CTC considerations.

The past three days I have subbed at a vocational school, and the atmosphere in that building is way different. The students constantly have their phones out, all manners of cussing are happening and very little effort is being put towards learning or achieving anything academic. For the most part, the teachers I seen tolerate this for a reason I don't know. They may stress academics more when they are in charge or present, but the past three days, I have gotten less than 50 words of what the students should be doing. I do think most of the kids are benefiting from being in such a program, but have to wonder how desperate things are for them on the weekends. I overheard all kinds of drinking and sex partners comparison stories from the students and really felt sad. As young as they are, and they are out rushing around doing things as if they planned on not living much longer. I sure hope that if I get to be a parent one day, I will have more control over my brood than what I am hearing from those students.

I also had to do some handiwork around here. My two flusher post must have been a bit of a premonition to what happened, but I spent all afternoon working on my toilet. As the great Red Green says, "if the women don't find you handsome, at least they'll find you handy." I can't decide if my house smells funny or not now, but if the weather holds up, I will have the windows open letting all kinds of fresh air in anyways.

My mom had her birthday today and hit the century mark. We finally went to a restaurant around here that didn't serve alcohol and had a nice meal. I thought we might go to the old y, but went to the country inn out by the new clinic instead.

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For the fun of it

Sunday six of us went to the masonic temple down in cincy to watch or attend some type of easter holy hour. Afterwards we all went to the newport and had a nice meal at don pablos. My dad and brother had more than one alcholic drink so it was decided that I should drive home. The first issue came up when the not sober people decided that I was incapable of deciding for myself which direction we needed to go to make it home. Keep in mind, both of them never lived in a big city and had to drive around on highways when they needed to go somewhere outside of their living area. So anyways, after being told and having the route changed about three times, I decided that I was going to purposefully drive in the opposite direction and ask way to many questions. I kept this up for about 10 minutes before they finally got their heads on straight and got me pointed in the right direction. One thing happened that really pissed them off. After I drove by a left turn lane, they decided that I should have been in that lane. In order to get in that lane, I was going to have to hold up all the cars behind me from their business, which I was unwilling to do. Dad and Glenn nearly threw a hobo fit when I drove ahead, made a left at the next business, and then got on the road I needed to be on.

I had to laugh a little bit yesterday also. Two summers ago, I was lectured for 15 minutes by my grandpa about how we should always put the new lawn mower away clean. I spent plenty of time cleaning up the mower when I was done with it, but apparently was the only one. Yesterday grandpa started complaining that the mower was dirty and had been put away dirty all winter long. I had to laugh. The two people who I knew always put the mower away dirty were standing there dumbfounded as to how that happened.

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BB user

A week or three ago, I made a change that may stick with me for a long time. I had been seeing the commercials on TV for a sprint/nextel plan that offered unlimited everything for a family plan. I realized that I could sign my dad, grandpa and me up on a family plan, get unlimited everything and pay about the same as I was before. I was also conveniently up for a new phone, so I went into the store and made it happen. I was considering either the clutch model with its rugged features, or a blackberry with its does everything feature. I went with the blackberry mainly due to being on the new plan, I would be able to text and web browse all I wanted and that would be easier on a blackberry. So far that has proven to be true and I am pretty content with it, minus two accounts. First, the web browser is a bit slow, but that has more to do with the nextel network needing an upgrade, which I have read is happening. Second, I can't seem to get my sirius app to work, which has more to do with my network than anything else. Other than that I am pretty happy. I bought a good case for when I inevitably drop my phone, I can now send text messages and even discovered that a blackberry gets me in an elitist group of messenging that I didn't know existed. I can check the grain market and do some browsing when I want. I can walkie talkie my bosses limitlessly now and even do free group connect which will be cool when they realize what is happening. I do have to worry about how much dirt and grime I might get on the keyboard. With the case I got, the keyboard is exposed and I have way to much dirt and hay chaff to mindlessly ignore what could happen to that. The charger port is also exposed, but is a usb style charger so I don't think I need to worry about it as much. My dad and grandpa have lower model phones, so they don't get to advantage the new plan in quite the same way, but they are spending less so I don't see why they would complain much. I am also getting used to typing with my thumbs. It is going okay, but I have big hands and digits that have been able to palm basketballs since the 7th grade.

I also have a bit of a gripe now. I came home today and decided that I was going to get my work desk all set up and cleaned off some. I put my PC laptop in its spot and started PC'ing away. I was doing some simple browsing and upgrading and kept getting constant interuptions and unexpected shutdowns. I now remember why I went over to a mac. The typing seems a bit easier on my PC, but the mac does everything else better.

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Seminar Semantics

This past week has been awful busy. I spent four days this week at a software training seminar for a farm record keeping system. I learned a couple of new tricks, and seen some things that I already knew. The main point with the program is simply going to be putting the time into it to get back out of it what you can use. Dad and Grandpa have farmed all their lives by deciding what they were going to do when they wanted to do it. No records or recording were kept until everything was said and done for the year. If I am going to use the program, I am going to have to committ time to it everyday, as if it were an actual job. I could treat it as a full time job if I wanted, keeping all the financial records and activities of all our families as like an accountant might for a large company.

It was pretty tiring really. Tuesday and Wednesday, I drove to Dayton and back both days. It seems that whether I go via 32 and 275 or  via Wilmington and 35, its abou the same 80 mile distance from my house to that hotel. Thursday and Friday I went to Columbus, but stayed at my brothers place Thursday night to save on some driving. I also got to sleep in some  Friday morning, which was nice. I woke up to about three inches of snow on my truck. I got to meet up with a friend and his fiance also. I asked them how they arrived to one of the conclusions they did and recieved conflicting answers from the two of them. It was really pretty funny, but I was glad to see them none the less.

I also have found someone to be a little hypocritical. A little bit of research and I saw what I thought I had seen earlier. It would seem that when I justify something, its an excuse, but they are free to do nearly the same when the situation presents themselves. I thought about confronting this person, but feel that vaguely blogging about it is enough for me.

In other news, I have seen several movies since I last blogged. District 9 was good, Dogma was as funny as I rememberd it, Land of the Lost was okay, Religulous gave me a look that I wasn't scared or worried about hearing. I have seen some more, but my internet is slow right now so I am going to not look them up. I also got in my wii sreaming netfix DVD, so will be putting that to task soon also. I doubt that I can download a full movie with my internet service, but do have unlimited data from 3 am to 6 am. So I will wake myself up early once, see if I can download a movie, pause the playing off it, and then go back to bed.

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Palm Sunday

Today was Palm Sunday in the catholic church. Per tradition, we started mass by going out of the church, being handed a palm leaf and commencing mass out of the regular church confines. One of my favories parts of the Palm Sunday service is the retelling of the Passion of the Christ. I brought my palm leaf home and put in over my doorway with the one I got last year this weekend.

I have never seen the Mel Gibson movie, for no good reason at all, but I have a different reason for liking the Passion. One of the things that we did in my old parish was an acting of the Passion, that was put on by the youth group. My freshman and sophomore year I didn't play very big parts, but I stepped it up some for my junior and senior years. I played Jesus those last two years and can remember many of the lines from that role. It was a bit of an untstated rule that one of the male seniors took on the role of Jesus, but after signups none of the fellers ahead of me had signed up. After about five seconds of thought, I volunteered and then went ahead and then recommited my senior year. At first I was a bit intimidated by playing a role that had so many lines. The narrator had more lines, but they got to use their script the whole time. All in all I was glad I was able to do it for those two years. I learned more than I would have if I didn't do that role, and became a source of inspiration. For the next 7 of the 8 years, either me or my brothers played Jesus in the play. I was the role for two years, Glenn was for three years, and my youngest brother was for the three years after Glenn graduated. It kind of worked out funny with my brothers, whenever one of us was a senior, the other was a freshman.

Next weekend marks the end of the Lent season and we are going to have dinner at my grandparents down the street. I have succesfully given up FB'ing for Lent, but did find a technicallity once. My brother used my computer once and I got back on and viewed my page, logged in as him. So while I was on FB, I wasn't technically individually logged in so it didn't count that way. I was mainly worried about what my youngest brother and his buddy had put on there about me giving up FB for Lent and getting raped by the government this year, but it was relatively tame. 

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the same moon

I have a cousin that was born four days before me. He lived just down the street, but in another district and another school from me. We both played basketball and now work with our dads. One summer we went to a basketball camp and played on the same randomly chosen team together that made the championship game in that camp. His parents started him in school a year eariler than me, so he graduated in 2000. I was 18 my whole senior year of high school, he was 17. Our brothers that were a year apart in age came to the coclusion when they were all three working together that we were a lot alike. My brother commented that Chad sounded just like me in many things, and near as I can tell we are alike in many things.

I was reminded of this today when I was talking to my cousins dad. I mentioned that I was kind of seeing someone named Amanda, he said the me and Chad are really alike. Chads wife is named Amanda. He is also married for about two years now with twins. So I am a bit away from that, but fate may be chasing me down.

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tourney time/bad luck

Tournament time is upon me now. I remember in junior high getting the sports page and looking at all the scores to see who had wone and was advancing. At the time I was a UC fan, back in the day when they were in the conference USA and were winning the league title year after year. I loved the bearcats and hated the kentucky wildcats. I would get excited whenever the wildcats were losing.

Historically I never have done very well picking a bracket. This year is not off to a very good start either, I picked minnesota and texas to do well and they lost right away. Half of my final four is done already, and the first weekend is not even over.

The worst luck I can think of was my junior year of high school, or kenyon martins senior year of college. He broke his knee or leg somehow in the conference tournament and was done for the year. UC had a real good shot at being the national champions that year, and still got a 1 seed despite that injury. I couldn't believe it when our assistant coach came to basketball practice and told us the bad news. I didn't believe him.

One year I had to watch the NIT because ohio state made didn't make the big tourney. I tried to figure it out, but all I know is that the teams have some home games and OSU ended up winning the whole thing. Last year as soon as OSU was upset in the first round, I quit watching. I plan to do the same thing this year.

In other news, I had a very easy day subbing today. For some reason a principal thought he needed a sub and aparently I was just the guy for the job. I got to finish my big red machine book, and took it easy nearly all day. Subbing is usually easy money, but today was especially easy.

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My middle name

I have a unique link to St. Patricks day. No, I don't claim to be any particular part irish. No, I don't drink dark beer all day long or on any other occasion. No, I don't follow St. Paticks ideology to the T. My middle name is Patrick, my mother named me that after the saint. All I really know abou the person is he introduced christianity to a large part of ireland, and used the three leaf clover to as a type of pnemonic device to remember the holy trinity of the father, son, and, holy spirit.

Speaking of saints, I have had some thoughts about all the saints. Now, I do like my chrisitanity, esepcially being a catholic. I do wonder why we need so many saints for so many seemingly small things. A quick google search gave me an entire list of saints to pray to for special purposes. I have to wonder why praying to God won't fulfill any of those needs. I know or at least think the saints did some outstanding work for God during their life, and mabye this is how they get rewarded. I prefer to pray to God for any and all of my issues, at least as of now.

My favorite St. Patricks day was back in 2006. I was dating someone who was working in illinois at the time, and I decided to surprise her for the weekend. So during the week, I tried to convince her to buy some extra groceries, and then drove up to her place on a thursday to surprise her. Unfortunately for her, I got there an hour or four early, and it was St. Patricks day. So after a while of waiting in my car, I realized there was a sports bar across the street that had green beer and the start of the NCAA tournament. So I went in and got good and lit, let her in on the surprise after a while, and enjoyed the rest of the weekend with her.

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not liking the change

Well I officially don't like the time change now. I didn't get home utnil nearly seven and then it was dark before I knew it. I thought I might cook some hamburgers, but by the time I got settled in, it was to late to cook and watch LOST. So now I have a reason to not eat in the evenings and wonder where they went again.

Something I knew would happen, happened today. I got a call to sub for next week and all of the days I could go in and sub, are the four days I will be at that farm works software seminar. I did however get booked to work this friday, but I'm not sure what exactly I am going to be subbing as. The principal told me to bring a book and he acted like I might be subbing in his stead. I guess I will find out what he meant on friday.

I also got to join a tourney bracket with a bunh of old pals from college. They must really think highly of me, I missed the email list and got made fun of for not having a good messaging phone. They also put a picture up of me as the group picture, and named the group the brown county bendyhands. What great friends I have.

I also just realized that I will be in columbus next week with nothing to do when the NCAA tournament basketball games are going to be playing. I am wondering if I might just get a hotel room and see if I can do the "24 on the 24th" drinking game. I don't think my brother will be in town, and drank too much of absentmindeds fiance's stoli vodka the last time I was at their place.

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Insured.

Yesterday I committed to being health insured for the next six months. I bought a base, hospital, and accident coverage plan that will last for six months for less than 800 dollars. I alos bought a dental and eye plan for 125 that last for 15 months. I'm not sure if I will need all that coverage, but after hearing about my ex girlfriends sister's car wreck and condition, I think having that in my name will be a good thing. What I really need to do though is get out to an optometrist. I have been wearing the same pair of glasses since before I turned 25 and honestly they strain my eyes sometimes. I don't know if I can still wear contacts or not, but will try to get a pair or two to have for the summer when I work outside in the sun much more.

In other news, we have started seeding our tobacco plants for next year now. We can get all of our stuff done in three days and move on to the rest of the greenhouse work. The rest of the greenhouse work has been kind of slow, but we do have plenty of vegetables that are coming up that will need transplanted soon. It would be nice if we would be able to get some sun here the next couple of days, but the cloudy weather may just hang around for a while.

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Boogers

I have a bit of a nasty habit. I pick my nose. I can't help it for some reason. When I am alone, I will really dig around there for some reason. I don't know why I do it. I think I don't like having a big hunk of whatever it is up there. This issue has really been compounded lately. I can blow my nose in my handkerchief, and ten minutes later I will have some dry material to dig out. I know that this is not socially accepted, but I don't always have a handkerchief to blow into. Sometimes I even eat what I pull out of there. Its more curious-ness than anything.

I also forgot about the no meat on friday lent deal and ate part of a strombolghi for lunch yesterday. I like eating fish as much as I can, but I completely forgot about the day being friday until about 30 seconds after I finished my sandwich. Its a good thing Lent is voluntary and I can ask for forgiveness on anything if I ask and am truly repentive.

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my resignation

Well today was a pretty good day. I got some work done on my prospectus, heard some encouraging news about crop insuracne and had a good dinner. I didn't do anything in the greenhouse, but things have been relatively slow for the first part of the season here.

In other news, I heard some less than good news from a friend today. The news casued me to reflect on the only real job I ever had that I lost. About this time three years ago I was called into a principals office to be told I wasn't working there next year. At the time I was 24, and the principal and building rep thought I was much to young to get hung up and not think I wouldn't work again. He told me that he spent a couple of nights aganizing over the decision, but finally had to do what was best for the school. I can't fault him to much though, that was part of what they pay him for. I could have done a better job and kept my position, but I had a couple of things stacked against me. First, my licensure was in agricultural education. I can work in such a capacity teaching out of my license area, but only for a limited time. I was working on my progress in that area, but here I am at 27 and really having to push to finish up. Secondly, they were worried about losing students to the PSO program. That is an epic fail and part of the problem schools are facing today. More on that later. Thirdly, they had a replacement in mind when they were getting rid of me. They had me turn in a letter of resignation and then sign it so I couldn't rescind it when I found out who they were hiring to replace me. Then that friday I went to columbus and got drunk. The next week I told my grandma that I wasn't getting re hired and she told me that when one door shuts another opens.

In other news, I believe schools are letting to many students do PSO. With fewer students around, they don't need as many teachers. If all the students who are willing to work and get A's and B's go to school somewhere else, the C and lower students are left to wait out their time until they can graduate. So if a school has 20-30 less students, that is the salary or at least two teachers. (Count week gives 5 grand per student.) This means they need fewer CP teachers and subjects. And when a school has to look to cut money, those subjects may go. I am going to be doing an independent survey and findind out how many PSO kids are out of schools soon.

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Handkerchief

I have gotten into the habit of having a handkerchief with me nearly all the time. At one point during the last summer, I had about seven or eight that I could rotate around and keep fresh. I have now noticed that I am down to about three for some reason. All three of those are ripped also, so they almost don't count. I just need to go out and buy some more really. I don't only use my handkerchef to blow my nose or as a snot rag. If it is clean and fresh, I use it as a wipe for my glasses, or to wipe the sweat off of my brow. Even if the handkerchief did have some snot on it, I don't finish my day and decided I don't need a shower. I usually have some amount of grime or dust that necessitates a shower when I get in at the end of the day. So if I decide to use a less than clean handkercheif to wipe off my forehead, I am okay with it because I know I will shower at the end of the day. I also have used my handkerchief to wipe off my hands when I get grease on them or some other type of grime. They are very useful when I am out farming.

I also heard my dad comment once that my namesake used to always carry around a handkercheif also. I wonder if that habit is hereditary now, or if we both just had that much common sense.

I am also making a return to my alma mata and former employer as a sub tomorrow. I get to sub in the ag class. I think I will do my best to not eat lunch with the rest of the staff though. I usually eat my lunch based on when I can get to classroom. I am a bit phobic about students beating me back to my sub room after lunch and being unsupervised. If I fell that the room is close enough to the teacher lunch room, I will eat lunch in the teacher room. If not, I usually eat lunch in the classroom. I am not warranted the use of a key, and I shouldn't be, so I try to be in my sub room when I can.

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Plumber pants

I have decided that most of my work pants don't fit me right. Part of this is that I have some old 36 pants that I bought because they were on sale or because I inherited them from my dad. Even some of my good jeans don't fit right now unless I put my belt on as tight as I can. My dress pants usually fit pretty well, but most of them are too small waisted to move around much on me. I really feel weird trying to adjust my shirt all the time. Maybe that is the burden I have to pay for losing weight from not being a regular drinker and exercising some.


Not much else to comment on today. Me and my new lady friend are talking about plenty of things and my throat is still a bit sore. I did turn my furnace off tonight. I hope I can make it the rest of the winter and spring without turning it back on. I am still going to run my propane heater, hopefully it will be enough.

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sickness

I think I have gotten a cold from subbing in the kindergarten class last week. I woke up saturday with a sore throat and little bit of a headache. I spent most of the day sucking down cough drops and finished off all the orange juice that I had in the house. That helped some, but I did wake up worse this morning. My throat was pretty stuffed up and my nose was just as full of snot. This was really to be expected though, I usually get sick like this about twice a year. When the weather changes from warm to cold or vice versa, I usually get stuffed up for a day or two. Being sick will pass in a day or two, I just have to get plenty of rest and wait it out.

I also went out with a friends parents last night for dinner at applebees. Dinner was good, meeting her parents was kind of cool, they were pretty easy with the conversation, but plenty of the conversation was really on another subject. I would have been more hungry and might have even had a beer or two, but the sore throat had me down.

I also messed up with Walter last night. He was at my parents most of the evening yesterday and I neglected to realize how much he might have eaten. I also didn't take him outside before I put him to bed, and ignored him when he started barking this morning. Well when I got out of bed this morning he had shat all over the cage and I had some cleaning up to do. I was just thinking the other day that I had him trained pretty well, but last night proved I still had a way to go.

fish fry

Today I went to my first fish fry ever. My old parish either never had them or I was always to busy with the rest of the family to go. The fish I had was good, but I thought at seven dollars the meal was a bit overpriced. Especially since I didn't have anything to drink because I didn't pay extra. At least the money went to what the church is calling their mission, funding the school program.

I also might be buying a new phone here in the next week. I am thinking about buying a blackberry, but need to read some more reviews first. I keep reading on their paraphrenelia that you can't send text messages. I also need to convince dad and grandpa to switch over to a family plan so we can get unlimited everything with the phones and pay about the same still.

I have been dog sitting my sisters dogs at my house the past two days. Chloe and Chrissy are housetrained enough that I don't have to put them in a cage at night. Chrissy will sleep right by my head, and Chloe the pug will root around and crawl under the covers to go to bed. Its kind of funny when she starts rooting around, she doesn't have much of a nose, but has to try anyways. Walter seems to be getting along with them pretty well, they do all three sleep on the couch together. I have had to give all three of them baths both days they have been together here, they get very muddy after spending much time outside. I used to think Chrissy was getting a bit bigger, but now that Walter is around, she seems very tiny again.

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Jeremiah

I finally got around to reading and finishing another book in the Bible. Jeremiah is about the last and longest book that was left for me to read. I found a website that lists all the Bible books by the order of appearance and lets you go directly to each book and verse you want to go to. It is pretty convenient, and I don't think my bible gateway site will be blocked by any school filters I go to. I also read Jeremiah exclusively online, and am not sure that I liked reading the Bible that way. There is something to be said or had in reading a printed version of something, especially the Bible.

I did have a couple of thoughts about Jeremiah. For one, I thought the books of the were in some sequential order. I thought the nebuchadnezzer character was long and done with, but sure enough, he showed up again, presumbably doing the same thing he was doing the first time I read about him. It is a bit confusing to read things when they seem out of order. However, after I typed that I decided that the order of the books is likely very deliberate and I should take it as is. On a side note, he is one of the characters I remember because that is the name of the ship that neo is part of in the matrix trilology. Maybe I should start paying more attention to the Bible and less to movies. I also thought God spent to much time telling what he was going to do and not enough time doing it. I can understand wanting to preach and give some warning to your people, but constantly telling your citizenry that they will be destroyed seemed a little redundant to me. I would tell them once and let them stew about it then let it happen. I know God has his reasons, and what I read is rewritten from a source. I also have to wonder If I am doing the things to keep God enough on my side. There are several sins that I have never committed and I haven't committed any intentional sins since my last confession and forgiveness of sins at mass.

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Housesitting

Well this week I volunuteered myself to housesit for my parents while they are in pennsylvania watching my sisters basketball teams national tournament. Its not to bad a deal, they now have a wireless internet so I can waste time on my computer as effeciently here as at my own place. My only real responsibility is staying here so that Ebru has a someone watching over her ant the house at night.

Part of staying here is finding a place to sleep. I don't want to sleep in my parents bed as that would seem too oedipus like or something. There are some beds upstairs, but the upstairs is poorly heated and I don't want to sleep any where near a 17 year old girl. I don't think I could ever do anythign immoral in terms of that, but much prefer to sleep on the couch. Last night I slept on a couch, and it might have been better, but I had three dogs that wanted to cozy up and act like dogs all night long.

Today I also subbed for a kindergarten class at the elementary school were my mom teaches 5th grade. The tikes were tiring, and I was bombarded with questions all day long. I must have been handed 50 pencils to sharpen and been handed about 20 handmade knick nacks from the tikes by the end of the day. I was surprised by how bit the kids actually were. I always thought kindergartners would be smaller, but alas, they were not as small as I thought they would be.

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three more years

Well today I signed a contract to sell ten thousand pounds of tobacco each of the next three years. I recently said here that I don't think the tobacco market is going to last, but I now have a buyer for at least three more years. I now have to consider if I want to buy a large bale baler for the tobacco bales. The warehouse is offering an incentive to bring in big bales, but at my contract it would only be a hundred extra dollars per year. A big baler would likely cost two or three thousand dollars, and I would have to buy a forklift to move the bales around with. That adds up for only three guaranteed years.

In other news, I got back on the treadmill today. It felt good to actually break a sweat and know that I did something. I only ran 25 minutes at a slow pace, but I have to ease into running. The last time I ran was back in december. I still have some p90x workous left, but they will come along eventually.

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I started the fire

Today I got to do something that I did about 51 weeks ago, therefore making it a yearly tradition. I burnt up a bunch of garbage from the greenhouse on a pile of brush that I accumulated in the past year. I think I was able to burn most of it up this year, I even worked over most of it to throw in the brush that didn't get burned up the first go through. The only thing is that I still need to go through my yard to pick up branches that fell over the fall and winter. I will probably also take a chainsaw to some of my trees that give me the most trouble when mowing also.

Last year I did this burning on the warmest day of the year up to that point. I was able to wear shorts outside that day last march. I started the fire in much the same manner, burning some garbage from the greenhouse. Only last year, the grass around was much drier and I found out that it was able to spread more than I wanted. The fired ended up burning down some tall weeds and would have made it to the road if I didn't put it out in that direction. In the other direction the fire found plenty of dry stuff to burn. An old fence post burned up in an interesting way. The inside of it was hollowed out and the embers were coming out the top like a mini volcano. The fire caught one tree on fire and burned out the base of the tree and it eventually fell over. I had to stay up all night and eventually rounded up some houses from the greenhouse to put the fire out. If I hadn't done that, the fire would have spread to my neighbors fence and caught who know what else on fire.

The fire was really a bit of a catharsis that day also. I found out that day that the estate from my deceased landlord was going up for auction in april. That meant I could and should be looking for a new home within the next month. An auction is not a very certain thing when it concerns your housing. If I remember correctly, I also found out some encouraging news at that time last year. I have mentioned on this blog before that I got nosy one day and ended up finding a blog that I probably shouldn't have been reading. Well anyways, I read on the blog that this girl had recently quit seeing whomever it was she was seeing, which would seeminlgy open up the door for me. As it turns out, her availability didn't allow any room for me to be an vialbe option, but it was encouraging to read about at the time.

I also had some things on my mind today when I was burning my garbage. I'm still mulling them over and they will show up in some later posts.

I also have to wonder about these so called "UC" fans. While I haven't been on FB to show my support for my buckye basketball team, I can't help but notice all the noise about UC being so great doesn't apply to their mediocore basketball team. It would seem that the basketball team was the point of pride for the school for many years, and now the role has reversed. I am a fan of nearly all OSU sports, but really just apply that fandom to the football and basketball teams, the most visible sports of the school. If everyone had such a hard on for UC back when the football team was having such a great season, why aren't they on the bandwagon now? Why is UC suddenly not worth them cheering for or wearing around t shirts saying they are the best team in Ohio? Its because UC is second rate and so are there fans. I don't even remember seeing UC stuff at many of the basketball games this winter. I almost always wear OSU paraphernalia when I go out, it is called school pride.

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Magazines

I really enjoy reading magazines. Currently, I have a subscription to nintendo power and also discover magazine. I probably read more of nintendo power from cover to cover, but really enjoy some of the articles in discover also. Discover has a wider range of articles, so I don't go back to it as much as I really should. I do occasionaly get some farming magazines in from my parents, but those usually just get a once over before I throw them to the burn pile.

Today I inherited a small stack of Sports Illustrated magazines from my grandparents. Apparently grandma signed up so she could get a free bengals jacket for my grandpa. So now I have something to read over for the rest of the day. Hopefully I can find some good articles, but ususally don't. There is only so much old news I am interested in reading now. If I was stuck in the tractor or on a long trip, I would read them from cover to cover, but an mont that bored now.

I also inherited the 2010 SI swimsuit edition with the stack of magazines. I haven't looked through that particular edition in some time and can't remember the last time I did. This issue wasn't all that great in my opinion. I don't get a thrill out of looking at girls in magazines nowadays. Thats not to say I don't enjoy the double issue, but one look was enough for me.

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