It has been a week since returning home...and only a week from my departure for the AMS workshop in Kansas City (where it was 106 degrees yesterday - guess I won't need that jacket I was planning on taking). I really enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones at Texas A&M...it is always the high point of my summer since I always come away with so much I use (or share with others) in my classroom. NSELA in Austin was really much better than I expected...and look forward to the new standards to invigorate science teaching in a way the new evaluation never has.
It was quite a productive week, we gained a new dog (who is made of velcro since she surgically attaches herself to any human coming through the door), I gained a storage unit and moved 5 huge containers of dolls, My Little Ponies, and stuffed animals, Anne's collections of Harvard Classics and college textbooks, Meg's 2,463 containers of Playmobil and college paraphernalia, all stuff boxes (yes, I am a packrat and never, ever throw anything away), all unused wooden chairs, 15 containers of Xmas decorations, and filled up a 5' x 10' x 10' container space.
Now...maybe...I can actually find stuff in the garage. I will enter the abyss tomorrow morning, so if you don't hear from me in a few days, you might want to send in a crew to find me...there might be a cave in....and I could get trapped.
"Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones? Do you know what its like on the outside. Don't go talking too loud you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones" Beegees 1967.
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