In article <5H4%d.18232$Ux.2030@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
"Used2be" <used2be@nowhere.com> wrote:

"Mesecke" <meseckem@vvm.com> wrote

I was in your city today. I knew there was a chance of rain
but I didn't expect the first thunderstorm of spring.

Myron

geez, it was a real "gulleywasher" wasn't it??!!

what was ya doin in austin, myron? checking out S by SW?

No, my oldest daughter is in 7th grade and she was competing
in the State Mathcounts contest. It's a nation wide thing sponsored
by Engineers and companies that hire engineers like Shell and
Texas Instruments. They hope to encourage kids that are good
in math to think about the engineering profession. All three
Temple middle schools placed at the regional competition and
sent kids to State. The State winners get to go to Detroit in
May for the National competition. A school in Sugarland won the
team competition and one of the kids at the same school won
the individual competition with a perfect score!
All the kids got a TI-83 calculator and some other little freebies.
They also had drawings for 5 DVD players, 20 or so CD players,
several MP3 players, 4 computers (2 were for the coaches/teachers),
4 TI-84 calculators (2 were for the coaches/teachers) and 5 $500
drawings for the coaches/teachers. My daughter didn't win any of
the drawings. There were almost 300 kids competing.
The competition was held at the Renaissance Hotel and all the kids
were put up for free plus those that had to travel real far like from
El Paso were flown in free. Those companies spend a fair amount of
money putting these things on.

Today was much nicer weather wise. Except I spent it studying for a
test tomorrow. Better get off of here and look over my notes again.