Holiday Message Letter Part 1

I know that I have not posted in ages, and for that I am sorry, but in
some ways it is a good thing.

More work, more purpose, less posting.

However, I also see that lack of posting as a potential problem as I
slowly lose contact with all of you and with my more creative side.

However, as we are heading into the holiday season (and into a place
where there is computer access on evenings and weekends) I hope to put
up a couple of entertaining posts over the weekend. These will be my
Christmas Letters, and for those of you who aren't familiar with David
Sedaris's idea of Christmas Letters, please familiarize yourself!

So, installment 1, part 1:

Happy Holidays!
As many of you may know I have recently started a new position at a
maker of language learning software. The work is interesting, the
people fascinating and the overall experience good.

I've now been here a month and have finally developed a bathroom
schedule. There are 500 people in the office and 1 restroom, a certain
amount of planning is necessary, and you do not want to go to the
bathroom after 11am.

More to come.....

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

I hope everyone is well, have a lovely holiday

... and Bob - send Tara your address so I can send you your Christmas gift.

What happens when you write textbooks....

So now that I'm totally engrossed in the textbook / curriculum guide writing process I am reminded of all "the crap I learned in high school" (thank you Paul Simon). Loewen's book deals with the details of the in class apportionment of the aforementioned (for out of class apportionment see any bad 80's movie). Specifically this book deals with the content of history books and how they got to be the farsical piece they now are. Politics (especially in TX, see Molly Ivins) plays some small role as does overly large personalities.
For the most part this book is a explanation of why most of our history texts don't look like The People's History of the United States, or anything else approaching that level of interest.

It's a good read - enough so that I'm blogging after spending all day on this durn machine.....

See also:

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Warren I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm sure it's funny, mind you, I'm just clueless (and Tara answers with a resounding Amen to that).

YES

 

Bolton is GONE