eyes: Do you know the name of the park? I was thinking the same thing, but didnt know if TWU owned it or the City of Denton. If you know the name of it just let me know. Thanks, Paula

I agree. I think it has good lines, but no resale value at this time. I'd give it a good steam clean, touch up the dings with some scratch hider and use it "as is". Annie

Might look at the link below. Windows CleanMgr with sageset sagerun will do some additional cleaning of windows goodies more so than just running cleanMgr plain. CCleaner.com does a decent job. Wise Disc Cleaner , www.wisecleaner.com , might be a bit dangerious for some, but does a pretty good job if you take a moment to look down the list of things it finds to delete. If you have a particular extension you want to delete just open a cmd prompt and aim carefully with the delete or deltree command. Here is a link that might be useful: MS CleanMgr sageset & sagerun

A__'s 8 (almost 9) He lives at four different houses - so his life in incredibly inconsistent (BM's, my BF's, BM's mom's, and my BF's dad's) We only have him on weekends (and the time frame is highly variable - sometimes we get him Friday night and BM calls Saturday morning that she wants him back, sometimes we have him until Sunday night. Sometimes we don't get him until Sunday morning and drop him at school on Monday) He plays soccer (usually one practice and one game per week) BF usually winds up taking him to that because even though everyone else says "Ooooh, it's soooo important for him to be in sports" they also can't be bothered to drive him or attend his games. (but that's an unrelated rant about hypocrisy and unreliability from A__'s other caregivers) Warcraft is a fantasy game (orks and mages and stuff do quests to find treasure and learn skills) that was originally designed for teens and up, but it's not graphic or adult themed, so it's really popular with 8-12 yo boys. He plays about 5-10 hours of it on weekend days at the moment. 5 is a lot, but 10 is just plain unreasonable. He plays for about 2-3 hours after he gets up (he wakes us up usually around 8, I get him breakfast, then I go back to bed until about 10 and get up to shower etc) We don't mind him playing in the morning before we're up and being allowed to play in the morning keeps him from sneaking up in the night and so on. Then he wants to play it all afternoon and evening too. I can't say that I blame him, there hasn't been much in the way of toys or other things to do at my BF's place lately (A__ outgrew the toys that BF had, and every time A__ gets presents, BM wants them all at her place. BF bought him a Wii, BM said it should be at her place, etc etc. BF asked BM for some ideas of what A__ is really playing with these days and she said "I'll send some toys over" but then changed her mind and wouldn't even give ideas because "He doesn't need toys at your house. He has toys at my house" - another unrelated rant in the making) The other thing is that A__ is very very high input (ADHD in action) so it's very hard to keep him at an activity for more than a few minutes. My BF really wants to do other things with him, but BF has always been at a loss as to how to keep someone with A__'s attention span focused on something other than Warcraft. He's a good dad, but he has trouble thinking from A__'s point of view sometimes and isn't all that creative when it comes to thinking up activities for A__ to do. Which is where the other thread (Hands-on/Active ideas) comes in. A__ is pretty good about listening when we say "Only one hour of Warcraft tonight" - he sometimes stalls by starting a quest with 5 minutes left in the hour or says "but I lost two minutes when I went to the bathroom" etc, but what kid wouldn't? So now that we're working on the activities stockpile so actually have other things for him to do, and we have decided to give up on toys from BM so just go buy him some, we were thinking of starting with 5 hours of Warcraft (for a whole day) that he can earn extra 15 minute blocks for with good behaviors. After awhile, we think we'll drop it down to 4. That means the structure of the morning can stay the same (which is good because all three of us like this system) but then he has to budget his time for the afternoon and evening and it legislates that he HAS to do something else. BF works some odd shifts and we don't live together (A__ asks me each week to "stay for the whole weekend pleeeeease?" and that's why I get him breakfast and stuff). So at present it's not all that practical for us to have A__ for a more structured time, but once we get engaged and move in together (probably this summer) we plan to ask for a more regular schedule, which will help with some of our troubles stemming from unpredictable schedules.