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There is Still ......... :) Mar 14, 2007 2:24 pm
Mood: content, 793 Views
Something about cruiser387. Today it is her birthday. She is one of my closest friends. We talk a lot. We share a lot about things bothering us. We get and give each other advice about life, love, and even work and family.

I talked to her today when I got home from work and wished her a happy birthday. I also sent her a dancing kitties birthday e-card

I hope she has a great birthday today. Her birthday is one day after my son's.

There is definitely something special still about cruiser387
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A Midnight Mini-Rant Mar 13, 2007 10:10 pm
Mood: annoyed, 898 Views
Okay I am swearing off women again. For at least a day anyway LOL! Don't want to go into it too much but have I ever mentioned just how much I hate passive aggressive manipulative game playing? I am too freakin' old and too freakin' tired to put up with it.

This has nothing to do with anyone here on FF whatsoever. This has to do with someone that wanted to be my friend on Friday and Saturday but tonight completely and totally ignored me. Do you think that I know why? Well if you think so you are wrong.

I will chalk this up to immaturity. That's the only thing I can figure. I didn't ask this person for anything. But this person pretended like I wasn't even there tonight. I'm not talking about coming up and hugging me I'm talking about even waving, smiling, or even acting like she even saw me, which she obviously did since I sang two times while she was there.

I have absolutely no clue what her problem is and frankly if she's that inconsiderate and fickle that she would treat me that way when I haven't done anything it's just as well.

Ladies, please don't be passive aggressive. Passive aggressive is not only annoying to everyone, it is childish, immature, inconsiderate and unfair. If you are mad at someone for something, just have the courage to tell them.

If you decide you don't really like them don't act like you do one day and then 48 hours later act like you have never seen the person before. Don't treat others like crap. You don't like inconsideration on the part of men. Why would you think that anyone likes passive agressive behavior on the part of a woman?

Okay mini-rant done. Going to bed now
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He's 23 Today. :) (Long blog Warning) :) Mar 13, 2007 1:32 pm
Mood: bouncy, 773 Views
My boy is 23 years old today. That sometimes is amazing to me. I can remember the day he was born like it was yesterday.

How can I best describe my boy except to say that I love him beyond anything else in this world and would do almost anything for him. I can't imagine what my world would be like without him.

His mother was overdue and the doctor was going to have her induced if she didn't go into labor soon back in 1984. Originally he could have been a Valentine baby, but he instead ended up a lot closer to St. Patrick's Day .

It was a Tuesday morning, 23 years ago this day exactly. I had gotten up and was thinking, "okay here we go, yet another day and no signs of labor." Just as I was going out the door to get in the car, my wife's water broke and so I called in for a sub and drove her to the hospital.

We were at the hospital the entire day from 8:00 AM until he was born at about 8:00 PM. The first thing I saw was a little red head, just like his mom. Although we had done one ultra sound, gender hadn't been revealed by the pictures so we were just guessing whether it would be a boy or a girl. Boys seem to run in my family as my mom and dad had three boys and my brother now has two boys and I of course have my one and only boy. On the other hand, Andrea's family was all girls.

I still remember two student nurses from a nearby college were with us the whole day observing and talking to us. It is such a wonderful memory for me. My wife had a pretty hard labor but they gave her something to help speed up the process. We tried to keep her mind off the pain by joking around and being lighthearted.

I finally got home and cycled through the many calls from well wishers who congratulated me on becoming an "official" father. My wife couldn't come home until the following Saturday which just so happened to be St. Patrick's Day just like this year, it also falls on a Saturday.

Unfortunately that Friday night we got about 8 inches of snow and my street wasn't really plowed when I was supposed to leave the next morning to go get her. Not only that I had to go to a university graduate class before going to the hospital to pick up wife and child. My neighbor was kind enough to shovel me out of a snowdrift at the bottom of the street so I could leave.

He's grown to be a man. He's now the age I was when I got married. He's not really serious about anyone right now however like I was. As he grew up we forged a special bond that makes us inseparable despite the fact that we don't live near each other right now.

From the time he was a toddler I read to him, played with him and of course when he got into grade school I taught him chess and we spent the 90's travelling all over the country to play in chess tournaments together. We travelled to Orlando, Florida, Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, St. Paul, Kansas City many times and various other places throughout the midwest.

When he was only two we bought him a wooden puzzle of the states of the United States and he could put the entire thing together although he was shy and didn't like to show his intelligence in front of strangers.

He is a much more talented artist and peformer than I am. He got his BA in Theater and Fine Arts last May at a small college in western Nebraska. Even while he was off on the other side of the state I drove out to visit him and pal around together at least twice every school year.

We've taken several long cross country trips together, including one to visit his sister who at the time lived in Miami, Florida in 1994. In 2005, we took a 5 day road trip together to Yellowstone National Park where he'd last gone when he was one. He loved it and we both had a fabulous time.

Anyway today I celebrate in the birthday of my son, who is special to me beyond words. I can't celebrate with him but he did come back a couple weeks ago and we got together several times the weekend following my birthday.

I'm going to fly down to St. Louis to stay with him on April 1st. He is now in graduate school working on his Masters in Art.

Happy 23rd Birthday, Heath Your dad loves you.
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My Song This Week :) Mar 12, 2007 1:30 pm
Mood: content, 748 Views
Well in honor of St. Patrick's Day I've decided to pick out a song I like by Flogging Molly which is a most unusual group best described as Irish punk rock. Yet this particular song spoke to me the first time I heard it. I like the lyrics so I thought I would share it. I also like the tune and music that goes with the words.

If I Ever Leave This World Alive by Flogging Molly.

If I ever leave this world alive
I'll thank for all the things you did in my life
If I ever leave this world alive
I'll come back down and sit beside your
feet tonight
Wherever I am you'll always be
More than just a memory
If I ever leave this world alive

If I ever leave this world alive
I'll take on all the sadness
That I left behind
If I ever leave this world alive
The madness that you feel will soon subside
So in a word don't shed a tear
I'll be here when it all gets weird
If I ever leave this world alive

So when in doubt just call my name
Just before you go insane
If I ever leave this world
Hey I may never leave this world
But if I ever leave this world alive

She says I'm okay; I'm alright,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would,
Now everything should be all right

She says I'm okay; I'm alright,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would,
Now everything should be all right
Yeah should be alright
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Crying When You're Not Unhappy or Upset? Mar 11, 2007 1:01 pm
Mood: contemplative, 815 Views
Okay today I cried, but it wasn't because I'm unhappy or upset. I cried at the end of movies or at moving scenes in movies. What's weird is that I have seen these movies before but today for some reason the scenes I watched brought me to a tear or two.

Is that weird? Am I the only one who does this? Geez, so glad I didn't watch Shawshank Redemption or even Mr. Holland's Opus both of which are in my film library

The weird thing is that neither of the two movies that moved me to emotion are sad movies really, it's just that watching certain scenes in them that I liked were a moving experience for me today. I feel a little silly even admitting it.

Okay, it's Sunday afternoon, almost 4:00 PM and it has been a mostly uneventful day. I have to go to work in a little while but am just relaxing, hoping I don't lose my voice. I have that twice a year weird feeling in my throat. Usually it happens in October and again in March or April.

I was fortunate enough in October to escape without loss of voice. I did a few things as a precaution that I am trying to do again this time because they seemed to work. One of them is not sleeping on my back because when I do that the drainage into my throat makes the situation much worse.

I had a pretty nice weekend overall but the weekends seem to go by really fast now days. We are almost done with 3rd Quarter. Wednesday is final exam day and then the kids are out until the following Monday. I get half the day off Friday and have teacher meetings on Thursday.

So far I am proud of the fact that I've had perfect attendance up to now. Last year I was sick about 4-5 times with colds, coughs, laryngitis and the flu. This year I have so far not lost my voice and I'm hoping I'll make it this time without doing so.

Hahaha don't know if I want to watch anymore movies. If I cry over Finding Nemo, I'll probably cry over most anything
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Fun :) Mar 9, 2007 11:50 pm
Mood: bouncy, 963 Views
Hmmmm, well karaoke was it tonight. More fun than I've had in at least two weeks LOL! Packed house but not too many singers. Plus I played two games of pool, danced and sang a ton of times. Just an all around fun night.

Got home about 1:00 am and had to load my dishwasher and start a load of dishes. I have to get through another 5 days before pay day so I'm going to be dining on gruel until next Thursday LOL!

I ended up getting asked to get up and sing with groups of people tonight. I ended up doing Love Shack, I Got You Babe, Basket Case and even Sweet Caroline. That doesn't even count my solos.
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You Know You Are Waiting :) Mar 8, 2007 7:30 pm
Mood: devious, 868 Views
for Brucey's Thursday numerology of course.

1-Day until karoake Friday.
2-Women that I like a lot and also like me.
3-Days of school next week woohoo
4-Songs that I'll probably get to sing tomorrow.
5-Women that I like quite a bit and also like me.
6-days until final exams.
7-days until the NCAA basketball tournament starts.
8-more weeks of school before my seniors are out.
9-more weeks left in the school year after next week.
10-weeks until summer vacation, unbelievable.
13-Date of my son's birthday this month.
14-Date of Mary's birthday this month.
15-Number of months I have know my beautiful filipina friend Romelda
24-Days before I fly to St. Louis to see my son.
28-Days between paychecks this month, thank goodness.
137-Current population of Spudville, Idaho after Elmer Johnson's sow had a litter of thirteen pigs.
170-Number of members of my Omaha Friends Part II 2006, discussion group.
173-Number of members of my original Omaha Friends Regional discussion group.
582-# of blogs I've done on FF.
2518-# of comments on my blogs on FF.
32,261-Number of posts I've made to FF discussion groups.
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March, A Teacher's Most Difficult Month. :) Mar 7, 2007 2:19 pm
Mood: contemplative, 904 Views
In my opinion, March is the toughest month in which to teach. March is 31 days long first of all making it an extraordinarily long month. Secondly there are no longer any "honeymoon" periods left over where the students are on their best behavior. By March they pretty much know the chinks in your armor and you pretty much can expect them to behave in the way that is most natural for them to behave which is often like adolescents .

March is too far from the end of the year for students or teachers to get their second wind and it's too far from the beginning of the year to expect people to try to impress you by acting their best.

Easter is very rarely in March and if one does get off for Easter they aren't going to usually get off in March because Easter is usually in April. If Easter does happen to fall in March it doesn't happen until almost the last week anyway.

March's weather is very unpredictable around here. It can be 75 degrees or -10 degrees. It can be sunny and warm or there can be 13 inches of snow on the ground here.

Around here, March is windy, chilly, grey, rainy, snowy and filled with unpredictability. Still I love the month of March in some ways. It's the start of Spring. Things begin green up, sometimes the weather gets us out of school like last week. My son was born in March and so was my mom. My friends Mary and Tommie both have March birthdays. Lately as I drive to work in the morning it is light again instead of dark which is a nice change.

While I can remember some March years in a very negative light the last few years, March hasn't really been too bad for teaching, even teaching special education kids, although they can be trying.

Even so, in terms of just teaching, March to me is the toughest month to teach students. The good news is that once March is over we have Spring break in April and then only about 7 more weeks of school after that, even less for my seniors.
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Dangerous Passing Period :) Mar 5, 2007 3:09 pm
Mood: weird, 907 Views
Geez, I was a little worried about the behavior of my kids after last week, but it turns out my kids were really pretty good, and things went just fine, that is until the class was over and I headed back to my office.

My office is only about 100 feet from my room, so what can happen in 100 feet? Well apparently quite a bit when 1300+ students are in the hallways between classes. As I was walking to my office these two students begin yelling at each other. The f word is flying and there is some real anger there.

I turn to the one kid and kind of try and calm him down and suddenly as I turn around the kid goes after the other kid to punch him. Only problem was I had a handful of books and papers and I was between the two of them, so the kid knocks my glasses off, knocks my papers out of my hands and suddenly right there in the halls there is a full blown free-for-all going on and not just these two kids, but about 5-6 other students jump in and the fists are flying.

Now mind you all of this happened in the space of 30 seconds as I'm walking back to my office. Anyway of course the news of fights travels faster than a brush fire through dry tinder and there are students all around watching and cheering on their favorite side.

Soon security, administration and teachers are all trying to pull kids off of one another to keep the students safe. I had put my glasses back on which fortunately were not broken and I then pulled one kid back that had started the fight. Fortunately for me he did not try too hard to resist or rejoin the fray. He was content to yell at the other side while I more or less kept a grip on him so he wouldn't get back into it and possibly get hurt or hurt someone else.

Security took away the two main instigators of the fight. One really nice girl had picked up all my books and papers for me and was holding them for me when the fight was over. I thanked her for her kindness and consideration. See even in the worst of situations there is generosity and kindness if you look for it.

Although it was a little scary I don't think that anyone was seriously hurt which is very fortunate. Someone got their glasses broken, but fortunately it wasn't me.

That was my interesting times for the day and I was reminded of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times."

Although I was a little shaken up by the ordeal I wasn't hurt or injured which believe me I am oh so glad of.

I think I know what started the fight but I'd prefer not to go into it on a public blog.
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Well all good things must end eventually. :) Mar 4, 2007 11:05 am
Mood: cheerful, 854 Views
Alas it is now Sunday March 4th and tomorrow barring illness, injury or disaster as yet unanticipated I shall actually have to go back to work.

Because of a major snowstorm that hit early Thursday morning I had the last two days of the work week off and of course the weekend.

Has anyone else ever noticed how fast vacations fly by? Still it's hard to complain but I'll try anyway. LOL!

Hmmmm, last night I decided I was kind of bored and so I headed out to Elkhorn which is about 10 miles straight west of me to go meet up with my friend the DJ, Chris and sing some more karaoke.

This place is an Irish pub that bought out a mom and pop place in the center of a small town. Some of the same people that were at Landslide on Friday night were at this place last night too. But mostly it's a different crowd. I got there about 9:20 and ended up being first up to sing. I ended up staying until about 12:30 and got to sing a total of 5 times.

It was kind of fun and it was one of those Saturday nights where I didn't really have a lot going on. Chris' new girlfriend Amanda showed up along with a man and his fiance that are friends of mine. Since it was crowded and I had a table to myself they sat with me.

It was really cold last night too, but the weather is supposed to warm up considerably this coming week and most of the snow will probably melt off in the next few days as we inch up near 50F.

I ended up staying up pretty late talking to friends online, but got plenty of sleep not getting up until about 10.

Went to the grocery to get a few items, then showered, and am planning to work about 3.5 hours tonight at my other job.
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