Cowering Under My Afghan

I start training tomorrow for my new job. I will be teaching robotics to 4th and 5th grade. Basically, I get to hang out with kids all day and play with computers and legos. Yeah, pretty sweet.

Although I've been studying the software, there's probably one more step I need to take to be fully prepared:

Robot Insurance, SNL

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