Day in the life of a short person

Most Amazing Spring Break of my life!!!

2006-04-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

So it's been like two months almost i haven't even thought about this until we started one up for the group that went to New Orleans. I guess nothing huge has really happened atleast not that i can remember. Over Spring Break I went down to New Orleans this was def one of those trips were it's like uhm i saw all of this horific stuff but can even descirbe it it's so bad. We left on Sat morning and 3 of us flew while the rest of the group took a van. The three of us got there and waited for a shuttle that ended up taking us to the wrong camp and so we ended up being put to work as soon as we got there. Then finaly got to this amazingly nice rediculously large tent camp in the middle of a parking lot in Central Park. Sunday was interesting in the morning our group took a trip to the ninth ward which was were the levy broke and it was just absolutely devastated. It is the hardest place to even try to describe because the damage was so bad. Houses were on top of eachother, on top cars, moved off there foundations, they are even still finding dead bodies in the area. Then that afternoon our group (me, Dani, Alyssa, Morgan, Jeremy, Jazz, Jon, Julie, Steve, Spencer and Shelby) went back to the camp we were dropped at the first day and we finished cleaning it up and packing everything away. I am so gladd that wasn't the place we were staying it made the place we stayed at a 5 star hotel. Then Monday are group got split up me and 3 or 4 other people went to this ladies mom's best friends (talk about family ties) home to gut it. It was orginaly going to take 2 to 3 hours but when we got there it was 10 times worse then we thought and we really needed our whole group to do it but instead we ended up working all day on it and finished it and got to know this lady that lives there her name is coni she and her husband actually made us crawfish Tues night for dinner for the entire SV group they are so amazing. Then on Tues our whole group went to Gut our first group house 2nd for me. It was about 3 times worse then the first house we couldn't even walk in the front door cause every room was pilled floor to ceiling with stuff. I got to take out freezer with jon and steve that thing sucked not going to lie it was by fair worse then all three of the fridges we took out in the other house. Once we got it out to the street pretty much got it down and then ran away from it and almost pucked cause the stinch was so bad. Uhm then that night went to dinner. Oh yea almost forgot each night there is 24/7 security guards according to the sheets they didn't mention that it was the guys that did the security so each night me and a couple other guys and some girls stayed up till 3 or 6 in the morning watching the grounds and keeping the drugies and drunk people out of the camp. Then after dinner that night we through a party for Luke who turned 9 and another girl that was there and let me tell you that was the last place i planned on DJ'ing a party. Wed. we went back to the same house to take out all the walls and finish it that mornign then in the afternoon me, dani, morgan, alyssa, and marc went to play with some inner city type children and bring food and juice to them. That was the my favorite part of the whole trip just being able to see the kids eyes totaly light up because they had some that they could play with that wouldn't threaten them or beat them up. I swear some of the parents in that area i just wanted to smack it was so bad. Then that night i really awesome talk with dani and Sharky (the camp manger). Thurs. our group was back at the camp and we worked there all day serving food and doing stuff to make sure the camp was working cause they have a store and stuff and then also serve hot meals to all the homeless people that are living in New Orleans right now. Then that night our entire SV group went out to dinner and then took a walk around the boardwalk. We all then went to the peir and heard someones story about how they survived it was really cool. Then that night we got back and me and dani had another amazing talk with sharkey and it was really cool forming a really awesome bond with the two of them Sharkey is one of those people that you meet and just hits you in the way to were you will remember him for a very very long time. I am actually workin on flying him up to indy so that he can share is story with people because it affected so many people. Then friday we all came home it was so hard to leave i felt tears starting to come on just because i felt like i shouldn't be leaving because there is so much still left to do. Got home and this week just seemed to drag on so fricken slow. I did get paid though and got 101$ back from the goverenment. Well i think this has been one of my longest post but i'm glad i finaly got it all out. I can't wait to go back down anyone up for a fall break trip or something. Hope everyone is doing well. Drop an e-mail or something sometime and let me know how yall are doing. Dani just FYI we are so going to paint your face too don't think you got out of it. Peace Love and Happy Easter everyone. Stay Safe!

Tyler Smart

Update of My Life

2006-02-25T18:57:00.000-08:00

Ok so to be honest i don't even know when the last time i update was so i guess will just tell the past month. I have DJ'ed about 8 party's, Went to Fastbreak which was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. So many people accepted christ into there lives is what amazing. Totaly made me look at my life a different perspective. Then we had a the suprise party for Gabrielle and the Carters it was awesome. Uhm lately i have been trying to more grow in my friendships then to grow in relationships and it's totaly awesome. Like it's a lot less stress and much nicer. uhm Last weekend I went on a retreat called Destination Jesus. It was awesome I was able to grow in so many friendships and was able to form new ones as well. I was able to fix a friendship that was in serious need of fixing. I got my contract also last week i am going to be Firecrafter Coordinator. When i saw it i was like HELLO and extremly suprised. I am really nervous about it not going to lie but extremely excited at the same time. Scoutcraft Staff is going to Rock Out this year. The entire staff minus 1 is from Del-mi AKA the golden ghetto. It's going to be so tight. We have also gotten Race for Ray ready to go date is set. I have also gotten my eagle project approved and ready to go now it's just getting 1 final signature and to set a weekend and i am ready to go. I can't wait to get it over with it will feel like the biggest monkey has been lifted off my back. Well i am gonna go hope everyone has a wonderful how ever long it is till i update. Peace and much love to all.

Oh man I didn't forget about this thing

2006-01-04T21:31:00.000-08:00

It has been what now 6 months i think almost since i have updated this idk it has been awhile and thats about all i know. I guess i can't remember where i left off the last time. Hope everyone is doing well. I guess i can talk about break. Got a nano ipod for christmas which i like but i really wanted a video because it would hold all of my songs oh well. Monday was pretty much just a chill day which was nice. Tues i went down to Bloomington and visited w/ Tom for awhile which was a lot of fun. Wanted Mother Bears for lunch but it was closed so went to Scoties instead which is really good. Then went back to his house and got a ton of songs and then just played x-box all day. It was a great day not going to lie. Came home and then went Ice Skating with Chang, Gab's, Grace, Chap, Liz, and Joest. It was a lot of fun. Then wed. i went and started the massive computer project at the Vickery's. I spent more time in a computer store than i have ever done in my life. We were there for 4 hours and spent $5,000 it was rediculous. We upgraded there computers from slowest to fastest though. Then Thurs. I spent the day gettin stuff started up and copying files onto the new desktop then went up to dinner with my grandma which was kinda weir cause it was the first time we had gone up there in like 4 years. Everything seemed so much different. Then on Friday i went back to the vickery's and got all the computers connected to the internet which not going to lie was a pain in the but and then Sat was a chill day cause of my dad's b-day. Had dinner w/ them and then went stopped at the V's fixed a printer went got allie then to Katherines house and then went Marsh went back to Kat's house hung w/ them for awhile then we went to Lindsay's then left and went back to the Carters. Then stopped by Kendals party and then went back to the Carters. Came home around 1 ish. Sunday hung out w/ kara for awhile before she went to florida and cause she was kinda upset i hadn't been over. Then on Monday ortho appointment and got told i get my braces off 9 months early i was so happy. Then on Tues went back to the vickery's and finished networking all the computers to eachother. Today was kinda laid back. Worked on computers most of the morning, went to the lifestyle christian store and got an awesome new sweatshirt then went Rock Climbing w/ joest and shocklee. I love this sport it is so relaxing and gets my mind off of all the stresses and feeling that are around me. Then went to SALT meeting and got some things squared away for the next few weeks. Tomorrow gost to work on eagle scout stuff i need to get my project started and finsihed or some people are going to beat me i think. Hope everyone is doing well. Cya at the staff banquet Sunday i hope. Have a great rest of break and god bless.

Hello Again

2005-10-06T21:22:00.000-07:00

How is everyone doing. I am doin great it's been a few weeks i guess don't even remember the last post. Well i guess it was before homecoming. Homecoming was frickin awesome. Game was amazing friday night and then worked sat and then the dance that night. Dance was pretty sweet I meet the coolest girl ever, Lauren. She is def. the most amazing person ever. So then got home bout 2 and had to work sunday.Week went by slowly then on Friday was the game down at the dome so me Wally, Kara, Sgrass, and Amanda all went to down to the RCA dome and pretty much had a great time downtown except for the whole alley incedent after the game sry bout that KP. So the Saturday we had Kara's suprise party. I got there at about 3 to get everything set up it was awesome she was so suprised. Totaly made my weekend and then we went to starbucks afterwards. Oh ya and tues. we had also woke up at 5 and suprised her at her house. The week following seemed to drag forever donuts and dew was monday but we didn't have the donuts so it was just dew. Still a lot of fun cause they are SOOOOOOOOO!!! Good!! lol (Steph). So then the week was really hard and long I found out that Brent Higgins died that morning so that made my whole week really difficult. Then this we went to Delaware for my cousins wedding it was really nice to see everyone again. The real big thing that ruined the weekend was my aunt, who is an alcoholic got drunk so it pretty much made the night really difficult because she was getting violent and saying things that didn't need to be said and realy degrading her daughter. I just wish people would not get hooked on alcohol and have it destroy there life almost or people around them. The sad part is she won't remember anything she said or did. Then on Sunday i went to dinner w/ Lauren at Steak'n'shake. That was fun. Then we went to mass and youthgroup of course i also bought rufus at party tree (the coolest stuffed rat anyone can buy.). So then Monday we did the actual Donuts and Dew and i got drink another 2 litter it was amazing. Then Tues. Me, Lauren, cassidy and christie went to #1 China Buffet. Then laur had XC practice so the rest of us went to Party tree and Starbucks. Then i took them home and went to kara's to fix her computer then came home and did hw. So pretty much been keeping myself busy. I am out now later peeps everyone have a great night.

It's that time again HOMECOMING!!!

2005-09-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

So pretty much been really busy lately. I haven't been sleeping much which is normal but i think it might be catchin up w/ me soon. This weekend was pretty sweet and extremely long. Friday pretty much worked all afternoon and it wasn't horrible. I found that I really enjoy my job and the people i work w/. Then I had to be at work at 6 in the AM on Sat which let me tell you that is an experience. It was def. a crappy saturday though except for the 5k walk. I got to work and started mowing the greens. Somehow i manged to run over a flag and got it jammed in the mower. I have yet to figure out how i did it but i did and it took a 1/2 hour to get the stupid thing out. Then in the process of doing that i manged to also break my headphones so i pretty much was not having a good start. Then i left and went to the bank cashed my paycheck which pretty much made me feel better. I had money! Went and picked up Steph Walstrom (Who is the bestest friend anyone could ever have!)and Amanda and we went to do a 5k charity walk which was ok. I def. did my slowest 5k time ever it was awesome. Then went back to work until 4:30 went to dinner w/ the family. That was ok but somehow i always manage to end up getting in a fight with them. Then came home pretty much did nothing but work on my stupid computer because it had another freakin virus. Then Sunday i spent the entire afternoon clearing the stupid thing of all the viruses that it kept finding. I went to church services on Sunday which was kinda cool cause they had the same sermon which talked about forgiviness and gave this story about how a king forgave a slave who owed this enormous debt and then that same slave went to someone who owed him money and put them in prison till they payed it back. When the king heard of this he was furious and put the first slave into torture for the rest of his life. Ok so that is kinda the story in a nutshell but it gets the point across. So then me, Cassidy, Christie and Michelle went over to Kayzers house and lets just say fun times were had by all. Then i got home watched a little bit of the colts domination over the Ravens and then went to bed. Yesterday was ok Bible Study was ok I have realy got to find a way to concientrate better though. Then SV this morning frickin rocked. So Homecoming is this weekend which is going to be sweet. I am out. Everyone have a great week. I wish I could go to staff weekend cause i still can't even though they moved but I am def. thinking about all of you guys. Stay safe.

Long, Boring, Tireing week

2005-08-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

So last weekend was frickin awesome and extremely long. I got there friday and we got set up. Friday felt like the longest night ever. I pretty much didn't sleep like I laid down but didn't sleep. Most of the Trail Guides I had in my campsite were stupider than the canidates. I guess you get what you though. Some of my guides were pretty quality though. Then we woke everyone up at about 5:30am and got them all out of the campsite by 7:45. It was a little late but physical arangements was moving kinda slow on the water. So once i got my campsite pretty much cleaned up I went to breakfast. Then I helped shaun the rest of the day with physical arangment stuff. I really enjoyed it was a lot of physical labor but I love doing that kind of stuff. Hill was the greatest cermony i hear. So mad props to Mike Powell on a fantastic job. I pretty much sat down in the golf cart and fell asleep though and caught a few parts of it i was so mad. So after the hill me, Pinkus, Trevor Griffen, Murph, Tim, and Evan all went to steak'n'shake after the ritual staff meeting which felt like it was never going to end. Election were pretty eventfull. Good luck to all the new officers. So came and pretty much wanted to pass-out but couldn't for some reason. Monday I had school work bible study got cancled i came home and chilled. Tuesday I went out to breakfest w/ Kara and S grace and then we went to SV. Pretty sweet turn out for the first meeting of the school year.Sat through a boring day of school, then we did our ussual Tues. group we went and looked for fish for Kara since she needs to prove that she is responible. Then wed and thurs were pretty uneventfull. Friday I did breakfest with Kara and s-grace and them again and then went to school. Pretty much worked til 8pm friday night. Sat busy cleaned the car, worked all afternoon. Then i went to michelles Bye Bye Birdie performacne. Due to contrary belief that show was hilarous. Then we went out to starbucks afterwards It's so much fun to hang out with Her, Cassidy, and Christie. I can just chil and not have to worry about anything and have fun. So pretty have been doin nothing today just chillin cleaned up room. I am going to go talk to a guy about an Eagle project tonight. So hopefully i can get that knocked out this fall if i am lucky. Well I am out. Hope everyone has a wonderful week. Anyone know when the first Staff Weekend is? Later

First Day of school is tomorrow

2005-08-15T02:50:00.000-07:00

This summer has been one of the best. Feild Sports staff was pretty tite. Lost a few people but we seemed to manage pretty well. I am going to miss you guys. The past couple of weeks have been hectic, boring, stressful, exciting, pretty much any feeling you can think of there was. Week 9 was def. the greatest week for me i wish i didn't have to leave early. I had a 40 person class which kinda took me by suprise becaue personal fitness usualy never has big classes. It was kinda like a blessing in disguise though i got to know so many more campers and got to know campers a lot better. Personaly i enjoy larger classes because you kinda get a variety of people. It makes the class more exciting. I unfortunatly had to leave early on Week 9 to go on a family vaction. Not so great. I don't even get along w/ my dad anymore all we do is yell at eachother. Anything i do pisses him off and i don't get it. Oh well. The only real down point this summer that i can think of is that a really good friendship has been almost destroyed. Time will tell i guess. Ritual is this weekend it's going to be awesome. Ben said there 100 already pre-registared which is awesome. Well i'm out later. C some of you tomorrow and C Alot of you this weekend. Have a wonderful Day.

The End is Near

2005-07-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

Well It's been a very short and very long last couple of weeks. Ritual went really awesome. Friday night everyone was asleep by 11pm which is awesome so i got to bed at about 12:30. Sat. ran pretty smoothily. After the test trail i got to scale the hill fires which means i got to climb them. That was an experience. Congrats to pison on Completeing the UNKNOWN TEST. Came back down to camp on Sunday mornng. The week ran pretty smoothly it rained like every single day. Monday was awesome we Crowned Tom Mason at flags. In my opinion he was one of the people that deserved it the most. so congrats to him. Then we did the Cope training it was pretty fun. I found out from erin and jen that i don't have a butt. Wed. we went to go see Batman Begins which i thought was a very good movie especialy since i don't ussually watch those kinds of movies. Congrats to Brad and Dan on being tapped out by the way. Then we also Crowned Sally on Friday. She is only the 4th female Minisino ever so congrats to her. So Sat. went really well I love tent crew it is so relaxing. Even though we work are butts off. I came home chilled w/ steph and KP all afternoon or most of it. They reminded me how good slushies from citgo are. So after that i went home and then came back down to camp. Sunday afternoon went pretty well. Claudia showed up for the rest of the summer so that was kind of suprise. Other than that things have been going down hill this week. Hopefully they will get better. So far today has just sucked unfortunatly. Time to go work so everyone have an amazingly awesome fantastic day. Later

Crappy Crappy week

2005-06-24T20:45:00.000-07:00

I don't even know were to begin this week. It has just been the worst week of the summer so far. I just wish people wouldn't do stupid things to piss management staff off. That then means that they are going to be in a bad which def. is not a good thing. So Sunday wasn't to bad it just took forever it felt like. Then on Monday during mountain biking a kid fell going to down agony hill. which is the highest and most strenuous hill in camp. Then later this week i find out that the kid breaked his hand. We played at the tower monday night though that was fun. Tuesday was somewhat better. Had to grade three fires which wasn't horrible there were like 60 candidates for firecrafter this week. It was crazy. Then on Wed. i get a nice little suprise that instead of getting to take my planned night off that i was going to be grading three fires and then had to do something after that. I was uber pissed about that and it just put me in a bad mood the rest of the day because were going to def have a good night. So then yesterday just sucked all together in the morning i ended up sitting in gum that morning and it was just disgusting. Then on top of that i had no clean shorts. Then that nigth while we were finishing setting up for Rondzvous there was a lost scouter which more than half the staff was gone due to there night off so we searched for hours. Then i guess right before they were about to sound the siren the office got a call saying that the man had walked all the way home it was crazy. I really wanted to take a bike out and search some trails. We got out pretty early that night which was real nice everything was cleaned by 10:15. Today was ok really long and boring. Chilled w/ Billy a lot today. becaue once again no one came to bike today. I really just want to go out by myself or w/ someone that is descent or enjoy hanging out w/. So campfire was good tonight crowned Dan. I really think he deserved it. Good Luck to Pinkus and Mike as they wrap up and begin there canidacy's. I am off to bed later all. Everyone have an awesome week.

WEEK 1!!!

2005-06-12T16:23:00.000-07:00

So week 1 is over. It felt like it was never going to end. I forgot how out of shape I was it was rediculous. I had this one kid that was like total mountain biker dude. He was pretty cool. Then Monday my bike totaly broke down going up grub road so i had to switch to one of the shady camp bikes it wasn't to bad. Tues was hot like every other day cause of the humidty. I was also tired from watching dishes from Monday poor hobart broke down so we had to do all the dishes by hand it sucked. So wed. night was night off it was pretty sweet, meet up w/ shocklee at Mother bears. everything was going great until Trank had to open his big mouth about me and DD last year. Then thurs. was good had Soccer and Rendevous that night. The Soccer was awesome. It took for ever to clean the guns afterwards though. Friday was freaking awesome the rain finally came and got ride of some of the humidty. Didn't get to go bikeing though cause it was to wet on Agony Hill. Slide Show is still having troubles w/ the wireless projecter hopefully it's all fixed this week. Saturday was def. the highlight of my week. I know a lot of people might disagree but i enjoy Tent Crew. I like running around camp taking down and setting up tents. Went to Northbeach Last night it was awesome really opened my eyes with the talk they gave about how at camp this girl was totaly drawn to good. So then drove down to camp in the rain today. Massive traffic Jam with parking but got it all fixed somewhat quickly. It's been rainy and crappy all day. Well hope everyone has an awesome week. See most of you on Sat. hopefully. Keep in touch. Later

School's almost over

2005-05-26T21:00:00.000-07:00

So yeah it's been a very intresting past 2 weeks. Last weekend was staff weekend which totaly rocked. Got to do tent crew which was nice to just be able to go around at a relaxing pace. In two weeks i can't wait to start jumping ridges and sprinting down them. So anyway last week was kinda crazy we had to get all of the stuff for Race for Ray finalized last week which was totaly crazy but it's done and it's going to be awesome. This past weekend the venture crew got together on friday night and went to fazoli's then we went to see star-wars it was ok. It was kinda depressing. I mean i knew what was going to happen but still. Then got up saturday and Lou, joest, and i went and measured the course for the race one last time. I then came home, cut the grass, worked on the web-site, then went shopping for new clothes. That night i went to north-beach which was totaly awesome. Though i destroyed my feet playing b-ball. Came home and just chilled for a little bit. Then sunday morning i finished some stuff. Then had lunch w/ michelle, and shocklee. That was a lot of fun. Then we had the venture crew cook out which was ok even thought not many people were there. Then went to Mass and Crypt which totaly made my day. Michelle and Cassidy teamed up on me and totaly started a water fight which somehow everyone else then got in on. So then school work and bible study party on monday night which was totaly sweet. 30-40 freshman in Kara's backyard. Tons of fun was had by all. Tues. I ran around finishing some stuff up and getting last minute dontations for this weekend. Then that night i went to michelle's choir concert which was really sweet. For some reason i kept zoning out completely though. My mind has been wondering this week and has really started to affect me. I can't sleep and that is causing some serious problems. Yesterday was really long it felt like it was neverending. I wish that school would just get over with and the finals would just not come. O well i think i will make it. only 11 more day's till i move to RSR. yes. I g2g later all. Race for Ray this Sat. it's going to be awesome come if you can and support a kid for cancer. Later all.

Spring Camporee and the week after

2005-05-02T22:30:00.000-07:00

Ok so i guess this is kinda a delayed post but i have been busy lately. Thanks Brian for reminding me i needed to update. Well lets see were to begin last weekend was Spring camporee for our district it was totaly awesome. The weather totaly sucked but other than that everything went real well. Anybody intrested in doing Spring Camporee 06' w/ me. lol. uhmm last week was somewhat layed back worked monday, wed, thurs. I meet the coolest chick in the world and we have started dating. uhmm whatelse is going on oh yeah. May 28th me and a group of people are putting together a road race. For any of you who don't know what that is it is a run/walk through a neighborhood course that we have created. It is going to be a 5k. It is to raise money to help a little boy who has been diagnosed w/ his second doss of Leukemia. He is a very cool kid w/ a great love for life. Let see what else i spent this past Sat. helping a friend of mine w/ his eagle project. It was fun we were moving bags of clothes that weighed about 100lbs or more onto a semi. it was going good till the pill collapsed on me and a friend lets just say we got out of the way really fast. It was a reall success. Then i spent the rest of the weekend working on the Firecrafter and OA website. Went to CRYPT on sunday which was a lot of fun and was def. the highlight of my day. Well folks that is about it for now. Spring Fellowship sounds like it is going to be flipping awesome can't wait and it's actually supposed to be 70 on sat. yes. Well ladies and gents i am off to bed. I get to get up at 5:30 in morning woo hoo. Later keep in touch.

Conclave

2005-04-18T22:30:00.000-07:00

Ok some people might think this has to do w/ the pope but no i went to something this weekend which is called conclave for Order of the Arrow. It went really well. I worked show staff. So i pretty much went straight to belzer to help set up the sound and lighting stuff for the concert that night. I ran the sound for the band that night which was pretty cool but it got down to like freezing temps so when i was adjusting sound levels my fingers would freeze and were def. purple when i got inside. We also had to take everything down that night because it would get destroyed if not. So then i chilled in the show office (voyager hut) for awhile. talked w/ craig wildey for a while. then when talked to Ryan about some things. Then climbed into my car for some sleep about 2 am. Woke up at 6 that morning and had breakfest than i ran around with Jon Sowers and craig all morning playing around w/ the camera until we had to set-up. Definetly some hilarous video footage from the morning that i can't talk about in this but i can tell you if you ask it's nothing bad for all of you perverts out there. Then we went down to the campfire ring to begin set-up and well i had the great idea of not wearing a shirt because we got black ones for staff and they were toasty with it already 90 at the campfire ring. so i got extreme sun burn it is horrible. I ended up running Two massive sound boards and all the tap decks and stuff by myself Sat. night for the show it was awesome. I had so much fun. then we had tear down and then there was a large LAN party in the shows office. I finally went to bed about 2 again woke up at 6 and just cleaned up camp. Got home about 2:30 and worked on some stuff then i talked to the guy who is going to be my advisor for the Lodge website. I am going to be webmaster for the Lodge and for Firecrafter now. Woo hoo that is going be fun. Well today def. sucked i had major sunburn almost no sleep had to work and had a major head ache all day. So i am going to bed. Mabye i will start to update this more often again who know's. Later dudes and dudettes.

Sup All

2005-03-19T18:45:00.000-08:00

Man have these past weeks felt like they have been an eternity. Brace yourself this is going to be a long one. Two weeks ago was staff weekend that was pretty cool. Then that week i had like something every night it felt like. We finnaly finished up our ceremonies for OA which nice because my tues. and thurs. nights finally back to normal. Last weekend what did i do. I am having trouble remembering things for some reason today. Oh yeah we had our troop court of honor. I was so pissed cause my computer was being retarted and not creating the movie file properly and so when i went to put it in the program at the church it was cutting to black halfway through the show so i was getting ticked off about that. What else was that weekend i know there was something i just can't remember it. ARGG!! OHHH YEAH! It was Scouting for Food weekend i spent all morning at the Firehouse helping sort food and then I went to the school to help set up a Pinewood Derby than went back to the Firehouse to drop off the rest of the food. We then headed back up to Our Lady of Mount Carmel to drop off all of the food we had left over from the day that the other pantries didn't get. That church has like 60 buildings to it it's rediculos. So then monday night we had a beachless beach party for student venture it was tight. The band wasn't to good but oh well it was still fun. Then Tues. I helped David Pison out with an OA election and this kid came up and was naming off all of these kids that he knew from Carmel and was like so do you know them do ya do ya. It was retarted. Wed. was troop meeting. Thurs. was Salt we played soccer for like half'n'hour cause we were looked out of the church it awesome. Then we planned for some events coming up they are going to be hot. Then yesterday during history our teacher didn't show and neither did the sub so we pretty much did nothing for an hour. Last night was so much fun. Our venture crew went to fazoli's and since the bowling alley was full we went to Ben'n'Aries. It was so much fun i couldn't stop laughing while we played mini-Golf. Today was boring to the extreme. I had to sit through JLT for like the 8th time in a row biggest waste of time. O and not to mention the 50 lb. table that collapsed on my leg today that totaly sucked. Other than that my life has been crazy and fun as always. Well there hopefully you stuck through this. It was a long one but I had a lot to say today. Later everyone take care.

Umm Yeah it's been a busy week

2005-02-25T17:51:00.000-08:00

Ok well i guess to start off never ever use Map quest to try and get to any of the council camps learned that the hard way. I was going up to Camp Redwing last weekend and well the directions i had told me to go about 10 miles away from where i was supposed to be and i got to drive around in the corn fields of muncie. After callin Ian McIver to try and figure out where i was and get to camp i get a call saying that the campout had been cancled i was hella pissed about that. So after spending about 3 hours driving around and wasteing a quarter of tank i came home. That night i had to go to my younger younger brother's (not the baby but the 2nd youngest) Cross-over because i had to be part of the OA team for that. Then I came home watched a movie called Executive decision it was actually really good. Went to be around 2am and then had to get up for church. After that i came home and chilled for awhile then headed up to K for a 4 minute Arrow of Light cermony and came home just in time to run to a meeting for my familys old pack because i am helping them with there pinewood derby. On my way over there however the engine light decided it wanted to come on and the car was vibrating. So instead of playing ultimate monday i got to spend the day at the Ford Delirship while they fixed my car and the only thing wrong was that a piston was mis-firing but it needed a oil change and all that stuff anyway so i went ahead and had that done. The nice thing is it came out to be only about 200$. Well i guess this week has been one of those weeks. Nothing Tuesday night which was nice but a long day at school. Wed. troop meetting and venture meeting. Thurs. i had to go up to tipton and i had waited till about 10:00 last night to start my 2 papers due today. Mabye i will learn eventually that procrasting is a bad thing. Then again probably not. So tonight we had our last cross-over it was ok our chief wasn't there so i had to pull some people and had to grab one kid that had never done one before cause i was kinda backed into a corner so it sucked, but the ceremony was good and we pulled it off. PHEW!!. well i am out later dudes and dudets.

Randomtive:
Question: Which president was also a professional boxer and lawyer along with a variety of other jobs

Song of the week: Every little bit by Hawk Nelson

Quote of the week: "you want the answer?" "I want the truth" "you can't handle the truth" A Few Good Men

Later

News from the Golden Ghetto

2005-02-16T21:00:00.000-08:00

Sup all, ok well i gues a lot has happend in the past few weeks. We had like 2 cross-over cermonies this past weekend. The one on Sunday was at K so that was a nice decent drive. I think i pulled into the drive about 9:30. So then Monday night was bible study. I went over to Brians house and we had dinner. OOOO so good. Then we went over to Kara's house for a little worship service. So there were defeniatly about 60 people in her basement when there is only room for like 20 it was great. Than last night was my first night home in forever it was wonderful. I had fazoli's which is the greatest place to have spaghetti. once again OOOO so good. So then tonight i had to go have my picture taken with some people for the annual report that the council does it was pretty cool. I met a guy that we were having our picture taken with who is donating 1 millon dollars to scouting over a ten year period it was pretty cool. Than was off to venture meeting and troop meeting both very uneventful. So Monday if anyone is in town or in the area. Huge Ultimate Frisbee game at Carmel high school Soccer field it is going to be hot. I am out. Catch yall on the flip side. Later

Computer is Fixed, and the Damn Pats won the Superbowl!

2005-02-07T14:47:00.000-08:00

Hello again, So my computer has be stupid lately and not letting me onto the web. Which was weird that i could get email and talk to people but no internet access. So life has been crazy and i finally decided to sit down and fix the problem this weekend. After spending three hours trying different things I finnaly discovered the only problem was that the firmware on our router needed to be updated. I was pissed that i had just wasted all that time for nothing. So after that i worked on the spring camporee that our venture is putting on down at RSR it is going to be hot. Best Camporee Delmi has ever seen. Than I had to go do a cross-over cermony becuase it is time for those to begin. Which those are always fun. Good jokes are made. So than Superbowl Sunday came and went. Pat's won again big suprise. I was rotting for Eagles even though they sucked at time mangement. So big suprise they lost. The halftime show was pretty good this year. They should do it that way more often. I hopefuly will be starting to get back into the running thing this week i can't do track though becasue the parentals are making me get a decently paying job. So that sucks because i wanted to do track. Well i am out talk to you all later. Hopefully all is going well.

Randomtivity:
What is the oldest vegitable?

Quote of the day: "Pain is only temporary, Glory lasts forever" The replacements

Song of the Week: "Almost" by bowling for soup.

Later Everyone

Finals are over. YEAH !!

2005-01-15T21:50:00.000-08:00

Well ok I guess it has been awhile since i have posted so brace yourself this might be a long one. New Years eve I went to my friend David Pisons house and there were like 6 of us there we stayed up till 6:30 in the morning playing kemps it was a lot of fun. Got up at about 10:00 and came home and got work around the house all day with only a decent 3 hours of sleep in me. My grandma then came over with her husband Norm that night and had dinner with us. Sunday was then the big Colts vs. the Broncos round 1 were we got pounded but the good thing was we score 21 points with our 2 string players which was still awesome. So then That week was the long week before finals and of not stop rain which just totaly sucked. Then i had an Eagle Court of honor on sat. and then Mid-winter dinner that night. It was nice to see everyone again. The slide-show seemed like it was going to last an eternity though i think it only capped out at 25 minutes though. Sun. was staff banquet which was alright a lot of Belzer staffers were there. They had the Colts vs. Broncos round 2 Put up on the projecter during dinner and the speeches. It was funny though when the Colts through a INT in the endzone and everybody in the room screams no or something to there dismay. The funny thing was that the guy giving his speach was talking about how we need to get more younger scouts involved on staff and everyone was paying more attention to the game then to him. I don't i guess you had to be there to get the whole experience. Then begain Finals week. They weren't bad I got mostly C's and B's on them which isn't bad but it isn't to great either. So most of my semester grades will end up with B's. I have also been spending a few hours each day working on my troops slide-show for the court of honor. If anybody has any good songs for a playlist for it let me know. Then today I spen the day down at Belzer for some OA cermony training. Hung out with Ian McGuiver most of the day. Then got home about 9pm and sat down and wrote this so i think about wraps up the happings for the past couple of weeks. So until next time. Later.

Happy HO HO and Merry X-Mas

2004-12-26T14:02:00.000-08:00

Well it has defantily been a good week. I was down at Ransburg last weekend for venture training that what ok it was kinda boring. Got to clean the Inlow twice that was fun. I got to drive down and up by myself which was nice because i could finaly go above 70mph. My parents alwaysed freaked out when they were with me and i drove that fast. I ran out of windsheild wipper fluid on the way home so that sucked i had to go buy some. Got home and we did have any snow yet which i am wishing we didn't have any right now either. The week slowly went on. I was supposed to go to the movies with my friend saturday but the 8 inches of snow we got left my car stranded in my driveway so i didn't get to go. So i think we are going to go see meet the Fockers this week. So yesterday was X-mas. I didn't get what i really wanted but oh well i never really do. I did get this cool keyboard that has LED lighting in it. Today was great the colts came back from an amazing defacit. Manning and the colts also broke two records on the last touchdown of the game. I am out probably post after break so later.

Time for a break from school

2004-12-14T21:14:00.000-08:00

Ok, so i have been getting a little lazy but hey it has been crazy round here. Last weekend we got all of our christmas decorations up and then the week went by as slow as molases. Mabye because thurs. i was going to take the written portion of my driving test or mabye that i had 4 or 5 tests last week. I don't know. anyway this weekend I went to a few christmas parties. Then on Sunday I watched the colts barely sqeak out a win over the Texans. After that i headed down to belzer for the OA winter banquet and to also go through my brotherhood. So dinner was good. I saw Sox, Ian and Taz which was nice. I also got to see a couple other people that i haven't seen in awhile. Me and Ian talked with Keith Korn about all of the new things that are being put in or changed down at Ransburg. Then i did the brotherhood thing. Got my brotherhood and headed home. Then this morning I went and took the driving portion for my license. It was great since the guy saw that i had a boy scout plate and so we had like a twenty minute conversation in the parking lot of the BMV. Then he took me out on a really short like 5 or 10 minute loop and he said that he had made it short because we were talking the whole time and he saw that i had no problem doing so I finnaly got to get my License. The nice thing about taking it in fishers though is that if they don't take you past a place to paralel park you don't have to so i didn't have to and that made me happy because i haven't done it since dec. of last year. Welp i think that about sums up the past few weeks. Hope to see everyone at Staff Weekend Laters. I am bring the frissbees so i think Ultimate firsbee will have to be played

Turkey Weekend

2004-11-28T18:16:00.000-08:00

Hello again, well i have finally decieded to sit down and update i guess it has been what 2 weeks now. Let's see last weekend i went to I had to go to popcorn distrubtion and then i went to Belzer for OA training. Ben Thomas was there and we hung out almost all day except for the hour he was tring to find his gear. We also played ultimate for a couple hours it was great. I got to stand in as secratry or whatever they call it now for the Lodge meeting that was intresting. So i got home. Had a short two day week because i left early on Wed. to head Baltimore Maryland to visit my Dad's side of the family. My parents let me drive a good portion of the trip and every time i got behind the wheel though it seemed to rain harder and it was already late so that was intresting. It was nice to see almost everyone i haven't seen in a long time though. We hardly ever get up there. Watched the Colts pound the snot out of Detriot. (Anyone heard any updates on Pacers and Pistons Brawl. Last i heard there was an apeal.) So then we visited Dayton's National Air Force Base Museum on the way home today and I drove home from there and we got home at 3pm. Which was just in time for the Ravens and Patriots game which the Patriots came out victorius someone needs to beat that team before they win a third superbowl. We have school bright and early in the morning i am so looking forward to it. NOT! i think i have a test tomorrow to. Woops, guess I will find out. Later. 1 week till i get my license Yepee!

Hello Again

2004-11-05T23:15:00.000-08:00

Hey all i have totaly forgoten the last time i updated so i guess i could just blabber about some of the random events that have gone on lately. I went to the State Cross-country meet in Terra Haute this past Sat. and we got second. Which i know sounds good but, we of course are Carmel and everyone expects us to get first so it was not good enough. I went to a halloween party that night which was ok but really boring. Sunday was kind of a lazy day until i realized i have school the next day and should probably do my homework. So instead of going trick-or-treating i stayed home and did homework and passed out some candy here and there. Tuesday i got my wires and Bands on for my braces so they absolutly kill right know so i am like overdosed on Advil and Tylenol. Well Thurs. night began our long and fun start of OA Cermony training. So it is going to be a long month. Today really doesn't feel like a friday i don't know why. I also started offseason practice of Cross-Country this week. Today was a blow off day were we just played ultimate. Which is the greatest game ever created. Well i am off Tomorrow I turn 16 which means yes i will start driving soon. Woo Hoo. Presents are excepted. Later.

Long Weekend, Short Week and Braces....

2004-10-21T20:30:00.000-07:00

Hey all i guess i have been getting a little lazy and not updating so since we have today off for spring break I guess I should update. Well this past weekend was Fall Camporee down at beautiful camp ransburg. It was a little cold but not BITTER COLD. Friday night i went and visted with the Korns for a little while. Then me and victoria went into town and walked around for awhile. DD wimped out on us and went to bed early because of her band contest on Sat. It was nice to see them again. I got my milk shake that i have been craving for the past 3 months. We were going to go drop in on Tom but neither one of us knew were he or Johrdan lived. I got back around 11:00 and went down to the sports shelter were check in was and talked with Mr. Bardos for a little while. Then Sat. we all got up around 7:00 and had breakfest and then walked down to the soccer feild where all the campers were camping out. Before flags Keith pulled up and caught a few kids wandering around in the COPE area and lets just say they got an ear full and he wasn't in to great of a mood. Then after flags i went over to the Riffle Range were i helped Mr. Bardos put up the tomahawk logs. Those things are a little bit heavier with just two people lifting them up. So I was down there for the first half of the day just chucking hawks around. Then Mr. Donnely came buy to see how we were doing and asked if i could go help him do some things. So we went off and drove around camp making sure everyone was ok and asking if they wanted to unload some of there gear and we would haul it to AP for them. Suprisingly they all said no and were going to truck it out the rest of the day. So once we got back over to AP I strated helping chris and A.J. and two other people from my dad's troop. For anyone who didn't know me and my dad and brothers are in two seprate troops there in 202 and i am in 131. But that is a different story. Well we got it built it looked a little shady but we didn't use any saws or anything. Have you ever gotten that feeling though when somebody tells you something and it just doesn't sound right but you do it anyway. Well that's what happened to us we got told to put the fire at the bottem of the hill in Racoon meadow, i think that is the campsite i always get them mixed up, but Stymie didn't like that idea so we moved it up to the massive fire scare outside the shelter in like record time. It looked ten times better the second time it was built. After that chaos we sat down and ate dinner. The last troop finnaly came in at about 7:30 and we had the campfire at about 8:15. It ran pretty well there were some pretty good skit's. After that i had nice conversation with Scott Jackson one of the trading post clerks hopefully going to be Assistant manager this coming summer, you guys might know him as the pop-machine guy. I swear this guy probably knows more about the pop machines in camp than the Coke guy that came just about every week trying to fix the things. Well after that Mr. Donnely, Mr. Quiligan, Mr. Blackthorn, a few others, and Me drove back to main camp to drop off trash and to finalize the scoring. I thought Samatha was going to jump the fence and give me a run for my money when we drove up to drop the trash off. For those who don't know Samantha is the Korn's dog who isn't all that friendly. After that little trip we went over to the camp office/Scoutmaster Lounge and did all of the scoreing for the weekend. That took forever we finnaly got finished about 1:30am drove back to AP and went straight to the tent. We got up and broke camp and our Venture crew who i was camping with this weekend left early since I had already told them the results. We headed out at about 9am. I got home around 11:00 and then went to my brothers soccer game. Monday went really fast and tues. seemed to go even faster. Wed. school finaly came to a close and it was time to enjoy fall break. I went to my troop meeting and the ten of us that were there just decieded to play games. We played capture the flag with glow sticks. Then for the last 10 minutes we came inside and played a game called "Green Glass Doors". If your into cope games you might now it. I learned it at Philmont at the team building camp. Then I came home and was up till mid-night because i had to reformat my hardrive and that just sucks let met tell ya. I got up this morning and headed off to the Orthodontest and had my braces put on and I hate them. This is the second time i have had to have braces. Not cool. So then i have spent the rest of the day putting everything back on my computer. Then tonight at dinner I had the biggest flash back. We went to Carabias Italin resturant and they gave us some parmesian, I think that's how you spell i am the worst speller in the world, anyway I just remembered thurs. night of staff week when we had spaghitte and my table had eaten every thing but the bowl of cheese. So we all decided to take one spoon full of it. Not one of the smartest ideas. So as soon as announcments were done the whole table jumped up and sprinted to the water fountain in the dinning hall. Well i am oft to go watch some tv. So until next time. Later

Encampment

2004-10-11T22:27:00.000-07:00

Hey all sry it has been so long. It is hard to find time to update anymore my life is going wacky. As you can tell by the title this weekend was encampment. It went really well except for a few problems with people on staff using toliet paper to decorate each others room. But that is a totaly different story. Butter's (aka Ben Crayner) and Stephen picked me up at about 4:00. After they figured out Gray road was closed for construction. So once we got all of my junk into his tiny neon which actually wasn't all that tiny. It took about a half'n'hour to load everything and get on the road and i think i brought everything you could think of except for my sleeping bag. I wasn't to happy about that. But once we got everyone checked in it went pretty smoothly we all got a little rest time before the staff meeting. Once cracker barrel had ended I realized butters had to run to kinkos to make copies and that all my clothes and pillow were in his car. He left at 6:30 and didn't get back till 10:30 it was kind of funny though because he got lost and had no idea were 96th street was. Then me and him headed over to the cabins. I got to see someone i haven't seen in many many years. Mike stouder, a guy from my troop who kind of dropped out of it, and his g/f. A few other k-staffers as well. I finnaly crawled into the cabin about 2:30. Then I awoke to screaming people in the middle apartment of the cabin. Then i headed over to the dinning hall for breakfast. Saturday ran well Rachel showed up and helped out in the health lodge. She was the only explorer to show up i think this weekend. Then that afternoon i helped my crew finish building the campfire. Once that was done i then had to go into campfire mode and start planning the evening program. It ran well unfortantly K doesn't have a sound shed so we had to use my stereo instead of a amplifier. The fire went up really well, never under estimate the campfires me and my crew of workers can build. It unfortuantly strated to scare the MC because of its size and when it colapsed on of the typee logs rolled out and i got told i had to go either soak it with water or be sued for burning down camp k. once the campfire had ended and all had settled down i finnaly wandered back over to the cabins to chat with some people before bed. I went to bed at about 2:30 again. I got up at 8:00 because even though me and carney were sleeping on the floor of the commens room people didn't wake us up as they walked through. So once i finnaly rolled out of k with ben it was about 12:30 and we stopped at Wendy's for lunch and as we left the Noblesville motorcycle gang rolled in so we floored out of there. i got home at about 1:30 and got everything put away. Today was ok I had to have surgery on my big toe so now i am in an emense amount of pain. Then I had to go replace a car battery in one of our cars. Then I check the blog and find some discouraging things. All I have to say is that if you have something that you don't like about me tell me who you are and say to my face. That way i can try and fix the problem. People don't enjoy getting these kinds of anynomous things when you won't tell them who you are. Ok i will step down from my soapbox know. Thanks to all those who made me feel better today and made it so that my day wasn't a complete tragdy. I need to go finish some homework talk to you later.

Homecoming week

2004-09-30T16:23:00.000-07:00

Hey, It has been a fun week with spirit days easy practices (except for today). I'll start from the begging which was saturday. We had our meet in Culver. It was ok we lost to bloomington north in the Sophmore/Freshman race lost to lawerance north again in the varsity race. It is looking like we are not going to win state do to the fact that Lawernce north has raped us three times now and are a lot more excited about the race. Who know's though State is the only real big meet our varsity is focused on. Coach has been giving us his i know he beat you by 30 Sec. Joel(our top runner) but still think you can beat him. It is just a funny thing. Then Monday started off HOMECOMING week. The greatest school week of the year. It was Monday PJ day, Tues. 80's day, Wed. western day, Thurs.-hawian day, Fri.-Blue and gold day. Highlight of my day today was definatly during the morning video anoucments when they were playing clips of family guy. It made me laugh and that was good i needed a good laugh today to wake me up. Well hope everyone has a good time at the staff weekend i will be in michingan for a Bar-mizpha woo hoo i am so excited. I am not even Jewish. I am out talk to you all later.

P.S. Anynomous I will find you it might just take a little time.

Bad start to a long week.

2004-09-23T20:36:00.000-07:00

Well as you can guess by the title i have not had that fun of a week. It all started off Monday during first period. Well here's the story we haven't had are teacher there for awhile and have had a sub filling in for him. Let me tell you she is a real pain in the ass. The head latin teacher comes in monday and say's that are old teacher had to resign because he is starting treatment for cancer. It is unkown what kind he has. It sucks because this guy was my favorite teacher and now he is gone. It really made it so we understood the stuff and now i don't know how i am going to make it through this class. Anyway that was the bad part of the day. Not to mention that this week was ISTEP. That was so easy this year usually it is a lot harder. Today ended it which was nice. Homecoming is next yes finally a relaxing week even though i have like 3 projects due on the same day and haven't started any. I can't go to the dance or the game next weekend because we are going to Michigan to go to somones bar-mitzpha. well that is about all for now. My troop is getting our Venture Crew back together so if your intrested let me know. later

My life in a nutshell

2004-09-19T19:30:00.000-07:00

Hey all, ya i know it has been a while but you know how it is. Sometimes you just get to busy to update and you forget to do it. But anyway i have no idea were to begin mabye i should start with monday and we can work from there. Lets see we nothing going on that night but i was sore our coach had us do some 4 or 5 laps at Vickory's which is like 4 miles pluse the warm up and cool down that is like 6 miles. Tues. then a hard day agian back to vickorys woo hoo. 6 600 meter sprints that was fun until we had to run back to school. Wed. easy day and then a troop meeting. Thurs. back at vickory's were we did whistle drills. Then it was homework for like 3 hours after which sucked. Friday wasn't bad thank good we didn't go to vickorys agian i would have been pissed considering we had already been there 3 out of the 5 days of practice. Then after practice i went with some friends to fazzolies and a meet up with our old coach from last year. That was fun talked about the Jr. High team this year and how different it is with there entire varsity except for like two people gone. Shared some old jokes and new and then came home and went to bed. Sat. up at 5:30 to be on the bus at 6:30 to go to New Prarie. we got there about 10:00 and got ready ran our race at 12:30 and then went to awards we had a bad day none of our teams got 1st in anything it sucked. Then it was a three hour drive back home which turned into 4 because of dinner. so we got home about 6:30. I was not in a good mood we spent 7 hours on a school bus just to run for twenty-minutes or less. The course was ok i didn't enjoy running in the sand at the bottom and during the agony hill portion. I got home took a shower and went straight to New Palestine to see DD and her marching band team compete in an invitational. That was fun. I got to meet a bunch of her friends who were pretty cool except for one who threatened to brake my knee caps because I ran cross-country and lived in Carmel. It is amazing how bad of a reputation Carmel has and how everybody thinks were rich snobes when alot of us aren't even that rich. Oh well i have given my outlook on this situation. It was nice to DD agian since i haven't seen her since the end of camp. So i finally got home around mid-night and watched some TV and went to bed. Today was just a relaxing day of going to target and putting computers back together. Well i am out talk to you all later.

P.S. Has anyone figured out who the anonymus person was that was putting in comments before camp started.

One Crazy week

2004-09-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

Where to begin. all I can say is that this has been one long week. even for being only a 4 day week. This past weekend I participated in the State preview meet. It was a horrible race for me i ran the worst i have ever run in my life. Da chief and Pinkus stopped by to watch after getting lost trying to find the park. It was nice to see them. Then sunday was a day of cleaning the house what joy comes with that. Monday night we had the football draft so like 4 other families were here for dinner. Tuesday was the next fun day of shool it feels like the end of the year for some reason though. Wed. night was a very dissapointing night for me. Before this summer had started i had spent countless hours in my troops garage getting all of the gear and equipment accounted for and i come back from the summer and everythingk is trashed and a ton of our gear is missing. It really pisses me off that our troop will treat our gear in that way and that they will distroy all the hard work and time me and a few other people spent on getting it cleaned up. Then thurs. was crazy we had a freshman cross-country meet at north central. It was a 4k race for those of you who don't know that is about 2 1/2 miles or roughly around that. It felt like i was going so slow that race it is weird comming off of a 5k habit and running a 4k. Then i got home about 6:30 and it is time to leave for roundtable and so i didn't get time to eat dinner it sucked. Roundtable went ok we got all of encampment stuff done and almost out of the way. Then today after practice coach kept the freshman late to clean up the trail it wasn't to bad. I wish some carmel kids would grow up and mature a little bit. It's is not fun listening to people wine abbout how they might have posion ivy and have to leave right away we aren't completely done yet. oh well what can you do. Then i went to Fazzoli's withe some friends to get loaded up on carbs before the race tomorrow. Tomorrow we have the Carmel Classic it is the only home meet and defintaly one of the best courses. So if you are in town Be there the Races start at 9:30. Well i am out talk to you all later.

Wow it's been awhile

2004-08-31T21:55:00.000-07:00

Were to begin. Lets see Friday night was a fun night of cross-country pracitce coming home and moving mulch and being yelled at by my parents for random reason's. Then woke up at 5:30 Sat. morning for the Cross-country meet in columbus it sucked. i hate that course and i ran so slow it wasn't even funny. Then Koeppen comes and yells at us after race if you don't go do a cool down right now you aren't running on tuesday. So that was fun and then my grandparents came over for dinner Saturday night that was ok I was really bored though. Sunday started off with threats of how my parents aren't going to let me go to the dinner that night if i did anything to piss them off which is damn near impossible. Then went and acolyted at church. Came home did nothing that afternoon. oh by the way i checked my grades and i don't have an F in english it is an A somehow. Any back to sun. Murph picked me up at about 4:30. It was nice to see everyone again. Found out that T-bone got called out for Vigil honor which is cool. Dinner was good except for the pork chop but it was free so i can't complain. Then Monday i had a fun day of school and then after cross-country i went out to dinner with some friends on the team to Fazolli's for a carb dinner. Then walked around with my friend David Pison, David Joest, and Steven Presnal. We walked over to Marsh and got some power bars and i as we were walking out i got cramp which seemed like a bad omen but it wasn't. Tonight was the County Cross-Country meet at nobletucky i love that course except it seems like your going fast and you really are going normal speed. It was an awesome Varsity meet though once agian carmel came out victorous and one. Well i am out. Later

long and busy week

2004-08-26T21:54:00.000-07:00

Hey i know it has been awhile my schedule has been crazy. Cross country and homework have filled most of my evening. Tuesday night i went to dinner with shocklee to steak'n'shake it was fun even though i ate way to much. It is so hard not to eat to much of there ice cream though. I think my classes are going ok. Proably failing english though. i have never been really good at it. I don't really like reading all that much either ussually the movies are better. Anyway scouts are starting to fill up my life again i think i have a cross country meet every saturday starting this weekend with the columbus invititational. From what i heard it was really just a little north of bloomington but i don't know where it really is. Anyway it seems like everyweekend after a meet i have to go to a scouting function and every night i have a meeting it is great. I can't wait till i have my license and i am able to go were i want when i want. 3 more months but who's counting. Well lucky me i have school at 7:40 tomorrow. Can't wait LOL. so i am goin to hit the bed. talk to you all later. bye

Past Couple of days

2004-08-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

Hello all, how is everyone? My life is going crazy right now i am so busy which is nice because i don't like not haveing anything to do because i get bored. I made through my first week. My teachers are pretty cool. Blue days are ok, Gold Days feel like they are never going to end. For those of you who don't know we have 8 classes that we take and they are split up over a 2 day period. So one day we will have periods 1-4 (blue) and then we will have 4-8 (gold). Each class is 90 minutes long which feels a lot longer some days.

This weekend was ritual it ran pretty well. I rode down friday after school with Dillon which was fun i haven't talked to him since mid-summer. We had a total of 227 canidates complete there ritual and the UNKOWN TEST. I do have to say friday night absolutley sucked balls nothing would light for me at all when i went around to try and help canidates out. It started to get me a little irritated. So I walked up to the dinning hall about 1:30 and talked to Bill Thomas. Then i went over to Josh moffet's house (cabin behind the dinning hall) because that was were i was sleeping for the weekend. We shared some stories about are summer and i just got to say K-Staff is so much different than Ransburg Staff. Oh and just to clarify Ransburg is the best no doubt about it. So I finnaly got to bed at like 2:00 or somewhere around there. Saturday ran real well i was up at 6:00 and out of the cabin at 6:30. Everything ran quickly and smoothly which is good. I think that the canidates had way to much free time in the afternoon though but that is just me. Oh yeah i forgot to mention the first medical emergency in like 4 years i think. A kid got to much smoke in him and had to be taken to the hospital that was fun. Anyway back to saturday Roy Byer got crowned for Minisino which i am glad he and Sally do so much for firecrafter that some people don't realize It is amazing. After we got everything cleaned up from the hill Me and a bunch of Ransburg Staffers went to Steak-N-Shake it was so good. even at 3am a lime freeze tastse's good. So i finnaly got to bed at 4 or 4:30 am which wasn't horrible i just had to get up at 7am which sucked but hey it was worth it. It was a really fun weekend i got to see everyone again and i got to see Daniel Butler (the real Daniel Butler not the other one from camp) before he left which was nice. This weekend was a lot of fun i can't believe i take so much crap about D.D. sometimes though but I really don't care. I am looking for a ride for next weekend if anyone can give me one just drop an email or something. Well DD just called so i will cya later.

First Day of school

2004-08-17T18:10:00.000-07:00

Hey all today was the first day of school. It felt like had been going to high school for years. It was an ok day i have like none of my friends in my classes i guess that is good though because i get to meet new people. so far my teachers have been cool. That might change tomorrow though once i meet my other four. Cross-country is ok. Coach Koeppen is so much different then coach ellington it is a huge change. Personaly i like Ellington better but i am just real good friends with so i don't know. I have really been missing camp lately i can't get it off my mind I wish the summer was longer. It took for ever to get my comments working right i spent like all day yesterday trying to figure out why they weren't working. I didn't have anything better to do. This place is so boring when you have no car and can't go anywere because you can't find a ride. It sucks. Well i have some emails i need to write talk to yall later. later

Summer's Over :-(

2004-08-15T13:22:00.000-07:00

I thought i would try this out for awhile it seemed pretty cool. So anyway i just got back this morning. It sucks there is absolutley nothing to do here i am so bored. This summer has been one of the greatest ones ever. Ransburg Staff rules. I have made so many new friends and i learned so many things about myself. I did things that i never done before. It was def. a supprising last couple of weeks though. I was not expecting to be tapped out at all and know that it is over it is still hard to believe I am a Minisino. I can't wait till next summer. Next weekend is going to be fun. It is ritual and hopefully i will get to see most everybody again. I am so bored right there is nothing to do here in carmel compared to ransburg. Well school starts tuesday and i don't have anything for it so i think i am goin to go to the store later get some clothes find a green shirt somewhere and then i think i am goin to go to steak'n'shake (greatest restraunt in the world) to eat dinner. Well i think that is all for know. RANSBURG RULES. Later