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Monthly Archives: September 2006
You’ve got to be kidding me….No PB&J’s allowed!?!
This is total crapola. As I wrote earlier today, my son started kindergarten today, and he brought a note home telling students(really the parents) that students in this class are not allowed to bring in any foods that are made from nut products, because 2 kids in his class are allergic to them. This includes peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.
Well you know what? That the sandwich my kids likes and there is no reason he shouldn’t be able to bring it for lunch.
We were actually made aware before school even started about the kids with the allergies and they asked that no one bring class snacks with nuts in the ingredients, and I can understand this, that’s fine. But we were even told at the open house that individual lunches would be fine to have peanut butter. If the school has a problem with what my kids brings to eat they should just let him eat school hot lunches free of charge for the year.
Some tweaking going on
I’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the backend side of the blog lately. Including, but not limited to, installing many new wordpress plugins, a new theme and style, and some overall code tweaking. One side effect I’ve noticed is that my feed has been showing items as new again even though they’ve been read. If you’ve noticed that too and it bugs you, I apologize. I’m still working with a new ‘tags’ plugin which may mess with the feed a few more times. So things will will return to normal.
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Speaking of family news
My wife recently got hired for a full time job. She starts next Monday. This will be the first time in over 5 years that she will have a full time (paying) job. It will be nice for her to have ‘normal’ business hours. We might even get to start doing things as a family.
First day of school for all 3 kids
Today, the oldest started kindergarten, one of the twins started her early-childhood class and the other twin started at preschool. Can’t wait to hear all the stories tonight!
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Welcome back bloglines
I’ve been keeping a close eye on my bloglines feeds since it started acting up in the beginning of August and it appears that most of the issues(if not all) are resolved. So I’ve gone back to it as my main RSS aggregator. Gregarius is a great peice of software, but the main area it lacked for me was efficiency. What does that mean? Well, basically I can get through my feeds faster on bloglines for some reason. I’m not sure why, but skimming through hundreds of new entries takes a lot longer using Gregarius than bloglines.
Now I haven’t given up on Gregarius, in fact I will continue to use it, but I will play more with the develpment version than the stable. This is a project I’m very interested in watching and using.