Music to my ears, back on the air

So I called mom yesterday to see if Embarq hooked her phone up yet.  It was supposed to be done on Monday. Of course I am not in the least surprised to hear it wasn’t because we all know that Embarq (formally known as Sprint) blows.  So anyway I asked mom how things were going in the new place and she was just thrilled.  She loves it.  She said she was so glad that I pushed her to do something about her living arrangements.  She told me one positive after another.  The place even has a book exchange!  Basically they have a big basket with books.  It’s very simple, you put in a book you read and take out one you haven’t.  Mom loves to read, it’s her biggest hobby. Anyway I was very happy that my prediction that mom would be very glad she moved once she did it has come true.

My web cam had been offline for awhile since I moved to a different server with my web host.  I doubt anyone noticed but if you were struggling to get through your day without peeking in my office, here ya go.

After work last night I had to go to the pet store and stop for gas so I didn’t get home till a little later so I bagged doing an after work project.  However tonight I plan to drag the pressure washer to the front of the house and clean the cement pad along the front windows and door.

It’s so nice to have the cross trainer out of our bedroom where it blocked the window.  Now I only wish Ali would let me sleep with the venetian blinds open.  I have always liked waking up in the morning and seeing bright blue sky out the window, something that occurs quite often in SW Florida.  I understand why she doesn’t want to do it from her standpoint.  I’m just saying if it was up to me…..

There are some summer flicks coming out that I am really looking forward to.  Iron Man should be awesome.  Iron Man isn’t as mainstream as a hero like Spider Man and Superman but I always loved him.  He was probably number two on my list only behind Spiderman.  I remember I had an Iron Man action figure as a kid.  He had it all, a skin of iron, multiple lasers and rocket boots that allowed him to fly like a missile.  His costume looked bad ass as well.

I am also really looking forward to seeing the final Indiana Jones movie.  Just like Rocky and Rambo, this series is way past the point where you would expect to see the 60+ year old star return in the role.  However I think Harrison Ford can pull it off.  I’m sure my step mom is very excited to see the film.  She is a huge Harrison Ford fan.  My dad actually sorta looks like Harrison Ford if you would shave off his moustache and he dropped a few pounds.  There is a picture of dad floating around as a young clean shaven guy where the resemblance is pretty striking.

I was listening to the Stern Show on the way in to work and they were doing a game where they had a caller guess which one of the staff committed various stunts in school that got them suspended or detention.  Some of the incidents were pretty funny.  It got me thinking about my only real school disciplinary action growing up when I was suspended for a week!  I kept my nose clean in school and never got into any real trouble.  However in 11th grade I made up for lost time. 

My buddies and I didn’t like the school librarian.  She was a relatively attractive woman, probably in her late 30’s or early 40’s but she was a bitch.  Well a bunch of us thought of a hilarious prank to play on her.  We would write her a perverted/dirty love note, and put it in the book return slot!  There were several of us that were involved in the plot and we all had input into the note’s content.  Once the final copy was approved my buddy Mark wrote it out.  I was the drop man as I actually delivered the note to the book return slot. I don’t remember a whole bunch about the note but I remember it was quite dirty.   Well evidently the librarian didn’t have a sense of humor.

I’m not quite sure how school administration got onto our trail.  Maybe the librarian gave them a list of students that have given her a hard time.  Well anyway I had heard that one of the guys involved got called into the vice principals office.  I was shitting bricks.  I knew if the kid rolled on us I was a dead man.  You can imagine the feeling when the vice principal, Mr. Shirk put his head into my class later and asked to see me.  At first I tried to play dumb.  He showed me the note written in my buddies handwriting.  He told me that they went into his locker and matched the handwriting to the note.  Evidently under pressure he had ratted out everyone else out and fingered me as the delivery boy.  My mind was a blur.  I knew what was about to go down, my parents would be told, my baseball coach would be told, the heaps of shame I felt from being involved in the stupid stunt broke me down. I started to cry like a little bitch. 

When asked for an explanation for what we did I could only offer “it was a joke”.  He read back various experts from the letter which were particularly bad and then repeating back to me, “this is a joke?”  It was a nightmare.  So I got sent home and awaited my punishment.  My parents weren’t happy but they weren’t furious either.  They knew I wasn’t a serial killer and it was just a joke. However school officials were not so sure.  Initially there was talk of all of us having to undergo psychiatric examinations as well as talk of EXPULSION!  Luckily calmer heads prevailed and we got by with a one week suspension.  My punishment at home was not bad, I had to paint the porch.   My parents knew I felt bad about it, I was very embarrassed.

The funny thing is when we all got back to school we were sort of like rock stars.  Getting suspended for a week made you cool in a weird way.  There was no real resentment towards the guy that turned us in.  Evidently they were threatening him with expulsion unless he came clean.  I learned my lesson and kept my nose pretty clean until I graduated.