The Rapp is back:

It's been over a year since I updated this rambling blog.  I'm going to note a few bullet points now, to come back to with more detail about what can happen in a year.  Hopefully I'll come back to them later with details which will likely cause my real or imagined readers to run screaming to the exits "Will He Ever Stop".  I do tend to exhibit verbal diarrhea at times.  My intent is to not let another year go by without burdening someone with my rambles.

We'll get back to these points later:

2018

• my Engineers Without Borders (EWB/Los Angeles) partnership project with the U.S. Forest Service goes on "hold until further notice"
• Cameroon gets embroiled in separatist conflict between English and French post-colonial zones, putting my EWB team's project there on "hold until further notice"
• my experiment with the teaching profession leads me to the Preliminary Career Tech Education (CTE) teaching credential programs
• my networking with schools about learning how to be a teacher leads to a contract with a central LA high school to teach an Intro to Engineering class
• I launch into the teaching credential clearing process, teaching full-time and taking classes
• My EWB/LA buddies travel to Guatemala to start a new water systems project for a small community

2019

• I "survived" teaching in my own classroom for a full school year 2018-2019, then re-retired
• a bit of travel - Jun/Jul - my 1st trip to Alaska - Anchorage
• an almost routine trip to Tucson, AZ - time with family and a bit of personal business
• old age creeps in, and I relaunch the plan for Red Cross platelet donations
• work on getting our EWB Cameroon project on a remote support track
• received my 2nd Mitch Rapp advance copy novel, by writing why I should get one
• networking with schools in my area, for possible classroom visits
• continue supporting the Encorps STEM teacher recruiting program, which got me into this teaching "mess"
• too many doctor related events, some familiar, some not
• completed required teacher credential courses and U.S. Constitution test online
• visited high school classrooms, then middle school classrooms

More to come, in some excruciating detail: