Our family is planning a huge road trip to Utah for a wedding in October. Flying is cost prohibitive, but car rentals are actually quite affordable. We're a low(ish) tech family, so we do not have iPads and extra entertainment devices laying around for kids to pass time.

Does anyone who rents cars semi-regularly know if it's still possible to get a rental with an entertainment system? Think minivan DVD player.

#askfedi

Made some good progress on my glitchlet fork today. I got template projects working and have started updating index lists to be dynamically generated rather than static. Still a TON to go through, but my PHP is coming back ever so slowly...

https://github.com/bennettscience/glitchlet

I was planning on doing a little work today on the code environment for my comp sci class, but I'm having a little bit of naming paralysis where I don't know what to call something and I've kind of just ground to a halt.

Maybe I'll go read a book for a little bit.

Ok, a couple hours of work and I think I have the first four weeks of chemistry planned out. That feels really good to have done.

Next up is comp sci because I didn't teach it last year and there are some big changes I want to make to the first month of the class.

The nice thing is that my chemistry sections are all back-to-back in the morning. After lunch is comp sci and AP chem AND my prep is attached to lunch, so I can reset the lab during that time if I need to.

Schedules aren't finalized yet, but I've got about 70 chemistry students, 15 AP chemistry students, and 25 computer science students.

I came into the classroom today to start doing some simple start of year prep. Lots of revising welcome letters, getting materials printed, etc.

I'm also remembering how hard it is to teach three different classes, so I need to really start good time management habits from like now.

This is crazy town.

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https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/arthropods-hunting-birds/

Monza, the board game, is surprisingly fun.

https://ohheybrian.com/blog/2026/08/monza-the-board-game

#blog

I haven't painted in a while. I can't really find the motivation to get stuff out and try these days. I need to change that.