They don't even color their sweet & sour shrimp that fake red

Fortunes from our new favorite Chinese take-out place:

You like participating in competitive sports.

Fortune is on your side
play it for all it's worth.

Our new neighborhood

While unloading yet another box from the car, R spotted a black cat and a white cat strolling down the street together. They were surely out on an adventure.

Goo

We made a horrible discovery last night. A bunch of the shelves in the kitchen in our new place are covered in sticky goo. We got some of it off when we went over this evening, but ruined a sponge in the process (the stuff won't come off!). It really makes me wonder what the previous tenants were doing with the place. Well, that and the odd fridge smell and the empty pull-tab Arabic Pepsi abandoned on its side in one of the cabinets.

Stats for idiots

We all know that one of the "new" goals of the education system was to wind up with 80% of kids at or above grade level. What I hadn't realized until my class this evening was that the kids are rated based on their placement within the bell curve of a normalized test. Only 50% can ever be at or above grade level, no matter how well the students know the subject matter. We're chasing our own tails here! The people setting policy are idiots.

Great moments in biking history

Uh oh...


This totally made the trip worthwhile, and I can't believe we got a picture of it. What luck!

*addendum 10:21 pm* This isn't R, but one of our biking posse.