Massachusetts

Moni and me came out to see Jon Michael and his bride Jen in Buzzard's Bay/Bourne (eastern tip of Cape Cod) for a few days between CHRISTmas and New Years Eve. We hung out and watched football, played video games (kinetic and lego star wars on the xbox 360), went sightseeing for lots of pictures, ate at the Brazillian Barbecue, and got a tour of the 6th Space Warning Squadron where Jon works. God bless those soldiers!

Touchdown, Detroit Lions!

Honolulu blue and silver, for this special edition of this weblog. The Lions took it to the Buccaneers to-day in sunny Florida for their first road win in about 1100 days or so, to the delight of the Detroit faithful. The Lions tied the game as time expired in the fourth quarter to force overtime and then scored a another .three-pointer via the foot of Dave Rayner to win it. Calvin had 10 receptions for cryin out loud!
Woody and Buzz are fighting under the car as Andy drives off to Pizza Planet.
The Survivor Finale is tonight, I really can't wait. 
One of our seniors had a public recital to-day on the fiddle in Beulah; wow, made the hairs on my arm stand up and gave me tingles all over. Made my soul smile.

I Know Your Love

...the latest recording from tommee profitt, is a winner. Received earlier this week, I listened to all fifteen tracks tonight and want to publicly thank tommee for sharing his music with me years and years after i shared my algebra with him at the West Highland Christian Academy.

Wonderful Wednesday!!

OOOOOOOOOhhhhh yeah it's Survivor night once again; in about 10 minutes there will be only 5 people left and Salt is coming out on dvd on the 21st!!
Did some Picnik editing on Sunday.
Hermie wants to be a dentist.
What kind of security would i have, George?

First Snow Day

Sunday night and they already have called school tomorrow for over 130 districts here in northern Michigan....pretty nifty storm: lots of snow and high winds, now wrap-around lake effect snow with continued high winds, and tomorrow temps dropping dangerously low.

Fucking sick of getting porn spams from 'friends' on Facebook, ready to be done with that medium really quick...

Lions won, God is merciful.

Snowy Saturday

Here comes the storm of the year, with the Low centered in northern illinois. Raining in Detroit and snowing pretty good up here in beautiful Bear Lake. Roads were dry going down to Manistee at about 5:00 but there was already inches and hard to see coming out of mass a couple hours later. Now, i'm listening to annie lennox and her winter wonderland.

REal slow connection tonight... and the directv is gone...listening to vince giraldi christmas time is here.


Good talk with soul-sistah nancy to-day...i just love her to death. Praying for the whole crew down there...

Love my friends in Livingston County: the rain WILL turn to snow...promise!

Early December

Twas the first of December and all around here
The snow was a-fallin, so I drank a beer.

So much in my mind and i have a hard time being patient enough with myself to type it all out...

Friends and Family who i don't say it to enough: I love you


First time I've seen people quit on Survivor...didn't even have a immunity challenge. Just council and the two quitters left...Jeff was like "get out" and "you wanna go, go"

On the first day of OSU week, 'Nard Dog said to me...

I'm really blest, abundantly, bigly, muchly, tonsly, grandly, ginormously.
My sister and her family were in the neighbourhood last week for a hunt and I got to spend some time with them.
I tried a new recipe i saw on "5 Minute Fix" and it was ok. (My adulterations dropped it down to the ok range, but i really like mushrooms!)
MSU pulled out another victory improbably yestreday.
I'm digging the new algebra books the kids are using now.
I'm really looking forward to Michigan crushing the Buckeyes on Saturday.

I'm really looking forward to our Thanksgiving  on Thursday.

LIfe is a highway...

Just between you and me, I really look forward to Wednesday nights and CBS Survivor at 8 pm Eastern time. Damn! It's always good. It never fails to excite and ignite!
This arrogant Brenda chick was working with this arrogant Sash (Sash? "Oh honey, look, he looks just like your great uncle Window, let's call him Sash!") male and tonight, their little comradarie had a little shakeup cuz Brenda was voted off.
I didn't expect this. BUT, you gotta remember that CBS only shows us bits and pieces of what actually takes place during any 3-day period. These folks have cameras on them all day every day. There's got to be alot of boring footage that doesn't make the 60 minute weekly show: "So Sash, have you been regular out here in the fuckin jungle?" "Of course, my alliance partner Brenda and I only eat the most fibrous roots available." "Oh, good for you, bitch; btw, you've got a stupid name and I'm writing your name down tomorrow night!"
7-4 Wings with about 3 minutes left in Detroit...wish i was with my buddy watchin thisssss....

Saturday thoughts...

Wisconsin, MSU, Iowa, and OSU all with one loss in the big ten; so i'm rooting for Indiana, Northwestern, and Penn State to-day! Indiana showed promise early then folded, ... um - eher....... completely to Wisconsin. Penn State will still get to beat OSU startin at 3:30, but Northwestern... Oh, Northwestern...thank you and thank your what a great game at home in Evansville for all your peeps!!!!!

So, the only team to beat State has lost twice now. I don't know exactly what that means nationally but i was pretty stinkin excited.

Erin Andrews just interviewed Jim Tressell (my little brother's idol!!) and he was politically correct as ever.
Go JoPa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

Mathmaticious

200th Post to the Weblog...

The Grady catch, about four minutes left in the first quarter, i think will be one to remember. Score followed two plays later and I think that was a confidence builder for the offense. That Kovacs kid they got on defense tried to walk on, got hurt, had surgery, worked out to rehab after, then tried again to walk on and made it...a ton of tackles against notredame last week and has earned my respect let me tell you ...ok, then in the second quarter, the missed fg, the Stonum big screen and the Stonum td, the ripoff by Kovacs...lots of big mo going into halftime.

Glory to God in the highest!!!

Long day, first day of school; I procrastinate, usually, and am trying to finish up each course syllabus and make copies for 145 kids tomorrow. Most convenient printer down for the count for the last couple of days so sending tons of copies to second choice printer. Tech guru walks in and says don't send there (after almost all had been sent there) cuz it's not working. Third choice is in the main office and for some reason we don't have that option at our disposal right now. Fourth choice is the "counselors copier" which i've never sent documents to but seemed like it was gonna hafta be. Sent just one copy of one syllabus (just to see if it was working), walked down there and see through the glass the copy but can't get in the locked office. Ask around, it's a special key that none of the masters will get into. K. Lets just print a copy of each to my little lexmark inkjet (24 bucks at Save-More-Do)...so i'm walking back to the room, sit down, unlock the keyboard, and just as i'm sending this document yet again to another printer, youtube plays "What a Friend we have in Jesus" on the pipe organ just for me.
Thank you, God, I love You, too.

Bonderman-Greinke

Royals got four early and Detroit finally scored four in the 7th to tie it; then Raburn sent one out in the 8th to put the Detroiters up 5-4. Kelly singled with two out. I'm listening to Flogging Molly radio on Slacker.com. There's so much music i really love. Bad Religion and Social Distortion have a great sound but i don't know what their music is all about. Love the chord progressions with both groups. The Pogues, The Queers,
Talked to my brother for a while tonight; it had been so long. He gets distant and doesn't answer his phone or reply to texts and we all just say oh he must be busy so it was really good to hear from him.
Love you baby

First Friday of September

Summer finished up well here in northern lower Michigan: hot and humid with no rain throughout August and now on the 3rd of September, we are experiencing coooler temps and high winds and a bunch of rain {Devo Gates of Steel} and high wind advisories up here and such

Went to two Tiger games the week after we went to Charles Mears State Park and the following week we decided to go back one last time before I had to leave time. Had a great time in Pentwater with the pup but it was HOT! God be praised we found a shady site for the coleman tent and the sleep was quite comfortable. At some point in the night we got up for a trip to the bathroom and as we returned we found our dog following us (lol .... NOOOOOOOOOOOO lol !!!!)
...she got out because of this huge rip in the screen door of the tent so we had to retire it (properly) at the end of our stay. sad, we had it for ten years (there were years honestly that it didn't get pulled out of the garage at all but when it was called into duty, it performed wonderfully.
Been up at school half-assed trying to get ready for tuesday...my heart is elsewhere i must admit. I look forward to seeing the kids and the high fives and laughs and all but the math's the kids have to know now (according to our great State) is difficult and rigorous and alot of the kids do not absolutely need it for anything past the final exam...i don't get it. I'm not complaining, i just don't understand. Mine is not to question why, mine is but to do or ...
I've been slacking at typing in this forum due to my facebook fascination I confess. There is much less feedback here but I can ramble as is my wont as often as is my wont.
Saw The Expendables and it was OK. Thought for sure dolf lungrun was gonna kill jet li but none of the good guys died....too bad it's not like that really...
God is love.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen!!!!

Best 3 hour away trip ever...

So monday morning i needed some steroids for the poinson ivy i had between my toes (among other places); got the rx and the shot and we decided we needed another camping trip so we packed up and headed west to the big lake yet again.
Only one speedway stop on the way to fill up and we landed at Silver Lake state park after examining Yogi Bear and two other campgrounds right there. The dunes are pretty but we did not indulge in them...we tried to listen to the Tigers with Sierra on the shore of Silver Lake while the sun set and the wind blew. A wonderfully chilly night and all three of us slept well after hot dogs on the fire. A glorious morning but we couldn't get our same campsite so we took a leap of faith ("..take a leap of faith. let us return back as young men together".) and headed north to Pentwater. Drove around the lake and found the Charls Mears State Park. The nice young man at the booth gave us the sites currently vacant and my bride picked #1 and so it was too be! Spent the afternoon on the beach and Sierra got many complements...walked out on the pier and got pizza and headed back to camp for the sunset and the tiger game. my sugar is getting low and i need to eat...more later

Friday, warm Friday

Oh so much going on I can hardly stand it!!! Watched most of Toy Story last night: I love when Rex talks!! Inconceivable!! And: The Clawwwwww... too cute.
Up to 90 today with humidity; already watered everrthing with Sierra.
Kids been overdosing in Pinckney from heroine? In Pinckney? Parents, lets do something here, wtf?!?
Found out Monday i got my job back praise God!
This weekend was asked to help with the Boosters picnic but sweetiepie is sooooooooo mad that i wont be here for the family get-together if i go.....what to do?!?
blood pressure is high and i'm on my way to get another home device to measure it...i got other issues too...need to lose a ton of weight...
need to get into my classroom and organize it; get rid of old stuff and arrange necessary stuff well...lots of room there shelves and all but been trying to hold onto old stuff from former teachers and what not...
reading the horse and his boy by lewis: with Shasta and Bree during the reighn of High King Peter and his siblings...

August 2010

Click on the photo, you'll be taken to the Picassa album of our trip to Leelanau County in the new PT Cruiser...

Hot August Nights

Spent much of the last week camping at the tip of the Leelanau penninsula and enjoying that part of the state for the first time. Nice area, want to go back and explore more. Props to Tom's in Northport which sold us every type of supply we could ever need at a reasonable price. Sierra the Malamute went and enjoyed herself thoroughly, or so she said. She loved the Big Lake sandy beach at Empire and dug herself in when it was time to rest from all the lake romping.
Reading Prince Caspian and then The Dawn Treader in anticipation of the new movie coming out this Christmas.
Watched Inception again and finally realized the made up guy at the beginning and end of the movie was the guy who wanted Cobb to plant the idea in the mind of his competitor. Note to self: you don't need that free popcorn refill.
Chainsawed some trees yestreday into firewood.
Life's good.