Chemistry Words

We just returned from London and I have a couple of stories from there. The first revolves around the trip to get there. It is a silly place...

Now we are visiting family for the holidays and I have access to a good computer while I'm visiting, and a good internet connection... we hooked the Chief's mom and dad up with high speed internet through a local cable provider. Chief-dad had been reluctant to switch from dial up internet ($10 per month) because he thought it was too expensive. So we did a trade... first, we got Chief-dad a cell phone on our plan for $10 per month. He insisted paying us $120 every year. We then signed up Chief-mom up for the same deal but rather than have them give us $240 every year we got them cable internet. They now pay for the internet which is about $40 per month and we pay for the phones. This way the difference is only $10 more than when he was paying for dial up. Anyway, if that is confusion I apologize. Just know they now have cell phones and high speed internet...

I also built a new desktop PC for home and once it was finished I gave the old one to Chief-mom and Chief-dad. It is 4 years old but still works well. We also installed a wireless network so the smart phones and laptops will work here. There is no data coverage for any carrier in this location.

One of the things the Chief and I do is play Words With Friends together. She plays on her smart phone and I play on Facebook. Since i work in a field where chemistry is involved sometimes I play words that have to do with chemistry. The Chief hates this. She is also playing with one of my coworkers and my coworker will play chemistry words on occasion and the Chief always complains, "Damn chemistry words..." or something like that.

I played "toluene". She did not like it too much. She called to voice her disapproval. Here is the voice mail she left me.

Damn chemistry words!!

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No Child Left Behind

When Pepe and I were finishing college and going through the interviews on campus, he found a job relatively early on as I mentioned here. The job was a continuation of an internship he had the previous summer. Pepe had a great new job, making much more money than he had ever made before. The first thing he does is get a new car. He gets a loan for a used car based on his job offer.

The car was a 1995 Chevy Camaro. It had a very powerful engine, especially compared to the stock engine. The car would get down and move. Add in the manual transmission and you have a beast of a car.

Pepe loves that car. So much so that he still has it. It is in good running condition due to his meticulous maintenance and pampering. I think that until he had children he used to carefully wash and polish the car using the finest Chinese silk... or maybe it was an old t-shirt.

There have been some issues with the car. One particular incident comes to mind. Pepe parked the car in his driveway. For reasons unknown to anyone except Murphy, the car pops out of gear. Pepe's driveway is sloped so the car rolls down the driveway into the road. Lucky for Pepe, the road is not a busily traveled road in their subdivision. It is also late winter/early spring so nobody is out and about.

The car did not stop at the road. It proceeded to roll across the road and down a slope and straight into a pond.

No geese were harmed.

A tow truck, replacing some interior carpet and replacing some rusted out floor boards and he still has a very fast car.

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Here is another text I get from Pepe. He keeps giving me stuff to post.

I think the 'No Child Left Behind Act' was a secret ploy to make sure people flush after dropping the kids off at the pool

I think he is right.

Do your part to prevent floaters.

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