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Sunday, March 7, 2021

A to Z Challenge 2021 Theme Reveal

It is almost time once again for the A to Z Challenge to come out of it's den and cast it's shadow to the

blogging community. It is now time for participants to reveal their 2021 theme to the world.

I had several ideas for this years a to z challenge, some more ambitious and some less ambitious. I think this one is just right and hopefully, like Goldilocks you'll eat it all up.

My A to Z challenge is to write about people who were living 100 years ago in 1921. For example 13 men who had been , were , or would become U.S. presidents were alive in 1921. These presidents lived between 1856 and 2006. All 4 of my grandparents were living in 1921. They ranged in ages from 9 to 19 at that time. The 9 year old eventually married the 19 year old but that was some years later.

In the past I have participated in the challenge from multiple blogs. This year I come back to HSD after doing the last challenges from Random Acts of Roller. I currently have 4 active blogs and have found a way to involve each blog into the extravaganza. The way is by A to Z Easter Eggs

What are A to Z Easter eggs you ask. It is my way of adding additional related content my from my other blogs to my a to z posts. I will do this in 2 different ways one if I create additional content on one of my blogs and then post it concurrently with the a to z post, I will call that an to A to Z extra. If I have already created that content and posted it previous to this years challenge I will call it A to Z archive.

For today's post I only have one kind of Easter eggs but I have plenty of that kind.. Last week at my vlog, Dave Out Loud on my feature called Quick Random Takes the topic I picked out of my hat just happened to be A to Z challenge. I put that topic idea last May, so it's interesting it would pop up a week before the topic reveal. In addition, all 4 of my blogs including this one have A to Z archives which are links to my previous A to Z Challenges.

A TO Z Easter Eggs

A to Z Archives:

Quick Random Takes: A to Z Challenge at Dave Out Loud

Index for A to Z Challenge 2020: Capitals at Random Acts of Roller

Index for A to Z Challenge 2019: Music of the Sherman Brothers at Random Acts of Roller

Index for A to Z challenge 2016: Y is for YouTube at Dave Out Loud

Index for A to Z Challenge 2016 Cubs Home Run Hitters Aramis to Zimmerman at Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports Blog

Index for A to Z Challenge 2015 Nouns at Home School Dad

Index for A to Z Challenge 2015 White Sox Home Runs Hitters AJ to Zeke at Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports Blog

Index for A to Z Challenge 2012 at Home School Dad

The challenge starts on Thursday April 1st and continues every day but Sundays for the rest of the month. Click here to be redirected to the A to Z challenge.

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Roller Time

This week I finished a 6 week subbing assignment relieving a 1:1 aide who was on maternity leaveem. I worked with the same student for 6 weeks which was new and very rewarding for me. Each morning I would pick the student up at the bus and bring them to the class room. Each afternoon I would take the student back to the bus. Usually by the end of the day, my student would start to get very excited about going home and would start repeating momma time over and over again. Sometimes if the student was having a particularly difficult day they might start saying momma time before it was near to the time school ended. I Kind of saw it as a suggestion/protest. One day Momma Time was being chanted at about 8:30 a.m.

One morning 3 or 4 weeks into the assignment as I was picking my student up from the bus, the bus driver asked me what my name was. I said it was Mr. Roller. She said that explains it, your student has been repeating Roller time, Roller time for the last 15 minutes. I hope that means that I made as much of an impression on my student as they did to me.

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Yesterday I almost went to a movie. That's right I almost went to the movie theatre with my wife and watched a movie. It's been almost a year since I've even thought of doing that. The reason we didn't go was not because of any co-vid concerns, we e looked the movie up in my favorite ratings website, Plugged In, and realized that it might not be for us. Our daughters went to the Disney dragon movie and both enjoyed it.

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Speaking of Disney, my younger daughter and I have been watching Wandavision on the Disney App. We have been watching it the Friday it drops and watched the 9th and final installment yesterday. If I were reviewing the show, my review would be uneven. I'm not reviewing, it though. I will say this, it's been super fun having a little vestige of appointment television and the experience was well worth the effort.

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My Other Blogs

Besides this blog, I have 3 other active blogs. Here are links to my most recent posts in each of them.

Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports Blog

Hall of Fame Voting Results 2021 - 2/13/21

Dave Out Loud

Quick Random Takes: A to Z Challenge 3/6/21 (currently now quickly becoming then)

Random Acts of Roller

Born on March 2nd 3/2/21