After a raucous Thursday night (yeah yeah yeah, I get it, the Nuggets beat the Celtics, now please pay and drive thru), I had a ruh-gged time waking up Friday morning. No, not a hangover, just an incredible lack of sleep. I actually ate McDonald's twice in one day, and all I got was the McSweats. Nothing wrong with my stomach or my head, just that I felt unseasonably warm in my office-I think that was all the sugar going thru my system. Suffice to say, I didn't do much on Friday night.
Yesterday, however, is a whole different ballgame. First, the weather on Friday was light snow when I woke up and hovered around 33 degrees most of the day. Saturday? Vastly different, somewhere around sunny and 60ish. I helped a buddy move, paused in the middle of the move to watch Syracuse slap Georgetown in the mouth (2 road wins against ranked teams? Yup, I'll take both of 'em!), back to helping move furniture. Then, off to my buddy Dan-O's for quality family time and playing with my niece and nephew. My niece wasn't overly thrilled to see me, but that is blamed on lack of sleep (hers, not mine, ya jerks) and it takes her awhile to wake up. I know that feeling. The ManChild, my nephew, was super happy to see me and get picked up and fed and tickled and watch me make goofy faces at him.
Today is Lazy damn Sunday. I talked to Ma Dukes, then packed up my laptop backpack (that's right, you all can have your professional looking satchels/courier bags, I got me a backpack) and went to venture out into my 'hood. A few blocks later I found where I wanted to be, a coffee shop that serves sammiches. I recommend what I got-a warm roast beef with fontina cheese, on crusty sourdough and a horseradish/dill sauce on the side. All what I needed to get me thru about 1/3 of my fantasy baseball reading boredom. I left the house because I knew if I tried reading this dry crap at home I'd be in bed napping after 4 pages. After almost 2 hours, I headed back home. I like this neighborhood, a mix of old and very new, a few light rail train stops, and I think it will be fun during the spring and summer.
Then I came home and took my roommates' daughter (she doesn't live with us, just an fyi) out for ice cream (mmmmm, ice cream). And since then I've been searching for articles and doing some reading. As I said, Lazy damn Sunday. Here's what I got:
Sometimes I wish this state and country had an 'eye for an eye' type of law. Read this about some kid who got burned at a party and tell me what you think, I'm curious. You would think at a party eventually someone would show their half of a brain and speak up, right? WRONG!
Regarding teachers in Wisconsin (what a racket), and Providence (really, ya used the "Webster's reference", guy?) and how I bet this guy can get you to see the light on the idea that while union's aren't all evil, here is one man's take on why absolute power corrupts absolutely. I had a similar idea and then I took a class in college that solidified it. Their time has come and gone, especially teachers unions. Please, I realize you may be a good/great teacher reading this, but again, your ilk isn't. How else do you explain kids graduating high school reading at barely a 5th grade level? More on this at another time, and where certain things can be traced to. I know teachers that bust their humps and pitch in extra time and their own money, and they get crapped on. It's not right. At all. But for every 1 of them there are 6 that feel entitled to not try because they have a Supreme Council that will save their ability to be lazy. That ain't right, either, now is it?
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