I really must be addicted to this site ... I kept checking ALL DAY LONG, cleared cookies, checked on my computer at work, at home, my iPhone, my iPad ... considered emailing Jeffrey ...
** Yesterday I managed to pull up the recent blogs, but was only able to make comments go through on two of them.
So glad it is back up!!
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My GymPact payment went through PayPal today! Also received the 2nd $5 AGC from Swagbucks, and am about 100 away from my next one. Redeemed for a $5 AGC from Irazoo yesterday.
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We had a two-hour delay today, and are having another one tomorrow -- both due to the temperature. It was something like -5 when I arrived at school today at ..9:30!! Tonight/early am is supposed to be as cold. Yikes!
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I just barely finished doing the evaluations of proposals for the next AASL convention (School librarians.) I had something like 25 of them. It was really pretty cool to get to see some of the possible programs. There was one I was especially excited about because the presenters are two bloggers that I've followed for a while.
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I showed my 7th and 8th graders a cool presentation site this week - meograph.com. It turns a boring presentation into something very fun and interesting. A number of them are trying it out for their final presentations.
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I've had some interesting conversations the past few days with our 5th grade teacher. He's wet under the ears (maybe 22 or 23??) He was first really upset about the idea that next school year his pay will be divided by 26 instead of 22. Then he was upset about the 2% "raise" in SS tax. Today we were talking in the cafeteria (before morning prayers) about good places to do your taxes yourself, and about how many deductions are good to take, and why you want to NOT get a lot of money back in a refund. I also made sure he knew about the educator credit - he was worried about taking it since he didn't have receipts ... somehow I don't think the IRS is NOT going to believe that a teacher spent $250 on classroom supplies within a year's time ... I spent more than twice that my last year in the classroom when I VOWED to NOT spend so much ... Isn't he lucky to be around all these ol' fogies who know a thing or two about handling money? 
Yay!
January 16th, 2013 at 04:59 am
January 16th, 2013 at 05:16 am 1358313363
Your teacher friend should check out the site I use. freetaxusa.com.
January 16th, 2013 at 05:21 am 1358313689
I'll pass the site on to him.
January 16th, 2013 at 10:11 pm 1358374263
January 16th, 2013 at 11:57 pm 1358380624
I do like it! I'm assuming you're someone who knows the site fairly well -- one thing I haven't been able to figure out how to do is to change the name of the meograph. I know it's possible from the demo video and other examples, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Also, is there any way to reorder the moments after you add them? One more question
January 19th, 2013 at 05:57 am 1358575065