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A Jack of all Trades, a Master of None

There are so many things at which I have learned how to do none of which do I feel I have mastered. I've wanted to write a post similar to this for some time and call it "stuff you didn't know I could do" or "Random Facts about Me", but I'm settling with the current title.

My current "trade" is teaching to which I have two years of on the job training and no more. I really enjoy it and have been told I am a natural teacher.

Other trades that I have been involved in...
I was a car prep at Enterprise Rent-a-Car and did a whole lot more than that.
I worked the grill and fryers at McDonald's and as well as helped assemble the burgers. (Anyone who knows me well, know I hate McDonald's.
I have worked as a Janitor in high school cleaning classrooms and bathrooms.

Those are the employed things I have done in my love. The longest of those jobs that I had was Enterprise where I work for 2 and 1/2 years. The shortest was McDonald's where I was there for 3 to 4 months.

How ever this is not the end of my know-how. Lets move on to my volunteer service.
I spent 3 high school summers working at Camp Ironwood, A Christian Camp in the Mojave Desert. During which time I:
Dug many ditches
Trimmed Shrubs,
Ran a cash register
Ran errands
Learn How to Edit Videos
Learn How to drive stick
Ran Plumbing
Did Inventory
Counted to 1000
Touched an Electric Fence
Counsel as Camp Counselor
Did Dishes in the Dish Palace
Take apart a Transmission
And did anything else they asked me to do.
I also learned a lot of other things too.

Now there are even more things to which I have learned how to do, that I don't necessarily remember where I learned them they go as follows:
How to frame a wall
Run and attach Electrical wire
Laid Tile
Laid Carpet.

There are things which I have been taught at home.
How to mow a lawn
How to take an engine out of a car (it never got put back)
Rebuild a lawn mower
Cross-stitch
Bake (real baking from scratch)
Cook
Bar-B-Que
Paint

Other Completely Random Things
I can solve a Rubik cube in 2 minutes
I can make a scorpion wire sculpture
I cam make a handful of origami
I make some awesome paper airplanes
I design website
I've played baseball, soccer, and basketball.
I've played the trumpet and tuba.
I've flown a plane,
I've acted in dramatic productions
I've been a puppeteer
I've preached in church
I've won debates in competition.

I'm not even sure this list is extensive or complete.
But I Don't want to get to the end of this post and say, look at all the things that I have done in my short life, I want to look at this list and say, "Thank You, God, for giving me a healthy life, where I have been given an opportunity to have learned and have been involved in so many things. As I don't know how many more days that I may have on this earth, teach me to use these things I have learned and to use them for your honor and will. May the talents you have given to me not be buried, but let them be multiplied and used to help others."

Why I’m not a Blogger!

Welcome to 2010 and as I promised a blog post.  A few months ago I began to realize that I am not a blogger, although I still have a few who faithfully check to see if I post I will no longer promise to blog often.  I am not getting rid of my unlinked media site but I will in no way try to keep it up to date with content.  I will share most of the reasoning behind it and leave it at that.

1. I feel I am too concise.  I have never been a wordy writer.  If I can explain something in a sentence I'll do it in a sentence.  I don't like long explanations.
2. To me blogging was a fad.  A friend of mine started a blog about the same time that I did, and for a while we were the only two people I knew who had them  it made checking other peoples post really easy.  Since then at least a dozen or two people that I know have set up blogs, some post daily, while others only once.  For a while it felt cool being a trend-setter, but it didn't make me want to blog more often, in fact it became a hassle to read everyone else's blogs and then comment on them, and the more I stopped reading them the less I posted.
3. Web Designer.  Part of what interested me in blogging was the hacking of the themes and the personalization that I was able to get out of it.  And then helping others do the same thing.  My wife, brother, Tim.  I began to focus more on the themes and less on the content.  In the past 3 months I have undertaken a new project of building a website from scratch for Bethel.  I spend a lot of my free time working on that, (in fact if I wasn't blogging right now I'd be working on it.  I wish I could send you all the link to give you the sneak peek but it's far from done and I can't show it off to the masses quite yet.  I foresee that project taking another 3 or 4 months depending on how much free time I have to work on it, but when it is done I'll send word and the link.  On a side note if you are someone I know personally and are wanting more control over you blog and less restrictions let me know and I discuss options that I can offer you.
4. My Life is not an Open Book.  Some blogger share way too much information in their blog posts.  I am not a person who feels it is necessary to do that.  I could fill my blog with funny stories that might happen throughout my day but those stories would generally be of students from my class.  And with as plugged in as my students are to the internet it could be pretty easy for one of them to find out that I was talking about one of them, which is something that I feel would not be beneficial.  So I don't publish stories of my students.
5. Because.

The list is not extensive, but those are my reasons.  I hope I don't crush the feelings of the faithful unlinkedmedians.  I hope you have a Happy New Year.

- hold nothing back

New Post Coming Soon

I am working up a new post entitled "Why I am not a Blogger". Post release date is scheduled for early 2010. I hope you will look forward to reading it.

Summer is near its end

It has been a fast summer. I'm not sure where to begin. It's been a while since I've posted anything at all and a lot has happened I doubt I'll be able to recall everything. Nor is everything that has happened worth recalling. As you may gave noticed if you visit my sight on a regular basis that the look has had a slight makeover. I am not completely finished tweeking with it because I need to spend several hours working on that and I'm not sure when I'll have time for that. Well maybe tomorrow after all it is Labor Day and I have the day off so maybe tomorrow will be a great day to work in it but I'm not making any promises.
I apologize to anybody who takes the time daily, weekly, or even monthly to check my site to see if I have posted. Becuase I have gotten away from my own habbit of looking at all your blogs. I will generally write more often when I'm reading what other people write.
Summer was fun. I work at bethel for eight week inthe summer school program working from eight to noon. The half days were really nice. Renae did not work during the summer so our afternoons were free to hang out and enjoy each others company. Near the end of July we took a week for vacation to Deleware with Renae's parents to go visit Renae's sister Rebekah and her husband Matt. The time away was very enjoyable. We went to the Deleware State Fair and to Washington DC and to Rehoboth Beach. We spent some time relaxing at their house and just spending time with everyone. After we came back for Delewarr Renae went to Oregon to go to my cousin Leroy's wedding. She spent the week with my family andcame back to southern California with Ruth and Daniel. Daniel then spent the weekend with us, we spent that Monday down in san Diego and were able to go make it to a padre game.
Two weeks ago my truck was broken into in our parking garage at the apartment complex the passenger door lock was broken and our gps was taken. It could have been a lot worse the door lock is about fifty bucks to replace and I could switch it out myself do I dint have to pay someone else to do it; and the gps was given to us. The truck was still there and nothing else was taken so we are thankful.
Two weeks ago in-service started here at bethel and school started last Monday. I am once again teaching fifth grade and yearbook but I am now teaching an intro to computers class. The yearbook class and the intro to computer class are 0 period classes this year. That means class starts at 7:05 and goes until 7:50. That's the hour before school starts. Yearbook meets three days a week and the computer class meets twice. So Monday through Friday at bethel from 7:00 to nearly 4:00. But I do enjoy it. My fifth grade class now has sixteen students nine girls and seven boys. Judging by the first week they are hard workers and great learners. I am looking forward to a great school year with them. Yesterday Renae and I spent the afternoon with her parents they came down and visited us they also brought dinner too. We had barbequed hamburgers and baked beans and fruit salad. I had made some snickerdoodle cookies earlier in afternoon so we ate them for desserts.
Tomorrow is labor day if you have the day off, enjoy it. If you have to work, I'm sorry that you do. I hope eveyone has a great day.

*this post was typed on my iPhone so please let me know if I have any major mistakes so I can fix them.

-hold nothing back
-let God have control