My son’s preschool Whole Child Montessori is running it’s annual fundraiser called Little Hands Big Work. It’s an event where the school raises money to provide scholarship to kids who need it. In addition the kids and parents volunteer to restore a natural water shed. So donors get the double benefit of supporting early childhood education as well as making the environment better. It is a worthy cause that deserves your support....
A common advice that is given to people in software is “Surround yourself with programmers better than yourself”. Somehow this advice does NOT work for me. Whenever I’ve worked on a team with programmers who are better than me, I get lazy. I tend to write code that is slightly worse than my average. I reckon it’s because I rely on the better programmers to catch my mistakes. I do learn things from them but it’s not quite at the same pace as when I’m thrown in the deep end with minimal help....
Last Sunday Sempi decided he wanted to setup a lemonade stand. Yoshi and Sempi went to store to pick up a bunch of lemons and spent the morning hand squeezing them. It was made with the finest ingredients (cane sugar and ice cold water). Yoshi said she can help make the signs and Sempi declared that he’s going to give free lemonades. He insisted that he won’t charge for his lemonade....
Nice hot day for driving to the gorge and visiting some of our favorite falls. First stop Bridal Veil falls. Bridal Veil falls: After an awesome hike we have a clear view of the bridal veil falls. Sempi takes in the view and announces, “Appa I’d like to pee now”. Of course, you do. —Zinger between me and Yoshi. Me: Do you think it is named Bridal Wails falls because it sounds like a wailing bride?...
We’re getting ready to visit the library to return the books. I’m walking around the house finding all the books and filling them up in bags. Me: Filling up three large bags full of books to return to the library indicates a reading problem. Especially since they were checked out only a week ago. Yoshi: These books are almost due, we checked them out two weeks ago. Me: Oh well, that makes all the difference then....