Had a busy day today. My husband is a teacher and off for the summer, but they are sending him to teacher training this week from today until Friday. Today, he is also meeting with someone he has some partial shares in a startup company with. He's in 2 of them, very different things. I hope he is meeting with the company from India because after 10 years, they are starting to do well, get featured a lot of places, even won a contest for startups sponsored by Dow Chemical. My husband consults becaus they built a nanotube reactor (basically makes nanotubes) off my husband's graduate thesis, so they consult him about problems and he has company shares. They had to tweak some things, and it is making the nanotubes produced come out very with very little contamination, super pure (not 100% free of contaminants but better than what is out there) unlike most other nanotubes produced. I really hope & pray this company will be able to start paying for my husband's consulting (mostly via email but sometimes they are in the U.S. at conferences or visiting family, and they will usually then make the trip out to Houston. They are starting to get a lot of rave reviews in business magazines in India. They are still struggling with getting enough financial backingI hope it pays off; the owner is a good guy; I don't think he will cheat my hsubad, we've all met him several times. My husband has had to spend a lot of time with emails consulting, and it is difficult when he cannot be there himself to see the problem.

Anyway, my husband's Jeep wouldn't start this morning, so he took my car to the training (it was a mandatory training). I called out AAA, got a new battery (of course, just missing the warranty, so we had to pay for it), but they said the alternator was bad, and the battery wouldn't last long without getting the alternator fixed. So I drove the car to the auto shop I suspect we keep in business with all our car problems, and yes, it needed an alternator.

Luckily, they got it fixed this afternoon, and the rain we'd had around lunchtime had stopped. This auto place takes approximately 10 minutes to walk to, so I walked there and bailed out the Jeep. I am disappointed to hear that they are relocating; it's been convenient having them so close. We'll probably still keep using them though because they are not re-locating that far away, out of walking distance unfortunately though. It's nice to support a small local business, and they are honest and don't overcharge for everything.

My daughter's junky room is driving my nuts. I practically trip over toys just hanging clothes in her closet. We need to get to her closet, so I can weed out the outgrown clothes or the dresses that fit but would be inappropriate for Jumping Jacks during P.E. I finally decided we are going to clean in there 15 minutes every day, set a timer. It went OK today, but I know it will not go OK when she has to get rid of stuff. She HATES change. I keep telling her if she can get her room organized and some of her toys out of my office, we can get her a desk and her own computer. (My husband and I have been talking about this for months, what with her love of coding, CAD computer programs, other computer drawing programs, writing and illustrating books on the computer. She is on his computer so much, it is inconvenient for him because sometimes he needs to use it. She prefers his computer to mine because of all the CAD and drawing/scanning stuff he has on his. We have 3 places we can put it (or my husband would have to run more ethernet down since this house was built in the 1960s, and the internet was pretty much like science fiction. Running the ethernet down was awful the first time around): my office (have to get rid of toys), the living room (again, get rid of toys), or the garage (it's very large, attached to our house; we treat it pretty much like an extra room to the house). A very old computer is in there, but there is an ethernet connection. I pray she wants a computer badly enough to do this. We can't afford the full cost, but I think my mom and aunt might help. Plus, my husband buys most computer things refurbished from reliable companies to cut down on the cost.