Sonicist

I just wrote this to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.

Mr. Strickland. I shook your hand when you visited Athens Ohio with Hillary Clinton at the middle school. I have voted for you for years.

I am sad to say that you have lost my vote, even if it is against a republican candidate (and I have never voted republican).

I will tell you why. Cutting public pre-K is the very worst thing you can do. These are the most formative years to get kids into advanced education.

Add to this your by-passing the people’s repeated demands to keep gambling out of Ohio. It is disgusting, to say the least.

I sympathize that times are tough. I’m not an idiot. But I am angered at how real education reform has been abandoned and you are simply going for the quick financial fix.

I sure don’t want your job. But I also no longer feel that you should have your job, either.

The end came quickly. After living for about 13 years, she had been on a long, slow slope toward death, but the last week and a half saw a precipitous drop in her health. On her own, she moved outside four days ago and came in only one night to sleep. That next morning, on her way to pee, she fell over and pee’d where she lay. After that she just stayed outside.

This morning she was still alive. We gave her love and ran out. When we came home around noon we found her gone.

The weather was gorgeous.

So passes Detroit: aka, Dee-dee dog: Dee-Moster, Demonstrative, Our First Baby, and protector of her siblings.

Here again is: A Song for a Dog. I used to play this song on my accordion and she loved to sing along with me.

Song For A Dog ©2005

So long Dee Dee. We will miss you.

This is the kind of post any kid would want to not be created. But, here it is.

I haven’t been working at any consistency on the potty training with the boy, but today, on his own, he said, “I gotta go poo.” We went to the toilet where he did.. go.

This is just for posterity.

I picked up glasses today. I got bi-focals. It kind of sucks, but they do make reading better. When I walk with them the world feels like its spinning and it’s difficult to know what’s coming next. And for the time being, they kind of give me a headache.

Addie says that they make me look like a wizard.

There’s a good kid.

About a month ago I asked Griffin, “Where did you come from?”

He thought about it and then said, “A shopping cart. Daddy pay money for me.”

Here is another Addie joke. This one was made up in late Summer.

What is a plant’s favorite movie?

Grassic Park

When you say grassic you have to say ‘gurassic’ rhymes with Jurassic

Wonderful.

We did Disney and it was great. I was worried about the little boy having fun, but he had a blast and skipped naptime completely. LJ got to ride Space Mountain.

Addie had a great time as well. I took her back to the magic kingdom last night and it was fun. The fireworks were really worth being sleepy this AM.

Again, I have pics, but I can’t put them up right now.

Tonight I write from DIsney’s Contemporary Resort where Laura is giving a talk and we are taking a vacation. The last two days we stayed at a Hilton Grand Vacations resort for a great deal and had a really wonderful time. We also went and visited Sea world.

I hope to post some good pictures of the adventure at some point. However, I am traveling without my computer so getting the images from the camera to the internet is all but impossible. We have been doing a lot of swimming and tomorrow we go to the magical kingdom, probably.

Well, Griffin is trying to sleep, and Addie and LJ are visiting with a conference president.

That’s the life from Florida

A friend posted this video of me and skip from a long time ago. It was recorded in the basement of my mother’s old house, 305 E. State.

It’s a little out of tune but good for nostalgia.