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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (46669)	2/12/2000 8:51:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Ms Rambi, send this one to the newspaper. How'd you like to be known in 50 states?

To: Rambi who wrote (46669)	2/13/2000 12:27:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Good advice. I have been looking on the net for robot kits, they seem to cost about $30-50, which means I could buy him 40 to 70 robot kits for what it would cost to send him to one of the more expensive summer camps. I located a summer math program at George Mason University, may sign the boys up for that. Ben just scored 99.9 on the Stanford Achievement test in math, but Nick only scored 85.7 in math. Nick's high score was in science, 99.9. So it is a challenge to keep up with them. Nick wants me to buy him a 3-d graphics program that generates wire-line drawings and then fills them in. The only one I've seen costs $600, and I "just said no." I hope that we can find something more reasonable. Only two more weeks until the first day of on-the-water training for Ben. He's been slacking off attending crew practice, to put his attention into school, which is really demanding. I am hoping that it will thrill him. If not, there's no reason to keep doing it, IMO. I think he's been humoring me, basically, as well as hoping to lose weight and put on muscle, which he has been doing. But he's really such a novice, I told him he needs to be careful not to catch a crab, and he had no idea what I meant. It's to make a mis-stroke, so that the oar comes out of the water instead of making a stroke. He didn't want to go to the Mid-Atlantic erg sprints last week, that was the local prequalification event for the CRASH-B sprints in Boston ("Charles River All Star Has-Beens"), and his team won the relay event. He really doesn't have a jock bone in his body, but I am hoping that he grows one. He does like to win. But his father is not only not athletic, he's anti-athletic. Every time the topic of sports comes up Chris starts muttering about "steroid cases slamming into each other." I've volunteered to be taught to pilot a small launch at regatta events, so I am mildly psyched.