In September, Karen and I took our daughter out of school for a week and headed south to Disney World.  My family likes to visit Disney as often as we can and a week in the Florida heat and humidity was a nice change from the grind.  On Sunday night we had dinner at the Rose and Crown in Epcot's World Showcase (United Kingdom Pavilion ).  

    It is amazing some of the things we do for our kids.  My daughter starts 4th grade this fall and while she has kept up on her reading over the summer we have slipped a bit in math and handwriting.  I made up a bunch of multiplication flash cards for her and started quizzing her in the evenings.  I became a bit suspicious when she started getting them nearly all correct and I suspected that she was able to glimpse enough of the correct answer through the paper flash card to make a good guess at the answer.

    Being a resourceful fellow, and refusing to loose to a nine year old, I dusted off my copy of VB6 and wrote a program that is, essentially, a computer based flashcard program for multiplication tables 0 through 12.  Needless to say, Kaitlyns "wicked math skills" faltered rather dramatically.