Tomorrow is the kids' last day of school.
Unfortunately my son has the virus that was kicking the crap out of me last week. We kept him home today and most likely he'll be home tomorrow. I feel really bad for him. As a kid I know that the last day of school is always one that is almost as highly anticipated day as Christmas day. The thought that you have the whole summer ahead of you with nothing more to worry about than what time after 9 or 10 you might just roll out of bed is pretty cool.
The kids won't be doing that, however. We've signed them up for a summer-long sports camp. Yes, it's kind of a "day care" solution to the fact that my wife work during the day now. But it's better than what they did last summer.
Ultimately, unless their friends are around ( which isn't always the case ) they spend the day whining about how hot it is or how boring it is or . . . insert random complaint here. So they'll spend the summer with kids their age staying fit and busy.
But back to the title . . . I spent this evening getting things going on my son's new website because I have every confidence that he has met ( if not surpassed ) his promise to bring his reading grade up while maintaining his other awesome grades. His hosting package came with something called Community Server. It's a pretty nice ASP.Net application that allows you to create a thriving community complete with blogs, forums, file downloading and photo sharing. He wants to build a community around an online game he plays - Runescape. He envisions selling ads and making buckets of money. Never let it be said that I tried to stifle his entrepreneurial dreams. After all, he earned it. I made sure that it was set up so he could play around with it and mess with this and that tomorrow since he'll be missing his last day of school. Hopefully he'll feel up to it. If not, it'll be ready for him when he's feeling better.
Ultimately, unless their friends are around ( which isn't always the case ) they spend the day whining about how hot it is or how boring it is or . . . insert random complaint here. So they'll spend the summer with kids their age staying fit and busy.
But back to the title . . . I spent this evening getting things going on my son's new website because I have every confidence that he has met ( if not surpassed ) his promise to bring his reading grade up while maintaining his other awesome grades. His hosting package came with something called Community Server. It's a pretty nice ASP.Net application that allows you to create a thriving community complete with blogs, forums, file downloading and photo sharing. He wants to build a community around an online game he plays - Runescape. He envisions selling ads and making buckets of money. Never let it be said that I tried to stifle his entrepreneurial dreams. After all, he earned it. I made sure that it was set up so he could play around with it and mess with this and that tomorrow since he'll be missing his last day of school. Hopefully he'll feel up to it. If not, it'll be ready for him when he's feeling better.
Jim - I too remember the last day of school - it was probably the best of the whole year!! And I have two sons that play Runescape - which is pretty popular around his school. He gets on the phone (I probably need to get him a skype account and a headset but that's for another day) with two or three of his friends and they talk, meet up, and do whatever else they need to do on the thing to get "money" and other "stuff". I was talking with a friend of mine the other day and his daughter plays the game also, she congregates with several of her friends, take their laptops to one house - and play. It's an interesting virtual world/game. Best of luck to you son...AM
Arnie, Oh yes - Runescape is very popular. My son will play it for hours at a shot building up his character's skills. He's even talked me into buying him Runescape money that he uses to buy new things for his character.
When he gets his website up and tailored to what he hopes to accomplish ( blogs and forums and such ) I'll send you the link so your kids ( and you of course ) can check it out. Right now it's showing the default "installation successful" screen - until he decides to change stuff and start pouring himself into it.