day 15

Now, one of my major passions is cooking and southern/Cajun cooking at that. I love me some bar-b-Que too! and have been trying to get rid of the propane grill and back to charcoal for years.
well I got me a little Cajun smoker the other day and am rockin' that sucker! I forgot what a difference it really makes. No, I haven't cooked a whole pig, but only cause I really can't find one up here!



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day 14

Well, back to the Sub world today and into the jaws of musical education, now I spent almost all my post-elementary school daze in some type of musical endeavor, unfortunately, as a drummer! Drummers are the village idiots of the Music world. We kind of read music, but not notes, just rhythms and stuff, oh, we may memorize a couple of notes for that big Chimes solo at Christmas, but come on, most of it was count 300 measures and then hit the friggin' triangle twice. Except for football season, we rocked football season!!! Today I watched the middle of "Fiddler on the Roof" six times, have I ever seen this movie before? No....but now I know how the middle part goes..I never knew Starsky (or is it Hutch) was in this movie. I go back tomorrow for more of the same and Madeline gets back from camp and Andrew loses his only child status. Such is life.....



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day 13

busy today, here is a rough draft for my friends who I do some poster work for!

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day 12

We have a friend who is riding some ridiculously long charity bike ride and she needs a training buddy. So my wife volunteered me. This is totally cool, I gotta' bike and God knows I need the exercise. Got the bike out, literally dusted it off, pumped up the tires and road it for a while Sunday. I forgot all about those muscle groups and exactly how much they can hurt. I'll stick with riding a while but due to my inability to draw a decent bike this may be the last cartoon on this subject!

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day 11

Well, my daughter is off for her first extended stay away from home this morning with a group of 6th graders for the entire week. My son is of course beside himself with joy! Our fear is that she has unrealistic expectations about the trip and my be coming to a hard reality check when she gets there and finds no room service. This is a science/ecology trip and she may end up metaphorically kissing a few toads before the week is out! The only one truly upset by her absence is her dog, Zoe, the rest of us??? Well....


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day 10

Well, last night was no fun, we had a bad storm system come through the south and we are still picking up around our neighborhood from the killer tornado almost exactly a year ago. So, the wife and I rearranged the entire garage in order to get both the cars inside in-case of hail and battened down all the hatches. We never actually got in the closet under the stairs, but we made damn sure we could get in there if we needed too!! When the time came for the storm to hit our area, it was very anticlimactic, as we only got a little rain and some wind. Our hearts do go out to the folks in Ms who lost everything. Such is life....

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day 9

The Art class Sub'in wasn't so bad, the kids were rowdy but the year is almost over and the older kids in my last class were going to a camp all next week and a bit removed from the whole "school" thing by 6th period. This one is for all the art majors out there, or art historians, or anyone who saw "Pollack" with Ed Harris. We got bad storms coming today and everyone is a little worried here, the soccer game was canceled and I don't know about the marathon in Nashville. (/the one me and the misses are training for next year as we speak!).



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day 8

Sub'ed yesterday and today I'm going to the dreaded Art Teacher spot for half a day. Had fun this morning waking up at 7:15 am when school starts at 7:30. Wife hit the road early and we had to scramble!


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day 7

off to Sub this morning, good thing I did this yesterday!


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day 6

Good news! We won last night, 6-2 and the Tan "Cougars" (I named them last night to stop all the Andrew induced "Spitting Llamas" suggestions!) are now 3-1 and looking good. Now Andrew got this dog the other day, a Jack Russell Terrier aptly named "Bruce Wayne". Guess who's job it is to get up sometime between 3 and 5 am and take the puppy out to the yard for a bathroom break, correct, that would be me! How do I do it, you ask, simple...I drink a diet coke or beer (if I'm feeling sassy) at bedtime and at my age, nature will do the waking up for me.....


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day 5

I grew up in New Orleans in the 60's so of course my new favorite show these days is "Treme" on HBO. The first episode has Steve Zhan's character going on about how New Orleans and Louisiana in general were better off when the Mafia ran things and how flooding after Katrina never would have happened with Carlos still at the helm. I remembered living down there during that period and one of my funniest memories was of my football coach, a huge Italian in a neck brace, who also was in a certain organization. I remember him yelling all the time in that New Orleans/Brooklyn accent that they alway get wrong in the movies. No wonder "The Sopranos" always seemed more like a documentary to me!


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day 4

I have come to understand that fathers everywhere at one point in the father-daughter relationship become a huge embarrassment to their daughters. I can only guess what Mick Jagger's kids thought of him prancing around the stage in his 60's, just dying of embarrassment while the world thought he was still pretty damn cool. Well these day Madeline has had enough of me walking next to her in public, now I must, as any good servant should, walk at least ten paces behind, only approaching her in public with an open wallet in hand. Such is life......





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Day 3

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Ok, it's really not quite this bad, but close, we won by the way 6-1 yesterday. The kids did great!

Day 2

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