Drug Test Kids

If a kid isn't lucid, how can we possibly teach him. I really think that drug testing kids should be considered.

Good Looking People

Good looking people get away with a lot more than ugly people. I watch this over and over. Good looking people, especially women, are given a pass when it comes to bad behavior. I watch girls flirt with guys, old, young, and get away with stuff that other people wouldn't. The down side of that is that I also feel that good looking girls aren't taken seriously for their intellect. But that's another observation.

Cooper is okay. I'm really surprised at how good he has been. He's been leaving his scab alone. My fear was that we'd come home to a bloody mess, but that wasn't the case at all.

There are frogs in Costa Rica that are poisonous. They are pretty but if you touch them you will die. The natives used to use their venom to load their spears to kill their enemies.

I noticed today that a lot of kids are going retro. Some kid had on high moccasins and I was taken back to my days as a young hippie and wore moccasins to school. Isn't it weird how things come back.

I want to get a truck. I don't want a new truck. I just want a truck. A nice truck that will serve a bit as a car. That makes perfect sense to me. I'm afraid for my car. I think it's on it's last legs. Or should I say it's on its last wheels. How about that. I used it's and its in the same sentence and I used them both correctly because I'm an English teacher. That was a song in a musical. I think Music Man.

More Random Thoughts

I wonder what dogs think.

I wonder what cats think.

I think a deer pooped in my back yard. It looks like deer poop though my family is arguing with me. I looked up deer droppings on the internet and it looked like what's in my back yard. It could be deer. There's no fence. The deer could be headed to Walmart or Dairy Queen.

School is half over.

Ok, if we cured all disease, wouldn't that contribute to overpopulation? If someone dies of old age, does that make it a disease.

My wife and I are playing facebook scrabble. We sit in two different rooms of the house and play. Isn't that silly! We own two scrabble games and we play on line in two different rooms of the house.

I hope Cooper is ok. We left him home alone today and he may lick at his scab. I have scratched scabs but I have never had the desire to lick one. Not even a little bit.

Leno, Letterman and Conan O'Brien. Tehy are all mediocre compared to Johnnie Carson. He was truly the king of late night.

Random Thoughts

I watch little Cooper and think about him going under the knife and it bothers me.

I hear things from kids about things kids do. I don't always know what to do with that information. If it's semi harmless, I let it go. If it's important, I deal with it the best way I know how.

I didn't watch It's a Wonderful Life over Christmas vacation. I need to.

I have essays to correct.

Reading student essays may just be the least favorite part of my job.

The mid winter blahs have set in. And it's not even mid winter.

Love is in the air.

wii is fun. I bowled three games last night, played 18 holes, played frisbee with my imaginary dog, jet skied, played ping pong, and shot three point shots. All in an hour and a half.

Happy Birthday Stephanie

Today is my wife's birthday. If you are following this, and I can't imagine anyone with so little to do who would be, you probably realize that my wife had my daughter two days before her own birthday. My wife was still in the hospital on her birthday the year my daughter was born. I, being the loving husband that I am, took a cake in to her to celebrate her birthday. I, being the insensitive lout that I am, didn't realize that she was not wishing to eat cake since she had just shed a ton of weight, 8 lbs, 1 oz. of that was my daughter. The rest was, well, if you had health class, you know what that was. I won't describe.

The other day my wife whipped me in bowling on the wii.

Are we busy? For years, we have developed tools to allow us to have more free time, and so we invented dishwashers and clothes washers and dryers and we don't hunt, we buy food at the supermarket, and we work more and seem to have less money, and we might truly be busier than ever. Isn't that ironic? All of this technology should have made our lives easier, but instead, as it made our lives harder?

Someone let me know the answer. I'm too busy to figure it out.

Happy Birthday Megan

Today is my daughter's 24th birthday. Twenty four years ago I was sitting in the hospital waiting for her to be born. It's really quite cliche, but having children really does change your perspective on things. Suddenly, you aren't the center of the universe. I just learned though that some of our students are expecting, you know, expecting, and it's not what you would call an accident. I find this difficult to comprehend. Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I think there is a proper way that things should be done. Graduating from high school should, in my humble opinion, come first. Then get married and then have kids. Having a full time job with benefits is perhaps a nice idea as well. I, like many people, feel that some times people's irresponsible decisions cost the responsible people more than it does the people making those irresponsible decisions. Nothing is free in life. I work for the things I have. That's the way it should be. One time in my life I was forced to collect unemployment and I found it humiliating. Twice I have lost jobs through no fault of my own, and I did what I had to because people depended on me. I wouldn't have brought children into the work without some sense of how I would support them.

Happy New Year

Happy. What does that really mean? I slept up until a bit before midnight on new years eve. We were tired. We're old. And we were in Florida. So a little before midnight, I awoke and watched universal's fireworks from the living room window. Yes, we were in Florida. I enjoy Florida. I enjoy being able to walk around in shorts in December. I enjoy all there is to do. I enjoy the change from where we live here in PA. I don't think my wife enjoys it as much as she once did.

There is a bit of frustration owning a home so far away and not being able to use it so much. I hate regrets, but I do feel that I regret buying that now, however, who knew what the economy would do to real estate prices in Florida. If anyone did, they kept it to themselves. So now is not the time to sell it. A life of regrets is a miserable way to live. We have it. It's there if we want to head down. We have a few friends we can see. Other than that, nothing more can be done. I guess it's an investment that I have to pay into.

I think I'd have to report that we had one of our best Christmases ever. Both kids were home. Both of their significant others were there. We had a delightful time of exchanging gifts. Christmas eve was great too. We all helped with the music for church. My daughter dusted off her flute and played beautifully. Those are good times.

Cooper had fun on the trip. As least I think he did. I started a fan page for him on Facebook. He's collecting fans. It's pretty funny. I post some pictures and label them for those who want to look at them.

Get a job that pays you enough to live the life you want to live. Happiness will come with that. Happiness is in relationships, but trust me, it's fleeting