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I was hoping to have culled images for the trip I took to California on March 2nd, but sadly, I didn't take my own camera so I have to wait for the camera's owner to either hand me a disc or the memory card with the pictures. It was a blast and if I don't move out of the country within a year (hoping to...
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Wow, what an adventure in endurance and social skills. As I have mentioned before, I spent Wednesday, March 2nd, at the Compton Education Association's Read Across America event. I was pleasantly surprised by the venue and the personalities that showed up to read and organize the event. I had a lot of fun, meeting both the celebrities and professional teachers. I don't know how to...
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I guess I've been living under rocks all these days. In the past week I learned that the reason for the Read Across America's event date was none than Dr. Seuss. I haven't paid much attention before, for one, I've been away from newspapers and news during this time of year, and for two, deployments do take some of the attention away from other, well-meaning...
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In two weeks, I'll be off to Los Angeles CA for the Compton Education Associations Read Across America celebration. It'll be interesting, as one of the folks who works for the CEA (by proxy) is a co-worker and he's the one trying to get lots of celebrity interest in Read Across and I get to go meet those that have said they'll be there to...
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So I hit last weekend pretty hard, and I think it hit back.

Three days of drinking, long road trips (time wise, not distance) and awkward dancing (totally on me, I've own a left-foot factory it seems). Not at the same time either, I know my limits... Just wasn't fully rested until the Monday after the Superbowl (of which, I saw four minutes of the...
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I'll start by saying it: this just ended Year of the Tiger sucked. And I'm a Tiger, so what in the hell happened? Looks like I fell for the whole "false hope" thing brought about by my Year. grr. While I am in a slightly better position than when the Tiger Year kicked off, I'm falling behind in every thing that I wanted to do--get...
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