When I close my eyes, I see weeds.

When I close my eyes, I see weeds. Not metaphorical weeds. Not biblically allusioned weeds. Actual freakin weeds.

Despite our sworn promises never to do so again, my wife and I recently purchased a new home, sans yard. So, with apparently nothing better to do, I woke up this morning at 7:00 and headed straight out into the yard. For six long hours (remember, I'm a school teacher and have soft hands) I fought a valiant battle against the weeds in the yard. I'm proud to say that some of them were quite a bit taller than me and I still took them down! Six hours was enough. There's still some weeds in the yard, but six hours did me in.

Now, when I close my eyes, I still see weeds. When my wife said the blessing over lunch, all I saw was weeds. Tonight, when I finally close my eyes to go to sleep, I imagine that I'll probably still see weeds.

What does this have to do with anything? Well, for the last few weeks I've been thinking an aweful lot about educational technology. I've been reading books, reading blogs, playing with computers, and making plans for the coming school. And lately, when I close my eyes, when I lay down for bed, I think a lot about educational technology.

Hopefully all these thoughts, both conscious and unconscious are doing some good.