So, here is an update. I am happy that comments are up, I just can’t read my old ones. But that is okay. I can live with that for a while. I took my first car to get crushed today. 🙁 but that is life… It was trying to kill me anyway. Um… ate dinner at steven’s house, good tacos, and the bug for dessert was to die from. I went and saw Batman at 2:10 with my intern friends, then went to walmart for the first time of the day. Had to run Andrew home to somehow find eight dollars. Went to walmart for the third time and Andrew finished paying for the awesomness. Came home, started updating xanga. After setting up the awesomeness on andrew’s computer, watched a little of superman. Went with andrew and Steven to Walmart for the second time to pick out the awesomeness, but andrew was about eight dollars short so we put it on layaway. Watched a little cops before eating at steven’s house. Finished posting.

Andrew’s thought of the day: “Computers are very personal objects. Each person has a different one. And you can tell a lot about a person by just looking at their desktop.”

Morning post. It is raining, and we have to open the water main in lower camp. It is going to be a wet, muddy day today.

My day that never seems to end…
[Disclaimer: Boring, Bland, Uncreative ‘this is how my day went’ post ahead.]

My freaking long day started way to early at a quarter to six. Got up took a shower and was happy to talk to Miriam [whom is my beloved]. Drove to work, ran out of gas. got to work, got gas for my car, and went back to work. All before seven thirty. Got to work, put up more post and ties to reinforce the fence around the soon to be lawn. ate breakfast, went back and dug up a trench that I filled in yesterday cause my boss forgot to put the conduit in it before he told me to fill it in. Dug up some sprinklers that were too tall, stood on the lines to hold the heads down to grade, while my boss proceeded to bury my feet. Some of them we just took out the nipples [the part that joins the pvc pipe and the sprinkler] and cut them down. Did some groundsy stuff until lunch [I don’t really remember what it was]. Ate lunch [hamburgers] then started to put some more heads on that we just got so we could finish the line, and we had to have a safety meeting, cause the blower got ran over. went back and put the heads on, and then filled in the holes. Cut the irrigation boxes to fit the pipes going in and out, set them and covered them. Then Cullen had to leave and I needed to cover him on the bike ride.
the bike ride.
so a staff member goes out on all the bike rides to fix the bikes if they break. It is like three miles out then three miles back. I had a couple of derailed chains [easy to fix], and after we got to the end and turned back about five minutes, a guy was stopped on the side of the trail. He snapped his chain. So I gave him my bike and took his. He took off and I was standing there thinking how the heck I was going to get the bike three miles back to camp. So for the first bit I scootered it. That is where you put the right foot on the left pedel, lean the bike to the right just a little and push with the left foot. But that makes your right turns long and your left turns tight. and the ditch that we were following had gentle left turns and sharp right turns. I went as far as I could that way, it starts to hurt your wrist and your leg muscles because you are basiclly standing on them. So I ended up sitting on the seat and pushing three pushs with one leg then three with the other. I finally made it back [I got a ride for the last two hundred yards] only about ten or twenty minutes behind the others. I helped lock up the bikes and finally clock out about four thirty.
I go home for a few minutes, check emails and xanga and stuff. then get josh’s xbox to return to him [it was in his suitcase, and he needs that so he could pack for germany], his card, Andrew some books for germany, and his card. and go to the pool. I eat dinner there [hambugers] and try to answer some bible trivia for a cd. Dan asked what Romans 12:2 was, and I gave him Romans 12:1. For that I got a sucker [Bible memorization isn’t something that we do a lot at our youth group]. Went swimming, practiced my diving off diving boards. Sounds like they would go together, but no, they bounce. It shot me up to high once and i was going to land flat on my back so I tucked and did a flip. Played some sharks and minnows [none of us really remember the specifics of the rules], and some foot ball. Got tired and got out and came home. Got back on the computer and started to type this post. Now I think I am done and will go to bed soon so I can have eight hours of sleep before I get up.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM Sonora WHEN…

You ask for sweet tea and they tell you that you can sweeten your own tea.

When a waitress asks what you want to drink and you say Coke, she asks “We Don’t have coke, we have pepsi, root beer, dr. pepper…”

“Hella” is a word.

Modesto is known as “MoTown”

You know the difference between a meth head, tweaker, and a stoner.

A first grader can put you to shame with your mama jokes.

You drive forty minutes when you and your friends want some Krispy Kremes.

Your choices for eating out are Mexican, Chinese, and fast food.

When the Goverment started telling people to stock up on duck tape, you did nothing.

You see people smoking right next to the sign that says, by law smoking is prohibited with in twenty feet of any entrance. And the sign is right next to the door.

Walmart is the hangout place.

You greet people with ‘whats up?’ and they respond with ‘nothing’ even if they are on the way to the hospital.

You know what a ‘dawg’ is.

You know people who consider a six pack quality entertainment.

The directions to your house include “… and that is a gravel road…”

Your wallet is on a chain but your dog isn’t.

You wonder why it always snows on Thanksgiving but never on Christmas.

Half of your town shuts down for one inch of snow and the other half drives like crazy.

You have at least three state parks within 30 minutes of your house.

You yell out the window of your car at least once a trip. If you didn’t you didn’t really go anywhere.

You wonder how the shopping cart got three miles from the store.

Everyone grows tomatoes.