The Time Sink

Oh, man, these "homework weekends'! The wailing and gnashing of teeth. The constant litany of "It's not fair", and "This is just too much." ...to say nothing of the pressure to get things done and not being able to go outside to play!

Hmmm.,.. More distractions than I need right now. There's the iMac project (where I may have hosed something), a gallery I'm trying to get together, and it's tax time around here. ...and a birthday coming up and the partridge's cage needs cleaning again!

Well, homework is where it is for a day... Both boys have field trips in the morning, both to cities over two hours away. ...and they're both getting back late enough to make getting a good night's sleep the goal.

Me? I think I'll stay home and help Shelley worry about them. ...and maybe get a project or two done. ...and maybe take Shelley out to an early dinner?

Okay... We have both boys back home from their field trips and the taxes are done. I think that's all I'm going to ask of the day...

...a little something different: I'm going to bed.

Current score: one second degree burn, one slightly over-half-built castle, and nerves still intact...

By popular demand:

All those days way back when scoring and folding cardstock covers for the high voltage sections of all those Heathkits I built finally paid a dividend. Neither of us are artists, but I think we did okay for a first try...

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future"

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