Hey Ladies! Have you seen the Stargate Atlantis episode in which David Foley nearly destroys planet Earth? Really! The actor David Foley quest stars in "Brain Storm" as a wacky scientist (along with Bill Nye) who has a solution for global warming. But the solution goes horribly wrong. The planet is nearly destroyed.
Ellen:
Click this link for an Acrobat form for the Great Discovery. Your mom may want a copy so that she can do the Great Discovery too. Anyway, as promised, I made this form for you.
Below is another, more accurate, version of the Great Discovery that I found on the web.
Hi David: When you have a chance would you post the link to the Library app download. The fish and “salsa” were good. I’ll let you know if Ellen tries it on the ice cream! It was nice to laugh together. Jen
Hi David: Just checked your flight info and you are in the air as I type this! Hope your flights were smooth and easy. Were you on planes that showed movies and tv shows on screens in front of you? Did you, watch…read…rest?
Anyway, welcome back. My appointment with Patty has been moved to Thursday morning at 9:30 am – due to an email inbox error on Patty’s side. I am looking forward to meeting her…I feel a little bit at a standstill and I’ve been depressed too, so I’m sure we can find a code that will work for the Ins. Co. still, will need your help with this.
You will find the yard uncut…yesterday was the evening I was going to mow the back and front…and, it rained. Tonight I was at my folks for a bit. Dad’s movement’s are really slow and labored…an O2 test tonight – a small machine that attaches to his finger – will determine if he should sleep with O2 and a nurse will be out tomorrow to check his lungs…make sure pnemonia stays at bay.
Due to the parent night at the main campus, Ellen did not have band practice tonight. She was happy to have the time to do homework, which is just about complete. She took her second AR test today (a day early) and got 100% (10/10)! She also received a perfect score on one of her self directed papers for Fahrenheit 451…I guess I’m bragging a bit on her behalf. Lab test was Monday…so Biology is a wait and see.
This Thursday is Parent Night at the 9th grade center. You will not need to pick Ellen up from school on Thursday. Due to parent night, the band is practicing from 3-6 pm. I’ll pick her up at 6 pm, then, if you like, we can come by and pick you up for Parent Night which starts at 7 pm. Will confirm all with you over the phone.
Well, I do hope you enjoyed your trip. I’m going to eat a little dinner with Ellen now and finish a cute, silly comedy we started last night…Wedding Date.
Good night,
Jen
PS: Haven’t heard a beep from flight 1…will give them the rest of the crickets tomorrow…have not bought any more. Let me know what you find when you check the log.
J&E:
Having a little coffee. Tossing the tennis ball to Riley. Thinking about you all.
How was the band competition? Any stories? Did a tuba player trip on field, break his teeth, and require oral surgery?
The flight and the down time here have given me a chance to read more of Seven Habits. I got to around page ninety last night then got distracted. I began to wonder if there wasn’t a subtext to the message, a subliminal message. Where is the compassion? That’s what I am going to be asking myself when I get back to the book this evening. Too, there was one message in the book that falls short of what I have been recently taught.
The book from page sixty-six forward talks about using willpower to chose the right response to challenges like rude behavior, temptations of revenge, and the mysteries of sex, drugs, and alcohol. It was willpower in relation to “rude” behavior that got my attention. Willpower is often the only effective recourse to sex, drugs, and alcohol. But when it comes to rude behavior, one thing I’ve been told is that when I judge behavior I start with a basis for the judgement. So, it’s been suggested that changing the basis of my judgment, changing my belief, removes the need for willpower. Nevertheless, as I write this I see the importance of the habit of willpower and I’m glad you, Ellen, have introduced us to this book. It’s a fresh approach.
Lots of dogs here. Riley is a small Brittany. She is intense. Her favorite toy is a tennis ball. Any tennis ball. And she will freeze, nose pointed and eyes fixed upon the ball, for as long as it takes for someone to notice and toss the ball for her to chase. She has the bird dog gene for sure.
John is in eigth grade and huge. The two of us were sent to the men’s section of Kuhl’s last night to find a pair of shoes. Quess his size? Thirteen! Or, Forty-seven if you’re in Europe. Yeah. Thirteen. In the eigth grade.
The two of us were opening shoe boxes when suddenly John’s face registered complete surprise. He’d found a muddy pair of shoes in a brand new shoe box. Quess someone wasn’t exercising their willpower. Really. The muddy shoes were in almost perfect shape. The thief was simply ‘thrill’ shopping. Or, just shop-lifting.
Cody spent the evening with eight giggling drama queens. Really. It was a pizza party for the drama club and the other boy in the club failed to show. One boy. Eight girls. Hmmm. I think I’d join drama myself. Oh. That’s right. I did. Hmmm.
Leslie has a friend dad’s age that makes a simple bolo tie. I think I’m going to get myself one.
Mom’s awake now and taking charge. I think I’ll end here and pick up at another time.
Dadvid
D: This morning I updated the billing info (new credit card info) in the Earthlink Acct. To do this I needed to change the password (phone number did not work). New password is: earth6. If you want to change this back to the original password, please do…and, please let me know if you do and what the new password is. The earthlink account is now paid and up-to-date. Thanks. J
Ellen:
Athena represents alot of positive values. I found a link to her page on WikiPedia.
In my class I was asked to think about a very different character of Greek Mythology – Narcissus. He represents a negative value – narcissism. If your teacher were to ask Narcissus who should sit in the big chair on top Mount Olympus, I think he would say “Me!” His girlfriend was Echo.
Dad
