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Having your mom at a cub scout meeting is definitely a liablility from my son’s perspective. I kept doing embarrasing things like making him wear a coat, adjusting his helmet, cheering too loudly when he used the brake to slow down, and hugging him when I realized he survived the 50 yard plummet. It was also bad from my perspective because every vessel of mom-blood in my veins was screaming “noooooooo!” when the scout leader shoved the go-cart carrying my precious child down the hill and let go.

Thankfully the cub scouts all survived with their limbs intact, and we went inside for cookies & business. Before the close of the meeting, the Scout Leader tested each of the bouncing, wriggling, cookie & juice-filled boys on the Cub Scout Promise, which they are supposed commit to memory and recite on command. I’m sure I’ve heard the promise before, maybe 35 years ago when my brother was a cub scout, but I’ve never heard my son or husband mention it, and they certainly haven’t been practicing. With prompting, Ty could start out with “I, Tyler”…” an it would fade to an untelligible mumble from there.

Aha – something I could help with that doesn’t involve door-to-door sales or potential broken bones! We practiced the promise in the car all the way home. It goes like this:

“I, Tyler, promise to do my best
to do my duty
to God and my Country
to help other people
and obey the law of the pack.”

Maybe Mom’s should have their own promise. Something like:
“I, Tyler’s Mom Jen, promise to do my best
to let my son be brave and daring,
to help without embarassing him,
and to not eat all the cookies of the pack.”

Important! Don’t forget to go back and re-add that redirect back in if you upgrade your plugin. I hate doing things twice, so I’m recommending to the Contact Form 7 developers that they add this option to the admin tool.

I have discs & discs full of pictures, tons of memorabilia of all kinds. I’m a bit of a packrat, and hang on to all kinds of weird stuff in shoe boxes and desk drawers. I also need a push to work on something like a scrapbook. I’m too busy & distracted to work on it at home, plus, I would have way too much help from my kids to actually accomplish anything.

So, on Friday I ran into my Volunteer Life Coach and she asked what I was doing this weekend. Typically I wouldn’t tell her much because she always suggests ways that I can improve my experience. However, this time, I thought “Aha! I’m doing something fun and creative this weekend. She won’t be able to “should” me this time! Perhaps she’d even say, she even say somthing like “Gee, that sounds like fun. Have a good time.”

Of course, my VLC always has something surprising to offer. I braced myself, ready to hear what kind of snack to bring to scrapbooking, what kind of book I should make, what materials would be needed and where to by them. And she said…

“Oh, I wouldn’t do that. You should just upload your pictures to kodak and order a photobook.”

(I can’t wait for scrapbooking now! I’ll have to find out if cocktails are allowed.)

This is how you do it…

Add a column next to your list and put this in those cells:
=Rand()

This will put random numbers next to your list. Then you can select both columns and sort in descending or ascending order on the cells with the random numbers. Everytime you do the sort, it should change the order because the numbers change on every new calculation in the sheet.

Why would you need this? For a first grade reading test of course!

Of course, the helpful mom told me what I should do with it…

“Do you have a hole punch? No, you should get one! Then you should punch holes all around the edges of the circles, then sew them togther with yarn. Don’t have yarn? You should go to this great craft store in Boulder. Then you should stuff the paper globe with wadded up newspaper. It will be soooooo cute!”

#1 – the solution that I found all over the web and seemed to work for most people:
Make sure your embed and object codes include the wmode parameter set to transparent:
param name=”movie” value=”xxx.swf” />
param name=”quality” value=”high” />
param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” />

embed src=”xxx.swf” width=”xxx” height=”xxx” hspace=”0″ vspace=”0″ quality=”high” wmode=”transparent” pluginspage=”http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”

#2 – When #1 didn’t work, I figured this one out for myself:
Do not use Absolute Positioning to place your flash element. Absolute positioning will override the CSS, even when it is set to transparent.

I believe what I learned today is to be careful what order I do things in. Tomorrow, no one gets cocoa until everyone’s out of bed.