I know it is already July 16, but there are still a few things I want to before its all over.
READ! - I started reading a great book about Jim Palmer and Earl Weaver over my vacation in North Carolina. It is an awesome read, but I’m just a bad book reader. I want to finish it soon and I have a few other books I would like to read before I go back to school.
Modify my car - So far I have tinted the windows and added an antenna and a German plate to my 04 Passat. I’ve got lots of ideas of what is next, I just need to financially be able to do make them all happen. There is a VW Show in York, PA on August 2nd that I plan to attend and a huge show on September 28 in Ocean City that I would like to go to.
Save some cash - This might conflict with my second goal, but I would like to put away some money for the school year. So far I have been pretty good about saving, I just need to continue it.
Learn to cook - When I first moved into my apartment I ate horribly, because I had never cooked a decent meal in my life. It was frozen burritos and canned foods for quite some time. It drove me crazy. So I have been learning to cook a few little things as I go and I hope to keep that going. I make pretty good chicken quesadillas, chicken tacos, and have even baked cookies. I don’t expect to be an expert, I just want to have a good foundation of meals for the next school year.
Keep zamwi moving - I have a lot of goals for this blog. It took a bit of time off but I want to make sure that does not happen anymore. I would like to do more video work on the site, because that is where the internet is moving and an area that I love. I want to try and post good information as well as keeping my friends who are all over the world updated with what is going on in my life.
Document - I bought a Flip camera about a month ago just for fun. I have been carrying it with me everywhere and it has become a part of my day. I want to film some of the exciting parts of my life and share them right here.
Take advantage of every free second - I stay up late and sleep in, but I want to make sure that any free time I have I take advantage of. So far I’ve been to North Carolina, New York City, Washington D.C., and Hershey Park twice. I’d say I’m off to a good start.
So that’s where I am. I’ll check back at the end of August to see how I did.
What do you want to do with the rest of your summer?
I’ve been all overthe place the past couple days. And haven’t slept a bit.
I just can’t turn away from the All Star Game though. Now its tied in the bottom of the 14th 3-3 and the Orioles George Sherrill has pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings, which is crazy for a closer. (MVP ?)
I’d love to see the A.L. win, but my 10 hours of sleep in the past 2 days is really starting to catch up to me.
By the way my ast day of break is tomorrow, I think I’m going to take it easy…but I’ll get back to you for sure for confirmation.
Major League Basebal had stuff all over the city, two story buses full of screaming fans were pretty common. Naturally, I hit Time Square and a few of the shops on Fifth Avenue.
My view of Time Square - July 14, 2008
I could not believe that wait for the new iPhone at Apple’s legendary cube store. There must have been 300 people waiting outside to buy and activate the 3G iPhone. Crazy.
I also took an NBC tour, which I have been wanting to do since my first trip to New York. I got to see the Saturday Night Live Studio, a few control rooms, and Brian Williams set for the NBC Nightly News. Very big studios, lots of nice equipment.
I decided to continue my break tomorrow with another trip to Hershey Park. As always you can catch me on twitter throughout the day!
As I’m sure many of you know the next 3 days in Major League Baseball include the Homerun Derby and All Star Game.
That means that I have 3 (yes 3) days off of work. I plan on taking full advantage of these days. I have had vacation earlier this year, but besides that trip this will be my longest break from work until September 30. In fact I have only 7 days off after the All Star Break.
I was in Hershey Park the other day, but tomorrow I begin with New York City, where I plan on hitting the typical tourist spots. I definitely want to do an NBC tour this time around at the big apple.
I’ll be texting updates to twitter all day, so stay tuned for day one of the All Star Break.
At the beach I starter reading Palmer and Weaver: Together we were Eleven foot Nine, being a huge Orioles fan I like to take a look back at their history, with the stories of their best manager and best pitcher.
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t recycle…nor to I intend too, especially at this school. I’ve heard that they mix the recycling right in all the other trash, which may or may not be true but it is enough to keep my away from doing all the hard work of separating stuff.
I’m not anti-green, I just think that this whole thing gets really really hyped.
I don’t know how I feel about global warming. True, not true. Seems pretty normal to me. I’ve heard both sides, that we go through warmer and colder trends, or that we’re going to melt this earth in 10 years. I don’t know.
I still think global warming was a good way for people to remember Al Gore again. He’s made a lot of money off the topic. Now he’s got us by the balls with a theory (yup I said it), and suddenly all the hippies are rising.
But Earth day. Right, earth day?
Everyone is trying to be so green and friendly, we’re still paying 4 bucks a gallon for gas in our 10 MPG Suburbans (God bless America), and if we really wanted cars that were more environmentally friendly then we would have had them long ago. I’m not talking about hybrids, maybe a biofueled car, or even solar (yeah the sun).
Hybrids aren’t for men first of all, and only the rich drive them. They’re a joke, and the hybrid SUVs get less MPGs than my 04 V Dub.
Anyway…
If our government was truly concerned about it they would have “green” cars, but they don’t mind us constantly running to the pump.
I really don’t think people care. Take my school for example. I walked into the fine Newell Dining Hall here at Towson University and was informed that for Earth Day Towson was asking students not use use trays to put your food on, only plates. This bewildered me. So no trays….
Save the earth.
Right…
I guess it saves water for not having to clean them? I don’t know. But part of no trays meant that students ate smaller meals. Which I suppose meant that we were wasting less. We had to scrape our plates into this disgusting tub of food to measure how much we wasted and the school is going to weigh the garbage over a series of weeks.
Sounds great right?
Think about it though. Is this saving the earth, or saving more money for my money grubbing school? You walk in, don’t use a tray, which means Towson doesn’t have to hire someone to clean that tray, we eat less because of the tray meaning that Towson saves money on food, we scrape off the plates, saving Towson more time and money. But after we were done, we had to put our plates on a tray to put them in the dish washing room.
Where is the earth in all this? Probably looking around as confused as I am.
I don’t get it.
I’m not saying stop trying to save the planet, I’m saying stop and look around at how much you’re really doing.
Honestly its the hippies who are concerned about earth. The same people that will go out and spend 5 bucks a pack on cigarettes, which are great for the environment I’m sure. They’re going to make me feel back because I use a tray? Nope.
I think I’ll keep my gas powered car, my dinner tray, and my normal routine. I’m gonna drive around needlessly and maybe burn some plastic here or there. You, let me know when you have a real plan for saving this planet. If it even needs the help to begin with.
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