I'll set up a "secret" comm that you know nothing about and get people to PayPal me. I'll have to take a cut, of course.

Well, sure. This secret cabal isn't gonna fund itself!

I did it in just under 6 minutes so it's sorta crude.

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Our school district requires an IQ of 140 for the gifted program. It's as much a function of limiting the number of students to the funding available as anything else.

Also, some gifted programs aren't IQ dependent. If you are listed as musically gifted, artistically gifted, or even language arts gifted or math gifted, your IQ isn't relevant to placement.

Lots of programs use designations based on standards-testing instead.

I was feeling like I was getting a cold so I preemptively asked my boss if I could work from home today. Still have to work all day but at least I'm here. And feeling more like it's bad allergies than a cold. I'm sure sleeping a couple of extra hours helped.

At least I'll have a chance in between work tasks to clean out my car and pack up my stuff to bring up to Wilmington. I'm leaving around 10 pm in hopes of missing some of the horrorshow 95 traffic but, generally, driving up to DE this Wednesday is not a good time any time you do it. And there's no way to avoid Delaware if you actually have to go to Delaware! (Although I do know the back ways around the stateline toll at least.)

There was an ad here last night for a store whose post-Thanksgiving sale starts at FOUR AM Friday morning.

My son has asked repeatedly if he can go to Wal-Mart at 3am or some such. Or the mall. I told him I would sooner walk a rope bridge over the grand canyon.

Gifted and unmotivated is how they classified Brendon. Minimalist. At least now in HS he can be in one gifted class, another advanced class, and other mainstream classes depending on his willingness to put forth any effort. Usually the determining factor is the teacher. Somehow the teacher that he hated with passion at the beginning of last year is now his favorite. Huh.

I did it in just under 6 minutes so it's sorta crude.

Hee. Do your kids appreciate your photoshop talent? Mine love when I do silly stuff to their pictures. Although son Brendon is better at it than me now.

Do your kids appreciate your photoshop talent?

Not really. I need to get more creative. I'm planning on doing a collage of pictures of them throughout the year for framed pictures as gifts for some grandparent gifts. I may do some creative masking there.

Laura! I haven't posted with you in ages.

I am freezing in my office. And have to go teach a demo class. I hope there is heat in that room. Yay?

Not really. I need to get more creative.

Couple of pictures of them being eaten by bears should develope a little appreciation.

TV star Bill Nye has requested a restraining order against his former fiancee after she allegedly tried to poison him. Nye, also known as Bill Nye, The Science Guy, sought the order in a Los Angeles court on September 4, after spotting his ex, Blair Tindal, dressed in black and acting suspiciously near his home. The order would prevent Tindal from coming near his California house and contacting him. The legal papers filed state Tindal "emerged from my backyard... carrying two plastic bottles filled with some sort of solvent. Apparently she was trying to poison my plants including some vegetable(s). She fled on foot and then a car sped away from the scene." Tindal had driven by his house twice in the previous three weeks. Nye also complained in an abuse report that Tindal "left a coffee pot on my porch" on August 16. However, Tindal filed a response on November 13, disagreeing with the terms of the restraining order. A hearing has been set for December 20.