LA Life After 60: More On Home Schooling

Been too long since I updated. My kids are doing well but I am suffering from recurring exacerbations (symptom flare ups) with my emphysema. With the recent fires in the western San Fernando Valley to the high blustery winds of the Santa Anna's it's been a rough go keeping enough oxygen in my system to trudge onward. But onward we go; these kids are so important to me that I don't want to let them down at all. So starting tomorrow I will bring my oxygen concentrator with me; it's the portable Inogen One system made by Inogen in nearby Goletta (Santa Barbara). Check it out at www.inogen.net to see for yourself if you or a loved one needs oxygen. My Chemistry class is the most fun and the biggest challenge. We meet at a church in Monrovia so the experiments can't be the exploding kind but have be safe. Small pops of lighting hydrogen into inverted test tubes using a 9 volt battery immersed in a solution of Sodium Bicarbonate for conductivity did the trick for the electrolysis of water demonstration (splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen). BTW my projector broke (won't power up) so I'm using a white board until I can get it fixed. Retirement is a blast. More soon.