Strange and wonderful.

Some of these comments remind of the old Dragon Magazine cartoon about visiting TSR. The legal department said the company was in trouble with a certain British gentleman's estate, so don't use "ring." Say "the phone is circular-metal-banding!"

This week I hope.

5.

I had a weird thought. Trump and his supporters often say that people who write critical books about the president are just doing it to make money. But if Trump is as popular as he says he is, wouldn't you make more money writing a sycophantic book? So why aren't they?

RIP Toots Hibbert

Thanks. I hope it's good. And I hope I get the history right.

It’s on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and a few others.

I've started a podcast! It's designed to be short summaries of U.S. history for my 8th grade students.

I'm not sure how the sound quality is; I don't have a particularly good mike. But I hope it's at least pretty good.

So far I've done 4 episodes. Take a listen .

I survived.

Once more into the breach . . .

I doubt the weekend will be that restful--school starts on Monday, and there's still a huge amount of confusion about how things will go. So I expect I'll be working and/or stressing about that.

Just so tired of being me.

Today we're supposed to be doing tech trainings from the IT people in my school. Tomorrow and Wednesday we're supposed to do system-wide trainings. All of this is supposed to be done through Zoom. But Zoom isn't working, and the IT person said it's because the county hasn't yet paid for enough Zoom...

Today we're supposed to be doing tech trainings from the IT people in my school. Tomorrow and Wednesday we're supposed to do system-wide trainings. All of this is supposed to be done through Zoom. But Zoom isn't working, and the IT person said it's because the county hasn't yet paid for enough Zoom ...