Hird Family Papers

Just a quick post here. I have been off work since Thursday and it seems like it is not long enough. Part of it is because we were unable to get out of town for the long weekend, and this would have been the perfect weekend to do so, because it is so hot. But I did get Kas’s WII all set up for the wireless and then downloaded The Legend of Zelda (the original) and Kid Icarus. Maybe I should have done that on Thursday, would have given me a little something more to do.

Anyway, I am almost done with my class and halfway thru the Masters program I am in right now. Come May, I will have a Masters degree. Not sure what I am going to do with it. Maybe nothing, maybe something. Not sure. Maybe I will see if I can find a class to teach at the community college or something.

If you have the chance, an album I would recommend is Pet Shop Boys “Fundamental”. A great album to listen to often.

So I took a little extra time to write a post, and had the weekend which was full of stuff and such. I can not really tell you how much I am wanting the summer to end. To be in the 90s would be so nice. And that is really hot still, but I really want summer to be over. I am almost halfway done with my Masters program. To be done with school will be a good thing. I am thinking about applying at CGCC if I stay here to maybe be an adjunct faculty to teach some good classes in programming and other things. Maybe not. Maybe I will apply to teach the liberal arts, and have the class look at three paintings from history and try to find the hidden chalice in each. If they find it they get an A if they do not, then they fail. I would not be a hard teacher, I would only ask for a 20 page paper every week of class, with at least 20 sources, and then I would require 3 exams per week. That should be an easier course.

Then there is this coming week. I get Thursday and Friday off. We are not going anywhere, I am just going to be able to do other things with my wife during the day. Maybe go see a movie with her, maybe go to lunch, make her mow the lawn and paint the house while I sit inside and watch my stories and eat my bon-bons. Marc would get that one, his birthday was last week, and he had a birthday dinner at his cousins fry bread restaurant. It was good, and was fun.

So anyhoo, I think that is it for me. I may not post the next week, as I will be on a semi stay home vacation type thing.

So it is now Saturday once again. And it is already August. What the heck happened to July?

Anyway, I am starting to become more and more upset about the political state of things in this country. I have figured I am going to start a new site/blog/e-zine to review the current state of all political claims. Anyone is welcome to help and contribute to the site. I really want this to be along the lines of Constitutional discussions and why it is important for States rights and less government intrusion into our daily lives. What I do need is to get a good URL name for this site. Something like DaffyDuckPoliticsIsTakingOverTheEntireCountryAndItIsContinuingForeverAndEverWithoutAnyHopeOfItGoingAway.org, but I am sure that is too long for someone to remember the name, so I think I need a better URL name. So if you know of a few good names, please let me know. And if you want to help contribute stories or stuff to the site, please let me know.

So now they want to go swimming, and I may go with them, not sure though. But I should get off if I am going to be going with them.

OK, it has been a couple weeks since I have posted. I have been real busy with work and then with the end of my class, the final project, yadda yadda yadda. But now I am back and will start posting once again weekly.

I am sure everyone is thrilled about this.

Some thoughts I have had the past week. One, it is hot. It is too hot for me anymore here. Maybe it is because I now have too much insulation on my body so any heat is saved inside of me. Kind of like my own little “Stephen-Warming” problem that Al Gore seems to be ignoring. I blame Little Debbie. She makes all these wonderful treats that are so good and when you eat one, you can not stop at that, and need to keep eating more and more.

Two, I really feel bad I was unable to take my family on vacation this year. They got to go to Page to visit Emily, but we were going to Portland and I was unable to take them due to changing plans at work. I really like Portland, and I was even going to look at rental homes while we were there. I was very serious about moving there permanently. But I was unable to go. Maybe a little later we can do it.

Three, I am tired of school. Just tired of it. I know I said that once I got my Bachelor’s Degree, I was done. But I was talked into taking a Master program, and got in, so I took it. Thankfully, I will be done by May, but that still seems so far away. Maybe I can teach a few classes after I graduate, but maybe not. I do not know. I am not sure what I will do after this. But it has to count for something, right?

Fourth, I am either a very popular guy on the web, or I am getting a ton of spam. And I think it has to be the latter, as all the “Greeting Cards” I get and “offers” seem to always come from me. I am just so thoughtful of myself, to send myself e-cards and acai offers all the time. I really think that when I get these, I ought to open every link they send. Or what I should do, is see if I can’t write a program thgat does a route trace on the email path, and then send a shutdown command to the sending server. I am sure I would get into plenty of trouble for that, but dang it all, I do not need 300 emails a day telling me that a greeting card exists for me, or that “account” I have with some bank I have never banked with needs my info again.

Finally, I like listening to music. It is so calming at times, and I listen to it while I do my work, so it helps me to keep focused and helps my thought process. I am sure that it also affects my volume when I speak, or when I am thinking out loud, but since school starts on Monday for my kids, I will be all alone during the day once again.