That's about how this last Saturday went. But I can now hold my head high as a Utah citizen and say I have been skiing. ...
Or at least I made a valiant attempt at falling down the mountain strapped to two pieces of wood. As the title says I really spent most of the afternoon laying on my side trying to figure out how to get back up, and when I did how to not hit the trees that were coming quite rapidly in my direction. For those of you who know how to ski (or for anyone else for that matter) it must have been quite a sight. This year however I did not hit any trees... I took one out. Yep it came down to me or that little sapling and I won. Still truth be told, even through the thoughts of 'man was not made to ski' or rather 'man was not meant to fall down a mountain strapped to two boards' I did enjoy it.
As for Saturday evening I was able to attend the open house at Hy-Pointe and Logan I'll say it again. Your grandfather has the coolest house in Utah. It was a pleasure to see Hy-pointe again and just go through it with Friends. Thank-you Logan.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
So we Know Eric Loses...
Ok, I do lose at this Blog thing...I write about twice a month and usually it's full of absolutely nothing, but who am I to break tradition.
So life is good but confusing.
School can Suck a FISH!
and yet that is where I see my Friends so....School WORK can Suck a fish.
I have nothing more intelligent to say....I really need a way to be posting here while I'm speaking to my vacuum at work I write/say all sorts of stuff then, but it never finds its way here.
The end.
So life is good but confusing.
School can Suck a FISH!
and yet that is where I see my Friends so....School WORK can Suck a fish.
I have nothing more intelligent to say....I really need a way to be posting here while I'm speaking to my vacuum at work I write/say all sorts of stuff then, but it never finds its way here.
The end.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Education....hmm?
I've been contemplating a discussion held at a ceremony practice a while back and thought I would expound on it here.
To the members of the ceremony team I hope I do the discussion justice.
Higher education In today's society only makes it half way. In today's colleges we are told to value each opinion and always look at both sides of an issue. Good? Yes. but it does not complete the Idea of being educated. Back in the day you were taught to reason meaning you would not just look at issues and validate alone, You would pick something and stick with it until either you have proven it right, or someone else has given enough evidence to prove you wrong. Higher education provides a vehicle to a lot of new ideas. But we need to not just validate every point we come across we need to Make educated decisions.
Ok I'm done. but it's something that Government sparked in me I don't care if the teacher is wrong at least I can make decisions about what I can take from that class. It's the fact that she (my teacher) does not even get to the first level of THINKING she just regurgitates the bloody book!
To the members of the ceremony team I hope I do the discussion justice.
Higher education In today's society only makes it half way. In today's colleges we are told to value each opinion and always look at both sides of an issue. Good? Yes. but it does not complete the Idea of being educated. Back in the day you were taught to reason meaning you would not just look at issues and validate alone, You would pick something and stick with it until either you have proven it right, or someone else has given enough evidence to prove you wrong. Higher education provides a vehicle to a lot of new ideas. But we need to not just validate every point we come across we need to Make educated decisions.
Ok I'm done. but it's something that Government sparked in me I don't care if the teacher is wrong at least I can make decisions about what I can take from that class. It's the fact that she (my teacher) does not even get to the first level of THINKING she just regurgitates the bloody book!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Informed I Am Not.
So, just the other day I was invited to be interviewed by a Palestinian student that Kimberly knows. Her name was Hanadi (I'm sorry if I killed that). And she wanted to know what American students thought about the Palestinian Israeli conflict that is going on right now.
My realization I do not know as much as I thought about current events. I was forced to explain that in front of her camera. But apparently in order to be informed about this issue you have to dig like mad on the Internet. According to NBC "X" number of soldiers go in and they move to other news. What they fail to tell us is that "Y" number of Palestinian were killed by "X" number of soldiers because Israel will not let journalists in.
Grr. The conversation at the Wilk on campus made me disgusted. Palestine is a prison right now nobody comes in (except American financed gun toting Israeli soldiers.) And nobody comes out, including all of the homeless Palestinian natives. So here is the challenge if you want to be informed see if you can come to one of Mr. Birds classes Feb 16th and 17th (I might be wrong about those dates so I will make sure) because Kimberly will be teaching and I believe Hanadi will also be there. So come and get informed about something I was not.
PS. These are the correct dates.
My realization I do not know as much as I thought about current events. I was forced to explain that in front of her camera. But apparently in order to be informed about this issue you have to dig like mad on the Internet. According to NBC "X" number of soldiers go in and they move to other news. What they fail to tell us is that "Y" number of Palestinian were killed by "X" number of soldiers because Israel will not let journalists in.
Grr. The conversation at the Wilk on campus made me disgusted. Palestine is a prison right now nobody comes in (except American financed gun toting Israeli soldiers.) And nobody comes out, including all of the homeless Palestinian natives. So here is the challenge if you want to be informed see if you can come to one of Mr. Birds classes Feb 16th and 17th (I might be wrong about those dates so I will make sure) because Kimberly will be teaching and I believe Hanadi will also be there. So come and get informed about something I was not.
PS. These are the correct dates.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Ok Maybe I Should Post Something...
Its' been a while.
But hey the term is ending, and while this is not going to be pretty (in fact this term will be horrible as far as grades are concerned) It was A. a lot of fun and B. Long. It will feel so good to have the slate clean and be able to try to do a little better with staying on top of things this next term. We'll have to see how it goes.
But hey the term is ending, and while this is not going to be pretty (in fact this term will be horrible as far as grades are concerned) It was A. a lot of fun and B. Long. It will feel so good to have the slate clean and be able to try to do a little better with staying on top of things this next term. We'll have to see how it goes.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Oh boy..... some week.
This last week was great.
And Insane.
But a lot of fun. I went on 3 dates, 2 to the forgotten carols and one amazing Christmas dance. I guess I take after a few dear scoutmasters of mine when it comes to the "Warm Fuzzy Feelings" because truth be told after Josephs song on the second night my eyes were sweating a bit. (Not outright crying but dang close) I really enjoyed the show both nights.
As for the Christmas dance, I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. OK maybe the drive could have been a little safer not to criticize the driver but the roads were treacherous. And it might have helped to have spikes in my tux shoes, because I managed to biff it twice that night once with my date. (thank goodness she let go or I would have brought her down too.) However snow and ice aside I could not have asked for better company and a more enjoyable (20 person) Group.
Oh, and as a side note at the Christmas dance almost everybody tried some of my carrot pudding and most enjoyed it to! So we have discovered that the pudding is not the cause of my insanity. (though I am probably overly excited about having my friends try my pudding stuffed in a jar)
And Insane.
But a lot of fun. I went on 3 dates, 2 to the forgotten carols and one amazing Christmas dance. I guess I take after a few dear scoutmasters of mine when it comes to the "Warm Fuzzy Feelings" because truth be told after Josephs song on the second night my eyes were sweating a bit. (Not outright crying but dang close) I really enjoyed the show both nights.
As for the Christmas dance, I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. OK maybe the drive could have been a little safer not to criticize the driver but the roads were treacherous. And it might have helped to have spikes in my tux shoes, because I managed to biff it twice that night once with my date. (thank goodness she let go or I would have brought her down too.) However snow and ice aside I could not have asked for better company and a more enjoyable (20 person) Group.
Oh, and as a side note at the Christmas dance almost everybody tried some of my carrot pudding and most enjoyed it to! So we have discovered that the pudding is not the cause of my insanity. (though I am probably overly excited about having my friends try my pudding stuffed in a jar)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Choir Dinner and the Sisters
Tonight is the last night of choir dinner! The stress begins to be relived. But it has been a lot of fun. Between spending almost a solid 48 hrs setting up and writing / preforming the narration it has been an enjoyable experience.
Our ward brought seven of the widows from our ward and my brother escorted them. Their transportation: The Brooksby's stretch limo. My brother said that he felt like he was in the car with seven giggling teen-agers. Many thanks to brother Brooksby for driving and letting us pull this off, the sisters were so excited and had a great time.
Our ward brought seven of the widows from our ward and my brother escorted them. Their transportation: The Brooksby's stretch limo. My brother said that he felt like he was in the car with seven giggling teen-agers. Many thanks to brother Brooksby for driving and letting us pull this off, the sisters were so excited and had a great time.
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