October 28, 2011
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The Daily News
1 Happy Birthday Nicoley Boley Macaroni!!!
2 Best teacher on the planet.
3 It’s your week to howl, so a great big, “Oh-ROOOOOO!!!” to you sweetie!
4 I hope you have the happiest birthday ever.
5 I hope you like your pic from our day in Monterey. You are such a pahrit. And it’s always been my contention that pahrits make good teachers.
6 Have fun today!
4 Moving on, Part the First: And happy birthday Rene on Sunday.
5 The Tober Birthday Goils.
6 Gonna be a fun Halloween, that’s fo sho!
7 Moving on, Part the Second: If you love baseball, then you know before I even say anything.
8 Last night’s World Series’ game had me up jumping, screaming, and wondering.
9 Yesterday I talked with Vernon, my custodial friend. He asked, “Hey Buh,” (he never puts the “d” in my name, which I absolutely love) “Are you gonna watch the World Series tonight?”
10 I said, “Yeah dude. I wanna see how La Russa’s blunder the other night is gonna play out.”
11 “Pitchers and catchers report in February. Why waste your time on the World Series?”
12 I replied, “Because there isn’t a better sport around. None.”
13 I meet millions of people who just don’t “get” baseball. They say it’s boring.
14 Anyone with a pulse who saw last night’s game knows now that baseball is not boring.
15 It might be the “boring” that produces a game like last night’s.
16 One strike away from elimination, the St. Louis Cardinals came back twice to force a game 7.
17 Just an amazing game.
18 Rangers’ manager Ron Washington said, “I was just sitting there praying we got that last out. We didn’t get it.” Uh…dude. You have starting pitchers sitting on the bench. Your guy has been throwing balls in the dirt and getting shelled. It’s not a good time to ignore the game and pray.
19 Right now David Freese could win in a run for mayor of St. Louis. The reports coming in say that he is a hometown boy too.
20 Just incredible. One of the most sensational World Series’ games in history.
21 The only drawback is that it went late, and I stayed up at least an hour later than normal, and my ghost stories go on today.
22 I’m not too worried; today is Day 1 of the stories, so I just do color commentary. But I have to get up to the Chill early, meet Vernon at 8, give him the business about not wanting to watch the Series (I know darned well he watched it; no way he didn’t) and then get things set up.
24 One of my students is the light guy for the Drama kids, who are putting up The Crucible next week.
25 And yesterday we had still more madness.
26 Two days in a row I promised “More to come” in the DN, and more came.
27 Yesterday morning I got to class, and after a few minutes I noticed that the bell hadn’t rung.
28 I went on the school’s email to see if something was happening. I had a brand new email from my next door neighbor, Naomi Elphick. Here is a cut/paste of her email to all EV users:
Is anyone else getting an obnoxiously low buzzing / static from their speakers?
I also noticed the bells / announcements did not happen today. Is it just my room or campus-wide?
29 I just laughed, because I didn’t hear buzzing, but electrical/electronic failures have happened around me all week, which I have been carefully reporting, so I naturally blamed all of it on my ghost stories. I figured that a buzzing from her speakers was just a little more; that proximity had everything to do it. The fact that the morning bell to start school failed made me laugh, and to get a little frivolous.
30 I decided to reply to all. Here’s my reply, another staight-up cut/paste:
Q. 1 I don’t hear the buzzing.
Q. 2 We should get the No Bell prize.
= )
30 Sometimes ya just gotta be a wiseguy.
31 We had no other real electronic disasters yesterday, although Naomi’s email was a double-exposure at first, with the same sentences stacked on top of each other.
32 They also had a mock, unannounced Code Red yesterday, which is the emergency prep we do in the event of a shooter.
33 My students did great, but it crossed my mind that it could have been a real incident and that they called it “mock” just to keep everyone calm.
34 Fortunately it wasn’t, and we all got through it. Lousy timing for a drill though. Our first class was already interrupted by not having a bell.
35 And yeah, yeah, yeah we’ve gone full circle.
36 They aren’t bells at our school anyway. Like YB, we have horns that honk. They call the horns “bells”. I wonder if Poe had gone to either school would have written “The Horns”?
37 I’d better get outta here.
38 Have a haunting weekend everybody.
39 More to come.
40 Peace.
~H~
