Prop. 8

It looks like Prop. 8, the ban on gay marriage will probably pass here in liberal California. It doesn't make much sense, opponents of gay marriage keep saying it's about the children, but being denied marriage doesn't stop people from creating families. It just denies the children basic rights and benefits. To me, that would seem to run counter to what Jesus would want.

One of life's great mysteries

Has anybody ever figured out, at what point in your life, you go from having too much time to having no time at all?

Jump Start World

Kristin is obsessed with Jump Start World. It's definitely worth looking into, it makes learning fun for her.

You buy the software and you get this little character that runs around a 3D world like a video game, but everything is a puzzle related to learning. You get a monthly subscription and when they go through the 100 missions/challenges in the game, more gets automatically downloaded to your computer, expanding their 3d world. There are 12 subscription packages per grade level, which I assume they are supposed to go through on a monthly basis. Kristin can go through a package in about 4 or 5 days. But I expect that to slow down soon as the challenges are now getting tougher for her. There is a different world for each grade level, I guess up to grade 12.

Her scores/results on the puzzles are uploaded to their website (which contains even more games and challenges) and then get emailed to Toney and I. We can also log onto the site and check out her scores, or put in secret messages that show up in this huge blimp that travels around her world. This really is great software, she will play it for hours at a time, and gets a little pad and paper and tries to solve math problems or identify which out of a group of pictures, start with "ch", things like that. It's definitely worth the cost.