Jacksonville

Two words for all of you--frickin', hot. But I figure I'll get used to it soon enough.
I didn't know what day it was until I looked at the date/time on the menu bar of my computer which says Friday. I think it still feels like Thursday, but then I notice that the clock actually says 1:13. It totally does not feel that late, but I guess that's the time change.
The last few days have been somewhat busy getting some things in place for the summer. As to be expected, we've had a couple of snags to work out but for the most part things are going very well. Most of the team leaders are arriving tomorrow (technically today, but we'll say tomorrow because I'm sleeping b/t now and then) so we'll help them get moved in and settled. Take it easy since most of them will have been on the road for a couple of days. Hopefully I'll have some time within the next day or two to haul my car in to get the air conditioner fixed. For those sharp apples in the bunch, put two and two together (or put "ninety-five with humidity" and "car sitting in the sun" together) and see what you get. To quote a friend, "I'm like rotisserie chicken."
More later.

Back Track

Found this today. Reminded me of a previous post and the subsequent comments. Well, specifically just one, and even more specifically the last couple sentences.
Buy the weigh, Jesse, regarding that Shelby Steele article you passed on to me: looks like he's got a new book out that appears intriguing.
Also, I leave for Jacksonville on Tuesday. Just in case anyone wanted to know.

UPDATE:
I leave on Monday. I got a lot to do tomorrow....

Quotes & Haiku

So I went throught a bunch of stuff in my room today while I was cleaning up to move out for the summer. As random as some of these things might seem, there are stories and memories behind most of them. That's what I appreciate about them, but I hope you get either a laugh or a "Hmmm" out of them. Enjoy.

"The world is my burrito and I can eat it with both hands." -Forrest

"No, not while you're eating your manlove." -Mad-lib

"I want French people to come to Christ but I don't have to like them." -Matt

" I would feel bad about killing somebody in my own Bible study." -David

Without a reason
To live except God's glory
I'm better off dead
-me

"My arms are too caucasian." -Jo

"My (2 words removed) could have knocked out small children." -Jo

What great bitterness
Sipping on the dregs of life
And hating the taste
-me

"It was OK to start with, but then in kept going." -David

"You're using a little kids prayer journal to keep a spades score?!?" -Me
"Actually it was for a Taco Bell order." -Kevvy Crocker

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -Martin Luther

"If one man says to thee, 'Thou art a donkey,' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle." -Talmud

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -GK Chesterton

"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil." -Anonymous

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." -CS Lewis

"As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well." -Thomas Traherne

Wish List

Three Things I wouldn't mind droppin' the flow for:

1. The coolest air freshener I've ever seen.

2. Awesome poster.

3. Interesting looking book.

For Your Amusement

Well, I don't know what to say.
If your a fan of Legos or of Monty Python, check this out.

UPDATE:
Here's another one that's quite a bit longer. Can anybody say Rube Goldberg?

And you know exactly what about economics?

Check out this exchange between Tim Russert and Energy Secretary Bodman on Meet the Press.

As mentioned in a previous post, I don't know much about economics. I've never even taken a class in it. But at the very least I'm aware of the phenomenon that prices are largely determined by two forces known as supply and demand. I'll admit that the topic comes up in some of the math classes I've taught, but I chalk it up to common sense. If there's a larger supply of resource A, it is intrinsically less valuable (since there's a lot of it). If the supply is running low, it is therefore more valuable and will be worth more.

A great number of people need to get off their high horses and pay for gas. By the way, $3/gallon is not that bad. Around the world prices can be much much worse. If cheap gas is the most important thing to you, it's a quarter a gallon in Venezuela if you'd like to move there.

But I will note with gratitude, that due to these incredibly high prices which have forced Americans to cut their travel and fuel consumption nearly in half, the government is thinking about giving back $100 to many people (I'm not sure if they would be citizens or illegals) who have to pay so dearly for gas. And from what I hear, each check will come with a free tote bag.

And a gratuitous Seinfeld quote from The Pledge Drive:

Kramer: Jerry, where are all the tote bags?

Jerry: I don't know.

Kramer: Well, I'm not leaving the premises without tote bags. I was promised
tote bags and tote bags I shall have.