Sick Saturday

The whole fam is sick. Wife has a mix between a cold and a flu virus. Oldest has some tummy bug that made her puke Friday night. Youngest has head cold, but actually seems to be doing better. I have the head cold junk, and just can't quite shake it.

Pruned our grape vines today after reading lots of info about it on my-grape-vine.com. I wish I had seen this stuff 4 years ago when we started our vines. Now, we have haphazard vines, that I will be slowly trying to train.

Also saw that if I was going to make any large purchases, I will want to get that done before April 1 as the CA sales tax is about to increase. Stupid politicians... QUIT SPENDING MY MONEY ON STUPID THIINGS!

Lack of Critical Thinking Skills

I teach High School Chemistry. It never ceases to amaze me how little the students are able to solve a problem logically. Instead of thinking through the entire process, they only want to find the "Right Answer".

Currently we are doing gas laws, so I tell them to try and imagine a situation and go from there. However, when I look at their explanation, it often makes no sense. Things such as "When the pressure is held constant, the pressure increases." Are you kidding me?

I know I am not the smartest guy ever, and wasn't always the smartest when I was in high school, but I am pretty sure I knew how to think.

And We're Off

So, I have become addicted to reading other people's blogs, and decided I would start one of my own. More than likely this will be somewhat of a diary/journal of things that I find interesting, funny, politically intriguing, sad or inspirational.



I do NOT want this to be time consuming, so I doubt I will post everyday, but regularly would probably be the best way of putting it.



Finally, I will link to other blogs that I like, websites that make me think, and hopefully, a few original blurbs here and there to make me feel like it is MY blog and not just a link to others.



So, here we go.......