how it goes. I have enough frustration in my life at the moment.
I taught yesterday too. The class only has 11 students in it! Wahoo! I’m teaching the first half of the semester with the book to cover the stuff that the catalog says we need to. Since this is (or should be) a review for all of them, we are then going to apply all that stuff in the second half of the class. Each student has to come up with a fund raiser for a local non profit. Then they have to pitch the idea to the class. The class will then select three or four for everyone to work on. The whole second half of the semester, they will be working on their projects. I think we’re going to have a ball. I even lucked out—four or five of the students in there want to be event planners when they graduate. Awesome. I was prepared to get the blank stare you’ve-got-to-be-kidding look from everyone.
In other news, Grant is getting a new tooth and has let everyone know. He is quite adament about not wanting to be put down. Altitude seems to be a cure for most things that ail him. Austin is still fascinated by airplanes. He usually “flies” through stores and around the house. If he’s being a jet airplane, that’s easy. However, if he’s being a propeller plane, that has the bad habit of making things jump off the walls and tables as the plane flies by.
Hope you and Drake have a truce.