Potpourri or A Little of This and a Little of That

I hate allergies.

I don't know what blew in, but I wish it would blow out.

Yesterday was not a particularly good day. I must have gone through a box of Kleenex and several allergy pills. When this happens to me I get cranky. I was cranky at school yesterday. I am sure the kids thought I was cranky.Today has got to be better. This weekend has got to be better. Baylor has a bye week so I don't have to worry about going out to a football game. The Heart of Texas Fair does not start till next week. I still have time to get better and get rid of this. If I don't get rid of it maybe I'll get used to it.

Tutoring starts in a few weeks. The kindergarten teachers need to get together to determine which students should attend tutoring. We also got our schedules on Wednesday. I have been assigned to tutor 5th grade.

Wow! What a switch. Spend all day with my kindergartners and then head upstairs and spend an hour with 5th grade. That's a 5-6 year jump in a matter of minutes.

The neighbor across the street called the other day. He wanted to know where we picked up our campaign sign. After the remnants of Ike blew through his signs were gone. He had them placed along his frontage with the road. He had placed several about every one-quarter mile. It looked good. I'm not sure if the wind blew them down or if they were "taken" down. I noticed yesterday that he had a new sign up. This time it was placed next to his driveway.

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Say Again...,Again

In an earlier post "Say Again..." I mentioned a tendency of mine to hear what is not said.

It happened again today during training after school. Prior to our session one of my coworkers was finishing lunch. Another coworker mentioned, "I can smell your onions."

That is not what I heard. I am not going to say what I heard. I knew my coworker would not say this particular thing, but yet I thought I heard it.

Later in the afternoon I mis-heard again. This time the same coworker was cleaning up the table and asked me, "Are you through with your bottle?"

And what did I hear you ask?

My ears told me I heard, "Are you through with your BODY?"

"No, I'm still using it. It's not ready for recycling yet!"

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A Man of Letters, Sort Of!

Does anyone out there use a Logitech G15 keyboard?

I use one and for the most part I love it. My keyboard is an older model G15. I've had it for probably 5 or 6 years. It has a blue back lit keyboard so I can use it at night and not disturb my wife by having the lamp on. It has 54 Macro enabled keys which allows me to have tons of shortcuts. It has multi-media controls on it along with a flip-up LCD screen which gives a variety of information.

There is so much to like about it. However, there is one thing I don't like. Many of the keys are beginning to wear through. Actually the black paint is rubbing off and the blue back light is shining through in all of it's glorious blue. The "E", "R", and "T" keys are basically a blob of light if you can envision light being a blob. The U, I, O, A, S, F, J, N, M, and Space Bar are also beginning to show definite signs of wear.

One day last summer I wrote the company to inquire as to the availability of replacement keys. Apparently Logitech has no replacement keys. Silly me! I just thought someone could pop down to the assembly line pick out the keys I needed and send them my way.

Life is just simply not that easy.

I was assured that they could replace the keys IF I sent them the keyboard, AND the keyboard was within the warranty period.

First, the keyboard is 5+ years old. I strongly suspect it IS out of warranty. Perhaps I could go to the "warranty" store and by some more and fill it up. Secondly, send the keyboard back?? And just what do I use in the meantime? It would be easier to simply buy a new one which is exactly what I don't want to do. The new ones are not the same as mine; plus, there's nothing wrong with mine except the keys.

I did buy a keyboard at Target yesterday. Brought it home and looked at it. I took it back a few hours later. I just couldn't bring my self to actually spend $75 for the keyboard just to get 13 keys.

Let's see, that's about $5.77 per key.

Perhaps I'll write Logitech again. If I bug them enough perhaps they'll send me a bag full of letters one day.

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Loose Training???

Autumn, Day 2.

More training.

This time it is Science training. The district is implementing a new science program called Loose In the Labs. I am attending a training of trainers session. After the training today i will need to train the other Kindergarten teachers on our campus how to properly use the kits and the lab materials.

This training thing could actually be pretty good. I went to training one day last week and taught for four days. This week I have training today and Early Release tomorrow. Three and a half days teaching and one and a half going to training. Not bad.

I don't know what I'll do next week. No training and five days teaching.

It'll work. It's a job and I love it.

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Picture Monday, September 22, 2008

I was going through a couple of picture boxes yesterday and found some old vacation pictures. I could tell they were old because they are so grainy. I could also tell they are old because they say "1961" on them.

In the summer of 1961 we took a vacation to California. While there we went to Disney Land, Yosemite National Park, and San Francisco among other places. I seem to remember Knott's Berry Farm but I never found any pictures to prove it.

I suppose the picture above is a general crowd shot at Disney Land. This area reminds me of one of the boat rides. I was five years old at the time and I remember wanting to ride this boat but we had to wait. While waiting, I was climbing around and generally being mischievous. Yes, I was a touch on the mischievous side in my younger years. While climbing and cavorting I accidentally kicked my dad in the head. You see I was climbing on the netting and hand rails and my dad was sitting. Let's say that my dad was less than pleased with my behavior and he certainly wasted no time in letting this displeasure be felt.

I also really wanted to ride the Dumbo ride. We didn't have tickets for that and to this day I haven't ridden the Dumbo ride.

No, I'm sure I didn't kick my dad in the head because I couldn't ride the Dumbo ride.

This is a picture of my brother and who knows what he is standing with. My brother is the one on the left without a hat.

Ahhh! This is me, the skinny fellow next to one of the Three Pigs. I remember this pig vividly. I was sure that he was wearing a costume and was determined to prove it. I tugged on his snout and his ears. That is certainly why he has his arm to the side; holding me at bay while trying to be civil since my parents were snapping a picture of the whole scene.

My brother and I on top of a boulder or rock, or other mineral outcropping in Yosemite National Park. Fortunately my brother didn't push me over the edge.

I'm not sure who this is, but I think it is near one of the falls at Yosemite. That might be me in the shorts and possibly my sister to the right. Who knows?

This is my mom in front of a house in San Francisco. Why?? I don't really know. This is the sort of thing people do on vacation. Take a few pictures of family members in front of places that you will soon forget what it is or where it is. Especially some forty some odd years later. Maybe this was simply a snapshot that was taken to set up an alibi. NAHHHH! My mom wasn't that kind of person.

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Slowly Back To Normal

All is well in Houston. Or at least, all is as well as can be expected.

I finally spoke with my brother last night who lives in Houston. He lives in the general vicinity of the Gulf Freeway and the South Belt Tollway. This was near the approximate path of the eye wall of Hurricane Ike. I would say probably within 7-8 miles west of where the eye wall passed.

His family decided to stay at the house which was boarded up and sealed up as best as he could get it. The reporters at KHOU who covered the storm in the Galveston - Houston area referred to this as "hunkering down". I suppose my brother and his family were "hunkering down".

Lance said they lost power around 11:00 PM on the night (Friday, September 12, 2008) the hurricane began to approach the area. The electricity was turned on Friday night the 19th. One week. He was so excited that the cable was on he checked e-mail and watched a movie until 2:00 AM. Pam was tired and went to sleep.

Lance was looking forward to getting up early on Saturday morning in order to tend to untended business on the computer. (Read that as checking on and paying bills again.) He went to the computer; no Internet. He went to the TV; no cable. AAARGHHH! Now it was off to Kari's house with the laptop to take advantage of the Internet.

I suppose the worst thing that happened was my brothers fence blew down courtesy of the near constant hurricane force winds for several hours straight on Friday night and early Saturday morning. There were also a few lost shingles but not much else. No flooding fortunately.

My brother is now retired living a life of leisure. Pam still teaches math in Clear Creek ISD. She learned that her buildings roof was torn off and many classrooms flooded; probably her own. Clear Creek will not be ready for teachers until Friday, September 26 and students returning the next Monday. Under this situation I don't think a 12+ day vacation at the the beginning of the year is very enjoyable.

Lance said his family made the decision to stay because the storm was only a Category 2 and they did not think it would be as bad as Alicia many years ago. They stayed in Houston for Alicia and the eye wall passed over their house. He told me that he remembered walking out and looking at the calm blue sky. Didn't happen this time around.

Having said all of this all things in their world are slowly returning to normal.

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Just A Minute Please!

I was thinking for a minute last night. I got tired of thinking and went to bed.

Then I thought for a few more minutes about the minute that I spent thinking earlier. Then I slept on it.

Here is the result of my minute sleep.

I was thinking of different "minute" items; like Minute Steak, Minute Rice, and Minute Maid.

I looked. It takes 75 minutes to make Minute Steak. ???? I guess Minute Steak sounded better than 75 Minute Steak or 1 hour and 15 Minute Steak.

Minute Rice isn't always a minute. Most of the time it is 5 minute rice. That is unless you're making the Ready To Serve variety in the microwave. In that case it is minute rice; provided you only want to have 1 cup. If you want 2 cups you'll have to settle for 90 second rice.

Then there's Minute Maid. I still can't figure that one out. Just what did this maid do in one minute?

By know my curiosity had been piqued; as well as my hunger. I found some One and a Half Minute Cookies which obviously take longer than one and half minutes to make or cook. It seems they got their name from the fact that one minute and thirty seconds is the ideal time to let the margarine, milk, sugar, and cocoa mixture boil that is required for the recipe.

Then you have the famous Three Minute Cookie. (I don't think they're really famous. I just thought it sounded good.) It takes longer than 3 minutes too. The recipe says "...less than 15 minutes." Imagine the proud hostess when her guests ask the name of her delicious cookies. "Oh those little things? Why they're just Less Than 15 Minute Cookies my dear. They're an old family recipe."

I also found One Minute Cookies, Two-Minute Cookies, and Wedding Dress 30 Minute Cookies. I'm not quite sure where the 30 minutes comes in with that wedding dress.Again no mention of 30 minues anywhere in the recipe. One nice thing is that "the edges of each cookie were nicely browned in five." I suppose Wedding Dress 30 Minute Cookies sounds more "wedding" like or some other such nonsense like that.

The last recipe? You guessed it; Last Minute Cookies. What did you expect; Neiman -Marcus Cookies or something?

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It's Going To Be A Beautiful Day

I don't go to work today.

I have to go to training.

I have been selected as a "designated diabetic trained" representative for our campus. It happens that since our campus does not have a full-time nurse we must have personnel trained to deal with students that may be diabetic. This includes training in testing, giving insulin injections, and all of the various side effects and symptoms.

This is all well and good. I understand the need for training of personnel. This is serious. Especially when a young child's well-being is at stake. I understand why I was selected to be part of the designated diabetic team. After all I am just across the hall from the nurse's office which makes it handy for me to have access to the supplies.

What I don't understand is why I have to go to the training. After all, I am a diabetic. I know how to test. I know how to determine the correct amount of insulin needed and how to inject. I know how to test for ketones.

Oh well.

I suppose I'll look on the bright side. I have a day away from class. I don't have to get up as early. I get to go home earlier than normal and I will be closer to home. I will also have longer for lunch.

Now the down side. I had to prepare for a substitute. This is a real pain because you have to over prepare and plan.

It's still going to be a great day to be alive though and I am a happy man. Have a great day. I plan on having one.

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Beautiful

It's amazing the difference a couple of days makes. A hurricane came through and on it's heels a welcome cool front settled into Central Texas. All this in the middle of September.

Hurricane Ike blew through on Saturday and pretty much was out of the way on Sunday and helped to pull the cool front down our way. For the past several weeks the temps were in the 90's for highs. Especially prior to the hurricane.

Sometimes it felt like we were in Arizona.

Yesterday the high was in the 80's. That's downright cool according to our standards; especially with that nice dry northeren breeze. The low last night was in the 50's.

Brrrrr! Chilly weather, but it's nice on the AC bill.

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Picture Monday, September 15, 2008

I had been taking pictures with my cell phone at the previous two Baylor games. The picture stunk. This past Friday I took the old camera with me to the Baylor football game. I snapped several pictures. Here are a few that I like from the night.

This is the scoreboard. DUH!!

The field some time before kickoff. Also sometime before many fans came. Kick-off was at 7:30 PM. This was about 6:15 PM.
It was Friday night. This is a light. I suppose you could say this is one of the Friday night lights.
This is the bottom of the light standard looking down from the top of the stadium.
Baylor punting on 4th down. I caught the ball prior to the punt.
Scoreboard at the end of the game. Baylor defeated Washington State, 45-17.
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Ike Blew All The Leaves Off

Yesterday was an interesting day. Perhaps not interesting; maybe just a tiny bit different.

I woke up yesterday morning expecting to witness the outside edges wrath of Hurricane Ike. You know, the wind and rain thing.

I looked out the window. Just breezy; no rain.

So I sit at the computer and do a few things. I downloaded the AVS Video Editor from "Giveaway of the Day" and then paid some bills. Isn't sad how all of these businesses hound you to visit their stores and get their merchandise. Then when you finally do it, they start bugging you for money.

Since the weather wasn't too bad I decided to go to HEB and buy groceries. Apparently Ike was on the doorstep getting ready to knock. I stepped out and the wind picked up and it was starting to sprinkle. I got in the truck and headed off to the store. By the time I got to HEB the wind was blowing pretty good. It blew my truck door closed before I could jump out. Fortunately, my foot was still safely inside the truck. The rain had picked up but I was destined to shop.

I finished at HEB and decided to head to Sam's. By now we were feeling the full wrath and fury of Ike. Okay, it wasn't really "wrath and fury" it was more like "wind and rain". It never seemed like much rain though. There was a lot of wind though. On the way to Sam's I would sit at red lights and the truck would rock back and forth. That's an awkward feeling when you drive a Chevy Silverado. Anyway, by the time I got to Sam's the rain was coming down pretty hard. I don't know if it was a lot of rain or just rain driven by the strong winds. Yeah, I know. It was both.

By now it was 11:30 AM. Now I'm glad Baylor played on Friday night.

On the way home on IH 35 there was a semi that lost control and had driven up on the concrete center median thingy. His front wheels were hanging over the top. Sort of like a puppy that was standing on it's hind legs by small fence or something of the like. Only this was a "BIG PUPPY". The DPS troopers were furiously trying to get there but had a tough time because all the traffic behind the truck was a dead stop.

It turned out to be lousy weather. But it was a great time to go shopping. No traffic and hardly any customers in the stores. The sample ladies at Sam's were hoping they could go home early since they weren't busy.

I got home and checked the mail. There was a letter from Citi Bank or some such place telling me they had $5000.00 to give me. I shredded the thing. It would be just my luck that once they gave me the money they would turn right around and start wanting it back. I also got catalogue from an outfit called Stafford's in Thomasville, Georgia. I don't know why I got it. I flipped through and found a Leather Flyswatter for $55.00. Now that's what I need because that $1.00 Wal-Mart model just ain't cuttin' it.

Geez, these people must think I have money tree. I've got news for them. Ike blew all the leaves off.

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I Don't Like Ike!

I don't particularly like Ike at this moment in time.

Ike has caused my brother and his family to board up their house. They are riding out the storm. I pray that they are safe and no great damage or danger shall befall them.

I also don't like Ike because he is driving up gas prices in this area. Last weekend I paid $3.40 a gallon for gas at Murphy Oil/Wal-Mart. Yesterday I put half a tank in the truck and paid $3.50 a gallon at the same station. On my way to work this morning (6:30 AM) I saw prices at $3.75 a gallon at both Pilot and the Flying J. On my way home this afternoon at 4:00 PM both stations were sitting at $3.95 a gallon. I decided to pull in to a Shell station and fill up that was selling gas at $3.63. A little higher than I would have liked but certainly better that $3.95. This turned out to be a wise decision. On my home from the Baylor football game (11:30 PM) I discovered that the Pilot station was selling at $4.19 a gallon and the Flying J was at $4.35 a gallon.

There is some good news though. Baylor was scheduled to play Washington State University here in Waco at 11:30 AM on Saturday the 13th. Because of Ike the game was moved up to Friday night with kick-off at 7:30 PM. Baylor won the game, beating Washington State 45-17. Way to go Bears and congratulations to Robert Griffin, tonight's MVP.

SIC-EM BEARS!

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In My Humble Opinion.....

I like to check out The Drudge Report daily because it seems to do a great job of collecting some of the most important headlines of the day and the links to them. Sometimes it is great entertainment too.

I was looking at last night. I began to notice the tag lines of some of the news stories; such as BBC POLL: WORLD WANTS OBAMA..., Russians like Putin and Obama, polls find..., 80% in France..., etc.

A few facts about me. I'm not a political blogger. I do happen to prefer McCain/Palin, but I'm not going to campaign on the blog. But something struck me when I saw these headlines. Since I think of myself as an America first person and I read that "...the world wants Obama", "Russians like...Obama..., and "80% in France" prefer Obama; wellll......All of that just SCREAMS that we need McCain. After all, I would think if the Russians want Obama, there must be a problem. After all they wanted Georgia and it didn't seem like Mr. Obama was too concerned.

Just a thought on my part. I hope I didn't offend!

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Am I Crazy or What? Probably!

Long day yesterday. Short night last night.

Got to the school at 6:45 yesterday morning. I didn't get home until just before 7:00 PM. Our school had it's first PTA meeting and Open House last night so I stayed at school and made sure my room was ready and current student work was posted;..............for one parent! That's right! One parent. I stayed until 6:30 PM for one parent. The same parent that I see most mornings because she walks her child to the classroom. Oh well, at least the room is clean. Not that it was messy to begin with, but at least it is more clean.

I brought some things home to work on last night. I brought some plastic letters home to sort and bag for easier retrieval. I also brought some crayons home to sort out. I can't stand to have the crayons all mixed up. My daughter pointed out that I do teach Kindergarten and that the children are 5 years old. I told her that I knew that but it still drives me crazy to have things messy.

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Can I have Credit For That?

What is it with credit card companies?

I mean, how many credit cards does any one person need?

Last month I received at least twenty credit card offers in the mail. These ranged from department stores, gas cards, and the all purpose cards. They came in my name, my wife's name, my daughter's name, and the occasional offer in the business name. If I responded to each offer I would have to get a larger wallet and a second or third job. Or maybe start asking for handouts here on the blog.

I have recently been getting a lot of solicitations for oil company cards. I suppose they realize that their gas too expensive and short of taking out a loan most people need to use their cards more. I am certain that if the oil companies lowered their prices and then only sold gas by credit card they would reap billions of dollars by charging interest on the charges. After all, if someone ran up $1000.00 in gas charges and the companies charged say, 14%, that would be....let's see. Yeah! A lot. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of customers and you're talking maybe, hundreds of thousands of "a lot". And that's a lot.

Oh wait. My theory just went south. Most of the gas cards are offered by companies like Citi, GE Money Bank, and the like. Oh well! I guess I'll just keep that shredder going.

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Picture Monday, September 8, 2008

I know this is not my normal Picture Monday post. This is the kind of post that happens when you're trying to get into the swing of things again and there are some really fun things going on in the news.

Recently the Waco ISD school board voted to close G.L.Wiley Middle School due to receiving an Unacceptable Rating from the Texas Education Administration (TEA) for 5 years in a row.

State To Waco ISD

School Board Meets

Board Votes to Close

Restraining Order

Board Votes Again

Judge Closes Wiley

It seems that the moment the school board voted to close the school a group brought suit against the district. If not at that moment, it was pretty close. Long story short, the district had to delay the closing for a week and then the court gave the green light to go ahead with the closure. Now to the Picture Monday part.

Below is a picture of the school that I took last spring in front of G.L. Wiley. Maybe it was a good thing the school was closed.

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On Track with Baylor Football

Had a great Saturday night.

I took my son, Scott, to the Baylor football game last night. Baylor played Northwestern State University. The outcome was decidedly different from Baylor's encounter with Wake Forest on Thursday night, August 28. Baylor played the Demon Deacons on that warm Thursday night in August and were soundly trounced in Coach Art Briles debut.Last night, Baylor soundly trounced the Demons from NSU. Looks like the Bears are 1-1 against the Demons.

Let's hope there no other "demons" lurking about and Baylor will be on their way to a successful season.

Oh, Baylor lost to Wake Forest 41-13 and then turned around and walloped NSU 51-6. Next week, Washington State in Waco. Kick-off is at 11:30 AM Central and will be broadcast on FSN-TV. See you there.

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Can It Be True? I'm Back?

Can it be?

I have found my way back to the computer?

I feel like I have been in the big city and got stuck on the HOV lane and zoomed right past my destination and had no way of getting back to it.

Welcome to the first few weeks of a new school year. Yes the insanity has started I am in the drivers seat for a new school year. As you might guess, I became preoccupied with preparing for the year around the time of my last blog entry. (August 11 I think.) At that time I began going to school and preparing the classroom and getting things together. In elementary school this can take a while.

Teachers contract start date is one week prior to the first day of school for students. But when there are mandatory meetings, trainings, and open house, there is precious little time left to work in your room. y the time you are at the first day you quickly find out that you will have a "First Day" for the next 5-10 school days. This is because all of your students do not come on the first day. They will straggle in and then when it appears that you have them all, the district begins to send transfers to our campus. Our campus often receives transfers from campuses that have too large of an enrollment. Because of this the teachers often have to rearrange and change because their numbers increase.

Add to all of this the two weeks of Olympic coverage and then two weeks of political conventions and the start of the football season; and quite frankly, I was pooped.

Speaking of the Olympics and the conventions, "How about the great performance by Micheal Phelps and the great speech by Sarah Palin?" Awesome job by both!

But now I'm back with a vengeance. Maybe not actual vengeance, but I'm back and it's great.

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