Yellow Car

I used to carpool everyday to work with my friend Cooper. The drive took the same 25 miles on the highway to and from Topsham on I-295. We played a game called "YELLOW CAR."

It works very simple... when you see a yellow car, you try shout out "yellow car" before the other person spots it. Taxi cabs and other work vehicles don't count and the car must be totally bright yellow. It is very simple, but also very addictive. Throughout the ebbs and flows of playing it over 2 years, we ended up with the final score: Josh:429 - Cooper:422.

While searching to find any evidence of this game elsewhere online, I did come up with this little nugget: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=5402

Milwaukee Brewers

During my first year of teaching at Mt. Ararat High School in 2002, one of the students was a young man named Mark Rogers.
http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewPlayerProfile.do?playerId=695


His slow progress does not seem to have slowed up the Brewers though. As of today, they hold the best record in baseball at 21-10, and appear very strong. We we will see though...

http://www.jsonline.com/index/index.aspx?id=33

Cooper Dragonette

My good friend Cooper recently joined the ranks of the arists. He specializes in fantastic landscape paintings from his travels around New England including Cape Elizabeth, Chebeque Island, Maine, and Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Here are his websites:
http://cooperdragonette.com/
http://cooperdragonette.blogspot.com/

Cooper used to be an art teacher at Mt. Ararat High School, where we were collegues. In addition, Cooper used to live in my neighborhood in the West End of Portland. This unfortunate relationship meant that we used to carpool together on a daily basis.