Ha ha

Ryan would kill me if he knew I put this picture on here. But he looks so silly and cute. I love how he has his 'morale wall' with all the cards and pictures sent to him. At least those things made him smile I'm sure.

Sillyness

Ryan claims this stemmed from heat and boredom, but he decided to build a french fry pirate ship and a french fry rocket. They later had a war together at the table. And here's a picture of him with his hair growing back (YAY).

Ryan was recently given an award and sent me this picture. Then he told me that people from Langely (who are in Qatar) found the picture on the Intranet and have been congratulating him. He asked me to post the picture here for everyone. He's doing allright, really tired of the same food. He's run about 350 miles so far since Jan, he gets a shirt for every 100 miles he runs.

Milestone

So an update on my running - I went to nike.com/nikerunning. They have this cool training log - you can record what you did to work out each day. It color codes the workouts, calculates the distance, makes graphs and everything. So cool for someone like myself who loves organization. Well, it also has programs to help you reach different running goals. I started my program on Sunday. Today I did my longest distance yet - 4 miles. I was so amazed that I could do it! I got a package from Ryan with his 100 mile t-shirt. He's already up to 302 miles since he left. He's beating me for sure!

Annie

Today I went to see the musical Annie with a friend from work and her kids. It was really good! Here's a picture of how cute we looked!

Signs of the Times

Here is a recent e-mail I recieved pertianing to the Standards of Learning tests given at random grade levels to support No Child Left Behind:

Good afternoon HCS personnel,
It has come to my attention that some staff members in our schools have
read and discussed the SOL Writing prompt. Be advised that this is a severe
breach of test security. All discussion must cease immediately. At no
time is it ever permissible to read or discuss any SOL question.

Worse before better!

Update! Also, Ryan shaved his head again...nice tan line!

T-Shirts

I want to have a ban on annoying t-shirts put in to effect at school. They just reflect the poor attitude of students and parents. Here are some that I see on a regular basis.

"I'm just here for recess"
"My sister is the brat, I'm the good one"
"BORED of education"
"I look bored because I did it right the first time"

Teachers already struggle to get support and respect. These 'values' are not making it any better!

Leg Pics

Well Ryan is back to work, he sent some pics of his leg (ew).

More Ryan: Brag and Sad

Yay for Ryan. Sad for Ryan...

Now for the story you've been waiting for. So, work was good. I was
doing an awesome job today. Sgt. Tarte told Sgt. Trav to put me in for
the 'hard charger' award since I am doing 'a job far above my paygrade'
to put it in Tarte's words. Mainly he was saying that I am doing the
job of Rover (the other shift Rovers are not below a SSgt) and that I am
pretty much in charge of how Rover is operated on all shifts and that
should get some recognition. It was nice to hear from someone on
another shift that he thinks I am doing a terrific job.

So I continued to work after that comment since I had stuff to get done and I was
loading an air compressor onto a trailer when I slipped and had the
'kickstand' (about a half-inch thick, one inch by three inch piece of
steel attached to a leg) land on my inner thigh. Now this air
compressor weighs about 300 pounds. So having three hundred pounds
crashing on my inner thigh from a height of about four feet did not feel
good at all. It scratched me up really good and I immediately started
bruising. With that happening I couldn't really walk all that well so
they took me to the hospital. So I showed up there and they said
nothing major happened. Just some scratches and a pretty deep bruise in
the muscle. So they gave me some extra strength Tylenol and sent me on
my way. It hurts really friggen bad.

Ryan Pic

Here is the latest picture of Ryan. He claims he is using sunscreen, but he looks like he is getting pretty tan to me!!! I like his half-smile!