*As most of you know I work at a predominately African American elementary school where it is about a 70% African American staff. My heart goes out to a lot of the teachers at that school who recently found out that Mr. Thorton, the long time Willowridge High School band director was found unconscious at his home this afternoon and later pronounced dead. Corrie and I fortunately got to meet this great person, who by all accounts was a great person,and a very positive role model for the students at Willowridge High School. This death comes on the heels of Dr. George Edwards, the Prarie View A&M band director who directed the ‘Marching Storm Band’ for three decades passing away in May.

*I am starting my annual Bowl Pick’em this weekend in preparation for the bowl season. If you would like to participate please email me at portier.john (at) gmail dot com. All participants would have to do is pick the games and set a confidence level for the games by assigning it a point value from 1 to 32 with 32 being the highest point value. An example of this can be found at this link (here)from last years contest.

*Tiger Woods is terrible. But is it too soon for jokes? Apparently according to the long time reputable website (/sarcasm) TMZ.com just posted that a 4th girl has come forth. So he is +4 for the course on marital fidelity, I guess he doesn’t make the cut this weekend.

*It snowed at school today! When I got home from school we got Cullen bundled up and took him out on a tour around the yard. He enjoyed the mess out of it! We’ll post pictures up on CullenPortier.com today or tomorrow to let people see our little snow angel!