Christian’s YouTube video on how to make a hovercraft is now up to 65,638 hits. We are amazed it has been going. He put it up on YouTube when he was 12, so he has been getting over 15,000 hits per year. If it slows down to 10,000 hits per year, he should hit 100,000 by the time he is about 21. It is a fun video with lots of comments. We would really like to do another one, but we need to have just the right project. We are thinking about it.
Day: September 3, 2012
Day 379 of 1000
Kelly asked us all a bunch of questions after breakfast this morning to figure out our Myers-Briggs personality type. We probably got it completely wrong. Everything except the part where it says Kelly likes to play before she works–she spent the next hour or so reading about all the different personality types before she jumpec back into her studying. The kids have mostly studied this weekend.
I am proud of them. It pained them that all their buddies were either at college in faraway places or, even worse, together at our annual church convention in the Portland area. Just because of the way the school year works out, they have not been to that convention for a long time. Instead, they spent the weekend studying. We did not spend the whole time studying, but a lot of it.
For her part, Kelly stayed at our neighbor’s home to take care of their dogs. She had a quiet place to study while she was there. Christian joined her a couple of times. Both of them are now convinced they are not dog people. They heavily favor cats. When Kelly came back this morning, she told us she is definitely not a “live by myself” kind of a person. She loves to have people around. I thought that was nice.
I went downstairs and took their pictures while they studied this morning. These are pretty typical study locations. Both of them are exactly right. Kelly lays on the couch to read, then lays her paperwork out on the coffee table. Christian sets up and spreads out on the kitchen island and I bet his cat (Rubix) is in his lap at least half of the time. Christian sets up there, even when it is a mess. Both of them work at the kitchen table every now and then, but the prefer the couch and the island.