Okay- I rode my uncles scooter the other day. I had a BLAST! Feeling weak.....want one badly.
This is just to ride around town! I road around with the kids on it and had fun! It was a blast! The kids loved it. It would be fun for just riding around town.
There is a used one for sale up the road........feeling weak
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
College Graduates and Their Expectations
I want to start off by saying I realize I am talking about a small group of people. In my position each year I interview for open teaching positions. I always run into a few people who are fresh out of college. Every now and then I run across some "kid" who ends up turning us down based on salary. Hey I understand picking one district over another for a difference in salary that you can feel but choosing one district over another for a grand? When you are traveling an extra 30 miles round trip? You are going to blow through that 1.000 dollars in about 3 months there chief!
All districts are pretty close when it comes to starting salaries. What is amazing to me is their expectations of their starting salary. I am wondering if they are told what to expect when they get into the real world. Teacher salaries are not that bad. There is an old wives tale that teachers are not paid well. A new teacher right out of college in my district will make $46,500 next year. I know of a husband and wife that are new to teaching in our district and they are right out of college. Their combined salary next year will be $103,000 dollars. That is pretty darn good. Their "starter" home is pretty impressive.
Before you rag on teacher salaries also think about this. There are no coporate take overs with layoffs...no down sizing with layoffs...they don't close down the district. It is not that bad. Maybe I am being stupid but in the coporate world you may start off a little higher depending on your job but with lay offs and down periods of no work I think you come out ahead being in education. I can't tell you the exact number but there is a HUGE raise in the number of applicants who have been in the business world and now have gone through certification for teaching. I had ONE teaching position open and over 230 applicants. It is getting tough to get a job teaching.
All districts are pretty close when it comes to starting salaries. What is amazing to me is their expectations of their starting salary. I am wondering if they are told what to expect when they get into the real world. Teacher salaries are not that bad. There is an old wives tale that teachers are not paid well. A new teacher right out of college in my district will make $46,500 next year. I know of a husband and wife that are new to teaching in our district and they are right out of college. Their combined salary next year will be $103,000 dollars. That is pretty darn good. Their "starter" home is pretty impressive.
Before you rag on teacher salaries also think about this. There are no coporate take overs with layoffs...no down sizing with layoffs...they don't close down the district. It is not that bad. Maybe I am being stupid but in the coporate world you may start off a little higher depending on your job but with lay offs and down periods of no work I think you come out ahead being in education. I can't tell you the exact number but there is a HUGE raise in the number of applicants who have been in the business world and now have gone through certification for teaching. I had ONE teaching position open and over 230 applicants. It is getting tough to get a job teaching.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Deon Sanders and His Reality Show
Okay I don't know how long this show is going to be online because I think me, Deon Sanders and maybe Michael Irvin are the only people watching it so catch this quick. This show is kind of set for failure for a couple of reasons.
1. The show is on the OXYGEN channel- Next to Lifetime there is no bigger chick station than OXYGEN. The people who would be interested in this.....DEON SANDERS FANS aka MEN don't usually run by this channel.
2. Time Slot- I have yet to figure out the day and time this show is on. I have seen it all over the time slots on different days of the week.
3. Fan Base- I am not sure who exactly would be watching this across the country. Maybe people in Dallas or San Francisco but who else?
I am sure this show is short lived and I think it is sad. I don't stop my world to watch it but when I run across it I find myself stuck to the show. Mainly because I think Deon's take on the world is pretty funny. His wife is pretty funny and she has an interesting take on life but then again all she has to do in this world is shop and look good for Deon...something she takes seriously. She is a former model and is pretty sharp. She keeps Deon wrapped around her finger. Back to Deon's take on the world.
His house is in a near by town here in Texas. I have seen his house and it is something else. It is just HUGE!! The house itself sits on about 200 acres not far from Bill Bates ranch. Anyway in a recent show the Sanders family was sitting down for breakfast when all of the sudden out their windows were these bulls and cows walking on their lawn and looking in the window watching the family. Deon's wife had a fit. Get these cows out of here now DEON was the wife's words. Deon looked up at the cows and continued to eat his breakfast as if nothing was the problem. Here was Deon's words to his wife.
Baby, the problem here is you see 3 cows when you look out the window. When I look out the window I see One, Two, Three.......TAX EXEMPTIONS. Baby, when you have over 150 acres of land you gotta claim agricultural exemptions. With the money those cows are saving us I can replant the backyard EVERYDAY!!!
FUNNY!!!!!!
Watch it if you can
1. The show is on the OXYGEN channel- Next to Lifetime there is no bigger chick station than OXYGEN. The people who would be interested in this.....DEON SANDERS FANS aka MEN don't usually run by this channel.
2. Time Slot- I have yet to figure out the day and time this show is on. I have seen it all over the time slots on different days of the week.
3. Fan Base- I am not sure who exactly would be watching this across the country. Maybe people in Dallas or San Francisco but who else?
I am sure this show is short lived and I think it is sad. I don't stop my world to watch it but when I run across it I find myself stuck to the show. Mainly because I think Deon's take on the world is pretty funny. His wife is pretty funny and she has an interesting take on life but then again all she has to do in this world is shop and look good for Deon...something she takes seriously. She is a former model and is pretty sharp. She keeps Deon wrapped around her finger. Back to Deon's take on the world.
His house is in a near by town here in Texas. I have seen his house and it is something else. It is just HUGE!! The house itself sits on about 200 acres not far from Bill Bates ranch. Anyway in a recent show the Sanders family was sitting down for breakfast when all of the sudden out their windows were these bulls and cows walking on their lawn and looking in the window watching the family. Deon's wife had a fit. Get these cows out of here now DEON was the wife's words. Deon looked up at the cows and continued to eat his breakfast as if nothing was the problem. Here was Deon's words to his wife.
Baby, the problem here is you see 3 cows when you look out the window. When I look out the window I see One, Two, Three.......TAX EXEMPTIONS. Baby, when you have over 150 acres of land you gotta claim agricultural exemptions. With the money those cows are saving us I can replant the backyard EVERYDAY!!!
FUNNY!!!!!!
Watch it if you can
At The Movies With JDHTEACH
Hello and welcome to At the Movies with JDHTEACH. I am your host JDHTEACH. Tonight I want to review 3 movies. Yesterday I had a quiet afternoon so I had an opportunity to put in some quality movie time. I watched 3 movies yesterday.
NORBIT- Starring Eddie Murphey- 131 minutes- I mention that because there is about 2 minutes of this movie that was funny. I was looking forward to this because the reviews I was reading online were mentioning that this was one of Eddie Murphey's best movies. My thought was I have seen this type of movie before. It was called Coming to America and it was about 20 years ago. I guess Eddie Murphey will always have a cult following but this act has grown tiresome. Make Eddie Murphey play 3 or 4 people including some old white guy...again SEEN IT and add in fart humor. I think Eddie Murphey needs to retire this type of humor. He has done it and his repeat attempts to strike gold are getting worse and worse...Nutty Professor...Nutty Professor II. MOVE ON!!! I really like Eddie Murphey. I think he is hilarious in many of his co-starring roles. During this movie I actually got up and started cleaning the house while it was playing. I could miss 15 minutes of this movie and not have a problem keeping up. I guess money talks but they should have been able to read the script and know that this movie was crap. Cuba Gooding Junior has a small role. I would be willing to bet that he is not putting this movie on his resume'.- If he is I bet it is listed after his starring role in underwear commercials with Michael Jordon.
Overall Rating 1/2 a star out of 5.
Semi Pro- Starring Will Ferral- I went into this movie thinking ANYTHING was an improvement from Norbut. I found that most of the funny parts were covered in the theatrical trailer. I am a huge Will Ferral fan so I hung in there with this movie. Definitely a rental. I did not think it was as funny as Blades of Glory but this was an okay movie for a lazy Saturday afternoon. I will say that I thought it was hilarious that Will Ferrell wrestled a bear to get attendance. That scene was pretty funny...again, to me it was funny.
Overall Rating 2 and 1/2 stars out of 5
Chalie Wilson's War- Starring Tom Hanks- This of course is the movie based on Congressman's Charlie Wilson role in supporting Afghanistan during the Cold War with Russia. I won't go into the details of the movie but I was so glad I saved this movie for the last of the day. I was GLUED to the TV during this show. I thought it was great. There were a few areas I wished they would have gone into more detail to help explain a few items but I guess in the interest of time they just glossed over it. Phillip Seymore Hoffman was GREAT! His character was funny and very knowledgeable. I found myself wanting this movie to last longer.
Overall Rating- 4 1/2 stars out of 5
NORBIT- Starring Eddie Murphey- 131 minutes- I mention that because there is about 2 minutes of this movie that was funny. I was looking forward to this because the reviews I was reading online were mentioning that this was one of Eddie Murphey's best movies. My thought was I have seen this type of movie before. It was called Coming to America and it was about 20 years ago. I guess Eddie Murphey will always have a cult following but this act has grown tiresome. Make Eddie Murphey play 3 or 4 people including some old white guy...again SEEN IT and add in fart humor. I think Eddie Murphey needs to retire this type of humor. He has done it and his repeat attempts to strike gold are getting worse and worse...Nutty Professor...Nutty Professor II. MOVE ON!!! I really like Eddie Murphey. I think he is hilarious in many of his co-starring roles. During this movie I actually got up and started cleaning the house while it was playing. I could miss 15 minutes of this movie and not have a problem keeping up. I guess money talks but they should have been able to read the script and know that this movie was crap. Cuba Gooding Junior has a small role. I would be willing to bet that he is not putting this movie on his resume'.- If he is I bet it is listed after his starring role in underwear commercials with Michael Jordon.
Overall Rating 1/2 a star out of 5.
Semi Pro- Starring Will Ferral- I went into this movie thinking ANYTHING was an improvement from Norbut. I found that most of the funny parts were covered in the theatrical trailer. I am a huge Will Ferral fan so I hung in there with this movie. Definitely a rental. I did not think it was as funny as Blades of Glory but this was an okay movie for a lazy Saturday afternoon. I will say that I thought it was hilarious that Will Ferrell wrestled a bear to get attendance. That scene was pretty funny...again, to me it was funny.
Overall Rating 2 and 1/2 stars out of 5
Chalie Wilson's War- Starring Tom Hanks- This of course is the movie based on Congressman's Charlie Wilson role in supporting Afghanistan during the Cold War with Russia. I won't go into the details of the movie but I was so glad I saved this movie for the last of the day. I was GLUED to the TV during this show. I thought it was great. There were a few areas I wished they would have gone into more detail to help explain a few items but I guess in the interest of time they just glossed over it. Phillip Seymore Hoffman was GREAT! His character was funny and very knowledgeable. I found myself wanting this movie to last longer.
Overall Rating- 4 1/2 stars out of 5
Thursday, June 19, 2008
DID YOU SEE THAT ???
The other day the wife, kids, and myself packed into the car to go to the airport to pick up my sister in law. I was cruising down the highway when I caught out of the corner of my eye something heading right for us. This happened pretty quickly because I was traveling about 75 miles an hour. But For a good second I could see that I had a pretty large bird...pigeon size heading right for us. It flew right into our windshield and POOF it was gone. All that was left was some feathers and bird poop on my windshield. I instantly looked in my review mirror to see where it landed but I could not see anything. It was like the bird was on a mission to kill itself. What could be SO BAD in a birds life that they just decide to end it all ?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Movie Review Time
I just watched two movies and I thought I would give my opinion of both.
Mr. 3000- Staring Bernie Mac- I must start off by saying I am a Bernie Mac Fan. So I had high hopes for this movie. While I did laugh in several parts of the movie I did not laugh out loud at anything. Basically you have a guy who has is ego somewhere up in the atmosphere. He gets his 3000 hits and retires....on the spot. Only to find out 9 years later (and still not in the hall of fame) that he is in reality 3 hits short based on a calculation error. He decides to come back and get those three hits. The funny part is watching him try to get into shape and him work with his new team mates.
Overall pretty funny- You don't have to think while watching this movie. I give it 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Eastern Promises- Staring Viggo Mortenson- This movie I remember seeing previews for but I kind of forgot about it. A friend of mine reminded me about it and I put it on my netflix list. This movie is very detailed. The first 30 minutes I found myself trying to figure out what the hell was going on. But once I put all of the people in place I really got into the movie. It is bloody. Very detailed throat cutting....seems to be the choice of killing someone in the Russian mafia. Still very good. I found myself very focused while watching the movie. You have to because there is a lot of Russian being spoken and you have to read the subtitles. Normally I am out on a movie like that because I hate to read while I am watching a movie. I perfectly fine with the Russians speaking English. But I did not mind it so much here for some reason. It really helped the realism of the movie and drew me in more. Very intense movie. Viggo did a great job in this movie.
I give it a 4.25 out of 5
Next up I have a couple of no brainers and some good box office movies.
Norbit
Semi Pro
Charlie Wilson's War
The Kingdom
Lions For Lambs
Walk Hard
The Bucket List
John Adams
Mr. 3000- Staring Bernie Mac- I must start off by saying I am a Bernie Mac Fan. So I had high hopes for this movie. While I did laugh in several parts of the movie I did not laugh out loud at anything. Basically you have a guy who has is ego somewhere up in the atmosphere. He gets his 3000 hits and retires....on the spot. Only to find out 9 years later (and still not in the hall of fame) that he is in reality 3 hits short based on a calculation error. He decides to come back and get those three hits. The funny part is watching him try to get into shape and him work with his new team mates.
Overall pretty funny- You don't have to think while watching this movie. I give it 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Eastern Promises- Staring Viggo Mortenson- This movie I remember seeing previews for but I kind of forgot about it. A friend of mine reminded me about it and I put it on my netflix list. This movie is very detailed. The first 30 minutes I found myself trying to figure out what the hell was going on. But once I put all of the people in place I really got into the movie. It is bloody. Very detailed throat cutting....seems to be the choice of killing someone in the Russian mafia. Still very good. I found myself very focused while watching the movie. You have to because there is a lot of Russian being spoken and you have to read the subtitles. Normally I am out on a movie like that because I hate to read while I am watching a movie. I perfectly fine with the Russians speaking English. But I did not mind it so much here for some reason. It really helped the realism of the movie and drew me in more. Very intense movie. Viggo did a great job in this movie.
I give it a 4.25 out of 5
Next up I have a couple of no brainers and some good box office movies.
Norbit
Semi Pro
Charlie Wilson's War
The Kingdom
Lions For Lambs
Walk Hard
The Bucket List
John Adams
Hall Of Fame Here I Come!!
I have made mention to my family over the past two years that one day I wanted to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I wanted to go with my dad. I asked him a couple of years ago if that was something he would be interested in doing and he was all over it. Because of my health issues the past two years we have not been able to continue that conversation.
Last week the idea popped back into my head and I started looking at the school calendar for next year seeing when SPRING BREAK would be. I thought it would be a great Christmas present for my dad.
Well my mom beat me to the punch. For fathers day she gave me a trip with my dad to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We have two full days to spend at the PFHOF. I am so excited. We leave July 12 and come back on the 16th. This is GREAT!!!!
I am taking request for souvenir shopping.
Last week the idea popped back into my head and I started looking at the school calendar for next year seeing when SPRING BREAK would be. I thought it would be a great Christmas present for my dad.
Well my mom beat me to the punch. For fathers day she gave me a trip with my dad to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We have two full days to spend at the PFHOF. I am so excited. We leave July 12 and come back on the 16th. This is GREAT!!!!
I am taking request for souvenir shopping.
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