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It doesn't look like much yet, but it's perfect. I'm working a lot this week, but I'll have Sunday and Monday to work on it next week. And then I go down for Trentyn and Zary's birthday party. Right now, though, I'm so tired! It's not even 7pm yet but I think I'll just curl up in bed. Lots of hours this week!
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When Sam, Kayla, and their daughter Torrin move into the Big 'Ol Negaunee house, Luke is going to have an apartment in the upstairs, on the north half. He'll have two rooms and a bathroom. We'll be completely redoing the bedroom, with new windows, new floor, and three of the walls with new insulation and sheetrock.

We've already started ripping up the old flooring, and sometime next month, we'll go up and finish that, and work on the walls and windows.

As a gift, I'm also going to build him a cat structure. I'm going to start with a floor to ceiling tree in the corner of his bedroom. There'll be branches that come off the tree for perching. Pics to come!
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Luke observing the total eclipse.

So, my son Luke is interested in a 2020 summer internship at JPL. Anyone know anything about that?
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Luke observing the total eclipse. Cool effect -- look at the shadows.

Luke has said that a science camp sounds interesting. I'm going to give this list to Luke and see if these are ok, and rank them. I'll ask him if I've missed the mark and if he might be interested in something different.

University of Michigan: ArcStart is a three-week long residential program for high school students that offers students the opportunity to explore the built environment firsthand through an introduction to architectural design. cost $3000

Ferris State Universit: Design and Manufacturing Academy: Students will use solid modeling software to create three-dimensional geometry, designing and prototyping simple household products and a micro-machine. cost $560

Michigan State University: Engineering Exploration Camp: Intended for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors seriously considering engineering as their career choice, this residential program is designed to give in-depth experiences in engineering majors. Each day students will learn about a major and spend time with an engineering faculty member, a graduate student, an undergraduate student engaged in short lecture, demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team-based problem solving, and tours. cost $825

University of Colorado Bolder: Aerospace Engineering. Residential, non-credit courses that allow students to explore topics representing a wide range of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines. Designed for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors in high school seeking guided hands-on laboratory and field work. cost $5,799

California Polytechnic: Epic. The EPIC experience includes designing, building, and testing their own engineering projects! Projects include solar cars, rockets, programming robots, welding, creating phone apps, building bridges, and more. cost $1,620

University of Illinois: The Illinois Aerospace Institute, a one-week residential program for students entering grades 9-12 who are interested in learning about the fields of aerospace engineering and aviation. Students will learn about a variety of topics regarding aerospace engineering through classroom sessions, laboratories, demonstrations, and hands-on activities. cost $1000
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Last week, I went up to the UP to visit Carl and his family. All is well up there, and I worked my ass off for 4 days, working with Carl to clean out the basement and declutter the house. We filled up a rented dumpster, and hauled off four van-loads of clothes, books and miscellaneous housewares to the resale stores.

They were still sorting through baskets of clean clothes when I left. In between hauling, sorting, and dumping, I got to spend good time with my grandchildren -- Seth (7.5 yrs), Jareth (4 yrs), Eilie (2.5 yrs), and Carli (5 months).

When I returned to Lansing, Luke surprised me: "When I start school in Negaunee this fall, I'd like to come back to Lansing once a month or so to visit everyone. I think it'd be ok to miss one day a month; they can give me my work and I'll do it on the drive."

This was a somewhat confusing announcement, as he had not taken the time to say that he'd decided to start school in Negaunee this September. Try to keep up, I muttered inside my head. I was driving, taking him to his theater group, and I flashed him a look. "Makes more sense to start in September, mmm?"

He nodded and raised his brow expectantly. I realized I hadn't answered his question. "Yeah, once a month should be ok. We'll figure something out."

He nodded and started talking to me about a new game he'd played on Steam. "You'd like this one; very cool," he said.


I've decided that I'm not going to move out of the house right now. I decided in the way I usually decide things: I thought of moving and I though of not moving, and I paid attention to how my gut felt. My gut says stay. Not that there aren't reservations, but overall it's the right choice for now. It doesn't have anything to do with hopes that Mike and my relationship will magically heal. It has to do with uncertainty about Jerome's stability, not wanting to hassle with moving and disrupting myself as well as the kids, and figuring that I'm going to be moving out for good in nine months. There's a part of me that is pre' well closed off, but I'm functioning ok.

Classes start Monday, March 14 and end April 24. Labor and delivery, and long-term care. And then I can test for my LPN. Whew.

for Luke

Sep. 15th, 2015 02:31 pm
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I just designed this. I dunno... as one commenter said, PMKS... Hmmm. I really like the way the K looks. I could use ∃! instead of ∑. I could use the golden ratio which is phi, but is also drawn as a kind of loop that is vaguely l-shaped... I could flip over a "no U turn" sign for the U ... hmm.
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I got a 3.66 for the semester; 4.0s in algebra and anatomy and a 3.0 in physiology. The physiology grade has me annoyed because I would have got` a 3.5 in I hadn't totally tanked in the final.

All the nursing application stuff is done except the basic life saving for health professionals (that's a CPR/First aid card - a one day seminar) -- I'll take that in June or July, and it's ok if it's late. But I really don't know if I'll get in this semester, and it's driving me a little crazy. I'll know by the end of June.

The day after finals, I came down with a cold. Not just a cold, but one of those sudden bone weary, congested, hacking cough things that stopped me in my tracks. Bleh. So now it's Friday and I work tomorrow -- and then next week I have three days off. I will spend them gardening as much as I can and thinking of Wiscon as little as possible. Really, though, have a great time, folks, and tell me all about it.

I'm off to sign Luke up for the summer children's theater. He did their spring show, working on prop construction, and he really liked it, so he's doing that again. I need to get some butcher paper or something because we're doing one of those history timelines that shows what was happening on all the continents.

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