I kludged an author indicator - for now, I’ll use the ‘Phoebe’ category.

Never Seldom Frequently one to whine in the face of adversity, I have been waiting for the blog to gel, as it were, before I began posting. The somewhat schizophrenic effect of different posters with no indication as to who actually authored a given post has been keeping me from posting thus far, but I decided to go ahead and blog today anyway, even though I feel like Equality 7-2521 breaking free from the World Council with my singular, yet confusing, ‘I’.

Obviously I’ve not blogged in a long enough time that my brain is all cluttered with the detritus of half-thought witticisms and formless rants. I’ll save those for a while longer; I wouldn’t want to let Eleanor Clift down this Sunday when I yell at her through the television. It’s a pity when I’m reduced to “You utter twit!”

OK, so hi, howareya, it’s Fee, didja miss me?

We got some (un)school supplies last night. Markers and paper and a fancy purple binder, for Faith, who is officially old enough to school now. Were she attending an institutional school she would be starting kindergarten this year. Here’s the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for Oklahoma, which is what the inmates will be doing. I dunno what we’ll be doing. Rest assured that I’ll let you know as we do it, however. I know I’m getting The Story Of the World: History for the Classical Child; Vol. I to read aloud to the girls, and Faith (but not Abby) will be in dance once a week which she is looking forward to HUGELY. And we’re all going to be learning sign language just for fun and because Gilbert is really wanting more than, uhm, ‘more’ as far as signs go.

I’m also facilitating someone’s learning on the other end of the spectrum; my nephew T.J., aged 16, will be directing his own education and life from now on after much deliberation. You can go read what he thinks about stuff here. If I can rip him away from that new guitar in a few weeks we were talking about taking the ACT. I don’t know if he wants to stuff some geometry under his belt first or just see what’s what. His call.

So, Gentle Reader, that is all. I’ll get some categories in here soon, and other refinements I’m sure. Just keep checkin’.

We have a correction to make. In a previous post, we alleged that the WordPress theme “V4NY38″ was designed by “somebody calling himself ‘V4NY.’” But in actuality, the theme was designed by somebody calling herself “V4NY,” and whose given name might be Vanessa. We regret the error.

We got rid of the powder-blue color scheme. If you are still seeing shades of cerulean on this page, please click your “refresh” button.

We’ve started rebuilding the “blogroll.” We think all of our current readers will agree that we’ve put up a fairly representative sampling of the best of the Internet.

And our hosting provider helpfully let us retrieve all of the images from our old blog.

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