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B.Sc. Journalism, University of Oregon, USA. M.A.Ed, Elementary Education, University of Phoenix, USA.

DAY TWENTY-NINE: Friday

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I’m having a difficult time summoning enthusiasm about anything, even though Friday afternoon has finally arrived. Work is done for the week. I will have two days away from that place.

Just for the record: the state budget department recommended this week that the Department of Education reduce its administrative overhead by ten percent. The Department of Education responded by saying they would try to reduce administrative overhead by two percent, and would make up the difference by cutting special education services. Continue reading DAY TWENTY-NINE: Friday →

DAY TWENTY-SIX: What’s Up With the 100 DAYS Stuff?

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What’s with this 100 Days thing? It’s pretty simple, really. I started this site to try to catalog changes I want to make in my life. I decided, somewhat randomly, to try to keep track of what I accomplish over the course of 100 days toward making significant changes in my life.

I was inspired to start the blog by Continue reading DAY TWENTY-SIX: What’s Up With the 100 DAYS Stuff? →

DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Deletion

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Today I deleted one of my two eBay accounts, the one I use for buying. Yes, I can still make purchases on eBay using my selling account, but this way I will be more likely to think more carefully about what I buy.

I also deleted one of my two web hosting accounts. I don’t know why I had two hosting accounts. I had grand visions for creating a vast internet presence at one time. I moved all of my domain names to the account I’m keeping.

On the way to work I stopped at Home Despot and picked up a few supplies for the ongoing house project.

I had planned to write a longer, more detailed DAY TWENTY-FIVE post spelling out in detail the idea behind the 100 DAYS project, but I ended up fooling around with web site databases and re-installing WordPress and stuff, and now it’s late, so the long post is not going to happen.

DAY TWENTY-THREE: Screenfest

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Re-screened six window screens. Started repairing yet another decaying window frame. Tried patching some broken molding along the ceiling in the kitchen, but I don’t think it’s gonna work very well. I know what I need to do a better job of it. Doesn’t sound like much, but it took all day. These “fix-it” chores are time-consuming and frustrating because every task consists of an endless number of tiny, tedious steps.

DAY TWENTY-TWO: More Decluttering

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Today I discarded the equivalent of at least four “apple box” size cartons of packaging material from the toys and dolls I’ve been deboxing. I unboxed my Pinky:st hoard today, including “rare” figures like Tenjho Tenge sets, Post Pets, and even sealed-carton Pucchi, Air Gear Ringo, and Gunslinger Girl Henrietta figures. Research on eBay indicates that boxed Pinky:st figures are not holding any resale value. I unboxed everything, threw away or recycled the packaging, and put the figures into plastic sandwich bags and then stored them in a plastic tub. I used a plastic storage tub that I already had, one that I had emptied when I more efficiently repacked my larger-scale dolls and toys last week. Continue reading DAY TWENTY-TWO: More Decluttering →

DAY TWENTY-ONE: Nothing New Under the Sun (Hardly)

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I accomplished very little today beyond going to work and coming home. I spent a bit of time working on decluttering The Room of Doom, but progress seems infinitesimal.

I read a quote from author Jack London on a web site called The Art of Adventure. The London quote led me to look at a bit of biographical info on London. That guy accomplished more between the ages of 13 and 17 than I have, or ever will, in my lifetime! Time have changed, though. How likely is it that a 13 year old, or even a 30 year old, or a 60 year old, could make enough money working a menial job for a few months to buy a sloop and go into the oyster fishing business… or oyster piracy business, in London’s case? How likely is it that someone of young years and zero experience could get hired on to a ship crew for a voyage to Asia? In many ways the world today offers far more opportunity than the world of the 1880s… like not dying of smallpox or cholera, for instance. But in other ways, opportunity is significantly more limited, particularly as a result of the increased financial cost of… everything.

Anyway, I need to turn off the Interwebz browser and declutter some more.

Three day weekend. Gotta make a list of things to do. They will be boring, around-the-house things, the same things I’ve been working on for seemingly forever, but more realistically what has been about three weeks. Progress seems slow, if there’s been any progress at all, but they’re baby steps in the right direction. Of course, what’s the point in taking baby steps in the right direction if the ultimate destination is as far away as the moon?

DAY TWENTY: What th’ Devil?

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“Satan is god! Satan is god!” This is what a 9-year old kid in my class was spouting today, mostly to draw attention to himself and draw a rise out of the other kids. At least I hope that’s why he was saying it. Working as I do in the public school system, I have to be tolerant of all religious viewpoints, so beyond trying to quietly shush the little devil-worshipper… well, what can I say? I was trying very hard, but somewhat unsuccessfully, not to laugh. Less than two weeks into the new school year, the Crazy Train – actually, a few years ago a friend christened it The Circus Train to the Twilight Zone – is already at full-throttle.

And I want off this ride! Continue reading DAY TWENTY: What th’ Devil? →