Hello Blogareenies.....
I am back sortof.......

It has been a week since blogged because I have had an awful cold and have been able to do only what I have had to do and that did not include blogging.....

A week ago, I started an auction for my Kurt Vonnegut books and I thought I would report how things are progressing - I do not have anything else interesting going on right now....
I currently have no bids, with
Four people watching, and three questions....
First, someone wanted to know if a particular couple of books were first editions - answer no.
Second, a person from Buenos Aries, Argentina wanted to know how much shipping would be - answer - UPS - $550 hummmm, USPS - $55 or $60 taking 6 to 8 weeks.
Third questions, would I ship parcel post to Alaska and would I sell the books right now for $100 (starting bid $99) - answer yes parcel post cost plus $15 my packing and handling, and NO, the fun of it for me is the auction......so, I will wait.

Okay, our girl dog, Jill just demanded to be petted by walking up to me and continuing on up almost completely into my lap......... we have Starbucks dogs - they are half labs with a dash of white, high voices, and curly tails.....hold the sugar, they are sweet enough. I was putting something in the car for Sandy Sunday and invited the dogs out with me....as I opened the back lid door and put the stuff in the back of her pathfinder, the dogs took off heading toward the creek........I whistled and they came back - I was reminded that it is important to watch your children at all times...........

Today I had class. Yesterday I had to read 60 applications for a teaching position we have open, I am the chairman of the search committee.... at this stage, we have to evaluate the applications to determine if they are qualified or not. I started at 8:30 am and finished a little after 2:00 pm. I then took them back to work so that my team members would be able to do the same thing. Then I came home and sat in my chair.............at about 4:30 my boss called and asked if I was okay...I said yes and he said he was worried because I was not at our meeting with our Strategic Experience teams.......I had missed our 4pm class...sorta a class, it is a scheduled weekly meeting........... I felt terrible for missing that class - in fact, in the 28 years I have been teaching that is only the second class I forgot to go to - and I have only missed a few because of illness........... the last class I forgot to go to was in 1981 at the University of Louisville (they used to have really great basketball teams - national champs in 1980 and 86 and really crappy football teams - now they have a good football team - ETSU does not have football - Even Emery & Henry and Duke have football teams)...... I am very upset with myself for doing that..........for missing class...........

I just got 50 yellow and red long stem tulip bulbs for fall planting - that is very exciting for me.

That's it - and remember, and I mean it, Take good care of yourself - peace, john

PS: How's Hank - and why are they observing him???