Always look on the bright side of life

It's sure a lucky thing that I have such a sunny disposition, because if I didn't, I'd be awful cranky.

So, I told you about my English class at NSCC being cancelled. I immediately got on the horn to Cascadia to try to rustle up some work for the summer to make up for that budget shortfall. Today I heard that there will not be a class for me at CCC over the summer. Grrr.

So, today I rode my bike to Bothell to stay on top of B2K. The ride in was pleasant enough, but when I got out of class at 5:00 or so, it was raining. I came home in a steady drizzle all the way. I took Lake City Way instead of staying on the B-G, so even though it cut off about 3.4 miles, it was hilly and crowded with traffic and often shoulder-less and not a whole lot of fun. Grrr-grrr.

So, I talked to my adjunct-faculty type colleagues tonight on the phone and we're all in the same boat and nobody likes it. Grrr.

So, I helped Otis work her way through Turbo-tax and it doesn't want to give her the refund she should be getting based on her Lifelong Learning Credit. Small potatoes compared to the check I am going to have to send in with my tax return in twelve days, two hours, and three minutes. Grrr-grrr-grrr.

So, I am going to spend all day Thursday sending in job apps to all kinds of jobs. I can't be waiting around for the perfect full-time teaching opportunity - I need to take the bull by the horns and get some action happenin'.

Nonetheless...

I had a great time in the classroom today. Otis had a great dinner and a big smile waiting for me when I got home from school. I am warm and dry and have a great home and a great life. I had a wonderful weekend and will, in all likelihood, have a lot more, with all my wonderful friends.

So yeah, it's still sunny.

Don't hurry sundown

So, if we were all smart (and not like Nedra) we all turned our clocks one hour ahead last night and we're on time today. And even if we didn't, we have fixed it by now, and all our sundowns will be one later than yesterday. Hurrah for lighter-longer evenings!

So, yesterday was the official start of B2K, and bike we did. Even though it was raining, Otis and I completed a mid-morning Burke-Gilman ride from Gasworks to Matthews Beach and back. A few kinks in the muscles, but overall it was a better-than-decent first effort. I plan on riding up to Bothhell tomorrow; I still need to figure out the smoothest route to the B-G from the new place.

Of course, we should have taken the ride in the afternoon, when it was all sunny and warm and stuff, but by then we were back deep into house arranging and organizing.

We had a sort-of pre-housewarming last night: Sailor Sue, Mighty Mel, and Kris-10 and Rye-N came over for a movie we never got around to watching. Instead, we caught up, planned alternate careers, and experimented with race changes, like Black Like Me or Lois Lane No. 106. You can do all of those things, too, the last-mentioned at this site. Just upload a face-on photo and get morphing. Here's some of our results, cropped but otherwise untouched:

"Afro-Caribean" Walaka


"West Indian" Otis

The website - which Sailor Sue heard about on Oprah, of all places - will also age/de-age the face, swap the gender, create a portrait by Modigliani or others, create an ape-person, or show the subject drunk.

Let's see those faces, folks!