David: Family Ties recommends that I have a couple of people on file to pick up Ellen in case I cannot (this would be in an unexpected “emergency” situation like a flat tire). I’d like to ask your parents if that’s ok with you? And then someone else in case they are out of town…maybe Ken? Let me know what you think and/or who you would recommend. Jen
Ellen:
Tonight I had dinner with Camden and Taylor and Michael – guys night out. They talked alot about a board game called Mario Party. Sounded like my kind of game – long and frustrating. Then they got on the subject of math and I lit up because I had an algebra question on my mind – What does “^” mean? Camden had a pocket communicator and he googled it because neither he nor Taylor could remember. But he did get the answer for me.
In lieu of a superscript numeral the carat sign – as “^” is called – is used to identify the next number as the exponent, or power, of the the number that precedes it.
2^3 means 2 to the power of 3 or 2x2x2
So, the topic in BIP turned to children today. And tonight I had dinner with the nephews I drove to tears in the middle of wild Alaska. But you’d seen it before.
If there is anything I can do for you let me know.
Dad
Well…the turtles didn’t come to lull me to sleep…maybe now, after I answered the call of my own conscience telling me there was more for me to be honest about…they will come and carry me to dreamland. J