I’m prone to carrying out little experiments on my kids.<\/p>\n
For their own good, of course.<\/p>\n
For instance, when my kids were in first and third grades, my son’s reading scores were lagging a bit.\u00a0 So late that May, about the time school let out, the TV broke.<\/p>\n
No, really.\u00a0 It did.\u00a0 And I pled poverty, and let it sit unused all summer long, until late September.\u00a0 The kids had nothing to do all summer but play and read.\u00a0 And the kids’ reading scores improved; Bun went back to school reading at a ninth grade level, and Zam was way ahead of his level, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So the following summer, the TV broke again.\u00a0 OK, this time it “broke” – a cable broke, and rather than replace it I pled poverty again, and let it sit for four more months.\u00a0 The reading scores improved quite a bit again.<\/p>\n
Late last spring, my laptop and the family’s desktop broke down almost simultaneously.\u00a0 Part of the problem was gross overuse; the kids were just online too damn much.\u00a0 So I let ’em stay broke again.\u00a0 And it was a generally good experiment.<\/p>\n
But it kinda played hell on my blogging.\u00a0 For the last three or four months, I’ve been blogging at coffee shops, libraries, and on the occasional break at work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, no more.\u00a0 I got a computer put together last night.\u00a0 And was able to actually blog at home for the first time in quite a long time, quite a long time, quite a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My output today probably was your first clue, though…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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