80 at 8

It's going to be a hot one today. At 8 o'clock this morning it was already 80 degrees. Supposedly it is going to get into the mid-90's today. However, I don't buy it because they said the same thing yesterday, and we registered 102 degrees. Somehow I don't think 102 is mid-90's.

View from the new place!

As the title states, this is the view from the front of the duplex. From the front we can see probably three-fourths of the town (Although, you can only see about 1/2 of the town from this picture!) If you look carefully, you can see a house we almost purchased, it's the dark blue one! Kinda like a "Green Acre's" scenario, except without the pig.

Duplex - Bedrooms

These two pictures are of the master bedroom (the one with the large window), and the second bedroom. One thing we like about this "new" place is the over-abundance of closets. Our current living situation has only 1 closet in the entire house. The duplex has at least 5 closet/pantries that I can think of. (Each closet is of a good size too!)

More pictures - Inside the Duplex

So, now for inside pictures. Pictured here are the living area, kitchen, and dining area. Note the lovely carpeting!

It's official, we're moving!

Yup, you heard it. We are moving sometime next month. With my wife getting a job in the same school that I work in, we no longer need to live half-way between our two (previous) jobs. We had been looking for either a house to buy or a place to rent in the same town (or neighboring town 15 miles away) so that we would not need to commute 1 hour each way. This weekend we found a small rental duplex that we will be moving into. Pictures on this post are of the front and back. Also is included is a picture from a distance. Click the picture for a bigger view.

20 weeks yesterday

Yesterday was the half way point of the pregnancy! So, I've decided to post a picture of the progress! Time flies when you're pregnant.

Now this is progress!

So, this is where the state of the office is presently. Compared to how we started, this is real progress. The rug has been cleaned 3 times (and could probably be cleaned 2 more times). The particle board has been taken off the inside windows, and there is a fresh coat of paint. So, now we can start putting sorted stuff back in.

Oh no! Even more crap!

O.k., so the following pictures are just of us sorting the college catalogs and admissions material. Sadly I snapped the pictures too late for we had already sorted (and purged) all of the Montana post-secondary school info. We probably have only kept 1/3 of the material that we brought into my classroom. It took nearly 1/2 an hour to move just the already sorted college stuff into my room.

But wait, there's more

Yup, the previous pictures are of the mostly empty office! The pictures of this post are of the "crap" we pulled out of the office. Most of the "junk" in the hallway is of videos, curricula, counseling files, junk, office equipment, and more junk. Not picture are the 11 (yup, eleven) telephone books that were stashed away in the desk! It took us nearly 2 5 hour days just to pack out the office. Just some other fun tid-bits found:

1. Motivational video feature Walter Payton.
2. Don't do drugs video feature Magic Johnson and Arsenio Hall
3. 20 mostly full pads of sticky notes (at least 5 of which were not opened)
4. 10 unused hall pass packages
5. 1 Arizona State License Plate
6. 1 Key to our vault (which he claimed he did not have)
7. 3 full boxes of paper clips
8. 2 unknown keys on key ring
9. 1 pair orange velour shorts/hot pants
10. 1 hoochie shirt
11. 10 to 20 floppy disks (and I mean floppy, those 5 1/4 inch disks)
12. 1 curriculum he told a teacher he didn't have
13. 15 to 20 bookends (I think they were breeding in the dark recesses of the office)
14. All new college catalogs were in filing cabinets (as opposed to the 10 year old college catalogs that were on the shelves.)

The Last 2 Weeks

Obviously, there have been no posts the last two weeks or so. Well, with my wife's new job (which doesn't officially start until mid-August), there came a price. The price, cleaning the horribly messy office that the previous guidance counselor had. For your viewing pleasure, I've posted pictures of the messy office.

No School, FIFA

Sorry about the lack of updates lately. School ended about one week after the last update, so that week was spent trying to get grades done. After that, I've been spending quite a bit of time in the classroom cleaning it.

Well it is finally World Cup time again. Although I don't follow soccer much, I do love the World Cup. Hopefully a few of my favorite teams will do well this go around. As far as my teams, I would like to see the following teams do well (in preferential order):

1. U.S.A
2. Mexico
3. Argentina
4. Costa Rica
5. Ecuador
6. Paraguay
7. Spain

For all your FIFA World Cup action, try their website. I've found that the website is somewhat easy to navigate. Of interest may be the group standings and points. Only the top 2 teams from each group will make it to elimination play. The United States is in a very difficult group with the Czech Republic, Italy, and Ghana. Mexico's group is slightly less difficult. Group D (Mexico's group) consists of Mexico, Iran, Angola, and Portugal.

Of course, if you're like me, you don't know who the heck is on your favorite team. The FIFA World Cup site has a listing of all the teams participating. If you go here, click on your favorite team to take to your team's website. The rosters are listed under Squad (Or if your team is one of my teams, click on my team above.)

I certainly will enjoy this month. Of course all the matches will be good, but here are the matches I'm looking forward to:

• Monday June 12th - USA vs. Czech Republic (Should be a great game. USA is Ranked 5th in the world by FIFA and the Czech Republic has a world ranking of 2nd.)
• Friday June 16th - Mexico vs. Angola
• Friday June 16th - Argentina vs Serbia & Montengro
• Saturday June 15th - Italy vs USA
• Wednesday June 21st - Portugal vs. Mexico (#7 in the World vs. #4 Mexico)
• Wednesday June 21st - Netherlands vs Argentina
• Thursday June 22nd - Ghana vs USA

Enjoy!

(By the way, the picture is of Mexico's second and deciding goal in today's match vs. Iran. Again, found on the official FIFA World Cup website.)