We were reading our book together as a family last night when we got to talking about vocation. We are all very animated (and generally loud) when we have family discussions about things that interest us. We are working on taking turns so we are not always interrupting each other, but when you are excited about something, it is easy to get impatient. At any rate, we had what I thought was quite a fruitful discussion about the concept of vocation. The book we are reading is very helpful in explaining the great importance of doing something for which you have an aptitude. I am an engineer and, of course, I do not know why anyone would do anything else. I have been way too strident in expressing that idea. Engineering is great for people like Christian and me, but it would by quite sad for Lorena or Kelly to study engineering.
I was trying to figure out a way for the kids and I to study something together that will be useful and interesting for all of us. I got to thinking about one of the contractors with whom I work. He has a commercial radio operators license so that he is qualified to be a chief engineer at a radio station. I asked him if that was something within the capabilities of Kelly and Christian. He asked me a few questions about their ages and math ability, then said they could absolutely do it, it would be a very good thing to do, it would be a super homeschool project, and that they would have zero problem getting a job if they had the license. Maybe we will start with a HAM license first.
It will be really nice to get this purchase behind us. If everything goes as planned, we will start taking stuff over to the house starting tomorrow morning. We will move the big stuff on January 3, but we want to get as much stuff as possible moved before the truck arrives to minimize our moving costs. Then, we have to clean out the rental house to get ready to turn it back over to our landlord.
Hunter
Happy New Year,folks! I can’t believe it’s already 2008! Christian,we
went to the Raleigh Museum of Natural Sciences and looked at their
Dinosaur Exhibit. It was so cooool! They had a model that allowed you
to figure out how T-rex stood and walked (using biomechanics)! They
also had a computer program called DinoMorph that allowed scientists
to create a virtual dinosaur skeleton and add muscles to it! This
allowed scientists to figure out how dinosaurs stood and walked,and
how far they could move their necks,tails,and limbs! I think you would
have liked it.
Hunter
By the way,how the T-rex could stand and walk depended on where his
center of mass was,if he was leaning forwards or backwards,and if his
legs were straight or bent.
Wow! That sounds like a lot of fun Hunter. We really need to go there. The T-Rex Biomechanics exhibit sounds particularly interesting. I just wanted you to know that the kids will not have any computer access for a couple of days because all the stuff is torn down for our move to the new house. I can post from work, but that is about all.
Hunter
Got it!