one of my parents sent me this. reminds me of my angst against metro schools and pedro’s war on low testing at the expense of actually teaching kids to think.
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google street view : checking out the neighborhood
erin & i were looking at some houses in the neighborhood as a possible option for her grandmother. who currently lives in tullahoma but seems to be in nashville more and more for health reasons. some minor, some more major. while looking i was pleasantly surprised to see our neighborhood and most of davidson county is all plugged in with google’s street view. it was way cool to play with.
afterwards wifey said that she might sue google for sucking up all her husbands free time. i don’t know if i would blame google, i could waste just as much time on twittervision or second life. &:~D
the pic is our little corner house probably sometime in the winter as our flowers are not blooming.
bummer : last day
today, friday, was my friend and cohort beth’s last day at the conference office as conference youth director. i’ve been too busy to think about it this week. but when i got home there was an email.
Hey Gang,
This is it, my last message to you… Our new CCYM has made the commitment to carry on – so I hope
you will look forward to what the future will hold. Your local churches
are blessed by your presence as I have been over the years. I can be
reached anytime you need me…
i’m bummed.. come monday, there will be these continuing moments of absence. change is okay, i can handle that, but the means and spirit of these things and manipulative nature still cuts deep. i have tried to keep a high road in all this, but i don’t know how long that will last.. shall i just walk away. do my own thing. i don’t know
my high school girlfriends mom : what the heck?
my mom sent me this video. apparently, my old high school girlfriends mom (dianne, in the yellow) was on korean television. they are great, even though i wasn’t dating their daughter they gave me money every now and then while i was in college cause they are just cool like that. i’m still reasonably close with the family, though we haven’t talked in awhile i had no idea she was part of this. from what i can tell these are people who have developed some fan appreciation for korean dramas, not sure if its television or other medium. i don’t speak korean.
in other korean connections. jessica has a killer new tatt.
reminded its a small world : ever shrinking
today i spent time online with tim & others in tim’s organized weekly skypecast. it was cool, my microphone worked the whole time this week. the first time i plugged into the skypecast the microphone crapped out after about 10 minutes and i did the chat thing. good conversation with those involved, but one moment took the platform for me as interesting.
frank, who has participated in the skypecasts was talking about his town in delaware. i mentioned to him that i used to hang out in a town down there he might be familiar with.. (took me a bit to remember the name).. dagsboro. there was a little silence and he reponds.. that’s where i work. whoa!
dagsboro is a strange place in my teen years. this is the town that my friend mike and his family (mom & little brother) were forced to move to when his step dad kicked them all out of their house in the town we were growing up in. they moved there to live in an area that was essentially an established modular house park.. not quite trailer park. just trying to remember the name took me back to all kinds of good and not so good memories. so wonderful and not so wonderful people. knowing the demise of my friend, and the people he & we (my group of friends) befriended, i know there are numerous broken teenagers there.
after work i made it home and was mowing my lawn before the weekend. while mowing julianne the neighbor who will actually talk to us and give us the gossip about us stopped by to talk about what to bring for monday’s block party. i mentioned that i wanted to cook some brats and pasta salad. she called our for her husband and mentioned "your fellow jersey boy is going to cook brats for monday." again reminded, craig is from riverside new jersey, a small town a few miles from where i grew up in cinnaminson. again, many stories.. who would have thought i’d move 900 miles away and find myself next to a guy who grew up some 5-8 miles from me.