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Saturday, January 21, 2017 What a day!  Yesterday I got off work at 6:00 PM and drove home to Winthrop and pulled in just a little before 9:00 PM.  It was raining all the way from Leahy Junction outside of…

Thursday, January 19, 2017 The district’s closed again today; the roads are pure ice here at the Transportation Department.  And with temperatures predicted to rise, there may be a lot of standing water on the roadways later today. I completed Module…

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Well…this just about sums it all up… What a wild couple of days.  A three-day weekend and now day two of no school, this time due to the ice storm we started getting late yesterday afternoon.…

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Humpf!  Because of a dire weather report, the district decided to cancel school today.  I’m all caught up on work and am now designing a relational database for pupil transportation management which means I need to…

Monday, January 16, 2017 Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and as a public school employee, I’m able to enjoy today off. I can’t recall ever hearing a member of my family disparage another person based solely on the…

Sunday, January 15, 2017 Another gorgeous morning looking out from our home here in Winthrop.  It’s 11º outside – practically shorts weather.   Today is a day of staying in and relaxing and studying.  I’m working through Statistics & Probability and am…

Saturday, January 14, 2017 Today’s the first day of my three-day weekend.  Our friend Mark is visiting and we’re sitting around the dining room table trying to decide what to do today.  Tiago says the Lake Chelan Winterfest is going…

Friday, January 13, 2017 And here we go again.  Grant County Airport is reporting -23º with windchill.  Per district policy, our threshold for no school is -15º and below.  We’ve decided to call a two-hour late start and we’ll reevaluate…

Thursday, January 12, 2017 And school’s closed again today (third day this week) due to weather.  The Grant County Airport is reporting a temperature of -23º with windchill and district policy states that school will be closed whenever there’s a…

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Hump day.  The district’s closed today because of snow drifts.  I was up at 3:00 AM and drove up-and-down Mae Valley, Dune Lakes and around town.  I’ve never lived anyplace that gets the constant wind that…