These are some pictures from our first week taking classes at the homeschool resource center.
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We went for a 1pm appointment with Dr 3.5-hours-later and when the nurse said "it will be a while" I left my cellphone number and asked them to call me when my mother was ready. We went to the museum and watched 2 planetarium shows. I am much happier!

You're a centaur in some stock fantasy setting and you and your friends decide to go to the human pub (they love you because a centaur can probably put away a *lot* of alcohol). Naturally you wouldn't take a table, since you don't sit so you and your friends would stand at the bar ( Read more... )

We went to a birthday party yesterday that featured several projects that I'd like to replicate using my Backyard Ballistics book.

Here is Ian firing a water rocket:

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Who wants to move into the Steampunk House with me?

Free audiobooks for books in the public domain. They are read by volunteers and you can record your own if you so desire.

I'm just idly tossing this thought around my brain ( Read more... )

Drove to Portland ( Read more... )

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety turns 50 this year. They are the ones who crash test all those nice automobiles with the creepy looking dummies inside. Have you ever wondered how a 1950's era heavy steel clunker would do against a modern car? Wonder no more! IIHS has settled the matter.

Here are the participants:


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Four people have now independently told me that I look 'different' driving the RAV4 than I did in the Odyssey*. I'm not sure what this means. Since I've now heard it so many times I finally asked how I looked different. One said I looked shorter in the RAV4 (although someone else remarked that I was much taller than the RAV4 when I stood next ( Read more... )