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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Kids were all reasonably focused for the school day today, and so we managed to get through our classes reasonably quickly. That was good, because after that clients just wouldn’t leave me alone; there were people on chat for most of the day. I somehow managed to muddle through despite being deeply fired from going to bed late and getting up early.
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Lindsey was in bed way too early last night, so not surprisingly this morning started at 4AM. This game me a few hours of working on email and project planning before the other kids woke up, so it was not wasted time. But it was pretty early time.
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The big homeschool news of the morning is that Adam is starting in on a biology class just for him. This will be the first time we’ve expected him to self-motivate and do mainly reading and writing for a class, as opposed to interacting with parents/teachers continuously. I set up a wiki for him to track his assignments, which went over well with him too. After one day he pronounced it the best class ever, though he’s somewhat prone to exaggeration.
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Even though it was a weekend day, it was a busy one. Somehow it seems that life gets even fuller in the spring, and it’s definitely spring outside now, with shirtsleeve temperatures and kids wanting to spend time out in the yard (which we, of course, are happy to encourage).
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After the family was up and breakfasted, Adam and I headed out for a small bit of shopping. It’s Pinewood Derby time for the scouts again, and we needed some tools and paint (as well as a few other odds and ends). Fortunately his pack has rules prohibiting the various silly aftermarket speed parts, so we don’t have to get too crazy to have a shot at winning.
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Today started very early – 2AM early. That’s because the huge update to one client site was finally ready to deploy, and there was a big data migration to do, and we wanted to limit peak time downtime. So I kicked the process off at 2, napped a bit from 3 to 4, and then was up for the rest of the day.
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I threw smaller kids into the bathtub after they’d had breakfast today, and then did some light morning schoolwork with them. After that, the three of us were out the door in the van. It was time once again for Thomas’s weekly sports class at the Y, and now we’ve registered Lindsey for it as well. With both of them in class, I was free to sit on the sidelines with my laptop while they played soccer (or what passes for soccer with a bunch of preschoolers) and work on web site design.
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Dana’s down with a cold, so we only did half schoolwork today. The kids didn’t mind at all, of course, and they were all pretty well-behaved through the schoolwork that we did do. This included some time spent modifying our little robot to better play soccer.
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Monday and the first of the month is a pretty toxic combination. Between working with my PA to get invoices out and dealing with clients and email, I had a frantic and hectic day, without getting a whole lot done for most of it.
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The month ended for me with a small flurry of work, trying to get a couple of sites finished and deployed. We’re pretty much on schedule with everything, though inevitably there are going to be some bugs to fix next week.
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