Random musical frustration today. As I jumped in the car to run errands I punched up the Miami jazz station. Grrrrr. They have gone 24x7 holiday tunes. Now I like jazzy holiday tunes as much as the next person, but not to the exclusion of all jazz. So I get home and decide to get my real jazz fix from the tv. But instead of finding the list of music stations I am familiar with I see that they have gone to XM radio and it has all these stupid names instead of program descriptions. Now what music would you find on The Fish, Ethel, Squizz, The Loft, Music Lab, Fred, The Flow, and so forth. This is like work. Who thinks up this stuff? It was much easier when it just said Smooth Jazz, Swing, Light Classical, etc. Grrrrr again I say.

I bought a new car in June. I just got a letter from Honda saying they'd like to test the "emissions" from the car. They would take my car for 1-2 weeks and give me an Enterprise rental car for unlimited mileage. They would pick up and deliver the car to wherever I specify.

For all this, I would receive $100.

I think this is such a weird request, that I'm thinking of not cooperating.

They may be going to install surveillance equipment, LeN, but I wouldn't turn them down until I found out what class of rental you'll get.

sigh.

T-Day was good. Today we rented a cargo van, went to IKEA and braved the crazy crowds to get a new entertainment center and a mirror. 5 hours total and now we are awaiting food to be delivered. I am HUNGERED!

That was brave of you, msbelle! yay for new furniture.

They would take my car for 1-2 weeks and give me an Enterprise rental car for unlimited mileage.

Maybe they wanna test a car that's been living in the real world for a while.

November 25,2005 | LONDON -- The image that allegedly showed Kate Moss preparing a line of cocaine, once seen only as a grainy tabloid photo, is now on show as a painting at a London exhibit.

British artist Stella Vine, who created this and other paintings of Moss, said Friday she usually bases her work on press photos.

Hopefully they'll release a poster of this, so all of us can appreciate the art....

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DIY Mac.

IKEA!

Wish I could have gone there. I may have to go to Target tonight, just to compensate.

From a popular curriculum package used by many fundemantalist Christian homeschoolers:

Mathematics is the language God used in His creation of the universe, and thus it is logical, orderly, beautiful, and very practical in science and in daily life.

No subject matter better reflects the glory of God than mathematics. To study mathematics is to study God's thoughts after Him, for He is the great Engineer and Architect of the universe.

Unlike the "modern math" theorists, who believe that mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, we believe that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute. All of the laws of mathematics are God's laws. Our knowledge of God's absolute mathematical laws may be incomplete or at times in error, but that merely shows human frailty, not relativity in mathematics. Man's task is to search out and make use of the laws of the universe, both scientific and mathematical.

A Beka Book provides attractive, legible, workable traditional mathematics texts that are not burdened with modern theories such as set theory. These books have been field-tested, revised, and used successfully for many years in Christian schools. They are classics with up-to-date appeal. Besides training students in the basic skills that they will need all their lives, the A Beka Book traditional mathematics books teach students to believe in the absolutes of the universe, to work diligently to get right answers, and to see the facts of mathematics as part of the truth and order that God has built into the real universe.

So, set theory is evil. OK.

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