Can You Imagine?

Being an eleven year old, fifth grade, boy? Now, imagine being the smallest in your class; short and slight, weighing only 62 pounds and the other kids tower over you by at least 8 inches. You are, at best, the same size as the average third grader.
Imagine your dream of being able to play football and [...]

Vacation!

Two months and five days… No time to blog and not really feeling inspired to share, continue, carry on… It is a weird time for everyone, considering politics, news, environmental issues, the price of gas and all things financial. I’ve felt inundated with negativity by an onslaught of actions out of my control. Been keepin’ [...]

Why we do what we do and why we can’t figure out why they do what they do

Man, that title is almost a full sentence!
 But, really, do you ever catch someone doing something and stand there, gawking, wondering why they are doing what they are doing?  I do.
I saw a guy today… he’s a construction worker at the mall/strip center where I work… and there he was, hangin’ out behind the bushes, [...]

Over-Extensions: It’s not just a Hair Thang

Man. I totally over-extended myself this past week. I’m exhausted and brain-dead. All cells are firing but the caffeine fueled thoughts are causing some electrical hou high. (That’s Hong Kong slang for intoxication.) I can’t find my keys. This is always the first indicator of losing my mind.
First of all, as you saw in the [...]

Registering your kids at APS

I’ve had tons of hits on my APS blog for how to register your kids at APS.
Lordy, people are Johnny Come Lately’s in this city!
Here’s the link in case you were wonderin’:
I Spy Albuquerque Public Schools Education
There are actually two posts but I’ve linked the first one on the latest.
Hope this helps!

Petroglyph Post It’s

Wahoo! We are going here:

 
Sometimes… living with a professional photographer is a pain in the ass. S asked me to make sure to note that I took these photos and that they were not photographed by her. Snob.

Mojo got a shorty-short hair cut and now looks like an Alien.
It has only rained enough to get [...]

GRADEGATE KEEPS THE WEEK BUSY

My, my, my it’s been a busy week. I actually have the weekend off (the training manager is off and had a wedding to go to so she, no doubt, didn’t know what to do with me… we both win) and plan on finishing up a few gardening items. We’ve got baby gourd plants coming [...]

APS kinda creeps up onya

So, I keep ranting and carrying on about APS and the Board of Education on this blog and, well, if you don’t live here, although there’s lots of appalling and anecdotal blog-fodder, it’s just not very interesting to my more worldly blog readers. (All 14 of you.)
So, once again, I’ve created a blog solely about [...]

Well, Blow Me… Down

I was going to put in sod today. Fohgeddaboudit!
I was going to go to Wal-Mart today. Oh, hell no!
I was going to rake the dead grass out of the front yard, throw down some top soil and re-seed. Uh-uh. No way.
I am going to go to the Board of Education meeting because, well, I am [...]

Hang on, Teach…

Check out this news video from our local, KRQE TV station. I’ve been steaming about this for a couple of days now. When I heard this and then watched reporter Jessica Garate’s report, I just could not believe what was being said by Renee Rivera, a middle school teacher chaperone for New Mexico M.E.S.A. (Math, [...]