2008 February 14 « chatter from the Library Monkey

the long week is almost over

February 14, 2008 at 10:21 pm | In Detroit Tigers, The Big Cats, basketball, co-workers, field trips | No Comments

the long week is almost over

Even with a day off this is a long week, mostly because of a couple long days. Today I worked about 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., because I did the timing for the baseball game. I don’t know what it is,but I have been pretty bad at it the last couple times. I haven’t been turning the clock on fast enough.

I think some of it — and this is a bad excuse — has to do with the fact that the days are long. In the past I would go home and take a nap. Lately I have just been working on a few things then doing the game. Not a good excuse, but I can’t figure out why my mind has been slipping.

I am chaperoning the bus tomorrow, that should be great fun. I just hope boobo doesn’t sign up. I guess the good and bad news is mostly the kids that go, get a ride home with their parents.

This will be really short since I would like to go to bed early. I walked to work today. It was nice, since it was a beautiful day

A bit of a bonus today, ’star’ was on a field trip.

The Tigers kind of started today, I guess people are just trickling in. I canceled my MLB subscription. Hopefully I will be able to listen for free on the iTune station. If not I will re-up. It isn’t that expernsive — $15. We are 12 days from that first spring training game.

Gratitude (3)

I am grateful for beautiful winter days
I am grateful for a february break
I am grateful for field trips quiet down the school

pushups = 0
crunches = 0
squats = 0
walk = 15 minutes

an extra day

February 14, 2008 at 12:32 am | In Amtrak, Baseball, Humor, Travel, Vacation | No Comments

an extra day

And extra stuff.

It was a really good day, and not because I didn’t have to face ’star.’ I got my voucher from Amtrak re-instated. I am not looking to go to the “grand canyon” during spring break. I have spent a little time investigating that. I also burned some CDs mostly of the pictures that I took during Winter Carnival. I also moved music from an older computer to this one and then made a copy of the stuff I don’t have on CDs.

Last night was the last night for the quilting class. I got my quilt log done and made up a post card…sent it to my favorite conga player. The class was fun, though I didn’t like being a spectacle. Because I was the only male and apparently looked at the art of quilting differently than everyone else, I was laughed at a bit.

I am thinking that snow days are the oddest things. They really aren’t a bonus, they are events that are mostly planned for. In the schedule there are three extra days, for the event that school is canceled. If we bet to May with out a snow day, then there will be an extra day off for Memorial Day Weekend.

Not sure if that will happen, but I want to use up the rail voucher, then or during the summer.

A year ago, right before the Feb break, we had a really big snow storm and had the last three days as snow days..which was more than what was programed in.

I don’t think that is going to happen this week.

The Tigers spring training starts tomorrow!!

Gratitude (3)