Another long one

Sorry Michele but it's another long one! But hey Court likes the substance! So rock on! Let's start with the funnies. Some of you know that I really enjoy my comics. I enjoy them so much I can tell you what's going on in most of them as if they're my favourite tv show. One of my favourites is Dilbert. Today Dilbert was so good I had to cut it out and scan it. Here it is!
This comic is to true. That's all I'm going to say about it. Absolutely hilarious in my opinion.

So now on to the not so cool stuff. Cadets. Ahh I remember a time when I loved it so much. Now I'm in a different time. The organization I once loved is the one I know loathe. Every week someone has to do something stupid causing problems for me. The majority of my friends are gone and I'm the last one out of all the people I joined with that is still in cadets. It just seems like a drag these days. It's sorta sad that it has become this way but oh well. In a few months I'll be done forever.

Now I'm going to speak metaphorically for this last bit. You ever had something knock on your door that you didn't want to knock on your door? I think I have that right now but I'm not sure how to get it to go away.

Anyways tomorrow is Friday which is fanflippintastic because that means the next day is Saturday which means flying and on Sunday the cadets from Strath are going flying and I get to take them up so that should be sweet. Anywayssssss I think it's bed time!

Retirement

Ahhhh retirement. So I played my last high school soccer game tonight which means I'm officially retired from high school soccer. I must say I'm sad about it. We had a good run this year. Sure we didn't win any games but we played the best we could with what we had. So my last game was against St. Lazare. We didn't win but we started off with the lead but when you have no subs you can't expect to keep it forever. We ended up losing 3-1. I also got a yellow card. I may be a lover and not a fighter but let's just say I'm prepared to do what it takes to get the job done. Anyways I'm really tired and I have home work to do so I'll go do that.

I'll try and make it short

So everyone's been saying my blogs are sorta long and more like novels then brief summaries of my boring life. So I'm now going to make an effort to not drag things out too much. So I think I'll go backwards in time. I'll start with the goodest of the news. I passed my first math test with an awesome mark. Why is this good news? It's good news because I was 100% for sure that I had flunked it and that mother would cut my flying off. Today we had a soccer game in Birtle. We lost which really was no surprise but the score was 1-0 for them so not bad at all. Much better then our previous games.

Now jumping to my weekend which I'm sure no one will find exciting but I know I do so I'm going to talk about it. We'll start with Saturday because Friday was meh. Saturday morning I woke up real early like normal and didn't eat to much because I figured we'd have lunch while we were on the field. Boy was I wrong. I didn't see another meal to 8 at night. I was so desperate for food I stole cold McDonald's fries from Raylene. The good part about all of this was the crazy amount of flying I did. I flew 14 flights on Saturday which is more then I've ever flown in a single day. I even taught a few kids how to do coordinated turns and level flight in the glider. Needless to say my ego became inflated. Sunday was pretty cool to. I only flew 5 times because we had less people to fly. All of that flying brought my total amount of glider flights to 130 and I have 19:28 hours of Pilot-in-Command time which means that I'm almost eligible to become an instructor if I ever become a cadet officer.

That's all for now folks. Wednesday is a home game against St. Lazare and possibly my last soccer game as a high school student. Thursday is cadets. Friday is Friday and the weekend is flying.

Nothing really

So I'm doing some procrastinating at the moment. I should be doing something useful but I'm not. So anyways nothing really new at the moment. Had a real craptastic math test today. The only excitement I've had lately and it's more frustarating then exciting is this anonymous commenter. Who ever it is should just suck it up and admit to who they are. If someone has a question like that for me then they should feel free to just ask me without having to hide. I'm not going to get mad at someone for asking. So the anonymous person appears to have disappeared because they haven't commented in a while. I don't care if the anonymous person tells the world who they are but it would be nice if they at least told me.

Well this weekend is gliding. Should be super or so I hope. I really don't want another flightless weekend. I seriously wonder if Mother Nature hates me sometimes. Tomorrow the cadets from Dauphin fly and on Sunday it's Neepawa. Hopefully I get lots of time in because I'm starting to get withdrawal from the lack of flying in my life. So I think that's all. Next week is just going to be a normal school week with little excitement except for a soccer game in Birtle and a home game in SL against St. Lazare.

My Day Off

So today there was no school which was pretty cool. Except now we have to go back to school to finish the week off. Who plans a holiday in the middle of the week? That's ridiculous. But anyways. Lastnight after Shoal Lake's defeat to Hamiota I went to Lennox's. But before I get into that I'd like to talk a little about the defeat. We lost hardcore but it was a good game. We didn't have any subs so the only rest we got was when the ball got kicked far away from the field. I nearly put my foot in some kid's mouth. Slightly funny and slightly not funny because he was inches from not having teeth. I had some pretty awesome kicks and that's about it for our defeat.

So after the game I went to Lennox's. That was pretty cool because it's been awhile since I've done much relaxing. We watched some movies and ran around outside for awhile. Today I slept in just like I said I would. I slept in until 10 which is something I haven't done in months. Then I helped Dad do some odd jobs. Then I had to write a love letter from English class. That was a challenge. I can't even write a love letter to a real girl let alone some girl out of a story. I also cleaned the house a bit and did some math.

While we're on the topic of math. Have you ever taken five minutes and just thought what the world would be like with out math? First of all school would be much easier, there wouldn't be so much greed, and you wouldn't know how many times something negative happened to you. On the flipside you wouldn't know how many good times you had, how many good friends you have, etc. But just imagine.......

Anyways really looking forward to the weekend because well it means flying and that I've finished my first Pre-Calc test and hopefully didn't fail it. That's all for now!

Bad weekend to live in the troposphere

So this weekend was sorta poor for anyone who wanted to not be on the ground. So poor in fact I didn't leave the ground all weekend. Instead we worked on the gliding office in Brandon. Now I was a little skeptical about painting and stuccoing the roof and the like but in the end it was fun. Of course the sanding the mud part really wasn't that fun because the dust wasn't cool. Though the dust did make for some funny times. One of the guys looked up at the wrong time while sanding and got a face full of dust. Now this dust is pure white and he had it all over his nose and mouth so he looked like a crack addict. I managed to get a bunch in my hair so I looked like an old white haired man for a while. We then primed the office and went back to the hotel. Then we headed to Boston Pizza where nothing eventful happened. In fact the rest of the night was uneventful and I was asleep before 12 which is different for me. We woke up and painted the office and then I came home where I spent my day doing pretty much nothing. The only thing I accomplished was picking up the pile of clothes and magazines that had accumulated in my room over the past month.

Really excited for Wednesday because I'm going to do some hardcore napping. I also came across a copy of the new Red Hot Chilli Pepper's album. 2 very awesome CDs!

Ladder + Hand = Ouch

So anyways my week has been pretty dull since about Tuesday after the soccer game. Wednesday was nothing special. Thursday was just soccer practice and cadets both of which went nice and smooth. Today (Friday) was easy because I had two classes plus band (I don't consider something that easy and fun as a class). In my spare I updated the sign at school which is where a little bit of excitement happened. Jordan Lee and I were setting up the ladder. This ladder is one of those ladders that slides back and forth to make it longer. That's the important part of this story. So we extended the ladder and locked it so it wouldn't slide or so we thought. As we were putting the ladder up it began to slide down and I had my hand conveniently in a spot where the ladder could slide down on to it. Let's just say it crashed down on my hand and now my hand hurts. It took of some skin and left a bump. At first it hurt and the pain went away but I took a nap because that's one of my favourite things to do and when I woke up it hurt. I'm going to assume by tomorrow morning it will hurt more and be swollen. Tomorrow and Sunday is gliding. Should be sweet unless the weather craps out. I think Carlyle, SK and Portage la Prairie are coming out for gliding so that should be good times. I've already decided that I'm sleeping in next Wednesday. Just thought I'd throw that out there for the public. Also maybe something should happen next Tuesday night to kill some of the on going boredom that happens at times these days.

So I was gonna go to bed but....

But I came up with something to blog about. That being my possible addiction to blogging. I just noticed that I do a lot of blogging. I take time out of almost everyday to do a little blog even if I have nothing exciting to say. I don't know if that counts as an addiction or just an obsession. I've also noticed I may have addictions to flying, girls, vanilla milk to go, and orange juice. Am I worried about any of this? No not at all. Not one bit. So yeah........what a useless blog........I'm gonna go now.......right now.......

Having a real hard time coming up with titles for my blogs........................

So not a whole lot to talk about but I'm sure I'll blabber on for a long time. So first soccer game today in Rossburn. I must say despite my out of shapeness I surprised myself at how well I did and possibly surprised the coach and some of my team members. We didn't win but we sure put up a good fight and I'm thinking we have a shot of winning against someone this year. Otherwise my life has consisted of home work and student council stuff. I updated the sign again at school today. That's my new job. I'm the sign guy. It's not really an interesting job but you know it's something to do. Anyways there's a bed calling me to sleep on it and I've ran out of witty things to say.

Coming together

So anyways things are starting to come together real good like with student council. We had our retreat and got a lot of stuff planned/accomplished. Now comes the hard part of trying to reach all of our goals but I think we can do it if we keep working like we did on the retreat.

Soccer was good except it's a constant reminder of how out of shape I am. In a surprise move I was made captain along with Shane at least for the first game tomorrow in Rossburn. That was a surprising move that sorta caught me off guard.

What else did I do lately. Cleaned the Bradmobile for my next series of adventures. To bad I don't know what sort of adventures I'm going on. Most likely some good times in Brandon during the upcoming weekends that I'll be spending there gliding. I got a phone call tonight from the newspaper. I guess someone told them I had become a pilot and they wanted an interview. I really didn't want to be in the spotlight but I couldn't be a jerk so I gave them an interview. In other news Alle called me weird for some weird reason but she says it's a good weird so that's cool because I enjoy my individuality more then most people do. I really can't wait till next weekend so that I can go flying because school is bit of a drag and being at home is just boring and doesn't get very excited. Anyways that's it for right now!

Not bad, not bad at all........

So today was my first day gliding in Brandon. Brandon is a lot different then Yorkton. I miss Yorkton and knowing what was going on, etc. I'm catching on pretty fast. Most likely because of my experience at Yorkton. I just have to adapt to a new airport and a new set of people. The flying was great. I did four flights. I did an area check which was just getting flown around and shown everything. Then I did a proficiency check to make sure I can still fly. Don't worry I still got it! Then I did two solo flights which sort of confused me. Usually fam pilots like myself don't do solo flights because we get enough time flying kids around that we don't need to fly by ourselves. It was nice to have those two solos though. It gave me a chance to brush the rust off the flying skills so I'll be smooth for next weekend when I get back to giving young cadets glider rides. Really excited about that. I really missed the flying and hearing the stories that some of those kids come up with.

When I got home the house was mysteriously empty. I decided to think nothing of it and watch TV. That's when Dad showed up and informed me that the entire family was out in the field. That sorta confused me a bit because all of the vehicles were in the yard but that's neither here nor there. So I went to the elevator with a load of grain and then I combined. Now we only have one hour of combining left and we can then consider my career as an agricultural harvest technician over. Pretty nifty title I gave myself eh?

Tomorrow is the student council retreat. Should be a good time I'm thinking not to mention a learning experience for me. To bad it had to cut into my flying time. Oh well can't win em all! Soccer heats up this week a bit. A few practices and a game in Rossburn. I think our goal is to make it to play-offs again and win a game in play-offs. Let's hope for the best. Anyways I'm going to go get in touch with my domestic side and sew my new set of wings on to my flight suit so I can make myself look like some young hotshot pilot when I wear my flight suit.

My Day

Well I'd have to say my day was pretty grand today. To start it off I had band class today. I forgot how much I enjoyed that class. I also forgot how I become like a twelve year old boy in that class and start being a loud mouth. But anyways that's what makes band class so fun. Then I had pre-calc which was a drag but you can't win em all eh?! Physics got a little tough today but no big deal. Then in my spare some weird stuff began to happen. Well maybe not weird but definitely something I wasn't expecting. I was given an application for a scholarship. I thought that was unexpected. Second day back and I'm already working towards my first day of university. I also got my application form for U of M which is my back-up plan for my back-up plan as far as my plans for next year go. This all sort of caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting all of this stuff to start happening this early on. Student council meeting went fantastic. I think things are starting to really work out and I think I'm slowly starting to win over any of my critics! To end my day of school we had soccer practice. Felt like I was going to die a few times but slowly I'm getting back into shape. Besides the being out shape bit soccer practice went fantastic.

Then there was cadets. For some odd reason it went nearly flawless and everyone agreed with my plans. If they didn't agree then they didn't bother to do it vocally and will now have to live with them. Tough break for them I guess. We didn't get to many new cadets showing up but I imagine that we'll get more as the weeks go on. Hopefully kids start wearing their uniforms and such to.

So I've decided that I really like this leadership bit. I even enjoy the stress that comes with it. I don't know if I'm a good leader and personally I don't think I am but I dunno. I think joining the forces as an officer will be great. I'll be able to lead and do a job I'll thoroughly enjoy. So anyways that's about it for news. Gliding starts on Saturday and I'm really pumped to get back into the saddle. I guess it's more of a seat then a saddle but that's neither here nor there.

Normal

So I'll make this completely useless and most likely goof ball blog short. Gill and I were discussing her time at university and the people I know that are going to U of S which is where she is. That's when we got into the discussion of normal. I mentioned one of my friends and she said she should try and meet him. That sounded pretty cool. Then Gill was like but won't it be weird if I meet him and just say I'm Brad's friend. I was like no not really because he's my friend and that takes a certain degree of oddness. Of course I was just kidding about it taking a certain degree of oddness to be my friend. Then Gill said that I was normal. So I was like fine Gill my friend and I are just two normal guys looking to hook up with girls. Gill was like well even though that is most likely true you should put it this way: "You're both just two young men looking to meet fine young ladies." From this day on I've decided that's how I'm going to run my love life. I'm just a young man looking to meet a fine young lady! So while we're on the topic anyone know any fine young ladies?

Last first day

So today was my last first day of high school. I would say the day was quite educational. It was neither a bad day or a good day just an educational day. So the first order of business was having the teachers tell us about all the rules of the school. The same rules that I've heard every year since Kindergarten. All together that's 13 times I've heard that speech. I won't be missing it. Then we had the first day back assembly. 13th time I've been through that as well. Happy it's not happening again for me. Then at lunch we had an executive meeting with the new teacher supervisor for the student council. That was interesting. Supposedly I was supposed to book transportation to our retreat. No one bothered to mention to me that we had to book trasnportation. So I appointed my vice-president to take care of that. He didn't like that but hey tough break for him. I also had to get the issue of signing authority taken care of because the previous council dragged their feet on that. It sort of feels like my council is going to over throw me in some horrible coup like the ones that happen in South American countries. I sorta understand where they are coming from though. I wouldn't like having the newest member on the council leading the council. Especially when his style of leadership is much different then the previous presidents. Oh well I'm sure everything will get all straightened out after the retreat is done. What else about the first day of school. Well classes were good. Math seems like it's going to be a drag. I switched back to taking French next semester. Band starts tomorrow. That should be some good times. To bad I completely forgot how to play the tuba. Not that I knew in the first place. Oh well. What else, what else, what else. Cadets starts tomorrow YAY not! Anyways I should go do my math home work or something else that needs to be done. I've got a whole bunch of little things to take care of but I seem to have fallen into the procastination hole. Possibly because I just spent the last two and a half weeks working and have lost the urge to do anything but sit on here and blog about this stuff and bore people to death.

Finally.....

Finally a whole lot of stuff. Actually not really but anyways. I finished that article I was talking about. Very interesting stuff. Did you know that in the majority of teenage relationships the girl holds the majority of power. Do I hear whips cracking? I believe that. I must admit I believe that the girls hold the power. I think the guys sorta volunteer to give the power in an attempt for harmony and to score browny points. But hey what do I know?!

So tomorrow may mark the last day I will ever do a full day of work during harvest in my life. Don't bust out the box of tissues though. Bust a move because I think it's time for a party to celebrate that fact!

So I spent an hour listening to CBC Radio One tonight. I listened to some program about the history of the bagpipes. Very interesting to find out that the Scottish are only a small part of the whole bagpipe phenomena. Also very interesting that I could be so bored on the combine that I would listen to a program about the history of the bagpipes.

Here's some real romantic comedy!

I just thought that this would give everyone some entertainment!! Check out www.jimseats.com for more!

So I was reading Time magazine....

So I was reading Time magazine and discovered that home work may possibly be bad for students! Who would have thought!? Supposedly it kills interest in learning instead of stimulating it like teachers hope it does. I highly suggest you read about it in Time magazine. They did some studies and found that in countries where students are given very little home work the students do better on standardized tests. I'm not sure where Canada stands in this whole discovery but our neighbours to the south aren't doing so well. I also discovered in my reading that teenage boys aren't in relationships for the you know what. Someone decided to do a study and discovered that teenage boys do have feelings and are very much into the love thing. I haven't finished reading the article but if I learn more I'll blabber about it tomorrow. Interesting?!

In other news it is only 65 days until I become an adult! Scary eh? That means it is only 58 days till Halloween. Give me one second while I check how many until Christmas. I have to find the link to the countdown clock I found! 112 days till Christmas. http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/xmas_cnt.htm

So I guess all the university folks are going back or in some cases going for the first time. I'd just like to say how jealous I am because I really want to get out of here ASAP. Get in lots of trouble for me!

Oh here's a link to a cool website. Very funny comics about a stick man named Jim! Tres funny! http://www.jimseats.com/

So winter is on the way and I'm getting pumped to start curling and skidooing again! Oh and hunting season is coming up to. Very exciting times coming up. I'm even excited about school except for that whole being the oldest and having to take calculus by correspondance, etc. Anyways take her easy gals and guys! And if she comes easy you know what to do......

I enjoy picking my nose

So I couldn't think of a good title so I figured I would just entitle this blog what I did just to gross people out. I don't actually enjoy picking my nose. I actually find the nose to be quite an annoyance. It gets stuffed up, it runs, it bleeds, if you aren't careful eating ice cream you can get ice cream on it, etc. I just decided it has to be the most annoying body part ever. Fortunately it isn't the most useless. That title still goes to the appendix. Don't worry though when we go back to eating grass we'll be happy we kept it around.

So you know that issue with the "loose thoughts" that were bothering me. Consider it buried for good! YAY!

My tongue has not turned black or fuzzy from the drugs and I haven't noticed any bad side effects so that means I'm cleared for flying unless of course the side effects show up in the upcoming days. If all goes well I won't have acne. Of course no one wants to know about my medical going ons but it's the only interesting thing I have to talk about these days.

So I'm going to end my late night blog with some good news I heard on the radio the other day. Linkin Park is coming out with a new CD sometime soon. Late this year or early next year. I'm pretty excited about that.

It worked!

So I wanted to see if I could make that M*A*S*H thing appear and it did. So yeah about my day hmmmmmm.....Nothing really exciting happened. Both combines broke. One got fixed and the other one I had to run because I guess I'm a smooth operator and I'll keep it together until it gets fixed or something like that. Sometimes I hate being good at stuff. For example farm work because then Dad makes me do it instead of other family members or people working on the farm. So I think I may be done swathing for the rest of my entire life since I don't plan on farming or coming home to farm on the weekends when I go to university next year. Oh slightly funny combining story. I was going combining one swath of canola and noticed the other combine coming straight for me. In the dark I figured it was just that the combine was on the next swath and what ever. It wasn't on the next swath it was on the same swath as me. Since we're combining canola the combine can pick up the swath no matter which direction it's going and my uncle didn't realize he was on the wrong swath in the dark. That was my amusement for the day. Gliding starts next weekend and I'm super excited because I miss flying but I can't glide on Sunday because I have a student council retreat which should be an interesting experience. Gliding should be sweet though. Flying at a new airport should be exciting and maybe they'll let me start training to fly from the backseat. Anyways really hoping I don't screw up this president gig. I really don't need a revolt. That would look bad on my resume. I'd show up to a job interview and the interviewer would be like so you were president of your school until they all revolted. How was that for you? And I would be like pretty darn crappy Sir!

I'm trying something......