Winding Up the Year

This past semester I taught College Algebra at UMaine, it was not always fun but I made it out of there with my dignity. Well I think I did, maybe I should wait until I see the classroom evaluations, huh? Our class had some laughs, mostly at my expense over my Minnesota accent or horrible pronunciation of exponential, polynomial and logarithmic. But hey, in my book any laughter is good especially when you consider the crowd (freshman). Looking back, I would do it all over again, they were my kids!

Sadly one of my kids took their own life last Friday. It has been a very difficult situation for alot of people including myself. Lance was a grandson, a son, a big brother, a nice kid, a smart kid, and a good student. He will be sadly missed by many. My thoughts and prayers are with those who love him.

Okay I need to talk about something not quite so sad because now I am feeling really bad. Did ya know that we HAD an awesome base of snow here in Bangor, at least 2 feet on the ground. Check out Woof up to his rear in a sweet snow fort. Then Sunday we learned all about the nor'easter, the wicked storm system that likes to drop rain on the east coast when temperatures are below freezing. After a few hours of rain everything had magically turned to ice. That is not good for skiing, snowboarding or snowshoeing, boo-hiss. Right now we have an inch of ice on our driveway and a inch of salt and sand on the roads. It is a mess but I am not complaining, I got my snow, my family, my friends and we are coming home for Christmas. There isn't much else I need!