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a minecraft education

On May 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife, kiddo life

The other day Luc, 7, asked me, “is booties spelled with a ‘ys’ or an ‘ies’ ?”  This level of spelling awareness blew me away because, maybe only a month or two ago Luc could spell six words: Luc, Sophie, Paul, Maya, love, and poop.  In other words, Luc had had zero interest and near [...]

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dragonbox algebra app review

On May 12, 2013 · 1 Comment · In geeklife

I am the absolute last person to look at something or purchase something or recommend something for the kids because it is supposed to be “educational.”  This might seem ironic, given that we are homeschoolers.  But come on, 90% of anything I’ve ever been exposed to that was “educational” was BORING.  And I really don’t [...]

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today’s epic win

On April 15, 2013 · 1 Comment · In geeklife, mayalife

We have this seven-year-old desktop computer (it’s practically wood-burning) that the kids use—um, used to use—to play games, notably Tux Paint (best kid program ever) (I can’t believe I wrote that post 5 years ago!! And still Luc plays Tux Paint almost every day), and, of course, Minecraft. But then the monitor fizzled (actually [...]

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a small rant about “screen time”

On January 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife, kiddo life

[Does opening stretches, jogs in place for a moment, deep breathing] Okay!

You know what annoyed me yesterday on the playground?  The term “screen time.”  It’s condescending.  It takes all my projects and all the deep feelings I experience when reading or watching or playing or learning, all my various fun times, and reduces them [...]

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the escalating expense of leveling up, or, we just got a HD TV!

On January 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In adventures, geeklife

So.  We needed to pay the property tax on the truck, which in North Carolina is linked to the truck inspection, and, turns out, in order to pass inspection the truck needed new tires.  Dammit.  But Paul called around and found the best deal on tires to be CostCo (a membership only mega-store I’ve never [...]

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we wish you an ipad mini and a happy new year

On December 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife, reviews

Yes, our big present this year from Santa was a flashy new ipad mini, woo hoo!  True story: I had this dream that I woke up and told Paul that I should buy an ipad mini with some of my writing earnings for the year because I could use the mini (part of it) as [...]

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its christmas eve eve and my camera is broken!

On December 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife

What to do, what to do?  The poor thing has a honking big scratch on the lens that puts a ghostly fog in the middle of every photo I take.  I’m not sure when it happened, sometime in the last couple of weeks, but Luc did guiltily admit that Cul (Luc’s dark alter ego) may [...]

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uh-oh

On May 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife

Obviously, I’m playing with my blog today.  Sorry for the construction dust!

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underwhelmed by kindle

On February 23, 2011 · 2 Comments · In geeklife, reviews

If I’m going to epub a book, I need to be able to see what it is I’m selling.  So I got a kindle.  Actually, I cashed in a bunch of amazon rewards points and got a kindle for $14.  But now that I actually have one, I must report that I’m really not that [...]

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give me my internet fix, NOW

On September 28, 2010 · 4 Comments · In geeklife

Our phone is inexplicably out, and therefore so is our internet.  The “Estimated Time of Your Repair is…Sunday…October…4.”

WHAT?!?

I am so PROFOUNDLY disoriented without internet.  I wander around the yurt, aborting missions every five minutes.  Oh, I’ll go pay that bill—nope.  Oh, I’ll go write that person about a playdate for Sophie—nope.  Oh, I’ll [...]

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