December

Okay a month of madness has set upon us, yea December. Sometimes I wish people would act like they weren't a bunch of madmen. I almost despise this month because of other people and their non-holiday actions. I believe that Christmas time should be a time for showing goodwill towards others, but apparently I am a minority on this one ideal. Anyways the best part is definitely watching my kids open their presents on Christmas morning it kind of makes up for the crap I have to endure the rest of the month.

Thanksgiving

Yummy I love a holiday dedicated to food. You don't have to worry about buying stuff for people, you don't have to even go out and search your community for sweet treats. You just get to show up somewhere and stuff your fat face with random goodness. Awesome.

Illness

To be sick is such a joy in my life. Not having the ability to breath from my nose makes me feel like some inbreed hillbilly mouth breather. Constant pain to my forehead, so pleasant, as if a monkey is inside my head throwing poo against the walls of my skull. Hacking up some yellowish-green bile like substance from the depths of my lungs is ever so enjoyable. As I spit this substance out I wonder how many vile mucous creatures I kill off from my body, the answer not enough because I am sure a few minutes from now more of their family will be joining them. Yes I love being sick.

One Building

Okay again I seem to have some magical powers and can travel back in time to see any building, in the world at any era of time. As many wonderful buildings as there are out there in time to visit one pops into my head immediately, The Coliseum of Rome. Yes its not the prettiest building out there but it was and still is an engineering feat that is amazing. It would be amazing to be there at the height of its use to see not just the gore of gladiator battles(that would be pretty cool though), but to see the building being truly used by the Romans. The thing has lifts (old word for elevators for you younglings), a retractable roof to shade the spectators, bathrooms (remember this was BC), and an egress system more efficient than today's modern stadiums. However the best thing about it and one thing I would love to be there for was when they flooded the Coliseum. There was, and still is, a network of underground pipes that could be turned on to flood the floor of the Coliseum for naval battles. Whoever came up with this idea really had an ambition to see some death in the coliseum. Anyways to be a spectator in one of the worlds most recognized buildings would be something amazing and something that unfortunately will just be a dream.

BLOG WEEK

BLOG WEEK is here again oh happy times again, okay I really am an idiot.

Slacker

Yes I am a Blog Slacker. I have still found it difficult to do my blogs in class as the students complete their blogs. Hopefully looking for a change in that this week.

Blog Week Wrapup

So last week we did BLOG WEEK at SVHS. Went very well I encourage all you Globaloria peeps to check out some of the student blogs. I have some verrrry creative students.

Three Wishes

Okay wish number one would definitely have to be a cure for cancer. Would have thought that being in the 21st century this medical problem would be solved but no it still plagues human culture. Wish number 2 would be to have all the powers of superman. Okay silly but who doesn't want to be able to fly, have dreamed about it almost every night my entire life. Plus the invincibility thing, x-ray vision, super-fast thing, and space travel capabilities are amazing. Pretty much would knock out anything I would want to do or have dreamed of doing. Third wish would be saved, don't really need to wish for money when I can use my x-ray vision to find gold in the earth.

Time Travel

Okay so somehow I magically have a time travel device, and can go to any era where do I go....I think I would choose the haydays of the Greek empire. To be able to be around for the creation of architecture standards that are still relied on today would be a pretty cool thing. It would be neat to actually see things built, and how they were built instead of hearing speculations and guesses from textbooks.

What animal I would be

Okay so I kind of left this question open ended for the students and did not say it has to be a real animal. On that basis pretty sure its okay if I pick a dragon. Really why would you not want to be a dragon. They can talk just like humans, so pretty sure that's a huge advantage over other animals, you don't have to squeak, chirp, or grunt to get your point across to your buddies. Another big thing dragons live pretty much forever. In which time you get to collect a big hord of treasure, eat the locals, humans probably are tasty to dragons, and pretty much be the bad-a of the neighborhood.

Day 1 Blog Week-yea I'm a day behind deal with it

Drafting Classes: What is your favorite building?
Okay this question is insanely complex for me, being an Architectural Engineer, its truly really hard to differentiate between different building eras and styles. I mean how can you compare the Eiffel tower to the Parthenon, you can't. Both of them are amazing creations for their time in human history. So I am going to break it down into eras and probably into civilizations.
Pre-history:Stonehenge-okay any culture with nooo technology that is willing to drag stones over 20 miles is pretty amazing.
Egyptians:Pyramids are cool but their temples architecture and art was mind blowing
Greeks:Lets seee oh yea the Parthenon and Acropolis
Romans:Pantheon and Coliseum its kind of a toss up the Pantheon was the first domed building pretty cool but the Coliseum could be flooded for naval battles
The Renaissance: Notre Dame cathedral, huge stained glass windows, flying butresses, a hunchback, plus still have the 3D puzzle and still play with it.
Early America:Monticello okay it even amazed me when I went there
Steel Construction Era:Anything built in Dubai, got to be nice to have a client with limitless money when you are designing a building

Blog Week

Okay for all those reading and paying close attention to all my students blogs, I know you all have the time, they are participating in a Blog Week. Different topics, some class specific some off the wall, usually turns out good if anyone is reading this post.

New Year

Students starting out strong, good participation. Seniors are sooooo much stronger at this class than their lower classmates, easier to teach, follow closer, don't need as much help, will willingly help their classmates. I guess I will be wearing senior colors on spirit day.

Okay I am a slacker

Have been so busy dealing with updating computers, teaching students and other daily routines that I have become a real slacker myself at blogging. So I am hoping and trying to rectify the situation.

Class

WE NEED MORE COWBELL

Learning Experience

Wow one unique learning experience. I really don't know that I can break down my life into just one aha moment. So I am going to tell a few little stories of unique memorable moments of my life. To be continued.........

For Denise

For Rachel

Okay this is really mean but funny.

I'm at the top

Just wanted to beat Denise and Patrick.

June Workshop 2009

So today is the new workshop, I was late sorry to all who might read this, I have been sick the past few days. My little sis came up with the fam from NC and my little nephew was sick. Even though my own son was caught sucking down his drink twice he didn't get sick, I did. Even though I avoided my nephew like the plague. Really happy about being here however I really would like to be watching Transformers, sorry Idit watching a bunch of Robots try to destroy the world is a number one priority to me right now.

May 1st:My weekend

This weekend(okay I know this really should be in past tense, but I'm no English teacher), will probably pass by like most of my weekends spending it with the kids. And since it already happened I will let you know what went down. Friday after school, nappy time, a good afternoon nap brings great cheer to my life. Saturday went to the"wife's" house, chilled with the kids, it doesn't get much better than playing with Thomas the Train, Lincoln Logs, Legos, and watching SpongeBob. Good times dude, good times. Sunday pretty much more of the same. My kids are awesome, its kind of unfortunate for my "wife" that they are both little clones of my personality. I like it but have no clue what she thinks about it.

April 30th:Things beside school

Beside school what would I rather be doing...well here we go:eating a Popsicle, pretending to be an Ewok, throwing food to ducks, eating Japanese food, bombing birds with poo from a remote control airplane, sitting on my back porch enjoying life, hitting my finger with a hammer, burning a brush fire, eating chicken nuggets, listening to weird aliens play music in Mos Eisley, watching Dazed and Confused and pretending to be Matthew McConough's character, burning my tongue with a halbenero pepper, and lastly let's all sing it together "Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee...."

April 29th:Wood County Religious Class

Religions in school, religions in school, religions in school, I really don't know about this one, no matter what I say someone is going to be offended or think I am trying to push my ideas on everyone else, we call these people Democrats. Yes there is separation of church and state that's fantastic America is supposed to be a country free for religious worship, but even as a Republican I know the truth, "We the People" would prefer that religion to be Christianity. Personally I don't like that opinion and it demeans as all, no law should be passed or enforced that comes from a religious belief. Now I am not saying that because the Bible says "Thou shall not kill", we should not enforce it, there is a difference between moral values and religious values. Morality is doing right for humanity and living a "human" existence, basically being a higher life form than a Praying Mantis that eats her mates head after copulating. Religious values are basing your beliefs on what a book says or what some crazy wacko with long hair and hippy beads tells you to do. As long as Wood County realizes these facts and treats this Bible Study class as a non-religious class, then go to it. But if they use this class as a breeding ground to recruit Christians then they are not keeping religion separate from State.

April 28th:Happy or Sad

Currently I am okay. Neither extremely happy nor depressed. Maybe its the zoloft talking but that has been my life for most of my life. I have brief moments of being very happy but most of the time I'm just chill. Not that I walk around like a stoner or anything, some people think I am but everyone has the own opinion. Opinions however are like buttholes everyone has one and everyone thinks theirs is the only one that doesn't stink.

April 27th:Liers and thieves

Okay so basically this is what I thing of these two categories, they both suck. Both are offensive to the general public, sure everyone has told little white lies and exaggerated the truth a little, but we are talking about living an entire life of lies. Liers I can deal with, however it does get annoying. On to thieves. People that steal from others are one of the lowest forms of life in my opinion. I had a principal in junior high that called worthless people preprotazoans. Basically his description of this life form was the smallest most worthless animal on the face of the planet. Your whole life has spent attached to the bottom of a chasm in the ocean floor, in total darkness. Your only ray of hope was the slight chance that a passing whale might defecate somewhere above you and slowly the feces would drift down and land on you warming you for a brief moment of time.

Okay did it again

Sometimes having too much time is a bad thing. You get carried away doing trivial little tasks and forget to do the trivial little tasks you should have been up to. Anyways most of my life has been like this I guess its the ADD or the semi-Asbergers thing I got going on in my head. Either way I figure I am pretty crazy.

Daughter's birthday

Okay this is crazy for me to even believe, my daughter turned 4. Kind of weirded out by this fact, since soon she will be going to school and all that jazz.

January

Students presented their quiz games after much rescheduling, went pretty good, most groups did a great job on their games. Started the new semester adding a lot of new students to drafting classes from game design.

Christmas

Christmas is great again, now that I have children old enough to enjoy it. I built a train/lego table for my kids, put a huge amount of time into it, luckily they did play with it and still are. My wife got me one of the best presents ever, a signed star wars book, that has pop-ups and two working lightsabers in it. Plus christmas food is always a bonus, more fatty goodness.

December

Well a month of snow days, two hour delays and two weeks with no school, loved it. Students finishing their quiz games, good progress.

Thansgiving

One of my favorite days, all you have to do is eat and get fat. I mean really other than that what is the point in thanksgiving. Yummy food and sleepy turkey time. Its always great to eat my grandma's fried stuffing, best thing ever.

November

November is always a crazy time of year for a school teacher. Election day, veterans day, Thanksgiving break, snow days, it seems we are out of school about the same amount of time we are in school. Students did well when we were here progressing well in to flash animation and movie making.

Long time no see

Just an intro blog for some reason I have been making my students do 2 blogs a week and have not been doing the same so time to catch up and get my blog on.