I wish I had it in me to keep this more up to date than I do. I don't--mainly because of a lack of time.

 Today is Erick's birthday--#12.  He's got a friend from Neoga over though we'll see how friendships hold up, etc once he starts up at Uni High next week.  It's taking some adjustment to get used to the fact that he'll graduate from high school at age 16 and that he'll also be through with Algebra and Statistics at the end of THIS year already. 

 Brigitte is charming as ever though I guess we'll see how that holds up as she starts to physically mature--if it is like Debbie was as a sister, this will be an interesting period of time.

 Mike is far more physical than the other two still--and more coordinated as well.  Now to just get him interested in reading books--he's a stubborn cuss and doesn't like reading often.

And now back to writing other stuff and then playing games with Erick and his friend Daniel--what a horrible way to have to spend a Sunday :)

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In other news, the train wreck that remains where I worked two jobs ago is as big as ever.  Here we are two weeks from the start of school and three faculty/staff members resigned this past week.  When you have a faculty of 18-20 people and you fire (wrongfully in both cases) two and then three more resign--what does it say about management that the turnover is 20%+ for a year?   As a one-time occurrence, that can happen.  But in six years, six principals, four biology teachers, two chem teachers, five Spanish teachers, four music instructors, five English instructors, three US History instructors, etc.   --This raises the question-->why?  What allows such continuing incompetence?  Anywhere else (other than the current President's administration which is sadly equally incompetent), heads of management would roll.