- Feb 16, 2003
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Ok, today wasn't the greatest day for my brother since a couple of things went wrong but I tried my best for each. By the way, he's 10 and I'm 15.
Today, he started a week long half day art camp so he had to wake up at 6AM in the summer, not what he likes.
When he got home, he ate and relaxed for about 2 hours then we went to the Orthodontics doctor. I got my braces tightened while he got impressions for a retainer. The impressions didn't go smoothly for him and when they were doing the upper teeth, he threw up.
We returned 3 books at the library from a drop off box so he didn't have to get out of the car smelling bad on the way back and I went inside and picked up 2 books for him by volunteering, he, nor did my mom ask me to do it.
Around 4:30, we went swimming and then not more than an hour later we had to go. During that time, the water was too cold for me at first and I was tired at the moment so I wasn't in the pool for more than 10 minutes total. He was there all alone in the neighborhood pool and played with a football and some imagination stuff I don't remember that he made up. Later it started raining....
Since yesterday, I've started teaching him how to make a web page since I started at his age. I got him Microsoft Frontpage to use since I wanted to start him off on something more basic than Dreamweaver. Today, was another 'lesson' day and I told him that I want him to make a webpage about himself, what he likes, his favorite things, hobbies, and more stuff about himself. I plan on then showing him how to put an image onto there, use FTP, etc. over the next day or two and then to show him how to make different pages for each thing likes hobbies and a list of favorite things like food, games, etc.
Today, he wanted me to teach him more stuff like yesterday (which was the basics). I told him there really wasn't more than that since he should now start making a web page since he was acting like he should know the entire encyclopedia only needing to know about 1 or 2 articles in it.
Then, the ATI TV card. That thing has been giving trouble for some time now and its getting really annoying. Each driver set gives some other problem. Basically, we're probably going to be ending up getting him the same TV card I have, the Winfast Leadtek 2000 XP Deluxe. Thats the only way I see to solve the problem because of ATI's crappy drivers. Please, don't flame me for hating their drivers, I still find problems with them even though all the video cards in my home are ATI branded ones except the integrated Intel ones on the two servers.
Sparknotes: Brother is mad because he had to get impressions at the ortho and threw up, he didn't get to swim very long or with me, he wants to go too fast in learning about web pages by not doing the simple steps first, and his TV card is giving troubles even after uninstalling, formating, the whole 9 yards.
What should I do?
Oh yeah, just about 30 minutes ago, he was crying and he was really mad, not like before. He screamed a little at me, which was kind of shocking and he slapped me on the arm, which didn't hurt physically but he meant it this time not in a childs fight way but more of a mad way.
Today, he started a week long half day art camp so he had to wake up at 6AM in the summer, not what he likes.
When he got home, he ate and relaxed for about 2 hours then we went to the Orthodontics doctor. I got my braces tightened while he got impressions for a retainer. The impressions didn't go smoothly for him and when they were doing the upper teeth, he threw up.
We returned 3 books at the library from a drop off box so he didn't have to get out of the car smelling bad on the way back and I went inside and picked up 2 books for him by volunteering, he, nor did my mom ask me to do it.
Around 4:30, we went swimming and then not more than an hour later we had to go. During that time, the water was too cold for me at first and I was tired at the moment so I wasn't in the pool for more than 10 minutes total. He was there all alone in the neighborhood pool and played with a football and some imagination stuff I don't remember that he made up. Later it started raining....
Since yesterday, I've started teaching him how to make a web page since I started at his age. I got him Microsoft Frontpage to use since I wanted to start him off on something more basic than Dreamweaver. Today, was another 'lesson' day and I told him that I want him to make a webpage about himself, what he likes, his favorite things, hobbies, and more stuff about himself. I plan on then showing him how to put an image onto there, use FTP, etc. over the next day or two and then to show him how to make different pages for each thing likes hobbies and a list of favorite things like food, games, etc.
Today, he wanted me to teach him more stuff like yesterday (which was the basics). I told him there really wasn't more than that since he should now start making a web page since he was acting like he should know the entire encyclopedia only needing to know about 1 or 2 articles in it.
Then, the ATI TV card. That thing has been giving trouble for some time now and its getting really annoying. Each driver set gives some other problem. Basically, we're probably going to be ending up getting him the same TV card I have, the Winfast Leadtek 2000 XP Deluxe. Thats the only way I see to solve the problem because of ATI's crappy drivers. Please, don't flame me for hating their drivers, I still find problems with them even though all the video cards in my home are ATI branded ones except the integrated Intel ones on the two servers.
Sparknotes: Brother is mad because he had to get impressions at the ortho and threw up, he didn't get to swim very long or with me, he wants to go too fast in learning about web pages by not doing the simple steps first, and his TV card is giving troubles even after uninstalling, formating, the whole 9 yards.
What should I do?
Oh yeah, just about 30 minutes ago, he was crying and he was really mad, not like before. He screamed a little at me, which was kind of shocking and he slapped me on the arm, which didn't hurt physically but he meant it this time not in a childs fight way but more of a mad way.
Just let him get over his hissy-fit 
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