Hold it too long, and you have a temperature of 110 and a parent disgusted at your lack of guile. You have to keep restraint in mind, though. It takes some practice, but with an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, you can hold the end into the heat halo of the bulb and hit 102 without a problem. I had a clip lamp that put around 10,000 BTUs onto my pillow from the safety bar of the upper deck of my bunk bed when I was a kid.

You are growing up so fast.Īll the ruse requires is a lamp. This, young children, may have been the incunabular grain of POETS Day and is how you too can be like an adult and get out of obligations. But I wanted to see that most important of storylines resolved.

I was home sick one day and there was a Lost in Space episode that ended in a cliffhanger. They had no budget so they rolled reruns of Leave It To Beaver and Lost in Space all day. All of a sudden, an upstart local appeared at channel 21 on the – I can’t even remember if it was VHF or UHF or how that worked but the needle nosed pliers got us to where we needed to be. When I was a kid, there were only three TV (television) stations not counting PBS which meant there were only three stations. Hopefully she isn’t reading today because I’m about to serve up a recipe to spring her students from the eight to three-thirty grind and let Fortnight or Elden Ring reign supreme. I should mention that my ninth grader’s English teacher is an Ordinary Times reader and mentioned one of my articles in class so I can claim that my writing was taught along with Milton, Shakespeare, and Faulkner.

That counts for school kids too, although I’m suggesting they get on a bike or awkwardly kiss someone rather than hit the bar per all previous POETS Day admonitions. We need to take a moment for the children and get them out of this. Will somebody think of the children?Īs the school year nears completion and my kids are striking theater sets and finding out about this year’s patron saint’s bitter end, exam periods are set, and class schedules have devolved to open teacher office hours and essay consultations. This is typically an escape from work to the bar plan for overworked or those who claim to be overworked adults.

Sick poem from where the sidewalk ends