Category: Recreation

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Out to eat

I took my lovely wife out to eat last night and then for a couple of drinks and dancing. The restaurant was really good. We had Indian food which is very spicy, at a new place on the South side of town. Not having ever eaten Indian food before I only had a slight knowledge of what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. I knew that it would be spicy, but they gauge the spice factor for those not accustomed to it and that I didn’t know. I would have tried it years ago if I had but known that.

After dinner we went to a little place downtown that plays blues and jazz music for a romantic evening. We really enjoyed it and had a good time just talking like we used to before we married. That was the best part for me. I think sometimes people get so caught up in life that they forget to talk to their partner. Then when they have problems, they think that they have changed or drifted apart, when all they did was stop talking to each other. Not about everyday things, but the other stuff, like dreams and such. I hope that never happens to my wife and I.

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Gone Fishing

Sometimes a guy needs a break. You just have to walk away from all the daily drama and all the problems and go fishing. My buddy, Claude, called me up last night and suggested a trip out on the lake in his bass boat. That was the perfect excuse for me. So today we’ve been fishing. Caught a bunch – let them go, of course – and just chilled for the day. What a good break that was for me – I needed this.

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In need of a warm vacation!!

Now even my wife is complaining about the weather.  She usually likes fall but this year, summer seemed to slip right by us and we didn’t really have a summer like we usually do.  Normally, we would take two or even three vacations though the summer but this year, I really don’t know what happened.  She’s been talking about wanting to take one of the Sharm El Sheikh Holidays that she found online.  I have to be honest, it sounds wonderful to me too.  The question I have is about the weather?

I personally would love to check out Algarve Holidays in Portugal.  I’m sure the weather there would be great since the southern hemisphere has spring when we have fall.  Besides, we have already been to Egypt but never to Portugal.  From what I have seen, it’s an absolutely beautiful place and why go somewhere you’ve already been?  Why not try something new, like maybe one of the really nice Benidorm Holidays.  We’ve never been there either.  We’ll just have to take our time and find somewhere new to take a vacation.  I just want to explore a new city or country, not one we’ve already been to, you know?

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It’s the last weekend before school starts

One things for sure, I’m not going to the beach this weekend.  With it being the last weekend before school starts back, everyone will be headed for the beach for what might be their last visit.  I’m sure that Labor Day weekend will be worse but I’ll just be glad for everything to get back to normal with the children back in school.

There have been too many kids running around unsupervised because the parents have to work but can’t afford someone to watch out for their children.  Sure there are all types of activities they could get involved in like summer camps but that too takes money.  Hopefully the economy will turn around soon and people won’t have to struggle so hard.

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Decided to go fishing today

The day started off a bit rainy and chilly but I really needed to get out some so I decided to go fishing.  It was a bit uncomfortable at first but then the sun came out and all was right in the world.  The fish bit pretty good and I caught a good run of bass.  No I don’t bring bass home.  I put them safely back into the water.  That way there will be fish for the next generation.

I never take something I’m not going to eat and bass just isn’t one of my favorite fish to eat.  I personally prefer salt water fish but a good mess of strippers from the lake or the ocean, well you just can’t beat that.  I wasn’t stripper fishing today though.  I just wanted to be one with nature and relax a little and that’s just what I did.  It was a great day.

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Lego Christmas Party

All of us coaches and mentors decided to get together and have a Christmas party for our Lego team.  It’s a Lego Christmas party and what a party it was too.  We all chipped in together and got each of the kids a nice Lego set like the ‘Indiana Jones’ sets or the shark attack set.  I can’t remember what the proper name is for the sets but the kids loved them.

We have set up to meet once a month all year long until the announce what the next challenge will be for next years competition.  They we will dive in head first into the project and hopefully do better next year.  Each of us adults involved is trying to drum up mentors, money to help with projects, and even food donated for our meetings.  I figure if Dominoes will give us pizza once a month then Pizza hut will another month.  Can’t let the competition beat you out on doing something good for kids education, ya know.

Well I feel so much of the Christmas spirit this year that I know in my heart it will be full of love and joy.  Those are far more important than any present you can give.

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Lego League update

Well I am having a blast working with the kids on the First Lego League team.  Our competition is on December 3rd so we are running out of time.  It’s going great so far.  We have come up with a name for the team.  It’s I Bots.  I standing for Intelligent, Bots for the robotic Lego of course.  The logo is going to be a large eye with the eyeball being the earth instead of just a regular eyeball.  That is to symbolize us having an eye on our planet.  Pretty cool huh?  The kids came up with that.

I must admit, I am quite impressed with not only the ability of these kids but also with their ideas for the challenge.  It’s supposed to be about helping global warming.  We’re focusing on the use of Sorgum to make Ethanol to help with emissions to keep down global warming.  Pretty smart kids and something that I can see myself working with for many years.  I can’t wait for the competition.  I hope we do well, well I hope the kids do well because they have worked so hard.

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Bought a new lap top computer

Now that I’m blogging, I needed a new computer.  My old faithful computer is about 10 years old and is getting slower and slower, kinda like me.  Not really but I have slowed down quite a bit over the past……..well over the years lets say.  I decided to check with dell.com to see what they had to offer and I’m really glad I did.  After looking around their web site, I found the refurbished laptops.  I couldn’t believe how much I could save with a refurbished laptop over a brand new one.

I ordered a Inspiron 1525 laptop and saved 35% off of what a new one would have cost.  I like saving money.  That leaves me with money I can spend on something else I want like maybe a flat screen TV.  I didn’t save that much but it’s a start.

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North Carolina Outer Banks

My adoptive father used to take me to the North Carolina Outer Banks when I was growing up every fall for a fishing trip.  It was and still is, one of the best places to go fishing on the coast.  It has a lot of history along with it.  The numerous shipwrecks in this dangerous stretch of ocean earned North Carolina’s Outer Banks the reputation as the “the graveyard of the Atlantic,” not the infamous pirate Blackbeard, who met his end here.  Coastal erosion and increased risk of damage from storm surges are the real threats facing the area now.

We used to put up tents and camp on the beach while we fished but you can’t do that now in an attempt to keep human erosion from adding to the threat already facing the beaches.  It’s a shame that things have to change like they do and when they do, it’s not usually for the better.  I guess it’s all a part of life like everything else.

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Broke his own world record

Kevin Fast who is a Canadian Reverend, has set a new record in the “heaviest vehicle pulled over 100 feet”.  He beat his previous record for this category which was 125,660 lbs.   Kevin pulled an International Loadstar truck and hauled a load of 126,292 lbs over 137 feet. Paramedics were standing by, and quickly inspected him after the attempt.

Fasts only food in preparation for the event was a cup of coffee. He pulled on a rope, anchored by a parked car. Stuart Claxton from the company Guinness World Records, has been judging record attempts for many years.  My question is ‘Why would a man risk hurting himself as badly as he could have just to pull a truck farther than anyone else?’  Just goes to show that a lot of men are all brawn and no brains but this man should have some.  He’s a reverend after all but I guess he was trusting in the ‘Big Guy’ upstairs to see him through it.  I thought the ‘Big Guy’ gave us enough sense not to hurt ourselves as a way to see us through life.  Shows how much I know I guess.