Thompson's Play

A couple of weeks ago, Thompson was in a school play. He played the part of Pluto.
Not this Pluto:



But this Pluto:



We were so proud of him. He was relatively calm while waiting to recite his lines - at least as calm as Thompson can be...



And he gave a stirring, uplifting performance - "Visitors? I have visitors? This has never happened before!"



We think we may have another actor in the house...as Thompson went off-script and combined both well-known Pluto characters for an improv tour-de-force.



We hope he buys us a big house after he's become box office gold...or become the first man to land on Pluto (the planet, not the cartoon dog).

Mrs. Boomer's Annual Egg Drop

Today was the Annual Egg Drop in Mrs. Boomer's sixth grade science class at Iroquois Middle School in West Irodequoit, New York. Here is a picture of my raw egg container, The Cooper Vault:



The Cooper Vault was well designed, but I did lose one point because it was one millimeter over 24 centimeters. It was still the most creative egg container in the class, if you ask me. Here is how the raw egg was cradled in the Cooper Vault:



It was a beautiful day today - it got all the way into the 70's - I wore shorts to school. At 11:45, we began to drop the eggs out of a third floor window.




After my group all dropped their eggs, we came downstairs to retrieve our packages.



Mrs. Boomer didn't let us open up our containers until we got back up to the classroom. Only four people in our class had eggs that did not survive. My egg - cradled in the air-tight Cooper Vault - was golden:



In a month or so, we're going to set off rockets in Mrs. Boomer's class (not in the classroom, outside). I wonder if an egg could survive a rocket ride...