Child Car Seat Survey

My boy is a high school senior. He's doing this child car seat survey for a class and has asked me to post it on this blog. If you have a small child and a moment of time (those don't usually go together, I know), would you please write your answers in the comments? Copy and paste will probably work. Thanks!


Child Car Seat Survey
1. Have you ever experienced problems with your child’s car seat?
Y N
2. Was your car seat expensive?
Y N
3. Was your child able to easily unbuckle him/herself?
Y N
4. Did your child’s car seat come with easy to follow directions?
Y N
5. If you have ever gotten into a car wreck, with the child car seat in the car, did you have to purchase a replacement?
Y N
6. Does your child fit easily into the car seat?
Y N
7. Has your child’s car seat broken easily for any reason?
Y N
8. If yes, please explain. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Has your child ever suffered from discomfort due to restraints?
Y N
10. Do you find car seats on average to be expensive compared to the expectations? Y N
11. Is money an object to you? Y N
12. If you have ever gotten into an accident with your child, within a car seat, was there any injuries? Y N
13. If so, please define the appropriate areas of bruising, fracturing, and general harm.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Does your child have impairments?
Y N
15. If yes, please explain. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. Was there any harm to your child car seat in extreme tempatures? Y N
17. If so, please explain where. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
18. When was the last time you have owned/had a car seat within your vehicle, (if possible, date/time)?
_______________________________________
19. Was the space of which your child car seat displaced of satisfactory quality?
Y N
20. What was the best company you have purchased from?

Our team is in the midst of creating an ergonomically and economically improved child car seat. It will comprise of improved padding for children, a pneumatic system that will reduced G-force during collision, and a seat which toddlers of all sizes will be comfortable in.

If you have any questions or comments, please write them below. Thank you for taking our survey and have a nice day.

Thanks, everyone!

Until I write again ...

Flea

O Hai

O hai. I have photos that need to be seen. Lions and tigers and bears. And because I no longer blog here, and no one will see these, I'm just going to slap them on the page and leave it. Heh.

So my  boy broke his hand doing that fight-y thing he does - who knew that breaking a bone was on his bucket list? I told him that, from now on, he needs to clear his bucket list by me.

My other boy with our favorite nephew - isn't Calum handsome? He's growing up.

Our new cat, Bosco, looks very much like Lou the Loud. Sadly, we don't know where Lou went. :(

"I am the very model of a modern major general"

Petey is a very naughty duck. He bites his mama. A lot.

Bon Bon is a new hen. I think she's actually a very old hen. She's bossy enough to be an old biddy. I also think that she's ill.

Frodo, an Egyptian Fayoumi, is one of ten chicks. He's a rooster and needs a new home. But he's stinkin' cute and sassy.

Someone asked me for a blog interview. How cool is that? And they wanted a photo of me and my dogs. Oops. So I made the Hunny take a picture. I've taken better. I've taken worse.

There. I feel better. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Until I write again ...

Flea

I'm a Dog Blogger Fer Reals

 Heads up! It's official - I'm dog blogging! I know, I know - y'all thought I'd be chicken blogging or duck blogging if I changed venue. While that would be nice, a good friend of mine asked me to blog for her dog treat company, and of COURSE I said yes.

Um, I get to post my chicken photos there. Because, y'know, the dogs hang out with the chickens. And I can't be interesting while writing ONLY about dogs. Sheesh.

So pop over to my new blog. Check out the words and the pretty pictures. It's still me writing. In fact, it's me writing five days a week. Mostly coherently.

And there are the chicken and duck pictures.

Until I write again ...

Flea

For Sale

Y'all. I'm going to be shameless here. My mama has been doing colored pencil pet portraits for a long while. I think she was more than ready to move on to something new. Artists are funny like that. We don't like working in one medium for too long. Lately, though, she's been working in watercolor and mixed medium. I just had to show y'all what she's been up to this last week or so. Lookit:

Did you see? Did you see Jimmy? ISN'T HE CUTE?!? AND THE BABY DUCKY!!!!!

So. These are for sale. Go buy them. Mom can't keep giving me her art work just because I like it. And my walls are kinda full. So.

Go! What are you waiting for? Go now!

Until I write again ...

Flea

My Floor! She is Done!

Yes. My floor is female. Don't ask how I know. This blog is rated PG, people. But Look!

And here!

And the final product, sans furniture!

Until I write again ...



Flea

The Floors. Fer Reals This Time.

So my dining room floor isn't finished, but it's MOSTLY done. And man has it been a crap load of work. Plywood. Shop tools. Stain. Polyurethane. Fume headaches. I just want my house back in order. But look.

Pretty snazzy, huh?

Until I write again ...

Flea

iPad? Netbook? Both? Blogging tools

I need blogging advice. I need technical advice. Someone out there in bloggy land PLEASE help me?

I'd like to purchase the latest version of the iPad sometime in the next month.

My current laptop is five years old. Yes, I'll be buying an external hard drive this week and backing everything up. Tens of thousands of photos.

I might like to buy a new laptop when this one dies.

Question: For blogging, will the iPad do the trick (all the back end stuff on WordPress), or will I need to have a conventional computer/laptop?

Or will a little netbook be all I need in addition to the iPad?

Do I even need an iPad, or should I get the netbook?

Here's the deal - I really WANT the iPad. The photo quality on the latest one is amazing. Mamarazzi am I. Currently I use my iPhone for photos. So I could keep using my phone and just get the netbook, save money.

It's about mobility. My current laptop, besides being old, is a 17", making it bulky and unwieldy for carting around. That, and the battery is dead. Has been almost from the beginning. Not worth replacing. So I'll need some kind of computer replacement.

iPad? Netbook? Both? Do I need both? For you bloggers out there who have one, is the iPad a useful blogging tool?

Thanks in advance.

Until I write again ...

Flea