April 1, 2009
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The Daily News
Curly?
Moe?
Larry?1 So...what happened to yesterday's DN?
2 It ran for cuvuh.3
Nah. We didn't have school 'cuz it was Cesar Chavez Day.4
Which was exceedingly weird, since we've never had that day off before.5
Anyway, I'm battling some villainous April Fool's virus, which I think has been slinking into our computers as early as 11 p.m. last night.
6 Or it might just have been that I had one of those days.7 The fonts kept jumping back and forth on me, first off, but that wasn't the only thing.
8 I spent much of the day preparing a poetry unit for today. On Monday I gave the assignment, which is called Welcome to the Coffee House. The idea was for students to write original poems, and to have an open mic, jazz music, coffee, 40's lamps and all of them dressed in sunglasses, berets, with congas, guitars, and lots of hip stuff.9 It was intended to be a lark, but I was going to bring in some great videos of Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel, and some of the great poets and artists all on an LCD thing.
10 It stopped with the open mic. I pulled all my sound equipment out, most of which has been in storage.
11 Absolutely NOTHING worked! I have this cheap little Peavey amp that would have been raw, but it completely failed to amplify.
12 Then I decided to take it apart to see if I could find a broken wire, as amps usually don't just stop working.
13 I knew that you usually just pry off the front of the amp, but for whatever reason, this one wouldn't let me, so I began unscrewing every single part of the amp.
14 After about s 6 thousand hours, I finally managed to pry the front off of the thing, which it did gracefully. There were only like three wires inside the thing, and all three were in tight. When I tried putting it back together, a screw the size of a dust mite fell onto my lawn at sunset.
15 Long story, but after that I tried all my cords and mics on another amp, which was also coughing and hacking like the dickins.
16 I went to Radio Shack to see if I could buy a buncha stuff that might assist in mending things. Didn't work.
17 I finally gave up and went to Target and bought this cheap shit little amp, which was great if you want to amplify your voice about one more decibel.
18 Yeesh.
19 I finally decided that some things just aren't meant to be. I had run off a few Paul Simon tunes, but never got them run off. and everything just went haywire.
20 Happens.
21 The good news: I'm still walkin' around.
22 And it's WEIRD having a Monday, and then no Tuesday!
23 It SOUNDS awesome, but you get SO outta your game, because now that I'm going back in, I'm going back to a Wednesay, which is REALLY a strange adjustment.
24 Anyway, I'm turned a bit upside down these days.
25 My Mom is finally home safely!
26 Every cloud, dude.
27 And am I correct in this lineup for the Farrelly bros Stooges movie: Benicio Del Torro as Moe, Sean Penn as Larry, and Jim Carrey as Curly?
28 Sounds pretty lame.
29 What was the other issue from last week?
30 Oh, yeah! Billy Joel and Elton John!
31 I'd love to see Elton, seen Billy. Sounds like it would be a great show, but at $180 a pop for those too isn't really my cuppa tea.
32 Well I'd better finish this up and get it out there before this virus decides to invade.
33 I'll hopefully be back if this thing doesn't eat San Jose.
34 Y'all have a great Wednesday, willya?
35 Peace.
~H~
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