Anyone who knows me knows I am a fairly religious person. I recently (like within the past month or two) started attending a different church (just a different group of people, same beliefs and stuff). This particular group was supposed to be a good place to socialize with some of my peers. people about my age, people I am not related to. Also, it was a graceful way to get out of teaching the nine year old class I had (I like them, but enough is enough). anyway I'm not all that great at the whole getting to know people but I was doing all right. Starting to get used to faces and even learn a few names. In short I was really enjoying it. Today, they decided to split up our group into like 3 or 4 more locally centered groups. I suppose I support their decision. It was logical, rational, and probably ultimately good, but it sucks.
I'll try to work on being more optimistic. By next week I may love it.
On a vaguely different line, we had a big church superactivity last weekend. a camping trip at the sand dunes national monument (in Colorado). cool place. freakin 5 hour drive from north Denver. It was good to hang out with everyone, talk. But the real reason we went all the way down there was to see this big celebration that they were having in Manassa. Manassa is a little Mormon town. Emphases on little. being the 24th of July (big as the 4th of July in Utah), they were having a bit of a party with a parade, carnival, barbecue, rodeo, and demolition derby. Sounded awesome. in reality, it was a bit disappointing. I did ride a mechanical bull though. Stayed on pretty well. Beat my brother anyway. I also saw an alligator farm. I'm not sure if the alligators or the swampfolk running the thing were the stranger sight. the alligators were cool though. I held one. The bigger alligators growled at us, and the ostriches kind of opened their mouths and hissed. spit a little too. I'm not really sure why there were ostriches. also there was a chicken. I really don't know what was up with that. There's not much between you and the alligators though. Just a chain link fence. It's a good thing alligators are so lazy.
On the way back up here, we stopped at Garden of the Gods. If you're ever around Colorado Springs, I would recommend this one. They have some nice trails to walk on with the coolest freakin rocks. Apparently there is climbing allowed on some of them, but I didn't catch which ones it was allowed on.
That's about it for now. I'll try to get back sooner, but really. It could be a couple months.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Rock climbing
Haven't posted in a little while, so...
Of to a great start really with this whole blog thing. Normally you at least have the motivation in the beginning. I've been working on my site, but there is still nothing there yet. Just trying to write/collect some good content. Make up some graphics, spiff things up a bit. I have been rock climbing a lot lately. Here's the new happiest place on earth ROCK'n & JAM'n. I recently graduated myself from 5.7 to 5.8. If you are not familiar with rock climbing rating systems, 5.anything refers to a freeclimbing. That's anything that can be climbed without ropes or any special equipment (shoes and chalk excepted). 6.anything requires equipment and 4.anything from what I understand is not really climbing. A beginner can probably climb up to 5.6 or 5.7 no problem, but that's all wuss stuff now. My brother can do the 5.9s. Sort of pisses me off really, but he has been going all summer, so I guess he's earned that. Seems that most of the people there climb in the 5.10-5.12 range. Makes you feel pathetic to see some little kid climb something that you cant even hang on, but if I weighed 80 pounds I'd probably get up the wall a little easier too.
Of to a great start really with this whole blog thing. Normally you at least have the motivation in the beginning. I've been working on my site, but there is still nothing there yet. Just trying to write/collect some good content. Make up some graphics, spiff things up a bit. I have been rock climbing a lot lately. Here's the new happiest place on earth ROCK'n & JAM'n. I recently graduated myself from 5.7 to 5.8. If you are not familiar with rock climbing rating systems, 5.anything refers to a freeclimbing. That's anything that can be climbed without ropes or any special equipment (shoes and chalk excepted). 6.anything requires equipment and 4.anything from what I understand is not really climbing. A beginner can probably climb up to 5.6 or 5.7 no problem, but that's all wuss stuff now. My brother can do the 5.9s. Sort of pisses me off really, but he has been going all summer, so I guess he's earned that. Seems that most of the people there climb in the 5.10-5.12 range. Makes you feel pathetic to see some little kid climb something that you cant even hang on, but if I weighed 80 pounds I'd probably get up the wall a little easier too.
Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Starting off here
I've tried a few times to put together some kind of blog. I like reading them, and it looked fun to try to throw one together. Usually I just edited all of the HTML myself in notepad, so it's understandable that I never really lasted all that long with one of these. This should be a little easier, so maybe I'll stay with it a while longer. I'll put up som crap about me later, and scrape up some links to good sites, but for today this is likely all I'll get put up. And a link to my site, although it's not updated much more than any blog I've tried.
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