April 23, 2010
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The Daily News1 SHARKS!!!!!!!!!2 Nabby rocks, and so does SAN JOSE!!!!! And ROOKIES!!!!
3 Awesome stuff. Get into sports dude.
4 Last night's game is EVERYTHING that sports are abooooooT!
5 YEEEEEEEEE!!!!
6 Amazing. Can we do it?
7 Party time for youse, SJ! We homies!!!!
8 Totally cool!
9 Moving on, Part the First: I see stuff like that, and I know why I follow sports.
10 People, listen: There's no place like home.
11 It's been SO tough being Bay Area sports' fans, but last night sent a message to ALL of us.
12 And then BOTH the Niners and the Raiders made intelligent picks in the NFL draft!!! The Niners got two offensive-line beefsteaks, Rutger's Anthony Davis, and Idaho's Mike Iupati. They passed several chances at getting Notre Dame's QB Jimmy Clausen, who was hot and cold in my eyes, but would be a STRONG candidate to have beaten out Alex Smith, who remains abysmal, at least in my eyes.
13 I'd LOVE to see them grab Stanford's Toby Gerhart.
14 The Raiders, meanwhile, did a mystical swirl, and brought in Alabama's amazing inside linebacker Rolando McClain, prompting the Merc News' Monte Poole to comment, "Can sanity in Oakland make a comeback?"
15 I worked for the Raiders and the A's, and let me tellya: there never WAS sanity in Oakland.
16 AnywayZ...
17 Moving on, Part the First: Challenges I never had at YB: For the past few days, my LCD projector light has faded. The lamp has used only sixteen per cent of it's life, and I went through the entire menu adjusting this and that, but the bottom line is that I finally got my students understanding the language of Shakespeare, and the could barely see the images.
18 It was unbearable, because I take them through the language, give tons of vocabulary, read most of the story with them, point things out, and THEN let the film take over, like giving them wings to fly on their own. It ALWAYS works.
19 Except yesterday. They were tuckered from too much testing, but that wouldn't have mattered if the screen were bright and colorful.
20 Anyway, I ran to Best Buy yesterday afternoon and got a GREAT deal on a brand new, off-brand LCD flat screen teevee. It was bright, and just what I needed for a bridge "between teevees". I had been saving up for a really nice one anyway, but didn't touch that money.
21 After several hours of questions and negotiations, I got as good a deal as anyone could hope for, with a full guarantee. I flew home, pulled a few cords out of my other teevee, put this one in and...no signal.
22 I spent the next few hours testing this, turning that, cursing that my glasses would fall off, or that my fingers couldn't turn the right connections, and wanting to rip the back off the small cart that inevitably gets in the way when you are working with video.
23 Sound familiar?
24 Well, I couldn't get the job done, so this morning I have to haul or old, clunky teevee (which was originally a back-up anyway!) down to the school. It's heavy, burdensome, but I have to make it happen for my students. I'll be leaving early this morning. I was probably going to do that anyway, because the new teevee should stay home.
25 I'm guessing that I have to take a little time and then work on the newer teevee tonight, but in the meantime...I may be complaining later of a broken back.
26 Ah, vell.
27 I just went outside; the birdies sang, the air felt right, and I look forward to a wonderful Friday. If a bum teevee is my only problem, then I got no problems.
28 I seldom use the word "problem" anyway. I much prefer "challenge".
29 So I did all that for my students, and to have a good, first-round pick at teevee until I could draft a rockstar teevee, and so far, it hasn't quite done it. I just hope it isn't an Alex Smith, or a JaMarcus Russell.
30 AnywayZ it's nice out, and I gotta get outta here.
31 You have a sweet weekend. I hope you get everything you want out of life this weekend. Go for it.
32 See ya later.
33 Peace.
~H~
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