Blog for February 21, 2011

It is about time I got back in the saddle and started blogging heavy hard. It’s been about a year since I last deposited a blog-worthy note in my moribund blog. This will mean, once again, that I have to follow my writing regimen of Sunday to Thursday writing, Saturday to revise, edit, polish, and proofread. Stir and repeat again beginning the following Sunday. All it requires from me is the willingness to sit down and get to work. Every night at 6:30, except Fridays.
It’s not like I don’t have a lot to talk about. I just to read my blogs for ten minutes and I have enough material to respond with a lengthy post, but for reasons I do not understand, I do not seem able or willing to get my thoughts down in writing. As they say though: the only way to begin writing is to begin writing. Thus I begin once again to wade into the murky but oh-so-satisfying world of writing, blog writing.
I just took a dip in the old American politics pool for a not quite refreshing dip. I don’t think I have enough intelligence; actually no one does, to make heads or tails out of what the American right thinks about anything. They could be the dumbest people on earth. If they are not, whom would you select as dumber, seriously?
I’m getting ready to watch a little bit of the Washington/Pittsburgh game that starts in a few minutes. I really wonder if the Capitals really have it in them to make a concerted effort to come together as a hockey team. As it turns out, the Capitals won the game 1-0; however, I never watched the rest of the game.
At the moment I’m watching Detroit and San Jose. It is 3-2 at the end of two for San Jose. We are quite well actually, but we are really having trouble controlling Joe Thornton’s line. We are, however, playing quite well; I’m optimistic for the third period. Perhaps the rest of this blog I will live blog the game. Hell, why not?
Datysuk just hit the goalpost at the beginning of the third. Eaves is gone for the night. He hurt his leg in the second period. Datysuk just had another marvelous opportunity - in front of the San Jose net. The last few minutes the puck has been in the Detroit zone; Jimmy Howard has been excellent all game actually. Detroit ended up losing the game 4-3. However, I think the team deserved a better fate. Better goaltending did us in along with a few goal posts.
Tonight I planned my last really heavy class load for tomorrow. Thankfully the year is just about up. I must be getting old; I look forward to the end of a school year. Mind you I still have to do five weeks of observing student teachers as my role as faculty advisor, and I have to finish my online course that goes until the end of March. This will be followed by the Junior Basic course in the spring, and then I’ll be done.
I really do wonder how much longer I will continue to do this. This will be the end of my 39th year in teaching. I wonder if we didn’t need the money how long I would continue to go. I’m probably good till 70, but all bets are off after that. Mind you if we win the $50 million lottery, I’ll be out the door in an instant.
Well, having won the $50 million, I guess I can give more time to my blogging. What would I talk about? Let’s see: American politics, the Leaf Nation, the Detroit Red Wings, education, fishing, that’s a start for sure. Now, I just have to win the big prize. In the meantime I’ll have to toil and toil and curse the bread, etc.
I’m quickly approaching the end of my self-imposed 700 words. I’m really not sure how I’m going to revise this mess into a coherent whole, but that will be Saturday’s chore. Right now I’m trying to hit the magic number before the Wings/Stars game.