I don’t really have that classic sense of Friday — release all that tension — TGIF — that I had when I worked in an office setting, or certainly when I was in school (both teaching, and as a student). When you work for yourself, those boundaries kinda get blurred. This obviously has both potential upside and downside. Hm.<\/p>\n
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Tonight there’s a dance at Ian’s school, and I’m playing co-DJ with one of the teachers and providing some of the music using my laptop. So I have a bit of prep to do today — ripping songs from CD, printing out a list of available songs, getting the laptop & cables ready, etc. The evening has a Hawaiian theme, so I’ll be breaking out my best tropical-print shirt, shorts & sandals and hamming it up. As always, the object is to embarrass my son in the extreme.<\/p>\n
So a 6-year-old kid was critically injured on Wednesday while he was riding an all-terrain vehicle designed for adults. This was out in the Banks\/Verboort area, where I taught high school back in the ’80s. ATVs have been big out there for some time; I still remember my students talking and writing about their 3- and 4-wheeling adventures…it would scare the $%*#@ out of me. Oregonian story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n On a cheerier note, the enchanted and mystical Realm of Rosaria (aka the city of Portland in its annual fit of psychosis) has selected its Queen, a high school student named…Katelyn<\/a>. Now let the tacky and inevitably rain-drenched flurry of corporate-branded events begin!!! This year’s hotly-awaited theme?<\/p>\n “Completely Captivating.”<\/p>\n [sigh]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t really have that classic sense of Friday — release all that tension — TGIF — that I had when I worked in an office setting, or certainly when I was in school (both teaching, and as a student). When you work for yourself, those boundaries kinda get blurred. This obviously has both potential … Continue reading “happy friday.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mousetrapmedia.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}