so i’ve decided it’s the little things that make life fun – like today, i wear my swatch watch for the first time since like grade school – discovered it a year ago at the parents’ house, got it out and searched for a battery, had no luck with the itty bitty battery that was needed, found it on amazon for $2.90 and now – viola – i have my little watch working again – bringing out the male in me that does so love to fix things:)

(and you get bonus this year for saying “hey, cool watch dr. mafeld” on a day that i wear it – your reward for hanging in there through the summer books i’m reading – i know, i know – they’re awful – none about teens falling in love…)

i read a good amount of football media guides this week for i helped at SEC media days – i learned such things as mizzou didn’t field a team in ’19 due to the spanish flu, kentucky doesn’t know the name of their coach for the first two seasons (how does that happen? seriously, no one wants to take credit for those teams), and south carolina’s board of trustees banned football in 1906 – fun times for close readers of these guides

the one book i read was “a storm came up” by doug segrest – doug is a sportswriter with the b’ham news – and i would hope he’d say we’re decent friends – i would classify his 1963-setting in rural alabama as a high school YA book – very serious situations in the book – but it’s a great, great book that makes you think about what you can do in tough situations – and how you would respond

the good news is i’m starting to work on our room just about every morning (still taking volunteers for service hours – there’s no greater service than helping teachers prepare for the minds of tomorrow – they’re they minds of tomorrow which explains why they have no brains today)

the bad news is it’s good that i’m working right now b/c the room isn’t the best:)

but hey, the internet connector doesn’t come out of the wall anymore so that’s something good

happy last week before my birthday week (although, i don’t have a birthday week and people that do have nothing else better to do than invent reasons to celebrate themselves)

mafeld