There was a big poster of that picture in my first post-college house, and we used it in the winter to block the fireplace.

TCG is taking ltc into school today and I have successfully resisted the urge to send her in with a note that says, "daddy got me dressed today".

Thanks for sharing that sweet story about Burt Reynolds. I admire those people skills.

I heard so many times how sweet, sensitive, and kind he was. Locally people all out despised Loni Anderson for the harm she did to him. Somehow I have never seen the Smokey movies! So not my thing.

"daddy got me dressed today"

Hahaha, trust me, they have seen worse. Is she liking her school?

There is a youngster across the street from me in Otter Lake and I am amused when he whoops and hollers when the school bus appears over the hill about 6:45 in the morning. His little sister has down syndrome and she has school year round and I think he was jealous that she got picked up by the bus all summer. He certainly is enthusiastic every morning so far when he sees the bus. My first morning smile every day this week.

She loves her new classroom and is doing really well staying through lunch. She is taking cooking and swim after school. Cooking she loved, swim she was a bit terrified of, but I'm hoping she'll adjust. I'm not used to seeing my fearless girl scared. It made me tear up a bit.

Oh dear, I hope seeing other kids enjoy swimming will encourage her.

I wonder if the stage manager I knew at the Burt Reynolds theatre is still there.

I wonder if the stage manager I knew at the Burt Reynolds theatre is still there.

I think he turned it over to the community college around 1990, and then was taken over by Maltz maybe around 2000. We saw several shows there last year. It was much smaller and more intimate in the 80s, but not very profitable. It still has been very focused on education from his time to present.

My coworker has also been sick all week, so she hasn't been peppering me with questions and things I already knew. Today she's back in the office, after first making sure I know how sick she still is.

Sounds like fun.

I've been starting to set aside some time for myself on weekends so I've been trying to improve my woodworking skills so I can do a decent job making the arcade machine.

My first practice project was making a box:

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The stain isn't very well applied, though I can probably clean it up with some mineral spirits.

I also got myself another lego tank (not actually Lego because these are a fraction of the cost of actual Lego). This one is a British Matilda II. They are kinda cool, because although they were small, slow, and only mounted a two-pounder gun, but they were heavily armored and in the invasion of France the Germans discovered their tank's cannon's shells would just bounce off these little things. So these little, slow tanks helped disrupt the Germans enough for the Dunkirk evacuation. Which is way more than you wanted to know.

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