40 Winks

Why is it that around 2:00 pm I get so sleepy? I see this happen mostly when I'm not doing anything, like sitting and maybe doing a little surfing. Next thing you know I'm yawning and rubbing my eyes and looking for a corner to crawl in to get 40 winks. This doesn't happen for long or very often, but long enough to make me feel uncomfortable. Twenty minutes later I'll be fine. So time to wake up cause here comes the next class.

Here Comes The Sun

The sun is shining finally in the great Northeast but not for long I am told. More rain is on it's way by Friday/Saturday. So when is enough enough? We received a good 75 inches of snow this past winter and now the rainfall wants to catch up. We've already got a 2" of rainfall this Spring, which if it were winter would mean about 2 feet of snow, give or take an inch or two.

So enjoy the sun while the temps are not scorching cause soon people will be complaining about the heat and will be longing for those rainy cool days.People are never happy. Seems we always need something to complain about. I mean how else could you strike up an converstion with a complete stranger other than talk about the weather. Everyone has their own opinion about the weather, you either love it or hate it.Regardless of how we feel about the weather there isn't a doggone thing you can do about it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNIE!!

My grand-daughter Annabelle Rose is turning two this week. I see I have the date of birth wrong on my web site so will have to correct that. Things happen when you rely on the ol brain to remember everything and you don't write things down.

Since I live in CT, Annie lives in North Dakota, I have yet to have seen her in person or held her. That's the downside of living so far away from your own kids.Some day I will though and soon. Hopefully before I have an invitation to her wedding. Her parents do a wonderful job of supply me with pictures via the internet.

I've seen pictures of her and she looks just like her Dad, right down to the dimples, except she has brown eyes (courtesy of her mother) instead of blue. But you could hold a picture of her Dad at her age and you would see the likeness.

Oh by the way, the presents are in the mail. I, many times are very tardy in the sending of presents and cards. Again one of the downsides of living so far from each other. But usually they get there. I'm always forgetting that our glorious postal system is not that speedy, plus I don't take in the 2000 miles difference in locations.

Happy Birthday my dear sweet grand-daughter. Enjoy your birthday and take it easy on Mom & Pop.

The Day After

The day after Easter and all is well in the state of Connecticut, except that it's raining and raining good. At least it isn't snow. I don't mind rain. Rain doesn't need to be shoveled. Rain doesn't delay or cancel school for the day. Granted an excess of this moisture could cause that but not very likely.

What is likely though is our septic tank could backup. We get enough rain and the next thing you know the septic system is backing up into our basement into our washing machine. This has happened twice in the last two years so I see no reason for it not to happen again especially if we have a wet spring and the way things look right now we may be already headed that way. I am prepared though, the sump pump is in place.

Anyhow it's the day after Easter and I am back to work. The nice thing for today is that we have Parent-Teacher Conferences today through Wednesday. Being a "Specials" teacher I see very few parents which allows me to "catch-up" on all those little projects that have been put off. There may have a shorter day of school but nor a shorter of work to be done.

The Grill Of A Lifetime

I am thoroughly enjoying my four day Easter break. One more day to go and that will be consumed with church, family and food, all in that order.

Today it was nice just to go outside without having to put on a coat. I even dug the grill out of the snowbank from our last snowstorm and tonight we are grilling Cheeseburgers. The first of the season. I even gave the grill a test drive, fired it up to make sure there was enough juice in it to make the grilling experience a success.

Now I'm itching for a new grill. My son in law got a nice Stainless Steel, no charcoal briquets grill and my son got a new big shiny Weber (?) one last year. I have a small Magic Chef which is getting the job done but I am envious of those nice big shiny stainless steel grills, with two levels of grill space and even a warmer on the side. Gotta love that. Speaking of which, I think it's time to fire up the ol grill right now.

NOW MAY I HAVE A CIGARETTE?

Yes, you may! My congrats to the weathermen for their recent prediction of our last snow storm. I'm sure to them it was downright orgasmic and now for the ciggy. AHHHH
The weather people nailed this one, except for the part where it was supposed to rain first then turn to snow. Where I live it just started snowing right as I got home from work and continued to snow until about 6am the next morning. All in all we got a good 8" of snow. Even though the snow was heavy and wet, shoveling took only about 15 minutes to clear the sidewalks as it was melting thoughout the day.

So now another day of school is tacked on at the end, but we do have a four day weekend as today we are also off for Good Friday. Even if the downside is a longer school year a nice break like this appreciated.

Since I cannot post pics on this blog because I use a Mac, you can visit my web page

http://homepage.mac.com/seltaebs/PhotoAlbum30.html and go to the caption Spring SnowStorm for a little look at our snowfall.

How Orgasmic Can You Get?

Yes, the weather people here in Connecticut are downright orgasmic over the coming weather system about to hit our state. We are forecast to have anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of that fluffy wet and white stuff. Starting with rain and then turning to ice and finally snow.

Man you would think we hit the lottery with all the weather news. I remember well the day when you knew what was happening when it happened. Now we have all this foreplay leading up to a lot of times no orgasim. Oops! Missed that one, well better luck next time.

For the weathermans' sake I hope he is right this time, mainly we have Easter this weekend which means Good Friday off which means a three day weekend, But if we get the snow they say we are going to get this means no school on Thursday.

The downside of this is that we have to tack one more day on to the end of the year. I think we'll be out June 23rd then. We'll have to pay our plowboy to plow our driveway one more time. I think we put his first born through college this year. The upside is, a longer Easter break and a longer Easter break. A win/win situation. And since we have no plans to go anywhere, nicer even yet.

So be watching the news and see what the Northeast gets. Will it be an Orgasm or just a wimper. Me? I'd sooner go find my orgasims some other way.

THIS N' THAT

I survived St. Patricks' Day with nary a scratch mainly because I didn't go anywhere. I let the Irish celebrate as they may. yes I had the obligatory Corned Beef & Cabbage with potatos and carrots prepared by my lovely wife, Divadeb. It was a very delicious meal and as she puts it, the meat came out just right. Guess corned beef can be a little nasty. Needless to say the cabbage did it's job so the corned beef had nothing to worry about.

This is a short week, work wise as I get Good Friday off for the Easter Holiday. When I lived and taught in North Dakota, teachers and students would also get Easter Monday off if there were no days lost to winter storms. Not so here, back to work Monday. I'm not complaining mind you just stating facts and comparisons. I know that in the business world there is no such thing as days off.

I have been afflicted again with stuffy sinuses and congestion so now I'm on a regiment of Flonase and Muscatel I mean Musix or something like that. It's an expectorant so it's supposed to loosen up the flem and stuff. I took a Claritin and Sudaphed today to maybe clear up the congestion but I flet like a Zombie all day. Now tonight I probably won't sleep.

One of our pregnant teachers was in labor today, I suspect that she has already given birth by now. She didn't want to have the baby today as her Mother in law who evidently is a "Know it all" said she would have the baby on the 21st. Well today is the 21st and the last I heard the baby was a sneeze away from being born. Better luck next time Kris and maybe keep the due date a secret for you know who.

The Oldest Profession

They are all over the place, in front of Blockbuster, in front of your local grocery stores, in front of Starbucks, Dunkin' Doughnuts. Everyplace I frequent they are there. What you ask am I in such a tither about? Girl Scouts/Brownies selling their (ahem) wares.Cookies, Cookies Cookies!!! At $4.00 a box!!!

Now I'm not condeming the girls selling their (ahem) cookies, but what are we teaching these young ladies? Peddle your wares on the street corners? Think about it. A lesson maybe learned from the worlds oldest profession.

I guess it's working cause they are selling cookies like hotcakes and I haven't seen an arrest yet for selling their (ahem) wares. I think our "ladies of evening" should maybe take a lesson from these young ladies. Sell your (ahem) cookies on the corner, just make sure they are packaged so as to not attract too much attention. A variety of flavors would help also.

Happy Irish Day

Happy St. Patricks' Day to one an all and you all know that everyone is Irish on St Patricks' Day. Enjoy the green cause St. Patricks' Day means Spring will be here in just a few days. In name if not anything else.

Here in the Northeast we've had a not so pleasant winter. Lot's of snow and bitter cold in January and on those iffy days when rain turns to ice or snow turns to ice. Not great driving. We've also had many many cloudy dreary days so it is nice to see the sun even if you are freezing other parts off.

Temps are warming, no more snow days, hopefully though there is a thing called a Spring Snow Storm. It has happened. In fact on Sunday, the first day of Spring at 7:33am, EST our glorious weather forcasters have snow predicted on that glorious day

So bundle up and don't put your snow shovels away just yet.

I Am The Walrus

I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together.
See how they run
Like pigs from a gun
See how they fly. I’m crying.

This is one of my favorite Beatle songs, well okay, you got me, not at the tippy top but for today it is.

Recently the group STYX has recorded this song and it is true to form as the original recording, whereas this song was originally done in the recording studio with tape splices, over dubs,tracking etc. Styx performed this live. Awesome. So I'm hooked.AGAIN!

I Am The Walrus has been studied, torn apart, put back together and there have been pages upon pages written what this song is all about. Which is actually nothing. Yes, John Lennon was infatuated with death, yes he was pissed at the current establishment and was somewhat disillusioned but knowing that critics and such always try to analyze the songs of the Beatles, he wanted to do something that would really mess them up. So he pulled every little oddity that he could think of and put it into the song.

My favorite line is about Semolina Pilchard, sitting on the Eiffel tower, I'm sure you have yours. Enjoy the song for what it is, a Beatles song, be it a very different Beatles song and hooray to Styx for taking on this song. Hey, I love the video also.

Coo Coo G'Joob

LET THE COUNTING BEGIN!

Thanks to my sneaker son I can now count (on my blog) and frankly I was amused. Not at my sneaker son though he has me rolling with laughter many times on his blog (redsneaker), but at the amount of hits I do get. Hell I thought only my family read my blurb, but turns out there are some other visitors to my site also. Not a ton mind you, but more than I anticipated.

So I must say welcome and come again when you have the time and please leave a comment or two, good or bad, I'll take em all. I've already set a record myself,by posting two consecutive days in a row. Will I become a blog addict? Will I need my word fix each day? Could happen. One thing I agree is that blogging is good for the mind, I never had so many headaches from all the stagnant blood rushing through my brain trying to revive those brain cells to think of something to write about.

LOST IN CONNECTICUT

Yep, you read that right. I got lost in Conneticut. And you laugh. It's very easy, especially when you don't know where you are going. I've only lived in CT for seven years now and I really don't know my way around like I should, but then I've talked to people that have lived here all their lives and if I ask them how to get to a certain place in CT and it is outside of their normal travelled routes, they haven't a clue either. So I feel a little better.

The fact that I got lost was that I came home via a different route as I had a meeting to attend on the otherside of town. Now the other side of town is not the bad side of town or anything like that. I just don't go over there. I live 25 miles away in another town on the opposite side of where I was going, so as much as I do is go to work and come home.

So what it boils down to is I missed my exit. So I figured I would hook up later on down the road with the main road I wanted. I drove and drove and no sight of I84 anywhere,but I did see a lot of other "main" roads that I didn't have a clue as to where they would lead me, so I back track. All the way back into town until I finally know where I am. Whew, that was close.

I've gotten better about being lost nowadays. When i first moved out here I would go into shear panic, now i just go along for the ride and if it doesn't work out like I wanted and back track like what I did here.

Connecticut may be a small state but I swear there isn't one road in the state that is straight. They all have curves or hills every 100 feet or so unless you are on an Interstate. So it is very easy to get your directions confused and because of all the trees you don't see an horizon so you are totally screwed.

Hey! I made it home and that's what counts. Tomorrow I take the regular way home. I think I'll stop and kiss every stop sign on the way back.

I'VE BEEN LINKED!!

I just discovered I've been linked. Kind of scary if you ask me. Here I thought I was alone in this great big world of cyberspace, but I've been linked. So now do I have to mind my P's & Q's?

My sons are into blogging as I think I have mentioned before. Well I was lazily checking out the Redsneaker site when I saw my name "Dad". So I clicked on it and where did I end up? Here! Holy Poopycrackers!!!

Now seeing that my Redsneaker son blogs on an average of once a day and whereas I blog on the average of once a week or less. I figure I had best earn my link and post a little more often. I know, I know, I've said this before and I'm starting to sound like a broken record or these days a sticky CD.

One cool thing my sons have on their sites are counters. I don't have any and don't know how to achieve such a luxury, so any of you who do know how I can add one of those do-dads, please feel free to e-mail me or even just leave it in the comment section.

So my dear Redsneaker son, I am honored to be a link to your site. And for those wanting to check out his site go to: http://thematthews.cjb.net/ and feast your eyes as to how a blog is well run.

The Lion of March

Both of my sons are big on blogging and I'm the weak link in this endeavor though everytime I get the urge to blog I wonder what would I blog about. So I sit down and think about what I could write and pretty soon I lose interest and then nothing is blogged. I sound like a broken record but I try to do my best.

We just came off of our latest Nor'Easter here on the east coast. This one was called ELI and the only way I remember this name is because of a Three Dog Night song called "Eli's Coming".

Anyhow, we got about 8" inches of snow which if I still lived in North Dakota would give everyone a chuckle. Eight inches in North Dakota is like a dusting. Here eight inches of snow is orgasmic for the weather people. They have reporters in all corners of the state reporting the snowfall amounts throughout the state. No kidding. Guess someone has to do it.

So I had the day off after a nice extended vacation the weeks before. One day of work, one day off. I think people in the business world would love that.

Hopefully this is the last hurrah for winter and spring is here in 19 days and it will get warmer and sunnier and the snow comes as rain. Yes I know, ever hear of a Spring snow storm? It happens, but I'm not going there.

As the old saying goes: March came it like a Lion so it should go out like a Lamb. Let's just hope it holds true this year