and don't come back.....you can stay away....
For now...pressure systems that accompany rain....give me severe headaches. For sometime now...I have been getting these headaches and they always happen when it rains. I don't know if it is high pressure or low pressure.....but I get these crippling headaches.
Guess what...it has stopped raining and my headache is fleeing... If this is the worst that is going to happen to me...I think I'm going to make it. C'est La Vie...
December 1st is World Aids Day. Probably not a big day for most. It is probably even dwindling in popularity as I write. Although there is a decline in people dying here in the United States...the numbers of those still dying in other countries is catastrophic. I am scheduled to speak this week at Ocean County College on that day.. (OCC is a two year school and the best three years of my life). (Do the math.)
I speak every year at OCC. Similar talk that I gave at Lakehurst. I talk about HIV and AIDS 30 or 40 times a year. Maybe more. Sometimes more and sometimes less. Depends on the doors that get opened. Currently in the State of New Jersey people like me are in demand. Knowledge has provin to be the best deterrent to pregnancy and transmission of STD's. (Sexually Transmitted Disease) I don't like the fact that we have arrived at this point...but I view myself as a necessary, even if I don't like that the among the age group of children I speak to start at 12 years old. This year....I have received a grant to bring my program into the 21st century. I have a neat laptop and I have this very cool projector. Currently I use a slide show of my wife that has the great appearance of not being dated. It transcends time and many barriers. My slide show, rather power point presentation, cuts people to their knees...and makes them receptive to what I have to share. I have seen the toughest kid....the one in the back of the class that ridicules me....cry like a baby after he sees my slide show. I all that see my presentation to their own conclusion. Abstinence is a good thing to practice. For an individual it is a moral practice and full of integrity. Yes. I like to think that I lead people to integrity without them even knowing. Plus...I speak for free. :) hehe
Hey...one other thing. I have a oven stuffer in the oven...and I have the time to write.
Today in the nursery/teacher's lounge of Sonrise/Citta Elementary I noticed a bulletin. There is an Auction on Dec. 10th for all of Toms River School's Shop equipment. Metal and Wood tools. Lathes, saws etc. A very, very sad note. You see, Toms River is following the sign of the times. Wood and Metal Shops are no longer viable. They are a hazard and a law suit waiting to happen. Sigh....They are now being replaced with Technology Labs..... I still have that stool I made....and my sister has my shelf.... But to think....what my children are missing. Plus....what does this say about American society in general? Please feel free to comment.