Archive for November, 2006

The Student Surpassed the Master

15 November 2006

My dad was pretty cool when I was a teenager. He had a garage full of power tools that he knew how to use. He had a home office full of computers that he, to his credit, let us play with. He had a boat, a motorcycle, a TR-6 sports car and a VW van. [...]

Impulse Control

9 November 2006

We had a great trip to Colorado. Unfortunately we were too busy looking at models to do any real sightseeing, but we did drive through a number of towns to get a feel for them. Our front-end research had produced an impressive list of statistics on schools, crime and builders which provided a [...]

What the Helloween Happened?

1 November 2006

When we first moved in to our house we were warned about Halloween. Yes, warned that kids were brought in by the van and busload and deposited at the mouth of our neighborhood. Our house happened to be the first court off the entrance to the development so we were especially vulnerable. It [...]

Free At Last

1 November 2006

I went in for my surgical consult last week and I’m off the hook for surgery. Since the original cyst is gone and nothing could be found on a mammogram or an ultrasound there is nothing to operate on. The surgeon spoke with the pathology department who concluded that the atypical cells have [...]