Cooler, wet weather is quite unusual for this time of the year. If the rain keeps up, I may have to mow the lawn a few more times this year. Usually, by the time September rolls around, the grass is usually too scortched from the August sun to do much growing. This year, I heard some techniques for mowing that keeps the grass from getting scortched as much. That, added with the rain means the growing season will be a little longer. At least my dad's flowers are doing well. He usually has to water them every few days, and it looks like this week he will be getting a break!
After I ran some errands yesterday, I went to the library and checked out a few books. I've always been interested in Aikido, Judo, and Chi because they seem... cool looking, especially when I'm not the one being thrown over a shoulder. Whatever the reason, I've grabbed a beginners book on Tai-Chi and should be a grand master by this time tomorrow.
Wherever I go, I can now safely say, "Evildoers beware!"
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
'Tis Well
Things are on the up and up... I've been slightly put out the last few days and it was just me depressing myself. Talking with friends, family, getting a little attitude ajustment and a good church service (reverse the order) - and the world looks much brighter!
Another reason the world looks bright is that job offers are slowly accumulating (and I do mean slowly!). That - along with some discussions of where I'll be staying and what I'll do is moving the whole idea of entering the workforce close to the forefront of my brain.
And as a parting note - I don't spill check my clogs. I think mistypins and bad spiling add charcter to a blcg. But mistyping in a title is terrible etiquette! :-P
Another reason the world looks bright is that job offers are slowly accumulating (and I do mean slowly!). That - along with some discussions of where I'll be staying and what I'll do is moving the whole idea of entering the workforce close to the forefront of my brain.
And as a parting note - I don't spill check my clogs. I think mistypins and bad spiling add charcter to a blcg. But mistyping in a title is terrible etiquette! :-P
Friday, August 26, 2005
Here I go again
I've decided that there is little that is as disappointing as writing a blog and then losing it. Here's the layout: Wednesday evening; alone at the computer; happily typing a blog for the last half hour. All of a sudden I realize "Shazzammm! I've just written a great blog!!!". Faster than lightning I move my mouse to "Publish", I hit the left mouse button, and then wait an eternity for the screen to pop up and say, "Error 404. Web's can not be found". I take out a shotgun, aim it at the computer... Maybe not - but that is what I was thinking.
Life will move on I guess, and for me, the last two days have been very exciting. Apparently, the end of the week and the beginning of next week is going to be very exciting for quite a few people. ;-)
Getting back on track, I went to Erie Thursday and Friday and visited with my Uncle Gary. He took us fishing Friday morning and we trilled for a few hours, saw a few whoppers, got a few nibbles, and headed back to shore - it was great!! I always enjoyed the ocean. After that, I got to go golf 18 holes. All I can say about that is I only lost 4 or 5 balls into water hazards. If you want any more information you must ask me personally and awaken horrible memories of an unapproachable island, surrounded by dark water, packed with weeks, and doubtlessly holding countless golf balls hostage. It was a BLAST!! I never knew golfing could be so much fun.
Best of luck to everyone. Hope the move goes well. :-)
Life will move on I guess, and for me, the last two days have been very exciting. Apparently, the end of the week and the beginning of next week is going to be very exciting for quite a few people. ;-)
Getting back on track, I went to Erie Thursday and Friday and visited with my Uncle Gary. He took us fishing Friday morning and we trilled for a few hours, saw a few whoppers, got a few nibbles, and headed back to shore - it was great!! I always enjoyed the ocean. After that, I got to go golf 18 holes. All I can say about that is I only lost 4 or 5 balls into water hazards. If you want any more information you must ask me personally and awaken horrible memories of an unapproachable island, surrounded by dark water, packed with weeks, and doubtlessly holding countless golf balls hostage. It was a BLAST!! I never knew golfing could be so much fun.
Best of luck to everyone. Hope the move goes well. :-)
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Trial by Fire
AFF: Crushing defeat is all the options available to those who attempt to deny my win!
NEG: The empirical evidence doesn't support that claim... in fact... it show just the opp...
AFF: Hold on! This is MY Cross-X time... no need to start rambling.
Maybe I'm no pro at affirmative, but I still enjoy doing debate research. That's what I should be doing at the moment, but I thought, "I've been doing this 20 minutes already, time for a 'brief' break." I spent the first few minutes alternately laughing and being scared at the freshmen GCC pictures, before I thought to move on to something more worthwhile like blogging.
So tallyho! My break has gone on long enough. I need to get back to research. I'm one of 4 people doing an exhibition debate Monday and I want to put my best foot forward. Which means little time for blogging or E-mailing. Don't worry though, the E-mail shall get through (eventually) and my blogs, though short, shall keep on coming!
NEG: The empirical evidence doesn't support that claim... in fact... it show just the opp...
AFF: Hold on! This is MY Cross-X time... no need to start rambling.
Maybe I'm no pro at affirmative, but I still enjoy doing debate research. That's what I should be doing at the moment, but I thought, "I've been doing this 20 minutes already, time for a 'brief' break." I spent the first few minutes alternately laughing and being scared at the freshmen GCC pictures, before I thought to move on to something more worthwhile like blogging.
So tallyho! My break has gone on long enough. I need to get back to research. I'm one of 4 people doing an exhibition debate Monday and I want to put my best foot forward. Which means little time for blogging or E-mailing. Don't worry though, the E-mail shall get through (eventually) and my blogs, though short, shall keep on coming!
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Should I upgrade my software?
I've been having serious questions about upgrading my mom's computer. Should I take the chance of losing old data and will I get better functionality? I don't know...
Fortunately, when my brother was in college, he found a clear and consice lists of the PROS AND CONS OF SOFTWARE UPGRADING. Scan the list and tell me what you think.
On other fronts, I wanted to finish up a blog on Ireland and get an E-mail finished. After the teasing I subjected some people to, two blogs back, I feel I should have gotten some E-mails out but procrastination strikes again. It's not quite that bad actually, I spent most of the day in town doing errands and preparing for the debate Monday and when I got back I started the procrastination.
If people have been trying to contact me by IM, I apologize for failing to be on IM a lot. I must say I was pretty happy when I got online a few days ago and some people IM'ed me, even people I haven't IM'ed before (The "Biker" strikes again. Thanks for the info. :-) )
I did manage to contact some people I should have contacted just before August. It was quite a pick up to talk. Thanks!
Fortunately, when my brother was in college, he found a clear and consice lists of the PROS AND CONS OF SOFTWARE UPGRADING. Scan the list and tell me what you think.
On other fronts, I wanted to finish up a blog on Ireland and get an E-mail finished. After the teasing I subjected some people to, two blogs back, I feel I should have gotten some E-mails out but procrastination strikes again. It's not quite that bad actually, I spent most of the day in town doing errands and preparing for the debate Monday and when I got back I started the procrastination.
If people have been trying to contact me by IM, I apologize for failing to be on IM a lot. I must say I was pretty happy when I got online a few days ago and some people IM'ed me, even people I haven't IM'ed before (The "Biker" strikes again. Thanks for the info. :-) )
I did manage to contact some people I should have contacted just before August. It was quite a pick up to talk. Thanks!
Thursday, August 18, 2005
I'm back! :-D
Can you blame me for being happy! As much as I love Ireland, it really doesn't compare to Pennsylvania and the people I find here (and elsewhere). ::Sniffle:: I have great friends ::sniffle:: OK. Emotional moment over. :-)
Actually, I've been back since Sunday night, but I've been busy (and procrastinating), that I put off blogging. Can you forgive me? If you want to know a lot of the nitty-gritty details, you can go look at Jesse's blog. He put a lot of detail. I did almost everything he did and all the pictures he puts up are pictures I snapped. There is one thing that I did a lot of that Jesse missed - shopping. I've put in more shopping time in Ireland than I have the rest of my life. To be fair, I was chauffeuring 7 young ladies around Killarny for several days and I mostly stood outside of shops and watched, but I still count that as shopping. In those 20-30 hours of shopping (that's not walking time, that is time actually spent in stores (or outside as the case was for me)) I came home with only two souveniers, the most expensive of which is a 4 euro songbook of Irish songs. They are all about a young boy going off to war or a lady pining away for a lost love - almost all of them are depressing.
What should I say, there is still so much more, but hold on for the next installment with "David's Ireland - the lost continent". The next installment includes David's infamous pub-hopping stories.
Actually, I've been back since Sunday night, but I've been busy (and procrastinating), that I put off blogging. Can you forgive me? If you want to know a lot of the nitty-gritty details, you can go look at Jesse's blog. He put a lot of detail. I did almost everything he did and all the pictures he puts up are pictures I snapped. There is one thing that I did a lot of that Jesse missed - shopping. I've put in more shopping time in Ireland than I have the rest of my life. To be fair, I was chauffeuring 7 young ladies around Killarny for several days and I mostly stood outside of shops and watched, but I still count that as shopping. In those 20-30 hours of shopping (that's not walking time, that is time actually spent in stores (or outside as the case was for me)) I came home with only two souveniers, the most expensive of which is a 4 euro songbook of Irish songs. They are all about a young boy going off to war or a lady pining away for a lost love - almost all of them are depressing.
What should I say, there is still so much more, but hold on for the next installment with "David's Ireland - the lost continent". The next installment includes David's infamous pub-hopping stories.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Hello from the Kingdom of Kerry
I have internet access! the caps lock is hard to hit, so I won't be able to capitalize much, and the keyboard is slightly different, so don't look to hard at misspellings. I'm also typing fast since I have to pay for internet access, but I planned what to type beforehand so I shouldn't take to long.
At the moment I am in Ireland! Day... 5 or 6... or 4... of the trip. I'm on Irish time and don't keep track of time and the passage of days well. The weather has been great this whole trip. After leaving 80-100 degree weather, this 60 degree weather is nice. The people who were running the Irish clogging workshop said this was warm, but the dancers from VA said it was great and they loved getting out of 100 degree weather (current temp in VA). The sun does occassionaly peek out, although rare. It's only rained twice so far for a few hours each so that's been nice too.
At the moment, I'm a big Kerry fan, the Kingdom of kerry, in Souther Ireland. I can't help but enjoy everything and everyone walking by. It is a big tourist attraction and there are a lot of shops to chauffeur (sp) people in and out of. (A new record for me! I managed to end a sentence with 3 prepositions!) Today, I'm only in charge of chauffeuring two people: Katie and my sister Katie. There are three people on this trip named Katie. It is a little hard getting in contact with home, and the days are long and busy, so I am already looking forward to getting home and just relaxing. Helping my dad is only a full day... it doesn't start very early and end at 11:00 like it does here.
That is about all my time for now... I'm need to get off so I don't kick into the next level of internet use and the next payment scheme. To everyone who I haven't been keeping in contact with - sorry, and I'll try to do extra when I get home. For those who haven't been keeping in contact with me (You know who you are), make sure to E-mail!
At the moment I am in Ireland! Day... 5 or 6... or 4... of the trip. I'm on Irish time and don't keep track of time and the passage of days well. The weather has been great this whole trip. After leaving 80-100 degree weather, this 60 degree weather is nice. The people who were running the Irish clogging workshop said this was warm, but the dancers from VA said it was great and they loved getting out of 100 degree weather (current temp in VA). The sun does occassionaly peek out, although rare. It's only rained twice so far for a few hours each so that's been nice too.
At the moment, I'm a big Kerry fan, the Kingdom of kerry, in Souther Ireland. I can't help but enjoy everything and everyone walking by. It is a big tourist attraction and there are a lot of shops to chauffeur (sp) people in and out of. (A new record for me! I managed to end a sentence with 3 prepositions!) Today, I'm only in charge of chauffeuring two people: Katie and my sister Katie. There are three people on this trip named Katie. It is a little hard getting in contact with home, and the days are long and busy, so I am already looking forward to getting home and just relaxing. Helping my dad is only a full day... it doesn't start very early and end at 11:00 like it does here.
That is about all my time for now... I'm need to get off so I don't kick into the next level of internet use and the next payment scheme. To everyone who I haven't been keeping in contact with - sorry, and I'll try to do extra when I get home. For those who haven't been keeping in contact with me (You know who you are), make sure to E-mail!
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