Monday 13th November 2006

SJs colleague dropped her PC in yesterday. It's not powering up. I deduced that it's the power supply at fault and remove it and order another from eBuyer. Decided to re-configure my laptop and update the Microsoft patches etc. at the same time. BT arrived to liven up the new telephone line. I'm switching back to BT after 12 odd years with NTL. NTL service sucks and a BT line offers far greater flexibility in terms of choosing a broadband provider. That's the next thing, hunt around for some kind of phone, broandband, mobile phone package deal. But not until after Xmas as I've signed up with BT anytime for 3 months (just to get the line and get rid of NTL!!).

Attended my final "maths for parents" class. Division (long division to be precise). But, they don't call it that anymore or infact do they do it the way I was taught. It's now called dvision by chunking. The course has been an invaluable insight into modern mathmatics teaching methods and I'm finally speaking the same langauge as my kids!! Here is an example of division by chunking: -
86 / 3
-30 (3 x 10)
56
-30 (3 x 10)
26
-24 (3 x 8)
r2

28 r2

I'm going to check out what other free courses the government are offering parents. Although not until after Xmas.

Collected the girls. SJ went yoga. I bathed the girls, got them in bed and played Call of Duty for an hour (which turned into a couple more hours after SJ came home!!).

Only a 2.5 day week at work this week as I've taken Thursday afternoon off to celebrate Beaujolais day with a few friends over on the South Bank.