basement upgrade

Well tax time has came and gone, all I have left to do is send the check in the mail on monday. I think I will be getting certified mail.

Walter now has his latest set of shots and has the rabies vaccine. He seems to be getting the hang of the pace of being in the greenhouse, and he is pretty tired when we get back. Playing with the labs is a bit tiring for all parties involved.

Today I made and printed out an excel spreadsheet to keep better track of what I spent on bills last year and this coming year. I really have to cut back on my credit card bill, but the rest of them were reasonable. The only issue I have is with the electric, but its just going to be high until I buy a wood burning heat source for my house. I don't know if I will have the gumption to get that done this summer or not. I certainly don't want to spend money on electric and propane to heat my house when I can burn wood for the cost of me getting off of the couch and swinging an axe when I have nothing else to do.

I really don't know what I am going to do to spend money this year. I want to buy a wood furnace for the house, might buy a bigger truck for the farm, could buy some farm machinery. I could see making improvements on the house. The house could use some more insulation, but if I just blast a bunch of heat in from burning wood, I don't need much insulation. I might make a mudroom on the back part of the house, or I could renovate the attic to a room and a bathroom part. One thing I am sure I want to do is run some new wiring and clean out my basement. Right now it has an old furnace and some other junk. Since I got the windows put in, there is much more light, and I think I might need a place to keep canned vegetables after this summer.

In 2009 I payed off my truck and bought a house and neither of those did me much good. I have to find a way to spend money and still pay off all my bills and loans. Saving the money doesn't do me any good when the tax man wants all my money I didn't spend that I don't have.

PWNED hard

Well this week has been especially busy. Tuesday night I went to a tobacco meeting with a free meal, and then wednesday night I went to a crop insurance meeting with a free meal. Tonight I am going to a baskeball game, and will get a free meal if I ride with my parents.

The worst news that I got since my last blog post is that I owe the fedearal government over 16000 dollars. I should have spent more money last year beyond paying off my truck and buying a house. Mabye in 2010 I will buy a newer farm truck and buy some more farm equipment. I might as well spend it on myself if the government is going to take it away.

I also really want to branch out of what we are doing here on our farm. Tobacco is going to be out of a market in my lifetime, and all the thinking that has to go into grain crops is a bit much. The quaker college is having some niche market meeting here in a couple of weeks and I want to go to it to get some ideas about what we can expand into. I want to be a farmer, I just don't think I can make a living with all the ground we have now and the crops we have now.

Well I need to get going, my busy body self has returned from winter break.

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money matters

Well I finally added up some numbers for the purpose of my 2009 taxes. It would appear I grossed more than 90 grand last year and spent more than 30 grand on farm bills. This was greatly helped by a 20 grand crop insuracne check that will probably not happen again for a long time. I really was surprised by how much I paid in bills, I expected that number to be lower. I also thought I would have grossed more, but was under the 100 grand I thought I got myself in. In all likelyhood, or my pessimism, 2010 will be a worse year. I won't have any income from wheat this year. I can' count on crop insuracne to write me a check that I used to pay off my truck and make a downpayment on my house. The grain market might have reached its peak in 2009 and not reach the price level it was at for most of 2009.

I also feel good about what I am offering to my church now. I started off last year giving 20 dollars every week, but have been giving an offering of 45 dollars a week now. Since I don't have a salaried income, I wasn't sure how much I should have been giving. I know or knew that the Bible says to give either 10 or 15 percent, but I settled on 1 percent of the churchs weekly need, based on their bulletein. In effect, if 99 other people were as giving as me, the church would be okay week to week. Surprisingly, the bulletein rarely reports enough offering from the last week to cover their 4500 weekly need. I find it hard to believe that a church that has three sermons or masses every week can't or doesn't have enough people attending to reach this amount. I am going to have to consider giving more. I really feel good about giving money to the church though. I feel that I have been very fortunate the last year or so since I started attending services at hillsboro. Despite not having full time employment, my life is really good as of lately.

Well tomorrow morning I have to go to get my taxes prepared. Should be fun to find out how much I owe my government now. Maybe I will get lucky and get a juror discount.

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Authorti

I felt a bit relieved after mass today. One of the things Father M mentioned is that we should love one another and trust in God. I have been worrying myself too much lately about what I read on the internet. All that I read and hear from other people really is their interpretation. There are many rules and regulations that should be followed, but I am not the only one who is ignorant of all the rules and what basically comes down to traditions. Claiming ignorance does not absolve me of any less than in the faith activity, but my only jobs are to trust in God and love others. If I am able to do those two things, I think I will lead a fulfilling life.

I have a desire or willingness to teach and am unable to find full time teaching work. Meanwhile I hear too many news reports about the lack of teachers statewide and so forth. If the state really wanted to solve the problem, they would ease all the hoops and tricks teachers have to go through to be qualified. I think prospective teachers should graduate with a certification in either k-4, 5-8, or 9-12 qualification. After that what subject you teach should be based on your desire and what classes you took in college. Sure, not everyone can teach or want to teach a subject that are not comfortable with. With all the students who are apparently able to do PSO for the last two years of high school, why does it matter if the teacher is highly qualified and trained in those areas? The students who are willing to work are taking PSO options, and the ones who are left don't demand a high level of skill from their teachers. Elementary teachers are interchangable. They get the job and fill in the need that is wanted within their grade level. I think all teachers should have this option. I would be willing to teach in just about any class or subject that I could find a job in. I couldn't do band or art or special education though. The rest of the subjects I feel I could learn well enough to teach to students.

I also now have a position of authority. I attended an alumni meeting for a group I was did in college. The group is in its 11th year of activity. So we have a small alumni group and really just want to get something started and established. We did decide that one of the goals or our alumni group is to serve the active chapter. I fell this is good, but we should also be able to focus on something for the alumni. I don't know what that something should be, and I don't really have an agenda. I like being part of a group and getting together. One of the first things that we are going to try and do as a group is put together a database so that we can network with each other for jobs and fellowship. If an active member is considering an internship for a company, they might find one of our alumni work for that company and be able to get some advantage or soemthing from being in our elite group.

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Snow

I actually kind of like snow. It's fun to drive around in, and invites kinds of fun that can't normally be had. You can't go sledding in the smmer. You can't throw snowballs or make a snow fort in the summer. It is pretty hard to go to to the local college and do donuts in the empty parking lot without snow. You can't laugh at the dogs trying to move fast through the snow. School doesn't get cancelled on account of good weather. I kind of like it when the sun comes out and melts the snow a little bit. The snow melts away from the sidewalks some, it melts just a little bit lower on my OSU block O sitting on the ground (comparison pics to come later).

The  biggest downside I see to snow is the cold associated with it. If the temperature didn't have to be in the low teens for snow to happen, I wouldn't mind have snow all the time. I don't think I would like living in a place where the season never changed.

In other news, my truck turned over 99,000 miles on it today. I was on 71 north, right at the 62 north overpass when it happened. I bought my truck with aobut 48,000 miles on it back in october of 2006.

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pot worker

Well the start of our greenhouse season has officialy started. We got serveral plugs in this week and things are getttin done. Yesterday I spent almost the whole afternoon filling pots and carrying them to the back part of the greenhouse. I am not sure exactly what we had come in, I didn't look. We were kind of waiting on another shipment of boxes to come in. I filled almost all of the individual pots we use for our geraniums, but now we need to wait on some more stuff to come in.

Maybe my favorite part of working in a greenhouse is how warm it is. It was at least 75 where I was working at most of the time, and had to have been warmer in the part where we keep the flowers. We put up a piece of plastic to divide the greenhouse in two until we get the first part full. This helps us spend less on heating, and keeps the one section warmer while the outside temperature is plenty colder.

I also am going to have to wear gym shoes or something to work in there. Yesterday I wore my insulated red wing boots, and my feet were sore after standing all day. The bad part is that my worst gym shoes aren't all that bad. I would like to have a pair that is a bit run down, but all those types of gym shoes I have are beyond wearing now. At least the pair I am going to start wearing is well cushioned my feet shouldn't be sore at the end of the day now.

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Ash wednesday

Today I had the time, so I went to an ash wednesday service. The sermon was about how we should focus just as much on what we are increasing as what we are giving up, all in the name of Jesus. I easily gave up something for lent this year, but am not sure how I might increase my activity level for lent. I would like to volunteer my services to serve or help the church somehow, but I can't ever really get a clear picture of my work schedule. I might be readily available in the winter and spring, but during the summer, I can't rely on any free time. The worst part is that my dad and grandpa like to bellyache when I tell them I am taking time to go to chuch. They act like I should go to a church four minutes away simply because its four minutes away. I like the church I go to now, even if I have relative anonymity and low expectations.

I am also getting pulled in two directions a bit. I found a girl that seems very good for me, with the exception of two things. Maybe three if I want to be annoyed by her lack of OSU fan-dom. The first issue is going to be resolved, hopefully sooner than later. The second issue is a bit touchier. I don't feel it is right for me to criticize someones belief system, but we do have conflicting beliefs right now. She has agreed to attend services with me and give my catholicism a chance. I had her read the nicene creed as a basic synopsis of the catholic faith. I think at the very least we can work out an understanding. I spent part of this afternoon looking up answers on the matter and feel confident that things can and will work out for us. The issue that I saw the most was with raising children.

The other direction I am hearing is really disbelief. I can understand the point of view that married is married until the right paperwork is done. I am working in the constricts of what my preacher told me. I am not looking to violate any thing that could be considered beyond friendship. It may take a while to get the civil divorce and anullment. I spent most of the afternoon after church today looking up answers and scenarios on a catholic answers site. And, well honestly, I have to spend more time thinking still. I found answers that didn't agree with what I had been told, and am not sure how I should be reacting to some things. I still like the person in question and don't think I am settling or being easily satsified.

Hopefully I didn't make this mess of a post to confusing or insulting. I started this around 2 and its now after 6.

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My lenten sacrifice

With Ash Wednesday being tomorrow, I thought I would get some of my experiences with Lent on here. Most of the time in high school I would give up pop for the 40 days. I remember giving up hats a couple of times in college. I think last year I gave up playing my DS, but did buy a DSi the last week and play that some.

I remember the only time I went to church when I was in college was the Ash Wednesday when I was living in the dorms. The sermon was about practicing your faith in a public place and not being a type of closet follower. I really liked that message, that is one of the few sermon messages I remember.

I thought for a while about what I was going to give up for Lent this year. I don’t drink pop all that often. I haven’t drank any alcohol since new years. I don’t cuss excessively. I don’t eat a bunch of candy or a bunch of junk food. I go to church more than ever and now donate 1% of the church’s weekly need every service I go to. I am pretty good about not eating meat on Fridays, I really like cheese pizza and fish type foods.

After some deliberation on what I should take out of my life to show how appreciative I am of what Jesus did for me, I came up with something. I decided that I am going to give up facebook for Lent. I spend to much time on that site not doing anything anyways. The only friends I really like or want to talk to have my number or instant message screen names. Tonight I am going to make such an announcement on my status, and be absent for at least the next 40 something days.

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Thinking faith and relationship

This week I read two books that made me wonder about my relationship to God and my faith. One book was from the perspective of someone who was in heaven and watching those she left behind. I thought the book was a good read and got me to wonder what my heaven would be like. I don’t have a particular place that I enjoy, or a particular thing that I like doing. What is going to be waiting for me if I should get to go to heaven? The second book I liked better. Even though it was a work of fiction, or at least fictionalized, it explored how God interacts with his children. The book showed God as three individuals, which I recognized as the holy trinity. It really caused me to wonder and explore what it means to love someone and how I treat other people. Am I making the time to listen to my friends and acquaintances? Am I judging people unfairly? Am I forgiving when I should? Am I talking and or listening to God enough? Am I putting to much confidence in man made institutions to guide my life? I really liked the second book and am going to have to read it again when I finish my Bible reading. It had a really good message behind the story.

My list of questions turned out pretty well also. I didn’t get anything thrown at me, and there seemed to be plenty of concurrence with the answers I gave.

I also have some movies to review this week. The haunted airman was pretty well awful and I am not sure how it ended up on my queue now. The ending managed to make even less sense than the plot of the movie. I also watched Smart People this week and thought it was okay. I was expecting it to be funnier and it wasn’t really funny in any direction that I enjoyed. It was slow and maybe could have been some dry humor, but I really just didn’t enjoy it.

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and also, 265 post now, only 100 from my goal. I don't know if I have a hundred days left to completet my goal, but that doesn't really matter. My posting has slowed some, but I guess maybe life is to good right now to get on a soapbox and sound off about things everyday.

50 answers ASAP

Today I read an article in which 50 questions were asked by women for men to answer ASAP. Here are my 50 answers, with the questions purposefully omitted.

1. No, I didn't think any of them were great
2. I want to get as much out as I can.
3. An adjustment is necessary sometimes.
4. Bar soap.
5. Can't think I have ever done that, I always call the number if your nice enough to give it out.
6. Because I thought I was having fun before.
7. I think about it more and initiate more often.
8. Yes.
9. Only if they are an 7 or lower.
10. Less than 25% I would consider.
11. Never had cheated in a relationship
12. They say yes to me.
13. Yes, I remember for my last such first instance.
14. Daily
15. What I should say next
16. Have never noticed.
17. Yes, I usually fall asleep before halftime.
18. Its better than bland food.
19. You wanting to keep me happy.
20. Yours
21. They seem unnecessary.
22. I don't think I have fallen in love yet.
23. If I should be trying harder or not.
24. Wear less.
25. Sports.
26. I think I have gracefully broke off from other girls.
27. I have plenty of pairs of new shoes and options for shoes.
28. Cities want me to get to places so I can be a consumer, being lost is not good business.
29. I want them to want me. Thats what I do for them.
30. I get to escape to another world with problems separate from the ones I have.
31. I live alone, I have to change it.
32. Kind of macho.
33. No.
34. Tulip, I think.
35. I have not acquired a taste for that.
36. Yes, I could forgive and move on. It's hard enough to find someone and then dismiss them so easily.
37. No, my finances are not regulated. I can make as much or as little as I want to work.
38. No.
39. It's as Dr. Drew said on Howard Stern, we see it on porn and think its an option.
40. Yes.
41. Loneliness.
42. No
43. No, thats not important to many people in todays society.
44. Hasn't happened to me, but I think the blood rush would hurt something bad.
45.  If this is good enough for her.
46. Don't know yet, don't really care what she thinks on that front.
47. Could have been better.
48. I haven't meet any of your friends, and no.
49. No, it pretty well stays in place.
50. No, I have not considered that option.

In other news, apparently sirloin steak makes me gassy, because that is what I ate for dinner and I had the noisiest session of Yoga to date today.

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600

I got to witness a milestone today, one that put a local coach of ours in the top 5 or 6 career wise in the state. He has been coaching since my dad was in school. This summer I put together a career list of all his players and their stats and hope to put together a list of his wins and the schools wins this summer.  I have to wonder how long I will continue doing this. If I ever get a job at another school, I might have to quit doing such an activity. I do like keeping the stats, as I have mentioned before. I would also have to figure out who could do the stat keeping after I move on. I also wonder who might be the coach after the current coach retires.

Channel 9 news had a segment on about my coach last night, saying he has been at this school for the last 33 years.

Well today I had to put together a serious list. I have to contemplate some things and how I want to react to them. I made a word document and have written in some of my answers and am looking forward to the other persons reaction when I present these questions to them.

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Foolishness?

Today an author of a blog that I read decided to de-technologize theirselves in order to make up for some mistake that was made. I wonder if this blog will ever come to haunt me some day. I have said unfreindly things about my family, mostly my dad and grandpa. I have put some thoughts on here that I have kept hidden from others. I have made confessions that I wanted to make in person but had to move on afterwards. I have used this blog to gain the trust and confidence of a person. I do find blogging fun, its a way to relax and get some thoughts out. Sometimes by the end of my blog posts, I am surprised by what I type out and get out in the open. I never did think of myself as a writer or author, but this is turning into that. One of these days I will be able to get remember all of my thoughts and interesting things that happen to me during the day. As one of my friends in high school once commented, I do fully entertain myself in my own head. I don't know how often I think of funny things during the day that I don't say because I don't think they will be appreciated how I enjoy them. I feel that my sense of humor is underappreciated, but don't really have an audience for it around here.

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basketball gripes

I have been going to basketball games for plenty of years now and there are some things that just annoy me now. For starters, if you are going to go to a basketball game, sit in the bleachers. People that come to games and stand in the door way watching for any amount of time are annoying. I also find "shes a freshman" chants really annoying. Is the other team supposed to be impressed that a freshman got some playing time? Is the possibility that this player has more years of opposing a team supposed to be intimidating? I don't get it. The team I usually follow is better about somethings now. The fans used to stand up with about a minute left during an impending win and start clapping for the rest of the game. I felt like a jackass for not wanting to stand up and do this, so I quit going.

I do get to see a milestone happen this thursday. The coach of the team I keep stats for has 599 wins and is playing a pretty weak team thursday. 600 wins is a lot of wins for a single coach.

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Shoveling

Today I had the privilege of doing something that my dad and grandpa are apparently perfectly content with. I am talking about shoveling corn so they can grind feed for out cattle we have in the barn. I don't know about them, but I have no intention of shoveling corn at least once a week during the winter for the rest of my farming life. Something needs to be done to mechanize or automate that process. I am not sure if I can convince them to put in an old hay elevator on the floor of the corn storage place or not. I'm trying to envision how that would work but am coming up with some difficulties. One, an auger would work better, but we don't have any old augers of sufficient length to accomplish this means. Second, I would have to make up a whole system where we would expose sections at a time so the elevator doesn't get overloaded. Both of these solutions would be a major break from my elders like of doing things the hard way. I like to think of better ways to do things though.

I also need to figure out a way for them to pull the feed mixer inside of the barn to unload it, but don't think they are going to like that either. Right now we have to go through a big song and dance to back in and unload the freshly ground feed. If we were able to pull in, things would be much easier to do.

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Skis

I have had large feet since about the end of 6th grade. I remember buying a new pair of shoes then and having to pay more since they were adult size. By the time I was in the eighth grade, I was wearing a size 13 shoe. The best part about wearing a large shoe is that I get to make jokes that my feet are also good as skis. The worst part is that when I go to a shoe store, they rarely have my size in stock. I have found that my time is better served buying my shoes through a catalog or website. 

This week some funny things happened because of my feet. When I was subbing, some of the students noticed that my boots were a bit big. One girl asked me why I steal from clowns, I thought about what she was implying for a moment then replied that I steal from clowns because it is easy. When I went bowling this weekend, my friend did a double take at my feet when I asked for a size 13. The funny thing is that I know several guy's who also wear 13's. Several people on my basketball team in high school did. I had a couple of friends in college that wore 13's also. I don't think it is that uncommon of a size. 

Something also happened today I church that I had never seen. Father Mike decided that since the weather was bad, he would do some special blessing that is over 1700 years old. So instead of a homily, we had our throats blessed by some candles in an effort to bless our throats and be healthier. I do think that my current preacher is the most liberal preacher that I have known, or at least gives the most liberal services. Some people may not like their church activities and leadership that way, but I don't mind. Hillsboro gives me three options for services that fit when I want to go to church pretty well. My old parish has a 7:30 am mass that takes twenty minutes to get to. I could also go a late morning mass 40 minutes away, or a saturday evening mass 30 minutes away at 4. None of those are as convenient as 5:30 saturday, or 8 or 10 am sunday morning. Especially when the drive is only 20 minutes and I have some economic options for after the service. 

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hooray season ending football

Footballs closing weekend is now upon me. I don't really think of myself as a football fan. I hear all the internets talking about fantasy football and tv providers talking about watching every game and I realize that is not for me. Generally after the Bengals game is over, I don't watch any other football. I may watch scores for other teams in the division, but that is about it for outside of bengals football. I do like watching college football better, but that has more to do with me following a team that is competitive, in The Ohio State Buckeyes. If I had to follow a small school or a MAC school, I wouldn't be near as interested in college football.

I also did some research for a Peyton Manning criticism. If the guy is so great, why did he lose the heisman to a defensive player? I looked up heisman winners, and the only time a defensive player has won was when Peyton was a senior. Some stud he must have been to make the committee look at the other side of the ball. Carson may barely be limping in the playoffs, but at least he was good enough to not lose a heisman to a defensive guy.

It has also been nearly two years since the tree in my front yard fell on my house. I remember we were getting a heck of a storm and both me and the ex were laying in bed sick. We heard a big crack or some variation of a loud noise and just waved it off. I got a call to sub that morning and managed to get ready and everything without realizing the tree had fell. I went to leave out my kitchen door and it wouldn't open because of all the branches pressing against it. I had to go out my front door and seen that the tree was blocking my driveway and I wouldn't be going any where for a while. The electric was also out so I called the electric company and they cleaned up some enough so that I could get my truck out. Luckily the only damage done was to the house and my dad was able to clean up most of the mess from the tree. Some of my porch was damaged, but my landlords insurance covered the repair cost. I still have some of the firewood around from the part of the tree that fell.

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really tough

This week I talked personally with my pastor for what might have been the first time ever. I was having conflicting thoughts about a moral issue that I needed some guidance on. I couldn't decide what the catholic moral viewpoint was about seeing someone who is still technically married. My preacher thought  that as long as I wasn't committing adultery, I was in the clear. This doesn't mean that I am going to go ahead and push the envelope with the situation, but I now have a more clear boundary about what to not do. On one hand, I meet this person and knew they considered themselves separated. I meet her via the internet. I didn't track down or search out separated people. I didn't hear local news that she was recently available. She put herself out there for the online dating community. Ideally I would have already asked to be more serious about seeing each other. As it is though, I don't feel right actively dating a still married person, no matter how separated. Once a person is legally divorced, I feel that they could become more fair game, but until then I have to be content with being a friend and keeping some distance. I wasn't really thinking or anticipating any sexual acts anyways. I kind of jumped into that quickly with the last relationship and would like to see how relationships are when jumping into bed isn't an easy fix for activity. 

I also heard some terrible news yesterday. One of the girls that I went to high school with wrecked her car pretty bad and spent several days this week in an ICU unit at the hospital. She is going to make it through and be fine from what I have been told, but is going to have a trying couple of months ahead. She has to wear some back and neck support 24 hours a day for the next three months. That would be really tough for anyone to do. I am not sure if she is going to be able to work or how much mobility she will have in the coming weeks. She was really just getting her life together real well. She got the job she went to college for and things were going well. I did find an interesting parallel with her and her sister, who I dated for a year. Connie was in a car accident when she was 22 and damaged her knee so badly that she couldn't hardly leave the house to work for a year. Jessica is 26 and might be staring down a very similar path. It all just goes to remind you how dangerous driving can be. I am not nearly as safe as I think I am. 

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Isiah

I am not sure of the message I am going to take from the book of Isaiah. For most of the book I was surprised at how angry God seemed to be with whoever he was directing his anger at. I was amazed at the language that can appear in the Bible. So much of what I might consider anger today is really just curse words being said loudly or angrily. The ways that God had in mind to show his wrath were really interesting. I may be a bit slow at Bible language also, but I was equally impressed by how much God was willing to do for those who believed in him. I should be able to pay closer attention, but I really have no idea who God was angry at in this book. Nearly all the groups sound the same and if they aren't constantly mentioned, I forget who is being discussed.

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might get thirsty

I am now staring down the prospect of a 5 day work week. I haven't had one of those in a while. I don't count farming because that is not a daily pay job. I am kind of worrying myself about this. I think I may be in a mood to drink by the time friday comes around now. The worst part is that I may have to accomplish something as a sub teacher now. I have, possibly erroneously, concluded that most full time teachers have low expectations for their substitutes. Since their expectations were low, I have worked to keep my expectations low. This has been largely successful since I usually have the same groups of students that now know what to expect from me. I come in, make an announcement about what is supposed to happen for that day and whether or not it is due soon. Then I take attendance and sit back to see what problems I am going to have.

I am not sure if this is a good attitude to have or not. I am only certified for one area. I am working on a second certification. My content knowledge is a bit limited. I can't expect to walk in and teach home economics or world history. I don't want to come in and force feed students something that they know the teacher is going to repeat tomorrow. I could do enough damage in one day that the regular teacher might need two days to repair. Most of the time I try to say as little as possible and act as dumb as I can to the kids. No good can happen from them saying that Mr. Hauke told them something and then sticking to that ideal.

LOL, I am watching LOST and the high pitch noise from the beginning just made Walter go a bit nuts. LOST is a great show. I didn't watch much of the first season, but have really caught on since then.

sweeper

Well the weather is turning and that means I get to get out of the house more and be a farmer. Soon I will be mowing grass and not getting in the house until after dark some nights. Basketball season is winding up and the girls tournament games will be starting soon. I really need to get my lawn sweeper out first though. I didn't rake many leaves this fall, on my grandpas advice. His advice turned out to not be very useful, and I still have leaves in my yard. I was able to lawn sweep some of them up, but I did rut up my yard some. Walter is getting more used to getting to go outside, but I need to learn more about dog behavior first?

I am also now obligated to a financial duty to finish my masters degree. I want to work on on it and be finished, but I just sit with my laptop and read other things not beneficial to writing such a paper.

I am also really starting to hate yoga. Its not what I want to be fitness wise. My goal is to be able to run around and see things. I don't want to gain muscle mass and or be able to do crane for a minute.

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