the end of an era?

I'm seriously debating shutting down this blog. I find that I don't do anything with it, but I somehow feel it hanging over my head. I check it every couple of days, to see if someone comments and is looking for more, but I feel like my readership has all found me on other social networking sites and that this format is redundant. If anyone has other thoughts about this, please feel free to speak up and I will take your words under advisement. If no one objects, I will probably be shutting down this experiment at the end of February unless I can find a new usefulness for this page. Take care and much love.

as usual

I talk a good game, but then the follow through is a little lacking. Or a lot lacking. Don't judge me.

So I just finished my first course here at Kansas State University and I think it went all right. I currently have an A, but the final project grades aren't posted yet. I did get an award for best presentation, so that has to count for something. I actually started the spring semester today and am a little mystified by my classes. I have two 500-level classes in sociology which look like they'll be interesting and not too terribly filled with busy work. The opposite seems to be true regarding my two entry level classes, one in english and the other in women's studies. Both seem just filled with bullshit busy work with little educational value whatsoever and seem like they will be mind alteringly boring. A bad combination all around. But at least I'm getting close to my degree, hopefully by next May.

In other news, I've started working out again and have thought long and hard about restarting my Weight Watchers diet. Haven't actually started again, but at least I've thought about it. Who knows, maybe in the next week or so I'll even give it another go. All part of my plan to get back down to 200 pounds in time for my tenth wedding anniversary this June. Pretty scary, it's been ten years already! That and Sy and I are even looking at starting a family. Holy crap! It's almost like I'm an adult or something, when did that happen?

New Year's Resolutions

I hate hospitals!

So I'm trying to be better about updating this page. Not really sure if anybody still reads it, but I'll stick with it

I am a jelly donut!

Wow.....almost two months of ignoring this site. Not good, not good at all. I apologize to anyone who might occasionally check this site to keep up with my world. I have let you down and I'll endeavor to do better in the future. Again, my bad, now let's move on.

Where to begin? Two months is a long time to recap. Let's see...Well, I'm living in Manhattan, KS with my lovely wife and have never been happier. Manhattan has surprised me with how nice the scenery is here, for being in the midwest. Plenty of rolling hills and ravines and bluffs, with trees everywhere. It's not a bad place to be spending the next couple of years, so I take back most bad things I said about KS.

I'm currently enrolled at Kansas State University in their Criminology department for Spring 2009, but I'll be taking a winter intercession course as well. It's in the social construction of serial murderers. I am jacked about it and have already started doing all the reading I can to start the class a little bit ahead since it's only about three weeks long. In the spring I'll be taking about fifteen credits and am kind of nervous about being a full time student since I haven't really been one since high school, and even that is debatable.

I also just found out that I was hired by the Kansas State University Police department as a student dispatcher. It's only sixteen guaranteed hours a week on the weekend evenings, but it works out perfectly with my school schedule and I should make just about enough to pay for my classes. I spoke with my academic advisor the other day and it looks like I'll be able to walk in Spring of 2010 as long as things go according to plan. I'll still have an internship to finish after the graduation ceremonies, but still, pretty exciting! It looks like I might finally get to finish that degree I've been working on for so very long.

On the home front, Sytil is loving her job with the university and it keeps her pretty busy. We are doing wonderful and are even thinking about starting a family soon. No one panic, nothing has been set in stone, but it looks like I might become a father one of these days down the road. Still a scary prospect, but if we're ever going to do this thing we should probably start sooner rather than later. I think that's all I know from this end. I love all of you very much and I hope that you'll forgive me for letting time get away from me there for awhile. I promise to do better and just as a reminder, I do have a myspace page that I'm really good about checking. www.myspace.com/ntymnky

Bummer

So duck hunting season opened on Saturday, and I went out with a buddy to the same place we went opening day last year. Last year we shot a ton of ducks and had a great time. This year we each only shot one duck and really didn't see that many more due to all the other hunters in the area. So we went out on Sunday and didn't even see any ducks we could shoot. Kind of disappointing, but that's hunting for you, nothing's a sure thing.

On Friday, I went up to scout out the area we were going to hunt and took my boat out for it's final test run before the hunting season. It still works perfectly and I saw some cool sights, like the biggest beaver I've ever seen, (huh, huh) It was a great time until the sun started to set. I was still quite a ways away from my truck and before I made it back, all the light was gone. Pretty scary and I don't mind admitting that I was a little spooked/freaked out before I finally made it back. Luckily, I did have a flashlight with me and I was able to take a heading from some lights on the mountain, but still, things got a little scary for a bit. Note to self, pay more attention to the amount of daylight before taking the boat out, even if it is on a pond/lake.

Anykerways, I hope all is well in your worlds and I hope to hear all about them when you get a chance. Also, I will be posting new boat pictures now that it's all tarted up.

K

As promised

Have you ever......

heard a song from back in the day and have it immediately take you to a memory so vivid, you remember what you were feeling when you heard it, sometimes can even smell the odors that were around you.
I've really been going back through a lot of my old cd's from high school and listening to the music that was so important to me then. It's amazing how powerful some of that was, how certain songs just touched you to the core and totally spoke to what you were feeling.
Does music ever have the same impact it did then? Could you ever be so hurt as when you were a teenager, or so happy?

Melancholy thoughts I know, but still important I think. I hope all of you are well, and if you get a chance let me know your thoughts.


K