Apologies yet again on not posting something sooner. I got wrapped up in my schedule and couldn't find much time to do this until today. Still this isn't a bad thing as I have finally completed an official class for driving motorcycles. This means that here soon I will have my license and will be able to drive myself around to other locations. This will pretty much be the opening up of the world to me like so many other people have found when obtaining freedom of movement through motor vehicles. I do have a few problems to work on in my motorcycle driving skills but nothing that can't be improved on.
Speaking of driving I have a subject that I hold to close to heart of late as it shows just how fast the world is developing. A small invention known as "Solar Roadways" or "Solar Freakin Roadways" if you are picky. If you haven't heard of them yet go here for a video describing what they do. If you don't trust me with linking things to other pages go ahead and skip to the next paragraph if you want. Pretty much though if you didn't watch the video the entire thing is about the ability to turn all the roads within the United States into a huge source of energy for the US and then potentially the rest of the world. That is huge as most importantly solar energy is clean energy. A solution this huge could solve a lot more than just some dinky energy problem but also potentially global warming would become less of a threat as well due to no gas powered generators actually being necessary. I know that this seems all a little random but something like this can't just be hidden away and then forgotten. This is an option for us and the future and to ignore this could be passing up options for the future.
Now that I'm off my soap box I'd like to say that my Summer is doing fairly well. Things are getting exciting more than anything. My life is much like a series of books that are all leading up to some massive climax that I have yet to be able to suspect or even see come and this is one of the cool things about what I do. By doing this blog I can eventually look back at all of this and have a story to tell from scratch based on my life. While my blog does not encompass all of my life it is definitely a basis for everything major in my life I have accomplished. Someday I might sit down and write a book about my not so bad life and see how it does but today I write my little journal hoping for another good day. Some what like today.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Terribly Tense
Alright everyone welcome back to another entry on my blog and lets just say things aren't exactly easy for me at the moment. Starting with the whole driving thing I got to go down the highway with my dad and sister in the car. This wasn't at all scary. Kidding! This was absolutely terrifying for me as I didn't want to hurt anyone on the road. It was fairly simple to get those turns in and no one ended up honking at me but I wasn't doing much. I enjoyed it a lot but there was always that niggling fear of being not ready to be on the road and hurting someone.
On a school standpoint I'm doing pretty darn awesome as I just ran the mile today which may have been hard but I got one of the best times in my class! You see I managed to run the mile in 8 minutes and 14 seconds which is by far the best time I have ever gotten. No kidding here, in fact I used to be that one kid who finished with 14 minutes and everyone else was cooling down around the track. Now I'm the person who is waiting for just about everyone else. It's fantastic because I also managed to do whit without dedicating my time to working out but instead focus more on my academics leaving me my happy nerdy persona and life style.
On a school standpoint I'm doing pretty darn awesome as I just ran the mile today which may have been hard but I got one of the best times in my class! You see I managed to run the mile in 8 minutes and 14 seconds which is by far the best time I have ever gotten. No kidding here, in fact I used to be that one kid who finished with 14 minutes and everyone else was cooling down around the track. Now I'm the person who is waiting for just about everyone else. It's fantastic because I also managed to do whit without dedicating my time to working out but instead focus more on my academics leaving me my happy nerdy persona and life style.
I truly am a happy nerd who dedicates a lot of time to learning. In fact I decided to look the webster dictionary definition and this is what I came up with. A person who behaves awkwardly around other people and usually has unstylish clothes, hair, or a person who is very interested in technical subjects, computers, etc. This sounds about right as for dressing unstylish I guess if you count Khakis and Polo shirts unstylish I got this in the bag. And technical subjects are also in the same bag as I love me some computers. I don't think you guys know that I game a lot on my computer but I do and then I do some modding and the occasional programming and figuring out things like what is the difference between C++ and Java and what makes the other one better. I didn't get that far on that subject but I looked it up and tried.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Family Time.
Sorry it took me so long to post. I got really caught up with my grandma being in town and looking after me while my parents were away. As well as managing to actually catch up with grandma and get all of the information out that I wanted to talk about I just had a lot of fun with her. Last time she was in town I just ignored her quite a bit so this weekend while she was in town I wanted her to know that she wasn't being cut off from the family when she was down here. She has been so very lonely out in the country and when she is here everything seems to quiet down most of the time. This did cause me to fall behind in some of my work but that's why I'm only posting today on my blog.
More good news though and that is that I now have access to my food handlers license! This does mean that it will be easier to get out and get a job but that's when things start to get tricky for me. Getting a job is no easy feat and I was so determined to live out my last Summer this year but once I have a decent Summer job than I don't know how many Summer's I have left. This is sincerely a concern for me as I have no idea how getting a part time job will affect my life and being able to see my friends. My life could get really closely tied to getting money more than anything before I hit 18 years old and then my life could then become dedicated to my job. These are all possibilities but all very real possibilities that I don't know if I like or dislike. Only time will tell the future and the choices that I decide to make.
I have to say I have gotten a much needed vacation over this small weekend while the parents were off on their vacation. That may sound strange but the parents have had some stressful times and did deserve a vacation. The same goes for me while I juggle all of these goals to have accomplished by the end of some random week in Summer. When my plate cleans up something else comes up and this weekend was a perfect break at just the right time. If you haven't been following along then just about every week for me has another goal to accomplish. Primarily while trying to complete my Summer school on top of that. I wasn't expecting the schedule so all I could do was simply try to cope. Things have been doing fairly well though so I guess it could've been much worse. Still very stressful for me as well.
More good news though and that is that I now have access to my food handlers license! This does mean that it will be easier to get out and get a job but that's when things start to get tricky for me. Getting a job is no easy feat and I was so determined to live out my last Summer this year but once I have a decent Summer job than I don't know how many Summer's I have left. This is sincerely a concern for me as I have no idea how getting a part time job will affect my life and being able to see my friends. My life could get really closely tied to getting money more than anything before I hit 18 years old and then my life could then become dedicated to my job. These are all possibilities but all very real possibilities that I don't know if I like or dislike. Only time will tell the future and the choices that I decide to make.
I have to say I have gotten a much needed vacation over this small weekend while the parents were off on their vacation. That may sound strange but the parents have had some stressful times and did deserve a vacation. The same goes for me while I juggle all of these goals to have accomplished by the end of some random week in Summer. When my plate cleans up something else comes up and this weekend was a perfect break at just the right time. If you haven't been following along then just about every week for me has another goal to accomplish. Primarily while trying to complete my Summer school on top of that. I wasn't expecting the schedule so all I could do was simply try to cope. Things have been doing fairly well though so I guess it could've been much worse. Still very stressful for me as well.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Terror on the Roadway!
I'm absolutely astounded to say that I have managed to earn my driving permit today. I didn't honestly expect to be getting it so soon and in fact am so astounded that I don't even think I'll realize just how awesome this whole thing is until tomorrow rolls around. To think that I can officially start driving on the roads. That may be with an adult in the car but that's still a feat in of itself. Obviously I'm not at the hardest part yet but I will be when I turn 16. At that point I can start applying for my actual drivers license.
Other then the driving thing I am slogging my way through my Summer school experience. Definitely not an easy feat but, I'm trying really hard to get through it and still participate in Summer experiences. You see I was the one who decided to sign up for PE during the Summer and I have to say it wasn't the smartest class. I could've taken accounting or something and it would've been easier. than taking this class. We start out with about one hour of stretching and warmups followed closely by about an hour and a half of walking an jogging which all totals to about 3 miles.
Summer school isn't all that bad as there are some good aspects. For example after the 3 miles in the dead of the morning we get to take about 30 minutes for a break. This is then followed pretty quickly by one sport or activity which seems to very daily. This means that I get a good workout and there is a variety of things to look forward too by the end of the day. That is if you aren't horribly sore from the running. We got to on the first day play volleyball tennis which is actually kind of fun, the next day we got to do yoga which was unique and interesting, and today we all played some kickball which I turned out to be really good at but I'm very tired now. I'm currently working so hard in class that walking around hurts to a minor degree due to how sore my legs are. Can't be helped since I really need these credits to make up for the time that I was in homeschool. If I didn't tell anyone than homeschooling didn't give me any credits despite the work done so now I'm behind by about 1 semester which is 4 credits.
Other then the driving thing I am slogging my way through my Summer school experience. Definitely not an easy feat but, I'm trying really hard to get through it and still participate in Summer experiences. You see I was the one who decided to sign up for PE during the Summer and I have to say it wasn't the smartest class. I could've taken accounting or something and it would've been easier. than taking this class. We start out with about one hour of stretching and warmups followed closely by about an hour and a half of walking an jogging which all totals to about 3 miles.
Summer school isn't all that bad as there are some good aspects. For example after the 3 miles in the dead of the morning we get to take about 30 minutes for a break. This is then followed pretty quickly by one sport or activity which seems to very daily. This means that I get a good workout and there is a variety of things to look forward too by the end of the day. That is if you aren't horribly sore from the running. We got to on the first day play volleyball tennis which is actually kind of fun, the next day we got to do yoga which was unique and interesting, and today we all played some kickball which I turned out to be really good at but I'm very tired now. I'm currently working so hard in class that walking around hurts to a minor degree due to how sore my legs are. Can't be helped since I really need these credits to make up for the time that I was in homeschool. If I didn't tell anyone than homeschooling didn't give me any credits despite the work done so now I'm behind by about 1 semester which is 4 credits.
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