Thanks LS, least her dad isn't mad.

Dad couldn't visit. :(

The story about the 5 teens in Hialeah, Fl.

Just looked it up. Modern kids with no understanding of old hazards. Damn shame.

Just a stupid accident.

Not being in Seattle today.

My Lindor truffles are almost soupy inside.

Finding out how bad my best friend is, healthwise. She finally went in to the ER yesterday with what she thought was a bad case of the flu. Turns out it is a serious kidney infection, and she's probably gonna be hospitallized for a while longer

Major bummer man. Hope everything turns out okay.

Yeah me too, but it won't be a quick recovery from what I understand. She's a wonderful perosn, but just has the worst luck when it comes to her health (and she tries very hard to be as healthy as possible)

Some people just get the short end of the stick. I have cousin and an aunt like that. My aunt has rheumatoid arthritis and my cousin has to many issues to list.

Finding out that I once again will not be getting paid for the years that I have been teaching as per the negotiated salary schedule. I will be allowed to count 2 of the 5 years which means a $177 a year raise as opposed to the $1253 raise I have earned.

The joys of the free market, pity you don't have a negotiated salary structure. Oh, you do. How do they get away with that?

We are teachers.

Don't you then have the ability to subliminally implant your charges with an instruction to beat up, en masse, the makers of these decisions? It may not get you your raise, but satisfaction level is 870%.