cornerofmadness

I had to be up before the sun to get to the SE Ohio prelims for the State Science Fair. I don't actually mind. It's good to see kids excited for science rather than what I usually get. I teamed up with my coworker DM and we had three teams of kids, two from 8th grade and one from 5th.

One group of 8th grade girls was experimenting with the molding of clarinet/sax reeds and the other set did one we're going to steal (as did they) and modify, the effect of musical genres on heart rate. That's right up my alley. The 10 year old boys did one entitled 'the effect of rollercoasters on 10 year old boys.' Their parents took them on park hopper passes to Disney/Epicot/Isles of Adventure and they tested their heart rates before and after the rides, making predictions on which would get their hearts pumping more. they came armed with specs on drop heights and speed and talked to us for vagal tone and heart rate.

Who wants to bet my students miss the vagus nerve in two weeks? We were impressed with all of them. A couple of them will go on to state.

After that I went to my coffee shop near campus to write and have a rose/lavender macha latte (I had this and three cups of coffee in about 3 hours. bet that gave the Holter monitor something to talk about). From there I went to point pleasant. I wanted to try the ice cream place. I did. I got the Indira Cold (go research him, it's interesting) chocolate peanut butter ice cream with recees' cups jammed in, a chocolate peanut butter moonpie kinda cookie and recees pieces with whipped cream. So much sweets but after this week I deserved a treat.

Look at it. NOTHING about this helps my blood sugar or weight loss but I figure I'm not going to be there every week.

From there I hit the Mason Jar the antique store in PP. They had a surprisingly large collection of uranium glass this time. They had a few sets I didn't want to pay the price for but they were lovely (and I didn't want to break up the set by getting just one) These aren't owned by the store which basically has multiple vendors and there were 3 vendors for the various bits of Ur glass I wanted and it felt like too much trouble contacting them to see if they'd haggle. I did get two Ur glass sherbet cups that were pretty.

I also finally tried Ichiban2 the Japanese restaurant in PP that I mistakenly thought was the dinner and a show type but wasn't. Then had a two roll lunch that was affordable and for the first time I tried sweet potato roll and it was delicious. i must have that again