It's 9 o'clock. Do You Know Where Your Kid Is?

Anna's in Moscow just at the moment, unless she's moved on. She was in Mexico before that; and before that she asked to go to Colorado (they've been studying it in her class), and checked out b.r.'s and Sara's new hometowns. She likes the mountains, but she loves the downtown photos.

We had GoogleEarth on the crappy old PC in Corpus, but after that thing fizzled out I never got around to loading it onto a real computer (the G4). I downloaded it this weekend because Anna was disturbed to read, in this month's National Geographic, that bulldog ants can spot an intruder up to two yards away, and will chase you down, and that their sting hurts like a motherfucker. (The author of the article might have worded that slightly differently.)

So I downloaded GoogleEarth in order to reassure her that Australia is safely located more than two yards from our house.

She's hooked, and who wouldn't be? Talk about giving your kids the world. Grabbing the Earth, spinning it back and forth, and zooming in and out gives you a marvelous sense of perspective, too. Every kid should have it. I had trouble dragging her away to eat dinner ("I'm not hungry," she insisted).

Better try to get her out of Africa so I can put her to bed now.