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This is for the folks out there who look for me on Facebook. The district has figured out a blocking mechanism that keeps us out until about 5 pm our time. I am often busy at that time, and not necessarily interested in hanging out after then. All is well here. We are almost finished with the end of the grind. Our last day of parent conferences is today. The Halloween carnival has been accomplished, the wrestling tournament has taken place, and we have only a couple of weeks until the Thanksgiving break. My wife is supposed to be traveling to Bethel for a couple of days, although it is unclear to what extent the weather will cooperate with those plans this evening. It is snowing madly here this morning, with great clouds of the stuff flying in the wind. It reminds me a little of the snowstorms back home. It is not yet clear if we will get any of the accumulations that we used to see in Michigan. By and large, we do not get that kind of snow out here, at least not in my experience. Winter is here in a serious way today. It may stay that way, or we might get five days of rain. Hard to say. We are all waiting and hoping for freeze-up to finish happening so that we can go tearing around on the river. Not yet. Soon, we hope...