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| Finally done bailing...Wow! Yesterday was a piece of work. Shortly after getting to work it really started storming. Jungah called from underneath the Clark Station because the hail was coming down and she thought it was going to break her windshield. I was watching the radar and knew that we were going to have problems so I rushed home to find all of the kids bailing water in the basement... ( I had called them to make sure they were up and ready for it). The water leak was pretty much contained to the North side and once the kids were able to handle it on their own and the rain had stopped I ran to Farm n' Fleet for some water pipeing. Just over $7 later I had 20' of 3" pipe which I attached to the downspout that didn't appear to be getting the water from the house. During round 2 it worked like a dream and things were in pretty good shape, that was until the huge deluge later in the afternoon. Thank God I had gotten the north side taken care of because it was the SW side now that was the problem. I think it really was the water table because we all vaccummed water pretty steadily until around midnight. It was crazy how it had stopped raining hours ago but water just kept seeping up through the floor. It slowed down enough for me to send everyone else upstairs to take a break. Then it got to the point were I could take 1/2 hour breaks before it needing attention.
Late the kids and I watched the 08 Steeler video for inspiration. At one point during the program, Mike Tomlin was shouting "Big play, Willie Gay!" over and over. Krystal thought that name was kind of funny so she was working on "improving" it. "What if your initials were U.R. Gay?" I said so what would your first name be? to which she replied quite seriously... "Eugene." I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
I'm typing now because the basement looks really good for the moment. I think we're all glad that this week is over. Jung-ah being gone all day every day for Rockford College Music camp has been pretty hard on us.
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| Friday!!!!!It's Friday! but I spent all morning proctoring the High School placement tests for a class of 8th graders. Easy. The Good News Players from Concordia St. Paul were here. It actually went pretty well. Chapel started out with the enthusiastic presentation of a Golden Apple award to our own Mr. Fisk... very cool. The performance went long but the kids were much more receptive than I thought they would be.
Apparently we had an "intruder" in the school this morning so there was a mini lock-down. I don't have many details but everything is OK.
Tomorrow afternoon we are planning on going to "The Hobbit" as a family. That should be fun.
This is the first time I've been able to post here at school... apparently nobody Xangas here anymore so it's been de-blocked..... nice.
I'm reading Sex God which was lent by a student who read it while serving an in school suspension.... thanks. I'm liking it so far.
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| Saturday!Was up late last night after falling asleep on the couch. I finished the Kreeft book "The Best Things in Life". Not really one of his better efforts. All you really have to do is read the last chapter and you'd pretty much get it. The girls are at lessons. Isaac has a birthday party this morning. Tomorrow I / we? start my March through Matthew in 28 days lenten challenge. It's kind of weird how it just kind of materialized.... we'll see. All it is is reading Matthew one chapter a day on the date of the chapter, giving everyone doing it a common scriptural connection for the day. I'll try to work in a brief comment about something during morning prayer. I'm kind of looking forward to it.
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| New/old office, New braces, New bookI guess the word is officially out so I can say that I'm heading back to my old office in the West Wing. It will be fine. I'm also more than a little concerned about the IT changes because Mr. Biddle was a great support for the freshmen retreat and our chapel tech. I was sad to see his office when I went down to retrieve a couple of books today.
I took off midway through lunch to check up on Krystal who was getting her braces on today. I got there just as they were finishing up. She looked like the boy Willy Wonka in the newer movie.
I started a new Kathleen Norris book today... so far it's really quite good.
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| Snow, Game of Thrones, MathleteSo, today it pretty much snowed from about 3:00 a.m. all day. I got up and shoveled early, then took Benaiah to the Math Contest at Rock Valley College. He did great, winning a 2nd place medal in the two-man competition and leading the 8 man competition to a first place.... So proud. The math ability must be from his mother.... While there, I finished A Game of Thrones. Really good and interesting book. Now I suppose I'll have to continue the series.
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