It’s been a long day.
The day started with the California State Science Fair. I was there just before 7:00am. After judges orientation, judging was from 8:30am-10:30am, and then 11:00am to 12:30pm. We had 10 judges, and 25 projects. Each project needed to be seen by at least 5 judges, most were seen at all. What won? Divisibility Discovery: A New Divisibility Rule by Casey Fu from Alta Sierra Intermediate School, Clovis. Second place was Searching for Perfection: Utilizing Patterns to Calculate Perfect Numbers. Third was Cycling Antibiotics to Control Antimicrobial Resistance: A Mathematical Model. Honorable Mention was Packing Ellipses into a Hexagon: Does Varying the Ratio of the Two Axes of an Ellipse Affect Packing?. I should note that 2nd and 3rd both came from the same school: Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz.
I had planned to spend the afternoon wandering the Natural History Museum. However, gf_guruilla was sick… so I came home to pick up my daughter for the last day of Hebrew school, and to bring the supplies for the school party. This I did, with only a few minor incidents (I got knocked over by a teacher while unloading a cart, and fell into the rock garden while reaching over to get some papers that had fallen out of a basket. The party had a rock band, so this made for an interesting afternoon. Of course, I was one of two parents that actually stayed behind to help folks clean up.
When I got home around 7pm, I then ran out to Circuit City to pick up two hardwired phones (I prefer them to cordless) and a boom box for my daughter.
So… it has been a long day. Tomorrow should be interesting: I’m going on the van into work. When mommyathome‘s mom (my stepmother) arrives back from Israel, I’ll pick her up and bring her to work for lunch. My wife will drive down to meet us, and she’ll bring her back home to Mission Viejo. There is a plus to all of this: my stepmother just sold her house and will be downsizing… and so she needs the boxes that have been waiting bundled in our garages for her move.
So now to go veg for a bit…