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Good Thursday people! I can't believe it's Thursday already, it feels very much like a Tuesday. As it stands, I am up at 6:39 am and have been up since 5:30 am. I don't know what's up with that since I normally don't rise until 7 ish. Weird.

Moving along, my Memorial Day Weekend was pretty nice. I rented a car and drove up to pick up my sister and nephews and head to a wedding (congratulations Jay and Brittina!). My oldest nephew, Kevonnie, was the ring bearer in the wedding and he was way too cute...feast your eyes on the cuteness.

I brought along my MBP for the trip and my nephews were so engrossed in it. Every time I opened it, they wanted to touch _something_. This can be nothing but a young interest in computing so I'm working on getting them a computer of their own. Mind you they don't have one in the home so they need the exposure anyhow.

I have an old Compaq Presario that I'm going to reconfigure for my nephews use. As I don't want to put any flavor of Windows on the computer, I was looking around from some educational/kid oriented flavors of linux. Surprisingly, a search for Linux for Kids yielded bad (out of date) results. Asking around proved to be a better source of information and I was pointed to edubuntu. Mind you, I'd never heard of edubuntu before. Yes I've been living under a rock apparently but now that I have been enlightened? Hello, jackpot!

Edubuntu is geared towards use in schools but works in the home environment too apparently. The first screenshots I saw of some of the programs are exactly what I'm looking for; a fun, educational, introduction to computers. I've not installed it yet but I soon will. [Note to self: purchase KVM.] I'll try to update later on with my experiences.

Whew so this post is way long but I have one more thing! I got my Valleyschwag yesterday! Woot! I'll take a picture as soon as possible but for now I used my iSight to take a picture, here's a listing of the contents:

• womens Typepad t-shirt (XL)
  
• womens rubyred labs t-shirt (XL)
  
• STICKER from ALABEL.NET
• songbird sticker
• abazab.com tattoo
• broken livejournal pencil
• perplexcity puzzle pack
• goatsesighting.com sticker
• EFF sticker (!)
• FeedBurner sticker
• 1 women 2.0 conference button
• 2 minty buttons

A nice haul I'd say. Shockingly, the womens shirts fit! Thanks for thinking of us more endowed women, schwag creators and Valleyschwag. :)