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1   How cool is it that it's Wednesday already?

2   Interestingly, it's tough on teaching. The Monday off erased all knowledge that has occurred since the opening of school. Heck, I talked with a student yesterday morning, and told him that I couldn't really remember if I had given an assignment over the weekend or not!

3   I errored on the side of my normally not giving assignments over the weekend unless they are major assignments that need the weekend to complete.

4   Actually, I knew anyway, but for one brief, shining moment I had that shadow of a doubt. Good of that lad to put the doubt in my mind.

5   The nice thing about my teaching now is that I keep WAY up on EVERYTHING going on, including holidays, breaks, and all the rest. I have been more on top of my game than I ever have been this year.

6   It takes years, but eventually a good teacher stays WAY on it.

7   And somehow, I do too.

8    Haha, self-deprecating, to be sure, but quite true!

9    Amazingly, as a "seasoned" veteran, I have taken all my experiences in teaching and tried to fine-tune them. One learns from one's mistakes, if one has the slightest notion of a pulse.

10 I love the evolution from crazy/creative/nutso Drama guy to a crazy/nutso Class Advisor, on to an officious and overworked Activities Guy, finally to a mellowed veteran who has moved to a more professional demeanor, but with a lot of fun still thrown in.

11   Don't get me wrong.

12   I'm still rebellious, outspoken, and ALWAYS on the side of the students.

13   But I also have learned to plan and organize, to analyze what is working and what is not, and to bring my knowledge of having worked with the administration right into my classroom.

14   And quite often, I am happy to throw it all away and rock my classes through my newest phase, which is to turn teaching into an Art.

15   Ah, yeah. It is working, my friends. It is working. This popped up on my board last year. I had to love it. Yeah, it's from the Spring semester, but I just laughed, 'cuz I saw it after school:

16   So yeah, it's little moments like that which tell me it is working. Why?

17   Because I am older, and much more seasoned.

18   And I still fail regularly. Yesterday, for example, I over-lectured, leaving the students with only fifteen minutes to work on their assignment. This not only bored them, but it also cut into time I could have used for grading papers in class. Costly mistake. I think I lost that one yesterday. Fail.

19   I should have followed my Four-Head Rule, which I talked of briefly yesterday on Facebook: When four heads are on desks, it's a wrap. Stop lecturing. Switch it up. Get them working on something, or create a fun activity. But DON'T keep going. They're glazed...you just ain't that interesting man. I don't care WHO you are. Most people don't want to hear anybody talk for more than fifteen minutes, so get your hits in fast and get outta Dodge.

20   Did I listen to myself? Nope. Did they check out? Yep. Think this old "seasoned" veteran would learn, wouldn't you? Ah, it's still early in the season. But we just started school SO early this year that a lot of stuff is a little off.

21 Moving on, Part the First: Yesterday, I had a TON of ex-students coming to me for recommendations for the National Honor Society.

22 I was the guy who felt honored.

23 At one point, three of my most amazing students from last year came into my room at lunch. I looked, watched them laughing and interacting, and felt that it was sort of like being a coach at the All-Star Game.

24 AMAZING kids, and we reminisced and laughed. Yep. I reminisced already at the Chill. Good memories, good times.

25 They all ran to their desks from last year, and laughed over the awesome memories. I took my seasoned self, and just smiled. Memories. Gentle vertigo.

26    It was absolutely grand to have those awesome kids chillin' in my room.

27    One thing Ponch and I always used to say was, "Dude, we are in the business of making memories." Sayest thou?

28    So true. It will never be as insane, goofy, and fun as it used to be, but we are both still doing that.

29    But ahhh! The days of yore!

30    Moving on, Part the Second: For the record, I also found out yesterday that our new drama teacher is doing Noises Off in April.

31    I'll keep you all posted, but Noises Off was one of my favorite shows ever. If you were in that show, stay tuned! Maybe we could all make a night of it, and go to Joe's for old times and reminiscences.

32   Well, it's again approaching 10 p.m., now officially WAY past my bedtime. I don't stay up late any longer, because I want to awaken fresh and ready to put everything I can into this amazing profession.

33 Teaching. Still a class act after all these years.

34   And it's getting better all the time, despite all else.

35   I'm gonna yawn, hit the hay, and wake up fresh as a daisy.

36   You all have a grand morning, willya? It's a little gloomy out there, so throw some nice smiles around. All it takes is a smile. And maybe chocolate.

37   See you again.

38    Peace.

~H~

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The Daily News
1   Soooo...here we are! Welcome back!!!
2   Coffee break is over, back on yer heads.
3   Reference to a grand old joke about the Devil giving one poor soul options about how he may spend time in Hell. He did his sins on Earth, so these were his choices for how to spend eternity:
4   Three rooms.
5    This poor schlep has to make the choice: Room 1: People on fire with the Devil pouring gasoline on them for all eternity.
6    Room 2: Guy having cockroaches and stinging bees crawling over every part of his body, chewing and stinging him for all eternity.
7   Room 3: All these people up to their wastes in feces, but enjoying coffee and cool live jazz.

8   Guy decides clearly on Room 3. You'd get used to that, at least. Plus the waitress had noble skills.

9   Guy enjoys it, because there are cool people and lots of beautiful wimminz sipping coffee and boushittin'.

10 A whistle blows.
11 Devil appears and says, "Okay, coffee break's over! Back on yer heads!"
12  I didn't laugh either.
13  But over the years and years of working, it has made more and more sense. Especially after any three-day. It's always a bit brutal going back at it. I'm always reminded of that joke.
14 Anyway, well, here we are.
15 Coffee break is indeed over.
16 But we all know it's not THAT bad.
17 <accepting reality smirk> = )
18 Scary stuff on a TOOOOOOOSDEEEEE.
19  Ah, Tooooooosdeez aren't my cup of tea anywayZ.
20   Don't EVEN get me goin'.
21   Moving on, Part the First: Ah, vat da hail.
22   We just keep movin' on, movin' on.
23   Yeesh.
24    I've always been big on "yeesh".
25    Don't know why, don't care to analyze. It's just such an expressive word. And a much healthier exhale than say, smoking.
26    Yeesh.
27    Anyone who knows me knows I'm fundamentally against Tooooooosdee as a day of the week.
28    When I become a corrupt senator, as all senators eventually become, I intend to lobby for eliminating Tooooooosdee as a day of the week.
29    Life would become uneventfully better.
30    But I digress.
31    Moving on, Part the Third: Explosions. I absolutely believe I just heard three explosions in my neighborhood.
32    Hopefully it's my neighbor annihilating his entire front yard.
33   The guy has eight billion unkempt rose bushes growing amid a power of old weeds, strange iron configurations, and pots of dead plants adorning his yard. It is a complete hodge-podge of junk.
34   So I hope those explosions I just heard were him land-mining the place.
35    It is so unseemingly uglyeseque.
36    I minored in Prententiousness at the University of Mars, where Raider great Jim Otto went. In my Hoity-Toity 10 class, I learned that If you add "esque" to anything, you are allowed into coffee speakeasies in Marin and Los Gatos, where the wimminz use dogs as accessories, and your coffee cup must expose an elevated pinky. Oh, DAHLINGS!!! You look DEVAHN!!!

37    Moving on, Part the Second: So the Giants have managed to move within one game of the Padres. How'd THAT happen? I don't rightly know, but at least I'm enjoying the ride.
38   It's funny, because as a kid growing up a few miles south of San Francisco, I never even knew that there was anyone around who didn't worship the Giants. I also assumed the entire world LOVED sports, because I had a job as a vendor at Candlestick Park.
39   It wasn't really until I moved to San Jose that I realized that TONS of people are NOT Giants' fans, and that TONS of people couldn't care less about sports.
40   Anyway, I guess that's how it is.
41   Moving on, Part the Third: The things you find in student papers. Nothing too remarkable on this batch, except one girl in my class was named after the great Lauren Bacall. That lit me up, because I was always a big fan of Bacall. That's Lauren Bacall smoking glamorously in the picture at the top of today's DN.
42   Also, I believe it was going to last Thursday, I had made mention of Whack-a-Mole. Later that afternoon, Ralph Barbieri made reference to it as well. On Saturday, a student sent me an essay about her English class last year, and she included this line: "Several hands shoot up, and then go down, just like a game of Whack-a-Mole." Hey, that's a LOT of mention of mole-whacking if you ask me. I'm amazed at how often coincidences enter my life. It's just one of those things. This was mild, and not too deep, since I've been pretty amazingly happy lately. As we move closer to Halloween, more and more of those things tend to happen to me.
43   It's just one of those crazy things. Some people are born psychic. Some are born with fabulous voices. I was born to be coincidenced beyond what is normal for most people. I liken it sometimes to that teevee show called Medium, which played a huge part in a major coincidence several years ago.

44   When things are going well, I get things like Whack-a-Mole, almost like a light psychic workout. When my life turns, coincidences jump in like signs. It's a little scary sometimes, but most times I figure it's sort of comforting. More on that as we move into October. It's WAY too early in the year for all of that.
44   I'd probably better walk off at this point. I sleep through the night these days and do a LOT of the DN in the morning, but I forget that also have to scurry off to work.
45    Have a GREAT day everybody.
46    Peace.

~H~

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The Daily News

1 It's Frideeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

2 And I'm runnin' late.

3 Not a bad thing, not a bad thing.

4 I conked out last night at 9 p.m. and slept 'til 6:30, so not only was there no insomnia, but I'm WAY rested for once in my life.

5   That's what happens when you lecture for five periods and have a couple of glasses of good wine while watching the Niners fifth squad running around looking stupid.

6   I now have half-season tix I'm sharing with my sister and I now understand why my Dad has always hated pre-season football.

7   Lousy, boring game.

8   Well, that' also explains a lot about my early sleep last night. I famously don't do Thursdays very well, and last night was a prime example.

9    Ah, vell. <sudden change of thought> Hey, cool coincidence! Remember how yesterday I had a sort of Whack-a-Mole thing going on? Yesterday afternoon I was listening to KNBR and Barbieri mentioned Whack-a-Mole! I love stuff like that. I also talked coincidences a bit, and how they happen with ridiculous frequency to me. Exhibit A.

10   Moving on, Part the First: Yesterday I went to Save-Mart for some several items, and I was struck by the fact that it had this sign on a door facing the parking lot:

11   Is it just me? Or shouldn't that sign be seen from inside the store?

12   Well, with all due respect, if we rated stores for stupidity, Save-Mart just might win the prize for stupidest anyway.

13   Moving on, Part the Second: Speaking of stupidest, the one thing I've noticed about the Niners these days and the Niners of Yore is that talent-wise, the team now is similar to the eighties teams. The MAJOR difference is intelligence. This Niners' team is filled with morons and simpletons, and LOTS of raw talent. But the intelligence factor just isn't there. The Ronnie Lott's, Roger Craigs, Jerry Rices, and Joe Montanas just aren't anywhere to be seen. Instead we have troglodytes hitting each other in the head and shouting at one another.

14 Yeesh. That's pretty much my observation of nearly all things twenty-first century.

15   There has been a WHOLE bunch of stupidity unleashed on the world in the past twenty years. While we weren't looking, the world turned ridiculously stupid.

16   It used to amuse me; now I just sort of roll my eyes.

17   I won't rant. Just an observation. That sign facing me in the parking lot was pretty funny. Hey, door. I KNOW you're not an exit. If anything, you would be an entrance...

18   If there's any hope at all, I'm finding that students seem to be getting smarter. It isn't based on anything empirical, like tests or anything, but they seem to sort of "get it" these days. It's reasonably enjoyable. I've seen some brilliant writing as well. Some kids write WAY better than this Old Brown Shoe.

19   So yeah, there's a bit of hope.

20   So I'm up against the clock this fine day. I overslept, but feel pretty feisty.

21   And it's FRIDEEEEEEEEEE!!!! That's always a treat!

22   We also get Monday off for Labor Day. Say what you will, but bless the unions. I'm pretty tired of all the propaganda against unions. That's the Irish in me. People are too trusting that management will give them a fair shake all the time. Not so, never has been the case, and never will be. So I find Labor Day a pretty sacred thing. The brainwashing taking place all over the place is shameless. Rupert Murdoch and Co. have told everyone and his brother to think like he does, and it is clearly working.

23   Not on this guy. And it shouldn't on anyone with a half a brain.

24   But I won't rant.

25    Haha, only because there's no time today.

26    So I'll climb down off my soapbox and wish you all a beautiful day, and a wonderful weekend.

27    See you all on Tuesday.

28     Have a good one.

29     Peace.

~H~

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The Daily News

1   I just LOVED yesterday.

2   Couldn't really tellya why. ; )    <-----------sideways winky guy indicating that I actually CAN.

3   Just counting blessings of late.

4   Sometimes, dude, you just have to step back and realize when a good thing happens.

5   Paul Simon has a song called Something So Right the theme of which is how when things go wrong, we're the first to admit it, but when something goes right, we're the last one's to know it.

6   I always thought it was a cool little concept.

7   We human beings are sometimes the complainingest creatures.

8    Is that a word, "complainingest"?

9    It is now.

10   Anyway, here's a You Tube of Paul Simon singing Something So Right back-in-the-day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQqAKAAkufE

11   What makes Rhymin' Simon unique is his poetry. Here are the lyrics to Something So Right, if you're interested:

You've got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You've got the look of lovelight in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
'til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me down

When something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
And the last one to know

when something goes right
Well it's likely to lose me, mm
It's apt to confuse me
It's such an unusual sight
Oh, I can't, I can't get used to something so right
Something so right

They've got a wall in China
It's a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners they made it strong
And I've got a wall around me
That you can't even see
It took a little time
To get next to me

When something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
And the last one to know
when something goes right
Well it's likely to lose me, mm
It's apt to confuse me
because it's such an unusual sight
Oh, I swear, I can't get used to something so right
Something so right

Some people never say the words "I love you"
It's not their style
to be so bold
Some people never say those words "I love you"
But like a child they're longing to be told, mm

When something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
And the last one to know
when something goes right
Well it's likely to lose me, mm
It's apt to confuse me
because it's such an unusual sight
I swear, I can't, I can't get used to something so right
Something so right

hmmmmm, ooohhhhh,
Something so right

12    Just a nice song. Nothing spectacular, but SUCH a fun concept. I teach the poetry of Paul Simon in my poetry unit. We do five songs: America, Cloudy, The Sound of Silence, Scarborough Fair, and The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy). Very fun unit, every bit as engaging as the JFK stuff.

13     I'm hoping that the cut/paste of this won't turn the fonts all tiny on today's DN.

14     I sort of have to train Mozilla to behave each time I use it to work the DN. It always wants to go to Times/New Roman tiny, and it drives me crazuh.

15    AnywayZ, good things have been happening, good things, good times.

16    That hasn't happened to me in quite some time, so it sure feels nice. It's also reassuring to know that life moves through cycles.

17    Like this morning, for example. I've been going to bed WAY earlier than I have the past few years. As a result, I awaken earlier, and get the DN done in the morning, way early. I find that I rid myself of my incessant insomnia that way.

18   This morning I got up extra early because I wrote virtually nothing last night. I woke up at 4:30, just to have plenty of time to get the DN off, and be wide awake by the time I hit the classroom.

9     <obnoxious basketball buzzer>

10   When I went to the coffee can to make coffee, it was virtually empty. So the time I saved backfired. I was going to write about how nice things were, and the first thing I had to do was to put on a pair of shorts, hop in the TOOOOOONDRA, and try to find some decent coffee at like 4:45 in the morning.

11   I remembered that the Starbuck's on Calaveras opens at 5 a.m. How did I know that? Both daughters used to work there. They both told me that customers who would show up at the door at exactly five a.m. were obnoxious.

12   Having worked with the public, I know that opening a store is always nice when nobody is out there waiting. It's almost like you need a little chill time before dealing with people. I sort of like having a quiet moment before school too. It's just human nature.

13   Well, I motored over to the Starbuck's, and arrived at exactly 4:59. I REALLY didn't want to "vulture", but I also wanted to get my coffee and get back home so I'd have enough time to get the DN off.

14   So at EXACTLY five a.m. I went to the door just to double check that they opened at five. A lady instantly looked at me, looked at her watch, and unlocked the door.

15   My first words were, "I'm SO sorry. I NEVER do this, but I woke up this morning early and saw that I had no coffee." She smiled and said quite pleasantly, "That's a mortal sin!" They all smiled and were really nice. I told them that my daughters used to work there, and all the rest. I got out fast, thanking them as I rolled out.

16   So my entire idea of getting up early completely backfired. The irony is that my theme for the morning was going to be how everything has been going so right lately, and I'm beginning to accept that good things happen.

17    Well, I guess I somehow got that all in. I'm just running out of time, and I have to worry about my lesson plans, which I actually put together a week ago.

18    See? Something so right.

19    Moving on, Part the Second: Yesterday was 9/1/10. On the way to school, I saw a truck with the number 1009 on it, and some guy wearing a shirt with a number 9 on it. I also wrote on my Facebook "Best Day EVER!!!" last night, because, well, it was.

20   Right after I wrote that, I saw that someone else had put those words on their "status".

21   If you don't know, the numbers one and nine have always been quite mystical in my life, often coinciding with tremendous coincidences. It happens so often now that I just figure it's sort of similar to being a psychic.

22   For the record, no really amazing coincidences occurred yesterday. Just a couple of ones and nines, and that minor coincidence with my "status". Other than that, it was really pretty tame compared to things that happened last year.

23   I'm almost afraid to get into all that stuff this year, because I had a rash of bad things happen last year when I began my Halloween unit. I tried going a bit beyond all the coincidences, and things really turned strange.

24   Plus I have such good "chi" right now, lol!

25   LOL. WTH? When did we turn into an abbreviated society?

26   Moving on, Part the Third: Something is trying to attack my computer, but Trend keeps putting up an heroic shield. As soon as I started talking about all the good things happening, this warning keeps appearing, and I have to keep hitting the word "Block". It's sort of like playing game of Whack-a-Mole. I keep shifting over and clobbering whatever is trying to get me.

27   Moving on, Part the Fourth: I just now took my first sip of coffee. I recall the character Uncle Arvide in Guys and Dolls commenting about how coffee is so good, it should be a sin. The words "coffee" and "sin" go are swimmingly congruent, don't you think?

28   Moving on, Part the Fifth: Did anyone see the last two Giants' games? Last night could possibly have been the best game of the season. Timmy Lincecum, who a week ago I suggested should be sent down, came back and pitched his heart out, beating one of the best pitchers in baseball. He also laid down a bunt that worked.

29   Plus the Giants brought up this new kid named Darren Ford, who allegedly has jets for feet. The reports coming in last night said that he arrived at the stadium in the second inning, and was sent in as a pinch runner last night. Turns out he flew home from second and scored the winning run on a wild pitch, all for Timmeh and the Giants!

30   Hilarious, and what a win! We now are hunting down the San Diego Padres with an almost monstrously hungry team, and one that seems to be working on all cylinders. I LOVED last night's game, which might have had something to do with my "status".

31 Status.

32   Yeesh.

33   This morning on KNBR's Murph and Mac show, they talked about some story that Darren Ford had a little run-in with the law last year. He evidently reported that his house had been broken into, when in fact it hadn't. He also has a tat on his neck.

34   My kinda cat.

35   Welp, I'm getting sorta tired of whacking that mole every four seconds, so I think I'm going to get showered and dressed and looking purty.

36   Hope you guys have the best day ever.

37   Find it in your heart.

38   Meanwhile...

39   Peace.

~H~

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1   Suddenly I am fabulously wealthy.

2   Well, for me that is. ; )       <-----------sideways winky guy.

3   Seriously.

4   And the funny thing is, I still have NO idea how I came into all this money.

5   The irony is that two days ago I was wondering how I was going to get through the month, after building a new garden/yard and hosting an awesome party on Saturday.

6   It's sort of funny how that happens. Every once in a while in life, something comes along and GIVES you money.

7   More often than not, something comes by and TAKES money away.

8   The wonderful thing about it is that it is TOTALLY legit.

9    I have been SO busy lately getting the yard together and planning the party that I virtually put the rest of my life on hold. This includes checking my mailbox at school, writing friends, hanging out, and all the rest.

10   Well, yesterday I attempted to check my emails at school, but it wouldn't let me go on. I just blew it off, figuring I wouldn't have to deal with whatever would come down the irritating pike that is office emails.

11   I forgot to bring anything for lunch yesterday, so I thought I'd go off campus and grab something fast, like a banana or an apple or something healthy.

12   On my way, another teacher ran into me and said, "Are you going to the library for pizza?"

13   Turns out there was free pizza and brownies for the teachers, courtesy of ESTA, our local union. Fate? Could be. A free lunch is always a good sign.

14   I wound up sitting down and eating with my gangstas. Insta fun!

15   One teacher came over to our table completely distraught, sat down, and asked us why we got double-paid this month.

16   I sort of listened, but I'm almost completely deaf in my left ear, so I didn't hear a lot of the conversation. He was bemoaning the fact that he got TWO paychecks yesterday, and that he was on the twelve-month payment plan.

17   Teachers get paid once every six months, or once a month for ten months, or once a month for twelve months. At least that's the way it's been for ages. I know thiings have been changing lately, but I've just been too busy to pay attention. Plus I have been so broke that I can't even afford to pay attention. <rimshot>

18   Well, last year a few things came through the mail about changes in our payment plan. I was WAY too busy to read carefully, so I just waited for the bottom line, which was that if you were on the twelve-month plan, everything was going to remain normal.

19   I usually too busy to look deeper into such things unless I'm suddenly going to have a month with no pay, so I just went on with my business, which is essentially ignoring a bunch of school emails.

20   So while having pizza and some water yesterday, I heard that we had TWO paychecks. There was some formula that caused it, although for the life of me, I have NO idea why we would get two paychecks.

21   This guy was worried that maybe later in the year we would get no paycheck, because you NEVER get a bunch of money thrown your way without consequences.

22   Well, some union people explained it to the guy, and it turns out that somehow, we didn't get paid something somewhere, and that now we get two paychecks.

23   I was WAY too deaf and too busy to check out why, but when I got my check, it was TWO full checks!

24   Now teachers don't get paid much, but because of my 15 college units, I was already doing pretty well for a teacher. When I opened the first check, it was already pretty substantial.

25   The second check took a while to open. You know how you get nervous when something like that happens? I started to open it, used scissors VERY carefully for fear I might cut the thing up, and it turned upside down, wouldn't open, and when it did, opened from the left side, so it was all very naturally suspenseful.

26   I didn't know if I had ten dollars or five-thousand dollars to be honest with you.

27   When it finally revealed itself, I almost went over! I must have looked at it around twelve times, because it essentially gave me a HUGE amount of money.

28   And word on the street is that it is all mines!

29   Mines. I just thought of how much money I have thrown into the great big mean education machine over the years, something Ponch and I used to talk about. We once figured that we probably collectively gave over $50,000 over the years. So I wasn't the least bit guilty about suddenly getting a goodly sum.

30   I immediately thought of traveling around the world and living it up like a millionaire, but then decided to put it safely in the bank. I think I learned that from Mary Poppins.

31   When I got to the bank, I kept looking around me for fear of muggers. I was really nervous because I had NEVER put that much money into the bank. I don't go tellers, and I don't trust automatic deposit, so I was at an ATM, scared to death. I don't know why, but I just kept thinking that someone was going to mug me and take my money.

32   The machine took both checks, but only recognized one, which also almost gave me a heart attack.

33    I canceled the entire transaction and started again. The machine took my card in like a rollercoaster that is just beginning to click slowly upwards. I was SURE the machine was chewing my checks up and was going to give me some sort of angst.

34   Within seconds, it registered, and then the monitor told me that I was now fabuloulsy rich!

35   I honestly didn't know what to do next. I thought of buying tickets to Rome or something, but instead, I headed for Savers.

36   It was really awesome. I thought of how you always read that rich people are rich because they DON'T spend, so I just thought Savers for some new ties!!!

37   It was absolutely grand! Savers on Calaveras had a ton of shiny, new ties that cost virtually nothing. Some were brand, spanking new! I came home with around $100 worth of ties, but spent a little over ten bucks for them!

38 So I know people don't want to hear about others suddenly becoming at least a tad wealthy, but dude. It NEVER happens, and usually when it does, however much money suddenly comes in is countered by a car engine going down, or some other calamity.

39 At least that's been my observation of those rare occasions when money finds its way to us.

40 So I think I'll splurge and go back to savers for that twelve-dollar office chair that was in mint condition. The one I have is a lowrider, and is profoundly absurd.

41 After that, I fully intend to build myself financially, and to spend cautiously.

42 After all, that's what we millionaires do.

43 But honestly? I'm really sort of waiting, because usually situations like this are an easy come/easy go situation.

44 But for one grand day, I'm going to enjoy my shaky riches!

45 Very fun.

46 It's 9/1/10. You guys have a good day. I'm going to buy a kayak.

47 Peace.

~H~

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