Once again, I feel like I have more common sense than most teachers ( Read more... )

There is a long story that does not need to be recounted, we are all going through it, but my very darling WWII Navy Vet uncle fell in the nursing home and broke his hip badly.  You know, the kind that will always smile, and sing, and not say anything is wrong, ever ( Read more... )

I went out to teach at Aecademy.   Pulling into the parking lot, and finding a place to park a large truck and trailer,  I was met by a very nice gentleman who had heard me pull in and went out of his way to tell me I had a problem.    Looking, I could see that the cap to the axle had come off, so the grease was getting out and the dust in, and the ( Read more... )

Every project takes about 5 to 10 times as much time as you think it will, as there is always One More Step ( Read more... )

Today it was "I need to put up gutters on the side of the garage ( Read more... )

My boss has been documenting a number of things for the last 2 years (this is his 3rd year, before that he worked at another school for 2 years.     I (and the union), have been protesting, and fighting off a number of things ( Read more... )

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After months of taking the cat to the vet, and hundreds of dollars, he has started to limp ( Read more... )

In my attempt to give kids an experience of making birthday cupcakes (and proving that cupcakes are indeed cake), I used a recipe from a friend.  It has never failed, for anyone that I know of.  It has never failed in classes ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it feels like the proverbial 1 step forward, 2 steps back ( Read more... )