Housekeeping and Reply

Kelly posted a response that said that she would indeed go if she could not partake in the fancy cuisine of the country. Case in point was her trip to Paris where the food was too expensive and she ate cheese and bread for 75% of the 30 days she was there and in England. Because of the art she was able to witness. The question still remains, knowing this, would you take more money next time to do it differently? Or is that the way she would plan to do it?

And to Tom's credit, the lobster season was pretty much over by the time he went to Nova Scotia..(A reference to an earlier post) and therefore the prices were up and he didn't lobster up. He has eaten and enjoyed lobster in Main and in Boston.. and in fact wears weakly his Boston shirt that has embroidered on it three red lobsters and the letters of Boston. His main goal was to capture the lighthouses of Nova Scotia, for his connections and not to eat the local food. He said that all of the Canadian motels and hotels had only soap and shampoo in them. They were not like California hotels that have so many consumable spa like amenities. Conditioner hand lotion, shower caps and mouthwash seem to be in every room.

"Soaring Over California" took the top position in the Disneyland attraction poll. Some of you lurkers did not vote.. and consequently, Indiana Jones only received one vote.

Second place went to the parades and the extravaganzas, and Pirates of the Carribean. Sorry Heather.(Heather is not a Pirates fan)

On the walk this morning was the latest from This American Life.. the podcast that produces one hour show each week. Past years may be downloaded at audible.com. This is great podcast. It usually has 3 or four chapters. This week was about the devils in us. The segment this morning was about an American that fought in Iraq and came home to recruit and suffered post traumatic syndrome in the form of having a difficult time seeing on the street anyone looking like a Muslim. He decided to join the Muslim student society at the Junior college to overcome his prejudice. I recommend you download the podcast to find out what happened. (Don't you hate the tease?)

Sue knocked on my classroom door 6th period and met my 6th period class. She drove her power chair down the mile and met me at school. We went to the library, Costco and then to Micheals. Our street was slurried today so we had to keep the vehicles off until 5pm.

Congratulations to my sister, Kelly who is making the transition to a couple of new jobs around the Silicon Valley this week. She is already seeing students.

Have a good one!

Pat