w00t! I bought a wetsuit that's comfy and keeps me warm!

& w00t! I'm learning to surf!

& w00t! I discovered an amazing beautiful hike last night, completely serendipitiously! (is that a word?)

Tomorrow I receive a paycheck that will almost match my entire income from last year. (Not as big as it sounds.) I can pay off bills and not have to worry about the rent for a while. Yay!

And I just realized that it's farmers' market day!

It's quittin' time!

I'm working from home tomorrow!

It's Wendellsday, I've balanced my checkbook and come out over $100 better than I had previously guesstimated, AND the direct sun has NOT hurt either eye for three days straight (first time in weeks I can say that) AND WordPress 2.2 updated without the problems I had with 2.1 AND I have NO deadline items on my personal agenda. Individually, small stuff, but all together: W0000T!

I am posting from the comfort of my futon. Tonight, I finally got around to setting up the wireless router I bought a couple weeks ago. I also went outside and tested...I can get an excellent signal on my patio! That means that as the weather warms up, I can browse to the machine that houses the 50GB or so of music and enjoy it whilst on my patio. I'm quite pleased with myself. I also managed a lovely 32 character WPA key. So, yeah, Woot.

Ummm, I'll get back to you on this one.

I believe the downpouring rains have battered the massive forest fire south of me! If not, at least it's doing a world of good for my flower bed!

Right on for MRs. D!

The mister has a five day weekend starting tomorrow!

Excellent w00tness, everyone!

Yay, Mrs. Doohickie! She must be really talented to have bypassed the folks with seniority in the system.

Well, not exactly. The thing is that the school she works at is one of the worst in the district, so teachers often move on ASAP. Because she is starting later in life and I am the primary breadwinner, she feels more comfortable in such a risky (career-wise) setting than your average 2nd year teacher.

The current LCT was a joke who's moving on to another school in the district. He never did anything useful and she ended up being one of the driving forces in the department. In the recent standardized testing, Mrs. Doohickie's bottom-of-the-barrel "sweathogs" scored about as well as the current LCT's honors students (and in fact my wife had more students who got the "commended" score).

There are several older teachers near retirement that don't want the job, a few really brand-new teachers (inexperienced *and* young), and they won't give the job to someone who is also a coach. So in a way, she got it by default, although she is the best person for the job and has already been doing some aspects of the job since the real LCT wasn't doing it.