Three of my students contacted me on Facebook asking to be friends. I used to ignore requests from students but these are good kids, they're seniors now, and I no longer teach so I figured I might as well. It's nice to keep in touch with the past plus they can keep me up on how Notre Dame's ACB team is doing.

My textbooks arrived yesterday for my ED605 and ED683 classes. We had to order them from Amazon. For $156 I get two paperback books. One is 6" wide, 9" high, and 1/2" thick. The other is 8 1/4 wide, 10 3/4 high, and 3/4" thick. I hope quantity does not indicate quality.

Wakana and I went car shopping on Wednesday. There isn't much in the way of choices. She got all depressed. We did find a used Camry with all the bells and whistles for about $13,000. It's bigger than she wants but she figures she can trade for a new Versa when I go back to work.

We seem to have a lot of things we want to do when I get back to work. I hope we are up to it.