CNN is reporting that the Cash for Clunkers program has already run through their $1 Billion (yeah, with a "B") in only 4 days. To qualify for the program someone must buy a car that gets a 2-10 MPG better than the car they are trading in. You can get $3,500-$4,500 from the program. If I use the lowest numbers, that means that a minimum of 285,714 vehicles were purchased under the program. Each of those cars must get a minimum of 2 mpg better than their previous car, so we just improved the nations gas mileage by 571,428 mpg.

We got into the van tonight and Ora 5 said: "I am totally hot."Dad's pithy comment: "So's your mom.""Not that kind of hot, dad."He knows what that kind of hot is? I thought."I'm H-O-T, dad. Mom is H-O-A-T.""Hoat? Mom is hoat?""Yes."

Aspen walked up to Ewan and asked "Do you have any money? Or a snake?"Ewan must have answered in the negative because she walked over to me and asked "Do you have any money?""No""No, silly. Pretend money?""Oh, in that case, here's a million bucks."

Last week I put a swim belt on Ewan for the first time and he began to swim all over. He loved it. Well he must of gotten too confident because Saturday we were in a pool that didn't have swim belts (in his size) and while playing at a pool ladder decided to let go. He tried his hardest to tread water but the only part of his body above water was the top of his head.So, today when we returned to the Y and I put a swim belt on him, he held on to the ...

Ewan's in a mood today:Ewan: "I poke your eye."Dad: "You're going to poke me in the eye? Ow."Ewan laughs.

this is strange I'm going to swim lessons again.

this is my first time blogging i went to swim lessons and piano today

I've talked about doing it for a long time, but I finally biked to work today! It was 12.4 miles and took 58 minutes. It would have been faster, but my lungs are a bit out of practice and the hills were hard on me. My fastest speed was 35 mph.I was pleasantly surprised by the vehicle drivers. After hearing many horror stories and having my own share of people yell, curse and honk at me in my neighborhood, I encountered none of that on the roads today. All the drivers were courteous and many moved to the ...

Ora 5 had to have a tooth pulled today. He was excited!? The dentist had told him that he would get "funny gas." So Ora went in with a lot of anticipation. Apparently he was not disappointed, because he enjoyed the "funny gas" and didn't feel the extraction. The dentist gave him a small plastic cube with his tooth in it. When Ora got home and opened it, he found a $1 bill. An early tooth fairy gift. (My coworkers later told me to check the bill to see if there was an odd $1 charge.)Later, when the ...