The Aftermath - Day 2

Day 2 Was Busy


First of all we took down all the bulletin boards, except 1 and put fabric up and replaced the borders.

I think it looks much better, don't you?

Oh and I put together all kinds of furniture. Garment rack? No, silly this is a pocket chart holder or something like that.

Storage - can't have too much of that

Nice yellow fabric with a blue trim.

Removed the border hot glued to the board, still dirty, unfortunately.

The other board is a checkered blue and white fabric with yellow trim. That is where the calendar will go.

Snap together storage cubes - what a pain

A table top chalk board, this will come in handy.

Oh what's that a whiteboard on the other side, wow!!

A stacked cart - that will hold a lot of stuff

Storage bins, those look familiar, hey my clothes were in there this morning...

Cubbyholes clean!!

Why is there a door in our room? Hey that cart looks neat.

2 Wooden bookshelves - so many nails

The library center will make good use of these.

More snap together cubes in the closet holding everything.

PANORMA - WOW!!

The Aftermath - Day 1

These are pictures of Chelsea's classroom at the end of day 1. I forgot to take before pictures, but let's just agree that it looks nicer than it did.


At this point we didn't really have all the layout decided

We mostly threw out old stuff, cleaned and organized.

Lots of things needed moving and fixing

At this point we are pleased, but know more work will come

This closet was gross and now its kind of better

Time to go, look at those neat desks

Look at all that stuff to unpack and sort

We decided that we really needed to use this umbrella

The one nice thing about this room, clean new carpet

The whiteboard is SO dirty, very difficult to clean

Those cubbyholes were full of stuff and the top was piled with things

We got the teacher desk set up, one thing off the list.

Day 1 was definitely difficult, we could not do a lot with the furniture until the late afternoon, because there was a large case of stuffed birds in the room, gross, but we eventually got it all done - or at least all we could do that day.

Where have all the fudgesicles gone?

Okay, so I like fudgsicles, (pictured below) however for at least one month now, I can't find them. At Wal-Mart, Brookshires or Albertson's.
GOOD!!
I have looked every time shopping has commenced, but each time the search was fruitless.
Instead all I find is "NO SUGAR ADDED" - WTF? I don't want some no sugar added ice cream. I want the fatty delicious sugar filled chocolate on a stick.
GROSS!!
That and some 100 Calorie Bar Variety or Triple Chocolate.
GROSS!!
GROSS!!
I WANT MY DAMN Fudgsicles back. Is there some conspiracy that Tyler Texas gets no fudgsicles? Or are they being sold out before I get to the stores or are these stores simply not ordering them.

Well listen up Brookshires, Wal-Mart and Albertson's. I want my regular old Fudgsicles (although I would prefer that they not be old), and I want them now (or at your earliest convenience of ordering them. Thank you.

Oil

As the graph currently shows to the right and below, because I know it will change:

Gas has dropped below $120 a barrel and the national average price for gas is below $3.50 for regular. Well, the question I have, will this trend continue? Probably not, but if it does, SWEET!!

Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation

As told on Slashdot:

Penguinisto writes "According to a somewhat jaw-dropping story in The Register, it appears that Microsoft has performed a trifecta of geek-scaring feats: They have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Platinum member(at $100K USD a year), submitted LGPL-licensed patches for ADOdb, and have pledged to expand their Open Specifications Promise by adding to the list more than 100 protocols for interoperability between its Windows Server and the Windows client. While I sincerely doubt they'll release Vista under a GPL license anytime soon, this is certainly an unexpected series of moves on their part, and could possibly lead to more OSS (as opposed to 'Shared Source') interactivity between what is arguably Linux' greatest adversary and the Open Source community." (We mentioned the announced support for the Apache Foundation earlier today, as well.)

Well, what an odd turn of events.

Cancelled TV Shows

Cancelled 2007-2008 Season (USA)

From The TV IV

The following shows have been either cancelled or pulled from the schedule during the 2007–2008 television season. Shows in italics have been pulled from the schedule with no announced plans for future airings but have not been officially cancelled.

Broadcast

ABC

* Big Shots (2 unaired episodes)
* Carpoolers
* Cashmere Mafia
* Cavemen (7 unaired episodes)
* Dance Machine (2 unaired episodes)
* Just for Laughs
* Men in Trees
* Miss Guided
* Notes from the Underbelly (1 unaired episode)
* October Road
* Oprah's Big Give
* Women's Murder Club

CBS

* Cane
* Jericho
* Kid Nation
* Moonlight
* Power of 10
* Secret Talents of the Stars
* Shark
* Viva Laughlin
* Welcome to the Captain

The CW

* Aliens in America
* The Batman
* Beauty and the Geek
* Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants
* CW Now
* Eight Days a Week (unaired)
* Friday Night SmackDown! (moving to MyNetworkTV at end of summer)
* Girlfriends
* Legion of Super Heroes
* Life Is Wild
* Online Nation
* Pussycat Dolls Present

FOX

* Back to You‎
* Canterbury's Law‎
* K-Ville
* Nashville
* New Amsterdam
* The Next Great American Band
* The Return of Jezebel James (4 unaired episodes)
* Unhitched
* When Women Rule the World (unaired)

MyNetworkTV

* Control Room Presents
* Decision House

NBC

* 1 vs. 100
* Amne$ia
* Bionic Woman
* Clash of the Choirs
* The IT Crowd (no episodes aired)
* Journeyman
* Las Vegas
* My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad
* Phenomenon
* quarterlife (5 unaired episodes aired on Bravo, could still continue on MySpace)
* Scrubs (moving to ABC for its final season)
* The Singing Bee (3 unaired episodes)
* World Moves (no episodes aired)

Syndication

* In the Loop with iVillage
* Judge Hatchett (reruns will still be syndicated)
* Judge Maria Lopez
* The Montel Williams Show (package of "Best of Montel" will still be syndicated)

Cable

The following shows were officially cancelled or ended during the 2007-2008 season.

A&E

* Confessions of a Matchmaker
* Driving Force
* Jackpot Diaries

ABC Family

* Wildfire

BBC America

* Life on Mars

BET

* Ballers
* Exalted!
* We Got to Do Better
* S.O.B.: Socially Offensive Behavior

Bravo

* Better Half
* Hey Paula
* Queer Eye
* Welcome to the Parker

Comedy Central

* Drawn Together
* The Showbiz Show with David Spade

DirectTV 101

* Passions (final episode will air August 11, 2008)

ESPN

* The Contender (Moving to Versus)

Food Network

* 2 Dudes Catering

FX

* Dirt

HBO

* 12 Miles of Bad Road (no episodes aired)
* Inside the NFL (moving to Showtime)
* The Wire

Lifetime

* America's Psychic Challenge
* Blood Ties
* Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead
* Matched in Manhattan
* Side Order of Life
* State of Mind
* Top This Party

MTV

* Kaya
* Two-a-Days

The N

* About a Girl
* Instant Star

Nickelodeon

* Danny Phantom
* Zoey 101

Oxygen

* The Bad Girls Road Trip
* Fight Girls
* Janice & Abbey
* Monique's Fat Chance

Sci Fi Channel

* Flash Gordon
* Guinea Pig (second season aired in Canada)
* Painkiller Jane
* Who Wants to Be a Superhero?

Showtime

* Masters of Horror

TLC

* Flip That House

USA

* The 4400
* Dr. Steve-O
* The Dead Zone

VH1

* Flavor of Love
* Hogan Knows Best
* I Love New York

Some of you will be missed, but all in all, not really surprised.

Wal-Mart 4GB Flash Drive Cheap

So you may have clicked on the link and seen this drive is still $30. However I found the exact same one in stores for $19.88. And it's 2GB cousing was only $12.88. Considering my largest drive is a several years old 512MB, also Sandisk. I decided 4GB at this price, not bad at all. So the moral of the story is always check to see if things are on sale and if they are, buy them.

Update: I did notice however Wal-Mart has a Kingston 4GB DataTraveler 100 USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $19.88. However, from personal experience of having owned a 1GB Data Traveler several years ago I can't really recommend this product, although it is cheap.