Krispy Kreme Arrives

Need I say more? The day has arrived...Krispy Kreme in Jakarta, and YES, they taste the same!!

Open House

I was very surpised tonight how many parents showed up for open house. It is a long day at work when we have open house....at least it is over for another year. I usually give them my life story (the short version), and parents are usually interested to hear about all the different things I have done. I am not your normal teacher. I met a parent tonight who grew up in Kauai. It was fun talking with her....we were able to trigger eachother's good memories. I still miss that place...the most beautiful spot in the world, in my opinion.

Off to bed. See ya.

Got My Ticket

It is now official. I am off to Vegas on Monday. I will be staying with my good friend, Frank Doneski. It should be a great trip.

Tomorrow night is open house. Yuck....that means a long day at school. Oh well, need to get it over with.

I played golf today after school. Well, let me rephrase....I hit a little ball around (in every direction but straight), but not sure if you can call it golf...it was like I had never played the stupid game before. I was another human being borrowing my clubs from myself....awful....if I wasn't so addicted, I would have quit forever after today. Oh well, that is the drug called, "Golf".

New Pink Shoes

Yep, two years old, and already is very particular about her fashion. Everything must be PINK....let this be a warning to all who buy clothes for Kayla....THINK PINK. Flowers or butterflies are cool as well. She is modeling her new pink shoes that Mommy bought her today. We also had to make a special trip to the mall to get her the pink jacket that she has been talking about the last week....picture of that later.

NAPP Editor's Choice Again

Surprise, surprise. I logged onto the NAPP site today, and found another one of my photos (the one above) was selected as an Editor's Choice. That is pretty cool.

I got up early this morning to get my new driver's license. It is always an adventure, but miraculously, we managed to get in and out of there in just 65 minutes. That is a record. Of course, it took us twice as long to drive home in the traffic, but I am now good for another year.

Off to the movies....we are going to go see "The Breakup". Maybe I can turn this blog into a movie review site.....nah.

The Weekend is Here

We only had a 4-day work week after our 5-day weekend, and now it is the weekend again. Woo Hoo.....gotta love teaching. The weekend usually means golf, playing in the pool, going to the movies, and sleeping-in. Well I should be doing all except the sleepin-in part. I have to be at Magill's house by 6:45 tomorrow morning. We are all driving up to the driver's license place and do our annual re-newing. It is a real pain, but something that has to be done.

I didn't run today, and I feel a bit guilty. I just didn't feel up to it....ok, will go tomorrow, I promise.

Some Cookn' News

The big news for today....an email from my long lost cousin, Catherine. She had mysteriously given birth to her third child some time back...and today we learned the name of her child (Alexa), and we can now place real pictures to our mental images. Thanks for the email, Catherine....and Alexa is gorgeous, but I really don't know who the other children are in the photos you sent...they are way too big...I don't recognize them.

New Kayla Gallery

I made a "Best of Kayla" gallery on PBase.com. Check it out (click on the PBase link to the right). I will add photos to it as she grows up. I think it would be cool to have an on-going gallery into her teens...

A so-so day at work...you know, the usual...busy. I like being busy though....must be the genes passed on to me from Mom.

Not much else to report....so, later.

The Bearded Breezeway

Ok, let me explain. Gene Magill, in the center with the "santa clause" beard came back to school after the summer sporting that beard. We all gave him a hard time, and he told us he was keeping it. So, over the 5-day break, we all decided we would grow our beards for 5 days, show up at Gene's classroom, and surprise him. That's what we did. We showed up at his classroom at 7:00 am this morning and surprised him. So the picture above is the result. The name, "Bearded Breezeway" is a long story.

Best Friends

Butch and I took our daughters to the zoo today. Mariska and Kayla are best of friends. By the way, in case you were wondering, the girls both wearing jean outfits was not something planned by Butch and I....that is a "mom" thing...but they are pretty dang cute.

Back to school tomorrow. I am ready. Too much sitting around doing nothing.

Back To Papua

I got an email today from Max who runs the dive operation out in Papua. He wants me to take some photos for him, and has offered a free week of diving in return. So I am thinking of either October break or Christmas time heading back there for a week. YES!!

Dinner at Amigos tonight. I never tire of that place.

Fantasy Soccer League

For the past few years I have endured going to parties where all my friends end up talking about soccer...in particular the English Premier League. They all meet for BBQ's on the weekends to watch the games, and write emails back n' forth about players, goals scored, etc. When you turn on the TV to watch sports in this country, the only thing playing is soccer, soccer, soccer.

So this year, instead of fighting it, I joined. Yes, I joined into the fantasy soccer run by Yahoo Sports. I have to pick every week 11 players in the English Premier League to be my team (Kayla's Gators), and will compete with all my friends. So, tonight was the first night of the EPL season, and I joined in with 8 other guys to watch the opening games. I know a few of the players from the World Cup, but I don't know much. It is more the social thing than sitting down to watch the game, but I must admit, it is pretty fun, and I found myself routing for certain guys (my team) to score. My competitive nature will no doubt lead to spending countless hours on the computer studying the different players in the league so that I can stay in contention every week. We will see.

Today was a "fat pig" day for me. I ate pizza for lunch, and then stuffed three donuts down afterwards. I then sat at the computer for a few hours updating some of my galleries, and Tika came in with a root beer float. The only consolation is that I did run...I maybe burned away one slice of pizza. It is diet day tomorrow.....yea, right. By the way, I started an Africa photo gallery if you want to check it out. The photos are two summers old, but they are still some of my favorites.