Preschool has had one immediate effect; those kids go to bed fast. Their afternoon naps gone, we need to get the girls to bed sooner. It’s kind of hard though with Grey’s Anatomy and the vice that is Big Brother All-Stars.
I now have enough stuff to install electrical outlets in the “dungeon”; the only thing [...]
Preschool starts for the twins tomorrow (Wednesday) at a special education center. Half of the kids are “typical” while the other half is “special needs.” We went to the meet-the-teacher open house tonight, and the kids seemed to like the classrooms and the teachers. Each class has a teacher and two or three assistants. [...]
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio is one of several states being looked at for a coal-to-liquid fuel conversion facility, one that would cost $3.5 billion to build but yet remain profitable as long as oil stays above $35/bbl. Unless Iraq and Russia open their spigots wide open and OPEC is smashed, I don’t think [...]
Ugh.
AP reports that EchoStar, owner of the Dish Network to which we recently switched to, has been hit with an injunction to cease manufacturing and selling its DVR products. They are also ordered to pay $89 million to TiVo.
DishTV was cheaper than DirecTV, but if they don’t win their appeal their cheaper price may not [...]
I got through IAH security quickly. The metal detectors are split into two groups. One set was heavily used, but the other was open, so I took it easily.
When we boarded the plane, the external air conditioner at the gate was weak, so we baked in the plane until the aircraft’s engines hit full power [...]
