{"id":33095,"date":"2022-03-30T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33095"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:41:16","slug":"snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33095","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51971071436_04fe351ea7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just created a new category for my blog today: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?cat=148\">&#8220;Not your Usual Republican.&#8221;<\/a>  Normally today I&#8217;d be in my first hour of class at my Subbing position but today the roads are slick and its snowing. I&#8217;ve got an unexpected snow day to take advantage of. It means I can get an hour of heart rehab in this morning and make up for the Monday rehab I will miss because another school scheduled me to sub for them on Monday&#8230;.Rehab lasts for twelve weeks after your heart procedure but that is far more than I need considering <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2022\/02\/24\/120673-my-valentines-day-heart-attack\">how easy I had it<\/a> seven weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the first time in my life I recall substituting for a phy ed teacher. I had a blast in large part because I was a fraud. The regular teacher&#8217;s credentials are not yet set in stone or the cloud and Minnesota requires a &#8220;real teacher&#8221; to take over the class after fourteen days. That was me yesterday. But the real teacher was in the gym while I &#8220;supervised&#8221; him&#8230;&#8230;(made sure I could play with the kids)  <\/p>\n<p>I took a picture of the first class after an alien ship headed for Mardi Gras inadvertently landed in our gym and ordered all the kids on board. I wouldn&#8217;t have shown you the pic if you could really see the kids&#8230;&#8230;.they are inside the mushroom. Later other classes voted for other activities besides the parachute and I tested my heart when they got out little plastic play scooters <\/p>\n<p>(like mechanics use to scoot under cars) and began pulling chains of them around like Peanuts characters on a frozen pond. It was great fun. I also brought my juggling bean bags (hacky sacks) and juggled all the day. I happily tossed one to a young lady I had a fierce war with when I started subbing. I&#8217;m a pretty good peace maker after I lay down the law.<\/p>\n<p>Several kids told me I was their favorite sub yesterday and one of the teachers said I was the best sub he&#8217;s had in his class. If I can handle eighth graders, trust me, Deep-state-phobic gun-slinging Trump lovers hold no terror for me. In fact, I think I might have the ingredients to get a lot of them to get back off from the ledge.<\/p>\n<p>So today I will use my time to work on finding an attorney to help me navigate the election laws that have almost no teeth for errant candidates; figure out who will help me report my vast wealth that Congressman so easily augment while in office by insider stock trading; and plan my campaign in other ways. On Friday I will meet with my second UMD Student as I attempt to figure out how to get in touch with the Greta Thunberg generation.<\/p>\n<p>I produced a potential 15 minute podcast yesterday using only my cell phone to do it. So I&#8217;ll need to research microphones and how and where to set podcasts up. In the next few days I&#8217;ll need put together some books or booklets for possible donations. Just a few minutes ago I thought Critical Race Theory would be a good one&#8230;&#8230;.Few people write more interesting short articles on Race than I do&#8230;&#8230;at least I think they should be of interest. <\/p>\n<p>And I have a lovely Snow day to work.  My last post before this one spelled out roughly how I plan to push Congressmen Stauber off his goalpost&#8217;s pins.  <em>That&#8217;s a little inside joke<\/em> I referenced it <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2022\/02\/17\/120784-petes-way\">in this column<\/a> a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and my French pen pal is sending me a book that will be a surprise. I sent her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/VTTA\/visitto.htm\">the book I wrote thirty years<\/a> that I tried to use to raise contributions for my first campaign for Congress. BTW &#8211; If you decide to order this book I will no longer sell it to you for $8.50. That was the 1992 price when I still had 5,000 of the damned things in my garage. Today I may have 200 of them left. All the others I recycled (dumped in our city&#8217;s landfill). That was sooooooooo painful. Its a crappy book but if you want it hoping someday to have a little piece of history send me $200. (Only one per customer) <em>And you can read one of the chapters<\/em> on the link to the book&#8230;&#8230;.My address for payment is still the same. This will not be a donation on your part but a purchase from me the author. I&#8217;ll add it in with my subbing paycheck to pay for my campaign. I&#8217;ll bet Pete is shaking in his laced up skates to hear that!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>And my French penpal is using my book to add to her English vocabulary. I&#8217;m glad the book is good for something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51971219763_da06d623b9_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just created a new category for my blog today: &#8220;Not your Usual Republican.&#8221; Normally today I&#8217;d be in my first hour of class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,47,148],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33100,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33095\/revisions\/33100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}