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I was in OSH the other day in order to duplicate a set of keys designed to give a 4-lock level of security to our apartment, when I saw the adjacent display.

Apparently, mid-October is considered the beginning of the Christmas season now, at least in the home hardware business. Nice.

This week has been extremely long. Meetings, both on campus and off campus, online class finals and quizzes, as well as tonight’s back to school night have provided a week full of exhaustion and energy draining levels. And to top it all off, tomorrow is a full length day (in past years, we’ve gotten a half day after a parent conference night….we’re moving the half day to 10/31).

Anyway, as the weekend approaches, I’m looking more and more forward to the desperately needed sleep that will come hopefully sometime Saturday morning between 6am and about 9am (or 1pm).