In which I once more attempt weekly updates on the homeschooling side of things.  Going to see how I go just writing about the bookwork and if I remember to add the Other Stuff we do as I go (and I found out after reading the curriculum outlines that we actually do most of the stuff in the curriculum without making much effort to do it, wonder how long I can get away with that... :).

Also I changed the generated url as punctuation gets dropped.

Maths

Some people have made them.  As far as I can tell from an extremely quick skim, they're all round coins and bills, familiar looking money.

The current block I'm working in uses local currency and bitcoin for a global currency.  While contemplating bitcoin and how it gets accepted/exchanged as readily as the local currency of any given area, I wondered if they had a physical version of it.  Which then of course had me wondering how cool it would be if they were dice.

Five dice from a platonic solids set - from Wikipedia

I can't even count in miles.

I was a touch concerned about adding anything else to the sidebar as it's already quite long.  Then I had a look at the sidebars some of my friends and other miscellaneous people have on their blogs and I don't feel too bad adding a couple of blocks.  Then of course there was a mental kerfuffle about folds and whether blocks should be above or below them.  I eventually decided to keep "About" up the top as it summarises the silly blog, and drop everything else in under it.

So the new blocks:

Happy Father's Day to all the people that do Father's Day!

We had Josh's dad, my uncle and one of my cousins over for lunch.  My uncle offered to cook the fish so we pulled 6 trout out of the tanks.  I've been observing that some of them were pretty big when feeding them, and one of the ones that Tao pulled up was quite large.

Big rainbow trout from the aquaponics tank, being held by father in law and patted by 3 year old

...privacy concerning if you're one of those people that object to things like tracking you around the internet, and not a big deal if you're not.

Dearest Apple

I hear you've won your most recent case against Samsung regarding rounded corners on rectangles.  Please forgive me for not jumping up and down in excitement over this little victory, as I happen to think the whole thing was pretty fucking stupid (pardonnez mon français) and a massive waste of time, effort and resources that you could have spent doing stuff like making your existing products better and maybe even inventing something new (or at least a new take on something old).

Throughout the years I've used:

Because I don't blog it nearly as often as I should.

Tao's reading is now well and truly away.  He reads everything from street and shop signs that we're passing to books.  His current favourite book is his Pokemon Black & White Handbook that Sprat bought for him. It's not unusual for him to wander around the house with it, have it open on his lap while watching tv, and sometimes he'll be multiscreening, watching tv, playing Pokemon White on his DS and have the book open beside him for reference.  I've known for a while and I think both Tao and Josh are discovering that he can actually parse what he considers large blocks of text when he wants to.

My OT character Lyric hunting with her two eevees, Amber (big shiny mutant thing) and Lightfoot (normal one).

If the Kanto/Johto regions weren't supposed to be tropical I would have left the sky clear, kind of rushed the clouds a little.  And my lighting went to hell when I exported as a jpg so my dodgy quickfix was to turn it into a png.  It only helped a little.  My painting is slightly dodgier than usual as I used a hard edged brush all the way through for some reason instead of a soft edged one like I usually do.

I know what I did wrong :) All I need to do now is catch them before I get to the point of "too hard to fix"...

The kids watched many Pokemon dvds while we were on Christmas Island.  I have a Pokemon fanfic sketched out in my head which I don't give a lot of time to as it's a very occasional diversion from working on AR.  This is sketch of my OT (that's "Original Trainer" for those that aren't versed in Pokemon fanfics) and two of her Eevees; Amber (combining cliches, she is an abnormally large shiny mutant, and female!), and Lightfoot (perfectly normal male).  They're hunting whatever might be good eating probably somewhere in the Kanto region.

Recently, in a mad jumble of chaos and confusion well coordinated and executed attack, my sister and I surprised our parents for their 60th.

I took a bunch of photos but didn't put them on my laptop due to the constant dramas I've been having downloading photos from the camera (keep losing connection, and the closer I get to finishing the import the more it breaks) and also the internet connection on Christmas Island is so agonisingly slow that photos would have taken aeons to upload anyway.  So now having gotten back to Perth and back onto my desktop, after struggling with importing 227 photos for the last two hours, I'm going to do one of those big long photo posts that is going to exasperate my sister.

Don't worry, I'm not posting all of them.