Now we are two

Sesame Street – “Ladybugs’ Picnic”

I’ve got this stuck in my head today.

During bath time this morning, James wanted to do the letters and numbers, and while he’s pretty close to getting the whole alphabet down perfectly — W is still “dee dee,” for instance — he has more trouble with numbers. I tried singing the “Ladybugs’ Picnic” to him, and both totally failed to remember more than the chorus and got said chorus stuck in my head.

So now, I share the love.

Newspapers: not dead yet

It’s sort of scary — touching, but scary — when Hesperia Unified School District employees ask me if my job is secure. The answer is that yes, it is.

(My role is at least; it’s certainly possible that I will sufficiently irritate my corporate masters to the point where someone else will be sitting in my chair.)

Although I can’t give details — frankly, the numbers go in one ear and out the other, even if I wanted to spill all the beans, which I don’t — the Hesperia Star is profitable. Quite so, when you compare the cost of doing business to the revenue generated.

And despite published doom and gloom to the contrary, it’s not alone in this regard:

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