(Zazzala, really happy, by Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System)
It’s over! The review team has left the building. I hit a home run with a lesson on clowns, and I will be celebrating like there is no tommorrow, since there will be no students in school tommorrow. Relief washes over me [...]
(becoming Charlie Brown from: http://poetgonewild.deviantart.com/)
What fictional characters do you think about most often?
(Longshot, Rebel Freedom Fighter from: http://abraibarnabas.deviantart.com/)
One of the trips that I groove on almost every day is the possibility that the fictional characters we create can live lives of their own in the attentionsphere. Or that there is a way to view the sum total of all human thought about a certain legend. I really do believe that [...]
(Goodbye Kitty by daskull at http://daskull.deviantart.com/)
How do you survive your exasperating encounters with all the idiocy you have to deal with at work, or school, or both?
(”Windstorm” by Dave Devries, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System)
Whew. I can almost relax. Taking the whole weekend to reconnect with the whole family took a whole lot out of me, then the whole “I’m the boss, that’s why” thing hit me flush in the mouth when I got back to work. Tommorrow should see things [...]
(Nina and I made a new friend at Halloween Horror Nights)
What is your opinion on clowns?
Wow. Here I was, getting ready to log off for a long weekend of non-electronic recreation and recovery, and what happens? I get quoted the front page of the Sporting News, talking smack about the bad guys. I love this life.
Now I really am signing off for the weekend. I’ll meet you back here on Monday. Be well.
(party pic from Ben’s flickr book at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvar/)
That’s the family, from right to left then left to right: me, wife, sister, niece, nephew, rocket scientist son-in-law with a glass of wine, and the three most beautiful babies of all time. I feel so damn lucky to be blessed with such happy and healthy kin.
What makes you feel [...]
Yep, it’s time. The Annual Fike Family Funfest at Halloween Horror Nights. Driving north tonight for madness and mayhem. I need a break really badly, and there is nothing more cathartic than being accosted in the middle of the night by hundreds of real-time evil figments of the collective imagination. I love haunted houses so [...]
What kinds of things make you feel better every time you think about them?
