My head is going to explode...

I think I'm trying to learn too many new things at once - a product of wanting to get some things done before I start school.

If you haven't been to Facebook in a while - check out Jacob's singing group "Image". They went to Orlando, FL and took all the awards at the Disney music contest. They recieved a superior rating, a best in division and best overall group. I stole the CD that Jacob brought home and uploaded the 4 songs.

I am also working on video. The boys have had the video software and have done some productions for friends and the school, but I have not been able to get them to make me CDs of their singing and concerts. I bugged Jim so that he would get some good editing software and I am trying to learn it. In order to get something useable I have to use the camera software and then Power Director to change the format and then Vegas Movie Studio to produce the actual video. Oh, then you have to find a format that Facebook accepts and that is compressed. It just goes on and on and on... I used the software to produce the Disney music songs - audio only - haven't graduated much beyond that yet. Expect some good things to come of this...

Since dumping WoW, I've been teaching myself Visual Basic.net. This is mostly due to the fact that Jim was teaching a young high school student and I just kept hearing the talk (also I might have to teach it some day). I wanted to see how much programming had changed since I was at work. It's amazing! I have been following tutorials that walk you through all the different "beginner" things that one can do with web design. So far, the tutorials are much better than the books I have checked out at the library. I'll tell you one area where we HAVEN'T come a long way - and that would be textbooks. You know you have something bad when you have a 1175 page how-to book with a 30 page index. Just name it "Visual Basic for those who love frustration!"

I'm also reading "Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathemathics" - and yes it is as dry as it sounds. It was a book recommended by home school groups to kind of tie together the origins of math with what we teach today. So far, all I've read is some pretty heavy Euclidean geometry type theorums and proofs. I put the book down for other things frequently.

I am also brushing up on algebra, trig and calculus type basics. When I talked to the head of the certificate program, she asked specifically whether I would want to teach higher math like calculus. She was also very excited that I could be double certified in computer science. Kind of freaked me out - because I'm a bit rusty.