Thursday, January 31, 2013
Children, today we are going to practice division
My first thought was to share this picture on Facebook. Thanks, Janet Murtha. But I would just stir up a hornets' nest with few, if any, cogent comments. So I am posting here and anyone who is on Facebook can look here if they want.
THE FIVE POSTS BELOW THIS ARE PREVIOUS FACEBOOK POSTS.
Thought about the nostalgia of teaching. Then I thought about all the paperwork that would be required every time there was a problem in this classroom. I imagine a bullet proof vest is not comfortable either.
Maybe it is better to be retired.
Was talking with a flight attendant and trying to imagine what it is like to be on a plane so often, with the concern over some malfunction always being possible. Then it dawned on me that statistically it must be more probable to to get killed working as a teacher than being part of a flight crew. Don't get a teaching certificate, Loretta.
Janet also posted this:
I thought the highest gun death rate would be in states with large urban areas. Turns out the highest gun death rates are in the rural states where I would have assumed guns would be used primarily for hunting. I thought gun related deaths would be in the urban ghettos.
As a country, if the trends continue, we soon will have more people dying from the use of firearms than getting killed in car crashes.
Support the legalization of tactical nuclear weapons. Remember nukes don't kill people, people kill people.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Washington Summer
from December 3, 2012
While in the Costco parking lot today, I learned I should "Say NO to negativity." The picture is in Snoqualmie Pass on Election Day
Labels: negativity, Snoqualmie Pass, Source Lake
Snowshoeing
From Monday, January 21, 2013
On the trail. Why did this trek seem steeper today than it did four years ago?
We checked out the claims that Mt. Rainier is warmer than Puyallup. Puyallup: foggy and low 30s. Narada Falls: sunny and mid to upper 40s. There was babble about 60 at Paradise. Don't know if it made it. Unequivocally warmer as you went up Mt. Rainier. Guess it is a temperature inversion that is trapping all the stagnant air.
The picture is from Paradise at a flat point.
Labels: Mt. Rainier, Narada Falls, Paradise, snowshoeing, temperature inversion
Learning from Grandchildren
from Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Sometimes our children or grandchildren need to teach us how things are done.
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Sometimes our children or grandchildren need to teach us how things are done.
Labels: Erin, learning from grandchildren
50 Years of Progress
Comments originally posted Friday, January 25, 2013
While watching grandson Adam at the Brouillet Elementary School MLK Day program, several thoughts grabbed my attention.
1. This was the first student assembly in years where I wasn’t working to insure appropriate student behavior. I got to just sit back and enjoy. I wanted to post pictures of the teachers working and the students presenting, but then I didn’t know who might get upset about showing up on FB.
2. In a mere 50 years since “I Have a Dream” we have come a long way in recognizing the person and his/her character are far more important than race or ethnicity. Not everything in the “good old days“ was good. Laws helped make that transition, but surely there were many other things at work as well. We are still in need of those intangibles that have gotten us this far.
While watching grandson Adam at the Brouillet Elementary School MLK Day program, several thoughts grabbed my attention.
1. This was the first student assembly in years where I wasn’t working to insure appropriate student behavior. I got to just sit back and enjoy. I wanted to post pictures of the teachers working and the students presenting, but then I didn’t know who might get upset about showing up on FB.
2. In a mere 50 years since “I Have a Dream” we have come a long way in recognizing the person and his/her character are far more important than race or ethnicity. Not everything in the “good old days“ was good. Laws helped make that transition, but surely there were many other things at work as well. We are still in need of those intangibles that have gotten us this far.
Labels: intangibles for good, Martin Luther King
Entitlements for the "Not Poor"
Sometimes I actually think about things and sometimes I try to analyze beyond what the popular media throws out there. Since I post some of those thoughts on Facebook, Erik suggested I put them in my blog as well. Makes sense to me. If you don't like my using my blog for that, tell me so. At least for now, I might blog occasionally.
Thinking of an entitlement mentality, I went back to see if the execs of bankrupt Hostess were given their proposed $1.8 million in bonuses. They were allowed. Of course they are so short on cash that they may default on payments to retirees. Wish the media criticized execs the same way they demonize unions. I need to hit the enter key and end this. I find the whole thing obscene and would just rant and rave from this point on.
Thinking of an entitlement mentality, I went back to see if the execs of bankrupt Hostess were given their proposed $1.8 million in bonuses. They were allowed. Of course they are so short on cash that they may default on payments to retirees. Wish the media criticized execs the same way they demonize unions. I need to hit the enter key and end this. I find the whole thing obscene and would just rant and rave from this point on.
Labels: entitlements, executive compensation, Hostess
