History has a way of shoving an irony down your throat. Take for an example of one Major John Pitcairn. The major was stationed in Boston during the infamous Intolerable Acts that resulted from the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Although a British soldier, he was not totally disliked by the people of Boston and seemed to be fair to those in the city.

It never ceases to amaze me the ability of mankind to do things. Here is a perfect example of human know-how.

It seems that I have heard the phrase "When one door shuts, another one one opens" many times before. For the most part, this particular idiom made my head itch only because it seemed to me that there should be millions of open doors somewhere that were not waiting for something to close. In other words, it seems to me that the choices that we make on this journey are affected by so many other factors that knowing if you have done something right is a always a gamble. Knowing, however that you are not cemented into the ground by one choice might be more like it instead of the door analogy.

My mother had the philosophy that idle hands were not necessarily the work of the devil, but the means for impeding disaster. Growing up, she often kept us busy with arts, crafts and tinkertoys. I have always enjoyed creating things out of legos and the favorite girders and panels. Well, lately I have taken to papercraft. It started out when I came across this website which had 3-d models of the different versions of the haunted mansions. Well, being a huge fan of the ride, I immediately downloaded the model and printed it out. Looking at all the pieces, I began to let the scissors fly and the glue splatter this way and that.

A very good question BA when you asked about the TEKS Review process. A huge glitch in the process happened when some of the notes from one of the committees was leaked and the SBOE had a fit over what they read. What people need to understand was that the committees had just barely begun the process of the review and were shuffling things around. They barely had the chance to set up a skeleton let alone flesh out some of the changes.

Well, the previous posting pretty much outlines my thought processes for the past month. Between shutting down the school season, test results from the state assessment and getting ready for the summer holidays, I have been having an internal debate on keeping up with the blog. Trying to catch up on a blog is definitely an uphill battle sometimes.

"Dude," said the right hemisphere, "you need to quit screwing around and write something."