I would have thought that with the economy as rough as it is, that people would be pinching pennies harder and spending their hard earned money on survival items, not luxuries like a brand new wide screen lcd tv!

I mentioned that to my wife, and she laughed at me! She told me that these young adults seem to think that all of the electronic devices that we think of as luxuries, such as a laptop computer and a lcd tvare considered a necessity to them!

We’re going to need all the help we can get to solve the world’s troubles down the road.  And many of those problem will require math skills to solve.  There was a time when common belief was that girls were not good at math.  But now anyone who is struggling with Math Problems only need to go as far as their nearest Internet connection to get the Math help that they need.  There are many educational websites that are geared up to assist the struggling math student.  With just a few clicks on the mouse, Algebra help is easily acquired.  In many cases, the help is free!

Yes, the Internet has opened up many options to the world.  I hope we make the best of it.

For example, in my own family, on the surface it looks like the siblings all get along very well and love each other dearly.  But the sibling rivalry runs deep, and there are a lot of hurt feelings and competitiveness, even now that we are all well into our middle age.  Sometimes I think that the only thing keeping the peace between us is our mother, and I wonder what will happen to our family when she passes on.  I’m afraid that the gloves will come off and it will get nasty.  I dread that.

And, since my wife had taken statistics herself at the same college, and still had her statistics books, we figured that she could act as a Statistics tutor if J should need any Statistics help during the course.  There were a couple of times that J asked for help with some of the Statistics problems that he had as homework, and my wife was glad she had kept her book!  The book she had for her course was a lot easier to understand than the textbook J had been assigned!  So it was good that he had her old one to reference when he needed help!