Free at last

I had five great years working at Carolina Day School - two highly supportive and helpful principals (Tinnie Salzano and Ben Topham) and a brilliant mentor (Joanne Bartsch) who answered all my idiot questions about Moodle and ordering textbooks with nary a sigh or rolled eyes.  Not to mention Bill Wolfe who let me "borrow" endless tools, supplies and anything I could get my hands on, knowing full well he'd probably never see them again.  Which takes us up to 2014.
Today I retired and, quite honestly, not a day too soon.  My rather precipitate retirement was 100% my idea (with a lot of consultation from my wonderful wife, Susan.)  The robotics class has an instant replacement who knows more about it than I do.  Don't know what's happening about programming.  Shouldn't be hard to find someone with my limited programming experience for $11,000 a year - not my problem.
Main task for my classes to day was the demolition of 3 dozen doughnuts and 3 dozen cans of soda.  Every day in class brings a new discovery.  Today I discovered that the robotics parts boxes,in which I had put the soda with a 10 pound bag of ice, are not water tight.  Here are my classes hard at work: the robotics class spent much of their time showing an absent student that leaving his robot where they could "modify" it is not a good idea while the programming class researched what computer games they would like to write after Christmas.
Today was also the first day of my week off from chemo/  I start again on Thanksgiving Day but I don't get the nasty side effects that other people get so I am looking forward to doing damage to a Harris Teeter fresh turkey (adv), the best turkeys at any price (a bit dearer than the standard frozen Butterball but 10 times better)

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