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Fernash -- You need to remember that your parent's eyesight is deteriorating. A deep blue color font on a brown background does not provide enough contrast for older eyes. Please at least change the font color. (Unless of course, you don't want us to see anything......)

Saturdays (without MTB)

MTB vistited Poodle this week, and arrives home today. When MTB visits family, she is usually gone at least one Saturday. So, what do I do when MTB is not here on Saturday? Here is a typical agenda.

1. Bike Ride. YEAH!!! (usually a bit longer than when she is here, but not much longer. I don't have the strength to do too much more)
2. Fumigate the house with Raid.
3. Wash clothes and sheets.
   
4. Thin the peace lilies that are in our indoor planters.
5. Go to WalMart or Costco or Home Depot, mostly just to get out of the house.
6. Fix something or iron clothes, or both.
   
7. Watch a sporting event (World Series Game 3 last night)
8. Prepare a lesson for Sunday.
9. Eat caldo tlapeño at VIPS.

WOW. What an exciting life!!!!

Nobody Likes My 6 Random Things......

So here are 6 more.

1. I'm not a good creative writer.
2. I don't like to make a big deal about myself
3. While I look at my life as an adventure, most others look at my life as really boring.
4. I operated a Caterpillar 955 loader when I was 15.
5. Though I've never lived in Boston, I am a Red Sox and Celtics fan.
6. When I was 9, Grandpa Reed was trying to teach me to hit a baseball. I did hit one back at him, and he caught it in his crotch. We went right home.

Are you happy now???

Tagged Again, by MTB

Rules
Link to the person who tagged you: MomtheBomb
Post the rules
Write 6 random facts about yourself
Tag someone else and let them know

1. I may really be Latin, not gringo.
2. A Saturday without a bike ride is a real bummer.
3. Dark chocolate is the best.
4. I am very lucky that the most amazing woman in the world asked me to marry her.
5. I am very impatient with other drivers, but I keep my comments to myself.
6. I make really bad 'Dad Jokes'.

Tagged (by Bex, kind of)

High School -- Hillcrest High School.

Colors --Green & White (Dynamite)

Mascot -- Huskies (as in Alaskan)

Dates from my high school -- LeAnn Moore, Jennifer Willand, Sally, and Carla (don't remember their last names)

Car -- The coolest 1972 Ford Maverick Grabber ever. Yellow-green with apple-green decals and a small spoiler. Sold it in 1985. MTB and I used the car for 9 years after we were married.

Friday Night -- At HS basketball games during the season. Otherwise with my friends Nick Rudelich and Kevin Winn.

Party Animal -- What is that????

Flirt -- Not really.

Clubs -- None. I did perform with the Chamber Choir. But that was long before my voice became somewhat nasal (phyisiology).

School Song -- but not a fight song. I remember it because I was in the Choir, and we actually recorded it.

Through all the seasons of the year, and all the years to come,
we'll sing our praises loud and clear to Hillcrest High we love so dear.
Our colors in their splendor bright, long wave the green and white,
we always will remember our spirit and our might.
We're honored to belong to you, well keep your standards high,
We'll cheer you in your victories and in defeat stand by.
Though someday we must leave you, our hearts will always thrill,
to the glory of your beauty on the crest of rolling hills.

Favorite teachers -- Mr. Shell, trigonometry. I actually did very well in trig. But I bombed the next year in calculus. Mr. Dean, Choir. He was a hoot. He would always tell the sopranos and altos that they were flat. He also stamped students' yearbooks with the following:

You are the most talented choir student I have ever taught.
I say this sincerely.
Leo A. Dean

Lunch -- always in the cafeteria, but I don't remember much more.

Homecoming -- I never went.

Graduation -- I went home after the event. Grandpa Reed never took anyone out to dinner. Just ask MTB.

10-year reunion -- I went to the 5-year reunion, and haven't been back since. I still keep in touch with Nick, but that is about all.

What I would do differently -- I had a great friend, who still makes time to see me when I visit SLC. That I would not change. I would probably try pitching for the baseball team. I could through a great curve ball, and I had great control. It wasn't until after high school that I discovered how to get velocity on a pitch. But at age 52, I could still throw a good breaking-ball.

Technology (and Skype)

Communications technology is great. It is what provides me with a living. It also makes it easier to stay in touch. Just in case anyone missed, we now have a Houston number that you can call to contact us. It will forward the call to our computer in Mexico.

281.940.7061

Now MTB has the following ways to keep in touch with everyone

Skype
AT&T Cell phone
Blog
Facebook
Email

I lack a space in Facebook and the AT&T cell phone. I'm sure we'll soon find a few more ways to keep in touch.