tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34808472276922778322024-02-07T02:56:29.416-08:00Sum of all these parts....My son gave me this/his blog a few years ago, after I forcibly made posts on it with out asking. I like to keep it so I can look back and remember that our life together wasn't all dishes and math sheets. It was, but it was also and entirely the hand of a loving Father who delights to give His children good gifts. "All good gifts come from above, from the Father of heavenly lights." - James, Jesus' brother.Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comBlogger476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-13538803044435502752023-10-05T10:47:00.003-07:002023-10-05T11:00:06.134-07:00Invictus and Matthew 11<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzI8uM6pCGGxlV5RSivkAX9t3wu-IK310Ti_c2g2IW7EsUySo8gt038PhZwSp6tQ73d3mGwHpx8FqUT3231WcGWnMS7VTINzEYIvE6cYIkOnKijWmMk0SUmSnnKamC-zqfLnpk_TrrmCqrH8AVSpo2eVdQ3MpkFcngDgjQla_lrkpb0mLMfK5fnFvyL9b/s624/2023-07-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="507" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzI8uM6pCGGxlV5RSivkAX9t3wu-IK310Ti_c2g2IW7EsUySo8gt038PhZwSp6tQ73d3mGwHpx8FqUT3231WcGWnMS7VTINzEYIvE6cYIkOnKijWmMk0SUmSnnKamC-zqfLnpk_TrrmCqrH8AVSpo2eVdQ3MpkFcngDgjQla_lrkpb0mLMfK5fnFvyL9b/s320/2023-07-06.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Middle rank, Left.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My father will be 97 in a few days. He told me a story yesterday, while I was cutting his white, still curly and unruly hair, about making it somehow from Toronto to Pembroke. First on a train and then walking a bit; he couldn't remember. He was 7. Or maybe 8 or 9. He had gone there to meet an army recruiter he thought lived there. He was going to join the army. Arriving and not knowing the name of this soldier, he found a bike and rode back to Toronto. He had nothing to eat. I asked how he knew how to get home and he said he followed the signs to Toronto. He slept in a gully. When he got home, someone had snitched to the cops that he'd stolen the bike and so he had a rough handling by an un-empathetic officer. It didn't seem to matter that he'd been gone and without food for 4 days. He said it in passing, like it was a thing that 8 year olds did in the 30s. Dad was a rivet boy on the bridges in Toronto at 6 or 7. Boxing for prize money at 11 or 12, in the merchant marines by 14, overseas with the RRC by 16 and shot by the Germans at 17. He came home physically wounded to the same poverty and violence he had left in Toronto years before. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There's 80 years of really sad tangles and really amazing triumphs in between then and now. Lots of inspiring stories that involved him getting several degrees from U of T, working at a bunch of engineering companies, teaching high school math and physics at Toronto's worst high school, and reaching into the central Toronto youth justice system to help other rough and hungry boys. But yesterday what I found poignant about his story was that whatever has happened to our culture, the one noticeable thing to me is it does not have many men like this any more. Tough and shrewd. Pawky and agile. Smart and able. Survivors. Not many current 7 year olds will be telling these kinds of stories to their grandkids in 90 years. Not kids in Toronto, anyway. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We do quite a bit of "read alouds" while we've homeschool. We're reading Outcast right now, by Sutcliff, and it reminds me of my dad. We read Invictus for poetry today and it also reminded me of him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #202122;">Out of the night that covers me</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">Black as the pit from pole to pole,</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">I thank whatever gods may be</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">For my unconquerable soul.</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">In the fell clutch of circumstance,</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">I have not winced nor cried aloud.</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">Under the bludgeonings of chance</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">My head is bloody, but unbowed.</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">Beyond this place of wrath and tears</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">Looms but the Horror of the shade,</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">And yet the menace of the years</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">It matters not how strait the gate,</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">How charged with punishments the scroll,</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">I am the master of my fate</span><br style="color: #202122;" /><span style="color: #202122;">I am the captain of my soul.</span><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unbowed, indeed. 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Even at 97. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia;">So now, in this season, as he watches with pride as his seven grandkids try their hand at life, we pray a new prayer for him:</span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-28" id="en-NIV-23488">Matthew 11 - Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-29" id="en-NIV-23489"><span class="gmail-versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30" id="en-NIV-23490"><span class="gmail-versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”</span></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail-text gmail-Matt-11-30"><br /></span></span></div><div></div>Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08936572135099143622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-53680478840078668722019-07-11T13:39:00.002-07:002019-07-11T13:40:30.398-07:00Steampunk RoboticsLife is insane here right now. I am watching Gabe grow up and it is wonderful and terrifying and exhausting. Gabe had a trade show at Staples downtown yesterday and after taking a few pictures, I was beseeched to "maybe...go some where else..."<br />
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-77630823821135875522019-06-13T09:25:00.000-07:002019-06-13T09:26:17.850-07:00First Turtle of the seasonCaught by Esther. We had a hard time putting this guy back. He was so cute.<br />
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The boys may have found a new love to replace Lego EV3 robotics. It took 5 weeks of Thursdays to build this glorious contraption...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">I do not usually miss the city. I never miss public transport. Ever. Most days I am very relived to be where we are, as a family. But there are times when I do. Gabe is doing a summer entrepreneur mentorship program downtown and it means I have 3 hours to kill in Hintonburg once a week. It is every 15 year old’s dream. The office he is working at has a full time barista on staff. For real. Every one looks like they are at a Steve Jobs dress up party.</span></div>
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This week, as I was hanging out with my favourite friend, Esther Alexis-Jane Braden, I missed the busyness and the coffee and the clothes and the cool-ness. I can not imagine moving back and raising kids in the city at this point, but it was nice to remember the vibrancy and life that comes with being in fast-moving, hungry, impatient culture.</div>
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-62202290410073590422019-05-30T10:27:00.004-07:002019-05-30T10:27:57.942-07:00The Forth bi-annual Kidd Road Piano Recital<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
We had an age range of 8 years old to 92 years young at the recent Kidd Rd piano recital. The Van Boys, as they are known, have started taking lessons from the amazing Yulia Brenar, and you can tell. I am very thankful for musical parents, neighbours, teachers and friends who have loved and supported my kids, and to my long-suffering mother, who made be practice and talked me off several ledges through this journey that is taking piano lessons.</div>
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-8717641485439158542019-05-08T11:54:00.001-07:002019-05-08T11:54:29.730-07:00Early Mother's DayEsther: "Mom, Dad and I got you and early Mother's Day present. It's pony poop for your garden from Ginny's run! I'll even spread it for you."<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is possible that I am listening to too much Ben Shapiro. Possible. I am 146th in line for his new book, the Right Side of History, at the Ottawa Public Library, so apparently there are lots of other people also listening on the Right Side....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so.... It was Easter last weekend and I have come to believe that this may be the first generation that will have <i>no remembrance</i> of the origins of the holiday. We will have no understanding of why Passover is celebrated by the Jews, at around the same time. Eventually the government will change the name of the holiday to "Spring Holiday After Long Horrible Winter" and it will be all over. I guess that actually started when we stopped calling in Pesach? We have outlived our corporate consciousness of the Judaeo-Christian narrative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had a awkward moment with Esther recently when I was talking about Deborah and her role in defeating Israel's enemies and why Deborah was grieved over the victory to some extent. Essy had no recollection of it. None. I was a bit anxious because I remembered reading that part of the history of the Jews with the kids, but she didn't remember because we'd done that part of the Old Testament in our studies several years ago, she was maybe four, and she'd just forgotten, or never really learned it. That happens a lot with Esther. She'll ask what comes after April ... and I freak out and say, "What do you mean what come after <i>APRIL</i>????" Then I'll remember that I don't sing the months of the year song much any more. She missed many of those primary years when posters, colouring sheets, songs, and games were more frequent, before <i>these days </i>of robotics contests, jobs, Advanced Functions and RCM examinations. It's a hopeful idleness on my part. I <i>hope</i> she remembers, but I don't make a huge effort to ensure it. I hope she'll catch the proper conjugation of the verb "to lie" like you catch the flu. But then when she doesn't know how to spell 'lain', or even admit it is a word, I remember: I am the <i>teacher</i> here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I think that's what happened to culturally common Christian values and the holidays that are 'background' to our culture. Some of it was <i>insidiously</i> removed from our lives: prayer taken out of the school system, prayer before sports banished, religious symbols scrupulously removed, then banished, etc. But I think most of it just sort of lazied itself into non existence. I think we really, really hoped that the kids would just catch the decalogue, like the flu. The tricky bit is that they didn't. Just like Esther won't learn long division unless I teach her. She won't know who Deborah is unless I <i>teach</i> her who she was. Eventually it's just about Santa. Or presents. Or candy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">God has lots to say about this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Kings 22:11</span><br />
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-72095773992978157642019-04-13T17:39:00.003-07:002019-05-02T12:30:17.531-07:00March BirthdaysIt was Grandma's and Noli's birthday a few weeks ago. It is pretty lovely that these two ladies share similar birthdays: Grandma and Noli are probably the most alike of all the littles. I usually put Noli in charge of whatever clean up operation is supposed to be happening. She is a born organizer. Mom and Noli are both the blondest, blue-eyed-est ladies in our family. And they are both wonderful to be around. Noli is such a loving niece and she tolerates all my probing and questioning about her life, her friends, what is cool these days... etc...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Psalm 139</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For You formed my inmost being;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You knit me together in my mother’s womb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I will praise You,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Marvellous are Your works,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and I know this very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My frame was not hidden from You </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">all my days were written in Your book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I got to visit for a bit with a family that has adopted little ones into their home in recent years. The mom has Psalm singing as part of the kids' homeschooling, and also in their family worship, and while I was there I thought of Psalm 139, a psalm they will learn to sing. One that this particularly splashy little boy will learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Lord saw this little boy's days: His first birthday. This rainy one. All of them to come. He holds our lives in His hands. He is fully of mercy and compassion. I thank God for this family and the kingdom work they do everyday, just by getting up every morning (really, really early) and loving these little ones as their own. Just as He loves us as if we were His children. 1 John 3:1 "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">"</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div>
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Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-12340614622759518522019-03-23T17:54:00.000-07:002019-03-23T17:54:38.596-07:00Late night boiling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08936572135099143622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-66022595430006685042019-03-22T10:30:00.005-07:002019-03-25T18:37:02.330-07:00First Inaugural Homeschool Chess Tournament The usual suspects joined us for our very first chess extravaganza. It was stressful and there were some tense moments. There was also cheesecake and cookies. The Van Der Meer boys were almost impossible to beat, but Luke ended up on top of the heap.<br />
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So we're doubling down around here and studying Magnus Carlson and all those other crazy chess guys. Next tournament is set for early June.<br />
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<br />Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08936572135099143622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-20671041587015730282019-03-11T16:17:00.001-07:002019-03-11T16:20:14.278-07:00Online Homeschool ConferenceI am not always a huge fan of Homeschool Conferences because they mean leaving my house. I only like leaving my house if it involves Thai food.<br />
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So they made <a href="https://homeschoolsummits.com/" target="_blank">this conference</a> for me. It is also free. Also awesome.<br />
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.... It's almost a bit ridiculous. He is like the cutest version of Ryan possible.</div>
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-24745947858265059472019-03-04T16:55:00.002-08:002019-03-04T16:58:47.242-08:00GOLD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
This year's STEM competition was very different from previous years for team Steampunk. It was the first time Esther and Cole made up the team as Gabe aged out last year and is now a Tech Judge. He spent the day judging the junior teams. </div>
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In the past, Gabe has been the programmer and Cole was the mechanical and design guy, but this year Cole had to step into the programming role and that left Esther to support him with the design and program trouble shooting and all the other things that go into the day, like posters and theme-displays. Our team has to complete in the Jr High division because Cole is in grade 7, so it was a big challenge for them, and they worked really, really hard on it. </div>
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AND they did totally amazing - Three golds. </div>
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I never would have guessed, 8 years ago, that Cole's obsession with Lego would have brought us to this kind of competition. This robot stuff has really shaped the kids' education and I am super thankful for it. It opened a window to basic programming and I think that was the catalyst for Gabe to get into more advanced programming languages. It gave Cole a creative outlet for his ability to see mechanical designs in his head and make them work using the EV3. </div>
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It is so hard to know what will stick with kids. I remember my dad said that when we were little, he just threw stuff at us and hoped something would stick. Music. Sports. Art. Lego... You just throw stuff at them and make a space for it to root and see what takes.</div>
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None of this would happen in they didn't have a dad like our Jason Braden. He spent hours guiding them and supporting their efforts. He has maintained a very hard to establish balance between helping them, but also letting them flail a bit to try to solve their own problems. He did a day-of pep talk that showed how much he knows his own kids: "What do you do when the robot doesn't do what it is supposed during the trial?" and "What do you do if we lose?" and "Show me how you will smile and shake hands if we lose." </div>
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I am so proud of these kids and I am so thankful for their dad.</div>
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<br />Jason & Kathleen Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16042974247094046476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480847227692277832.post-25927828145333012592019-03-02T15:01:00.001-08:002019-03-02T15:02:13.189-08:00CAD 101 - Mechanical Ninjineer!Mechanical Ninjineer is the coolest thing on Youtube and he just released a video for a CAD tutorial. We follow him pretty religiously. AND he mentions Cole in his video!! I KNOW!!! Check it out.<br />
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My personal favourites are his pool for $40, the Gecko Chariot, and his wooden tie tutorial.<br />
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Go and like him. Right now.<br />
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