5-29-09 Saturday, May 30 2009

            Since I really can’t remember Thursday I have to skip it, sorry.  Yesterday was intense though.  I had a really fun time at.  After we did our morning follow, we met some of the guys from Crowell to go do some burn prep around the cavity trees.  We had a good time talking with those guys; they aren’t as quiet as Forest so the jokes were flying.  We had to rake around the cavity trees down to the dirt so the fire wouldn’t burn them.  It wouldn’t have been bad but it has to be around 12’ off the tree, so it was back breaking work.  It felt good though, I haven’t really had a good back workout since I was here so I just thought of it as the row machine at the gym. 

            After they left, Forest and I went to finish the nest checks on 3 clusters.  On of them was an 83’ cavity.  Forest let me climb it.  It was pretty sketchy at the top but it was so much fun to stand at the top of the ladder and look around.  I got some pictures up top ad Forest took some of me climbing so hopefully I can have those up soon.  When we were done, Forest took me out for lunch as retributions for the long week and early mornings.  We were supposed to meet the Crowell guys but they had to cancel.  We went to an authentic Mexican place called Mi Terria.  It was really good and it was definitely authentic from the mamasitas cooking in the back and to the piñatas for sale on the wall. 

             When I got home I took a shower and went straight to my bed to relax.  I finished watching Underworld from the previous night then I fell asleep.  I had set my alarm to wake me up a 6:45 but that wasn’t happening.  I woke up at 12:45 in the morning and though about eating dinner but then I decided to skip it and just go back to sleep.  I then slept until 8:30 this morning.  Wow, 14 hours of sleep, I should be caught up know.  So needless to say I did have a chance yesterday to update or even write so my bad.

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5/27/09 Thursday, May 28 2009

            So I didn’t have a chance to write this on Wednesday so I have to do it today.  The last 48 hours has all run together into one long day.  I really can’t remember what I have done since Tuesday and on which day it was done.  We have been doing our morning follows every morning this week and they have taken their toll.  We have to leave at least by 4:30 to get the cavities trees before sunrise or else we could miss the bird.  That early arrival means I am out of bed by 3:45 every morning so I can eat breakfast and make a huge lunch.  I have started filling my lunch box to the rim with food so that I have enough calories to make it through the day.  It’s funny; we got home at 3:00 on Wednesday but worked a ten and a half hour day.  Wow!

            I have also noticed that I eat like a hobbit.  I have been reading the Lord of the Rings series, which is awesome, and I have seen the movies, which are also awesome, and I discovered that I eat as many meals as they do.  When I get up I will start my day with an early breakfast, usually 2 packets of instant oatmeal.  After the morning follow I will eat second breakfast, consisting of pop-tarts or an oatmeal energy bar.  I then will grab a small brunch soon after I climb my first tree, which will be a bag of carrots.  Around noon we will eat lunch, which consists of a peanut butter or turkey sandwich followed by a full sandwich bag of chips.  After some more climbing I have my ones’ies snack that is usually some candy.  It was sugar coated orange slices for a while but I have now moved on to Skittles.  Around 3:00 we are usually home and I will grab some chips or candy to hold me over until dinner, but wow, what a lot of food.  I feel like I’m going to come home fat.  Oh well, that’s what the gym is for.  I guess know the hobbit connotation fits more than ever, with eating like them, enjoying nature like them, and…..having hairy feet like them. 

            After work I came home and sleep for three hours.  I guess this is why all my days have run together.  I will work, sleep, eat, sleep, and then start over with work again.  The naps are so amazing though.

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5/26/09 Wednesday, May 27 2009

            What can I say about today?  It was all a blur.  We worked a long day then I came home to relax.  I ate some subway and read a little before going to sleep around 11.  We have an early morning tomorrow.  We have to leave around 4 am to go get the Ranger and go out to some clusters further away than usual.  I feel like it is going to suck.

            The high note of today was watching the two landlords try to fix a leak in the air conditioner’s condenser drain.  It had been leaking the past two weeks and they finally came over to fix the correct way instead of blowing in the tube to open the passage just a hair so it will soon become clogged again and leak some more.  We came home and found a puddle in the living room.  Worst thing was I stepped in it with socks on. Ewww I hate that feeling. 

            It did rain today, and I mean rain.  It was some of that sideways rain that Forrest Gump talks about.  It looked like it was coming in sheets.  I have never seen it rain that hard before.  Like the saying goes (in a more literally meaning), “it never rains, it pours”.  I though we would be under water but it let up after 20 mins.  It means one thing tomorrow, that it  is going to be sloppy in the field, oh fun.

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5/25/09 Tuesday, May 26 2009

              So sorry for the rant mixed in with the daily post yesterday.  I am going to try to keep them separate but I can only do but so much.  Once I get my mind set of the train of thought, I lose focus everything else I wanted to stay off the topic.  But anyways, it was brought to my attention today that I have some misspellings and grammar mistakes and what not.  We’ll here is the officially disclaimer: I am sorry for these mistakes, please wade through them as you read.  I sometimes only glance over it once because I hate to go back and fix all my spelling mistakes.  If it doesn’t get a red underline I keep going, so contact Word if it bothers you.  Again, sorry for the sloppy writing.

            Well today I was actually able to sleep in.  I guess my body has adjust back to sleep until whenever time, so I didn’t role out of bed until a little past 11.  The first thing I did after my breakfast was go to the laundry mat.  I put it off yesterday with the hopes that it wouldn’t be crowded today.  It paid off.  It wasn’t nearly as packed as last Sunday which made it bearable.  After enjoying an hour there I headed home to start on my new books.  I forgot to mention them yesterday because of my final rant but I went to the book store yesterday and had a good time finding stuff to read.  I already knocked out the first Lord of the Rings, so I got the second installment to that then I went and spent some time in my favorite section of book stores, the nature/wildlife section.  After looking through every book, I finally decided on book with arguments against evolution and Walden by Thoreau.  I read a little of each and I guess my outbreak on T.V. can be blamed on Thoreau.  

            I did workout a little bit today, old school style.  I busted out different pushups and some sit ups and then went out outside to a bench and busted out some dips followed by pull-ups on the laundry lie pole.  I guess the adrenaline pumping talked my mind into going for a run.  I figured I better keep it short, sort of a trail run for my knee.  I was supposed to wait until June 2 to do anything but I have stayed off it for almost three months and it feels the same.  I’m tired of not having all my abs and my arms are getting smaller.  It’s time to turn it up; I hope my knee can keep up.  The run felt good and beside the knee feeling weak it all went fine.  The after shock of the workout is where the test will reveal to true state of the knee.  I feel good right know, before bed, but tomorrow will be the deciding factor.  Hopefully it isn’t stiff.  I am looking forward to working tomorrow.  No early morning follow so it should be a fun day.  Plus I’m ready to get out of the house.

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5/24/09 Monday, May 25 2009

            I often find myself writing these journal entries either late at night or the next day, when I’m too tired.  When I think about it I wonder how am I so busy that can’t find ten minutes to write two paragraphs.  It’s a wonder that I have managed to occupy that much of my time in reading.  I never would have guessed this a month ago. 

            I went to church today and actually had the desire to go to Sunday school.  I made sure to get there ten minutes early so I could seek the wisdom of the information desk on where the class is.  After waiting there for five minutes, talking myself in and out of staying, the nicest, little lady walked up and helped me.  She talked to me for a minute about what I was doing down here and then passed me on to Bill, some guy walking by, which took me to find a class.  We first headed to the college class, but I guess with it being Memorial Day weekend and a class of college kids, no body was there on time.  We then went up stairs to the mature people class, the young career/early 20’s class.  Everyone in there was really nice but I was the youngest in there, so I plan on trying the college class again.  The message was awesome though.  We talked about fearing God and what that means and so on.  Service was really good also.  I have found that the music is pretty good and the pastor is no slouch either.  His message on love already spurted a post last night. 

            I have come to become comfortable with the solitude now.  It isn’t bothering me as much as it did Saturday.  I have also got enough internet signal to watch my favorite T.V. shows which is a welcomed laugh to my soul.  I feel caught up on most of them since the seasons are ended.  I found The Office and How I Meet Your Mother and remembered how much funny those shows were.  The visual stimulation was also nice, since it’s been forever since I watched anything.  I have become to think how sad it is though, that our minds today depend that much on watching something.  I am proud of myself for the transition I made to reading the past couple weeks and hope that my dependence on television will be broke soon.  I pity the world though, and how it controls there life.  Looking back and seeing how daily schedules are planned around shows; what happened to walks at night to observe the stars, or sitting to watch the “grass grow”.  Must everything have a purpose now?  Are our lives so busy that there isn’t a moment to stop and observe the world around?  Not the world as produced by man, but the world as God created, flawless in design.  Be outside; discover the silence of nature that brings sounds to your ears undiscovered by most.

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Thoughts of incoherent randomness Sunday, May 24 2009

So I realize I am not accustomed to deep intellectual talks with most, I guess only a few have had the privilege, but on occasion I will post some rants.  Please respond if you have an opinion; agree or disagree, or bring up a new one and I will address it in a new post.  Careful though, my wits may surprise you.

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Where da love at Sunday, May 24 2009

So what is it with the world today.  I find myself spending a lot of this free time thinking and reflecting on little tid bits from sermons or things I read books.  I really don’t understand where all the love has gone.  Today the pastor of Calvary Baptist talked about showing love and just letting the love out.  As I reflected on this more I really started to wonder what happened to it.  What has happened to people these days to make them so angry.  For some reason last night, I found myself running through horrible scenerios of someone walking through my front door with the intent of only doing harm.  I have no idea where this came from but how far is that from what the world use to be.  Atleast in the South where people didn’t even lock there doors.  Why is that eye contact with strangers is seen as an aggressive move?  I don’t understand what has caused the world to move to this stage.  I understand that there is evil in the world and in the hearts of man, but has it come to a point where that is all that we show.  Why do we show that first and make someone wade through the bad to get to the good?  Shouldn’t be the other way around.  Shouldn’t we want to put on the best for strangers and then through getting to know us, they see our flaws.  For some reason humanity has skipped a step.

I also don’t understand why little acts of kindness are so far and few between.  I have even heard that women don’t want men to hold doors for them.  They view it as a potential aggressive move to gain an advantage of attcking them from behind.  It just disturbs me that it has come to the point were people are afraid of kind acts because they could be a lead to a violent move.  How terrible is that!  Maybe I’m just too bored and thinking too much.  Maybe I should just go back to reading.   But many times I jave heard that my generation will be that generation that has the most potential to impact the world.  At church conferences I have heard it so many times.  Too me it seems that our generation is missing the point.  I think we have viewed it as we have the most potential of impact on the world for good or it will stat the same; but I guess I have realized that will have the most impact for good or bad.  And right know it seems to the latter.  I guess we need to start taking things serious.  Share the love…do something for the better of the Earth.

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5/23/09 Sunday, May 24 2009

            Today was something else, something I have never done before.  I rolled out of bed around nine, after no being able to sleep anymore, and I just started to read.  I ended up reading about six hours but I was able to knock almost the entire last half of my book.  I really only took breaks to eat and clean up the water that leaks from some where in the house.  I guess the place is possessed.  I usually clean up about 2 cups of water every hour.  We have a five gallon bucket next to the leak that is about half full from two days. 

            I sure am ready for church tomorrow, though.  I plan on going to Sunday school so that I can actually talk to people.  I might be able to handle four days by myself if the T.V. half way worked but the static makes it unbearable.  I have got a couple letters from Chan the last week, so I did spend so time writing him back.  Oh, and I of coarse played some spider solitaire for while.  I was going to go to a movie or to the baseball game, but I saw a movie yesterday and baseball is not a lot of fun by your self so I’ll entertain myself with books for the night.  I sure am going to be well rested by Tuesday.

            I did find the two newest Greek episodes online and watched those, so that was a really nice way to end my day.  It took about two hours an episode but it was well worth it.

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5/22/09 Saturday, May 23 2009

             Wow today was a long day.  I had to do four hour of data entry.  I am finally starting to feel like an intern.  Not only did I have to do the data entry but I had to wash the work truck and clean some of the equipment.  This work was welcomed but it did prove to be an efficient waste of time.  After doing my work, I found myself alone in the apartment with no T.V. and internet that hardly works.  Forest went home for the weekend and won’t be back until Monday, so I feel like this could be a long weekend.  I will definitely enjoy the extra and relaxing so my body heals, but I feel like boredom will take over eventually. 

            After I finished my “choirs” I still had plenty of time to kill until bedtime so I decided to go see the new Terminator movie.  It was pretty good, but I haven’t seen the first three in forever so I found myself struggling to keep up.  It didn’t help that at the beginning of the movie when they were telling some background, some guy decided he couldn’t wait for the movie to provide more light and decided to try to find a seat by feeling his way down the row.  He proceeded to just walk over everyone.  He made it half way down and discovered most of the seats were taken and then headed back to the aisle.  He then tried to talk over the movie dialogue saying “sorry it was dark, I couldn’t, sorry” to everyone his way back.  O.K. that’s fine, just shut up and get out of the way.  I also got to sit next an older couple.  The lady sat next me and she was rather jumpy at some scenes.  I’m glad there was no one in front of us because at out point she jumped with her legs crossed and threw a pretty good snap kick that would have landed perfectly on the back of someone’s head.  I was under the impression that this would be the last Terminator movie but they left it open for a sequel.  Maybe they’re trying to do it like Star Wars. 

            After my night of reading, I’m definitely ready for church Sunday.

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5/21/09 Friday, May 22 2009

             I could definitely tell my body is feeling the 4:00 wake ups.  I can barely keep my eyes open in the truck.  Forest can barely too, so we’re swerving all over the place.  Kind of scary but we get home every day.  Hopefully we will soon be done with the morning follows.

            Nothing special really happened today.  It was full of work and a nice nap.  We did have another copulation incident today and had the same reaction as before.  I spent most of my time today sleeping and I still feel tired.  I am really looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.  I was only left with a few simple tasks of cleaning some of the equipment, so I have to figure out what I’m going to do this weekend.  I know there is a baseball game tonight and tomorrow night and there are also two movies I want to go see, so I’ll have to plan my schedule soon.

            I spent a hour filling out a nest check book tonight and only got about a fourth of it done so I feel like that will be a choir tomorrow.  Other than that, the lack of sleep has taken its toll on my eagerness to write so I’ll end it here until tomorrow.

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