Last night we went to a Mark Lowry show in Wabash at the Honeywell Center with the Demskes and the McCoys. We left the kids with a sitter and drove down (fancy dinner at Bob Evans, dessert at Culver's afterward), and got back about as late as we ever have with a sitter. Anyway, the show was really good. We were up in the nosebleed section though, so from where we were sitting he kept reminding me of Drew Carey. Glasses and haircut, I guess. On Friday, Alex had an inventor presentation at school. He was supposed to select an inventor of something, then research the life of him/her and do a presentation in costume. Alex picked the hovercraft as his invention, why we don't know, but anyway it was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell in England in the 50's. So he had to dress as an English engineer in the 50's, for which we had a difficult time finding an affordable "costume." We found some reasonable stuff at KMart, including a hat that we thought might work but really didn't (it was a ladies' hat, but we thought it looked sorta similar to the hat he had on in pictures). We also built a model hovercraft out of a foam plate, 2 batteries, a hobby motor, a homemade aluminum sheeting propeller, and a cork...which worked up to a point. It hovered, barely. Too heavy, really. Maybe a better prop would have helped. Thursday, Beth was supposed to take her Parapro test at the school. A BIG deal, they said. Gotta pass or you can't do this or that or the other. Study hard, study long. Weeks of preparation. However, at test time they couldn't get anyone logged in. Beth never got started, someone else lost an hour of work...and eventually they gave up and just said they would give everyone a pass and mark them as passing and just skip it this year. Yup, it was vitally important all right. Tuesday was the Cub Scout Blue &; Gold banquet. We provided the pizza, people brought desserts and side dishes, and we handed out awards and did the presentations for day camp and a pledge drive.