It took quite a bit of time to get home from DC yesterday, what with the whole precipitation business. I’m not sure what it looks like now, but As I was leaving the office yesterday around lunchtime, it looked something like this: Needless to say, driving home wasn’t pleasant. About four hours of me, a […]

That’s it, a complete literal reading of the headline. No deep dark secrets, no intrigue, no symbolism, nor Eminem. Just a whole bunch of clothes that I no longer care to wear, or don’t fit any longer, getting put into bags and hauled off to the Goodwill Industries donation center. That, my dear readers, was […]

…and I’m not happy about it. How’s your Friday shaping up? “32 Flavors” – Ani Difranco “I’m Not Sleeping” – Tiffany “Fightin’ on the Same Side” – The Hooters “Elena on the Wall” – Pete Palladino “Commando” – The Ramones “Heaven Tonight” – Yngwie J. Malmsteen “Iowa” – Dar Williams “She’s On Time” – Barenaked […]

There’s a certain danger to meeting the wife and baby for lunch in the middle of a big steaming pile of a work week.   That danger is the pressing temptation to just simply not go back to the office and hang out with these two pleasing individuals for the rest of the afternoon.  Today, I […]

Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Usually, our household goes non-traditional for the big feast, with reasonably good results (last year’s duck was excellent). This year, I was leaning toward something a little different – lamb or something; but the kids voiced their opinion for tradition. So, for the first time in years, I’m making a turkey. […]

you know the drill… Actually a pretty standard selection this week, including the one song I can confidently play on the mandolin (guess which one…if you dare), plus a couple of oddballs…. I mean, who has a copy of Michelle Pfeiffer singing lustily about Maxwell “Say No More, Mon Amour” Caulfield while she humps a […]

I am very tired. We were way too busy this weekend (well, okay, too busy Saturday). The baby keeping me up past two am didn’t help either. Luckily, I have a nice wife who lets me sleep in occasionally while she gets showered with baby gifts. I am going to bed early tonight. I think […]

…but if I had displayed the same level of classroom management skill during an observed period during my student teaching semester as I was witness to today in class, I’d have been kicked out of Stayer educational center and duct taped upside down to the tree on the island in the swan pond. Today was […]