What I learned today: taking a nap does not always make you less tired. I fell asleep for about 1/2 hour this afternoon and I am more tired now. I thought with a nap, I could stay up later since it’s Friday. It’s only 9:30pm, I am sleepy and I am going to go to bed now.
Category: General
Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of Andrew Golota: “He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”
The content of a generic letter from MIT we received was interesting. It was addressed to the parents of Elliot Lee.
While it may seem tempting to be involved at every step [of the application process], the role of “the applicant” must truly belong to your child. Our application is carefully designed to help us get to know the applicant, and to be effective the voice must be exclusively his or hers.
We dropped Elliot off at USC on Monday, it being Labor Day weekend. I mentioned to Audrey that it seemed sadder to drop him off this time than on move-in day over 2 1/2 weeks ago. I was wondering why that is so when Audrey said this with great insight, “Because this is his home now.”
Today is Amy’s birthday, and in her words, she is now a double-digit, 10 years old.
We have never given our children birthday presents or Christmas presents. We figure they get plenty from the extended family. So it is our family tradition for the birthday person to pick whatever he/she wants for dinner. I usually…
Amy and I were walking through the men’s department at Robinsons-May Department Store.
Me: See how the mannequins are dressed? They have a nice tie coordinated with different color shirts.
Amy: Those are called mannequins? What do you call the girls – womanequins?
“The Original Magic Bullet System Does ANY Job in 10 Seconds or Less.”
This is their claim! Who needs time management skills when you have the Original Magic Bullet System!
Yes, the little pink things are alive! These are two of our baby hamsters the day they were born, January 21, 2005. I just realized I never posted pictures. They are no bigger than my pinky fingernail. See them curled up with each other? The black dot is the eye not yet able to open.
This is our hamster Stuffie.
I blogged about her birth and here she is, seven months old now.
Stuffie is very friendly and she likes to be handled. She is officially Audrey’s hamster because she picked her from the litter as one of the ones we would keep. She lives in a cage by herself to avoid hamster overpopulation. Though they say hamsters are territorial creatures and don’t necessarily enjoy the company of other hamsters, we don’t want Stuffie to be lonely. So Amy handles her often and plays with her.
A star-nosed mole is one of the world’s fastest feeders. It can eat a meal so quickly that the human eye cannot see it!
By using a high-speed camera, scientists tape the mole eating earthworms. Then they watched the tape in slow motion and discovered the star-nosed mole can eat a mouthful of worms in .23 seconds!