CHECK THAT:
We were watching football Saturday and I went to the kitchen to get some of our favorite chili that Cheryl had made with the Rabideaux’s deer sausage that Jacki Hunter had graciously brought us from Louisiana. We had the Texas/TCU game with the sound up on one tv, and the Missouri/South Carolina game on silent on another. Cheryl hollered in from the other room: “TCU just scored!”
“Really?” I questioned. I could hear the game that was on and it didn’t sound like what was happening.
“No, wait …”, Cheryl said, “It was Missouri on the other tv.”
And then she added: “Oh wait … and that was a replay!”

OUT OF THIS WORLD MATH
During math last week, Cheryl meticulously drew a sphere on the chalkboard, and told Michael, “OK, today we are going to learn about how to find the volume of a sphere.”
Michael quickly spat out: “Is it 4/3 pi r cubed?”
Cheryl was stunned. “How did you know that?!”
Michael said, “They quoted it on Star Trek. When I heard that on the movie, I thought it might come in handy some time, so I memorized it.”
Not sure where this kid came from …

IT’S NOT THAT!
Michael has enjoyed playing airsoft military games here in Norman, so last Friday we took him to the airsoft store in Oklahoma City to look at some potential Christmas presents. At one point, Michael pointed to a little camouflage storage pouch he liked. Cheryl quipped: “Look, a makeup bag!”

GROUCHY BEAR
When we were kids staying at my Aunt Betty’s house, she would ask us each morning when we got up if we were a “merry sunshine” or a “grouchy bear” that day. Many in our family have inherited the “grouchy bear” tendency first thing in the morning. Our son Paul is one of them.
Cheryl & I were doing our Bible readings one morning last week when Paul trudged through the room to go to work. Cheryl jokingly asked him if that was “proper work attire” he was sporting. True to the “grouchy bear” syndrome, he wasn’t amused.
Then I asked him if he was going to “bust his hump for the man.”
His response was less than enthusiastic: “I like it better when you all aren’t up when I’m leaving for work.”

BIG BROTHER?
Michael overheard me call a Norman tag agent and ask about getting him a non-driver’s ID to use as identification for the ACT test here. They told me I would have to go to the Department of Public Safety first.
“The Department of Public Safety?” Michael questioned. “That sounds like some communist government, Big-Brother type organization!”
“Yeah, well you’re not too far off there!” I replied.

MORE MATH TRIALS
Cheryl: “Michael, this article Libby posted says that when Asian people come across something (like math!) that they are not good at, they work hard at it to overcome it. It says: ‘Persistence in the face of failure is very much part of the Asian tradition …’.”
Michael: “So is ancestor worship, but we’re not about to take THAT up any time soon!”

BOOKSTORE FINDS
We also stopped by a really nice used bookstore last Friday when we were in Oklahoma City. They had some new items that were interesting. For example, a “pocket god” for less than 5 bucks! 😉

Or this might be good to pack a special family member or friend’s gift in:

HUH?
Back home, I couldn’t understand why it was still so hot in the house: “Why is the air conditioner running?! It is 62 degrees out, and I opened the windows!”
Cheryl: “You know we have double-pane windows, don’t you?”
Me: “Double-pane … ?”

I guess I’ve still got a lot to learn about “The Little Condo on the Prairie”!