Yay!

It has finnaly been 60 days and I get my liscense back. I got a speeding ticket a while back and had my liscense revoked. (Which is total BS because a friend of mine was going way faster than I was only in a 35mph zone then ran into 2 houses and didn't loose his liscense) But yeah so hopefully my parents will still let me drive their cars considering I still don't have my own. I don't plan on getting another ticket because the one I just got cost me almost a cool $800 or$900, I can't remember, after all the rediculous fees were paid.

HS

Adults and teachers are always talking about how the younger generation and students don't give them any respect. Well how about giving us some first. If you treat your students with a reasonable amount of respect I'm sure that they will have no problem listening to your authority. I have seen and experienced this first hand. Teachers like Mrs. Krieger I bet rarely have to send students to the main office due to behavior problems because she treats all of her students fairly and equally. Other teachers like Mr. Stanbro who treat their students like shit and have no regard for their feelings are going to face some negative feedback in the form of lack of ethusiasmin when playing games, talking back, acting like a jackass, being a dousche bag, and just not listening to anythig he has to say.

The Real Deal

SoI've been sorta busy this weekend and haven't blogged in a couple days. I had my Al--Star game friday night then went out with some friends for the rest of the night. Woke up Saturday mornging and went snowboarding at highland park, came home and ate lunch, then went snowboarding up at greek peak which was awesome considering all the fresh powder. Sunday was spent snowboarding again at highland after going to church. And the rest of the day was spent at D Stells doing random stuff. While I was there I did manage to get my hand on this rare footage. So check it out.

Enough is Enough

I'm kind of getting tired of having to come up with somehting to blog about every day. It used to be kind of fun but now its just a pain in my ass. Can't wait until this project is over.

I wonder...

Do you think it would be mazingly awesome, or absolutely horrible to be someone's pet dog. There are quite a few cons to this situation. First off the food. With a dogs excellent sense of smell, I'm sure their sense of taste is just as good, and that can be a very bad thing considering what dog food tastes like and is made up of. I've tried a dog biscuit, not going to lie I was just curious, and they taste like shit. Actual shit. Then there's the fact that you're cooped up inside all day with no one home to even play with. Boring. And then there's the whole get your pet spayed or neutered. Ouch, not me not now. If you get sick, there's no way to tell your owner except taking a nasty dump or throwing up on the brand new carpet. And that will usually end up just putting you in the dog house. Now there would also be some sweet benefits to being a canine. Excellent hearing and smelling wouldn't be too bad. Or being able to run on all fours. If you do have a sweet owner who gives you lots of attention and spoils you then you basically have it made. No responsiblities, and you've all heard the saying that ignorance is bliss. I think being a dog in the wild would be the best. Sure you wouldn't have the comfort of a warm bed to sleep in, but you're free to go where ever and do whatever you want. I'm kind of on the fence on this one. I think I'm just gald to be an intelligent human being.

By the way both of these pooches are looking for a home. You can get more info on adopting at http://www.animalfriendsrescue.org/available/dogsavailable.html

I'm not going to say I told you so, but...

Global warming. What a bunch of bologna. The world experiences a couple warm winters and every one panics. I've done my research before and found that there was really no scientific evidence that global warming did exist. True there is a gaping hole in the ozone layer and that does deserve some attention. But we are not all going to drown under the polar ice caps or croak under immense heat waves. Some people are ignorant and won't back down... cough Al Gore cough... loser. Well everyone has bought into the hype which i guess isn't too bad because it is nice to have people buying hybrid cars and "going green" just to make our world a healthier place to live in. So if you bought into all the crap about global warming, I'm sorry to burst your bubble. I'm sure you'll get over it. Please o please don't take my word for it. Do some research and get the facts. To start you off here's a site i found that can provide you with some rather interesting and alarming information. http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

So give me your opinion. Still believe in global warming? Then convince me to change my mind.

Blog on a Blog

Ok so as I was browsing random blogs I happened to come across one that caught my eye and seemed particularly fascinating to me. Steven Booher is an architecture student currently studying abroad in Paris France. His blog, http://boohste.blogspot.com/, is about his current residency in the foreign country and he talks about his trips around Europe while he's there. Along with these stories are beautiful and very artistic pictures of the things he sees along the way.

I for one would love to go backpacking across Europe, staying in Hostels, going to bars, clubs, and discotecas evrynight, and just socializing with a different type of people. Plus there is just so much cool stuff to see like the Eiffel Tower, the Collesuem, Red Light District, Big Ben, Leaning tower of Pisa, and a whole bunh of other stuff. I want to see the world. I would hate to be stuck in dumpy old Endicott for the rest of my life. Steve you're a lucky man.

BORING

ever have one of those days where you are home alone and there is nothing to do? I don't even have a liscense right now so I couldn't even leave to go anywhere if I wanted to. I just sat on my couch and watched TV and ate Fritos alllll day. Oh and I played some video games too. The rest of the family was up in Utica and 'Cuse for a hockey game for the little man so it was me and the pooch to fend for ourselves. Yeah it was nice to relax but I like being up and active better. Plus I only get like 3 and a 1/2 channels, literally, so I can't even anjoy watching TV. What do you do when you have nothing to do?

Time Flys

I think that I have just come to realize that after I graduate from highschool, my childhood is basically over. It feels like it's gone by pretty fast too. I miss the innocence of being a child and having absolutely no resposibilites besides remebering what time Barney was on. Alas its time to move on and grow up and all that. I hope I never turn out to be one of those grumpy old men who just like complaining about stuff. I leave you with my hockey photo from freshman year.

I'm keeping my baby!!

So the results are in...but irrelevant. I just wanted everyone's opinion on what they think I should do with my uneven growing facial hair. Most said to either keep it or trim it which was what I was planning to do anyways. It's looking pretty nasty so I'm going to have to clean it up a bit but I will definately be trying to fill out the bare spots and get it as burly as possible to get my lumber-jack status up there with Colin Rambo. Now that is a burly ass beard.

One Love.

Lunar Eclipse-ski

So last night was the lunar eclipse-ski. It was beautiful-ski. I was really glad-ski that i had my glasses-ski that night because I usually can't see very well-ski with out them. It was a radiant orange that lit up the night sky-ski. It was wonderful to experience the plethora of natural beauty of the moon-ski last night-ski.

and me and my friend Alex came up with this thing-ski where we say ski-ski after certain words-ski. But really Davis came up with it so I must give credit where credit is due.

At a Snails Pace

I really hate having a dial up connection on my computer. It blows mondo. Web pages take twice as long to load and forget watching any videos on youtube with out it taking at least a half hour to load. It also means no Flash. It takes me a long time to upload photos, download software, or really just get anything done on the internet. I've tried telling my dad to upgrade to broadband but he's one of those people who doesn't thinks it's worth the money to have fast internet. Hes crazy and says "the internet is a sewer". I can't wait till I get my own laptop and go off to college so I can live with more networking freedom.

Dream Job

A dream job for me would have to be a photographer for a magazine taking pictures of stuff that I'm interested in. If I could could get a job with either Transworld or National Geographic that would be absolutely amazing. I would love traveling to remote places of the world and spending time in the wilderness photographing everything beautiful in nature. If I worked for Transworld I would be taking action photos of all the greats like Shaun White, Ross Powers, and Travis Parker. I would still get to be spending alot of time outdoors too. The only downfall to this plan is that i have no experience what so ever in professional photography and I hear that it's near impossible to get an internship with national geographic. But that would be pretty sweet if I did.

Sore

Done with one sport and on with the next. Hockey really isn't even over yet (All-Star Game Feb. 29th--you should attend) and I've already started my spring sport lacrosse. My arms are still sore from a tournament I just went to in Lansing on monday. I had to wake up at 5 am and had to play my first game at 7am. So I wasn't really even awake since I slept the whole way up, and was already being beaten to death with metal shafts. We won one out of three games. Over all I'd say we were pretty solid though. I got 3 goals total. That kinda sucked.


Really tired right now. Just finished filming an epic video of Pav that should be up soon. And Davis said he has got my video ready so thet will be up soon too. Sweet. Peace and Love.

Slushy

I love the winter. It means cold air, snow flakes, snow days, hot chocolate, hockey, and snowboarding. I also love the summer. Bikinis, natural tans, lemonade, staying up all night, and the beach. But I hate the transition period on days like today. Mother nature just couldn't decide what season she was in. There was snow on the ground so I was like hell yeah I'm gonna snowboard everyday possible. But when I got to the hill...it started to rain. But I was already there so i decided to shred anyways. It sucked. I guess thats why they call it snowboarding instead of sloppy nasty slushboarding. I want it to stay below freezing till at least the end of march, and get about another 3ft of fresh powder. Then as soon as April rolled around if the temperature suddenly raised itself to like 65 or so that would be pretty sweet.

I <3 My Job

I think I may have possibly one of the greatest summer jobs ever. I am cuurently employed by The Links at Hiawatha Landing located in the scenic Apalachin NY. I may be just a grillroom dishwasher, but there is much more to my job than just scrubbing pots and pans. I am also a short order cook which means i must be able to whip up any item on the menu any time the chefs are not in the kitchen. I also help to prepare exquisite banquet meals for some of the rich and famous of Binghamton NY who host their golf tournaments here. Alot of other cool people hold tournaments up here like Madam 'Oars and of course they had to bring the girls. Most of them are pretty ugly by the way. I get to drive a golf cart around when i have to do things like change the kegs in the cooler or take out the trash. I set up tables and chairs, sweep and mop, carry supplies to and from the storage garage, or as we like to call it, "down below." Yeah I know what your thinking, this job actually doesn't sound very fun at all and the tasks seem miniscule, tedious and boring. At any other resteraunt or golf course theywould be. But the people I work with are what really make my job so amazing.
My boss, C Batts, is a middle aged guy who still remebers what its like to be a kid. Thats why when i need a day or a week off for almost any reason, he has no problem giving it to me. He's pretty cool and lets us fool around and listen to our boombox as long as we're getting the work done. My other bosses are my older brother's close friend Blackwell Petey and Blumers. Three of the coolest doods I have ever met in my life, and they basically let us get away with anything. My fellow dishmates are the sly ginger D-Stell, Petey's younger brother and golden bear Pat, and Dan who I used to play ice hockey with. I get along great with everyone which makes things runsmoother and helps get things done quicker so theres more time to goof around. Then theres all the people that work at the links but not in the grill room. There's Tony, TK, Chop, Tom Dragon, and all of the smokin hot bev-cart girls.
Last but certainly not least there are the benefits. FREEE FOOOD. FREEE GOLF. Actually the food isnt really free, they take 2$ out of my paycheck every time I work but trust me I take advantage of it. A couple red bulls, a couple monsters, some chicken tenders, about 5 powerades, beef jerkey, a burger, a sandwich, and a couple candybars for the ride home. So yeah on top of that Get to play golf at one of the most top notch golf courses in the area at no cost to my self. And of couse im not goin to walk, i ride in style. There are only two downfalls. Emptying the grease trap, and during the winter my cash flow runs dry. But i can deal cuz I gots da best summuh job evah.

End of the Season

Dear Marty Drum,
You suck the most massive, leathery, veiny, hairy, smelly, wrinkly donkey balls ever. Pardon my french. But maybe thats why you couldn't raise the whistle to your lips the whole night and make a good call. I mean how many kids have to get hurt out there before you want to call a penalty. Even whhen something happened right in front of your face you just idley skated away like nothing was going on. I've seen your wife so I know you couldn't have been thinking about her. Woof. Not only were you blowing the penalties, but also offsides and icing calls too. You don't deserve your job and I don't know how you've managed to keep it this long. I don't even think a perscription from lens crafters could help out. You suck.
Love Mark

Now that I got that off my chest...well I'm still pissed. We lost our last play-off game of the year, and my last game ever as a Tiger hockey player to the less than mediocre team of Maine Endwell. Hats off to the goalie Andrew Barbs. who played an outstanding game though. But our goalie, Trever, or Buck as some of you may know him, played an even better game because he was facing much harder shots. And our coach, being the retard that he is, pulled him and put in our backup goalie instead...who isn't half bad either....but i like Trever better. Anyways our team sucked worse than old Marty so i guess he can't take all the blame for our devastating defeat. I am just extremely disapointed because we would have, could have, and should have beaten this team into the ground with our pinkey finger. Alas we shit the bed. I love my boys and this year was probably the most fun I have had in my high school hockey career. Coaches, you weren't too bad yourselves. I would like to end with quote from coach Roma....but i might get my blog deleted. Peace out.

Crikey it's a Beaut.

So Tim's idea of hunting Travis reminded me of this video i saw on you yube. I thought it was absolutely hilarious but a few of my friends thought it was cruel to treat the homeless like that. But whats so different about this clip than shows like candid camera or punk'd. Plus most of these bums are probably so messed up on drugs or completely wasted that in a few hours they'll have totally forgotten what just happened and will be more fixated on how to get their next fix.

360 Degrees of Rotation

So today i was pretty pumped because i landed my first solid 360 on my snowboard. I've landed a couple sketchy ones before but they didn't really count, so thats why I was so happy when I dropped this one just a few minutes ago at Highland Park. Hopefully in the near future i will be able to get my paws on some decent vids or pics to post so ya'll can see my skills.

yay

Finally we recieved some accumulation. Not much, but hopefully enough to build a small kicker on the hill next to my house so i can practice thowing down some 3s. Always lookin for someone to shred with so get at me if you ride.

Education

I think that 90% of everything you learn from kindegarten through 12th grade is just going to be forgotten in a few years so whats the point in even going to school. I have passed all of my math courses ending with Math 12 H. This year i decided not to take calc because i didnt need to. I'm afraid to take it next year in college because i feel like i have already forgotten how to do eveything except multiply and divide. But depending on the job i decide to take, im probably not going to ever need to use any of the stuff i forgot anyways. For now i'll have to rely on winning the lottery as my main source of income.

Noob

So i have almost no clue as to what i am doing on this blog thing. I think it may take me a while to get the hang of things, but once i do, everything should be pretty fresh.