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Archive for November, 2007

Another College Fair

Posted: Sunday, November 4th, 2007 @ 4:50 pm in Rhetoric | No Comments »

ScienceKid and I went into Philadelphia this morning and attended the NACAC College Fair held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. I know I said that we wouldn’t go to another college fair but I changed my mind.
Lots of people, many more girls than boys, walking the aisles and looking at colleges. Why is […]

YESS

Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2007 @ 8:08 am in Rhetoric, Science | No Comments »

ScienceKid attended another YESS session last evening. They posted all the speakers notes on the web under the 2007 button so you can see what they are covering. Last evening for the design-project task the kids were given a dry solids mixture and worked in groups of 5 to separate out the […]

Brutus Update

Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2007 @ 7:59 am in Pets, Family Stuff | No Comments »

Brutus was picked up from the vets at 4pm. He is doing well, sleepy, not interested in eating but quite interested in receiving affection. The vet spoke to us for a good 15min about the operation, sharing all the details with the boys, and how sweet a dog we have. We […]

Snip Snip

Posted: Thursday, November 1st, 2007 @ 11:05 am in Pets, Family Stuff | No Comments »

Brutus is getting the ol’ snip, snip, plop, plop done today. We waited until he was almost a year old since there’s an indication that for large/giant breed dogs you really should wait until their growth plates have closed. As the site states:
dogs spayed and neutered […]