The last few days of work have been really busy as I struggled to keep up with some tasks I had fallen behind on.

I was there until 7 p.m. again tonight. Its good that sailing got canceled. My skipper had to stay home with his grandson, there was no wind (seriously, 0 kts) oh and its 100 degrees out, and I had to stay at work late. Glad it worked out.

Last night my first CSA delivery arrived. It was a pretty good mix. I forgot to take a picture. But it was three plumbs, a cantelope, two very large tomatoes, a lot of new potatoes, a bunch of banana peppers, two zuchinni, eggplant, and about 6 types of unidentifiable squashes and gords, and some homemade sausage and eggs thrown in for our "first time" package. Not a bad deal overall, considering its $75 per month and we get a delivery every week. Anyone know any good squash and gord recipes?

Last night was fish night. After eating we played about 3 hours of Rock Band - which is just like Guitar Hero, but you get drums and a microphone so three people can play together at a time! Rock on! Gavin and Jen were so funny. It was around 11 p.m. and everyone was wilting. At least us single folks... they were like "The baby is asleep, let's Parteeeey!"

What did we have - I baked red snapper in lemon and black pepper and garlic salt with satueed veggies (mushrooms, peppers, brocolli, zucchini) served over couscous. Nick made a yummy salad. Cari made stuffed mushrooms. And Fred made pumpkin pie. After all, you have to ruin a healthy meal with the unhealthy yummy stuff.

Byron is still in Korea. He'll be flying back to Alaska sometime tomorrow and then doing some bobbing around the U.S. before going back. I don't think he has the travel bug I do. He had fried chicken (though "Korean fried", he swears.) Then he spent yesterday watching sumo wrestling and doing battle with his English professor who won't read his final paper because she believes TurnItIn.com says he plagarized...

... for the record, I reviewed the report, the stupid computer algorithm on that web site levied the allegation mainly on the several paragraphs he took from the Boeing web site that he indented and cited, rather than quoted. (Indenting, for those of you who forget your English class is a legitimate form of citation for a paragraph long quote.) The remaining cases of "plagarism" are when he used the full product names of some Boeing products that were 7-8 words long. I guess he should have used the acronyms.

My all-time favorite "match" from the program "An Analysis of Boeing Prepared By" matches a report title by another Embry Riddle student. Hm, a student at an aviation university doing a report with such a unique name, he must've copied! Must be plagarism! Apparently the program finds the same 7 or 8 words in a row somewhere else, it must be cheating, rather than a proper name. I hate online cheat finding systems, they are a good start, but they aren't a substitute for a professor reading your paper.

I hate that the professor sent him an accusation, said she was going to give him a zero for the paper without even 1. looking at the report herself or 2. giving him a chance to defend himself. Most schools at least have Honor Councils or something if a professor wants to level such an serious accusation. Anyway, he did fire back a response, and I told him if she persists he should appeal to the administration. That's just bad professoring, if you ask me.