Iâm back from the two-day conference with fifteen continuing education credits under my belt and a couple of decent job leads. It actually all went pretty well until we got ready to leave and my car (parked in the underground garage associated with the hotel where the event was held) wouldn’t start. By way of…
Tonight I try my hand at making class beads. With my Kreskin-like ESP I sense a bunch of “playing with fire” jokes coming my way. No matter. It’s a five-week course at the local high school, one night a week. It was relatively inexpensive, and it will give me something else to do other than…
Just got a letter from the state. My unemployment is extended through the last week of July. Why I should feel like less of a free-loader when I’m on unemployment than off of it is up for grabs, but at least I’m pulling some cash flow into this household while I look. The best prospect…
So weâre into the next phase of transition. I think, as a working title, I will call this phase the âIâm flat broke with no more unemployment benefits and totally dependent upon the good will of othersâ stage of my life. I expect this to be neither comfortable nor pretty. There are no large animal…
This morning’s presentation went beautifully, better than I ever expected. The kids in this rotation were involved, the words all came off my tongue the right way, and I know I got all the right points across. I talked for two hours non-stop before lunch, which was the time allotted for me, but I was…
I’ve been busy this past week trying to put together a presentation I’ll be making Monday morning. I’ve had to reconstruct this in my head since the source material is no longer available to me. Part of the presentation is on the principles of HACCP, and the rest on animal welfare. The presentation will be…
âCats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.â – Jeff Valdez I couldn’t sleep last night. I’ve had problems with insomnia for a few weeks now, but it didn’t bother me last night. I made a fire, cooked a batch of cardamom cookies, and watched the snow…
I’ve been taking pictures throughout the day. It makes me feel like I have some control over a situation that is quite out of control. This was my deck at 2:00 pm. My deck at 3:30pm. My deck at 7:00. I stuck a yardstick in the snow. Right now, at 7:30, it reads 21.5 inches….
… said Eeyore gloomily. -“So it is.” “And freezing.” -“Is it?” “Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.â At least we still have power at the halfway point. I walked out to the primary road in front of my house a few hours ago and snapped…
I’m blaming it on California. Not content to keep their freaking El Niño weather to themselves, they have to share their precipitation with the rest of the country. What do the Californians care if their rain is our two feet of snow? Realizing that there was no chance I’d be able to make it to…