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OK, the summer season doesn’t end until September 21, but this refers to summer off from school. I remember discussion about year-round school when I was a student and dreaded the idea. Of course, I changed my mind about that when I became a parent. It’s not about trying to keep the kids out of the house. They’d still get summer break, just not for such a long time that they forget what they’ve learned.
Year-round school also gives them a couple of more breaks during the school year to recuperate. Every single year — without fail — the kids start acting up by April. They’re burned out and tired by then. Back before Texas legislature intervened to create a single start date for the entire state (for the sake of tourism), we used to start earlier and get one week off in the fall. This worked well because it provided older kids with the opportunity to visit college campuses at a time when colleges were in session.
Can I just say I don’t like moving a blog from one software app to another?
Brain food…
- Wordnik Online Thesaurus: Backstory [Link: Therese Walsh].
- GovDeals: Sells surplus and confiscated items that can lead to great deals.
- How to Ensure 75% of Agents Will Request Your Material: Marcus Sakey elaborates on a talk he gave the resulted in many folks getting angry saying that this wasn’t possible.
- 7 Free Health Care Options: Not everyone has a spouse to rely on for health care…
- What’s the Single Best Thing You’ve Ever Done for Your Freelancing Biz? Inspiring and you might get some great ideas.
And for fun because we’re allowed…
- 12 Coolest Sticky Notes: Fun ways not to forget.
- 15 Great Geeky Comic Strips: Love “The Brads” poke at Comic Sans.
- Ken Ken: Sudoku addicts, ready for something different? Took me a couple of minutes to learn the game and play it. If you don’t know how to play it, this site has a great tutorial.
- Literary Classics as Decorative Word Posters: Wow. Also, Work of Art had an episode where the artists had to create book cover artwork for a classic. [Link: Jessica Strawser]
- LOL: The Recurring Prop Newspaper: See? Newspapers still have value… again and again. OK, maybe the reuse of this one is why they’re losing money… they’re not getting new editions
What’s one memorable thing you did this summer? (Or during the time between June and August 2010 as it’s not summer everywhere!)
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