Lots of raves, God’s goodness is so abundant.
and, in the morning, it is Sunday and time to Worship Him with others.
Met someone else here who is single and my age today. She is quite friendly and will be here for a few months.
Rant: Freezer broke down again. Freezer man didn’t come as promised.
Rave: nothing was spoiled by the thaw
Rave: I have another freezer nearby to use.
Rave: there is a freezer man nearby
Rave: turning the freezer off is giving my batteries and refrigerator a chance to catch up
Rave: Even in challenges there are many things to praise God for!
🙂 One week done of the 2nd semester and I survived.
😦 Children are no longer raised to be adults, so lots of immaturity and disrespect.
🙂 4 months and two weeks until school is out. (It’s getting pretty hard to enjoy teaching. As I often quip: It would be a great job if it weren’t for the students.)
Peter – Have you thought of tossing in some advice about being adults, about respect & such? Sometimes a teacher can have a wonderful effect on his students, or even just one who is open to hearing. (And others who seem to ignore or mock the advice could take it to heart later.)
Seems to me, I had several teachers throughout the years who did not keep their teaching strictly to their subject, & they were my favorites.
I managed to incorporate the treadmill into my routine this morning. That is how I teach. They do their schoolwork while I do my exercise bike, treadmill, bowflex, and mat work. Then we do a bit of geography, history, and character building reading.
🙂 The official arrival of El Nino. Oh, how we need the rain.
🙂 My 20(?)-year-old flat roof is holding up so far. Hoping to hear back from the roofer soon.
😦 Carol’s hospitalized again with very low potassium (requiring an IV). Wish they could stabilize that with meds they could send home with her. I’m reading up on it and the prognosis is generally good when they figure out the cause.
🙂 Beautiful snow (lots and lots of it) covering our mountains all around the city & harbor these days. It was sadly a rare sight last year, nice to see it making a comeback. And all the amateur & professional photographers love it, great views to be captured.
😦 Snipped/snapped at a source on the phone yesterday after she called and was really quite sharp and rude. Sent an apology for my “snippiness” via private message this morning, I doubt I’ll hear back from her, but I feel better.
😦 College boyfriend started a community paper years ago (in the 1980s), it was his “baby,” lots of love and labor went into that through the years. Last year he sold it to the larger daily in the area that was acquiring of all the weeklies in an era of hoped-for expansion of coverage. He made a good sum for it in the sale. But this week the daily announced it was shutting down all the weeklies — meaning my friend’s paper will be no more. 😦 Hard to explain, but seeing a paper — with a noble history in a particular area — just be killed off is very sad to many of us. And I personally know how hard he worked to get it going (and it did very well on its own once established, he was able to hire a couple reporters and photographer, but it was always a labor of love teamed with his regular “day job” teaching journalism at a college). It’s very sad for him to see it go. 😦 (Though not entirely a surprise in this era of dying newspapers, of course.)
Karen- yes I have, but most of them ignore the advice. I think part of it is the current crop were mostly raised in day-care and haven’t learned how to be quiet and listen.
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Lots of raves, God’s goodness is so abundant.
and, in the morning, it is Sunday and time to Worship Him with others.
Met someone else here who is single and my age today. She is quite friendly and will be here for a few months.
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Rant: Freezer broke down again. Freezer man didn’t come as promised.
Rave: nothing was spoiled by the thaw
Rave: I have another freezer nearby to use.
Rave: there is a freezer man nearby
Rave: turning the freezer off is giving my batteries and refrigerator a chance to catch up
Rave: Even in challenges there are many things to praise God for!
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Can you tell that I’m a pretty relentless glass half full kind of person?!
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🙂 One week done of the 2nd semester and I survived.
😦 Children are no longer raised to be adults, so lots of immaturity and disrespect.
🙂 4 months and two weeks until school is out. (It’s getting pretty hard to enjoy teaching. As I often quip: It would be a great job if it weren’t for the students.)
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Depends where you look. I cannot imagine being a teacher.
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Peter – Have you thought of tossing in some advice about being adults, about respect & such? Sometimes a teacher can have a wonderful effect on his students, or even just one who is open to hearing. (And others who seem to ignore or mock the advice could take it to heart later.)
Seems to me, I had several teachers throughout the years who did not keep their teaching strictly to their subject, & they were my favorites.
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I managed to incorporate the treadmill into my routine this morning. That is how I teach. They do their schoolwork while I do my exercise bike, treadmill, bowflex, and mat work. Then we do a bit of geography, history, and character building reading.
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🙂 The official arrival of El Nino. Oh, how we need the rain.
🙂 My 20(?)-year-old flat roof is holding up so far. Hoping to hear back from the roofer soon.
😦 Carol’s hospitalized again with very low potassium (requiring an IV). Wish they could stabilize that with meds they could send home with her. I’m reading up on it and the prognosis is generally good when they figure out the cause.
🙂 Beautiful snow (lots and lots of it) covering our mountains all around the city & harbor these days. It was sadly a rare sight last year, nice to see it making a comeback. And all the amateur & professional photographers love it, great views to be captured.
😦 Snipped/snapped at a source on the phone yesterday after she called and was really quite sharp and rude. Sent an apology for my “snippiness” via private message this morning, I doubt I’ll hear back from her, but I feel better.
😦 College boyfriend started a community paper years ago (in the 1980s), it was his “baby,” lots of love and labor went into that through the years. Last year he sold it to the larger daily in the area that was acquiring of all the weeklies in an era of hoped-for expansion of coverage. He made a good sum for it in the sale. But this week the daily announced it was shutting down all the weeklies — meaning my friend’s paper will be no more. 😦 Hard to explain, but seeing a paper — with a noble history in a particular area — just be killed off is very sad to many of us. And I personally know how hard he worked to get it going (and it did very well on its own once established, he was able to hire a couple reporters and photographer, but it was always a labor of love teamed with his regular “day job” teaching journalism at a college). It’s very sad for him to see it go. 😦 (Though not entirely a surprise in this era of dying newspapers, of course.)
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Karen- yes I have, but most of them ignore the advice. I think part of it is the current crop were mostly raised in day-care and haven’t learned how to be quiet and listen.
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Peter – Let’s hope your words of advice come back to their minds at a later time.
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