this whole week has been rolling up to last night’s football game … lost by one point in overtime … alas … and tonight’s big dance … A Pirate’s Life for Me! … which i will be attending as adult presence … chaperone … omnipotent authority figure … yeah … i’m the guy with the ruler …

i’m not sure how much coming home actually occurs around this time … the week’s real function seems to be a celebration of school spirit … go team … go school … go us … go me …

i’m not meaning to sound sarcastic or cynical about any of this … the hard thing for any teacher who’s been around a while is to remember that this is all happening for the first time … for them - the students …

at any rate the dance is coming & it will be a late night … we stay until the decorations are down … they managed to get ahold of some lobster traps, some pirate paraphernalia … like a pirate mannequin at the wheel, a ten-foot foam and plastic scimitar, a mast with rope, a couple of skull & crossedbone flags, pirates of the caribbean posters and stand-up johnny depp & (i’m told) orlando bloom cardboard figures.

Voters For Peace: The power to end the war and prevent future wars of aggression …

it’s a tiny thing … but … it’s past time for many grains of sand to begin … to clog the gears of war machinery

Beheading of Iraqi priest latest attack on minorities …

nyt war coverage …

what was this nation thinking? … what have we unleashed?

nobody likes an i told you so … but i did …

it has taken me a long while to get the knack of rss & web aggregators … i’m of the old click and go (straight to that other page) school … but lately i’ve found it very tough to get everywhere i’d like to go - to read every blog or site i’d like to … so i tried bloglines for awhile … but kept forgetting to go there …

now i find netvibes … and am very happy to have (found it) … maybe even deliriously happy … it is a great tool for organizing one’s online reading searching viewing life … check it out

i’ve also just discovered the usefulness of safari’s tabbed browsing … duh … i’m pretty slow on the uptake … up until just about now, i’ve had a desktop littered with three four eight ten open browser windows … and enjoyed the new OS X F9 key’s magical separating function … but hey that’s now a thng of the past … i swear …