Just thought I'd do a quick update...

Tonight was my first lifeguard class. Surprisingly, I really haven't forgotten anything, at least not out of the stuff we went over tonight. The pre-test was pretty easy. You need to retrieve a brick from the bottom of the pool, but it was only 7 feet deep. MUCH easier than Blue Hills which is 12.5. Getting out ( Read more... )

Wow. This is an amazing story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3967807

I am really angry about this bailout crap. Our government has put us into a Catch-22 situation. They give companies like Citigroup and AIG money (that they don't really need because they have uncollected money in every state government in America), don't give them strict regulations on how they can spend the money, and watch as they run a muck with ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to see Gran Torino at the Randolph Cinemas. We bought our movie tickets and then went to go down the old path to the gas station for snacks. When we were walking across the parking lot, there were two kids going into the path and a kid in a big reflective vest talking to them. I was kind of confused as to what was going on. The two ( Read more... )

How about this one...
Make 2009 better than 2008.

It has a lot more meaning than it seems to up front. Could mean some big changes. But sometimes the only way to make things better is to commit to changing things, to make sure they are better...

Hopefully everything else will work out ok.

I have to say, 2008 was pretty depressing. So was the last half ( Read more... )

 SO MUCH TO DO BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!! AHHHH!

Kind of hard to believe it's December already...

Well, I feel like it's about time for a new seasonal goals list.

I think I did decent on doing the things I wanted to in the Fall:

• started hanging out with people more,
• went apple picking for the first time ever,
• went to Blue Hills with my mom to see the leaves,
• had homemade grape juice and hot apple ( Read more... )

"The same panda was in the news in 2006 when he bit a drunk tourist who broke into his enclosure and tried to hug him while he was asleep. The tourist retaliated by biting the bear back."

I'm not so cute now, am I?!

Hi, it's a BEAR.

"Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?'...God said, 'I did do something. I made you.'"

Hello ( Read more... )