Message 637

Yesterday I picked Beech up at school and took him to McDonalds for lunch. He has now switched back to the Happy Meal so he can get the toy. After lunch I took him home and helped him with his homework until Annie and Vanessa got there about 1:45 PM. In the evening I watched four shows on PBS. Nova was about the extinction of the mega fauna in North America (mammoths, saber toothed tigers, etc.) about 12.9k years-ago. The next show was about the last day of Pompeii, which was interesting because Sally and I spent a day exploring Pompeii a few years ago. Frontline then had a report from a reporter embedded with the Taliban. To top it all off, Charlie Rose had another show in his series about the brain, which dealt mostly with the development of babies' brains.