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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