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Name: Jay
Gender: Male
Interests: mountain biking,
trials riding,
motorcycles,
reading,
prayer,
thought,
friends,
writing sometimes
Expertise: nothing really, I enjoy all sorts of mechanical tinkering, bikes, motorcycles, etc.
Occupation: ????
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
12/19/2005
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| It seems that every time I sit down to post I've forgotten that thought train I had last week I was trying to save for a post...Oh and it also seems likes its always windy and I tend to comment on it...So being a bit of a traditionalistI must say, dang its windy! So windy in fact the 10 minute average wind speed is 37mph! Not a day for climbing grain bins but thats what I did all morning, seems alot windier when you're 30 feet above the ground clinging onto a cold wet ladder, oh well. There were snow flakes in the air today as well.
What is it that makes people as they get older talk about the weather? Is it because weather is a commonality, a non-partisian issue? After all, its pretty hard to offend someone by making observations of how hot or cold it is on any particular day. Or maybe its the consistancy of it, weather is always around us, so it's easy to bring up, though not easy to carry a conversation on it. And then there's the memories....I remember the day you were born, the weather was....back in '93 there was that huge windstorm, leveled alot of corn fields, and trees and bins and pivots....weather is a beautiful thing, I dont really look forward to getting old and reverting to simplistic weather conversations just to pass the time, but I do enjoy the roll weather plays on the memory, the consistancy, the strength and hte constant presence always surrounding memorable events. | | |
| Alot of life has happened since the last post, an engagement, most of the growing season. Harvest has been going on far too long because of the rains, but we're back at it again. Life is pretty good, I'm getting married in less than 2 months, pre-marriage counseling starts tomorrow, and most of the plan are mostly completed.
In other news I'm still struggling with the election, itd be a whole lot easier if they we're such liars, or if I didnt agree strongly with each canidate on at least a couple issues. If they'd just all line up with my ideals itd be easy, anyways...I'm also thinking I ought to be investing in the stockmarket or some mutual funds, stitistically in history the markets have only dropped this drastically twice ( I think I heard that right) 1) the depression 2) Nixon resignation. And beings that I dont think we're in a depression they ought to bounce back here in the next few years to almost equal their previous (is that something like double what they are now or more?) But of couse I'm not smart enough nor do I have enough cash just laying around to gamble with, but if I did.....I'd probably send it to warren buffet and let him invest it for me;)
oh and another thing, I heard the first Christmas song today....only one though, luckily.
or 2...I finally finished Anna Karenina after about 10 months, it was good.
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| Its raining cats and dogs outside according to our little in-home weather station, I find it funny how they try to program phrases like that into it's little computer brain, or how on the automated weather stations when they report happenings in list form they dont just say, "its 60 degrees in York, 63 in Aurora and 59 in Hampton...." Rather its more like "its 60 degrees in York and 63 in Aurora with Hampton a little cooler at 59..." Its little but funny b/c I'm sure itd be easier to just program a list...but I guess this makes it more interesting along with the computerized voice fluctuation that always puts emphasis on the wrong syllable.
So I may get back tonight with time to actually open Anna Karenina but probably not unless the rain stops long enough to ride my motorcycle home:(... One of these days my "now reading" is going to say "Anna Karenina: the Cliff Notes." ;) I got a moped the other day from my cousin, it was my grandpa's and after a few hours of tinkering, cleaning and not really doing anything it finally started, mind you it was after I had tinkered with the same parts about 5 times doing basically the same things every time...oh well it goes now, and thats what matters, besides, "I get 80 miles to the gallon on this hog" granted with a top speed around 30 I wont get anywhere fast but who cares, theres no need to drive fast to and from work anyway and its about 4 times better than my van, and its dorky b/c so many of the others in the community are farmers driving pickups @ 14 mpg. he he he, soon I'll be more than the "kid with long hair" (formerly one of two, my house-mate just cut his off) I'll be "the long haired kid who rides the moped"....I'm sure in reality no one notices or cares if my hair is long or if I ride a moped to work but sometimes I do wonder if they wonder.... I wonder why I wonder, I wonder why I why, I even wonder when I wonder, why I wonder why... and with that good night
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| Red chaff blankets the earth,
results of a full days work.
tiny snowflakes fall
silently from the sky
melting
as they reach the warm ground
drawing perfect rectangles
around a vehicle
left outside.
an overhead auger
purrs rhythmically
in the background
I reach instinctively in my pocket
for the time
and pull out half a handful of corn
a dozen more kernels
are sliding around in my shoes
I toss what is in my hand to the birds
and leave what is in my shoes for later.
fine dust alights from my clothes
as I try to shake the chill
setting in
from my sweat dampened shirt
its the seventh of April
and its snowing
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| Last Sunday our pastor told a short blurb of a story about late night TV....Apparently Jay Leno does this thing when they go to the streets with trivia questions to ask random people, being Holy Week they decided to ask people Bible trivia. One lady was asked who it was that God's people, the Israelites, in the Old Testament were under captivity to, and who were they fleeing from on their "Exodus"?
Her answer: The Mennonites!
I have a number of friends over in India right now and I got about 3 letters from them this past week. The stories are hard, not happy look-what-we've-accomplished stories, but alas I see within the stories a family whose mother just died is comforted, an enemy is helped and shown the same love as a friend, children are fed where food is scarce and they are in turn able to help their sibling by bringing them (literally carrying at times) to the feeding program so they too can begin the slow process of trying to reverse the malnourishment. Its sad yet it brings me hope. It is real life. Not everyone lives in a family where food is plentiful and parents care...its obvious I know but sometimes I think its good to have those reminders close to home, those faces and names you know first hand who aren't always able to feed their kids, those kids who get into trouble and are taken from the home because of trouble with the law or parental neglect. I don't like to see these situations but we all know they happen and when we see them first hand it is alot easier to pray for them, to take pity on them and to really try to think about what we can do to make a difference in ____'s life, not just some disconnected picture on the evening news.
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