Flada Blog

One of the initial goals that I had when I started this blog was to spur debate within the notes or the discussion board. Although there hasn’t been much participation in the discussion board, my article 5 Reasons Why You Should Homeschool, has led to considerable discussion and emails. Almost all of these […]

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I just StumbledUpon a blog entry that I had to share with my readers.
How to Walk Through Steel-Reinforced Walls and Achieve other Similarly Impossible Feats is one of the my favorite entries I’ve ever accidentally found through StumbleUpon. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of other great blog entries that […]

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After returning from a vacation with my family and my older sister’s, I found my comments full of spam. I’ve updated my comment spam blacklist with a few new items and offending IP addresses. I am posting the list here. Feel free to copy it to your blacklist. Also, I’d appreciate […]

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(Relatively) Easy Homemade Bookends
This won’t exactly be a tutorial since I didn’t think to take pictures during the building process, but my sister sounded interested when I told her about the bookends I’d made, so here they are for everyone. I plan to make quite a few more of these for personal use as […]

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Every time I decide I’m going to knuckle down and start writing more, something changes my plans. Last week, on June 13, my wife gave birth to our second son. After being in labor for about 12 hours and actively pushing for about 2, Charles Patrick drew his first breath.I was very impressed […]

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