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Earlier this week before my surgery one of my last two-handed tasks was to make a very crude map of our small plot of land. This is the time of year when we need to order food bearing trees to plant throughout the yard. But before we ordered trees, we had to have [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Food on March 20th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

So on Monday I had my operation.
This is the 1st St. Patrick’s Day in many St. Patrick’s days that I’ve spent more sedated than most of the people hanging out at the bars. I had three different levels of sedation for the operation and decided when I got home that I would wait for [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 20th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Tomorrow I get surgery on my shoulder.
Last week I tied up as many loose ends as possible at work, and tried to tie up a few at home. I’m going to be out of work for six weeks, mostly because I won’t be able to drive.
I’m not so much freaked [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I think Fox has reached the point with me where whatever Fox wants me to do or wants me to think, I think the exact opposite. If you can subtract the shameless jingoism inherent in these news clips, you have millions of reasons to vote for Obama.

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on March 15th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar
And some dirty basketball
The songs you wrote
Got me through a lot
Just wanna tell you that
But it’s too late
It’s too late
No, don’t you know
it’s been too late
for a long time
Oh no
Things were looking up
Least that’s what I heard
Oh no
Someone came and washed away your hard-earned
Peace of mind
When desperate static beats [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I heard Elliot Spitzer speak for the first time when I was at a teacher’s conference in Albany a couple years ago. I heard him talk about his experience bringing down the monsters in Wall Street. He gave a little lesson in history, and how his hero was Teddy Roosevelt because TR was [...]

Filed under: History, Politics on March 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Last month was the last straw for my right shoulder. It’s suffered more than 20 years of abuse, and decided that it was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take any more. My upper arm felt the time was right to secede from my shoulder and maybe, eventually my entire body. [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Yesterdaze on February 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The Roman Empire, which the American empire is frequently compared to had a penchant for sick diversions. As much as I like to decry the violence in our society as well as the violence often shown in the mainstream media, sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy sick humor. This is [...]

Filed under: General Observations on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We can see the light at the end of the construction tunnel now. The paint is on the walls and the kitchen cabinets are in, so the house has the look of a house that’s somewhere near approaching civilization.
DOUG and Bill did the priming and painting throughout most of last week and this [...]

Filed under: General Observations on February 11th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I think this is the first snow day we’ve had all year.
The first thing you need to know about snow days for teachers is that most of us like them and look forward to them more than the students do. The reason is that not only do we get the day off, [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on February 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »