Now introducing Jason Anthony

This post is to introduce my friend and college buddy Jason Anthony to the blogging world. He has a blog. Yes, a blog. Jason...., you have a blog. It is not a website. It is a blog. He does not like to call it a blog. But Jason is a blogger. He blogs on blogspot.com. His blog address is http://microcosms-of-mediocrity.blogspot.com/

Jason came to Toccoa Falls College in 1998. Let me tell you some very important facts about Jason Anthony.

Jason had a basketball rug.

Jason thinks fluorescent lights are "ugly"; he prefers regular light bulbs.

Jason likes to wear dark clothes and would just assume die as to wear a pastel color.

Jason is a master of language. He is an English major. He likes to read old English and Shakespear and poetry of long ago. He put all those interest into his hard earned, well-deserved, highly touted English Degree. He is now a Tree Sherriff. (Park Ranger) . . . (Possum Cop).

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But in all seriousness....I recommend Jason's blog because Jason is an interesting individual. He likes nature and is a hard worker. He is a very helpful person - as he helped me many times with computer related things in college. I like Jason and am not happy with him for driving down here and never coming to my house. Jason...one day I will come visit you at your cabin in the woods. It will be fun. It will be like old times when I mess with your WORD autocorrect.

Reporter passing out on on Blue Angel ride

I found this entertaining.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/extra/blueangels/

Favorite foods from resturaunts

Wendy's : Spicey Chicken Sandwich with extra tomatoes and ketchup. (Although I sometimes now don't order extra tomatoes, because they seem to interpret this as asking for NO tomatoes.)

Zaxby's : Chicken Finger basket with BBQ sauce instead of Zaxby's sauce.

Blimpie's : Grilled beef and cheddar with lots and lots of Peppercorn Sauce. (Also lettuce, tomatoes, sweet peppers, salt, pepper, vinegar, oil, oregano)

Sonny's: Pulled Pork plate with lots of sweet bbq sauce.

Chinese resturaunts: Hot and Sour Soup!!! (I love it, if it is made right. Some people put too much pepper in it. But if it is made right, it ranks in the top two foods in the world on my list.) Also: Sesame chicken.

Mexican Resturant: Texas Fajita Nachos - Nachos with shrimp, chicken and beef.

Burger King: Whopper

Subway: Meatball sub

Red Lobster: Shrimp Scampi

Mary Anne's in Young Harris: Nothing - that place is gross.

Fresh Seafood Market and Grill: Blackened or Lemon Pepper fish of any kind.

What about you?

Personal Breezes

Ok. This is kind of strange, but it's one of those things that I've always known was there, but wondered if other people realized it. Do you ever notice people's "personal breezes?"

What is it? Well, ...picture yourself walking down the corridor of the mall (but it could be anywhere, except outside usually), and you're walking one direction, and you see someone walking towards you in the opposite direction. ...They pass by you, (within a couple of feet of you). And then there is about a 2 second delay. And then it hits you....their "breeze". Sometimes it is a perfume or cologne; sometimes is a not so pleasant smell; sometimes it is not much of a smell at all - just a breeze. But there is always that 2 second delay, and then it hits you in the face. Kind of like the wake from a boat.

Anyone else ever notice "personal breezes?" If you haven't, just for the fun of it, next time you are in a hallway walking past someone, watch for it. (Maybe watch isn't the best word.)

Airbus considering standing-room-only airline seats

Airbus considering standing-room-only airline seats, report says
If you think legroom is bad now, then get ready for “standing-room only” seating. The New York Times (free registration) writes that “Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none have agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness, according to experts who have seen a proposal.” One proposal apparently involves Airbus' A380 model, which will be the world’s largest commercial jet when it enters service in the coming years. A “typical configuration” calls for the jet to seat about 500 passengers, but that number could balloon to 853 with standing-room-only seats. (Check out the Times' website to see their graphic showing what such seats could look like.)

"To call it a seat would be misleading," says Volker Mellert, a physics professor at Oldenburg University in Germany, who has studied airline seat comfort and has seen the proposed standing-room-only design. He says that if any airlines ever decided to use such a “seating” configuration, it would most-likely be used only on short-haul flights in densely populated areas like Japan. The Times says an Airbus spokeswoman “played down the idea that Airbus was trying to sell an aircraft that accommodated 853 passengers,” though she would not comment on the “upright-seating proposal.” Would such seats fly in the USA? Apparently, it would be possible. According to the Times, the Federal Aviation Administration requires that passengers only be “secured” for takeoff and landing, but not necessarily “in a sitting position.”

Would you ever consider buying a "standing-room-only" ticket? Is this a good idea, or a recipe for disaster? Share your thoughts with other Today in the Sky readers.

If all the cigarettes smoked worldwide over the course of a year were laid end to end, they would come close enough to the sun to start the end cigarette smoldering.

I'm back

I am back from a trip out of town. I will post more soon.

For now, I will just post that I am trying to sell my neon...but the title fairy has run away with my title paper. I will kill her.

Come on ride that bus...and choo choo ride it.

Ok, ok, well buses don't go "choo choo". But anyway...

I am getting a CDL license. (Commercial Drivers License). At my last church, they hounded me about getting it, but I refused. I did so because the school I was teaching in at the time had the same kind of bus as the church. And if I got a CDL, I would be only the 2nd guy at the school who had one and they would have had me driving everywhere.

But now.....I don't have to worry about that, because public school won't be able to rope me into driving one because I won't take the airbrake part of the test. So I'll get a class B license without airbrakes. That way I can only drive for church (this bus has hydraulic brakes, not air). And I've been told that I'll be protected from having many people asking me to drive for them. I don't mind helping sometimes, but you know how that goes. This will be for the kids trips at church mainly.

So anyway, I'm in the middle of studying the manual. The driving part is easy, because its mostly common sense stuff. It's the checking the bus over part thats hard. I'm not mechanical by nature, so looking at pictures of leaf springs, Pitarm bars, u-joints, ect. on a diagram is Greek to me. Hopefully I'll be able to make it through that part.

I actually have to take 4 tests. Three written, and one driving. I'll take the written ones at the DMV in Toccoa, and then I'll have to make an appointment in Gainesville for the driving part. All together it'll cost $95.

All aboard...

Dance, monkey...dance.

Kickin' it - Easter Style. (More photos have been added to Micah's pictorial [different from Tori's blog])

A beautiful wife - and a son who could use a pimp cane. What more could a man ask for?

I don't remember if I posted this picture before...but...this is Micah getting his first haircut. I wasn't sure how he'd act. But once the sucker came into play...it was all good.

White men can get ashy too

Today I went to town to buy some red mulch. I put it in my front yard .......

...and while I was at the Feed and Seed store I stepped in a pile of white mystery powder.

Funny

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Spring Break

It's been a little over a week since I last posted. Its been a crazy and busy week. But now... I'm on Spring Break!

I'm visiting my parents right now. I'll be back home for Easter Sunday. I'm glad this break is here...I needed it.

I found this interesting...

Dear Yahoo!:
Was J. Edgar Hoover really a transvestite?
Melinda
Hawaii

Dear Melinda:

As fun as it is to imagine the former chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in drag, most historians believe this is just an urban legend.
The History News Network explains how the rumors began. In "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover," author Anthony Summers quotes Susan L. Rosenstiel as saying she once observed Hoover in a black dress and high heels at the Plaza Hotel. The story, salacious though it is, isn't very credible. Rosenstiel's husband was involved in organized crime, and Susan was once convicted of perjury in an unrelated case. Additionally, why would the head of the FBI put himself in a position to be easily blackmailed?

Far more likely (though never proven) was that Mr. Hoover was a closeted homosexual. Hoover was a lifelong bachelor, but he did have one constant companion -- Clyde Tolson. The two were inseparable, even vacationing together. When Hoover died, he left his entire estate, valued at over $500,000, to Tolson. Additionally, it was Tolson who accepted the American flag used to drape Hoover's casket.

Of course, just because two guys hang out together doesn't mean they're lovers. The fact is, nobody knows whether Hoover and Tolson were more than friends, but it's interesting to note the two chose to be buried next to each other.

Test Time

Well, here's the story behind the picture.

We are taking the CRCT standardized test at school. It is a week-long and very serious. So it was kind of funny that something like this does not happen all school year, but during the CRCT a mouse goes running across the floor during the test. Kids were jumping out of desks, and girls were shreaking. I was on the floor trying to catch it, and got stuck under a desk (darn pudding). Finally one of the boys caught it and put it in this green bucket.

Turns out one of the girls "accidently" brought it from home. She said it must have climbed into her stuff.....uh...yeah.

And then TODAY, during the test a girl (different one) just vomits. She was sick from the stress of the test. So...so far, mice and vomit...and the week isn't even over yet.

hmm

On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Charlie Simpson

The other day I was at lunch with the teachers who I usually eat lunch with. It was lunch as usual. Then another one of the teacher who has lunch later came in to get a snack. She sat down right next to me.

So she sits down with us and begins casual conversation. Eventually, one of the teachers I eat with asked her about what she was going to be doing next year.

So the lady began to explain how her certification was not sufficient and she would not be able to teach. She began to really open up, and share her heartfelt feelings about having to leave the profesison she loved - working with special education children. It is her passion; it is what she believes in. It was definetly an emotional moment. She apologized for being on a soapbox, but the other teachers around me comforted her, and supported her for sharing her struggles.

While all that was happening...I was sitting next to her having a WWF match with my pudding, trying violently to rip the lid off with my teeth.