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.

Last week I went down to the school system as I noticed they needed librarians and guess what? They hired me today. I'm going to be Librarian at Windy Hills Elementary School which is just a couple miles away and close to Jade's family's house. Not sure what my pay is. Beginning is $40k though. Wish me luck. UPDATE/UPDATE: Not Windy Hill but Woodland Acres Elementary School which is about 7 miles away. What can I say for the mixup. They both started with a "Big W". (A Mad movie reference for you oldies out there)

Reed had a fun gig last night as Crescendo Amelia has been sponsoring a once a month Big Band Dance and it's been going very well. 150-200 last night. In the first video Frank tells everybody how Reed joined the band. In the second he sings It Had To Be You.

Reed's back in Jax which made a good birthday present for me. We pick up Jade tonight.

Got a note from Reed this morning.------How are things in FL? Went on a boat the other day. We were down off the coast of Agat from 5 to around 8. Near this old Spanish Bridge. On one side we had the sunset, and on the other we had the coast and a full moon. It was absolutely breathtaking. We have been eating REALLY good out here too. Perez Acres grows avocados now so we have basically had unlimited Guacamole for the past four weeks. How are the cats doing?-------Now, he didn't send me any pictures but it gave me a good excuse to grab an appropriate pic off the internet.

Took a little trip to the NE last week and saw my College dorm parents Sandee and Ray Greene as well as their kids Shannon, Shawn and Shea. My pic was real blurry so I'll put up the one Shawn took with Sandee's camera. Saw my brother Herb also a couple times as well as his family but totally forgot to take a picture. :-((But he just sent me a pic of him and May. And OK here's the pic I took with my lowly camera.