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When we were kids, my mother would buy me and my brother educational toys. Not just games that helped us with reading and writing, but things like erector sets, rock tumblers, chemistry sets, this thing that taught us about electricity and circuitry, magnets, etc. Plus, we always seemed to have a microscope or telescope around the house.

Even though neither of us went into careers that had anything to do with engineering, geology, chemistry, physics, biology or anything like that, I’m glad we were at least exposed to things like that as kids. Stephen knows how to use computers, but I wonder if I am not limiting his potential by not getting him the type of things my mom got for us. This is something that I have to think about.

As a website owner, I am a pretty bad brother. My younger brother Charles had a birthday on February 3 and although I called him, I completely forgot to announce it on the site.

Charles currently lives in Washiington DC, so I don’t get to see him as much as I would like, but as long as he is happy, then I am happy for him.

With a lot of my attention focused on the inauguration yesterday, I completely forgot to do a post congratulating my nephew Dwight on his 18th birthday. I did however remember to relay birthday wishes to him through my mother and youngest brother. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to actually talk to him.

This is a picture of Dwight and my younger brother, Charles.