Whaling Museum

Over the school vacation we visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum.  The boys have longer attention spans now than the last time we visited.  We could have spent another two hours looking at paintings and models of ships.   -Polly

Technology or, This is one of Those Times Anna

So the modem arrived, several weeks after the wrong modem arrived which was several weeks after the old outdated antiquated modem stopped working.  For me, the internet always makes the world seem much bigger, also smaller, and perhaps more new fangled than necessary.

  A Little while back I was talking to my friend Anna, the automated helper on the Ikea website.  I am not very familiar with Ikea, but I saw a type of desk on the website that interested me, so I was asking Anna to help me out with that.  I was having trouble learning about the inside size of the desk.  Anna suggested that I look at the product description.  I had tried that, so I asked Anna some more specific questions, and then some less specific questions.  Anna really just thought I should look at the product description. I was starting to feel frustrated when I asked "HOW CAN I SEE OTHER DIMENTIONS?!" Finally Anna told me "It is not always possible for me to understand what you are asking.  This is one of those times."  -Polly

Finally! Now that it is February 23 - A review of 2011