More Mural

MY LITTLE ZOMBIES: We're still plugging away on the mural project. It's not exactly going quickly. So. Many. Ponies. And even after the ponies are painted, we have entire village scenes and landscaping to do. Ugh.

But we best hurry, as Annabelle is getting tired of creepy, pupil-less ponies staring at her when she's in bed. We have started to get some eyes on a few of them.

Annabelle helped paint some apples on a tree.

INTERVIEW REVIEW: During breakfast, we watched a couple of interviews with astros on the ISS - flight engineer Tom Marshburn, a medical doctor, and Kevin Ford, an Indiana native and Notre Dame alum who will watch the BCS championship game from low Earth orbit.

As we listened it, it struck me that I have heard EVERY SINGLE QUESTION the astros were asked. In fact, I'd heard each question multiple times before. (What do you eat? How do you go to the bathroom, .) And these weren't elementary school kids asking them, it was reporters. I mean, c'mon, you get to interview an astronaut live from space and all you can do is ask him about the friggin' bathroom? A question that's been asked 1,000x before, and one where the answers on the topic are so readily available via the Google, etc. To me, it just seemed like such lazy 'reporting.'

To the astronauts' credit, they took it all with a smile and were detailed and gracious in their responses.

OBTUSE: More protractor action today. Check out this exciting shot!

Today, the kids were trying to figure out how to measure angles that were over 180 degrees. A problem, since their pink plastic protractor is only 180 degrees.

After much consternation, they finally realized that the easiest way to figure it out would be to draw a circle around the large angle, and then figure out the measurement by measuring the smaller portion of the circle left. Once they measured the small angle, they could subtract it from 360, and get the size of the larger angle.