This past weekend I took Thursday and Friday off and drove to my grandparents in York for a vacation. We had a great time which (unfortunately) mostly consisted of working on my Jeep...I feel quite selfish about this fact, almost as if I was more there for what they could offer me than to fellowship with them.
My grandpa is a jack of all trades, and more...there's pretty much nothing he doesn't know something or everything about. I knew he would be the man to help me replace my brakes since I hadn't done it before. Usually when I do a car repair I read the manual section about 6 times and then about 50 online articles...usually following that I end up posting on a forum to ask questions. However, I'm learning from the best, my grandpa didn't even look at the manual. We ran into a lot of problems which ended up in purchasing a lot of new parts...but the cool thing is that Advanced Auto takes back your old parts to reuse reusable elements of it and hence they don't charge you quite as much for the new part. How great! It took us from Thursday 3 till Friday evening to finish...granted we had food breaks and when it was time to watch for him to watch the news I would sneak back into the garage and do other things, mainly painting and ripping out the interior dashboard. At any rate, enough about that.
Friday evening we played ping-pong...one of my favorite sports. I'm not too bad, I'm very familiar with throwing some "english" on the ball. My grandma doesn't do anymore than hit the ball over the net and she beat me with this simple strategy...meanwhile I'm flying around the room trying to throw fancy curveballs across the table and with 200% focus she calmly hit everyone back (just about everyone...well enough to beat me!). Grandpa was different, he's mainly the same as I am in the fact he likes spins and the like, he still beat me...then grandma beat him...we had some good laughs though and we took some videos of the actual games. At any rate, it's one of the best weekends so far this year and I sure did enjoy myself!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Competition of Strength
So this week has been normal so far, worked two days and getting ready for a third.
Supper consisted of hotdog and bean soup, but I prefer just beans so I put the hotdogs back in the mother-pot.
I'm getting really pumped to go to school this fall though I know I'll miss a lot around here.
Let me tell you about last night. It was a slow night, we knew we'd put in our 8 hrs but there wasn't much of a rush to get the orders done...between dumping millions of 5lb bags of rejected potatoes and getting into several brawls with the 'cans the night passed eventually.
After being bugged by Oscar to arm wrestle him several consecutive times, my brother, Jonathan, beat him every time. Finally I got my dander up and decided to go against him as well....now you have to understand Oscar, he's 17, probably almost 18, a hard worker, hilarious and fairly strong. He loves practicing his English but we love to hear him do so even more...his combinations of improper verb conjugations and curse words slewn ignorantly in and out of his sentences is comical.
After our second break we had a few skids to finish on "Benito's Line"...Oscar beat me to it and I ended up running the machine whilst him and Jonathan stacked. Stacking is the best, and everyone wants it, (except most americans) because it's somewhat physical and very "responsiblity free". I would wander over and stack with Oscar while watching my machine...we were getting along pretty well for the night. Then we took two videos on his phone of us doing random stuff such as talking and trying to pump out a few reps of "one handed lifting 50lb bales".
So anyway, after a little inflating of my ego I challenged Oscar to an armwrestle...I was a bit nervous but Jonathan assured me it would be a breeze. Rey counted to 3 and then we begun, but no sooner was "tres" out of his mouth a threw all my energy in and pounded his fist to the table. Naturally I was accused of jumping the gun....ok maybe I did, Round 2.
So now we began fairly and it was pretty much a stalemate...for one reason; both of us can hold our position just barely above the playing surface. So I could pin his arm to about 2 inches above the table, but no more, then just for kicks I'd let him push my arm allll the way to the other side of the table, just above the surface...then I'd push his back to my side...and so we continued, neither able to beat the other...it was such a struggle we even had the whole table moving around. (it wasn't really a table, more of a plastic half-closet/cupboard type thing)...we finally called it a draw and walked away laughing...SO that was my day :P!
Supper consisted of hotdog and bean soup, but I prefer just beans so I put the hotdogs back in the mother-pot.
I'm getting really pumped to go to school this fall though I know I'll miss a lot around here.
Let me tell you about last night. It was a slow night, we knew we'd put in our 8 hrs but there wasn't much of a rush to get the orders done...between dumping millions of 5lb bags of rejected potatoes and getting into several brawls with the 'cans the night passed eventually.
After being bugged by Oscar to arm wrestle him several consecutive times, my brother, Jonathan, beat him every time. Finally I got my dander up and decided to go against him as well....now you have to understand Oscar, he's 17, probably almost 18, a hard worker, hilarious and fairly strong. He loves practicing his English but we love to hear him do so even more...his combinations of improper verb conjugations and curse words slewn ignorantly in and out of his sentences is comical.
After our second break we had a few skids to finish on "Benito's Line"...Oscar beat me to it and I ended up running the machine whilst him and Jonathan stacked. Stacking is the best, and everyone wants it, (except most americans) because it's somewhat physical and very "responsiblity free". I would wander over and stack with Oscar while watching my machine...we were getting along pretty well for the night. Then we took two videos on his phone of us doing random stuff such as talking and trying to pump out a few reps of "one handed lifting 50lb bales".
So anyway, after a little inflating of my ego I challenged Oscar to an armwrestle...I was a bit nervous but Jonathan assured me it would be a breeze. Rey counted to 3 and then we begun, but no sooner was "tres" out of his mouth a threw all my energy in and pounded his fist to the table. Naturally I was accused of jumping the gun....ok maybe I did, Round 2.
So now we began fairly and it was pretty much a stalemate...for one reason; both of us can hold our position just barely above the playing surface. So I could pin his arm to about 2 inches above the table, but no more, then just for kicks I'd let him push my arm allll the way to the other side of the table, just above the surface...then I'd push his back to my side...and so we continued, neither able to beat the other...it was such a struggle we even had the whole table moving around. (it wasn't really a table, more of a plastic half-closet/cupboard type thing)...we finally called it a draw and walked away laughing...SO that was my day :P!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Manifestation of Inspiration
I've been inspired to start my own blog, as a result of having read a friends blog. The concept stimulates the mind and forces oneself to be productive. I'd like to be more of both. So hear goes, day 1!
-keep up to hopefully hear more about my everyday life and my thoughts and various postings!
-keep up to hopefully hear more about my everyday life and my thoughts and various postings!
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