Remember the movie Ghostbusters?  There is a scene near the end when they are driving down the street with a police escort, heading to Sigourny(sp?) Weaver’s apartment.  The music on the soundtrack is a song that goes something like Saving the day (doo doo doo) Saving the day (doo doo dooooo).  Remember that scene?

Yesterday I put a game onto my step son’s computer.  He played for a while, then we went out for a few hours.  When he came home it wouldn’t run.  I told him how to try fixing his problem.  It worked.  I think that song was playing somewhere.

This morning before sunrise my step daughter and I went outside looking for Orion.  The sun was about to come up so the sky was brightening.  I had an astronomy app that told us where in the sky to look, but the stars were very faint.  I saw two stars that looked promising, but as my eyes adjusted and I started to make out that third star in Orion’s belt, I think that song started playing again.

Sadly it did not play this morning as I tried to divert us around a traffic jam on route 93.  I ended up getting them to their dad’s about five minutes late.  My streak of step-dad heroism came to an end, but I can’t wait to start a new one.

Twice today I have sat down to watch Star Wars and each time have been immediately called out of the house for bigger and better things.

I haven’t even gotten to the first line yet!

My step son and I were just laughing our butts off about it.

For the first time in my life, I won a game of cribbage!!*

*when I say that I won, I really mean the team I was a part of won.**

**When I say that my team won I really mean that my step daughter won while I watched.

My step daughter has an extended homework assignment that leads me to believe that her science teacher has never had a teaching job before.

She has to make at least once a week observations of the moon, the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, and Orion.

Three problems: 1) weather. Have you ever tried observing constellations in the rain? How ’bout when the sky is cloudy. You know, like its been almost every night this week? 2) location. Our house is in the woods. Have you ever tried stargazing in the woods? Let me tell you what it’s like… Pretty much impossible. 3) time. Orion does not rise until early morning this time of year. The Big Dipper is up in the evenings but its barely above the horizon. If we lived on top of a high hill we’d be all set there. But we don’t.

Think about number three for a second. An 11 year old kid’s science teach has given an assignment that requires said 11 year old to wake up and go outside before sunrise. What if this 11 year old cant see the stars in question? The assignment states that she move to a place where she can see the stars in question. So this teacher wants this 11 year old to go outside before sunrise and wander around the neighborhood. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Like I said before, we live in the woods. Is she supposed to leave not only the house, but the yard, and the neighborhood too? Before sunrise? Are you effing kidding me? I guess she’s supposed to do that in the evening too when the Big Dipper fails to rise above the houses and trees.

There she and I were this morning at 5:30am, standing in the middle of the street looking up at the total cloud cover with the 11year old freaking out because she thinks she’s going to fail science and have to repeat sixth grade.

This science teacher is an asshole, and seems to be a completely ignorant idiot. If she wants, I’ll get up at 4:00am and knock on her door to let her know.

Look what came in the mail on September 22nd.

It’s almost Halloween.

This is what happens the minute you get outside of route 128.

They still exist?

The kids were fascinated.

Oh nothing, just listening to Xanadu in 5.1. Jen is questioning the rationality of the opium inspired lyrics. Damn if the drums aren’t sounding great though.

Oh nothing, just listening to Signals in 5.1. Is that a different vocal take in the second verse of Subdivisions? And yes, the great injustice of the 1980’s has been rectified. The guitar solo is way to the front. Amen!