You ever notice that Utah really only has two seasons every year? Winter, and road construction. Amen! Why is it that the same roads are redone every year, and sometimes the roads don't need to be fixed! Isn't the construction cone our state flower? They are doing a road near my house that they have redone two or three times alone in the last year. Why do we have to do the same road multiple times? Isn't there bettter things we could do with our time? No!! Lets dig up the road, and cause heavy traffic during some of the busiest travel times of the year!! Preach it! They redo these roads every year, and they ignore roads that need to be done! Hallelujah!!
Another issue with road construction that I have noticed is they will put up their orange cones and then leave them their for days, before even doing anything. I have also seen cones put up and then a week or two later they were taken away without any work being done. What is the point of that? Is it some guys job to pick a random road and put up some cones to cause bad traffic for a few days, then go pick them back up? That sounds like a job you'd enjoy! Just to screw with people.
And what about drivers? When there is construction it's like everyone forgets how to drive!! Hey, look a contruction cone!!! Oh No!!! What does this round wheel thing that i'm holding onto do!?!?! I better slow down to 2 miles an hour until I can figure it out! Why do people feel like they have to drive so slow when construction starts? I mean, I know they lower the speed limit, but come on! Just because there are orange cones on the side of the road doesn't mean we can't drive at a decent speed! Lets all slow down and gawk at the 20 people setting up cones, and the 1 guy actually digging! seems like a show to me!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Stupid Things in Life
There are some really stupid people out there... I don't necessarily mean that they are dumb, but they think stupid things or are unwilling to move off of stupid ideas based on half baked ideas. People I am talking to are the kinda people who would sue McDonalds because they didn't know their coffee was going to be so hot. I mean now that happened and all places they cell sell* coffee have to put a note on their coffee cups that say the coffee is hot... I mean, who doesn't know that coffee is hot? I mean there should be some sort of fail safe in the law that says you can't sue because of something that is naturally common sense...
I hate when you want to have a civilized conversation with someone who only wants to hear his/her own voice. They don't want your opinion, they want you to accept yours. And when you decide it's not worth your time they think they won, they think you gave up. So you want to continue, so you can prove yourself... but you know that will lead nowhere. What do you do?
Yeah... Don't get me started on College! Please don't... This is the one topic Quinn and I are not entirely agreeing upon.. Not a stupid person, but can I still rant for a sec. about this? I left college for the same reason I wont sign up for Obamacare;
-It's insanely over priced Agreed
-And I am morally offended by the entire system For the most part I agree, but its not all bad.
College is not what it used to be True.., its not a safe investment Not sure what you mean by that.. But your right, I am always afraid I'm going to be attacked by a wild banshee... I work in student loans and i hear so many horror stories! People who spend hundreds of thousands in student loans... and there they are, 15 years later and still working as a server at Golden Corral, where they will never in their lives make up enough to pay back their loans. Again, this is where i disagree. Where you see a lot of people like this... That does not show the majority of people. I am miss out on some higher paying jobs... but at least I'll be making more than I owe. That's the clincher for me. But despite that, as you mentioned, it teaches to the A students, guess what though? Everyone learns in different ways! I've heard it said that if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will live out it's life thinking it's worthless. Speaking from experience? ;) And not only do they not teach to your level, but they teach what is required to pass the test. Generally a good practice You're not going to used this in your life. Well when you put it that way... Ya if your getting a useless degree, like humanities, or arts, or dance! You are not paying for an education. You are paying for a piece of paper that proves that you can memorize things long enough to test on them.
I hate when you want to have a civilized conversation with someone who only wants to hear his/her own voice. They don't want your opinion, they want you to accept yours. And when you decide it's not worth your time they think they won, they think you gave up. So you want to continue, so you can prove yourself... but you know that will lead nowhere. What do you do?
Another thing is when is when a childs Identity is stolen. How can that happen? Why is the process of credit and identity so screwed up that some 30 year old drug adict can steal a 6 month old babies identity and screw their credit for the rest of their lives? A child can't do anything about that. It seems to me that there should be some sort alert when you use information like that. I mean, why would a 6 month old be taking out a loan? Is it so hard to have a pop up with the age of the social security number being used? Then banks could be like, "Excuse me sir... why are you using this six month old girls social security number?" Seems like a legitimate concern right? I hope he left the car running...
How about the social security number of a dead person? You'd think they'd pull up some flags with that "So, I'm showing you were born in 1895... You look really good for your age sir!" Somehow our dear (and by dear I mean not dear) President has somehow gotten away with it.
How about the social security number of a dead person? You'd think they'd pull up some flags with that "So, I'm showing you were born in 1895... You look really good for your age sir!" Somehow our dear (and by dear I mean not dear) President has somehow gotten away with it.
What about those super health nuts? I mean there is nothing wrong with eating a sweet now and then? There is nothing wrong with getting imunizations for a child to protect them. "So you don't want to immunize your child cause your afraid some big corporation is padding their pockets with the 40 bucks you use to protect your child? Sounds like a great industry! You know what would be a great replacement industry? Tiny baby coffins..." - House. And what is wrong with flour? Why can't we eat flour? Its good for us! At least some is good, maybe they are right if we have a lot more than we should but we shouldn't cut it out of our diet completely? I love it when you quote the Bible! Also desert doesn't have to be healthy!!! Its called desert! Its meant to be unhealthy! I don't eat anything unless it is desert. Splurge a little and have some fun. It's not going to kill you. We don't have to be perfect all the time. I am, but that's mostly accidental...
Why is there such a problem against average people? I don't like the word average, we are different. Everyone is talented in different ways. Some may be pathetically horrible at school work, but absolutely brilliant at art or have great people skills, who determined who was average? It seems in our time now, that if you are average you are looked down upon? The grading systems at school was set up so B's or C's were average, yet now in our time if you get anything but an A in a class you may as well give up on life and join the circus, foget getting any financial aid scholorships if that happens because your just not smart enough. Heaven forbid you ever get a C. The only thing worse than that seems to be death. Even those that don't get degrees are looked down on? How is that right? Why do you have to get a bachelors degree to get any degree of respect? I know people who said things like "I feel like when i talk to someone who doesn't have a bachelors degree, that I have to speak down to them. Because they just don't understand". They have said things like this to people I care about... How is that fair? Sounds like we'd get along just fine :D Could you imagine how much that would hurt? How does that show that they are better people? That just seems wrong.
Yeah... Don't get me started on College! Please don't... This is the one topic Quinn and I are not entirely agreeing upon.. Not a stupid person, but can I still rant for a sec. about this? I left college for the same reason I wont sign up for Obamacare;
-It's insanely over priced Agreed
-And I am morally offended by the entire system For the most part I agree, but its not all bad.
College is not what it used to be True.., its not a safe investment Not sure what you mean by that.. But your right, I am always afraid I'm going to be attacked by a wild banshee... I work in student loans and i hear so many horror stories! People who spend hundreds of thousands in student loans... and there they are, 15 years later and still working as a server at Golden Corral, where they will never in their lives make up enough to pay back their loans. Again, this is where i disagree. Where you see a lot of people like this... That does not show the majority of people. I am miss out on some higher paying jobs... but at least I'll be making more than I owe. That's the clincher for me. But despite that, as you mentioned, it teaches to the A students, guess what though? Everyone learns in different ways! I've heard it said that if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will live out it's life thinking it's worthless. Speaking from experience? ;) And not only do they not teach to your level, but they teach what is required to pass the test. Generally a good practice You're not going to used this in your life. Well when you put it that way... Ya if your getting a useless degree, like humanities, or arts, or dance! You are not paying for an education. You are paying for a piece of paper that proves that you can memorize things long enough to test on them.
This is just a few of the things that have been on my mind. Wouldn't you agree with me? I will be back next week to add some more to this!!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Pirates of Please Don't Fall Off the Stage!!!
Ok, so we are going to hit two birds with one stone in this one. (Considering our aim... we will probably hit some random pedestrian...)
Gage and I were in a play called 'The Pirates Of Penzance'. It was lots of fun Ha, Speak for yourself, we got to sing, wear cool costumes and dance around with swords. Some of them real! (Remember that... It's important for later...)
I personally liked to add fun little quirks to my character to make them more interesting. Fat Chance In this particular play I would always have and apple with me, Can you say weird? even in the fighting scenes, and we would always use them to add some comedy (i.e. in one scene I tied Quinn to the mast and put the apple on his head, Then the Pirate king came and swung his sword around and accidentally cut it in half (the trick was that we had previously cut it in half and balanced it on Quinn's head)
Anyway, whenever we did curtain call at the end of the show I would roll my apple onto the stage, Poorly then I would run out and dive for it, Like an olympic swimmer!! then get up and give my bow. Just for kicks Cause no one was clapping!!.
However one the second to last night, the night we were filming the production, I rolled my apple a little too hard. Sounds like you were tripping? (Badumching!!)... I watched as my apple rocketed really? you act as if you were a pitcher for the yankees? toward the audience faster than anticipated... For some reason I decided that I was going to get it or die( Fingers Crossed ) trying. So I raced out from the curtain as fast as I could and dived Pretty sure you 'dove' for the apple. (Picture this in slow motion) I have to admit it is funnier to picture it in slow motion. I flew through the air, my arms outstretched, my eye on the apple, and my body slammed down hard on the wooden stage floor. I slid maybe 12 feet Exageration... it was more like 2 or 3... just sayin.., groping for the apple that was only just barely out of my reach. finally my hand closed around the darn thing just as it cleared the lip of the stage This is turning into a novel..., then, as one, the apple and I continued off the stage, flipping in the air, barroling Not sure thats true... pretty sure you did one of those cartoon being supsended in mid air until you realized you weren't on the ground any more things. towards the audience.
Luckily I didn't hit anybody but I did land on the extention cord that gave power to the lights the pianists were using to see the music.
So everything halted. It got darker. Silence fell... all eyes trained to the spot where the skinny or not so skinny.. kid had ended his show stealing stunt.
After a few quiet seconds I leaped to my feet with my arms in the air as if i had just landed some sort of gymnastic stunt, apple still in hand. Applause! (It was more of a pity applause..)
Gage and I were in a play called 'The Pirates Of Penzance'. It was lots of fun Ha, Speak for yourself, we got to sing, wear cool costumes and dance around with swords. Some of them real! (Remember that... It's important for later...)
I personally liked to add fun little quirks to my character to make them more interesting. Fat Chance In this particular play I would always have and apple with me, Can you say weird? even in the fighting scenes, and we would always use them to add some comedy (i.e. in one scene I tied Quinn to the mast and put the apple on his head, Then the Pirate king came and swung his sword around and accidentally cut it in half (the trick was that we had previously cut it in half and balanced it on Quinn's head)
Anyway, whenever we did curtain call at the end of the show I would roll my apple onto the stage, Poorly then I would run out and dive for it, Like an olympic swimmer!! then get up and give my bow. Just for kicks Cause no one was clapping!!.
However one the second to last night, the night we were filming the production, I rolled my apple a little too hard. Sounds like you were tripping? (Badumching!!)... I watched as my apple rocketed really? you act as if you were a pitcher for the yankees? toward the audience faster than anticipated... For some reason I decided that I was going to get it or die( Fingers Crossed ) trying. So I raced out from the curtain as fast as I could and dived Pretty sure you 'dove' for the apple. (Picture this in slow motion) I have to admit it is funnier to picture it in slow motion. I flew through the air, my arms outstretched, my eye on the apple, and my body slammed down hard on the wooden stage floor. I slid maybe 12 feet Exageration... it was more like 2 or 3... just sayin.., groping for the apple that was only just barely out of my reach. finally my hand closed around the darn thing just as it cleared the lip of the stage This is turning into a novel..., then, as one, the apple and I continued off the stage, flipping in the air, barroling Not sure thats true... pretty sure you did one of those cartoon being supsended in mid air until you realized you weren't on the ground any more things. towards the audience.
Luckily I didn't hit anybody but I did land on the extention cord that gave power to the lights the pianists were using to see the music.
So everything halted. It got darker. Silence fell... all eyes trained to the spot where the skinny or not so skinny.. kid had ended his show stealing stunt.
After a few quiet seconds I leaped to my feet with my arms in the air as if i had just landed some sort of gymnastic stunt, apple still in hand. Applause! (It was more of a pity applause..)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Rocky Start
Now this is a great story! (Great meaning kinda long,
but necessary) When Quinn and I First met you would
have never guessed, that we would have been friends! (You
might say we were kinda different. Gage thought he was the coolest thing since Sparklers. I was kinda(kinda?)
awkward and a little(little?) too friendly. But hey, cut me some slack, this was Jr.
High!) I had just moved to Vernal, Utah, and
just started 8th grade. When I got to school, of course I had no friends as it
was my first day in a new city. So I joined Band and started school.
Me being the nice kid I was, I reached out to Gage to befriend him... I realize now that inviting him home to play Pokémon WASN'T exactly the 'coolest' thing to do (It was actually kinda weird...) So his initial impression of me wasn't the most positive one... Anyway, Gage and I were in percussion together with this other kid, Tyrell, and well...
Tyrell, who was much cooler than Quinn I might add, was a lot better at communicating than Quinn. He was friendly (He was a Jerk) and kept me company during class, and also, unlike Quinn, did not have a reputation of being one of the weirdest kids in the school (no offense (Offence taken. Granted I was weird... I was NOT one of the weirdest)). Of course as a new student you do not want to be associated with the weird kid, so I became friends with Tyrell.
Tyrell decided he wanted to spread rumors about me and tell everyone I was gay (Lets Face it... Not a far stretch). So for the first 6 or 7 months of school Gage and Tyrell made fun of me soo bad that I quit the band just to get away from them! I hated Gage! (No one could ever hate me, You are actually quite easy to hate, Fact)
So since I quit the band I had no extra curricular activities I decided to join the drama club... Ok so the real reason i joined the drama club was because of a cute girl (Name Omitted, The Cuteness should be omitted too.. Dude, she was hot and you know it! Meh), but that is another story... Anyway, Gage and I got the leads in the play... and we were cast as best friends and were forced to not only be around each other all the time, but pretend we liked each other. Probably one of the toughest things I have ever had to do... I mean imagine standing alone in the dark with someone like Quinn... Ya, not the most fun thing. Anyways, the play went on and didn't get any better, but we still had to be "friends", so act we did and better it did not get ;) What are you, Yoda?
Anyways, after months of this Hell, we both started liking these two girls (My girl was prettier)... and as chance would have it they were best friends. SO, as we spent more and more time with these girls, we spent more and more time with each other... So Naturally following the course of events, we began to hate each other more and more!! nah, i'm just kidding, we eventually became friends and soon couldn't be separated. We began to form our own secret codes (We will save that for another time...) and later after our missions we were close enough that even though we were speaking different languages (Hilagaynon, and Greek) We could still understand each other!
So that's how our story begins. And the funny thing about our friendship is that, even though we became inseparable, we still fight and bully like we hate one another. When we see each other we don't say "hi, what's up?", we comment negatively on each others physical appearance (Gage is getting kinda fat, Quinn is getting dumber).
It's not a healthy relationship, (its more of a morbidly obese, anorexic, balemic, chronic eating, psychotic, schizophrenic, suicidal, over confident, self serving, humble, good looking relationship)... but somehow it has withheld the test of time.
And that's what makes us Awe "wait-for-it" some.
Me being the nice kid I was, I reached out to Gage to befriend him... I realize now that inviting him home to play Pokémon WASN'T exactly the 'coolest' thing to do (It was actually kinda weird...) So his initial impression of me wasn't the most positive one... Anyway, Gage and I were in percussion together with this other kid, Tyrell, and well...
Tyrell, who was much cooler than Quinn I might add, was a lot better at communicating than Quinn. He was friendly (He was a Jerk) and kept me company during class, and also, unlike Quinn, did not have a reputation of being one of the weirdest kids in the school (no offense (Offence taken. Granted I was weird... I was NOT one of the weirdest)). Of course as a new student you do not want to be associated with the weird kid, so I became friends with Tyrell.
Tyrell decided he wanted to spread rumors about me and tell everyone I was gay (Lets Face it... Not a far stretch). So for the first 6 or 7 months of school Gage and Tyrell made fun of me soo bad that I quit the band just to get away from them! I hated Gage! (No one could ever hate me, You are actually quite easy to hate, Fact)
So since I quit the band I had no extra curricular activities I decided to join the drama club... Ok so the real reason i joined the drama club was because of a cute girl (Name Omitted, The Cuteness should be omitted too.. Dude, she was hot and you know it! Meh), but that is another story... Anyway, Gage and I got the leads in the play... and we were cast as best friends and were forced to not only be around each other all the time, but pretend we liked each other. Probably one of the toughest things I have ever had to do... I mean imagine standing alone in the dark with someone like Quinn... Ya, not the most fun thing. Anyways, the play went on and didn't get any better, but we still had to be "friends", so act we did and better it did not get ;) What are you, Yoda?
Anyways, after months of this Hell, we both started liking these two girls (My girl was prettier)... and as chance would have it they were best friends. SO, as we spent more and more time with these girls, we spent more and more time with each other... So Naturally following the course of events, we began to hate each other more and more!! nah, i'm just kidding, we eventually became friends and soon couldn't be separated. We began to form our own secret codes (We will save that for another time...) and later after our missions we were close enough that even though we were speaking different languages (Hilagaynon, and Greek) We could still understand each other!
So that's how our story begins. And the funny thing about our friendship is that, even though we became inseparable, we still fight and bully like we hate one another. When we see each other we don't say "hi, what's up?", we comment negatively on each others physical appearance (Gage is getting kinda fat, Quinn is getting dumber).
It's not a healthy relationship, (its more of a morbidly obese, anorexic, balemic, chronic eating, psychotic, schizophrenic, suicidal, over confident, self serving, humble, good looking relationship)... but somehow it has withheld the test of time.
And that's what makes us Awe "wait-for-it" some.
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