Train Table

I’ve got a busy day today. Along with all my regular chores (laundry, making supper, cleaning), I’ll be going to my wife’s school to build a train table. My wife is teaching kindergarten, and in order to spend as much of her salary as possible on school supplies for the kids, she decided that she needed a wooden train set for her kids, and so she bought a train set with a train table. Of course, the table has not been put together, so I’ll be going in to get it set up, much like I put almost everything together for her class, whether she has paid for shelving, etc. or not.

The life of a public school teacher is filled with decisions on how to make sure that there are adequate materials for his/her children, and that they generally are buying things for the room because we do not adequately fund public education. Hmm, maybe there’s a better way to fund education than relying on local property taxes to…nah, let’s not go there. It happens everywhere – remember that next time you hear how overpaid teachers are – they make less for their amount of education than most people with a college degree (or more – many now have Master’s degrees). And in how many jobs do people spend a decent amount of their salaries on supplying their businesses?

So that’s what handyman Pat is doing this morning. And I’ll have music with me, and that will include LCD Soundsystem, Toro y Moi, Hot Chip, Cracker, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ten Years After, the Who, Prefab Sprout, Kevin Coyne, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas & Tracy Nelson, Nina Simone, the Ronettes, and the Shirelles today.

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