Sunday, September 20, 2009

More stupidity in Findlay

So these were actual events, word-for-word, from the official public record published in my hometown newspaper The Findlay Courier.  These were for the week of Sept 14-19 2009.

Police Department

A Findlay High School student, 16, was cited on West Foulke Avenue for wearing a Taco Bell window promotional sign as a cape. He had taken the sign from the store Tuesday. Umm... What more can I possibly add to this...?

Two high school students were involved in a Tuesday altercation in the 700 block of West Trenton Avenue.

Domestic disputes broke out Tuesday at homes on Breckenridge Road and Delaware Avenue.

Two males tussled Tuesday in the 500 block of Liberty Street over a property line disagreement. Oh no... not "tussling"!!!

An ornament was removed from the side of Early American House, 820 Broad Ave., on Wednesday.

A container of marijuana was confiscated from a Findlay High School student, 17, who was subsequently suspended Monday. Dude, where's my pot???

An intoxicated person was cited for aggravated disorderly conduct in the roadway of the 600 block of Putnam Street on Monday.

A Selby Street woman was arrested for domestic violence after striking her husband Tuesday. Crazy woman....

A Glessner Avenue woman was arrested Sunday for domestic violence after punching her boyfriend. Another crazy woman....

An East Pine Avenue girl was taken to a juvenile detention center on a domestic violence allegation, after biting a family member Sunday. And crazy girl....

Frozen meat and a bicycle were stolen from a garage at 1034 Fishlock Ave. This was noted Sunday. Hey man, look, free meat... and a bike too!

A Mercury was ransacked Tuesday outside 2712 Hollybrook Drive. I hate it when someone ransacks a car!


Sheriff's Office

A rural Forest woman said Monday she had received a suspicious letter, indicating she had won a $2 million prize. She should send in the $1000 to Kenya to claim her prize!

Aluminum was stolen Monday from a front yard at 23469 Hancock County 17, Forest.

Authorities investigated a report Sept. 1 that a substitute teacher at Arlington Schools had hit a student on the top of his head with a pen. No injury was noted. I can sympathize with this one...

A Friday fracas was reported at 820 W. Bigelow Ave.  Oh no, not another "fracas"!

An inebriated Benton Ridge resident was walking in the middle of Main Street in the village Friday. New #1 area of job growth in the state of Ohio is "Village Idiot"

AND MY FAVORITE OF THE WEEK:

A disgruntled rural Van Buren man tried to remove auto speakers while in the bed of his mother's pickup Sunday. The mother reportedly then drove the truck "erratically" in the vicinity of Meadowlark Park in Fostoria and made a sharp turn, tossing the discontented son from the truck. He was treated at Blanchard Valley Hospital for a head injury and "road rash."

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Is it November yet?

So the new Star Trek movie comes out on Blu-Ray at the beginning of November... I pre-ordered it on Amazon.com in August and I just cannot wait to see it in High-Definition on the big tv with the surround sound on full blast... now if November would just hurry up and get here... In the meantime random clips of the movie on YouTube will have to do ::sigh::  But just look at how awesome this movie is...

Here is a short scene of the Enterprise about to go to warp... with a minor technical difficulties and a bit of humor the captures the fun of the original Star Trek series and characters:


And here is a three minute FOX All-Access preview of the movie:

What do cats like to watch?

Answer: PBS. 

So on Saturday night I was watching a documentary on PBS HD about the bears in Yellowstone park and when I looked down around the ottoman I saw Snowy watching the bears too.  Fortunately, my camera was sitting on the ottoman so I quickly took a few pictures of her watching TV:



New TV!

So after getting my performance pay for the super awesome AIMS test scores of my students last year, I used part of my bonus to upgrade my downstairs TV from a much too small for the room 32'' HDTV to a just-perfectly sized 46" Samsung LED High-Definition TV.  This new TV has an incredibly sharp picture but is only about the thickness of a double-dvd case.  Because of this it is 14" larger than the old TV yet actually weighs less... Go figure...  It is truly a beautiful TV at only 1" thick and with a 46" diagonal screen.

The new TV on the TV stand (I was watching Law & Order on NBC HD):


The side profile of the TV compared to a 2-DVD case... Just look how thin the TV is!


At the rate televisions are shrinking in thickness, I figure my next TV will be as thick as a piece of paper and I will be able to just glue it to the wall...  

A rare sight in Phoenix

So on August 6th I took this picture of a rainbow hovering over Glendale and the roof of my school around 6 AM when I arrived in the parking lot:


It is truly a special occasion to see a rainbow in Phoenix... since it rarely rains here and even more rarely produces the conditions necessary to see a rainbow!

Kitty gets a haircut (again)

So on Labor Day I took Snowy to the groomers at Pet Smart to get shaved...

Before:

And After:


First day of school

So we started school on August 3, 2009.  As always I was at school insanely early (around 5:15 AM) to make sure everything was ready... Here was the room just before the school year began:

The front of the room with instructions for the students first assignment of the year ready to go on the SmartBoard:

The students new agendas, 2 pencils, and their first bell work on their desks:

The class giving tree we made after reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and then making our own tree to share what special talent each student has and then how we can use those skills to help others.  Each of my 60 students got to make a leaf for the tree that shares their unique talents:

Long time no post

So believe it or not it has been over a month (more like 7 weeks) since I last posted here.  Somehow school has been keeping me busy (super busy).  Not to mention in the daily grind of getting up at 4am (or earlier) being at school by 5:30am, teaching from 7:45-2:45 and then trying to be home by 5PM and asleep by 7:30, not much out of the ordinary that is blog-worthy has happened in the last 7 weeks...

However, there have been a few interesting moments between then and now so I will try to update the good old blog tonight...