Yes, a sports post...

Kind of...


I live in Viking Territory. The neighboring cheeseheads are our arch rivals. Cheesehead boy Brett Favre has retired. Come out of retirement. Retired. Come out of retirement. Retired... And is now thinking of coming out of retirement.

Here's the thing. Fricken' retire already and stay retired!! Enough of this ridiculous game! I don't care how much you think you are going to get back at the Packers by playing for the Vikings. I don't even think you'll be all that good for the Vikings. Your last two seasons were not that good... I might even be willing to say they sucked ass. I'm tired of hearing the Favre name already.

Changing School Options ie Closing schools

We just received notice:

The Board of Education, Special School District No. 1, has scheduled the following meetings.
Meetings are open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, May 5th (tonight)
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Working Session

The meeting will be held in Conference Room 1 at the John B. Davis Educational Services Center, 807 Northeast Broadway. The topic for discussion is he Changing School Options. (i.e. closing and relocation of Northrop and other Area B schools.)

We know this is last minute, but if there is anyone who can attend that would be great!@

Let's continue to let the board and district know we oppose this change!!

Thanks,
Northrop PTA

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Just an FYI. There was a meeting scheduled for tonight at Northrop. It was cancelled by the school board without any information as to why. Then this new meeting was suddenly announced at a different location.

New Item for the "I Am Awesome!" file

On the corporate call for my company, not the account I'm on, the exec for HSSE knew my name from initial pandemic preparedness planning in 2006 and put me out as a POC for questions and info on current H1N1 virus.

Then I got kudos because a person who is on another account was talking about what their customer was saying and I was able to explain that we have an opportunity to educate our clients on this flu. I again got kudos from the exec and from my boss and our regional group leader.

I am awesome! I am awesome! I am awesome!


Plus I had Mello Yello this morning because they were out of the other thing that I typically drink so... I'm running on high as I have not had Mello Yello in weeks again. I am running on high so much so that I was walking down the hall and wondering why it was so windy in the building and what was going on with the air pressure to cause such a wind. So I stopped to see where the wind was coming from (to look for a propped open door) and it stopped. Yeah, I was walking so fast that I was creating a wind... Dude. No more Mello Yello. None.


Anyhow, I've been busily working on making sure that everyone has supplies that I have not seen nor heard any new flu news in 4 hours. Must go check the online news outlets.

Ta ta for now!

And go wash your hands! =)

Because I have about 5 minutes to spare

Ahh... Elton John & Billy Joel concert tickets are being given away on the radio... Sigh.

Yesterday, I went home exhausted. A couple of years ago, I was incredibly interested in the bird flu H5N1 and became the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on our account. Well, now this swine flu has come along and all of my days are full of swine flu news and data and statistics and planning and prevention and... and... and... I don't get to turn it off though when I've had enough because I have to be on top of it as much as possible. So it is all flu all day. I suspect that today, I will go home exhausted as well.

Meanwhile, the school district is closing schools and making decisions that don't seem to go along with the community's focus nor that seem to make fiscal sense. The school that the boy goes to and we were intending sending Itty Bitty to is on the list of closing schools. They are closing down the newer school that is appropriate for elementary kids and is smaller... and reopening it (same teachers, still elementary) in a older, middle school location. The 'new' location is an old building that looks like a prison. It is huge and currently has no playground. It is not appropriate for an elementary school. They are going to have to spend a good deal of money to make this building feel right for little kids. It is just beyond me. I hear that this bigger building though brings in outside revenue from renting out space to a theater group and several different intermural community sports.

Minneapolis, like most cities, has many neighborhoods that each have an individual feel to them. I like to think that ours has a sort of laid back, young family, environmentally conscious feel to it. There is a good deal of focus on shopping locally, urban environmentalism, usage of the community centers, etc. It's a fairly safe part of the city without being in the upper middle or upper class sections.

The school board says that it wants to create community schools. I like this idea. I like the idea of my kids going to school with their neighbors and getting to know them. Let's face it -- we adults don't often do a good job of meeting and getting to know our neighbors. But the kids do! They don't really care who they are as long as they find a playmate.

However they are removing the urban enviromental focus. They are putting the kids in a big school. The school is not elementary age ready.



And now... my five minutes are up... Back to Flu, flu, flu

This is just taking up space

What is the most useless thing in the house?

Me. Okay, part of me is in fact useful, however that part seems to have disappeared when I got home. I'm tired. I'm cold. My head hurts. I want to go to sleep.