Days
of School left :
½
05/31/05
For
those of you far away, missing the mountains and other geographic aspects
of Salt Lake, here are some pictures I took the last couple of weeks. Oh,
yeah, I suppose those of you here could take a look also.....
And
for more pictures of the changes at the Chevron
05/30/05
Ok, so I tried to streamline the web site a little bit, and right in the middle of it Dreamweaver had a "Fatal Exception" and shut down on me. Boy do I love that stuff. Anyways, what that means is that some of the links may not be working anymore. So, if you run into any of these bad links, please let me know so that I can fix them. Thanks.
Directions
on Products and Trivial Trivia I got in e-mails.
05/22/05
About three weeks ago it was Spirit Week at school and one day was "Career Day", when we were supposed to dress up as what we wanted to be when we grew up. Well, I decided I wanted to be the science teacher that the kids always get me mixed up with. So I got a lab coat, put on a name tag and went as Mr. Davies. Oh, maybe I should also mention that I bleached my hair blond 'cause he is. The kids thought it was hilarious, and the principal almost plotzed when she saw me. Well worth the trouble. I had planned on coloring it black the next day, but decided to keep it for a little while, mainly because a lot of the women at work, and elsewhere, commented on how they liked it. Despite the kids calling me Eminem. So, I'm just going to let it grow out.
Oh,
you want to see a picture of me as a blond? Well, it's not platinum blonde
like my mom did in the 60's ($50 bet with my dad that she couldn't go 6
months. She did. To the day.), but here ya go, click on the thumbnail to
see the full sized picture.
05/19/05
New
pictures from an e-mail,
Well, it's the last weeks of school. The kids are wired, the teachers are tired. And who ever came up with a lunch menu that included chili? We have two lunches, and a school population of 1050. That's over 500 kids a lunch. And we hand them a bowl of hot chili in the last weeks of school. Guess where this story is going? FOOD FIGHT. Anyone who has been in a Jr. High lunchroom lately can just imagine how one bowl thrown can end up with the lunchroom being covered in chili, including the vice-principal. So, not only do we get out of having to chaperone the end of the year dance, but a few of the students got suspended for the last days of school. Now, if it happens again, as the students are rumoring to happen, then we also get out of having to deal with Lagoon Day, the carnival and even the end of the year slide show. All things that take extra patience and Rolaids® to deal with as a teacher. Ahhh, only time will tell......
05/15/05
Hope you had a great birthday yesterday Marijke. Sorry I couldn't make it over for dinner with the family.
Other than working two jobs, the last few weeks of school are both mentally and physically exhausting, it seems that all I do is come home, do things for the end of school and snooze. Just a reminder that I'm not ignoring you guys, not adopting a new philosophy of isolationism, it's just that time of year again.
05/10/05
There certainly are some meetings at school that I could have used this haircut for :
05/09/05
Got
some new funny sign pictures in an e-mail,
04/29/04
Got this in an e-mail at school today, and considering how close it is to the end of school (how hyper the kids are) I just had to post it...
Subject: You might be employed by a school if.....
**
You believe the playground should be equipped with a Ritalin salt lick.
** You want to slap the next person who says, "Must be nice to work
8:00 to 3:20 and have summers off."
** You can tell if it's a full moon without ever looking outside.
** You believe "shallow gene pool" should have its own box on
a report card.
** When out in public you feel the urge to snap your fingers at children
you do not know to correct their behavior.
** You have no social life between August and June.
** You think people should be required to get a government permit before
being allowed to reproduce.
** You laugh uncontrollably when people refer to the staff room as 'the
lounge.'
** You can't have children because there's no name you could give a child
that wouldn't bring on high blood pressure the moment you heard it uttered.
** Meeting a child's parent instantly answers the question, "Why is
this kid like this?"
04/28/05 Supplemental.
Best, shortest joke of the year:
A
three-year-old little boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath.
"Mama," he asked, "Are these my brains?"
Mama answered, "Not yet."
Here's an article I got from my connection in Scotland (which I'm going to be losing soon, but it'll be good to have her back in the room next to me....) :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/hampshire/4493713.stm
and you thought I was a bad driver!
04/28/05
It's official. I have the tickets already and the plans are laid. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! No, I didn't have to wait in line for days, it's not Star Wars after all. Been looking forward to it for a couple months now, and just had to go see it the first day. It's gonna be great.
On another note, there's only 24 days of school left. 4 days for CRT's, Lagoon (carnival) Day, Yearbook day and the last day. That leaves 17 days to plan for, and since I'm on the block schedule and my "A" days are the same as my "B" days, only 9 days to plan for. Of course it also means that (hopefully) I'm going to be picking up a bunch of days at the Chevron, so no rest for the weary. Well, I am going to take time off for the Paintball Jamboree in June, a teacher's conference in Denver in July and our trip to Boston in August. So, at least I'll get some vacation time.
Also found out that we're going to have a complete change of administration for next year. Carole Harris, our principal, is retiring and we're getting the principal from Bennion Jr. High, Terri Van Winkle. Rick Anthony is moving on to Granger High, being replaced by Lois Elkington, the Vice Principal from Hunter Jr. High. Our intern Vice, Danny Stirland, has been hired on as the Vice at Kennedy Jr. Hooo boy, a few changes going on at the Jr. High level. It's going to be an interesting year, the rumors have been flying fast and furiously regarding the people we are getting. Good, bad and in between. Rumors, gotta love them - half is fiction, the other half tainted by personal opinion & prejudices. Guess I'll just have to wait until next year and find out first hand.
04/26/05
Wanna see some pictures of the changes going on at the Chevron? Well, if the answer is yes, then just click HERE.
04/17/05
First of all, Happy Birthday Dad. Hope you had a good one, and thanks, to everyone, for the happy birthday wishes you gave me last week. Love ya all.
JACKSON HOLE UPDATE : Jenn and Scott have finalized the accommodations and it works out to be $240 per adult. They would like to have the money by this thursday so that they can make the reservations, that way we will be able to get what we want. Remember that this cost includes unlimited runs down the river every day we are there. If you have any problems getting the money by thursday, let Scott & Jenn know. It's gonna be fun, so hopefully we'll see you all there.
So,
on the way up to the land today, 
right
after passing the Current Creek turnoff, there was a little bit of a fire
going on in the valley below the road. Seems that a guy who is building
himself a huge cabin down there (probably 500 sq ft) was getting rid of
some left over wood by burning it. Well, he ended up burning a
little bit more than the scrap wood, turned a whole grove of willow trees
into ashes. It was headed up the hill towards some cabins, so of course
Alex and I decided to drive around and try to get a closer look. We got
right up next to it, probably about 100 yds away, up on the ridge the Fruitland
Volunteer Fire Department was trying to keep it from getting up. Down in
the valley it had nowhere to go, would just burn out there without hitting
any cabins. It was really weird being that close to an "uncontrolled"
fire, we could hear the wood crackling, hear the firemen yelling to each
other. Alex turned the truck around so we could book it out of there in
case it started up the hill. But it looked like the fire dept got it under
control, so we headed out up to the land. While up at the property we met
the family that bought the Pratt land, nice people, had a good chat with
them. They only bought the 40 acres that the Pratt cabin was on, told us
that the other 38 acre plot was still for sale, for $30,000. It borders
on the land we have, and we're seriously considering picking it up. Give
us an "L" shaped plot of just about 110 acres. So, now the Pratt
land is no longer, it is now the "Lee land". Yeah, sounds kinda
funny.
Anyway, I'm headed out to the garage to find my one and only suit, it's "formal day" at school tomorrow and I thought I'd freak them out and actually show up in a suit for a change.
04/10/05 Supplemental.
Math issue for Anna, click HERE.
04/10/05
Yup, another change in format. Hope you like it, if you have any comments please e-mail me and let me know. And now it's one in the morning and I think I'll go to bed.....
But
first, a guy came into the Chevron and wanted $4 in gas. First thing I thought
was "with gas prices the way they are, why bother?". Then he pays
with 3 $1 bills and 2 half dollars. One was a 1944 silver Lady Liberty (I
think that's what it's called) half dollar, the other a 1964 silver JFK
half dollar. That's when I thought "Duh" and pulled out one of
my own $1 bills and pocketed the half dollars. "D", the guy I
was working with, almost plotzed when he saw it. Told me next time I was
going out to change the garbages. Anyways, I have no idea how much it's
worth, but it's pretty cool no matter how much......
04/07/05
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING ROSSI EXCURSION 2006. CLICK HERE NOW. And once again, thank you Rachel for all the work you have done and are doing on this.....
