This schedule is kind of wreaking havoc on my blogging schedule. I've always pretty much sat down to blog around 7:30 am. By then I've had a cup of coffee and perused the paper for blog fodder.
But now I get home from driving the yellow tank at about 7:20, so I haven't looked at the paper or had coffee yet. I'm anxious to get the blogging out of the way so I can work. It'll all pan out, I'm sure.
The past few days have been pretty much fun. The kids are starting to come out a bit more in the afternoons. In the mornings I pretty much have only about 10 riders. The rest of them get driven to school by their parents. Most of them work in Charlotte and leave around 7 anyway, so it's easy to drop junior at the school on the way. Mensa Boy and Taylor are among the stream of cars going in and out of the school between 7:10 and 7:20.
In the afternoon I have about 20 kids that go to a day care and the rest, about another 20-25, live in the neighborhood. The day care is about a 10 minute drive away from the 'hood. I do the kids here first(they have parents waiting, whereas the other kids just have day care people waiting), then dead-head up to the day care. The day care kids are the ones most likely to act up. And of course now they are on the bus the longest. The first day they mostly sat in the back. But yesterday I had them all sit in the front, with the neighborhood kids in front. My excuse was that only half the windows work and the day care kids have the longest run, so I thought they should sit where there are more open windows. But really? I wanted them right around me.It worked pretty well. But I did have to stop and talk to them about not changing seats while the bus is moving.
At the end of the week I need to give the kids assigned seats (school district policy...easier to identify the dead)..joshing! joshing!.. so I told them they need to find places they are comfortable, with kids they can handle being close to.
That's it for now. My mind is a bit mushy and I want to work hard today so I can play tomorrow and Friday. But not without two parting comments:
I'm glad the pizza brothers are gone from Amazing Race. But they had gotten more likeable near the end.
And today is the last day to exhort you: Don't Buy Benchcraft Furniture!
8:01:36 AM 
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