dAY 29

Going to be a busy weekend, In-laws in town, soccer game in the morning and a Sounds Baseball game tomorrow night. Spent the day at the school helping with the end of the year fun day activities. Stood at the start of a blow-up castle thing and kept the kids from walking all over each other.



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day 28

Haven't had the time to cartoon yet due to my serious housecleaning duties! No, really, got family coming in this weekend and need the house to look like at least Cro-Magnon people live here! As a treat, I thought I would throw out a bone to you readers and let you see what the "Hounds from Heck" really look like, cartoon to follow later....hopefully!


L to R: Zoe, Bruce and Minnie Pearl



I talked the 5th grade class about the oil disaster in the Gulf while Sub'ing the other day and explained what I remembered about drilling and well control. All those years in the Gulf on the rigs and that degree in Geology weren't a total waste. The kids really got into it and calmed down, listened and asked some very interesting questions! The more we hear about what happened, the more it looks like shortcuts and stupid decisions were made. The subsea engineers I worked with would never let a BOP go down with dead batteries and faulty Ram's in place. More is coming out daily, I just hope they do not take a business as usual attitude and think outside the box to shut the well down and get this mess cleaned up before it finishes off one of the most beautiful parts of this country!

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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 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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