2025 – Middle School Musical Chairs Jam – August 23
So it’s 10am on a Saturday morning and I’m relaxing on the sofa reading my local newspaper on my iPad when I’m suddenly jolted by a blast of loud music. It sounds like it might be coming from the apartment below me, but I’ve never heard a peep from them before.
I stuck my head out of my living room window to check the direction………and it’s NOT coming from another apartment. It’s coming from a block-and-a-half south of me!
It’s coming from the Middle School field and someone is trying to speak over the loud music with an over-amplified microphone that could be heard for blocks around.
I think she identified herself as the Middle School principal as she welcomed the crowd to:
Many of the activities were not visible to me, but they ALL were highly audible.
Before they started, I saw this interesting seating arrangement:
Later, when I heard the call for this event, I tripoded the camera. I missed the first few eliminations, but took it all the way to the end. Dunno if there was a prize or not (“King of the Tush-Push”?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgQpzpVKUZI
The last bit of major excitement (?) was the “Catch-The-Water-Balloon” competition. When the girl in the middle-left didn’t catch it dry, I caught the moment:
The final ONE SECOND of this extraordinary event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkDSUepw0A
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more exciting, a seemingly-endless list of winning raffle ticket numbers droned on and on…………
Which reminds me…………..
Maybe this’ll be the year they finally figure out how to keep internal announcements internal when there’s absolutely NO ONE outside? People 4 blocks away don’t need to hear that some student needs to report to the nurse’s office:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAoyih2OdKk
Maybe this’ll also be the year they realize that many of their outside lights are poorly-aimed and/or not properly-shielded and should not be shining brightly on the interior walls of apartments 2 blocks away and 7 floors up? Note that the first one was taken on Christmas Day, the second one was taken just after midnight and click the last one TWICE to fully-enlarge).
You’d think that institutions filled with highly-educated people would understand about light pollution and light trespass, but so far, no one is paying attention (and they’ve been sent NUMEROUS pictures……….including the above three).
But I’ll keep trying……………..what other choice IS there?
A picture us worth 1,00 words.