01.31.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 8:35 am by Meg
but it’s another thing when you’re the wind.
The cold front the came in Wednesday evening did a lot of small damage for all the blowing around we got. I know the winds were higher elsewhere, but our neighbor’s online weather station registered 42 mph winds for our street.
We didn’t find our storm related problem until I was washing up for bed last night.
There was NO hot water.
Now, I had had a not quite so hot shower in the morning, but Boy had showered first, so I had chalked it up to following him. But now at the end of day, there was only cold water available.
We’ve had this happen before, but that was with the old water heater. The wind blows out the flame.
So there I am at midnight trying to light the thing - since I do NOT want a cold shower in the morning!
I love the ignition switch - but why do they put the little window right down on the floor so I have to lie in the dust and yucky stuff to see if it’s lighting?
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01.29.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:20 pm by Meg
It’s only good for one day - January 30!
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01.28.08
Posted in COLLEGE at 11:32 pm by Meg
We have a T-shirt!
Yep, a T-shirt from U Pitt Honors College for Boy. They have not only admitted Boy, but they want him in the honors program.
and…..
They’ve given him an $10,000 academic scholarship (out of state tuition is about $22,000) and have asked him to apply for a special Chancellor’s Scholarship (Full tuition, room and board and fees for 4 years - and money for books and a study abroad scholarship)
The application is a bear though with 3 long essays on topics that aren’t easy. Oh well, he wants to do it.
And in other news, we slapped some grades on the transcript for Purdue and then emailed them a pdf of it - and they are happy. How happy we’ll see.
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01.27.08
Posted in COLLEGE, Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:54 pm by Meg
Boy got an email on Friday from Purdue.
Now Purdue and IU are the two BIG public universities in the state. IU is a little more focused towards liberal arts and such and Purdue is a little more focused on engineering (it’s also the state agricultural school). But they are generally comparable.
As I posted about last week, Boy was not only admitted to IU, they admitted him into their honors college, they gave him a great merit scholarship, and asked him to apply for an honor scholarship. (There was a min. GPA required for the scholarship that he has.)
So Purdue sent Boy an email.
Please send a high school transcript with letter or number grades. We cannot accept pass/fail for grades on a transcript.
???
So we gave him grades and I’m sending it back. But it sure seems kind of funny. One school worked with it, the other didn’t.
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01.26.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:11 am by Meg
Wasn’t this a game on Sesame Street?
Edited later: No guesses? what you are seeing spread out on the floor are books (I’m sure I’m not the only who cringes seeing them wasted) Now look for something green.
Here’s part of the story.
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