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01/30/06
In
case you didn't notice, or wondered why, the site has been down
for the last couple of days. After Workzilla Weekend (Friday
: 7am-3pm @ school, then 4pm to 1am @ Chevron; Saturday 8am-1pm
@ school then 7pm-11pm @ Chevron) I get up Sunday and
the modem has crapped out on me. First I think it's just that the
cable is down, except I know which lights on the modem go off and
which stay on when it's the cable that is down, and this was the
wrong configuration. So, I unplug it, re-plug it, turn it off, turn
it on, unplug it, turn it off, shut down the computer, reboot the
computer, plug it in and turn it on. And several other combinations
of turning on & off and disconnecting & connecting. Nothing.
Nada. Zilch, Zero. Still the same (wrong) lights on. So, I took
off from school a bit early and brought the old modem down to Comcast,
no fuss, no muss, they gave me a brand new one. From the time I
got home to when I was up and running took a total of about 45 minutes,
and that included driving time. So, I know ya missed me, but I'm
back.......... |
01/28/06
Funny Stuff : You know your from Massachusetts if: and More reasons why I teach Jr. High. Click Here. Free Photo Booth, Jay Leno plays a prank. Very funny video. Click Here. Notice To Employees (only one drink), you don't wanna land here and a couple of comics. Click Here. |
01/26/06
 Vehicle
#50. Randall just sold me his 1968 Ford F-250. Only 2 wheel drive,
but it's got a 390 (just like the LTD) and an automatic (bummer!).
And it's in excellent shape. Body is straight and rust free. Carb's
just been overhauled and the engine runs like a champ. (Yeah, I'm
pullin' out all the car-guy cliches, deal with it.) And hey, it's
been almost 2 years since I've bought a vehicle, I was going through
withdrawls. |
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Couple
of events that Jeff thought you might be interested in. Asked me
if I'd post them here for everyone. And for the record, if you ever
have anything you want posted, feel free to send it to me. If you
see it on here it means I don't mind posting it. If I do mind posting
it, well, you just won't see it here, but send it to me anyways.....
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From Danny, a
really cool Honda commercial. Click
Here to see it.
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01/24/05
Why English Teachers Die Young......... Got this in e-mail today. They are metaphors and similies that were found in assignments turned in by high school students. And they're hilarious, here's one of my favorites to tempt you : The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. Click here for the rest. |
01/23/06
| If you want to get your phone number (cell phone numbers are going to be released soon) on the "No Call List", you can just call 888-382-1222, or on the web at http://www.donotcall.gov/. |
| Dukes of Hazzard in L.A., 2006. Great video. Click here. |
A friend of
mine got this site in an e-mail. It's, um, uh, interesting. And,
uh, well, I think it's serious. Although I found it hard to take
that way..... |
01/20/06
Had
our first faculty meeting with the new principal, I get the distinct
impression that he's going to be good to work with. Our biggest
concern this year has been how returning the 9th grade to our school
is going to effect the programs that we have in place for the 7th
&8th graders, that are working so well. Well, at the meeting
we talked about a few different schedules, how to incorporate the
needs of the 9th graders in without changing the way we work with
the 7th & 8th, and the one thing in common was the lack of major
change in what we are doing now. Most of the credit for that goes
to our Vice Principal, Heather, and our Dean of Students, Kim, but
John (the new principal) has been working on a plan of his own,
with the help of our old principal Rob, who is now working on the
changes going on at Granite High. I'm not going to go into details
about his plan, because knowing the inner workings of our district
I don't want to jinx (or is it jinks?) the deal, but suffice it
to say that it is obvious that John respects what we are doing at
Granite Park, and wants to keep the momentum going. Now, Rob, don't
worry, you are and will continue to be missed. I don't think John
and I will, anytime in the near future, be found sitting in his
office shooting potato pellets at the secretaries, and the afternoon
announcements don't have the flair that they used to (it appears
no one else has a cousin Zeb or grandma or great aunt Inga to do
the announcements for them), but hey, we can't all live our lives
by the lessons of the mullet. |
| Yet another funny video clip that I got in an e-mail. Click here to check it out. |
01/18/06 Supplemental
Celebrated
Lisa's birthday tonight. A & M cooked up a great meal and had
some cake. As usual, it was a lot of fun getting together with the
family. Click
here for the pictures from tonight, and for the pictures from
our get together for Christmas, click
here. |
01/18/06
 I've
told you about the Mullet my old principal (Rob McDaniel) kept in
a bird cage hanging in his office. Well, as a farewell present he
left it for me in my box at school. I am now honored to be the keeper
of the mullet. Well of course I had to try it on, and one of my
classes talked me into wearing it in class one day. And we got some
pictures of it, on me and some of the students too. Well, I sent
out the pictures to some teachers and they were, well, impressed
isn't exactly the way to put it. Heres a few of the responses I
got to the picture :
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01/17/06
Happy
Birthday Lisa |
01/16/06
Ever
heard the phrase "Stop at Nothing"? Ever wanted to see
Nothing? Hear Nothing? Feel Nothing? Well, now I know how you can....  |
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"Road
Rage in a White Hummer"
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Alex
also sent me some of the pictures Maddy took while they were in
Hawaii. Seems that being able to take beautiful pictures is a family
trait. Check them out : |
01/15/06
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New
format for the video clip page,. so you won't be seeing any more
links to videos on the Galleries page. The ones that are already
there are going to stay, takes too much time to cull through the
whole thing and transfer them to the newly revamped Video Clip page.
There are 4 new clips there that you might want to check out, just
But if you just want to quickly check out the funniest one, |
01/13/06
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01/12/06
We
found out yesterday that Rob McDaniel, the guy that helped turn
Granite Park from a school I would have never transferred to into
a school I chose to move to, is being moved. As of next week. The
district wants him to transform Granite High into whatever it is
it will become. In case you didn't know, in that big change where
2 elementary schools were axed and the board buckled under to the
selfish pressure of the Wasatch crowd and decided to rebuild a school
in an area that needs it about as much as I need force feeding,
they also decided to change Granite High into some sort of magnet
school. Not exactly sure what they mean by that, but I'll bet that
with Rob steering it it'll be something good. Anyways, this shoves
the 9th graders back into our school and calls for the second administration
change I'm facing in as many years. We've already met the guy, John
Anderson (which by the way we already have a science teacher by
that name), and I think he'll be good to work with, although not
as zany as Rob is (damn, no more shooting potato guns at the secretaries).
So, during our team meeting we decided to say our farewells to him,
with the Spam and silly string that Tony brought. Was one of those
days, because somehow I ended up chasing Mindy McQueen (special
ed.) down the hall, and when I didn't catch her she said something
about my weight and age. So, of course I had to get her back. There
was a little bit of silly string left so 4 of us went up to her
room about half hour later, and we had the poor student teacher
knock on her door to get her to open it. Which she didn't. Guess
she figured out that it wasn't past me to sacrifice an innocent
for revenge. Ahh, but you didn't think this was the end of the saga,
did you? Hope not. I ran down to the main office and talked the
secretary into giving me a spare key to McQueen's room and on the
way out of the office she said "Have fun stormin' the castle".
Ok, not really, but it would have been funny. But I did get the
key, and Mindy was a little surprised when we opened the door to
her sitting at her desk, feet up and on the phone, and doused her
with silly string. She did take it in fun, and even put the icing
on the cake by telling me that I was the first one to have ever
been able to "get her back". Scuba Steve strikes again................To
see the pictures |
01/10/06
Warning
: The following rant is rated PG-13, due to excess use of the "B"
and "A" words. |
So
this obnoxious bitch in a bright blue Neon with one of those stupid-ass
big fins on the back comes in, walks up to the till where I'm already
helping a customer, tosses a $20 on the counter and says "I
need $20 on that blue Neon and I'm in a hurry", turns around
and starts to walk out. Without even looking up I say "I'm
sorry, I'm helping someone right now, I'll get to it as soon as
I'm done here." She comes back with "I'm in a hurry, it's
a family emergency" and just walks out the door. The guy is
buying smokes, so it takes a little bit of time because I have to
check his ID, and it's from out of state. (Anyone ever notice that
there are about 150,000 different places to put a birthday on a
drivers license, and that each state seems to prefer to have it's
own personal spot?) So after the full two minutes it takes me to
finish helping this guy I look up to see where this blue Neon is
(she didn't even bother to tell me what # pump she was on) and she's
standing there tapping her fingers on the top of her car as if to
say "What the hell is taking you so long". I set the $20
up for her and just smile. The kicker is : she spent a full 5 minutes
sitting at the pump after she was done pumping her gas (yes, I timed
it). Some family emergency. Hope she get's that Neon with the dumb-ass
fin on the back going so fast down Parley's canyon that the air
pressure pushes the back end down hard enough to pull the front
end up off the pavement, she looses control and rams that thing
into a big cluster of bushes. (Don't want anyone to get killed after
all)......Phew, that felt good.... |
Then
this guy comes in a little later, asks for $25 on pump 10 and hands
me a $20 coin and a $5 bill. Now, I've never seen a $20 coin before
so I'm looking at it kind of carefully and asking about it. He starts
going on about how it's pure silver, good money and something about
where it was minted and how he uses them all the time. At which
point I realize that, um, this isn't U.S. currency. I tell him this,
and that I can't take it, and he goes on some more about how he
uses them all the time. I point out that on the front it doesn't
say "IN GOD WE TRUST", but instead it says "TRUST
IN GOD", and flat out tell him that we do not accept it if
it is not real US currency. Again he tells me that he uses them
all the time, they take them everywhere else, but that's ok, just
go ahead and put the $5 on pump 10. As I'm about to do that for
him, he changes his mind and says "Never mind, I know somewhere
that will take it." Ok, thanks, see ya. And as he's walking
out the door I'm thinking "sucks to be them". |
01/06/06
Liked
that, didn't ya? Ok, so you didn't, but I thought it was funny.
Anyway, here is a couple things I got in e-mails this week, one
is a funny video,
The other is a bunch of interesting, albeit trivial, facts, |
01/03/05
Larry
H Miller Dealerships have a motto that you should buy from his dealerships
because "You know this guy". Well, all I know about Larry
H Miller is that he owns the Utah Jazz and about half of Utah, and
that I would never buy a car from him. So, Danny sends me this ad
today, with a great play on Miller's motto : to see it
I think I know where I'm going to buy my next car. |
01/02/05
| Funny stuff from
Anna : "You know you're a 90's kid if..."
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01/01/05
Welcome
to 2006 |
January
first, 2006. Another new year. I wanted to make fun of the abstractness
of the choice to have the new year begin at this time, figuring
that there would be a better time, a more concrete astronomical
situation for the year change. My hypothesis was based on the possibility
that this change did not occur at either the point that the earth
was closest to or farthest from the sun, and that either of these
would have more meaning as the focal point for the end of one revolution
around the sun, and the beginning of a new one. But as it turns
out, this year on January 4th we will come closest to the sun, (known
as the Perihelion, a mere 147,500,000 miles away), and considering
the trip around takes 365.2blahblahblah days, I figured my hypothesis
was moot. (By the way, on the 4th of July we'll be farthest away,
know as the Aphelion, some 152,500,000 miles away.) Anyways, my
whole rant about New Year's Eve was shot to hell, so I guess I'll
just have to concede to celebrate the new year at the same time
as the rest of the western world... |
12/30/05
Pet Peeves : People who can't wait 30 seconds for someone crossing the road. Stupid Commercials. |
Just
want to thank the witch in the Mitsubishi Montero (with a dent on
the back driver side) for trying to run me over as I crossed 2100
So on my way home from the Chevron last night. Well, ok, to be honest
she did her best not to run me over, short of respecting the fact
that the little flashing white guy on the sign meant I had the right
of way. And I did walk out in front of her knowing full well that
her intention was to intimidate me into waiting on the curb. But,
hey, the light said to walk and, frankly, she was going slow enough
that I would have survived to see the smile on Robert DeBry's face
when I was wheeled into his office to talk about our settlement.
But alas, those pesky credit card bills aren't going to get paid
off, but I did get to swear real loud. As she swerved out around
me, my hand giving her the -You're #1- salute, I noticed that her
window was open a little bit, which triggered the involuntary "Scream
the 'B' word" reflex. I'm pretty sure she heard me, but I'm
positive all the cars waiting at the left turn heard it. |
Saturn
Ions may be great cars, but they need a less annoying advertiser.
Granted, a triple-A front crash rating is a good thing when your
teenager is taking out the family car, but who is stupid enough
to blindfold an 8 year old and give him a bat to swing at a piniata,
right next to their brand new car? So what if the doors are dent
resistant, what about the glass and mirrors on them? Next they brag
about how quiet the car is, showing a scene of a guy who looks like
he's falling asleep at the wheel. Cool, hate it when road noise
interrupts a quick nap on I-80. Finally, are there full service
gas stations anywhere anymore? They tote the great gas mileage of
the car by showing one drive up to a pump, dump garbage in the trash
(at least they didn't throw it down on the ground) and drive off
leaving the attendant standing there with the nozzle in his hand
looking dumbfounded that they just drove off. Somebody's lost in
the 70's. |
Finalemente
: I updated the family tree, and realized that a lot of the pictures
are kind of old, and probably should be replaced with more current
(and flattering) ones. Please, if you have, or want to take, a better
picture of yourself, or anyone in the family, please e-mail it (or
them) to me and I'll replace the old one. If you want to see the
picture I have of you (or just want to see the family tree) |
most
likely intentionally, while parked in a stall, by some guy
in a jacked-up white 2003 H2, who has chased
us several blocks, who crossed into incoming traffic in
what seemed to be an attempt to run us off the road, scaring
the Cottonwood High Cross Country team off the sidewalk
and into some bushes? My guess would be that the number
would be somewhere between -1 and 1, and not a fraction.
Smashed in the whole back of his Durango. Now, from what
I've heard, this Tim Bray guy claimed that Alex cut him
off where the roads merge, which may or may not be true.
But, who hasn't been cut off by some rude and/or inattentive
person. Go ahead, raise your hands. I know you all have
(well, those of you with drivers licenses), I certainly
have. And how many of you chased them several blocks just
to slam into their back end hard enough to pop out the back
window? (Ok, you in the 7th row, you're off the jury). Right.
Most of us settle for honking the horn, giving them the
"you're #1" sign and screaming a few expletives
out the window. Most of us have a life and don't have the
time for all the paperwork involved with an "accident".
Most of us draw that line between voicing our opinion and
doing physical harm. Most of us. Anyways, I drone on despite
simply wanting to ask for help. And be sure to