22-33-104.5. Home-based education - legislative declaration- definitions - guidelines.

2 (c) "Qualified person" means an individual who is selected by the parent of a child who is participating in a nonpublic home-based educational program to evaluate such child's progress and who is a teacher licensed pursuant to article 60.5 of this title, a teacher who is employed by an independent or parochial school, a licensed psychologist, or a person with a graduate degree in education.

Might be easier for to get licensed as a psychologist than as a teacher..

Religion and son's birthday party

Ok, so I recently felt like I wasn't going to go down the Jewish path, because I couldn't convert to Judaism. After discussing it some with (who admitted that she's gotten used to my doing this), I've decided that I'm going to keep on this path, but that doesn't stop me from looking at other faiths as places from which I can learn things. I may, someday, find a Rabbi who can convert me, otherwise I'll be the shul goy. (Not exactly a pun..) So now going back to no pork, etc., and I'll figure out the rest later. I would like to find a community where I fit in, though. The Jewish community here has no problem with my attending and all, but I'm not really *part* of the community, it's like I attend but don't belong. So that's something for me to ponder as well. This Saturday, we are having 's first birthday party! We've been working on getting the house clean and ready for 12 adults + more possibly, and 4 kids from 12 to 18 months (or so). Fun fun! Really all I have left is some laundry, my bathroom, and the office if I can manage it. We're planning to have a cake for him to eat (we'll see), one for adults (although the other one is just fine for adults, too!), and some trays of veggies for people to eat (may have a little more, we'll see).

Say it ain't so!

Best Buy is buying SpeakEasy. So, one of the last bastions of real peer-to-peer, servers allowed, static IP internet is going away. I'm not fooled for one minute: Best Buy sucks, and they won't be able to resist mucking about with SpeakEasy's policies and procedures. I really found this quote cute:

"We have a high regard for Speakeasy's employees, their culture, and their valued relationships with customers and vendors," Jackson said. "They have a strong customer service-oriented approach, which is an excellent fit with Best Buy's culture and direction."

Well, that should make one choke on one's coffee/tea/lemonade. Ugh. Best Buy != Good customer service.

Work (friends only)

Ok, what I couldn't say on the public post is "UGH!". We are running, screaming, away from Microsoft's ASP.Net AJAX implementation. I haven't had anywhere near as much trouble with JavaScript and AJAX as I have with this - I'd rather write my own AJAX implementation! As it is, I'm going to make a "semi" final decision in the next couple days on either Prototype, Scriptalcious[sp], Rico or Yahoo! UI. Leaning towards Yahoo!, but we'll see. I really just want something to facilitate the XML/JSON/SOAP/whatever calls, and let me handle the UI (as it'll be really pretty and dynamic and whatnot). I may keep ASP.Net for the backend, as I'd rather not touch PHP, I don't know enough Ruby, and I don't really know Java (and setting up Java is a pain in the tuchis).

Work

We're live! Yay! HouseFront.com is now live. You can text an address to HOUSE (46873) and get back a couple of SMS messages with details, and then review the properties (and get more info) on the website. We've put in a lot of hours for the past months, and now we can finally put it out there for people to use.

Fun at work

Friends locked as it discussed pre-release stuff at work. [Edit: No longer friend-locked due to age and non-relevance to current status of work.] *sigh* Okay, so Tuesday I cleared my queue of everything so that I could work on implementing the new web design Wednesday. Wednesday I went in, and basically blew off the whole day as I was told not to use the web design given, as they were going to work with the designer to change key parts of it. Today I get in, and finally I can use the web design, but more will dribble in, and various little bugs were found in production (no biggie, expected, planned for), and then the company we get our data from starts having problems resolving addresses. Argh. I only got two pages done today of implementing the new design - there are 2 more, plus a master page (kinda like template page), and then polishing the edges where I didn't quite complete whatever I needed to do to make each page actually work. I really hoped to have the new web design integrated by noon Friday, I'm thinking now that it won't be until noon Monday. :(

Busy network

I have quite the busy network. I run the free basic version of Network Magic on my personal laptop (just 'cause, honestly, it doesn't really do anything for me..). Anyways, here's a breakdown of the devices that it detects on my network (and it's accurate): My Personal Laptop (Windows/Ubuntu Linux) My Work Laptop (Windows) My Desktop (PowerMac G4) 's Laptop (iBook G4) 's Primary Desktop - Games (Windows) 's Secondary Desktop - EQ Trader (Windows) CallVantage VOIP Telephone Adapter (VOIP) Printers sharing Laptop (Ubuntu Linux) Wii (Nintendo) Xbox (Microsoft) That's 10 devices. Ten. Wow. And all except the Xbox are wireless.

Wii

Yay! We just picked up a Wii, a 2nd controller, and are now downloading updates, creating Mii's, and such. So far it seems like lots of fun (we tried out 's Wii previously and decided that we did like it.