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"Stay Home Day"
January 25, 2005

Today I’m at home with Abby and Riley, because Abby isn’t yet signed up for full-week school.

Thursday is Abby’s last weekday as a school-free kid until her summer break in kindergarten. It’s kind of depressing to think about the future she has to look forward to - another year of pre-school, 13 years of public school, and more years of higher education. A lot of it seems like a waste, although I read Paul Graham’s essay on what he wished he knew during school, and that makes it seem a bit more manageable.

First Day Back
January 24, 2005

Today was Berta’s first day back to work since Riley was born, and everything so far seems to be going smoothly.

The contentious bit was whether our morning routine would go off without a problem. We have to get up, shower and dress, get Abby up and dressed, and get out the door with all of our required equipment. We have to cart Abby to school in the morning, which adds about 20-40 minutes to our travel time to work, and someone has to wait for Nana to arrive so that we don’t leave Riley alone at home.

Mouse Motion
January 24, 2005

I installed this little application today called MouseImp Pro. It lets you do some crafty things with scrolling. That’s its intent, anyway. But I noticed that it has an odometer, and that I’ll be breaking 90 meters of mouse movement - the distance I’ve moved the mouse around on my desk, not the distance the cursor has moved around on the screen - in the single day I’ve had it installed.

If I make it an extra 1.44 meters, totalling 91.44m, I’ll have pushed my mouse the length of a football field today!