I was shopping the other day and managed to grab one of those crippled carts that have jammed up wheels; the one’s that if you aren’t careful like to pull your cart into the precariously stacked displays. I did not end up with this fate(though I watched someone else break a few jars of a cheese sauce display ;) but I had a hard time getting my cart to go straight and almost ran into a few people while talking on my cell while maneuvering the store with one hand and a stubborn cart (maybe we should outlaw cell phones while shopping? ;) In fact, I had more trouble driving my cart than driving in the snow and ice to get to the store!
It seems I brought the Ohio weather back to Indiana with me; we had about a foot of snow in Ohio when I left and, from the reports I got from family in Indiana, very little here. As soon as I arrived winter storm warnings started for our county and within two days we have over a foot of snow accumulated here. However, after Ohio and Wisconsin I am very accustomed to traveling in the snow and am lucky to have vehicle (sorry) that can plow through snow better than many SUV’s, however, due to it’s heavy weight(one of the heaviest cars ever made) and its rear wheel drive it is awful in icy conditions. I’ve spun around in circles multiple times on busy highways, never ending in a crash though.
Anyways, I am currently stealing a very weak internet signal as I work on school and apply for jobs online. It is hard to live without internet for me these days; so much of my life is dependant on it. Especially since my college courses are all online this semester. Hopefully I will soon have internet, we just got DirectTV here at J&J’s (my sister and brother-in-laws place, where I am living right now) and they say you can get internet through this service as well…I hope?
Well, I need to get back to school. I’m getting a bit tired of looking at naked people though…… don’t worry, just Art appreciation and Art & Culture ;)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Moving on....
Packing to leave now, Ohio has been fun but now I’m back to Indiana for a bit.
Didn’t think it would be so hard leaving this place, it still hurts leaving the friends and even enemies I’ve made here. Especially knowing they don’t want me to leave; I suppose it is encouraging to know that they liked having me as a manager and would rather I be here than their former manager that is returning. The return of that manager being the biggest thing that pulled me to stay instead of leaving, I know her and her reputation well enough to wish, for my employee’s sake, that I could stay. However, if I do not leave now the restaurant will close when I leave later, so I suppose it is better for them in the long run to have a job than to have a kinder and more considerate manager.
As the company I work for is backing out of their promised endeavors to find a place in Indiana, I am afraid I will not be continuing with them. They wish to transfer me to Illinois but I am unwilling to go there when they now seem to care so little about the rest of the plan originally given to me. However, I do understand, this company is slowly and willingly sinking as it re-formats into another company unconnected with this one. It seems hardly a place I want to invest my life into, a place that will no longer exist in a few more years at the most. So this road of life goes on......
Didn’t think it would be so hard leaving this place, it still hurts leaving the friends and even enemies I’ve made here. Especially knowing they don’t want me to leave; I suppose it is encouraging to know that they liked having me as a manager and would rather I be here than their former manager that is returning. The return of that manager being the biggest thing that pulled me to stay instead of leaving, I know her and her reputation well enough to wish, for my employee’s sake, that I could stay. However, if I do not leave now the restaurant will close when I leave later, so I suppose it is better for them in the long run to have a job than to have a kinder and more considerate manager.
As the company I work for is backing out of their promised endeavors to find a place in Indiana, I am afraid I will not be continuing with them. They wish to transfer me to Illinois but I am unwilling to go there when they now seem to care so little about the rest of the plan originally given to me. However, I do understand, this company is slowly and willingly sinking as it re-formats into another company unconnected with this one. It seems hardly a place I want to invest my life into, a place that will no longer exist in a few more years at the most. So this road of life goes on......
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Random Political Gibberish.......
It seems that few people have a true sense of how parts of the political system work and have worked forever! Well, a couple hundred years, forever-what’s the difference?
I’d like you to think about two of these practices: “Coattails effect”, when a political figure helps others in his party gain political office. For example, when the current president, we will say he is democrat, helps a fellow democrat in Ohio run for Governor by campaigning for him. The other practice often looked down on is called the spoils system, someone takes office and appoints his friends and supporters to various positions.
We hear in the news about Governors making deals, about appointments of campaign supporters and many other so called “scandalous dealings” by today’s political elite. People’s first thought when they hear a political figure is bringing a close friend or avid supporter with them into office or if they try to use their position to help themselves is that it is awful(okay, maybe that’s the second thing we think, first we try to figure out how to pronounce their name- Blagojevich??)
However, this system has been around for a very long time, and why not? It makes sense that a political figure, especially one in a place of extreme pressure and responsibility would want people they can trust and rely on. Often referred to as the Kitchen Cabinet Andrew Jackson asked many of his most trusted friends and relatives, such as Emily and adopted son, Andrew Donelson, to help him and advise him as he governed the country in a strenuous time. What is wrong with that? Why is it proper only if someone brings together people who hate each other, people that don’t even agree with the policies and ideals that, we will say the “president” figuratively, holds as the core of his position and politics? What good does dysfunction and chaos do in leading our country and advising our president?
Unity is vital, as Franklin said “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”
Come on, wake up! That was a boring article but it was too short to put you to sleep!:P
I’d like you to think about two of these practices: “Coattails effect”, when a political figure helps others in his party gain political office. For example, when the current president, we will say he is democrat, helps a fellow democrat in Ohio run for Governor by campaigning for him. The other practice often looked down on is called the spoils system, someone takes office and appoints his friends and supporters to various positions.
We hear in the news about Governors making deals, about appointments of campaign supporters and many other so called “scandalous dealings” by today’s political elite. People’s first thought when they hear a political figure is bringing a close friend or avid supporter with them into office or if they try to use their position to help themselves is that it is awful(okay, maybe that’s the second thing we think, first we try to figure out how to pronounce their name- Blagojevich??)
However, this system has been around for a very long time, and why not? It makes sense that a political figure, especially one in a place of extreme pressure and responsibility would want people they can trust and rely on. Often referred to as the Kitchen Cabinet Andrew Jackson asked many of his most trusted friends and relatives, such as Emily and adopted son, Andrew Donelson, to help him and advise him as he governed the country in a strenuous time. What is wrong with that? Why is it proper only if someone brings together people who hate each other, people that don’t even agree with the policies and ideals that, we will say the “president” figuratively, holds as the core of his position and politics? What good does dysfunction and chaos do in leading our country and advising our president?
Unity is vital, as Franklin said “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”
Come on, wake up! That was a boring article but it was too short to put you to sleep!:P
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Our new milk cow...
Most of you are probably familiar with James Harriet (Pen name of Alf Wight), the English veterinary surgeon.
Our new cow, co-featured in this brief, if wonderfully well made, documentary film, is the very essence of some of the milk cows mentioned in Harriet’s books. She is gentle and kind, a very likable cow, especially when compared to the infuriating pests that go by the title of “goat”. A cow you can just imagine being one of the old cows some highland farmer views more like family than livestock, an old friend he greats every morning as he makes his way, lighting the lantern in the chilly barn; you can imagine the light illuminating his frosty breath.
Anyway, she’s a splendid cow and the calves (not hers) are adorable as well, even though they appear more like deer in the film, Jerseys are the cutest cows, aren’t they?
We have many friends who purchase any extra milk we get, I even tried some while home, and it was very good. I hate goat milk and was expecting fresh cow milk to have some odd taste as well but was pleasantly surprised. My mother has already made cheese and butter from the cream as well, which I didn’t get to try.
The goat in the movie is a leftover buck that has the job of staying in the pen with the calves and teaching them how to eat grain, something calves actually don't pick up on their own very well, he's doing a good job of it, but no surprise there.
On a recent jaunt back to Indiana……
Two of my younger brothers have decided to stock up survival gear. Apparently some friends relatives are propagating the idea of a breakdown in world commerce and life as well, a modern survival of the fittest, or most prepared. Anyway, a couple of my younger brothers bought it, and I do mean bought it. They have been obsessed with finding, researching and purchasing all sorts of survival gear, all that must fit into their backpack.
They claim that they don’t necessarily believe that anything will happen that will force them to use their gear but they quote “Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail” Hard to argue with that.
I find myself more willing to listen to the advice my older brother gave another younger sibling that was also considering stocking up on gear. He said: “You don’t need to waste your money on all the gear like your brothers, just get yourself a good knife and if the crisis actually arises, you can “end up” with both of your brother’s survival packs without wasting a penny of your own”.
On a different topic; all of us older boys went shopping at the mall the other day. (Yeah, guys do go shopping) For the most part, my brothers spend all of their time at Dick’s sporting goods store(survival gear, you know), also for a few minutes at B&N picking up a book for their mother.
I went book shopping at B&N and then finished up at JC Penney’s 70% off sale and purchased a sweater vest to go along with my glasses and general “geek” look I use once in a while.
We also stopped at Wal-Mart and I observed once again the tendency for my brothers to “herd”. Several times I discovered them all congregating in the same aisle, both at Dick’s and here. However, I found it quite amusing, after looking around for them, to find all of them gathered in the underwear aisle at Wal-Mart, the funny thing is that they weren’t even buying anything, they just happened to all end up there when discussing something.
I suppose I can’t laugh much though, while talking on the phone and wondering through Wal-Mart I have found myself, when I finally hang up the phone, all too often in the Barbie aisle with little girls and their mothers looking up at me oddly “Umm…I …ummm…”(mumble something about looking for my little sister and quickly walk away).......
They claim that they don’t necessarily believe that anything will happen that will force them to use their gear but they quote “Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail” Hard to argue with that.
I find myself more willing to listen to the advice my older brother gave another younger sibling that was also considering stocking up on gear. He said: “You don’t need to waste your money on all the gear like your brothers, just get yourself a good knife and if the crisis actually arises, you can “end up” with both of your brother’s survival packs without wasting a penny of your own”.
On a different topic; all of us older boys went shopping at the mall the other day. (Yeah, guys do go shopping) For the most part, my brothers spend all of their time at Dick’s sporting goods store(survival gear, you know), also for a few minutes at B&N picking up a book for their mother.
I went book shopping at B&N and then finished up at JC Penney’s 70% off sale and purchased a sweater vest to go along with my glasses and general “geek” look I use once in a while.
We also stopped at Wal-Mart and I observed once again the tendency for my brothers to “herd”. Several times I discovered them all congregating in the same aisle, both at Dick’s and here. However, I found it quite amusing, after looking around for them, to find all of them gathered in the underwear aisle at Wal-Mart, the funny thing is that they weren’t even buying anything, they just happened to all end up there when discussing something.
I suppose I can’t laugh much though, while talking on the phone and wondering through Wal-Mart I have found myself, when I finally hang up the phone, all too often in the Barbie aisle with little girls and their mothers looking up at me oddly “Umm…I …ummm…”(mumble something about looking for my little sister and quickly walk away).......
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