Some new music

We have been discovering some music online ... some of it the kids really like.  Here are some links to Pentatonix, The Guild, and 2 Cellos. 







And as a bonus, a street drummer

and some guitar work

NASA's asteriod sample return mission

A planned mission to return a sample to Earth from asteroid Bennu--a near Earth category asteriod, to launch in 2016 and rendezvous in 2018, is coming together!  

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/40196construction-begins-on-nasa-asteroid-sample-collector

Superheros!

F, who is 3 now, has discovered superheros (superman, batman, spiderman, etc.) and superhero cartoons online.  She now prefers wearing clothes that have a superhero theme.  Also, V told me, F was playing sitting in a plastic box "boat" on the carpet.  It fell on its side with F in it and the first words she said were "help, superman, help." 

3 foot tsunami from Chile

Here in Hawai'i we had a tsunami warning from the 8.2 quake in Chile yesterday.  However, there were only 3 foot waves reported on the big island this morning. (news link)

I've been very busy at work for the past few months and have fallen off of blogging again but I will try to get things started back up again.