The weekend was fun.  I actually started my Saturday by working on one of my finals assignments: creating a health binder.  I had assumed that all I would be doing is filling a binder with all the stuff we received throughout the class module.  I was wrong.  The binder is like some sort of scholastic scavenger hunt.  Some of the pieces need to come from the district/county offices; some need to come from health places like Kaiser.  A lot of the stuff in the binder needs to be pulled off the web, formatted and printed.  Alas, I discovered this morning that my printer is no longer dispensing blue.  Despite several cleanings and even a cartridge replacement, it looks like the printer is broken.  Well… that slowed me down by about an hour.  I’ll have a lot to do on Monday.

Just before noon, Barb and I took the Porsche out to a teacher event down in Gilroy: a wine tour.  Fifteen teachers and their spouses toured Gilroy’s wine trail (gee, up until today, I didn’t even know Gilroy had wines).  Many of the wines were spectacular, as were their prices.  Now, none of the wineries have the look of say Napa or Sonoma, but I guess they were at least functional.  Mostly, they were of the mom & pop variety.  I finally bought some bottles from the last winery of the day, from the last glass of the day – a dessert wine that tasted like chocolate, coffee and orange.  When we got to the vice principal’s house to watch the Giant’s game, we popped open a bottle of this stuff and had it with brownies and ice cream.  Delicious!

Sunday after church, we cleared the sanctuary, putting all the band equipment in the back closet.  All this week, we’re having the carpets replaced.  On Friday, Bery and I will have to put everything back.  It usually takes three hours or so.  When we got home from church, rather than watch football, or the final game of the World Series (Giants Win!), the kids and I played Minecraft until bedtime.  At one point, Courtney had adopted some dogs.  Jeffrey came along and set them on fire.  It was hilarious to watch these dogs running around on fire with Courtney absolutely horrified.  It brought me back to my childhood where I used to hang and decapitate my sister’s dolls.  I thought it was funny, but my sisters were scarred for life.

Monday was all homework, all the time.