Latest project at left. The client provided the stationery, I needed to provide the layout for a bullet-point list which was supposed to look like something other than a bullet-point list.

Tidbits:

The font from the stationery is modified from stock; therefore the header had to be done by hand.

The dividing lines fade as they get closer to the drawing of the building, so that they won't interfere with it.

The squares are copies of the windows in the building.

The space between each set of bullet points is equal to three "windows" in height.

Spacing for the squares wasn't apparent until the client added a huge amount of text and forced the list into two columns. The layout fell into place nicely after that. :-)

I managed to get through some laundry today, mow the lawn (oh, the joy!), stock up with stuff from Costco (more joy) and leverage David into more school. Interestingly, he actually asked to "do some Language Arts," which is almost unheard of. He picked out Reader #8 (narcolepsy!) and to my surprise he's pretty fluently reading stuff like, "Gus hisses at the rat. Gus jabs at the rat, but misses," and "Pam wishes that the ducks have boxes to sit in. The boxes can be duck huts!" Hmmm. As far as he's concerned, most of the attraction of reading comes in the fact that he can cuddle on the couch with mom under a blanket. For some reason, this is terribly cozy and safe; all other cuddling is out of the question with him. He's far more into baring his teeth and getting into tickle wars and rough-housing with his daddy. (Boy Love can be painful.)

For math we used connecting cubes to demonstrate the beginning concepts of place value; a rod of 10 cubes connected together is called a "ten-cube," and the individual cubes are called "one-cubes." Using these two props, you figure out how you'd demonstrate the number 13. I also discovered a math website, The Math Worksheet Site. You get to generate worksheets in .pdf format. I made an addition sheet for him with 20 problems and he diligently worked through all of them riding in the car. He had two computational errors and we discovered that he's having a HORRID time making 8's, and all his 9's are backwards.

And our most exciting news is probably the new purchase of a Mac Mini.

I haven't gotten it set up yet (this should take all of 10 minutes), but I'll report on it when I do.