Reed, Marah and the Crescendo Amelia Band played at the tree lighting in Daytona Beach on Saturday. Reed was having a lot of fun in this clip. Forgot the name of the other girl.

My new favorite video sent to me by cousin Ry.

So Reed and I went out to Thanksgiving dinner after the Vikings won yesterday and also sold his other car so it was a productive couple of days.

Everything has been pretty mundane lately. Reed has been working hard with school, his job and gigging once or twice a week. In fact, the combo gig at the Omni Resort went very well last night as the particular trio backing him Drums, Bass and Piano sounded excellent. However, his car was continuing to cause problems so...we got him a new one. No, not new new but a good used car from a dealer. After a week the brake light was already out. UPSDATE: Reed reminded me he went to Orlando last week to see the Celtics play the Magic. He gave me a couple pictures to post.

So Friday the Crescendo Amelia Combo had a gig on the street downtown Fernandina Beach. Both Reed and Marah were there to sing and it went well. Here's some video but I had lots of problems with the camera including not being able to charge the battery. Reed's mic wasn't loud enough for these songs but they turned it up right after. Sorry about all the jiggling but I had to adjust things.

So the last day of school has come and gone and, despite some last minute harassment from The Universe and with the help of my principal, I made it. It even looks like they paid me for all those days off. I may have to donate some of that back somehow. We'll see. The lady who subbed for me last week and helped during the book fair is going to take over. I gave her some of my teaching materials. Hopefully she'll enjoy it.

Been over a month since my last post. Time to catch everybody up. School has been going OK but the job here is a lot different than on Guam. Normal day here is to have 5 50 minute classes with various ages with my main objective giving a break to the classroom teacher. There's just me, no library tech. There seems to be a problem with the computer system as all records are kept at a central location and I can't make the system give me a list of who's in what classes and associate barcodes for checking out books. Hence no checking books out and I get no info as to when that might happen. And I've got hand problems. When I took the job I thought I had pretty much figured out the problem with my neuropathy but the job seems to be making it worse. Consequently, I told the principal that I'm going to resign after the school book fair. Final day Sept 29. Not that I'm doing a great job, I'm not. They should be able to find a more capable individual. Reed is progressing and going to work and doing the band but unfortunately he and Jade have broken up after what - 3 years? And finally Hurricane Irma. No biggee for us. Missed a few days of school and only had a few hours of no power. Biggest impact on Jacksonville was the flooding on the north/west shore of the river.