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I started my day off at 4am when AJ woke me up because there were bugs in his room. (I got up to inspect, no bugs!) Fortunately I did manage to convince him that it was a dream. I put him back to bed, covered him up and crawled back in bed.

I got up again at normal time and scurried around so I could go vote in the PA primary today. I spent most of that time discussing with AJ that he could not stay home and he had to go to school and we had to go to work. I negotiated with John to go vote before work if I would take AJ to school (so we were able to go out to dinner with friends tonight without holding off until after we voted).

The line at my polling place wasn’t long—there were maybe 12 people there, but it still took probably 10 minutes—five in line to get checked in and five waiting for an available voting booth. Then we got stuck in construction traffic on the way to AJ’s school. At least he didn’t fight me when we got there and there were no tears or gnashing of teeth.

I was off and running for work—which is also a polling place so parking is at a premium (no parking lot, on-street parking only). I was running late as it was from voting..and the traffic…and running AJ into school. I was about 5 minutes from work and hit additional construction traffic that made me about 10 minutes late for work. My usual parking place was taken but I still got a spot pretty close-by.

I’ve been talking with some co-workers about how behind our kids are technologically and yesterday afternoon I managed to convince one of them that one of his annual projects should be a wiki from now on. Last night, I did some checking and found pbwiki has an ad-free educational version. Today, I got one started, added a list of potential resources, offered to post a copy of the assignment on the wiki, and generally did a bunch of back-work that will make this teacher look good.

After several years of trying to get a new teacher to use the library and me, she’s finally scheduled me to come to the computer lab with her early next month—great—except that she’s leaving teaching to go to seminary at the end of the school year so I haven’t actually built a new partnership. Oh well, maybe her replacement will work with me!

Our music teacher is having vocal chord surgery in a few weeks and will not be able to speak for over a month. She’s working on reviewing and adding to her three year old’s sign language vocabulary. She also asked me if I knew of any good text-to-speech software and/or if there’s a plugin for MSOffice. BUT it has to be available for Apple/Mac, not PC. I found a few suggestions before I knew of the Apple limitation…so we’ll see if what I found will work for her. (I think she still wants to be able to yell at her husband but she’ll never admit it! Okay, maybe she will!)

We had that dinner tonight ($3.50 for wings—can’t beat it!) with a friend who was asking us about a Dave Ramsey book she’d read over the weekend (we took his Financial Peace class last fall). It sounds like the book’s been helpful for her to see some things she can do to work with her budget and make some plans/changes. I hope it helps her as much as it’s helped us! I also did some straight talking with her about some verbal abuse that her daughter is dealing with and suggested that she take some action to protect her. I hope she finds the courage to file for divorce and court-ordered child support. If she’d applied for it three years ago, she might not be worrying so much about money now.

AJ went to bed without much hassle tonight AND promised me he’d wake daddy up if the bugs show up again!

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