Meteor Shower

As I drove my children back to their mother’s house tuesday, right in front of my windshield i see something streak across the sky, “woah cool” i thought… then I remembered it was the annual Perseids meteor shower! How could i forget? Maybe i can get my significant other to lay out with me with a bottle of wine and watch one of the most beautiful things one can experience… last year I tried and it lasted all but 10 minutes then she lost interest… probably because “Teen Mom” was on TV or something…. How can I be romantic when the person I’m romancing isn’t interested in the magnificence of a meteor shower?… hmmm

When I was younger I was an Astronomy nut… I still like it, but not as interested as when i was younger. My father (RIP dad) bought me a telescope for Christmas one year, and that was our thing. Looking up at planets and constellations on a clear summers night, was one of the things I miss most about him. He was a High School science teacher, so it was fun to learn things from him, and I hope one day my children will take an interest in astronomy and I’ll do the same things with them.

For those of you who might not know, what causes a meteor shower, a meteor shower in then the Earth’s orbit crosses the path of debris left behind from a comet. so for those of you who “wish upon a shooting star” might want to have a lot of wishes ready because you can see anywhere from 50 to 100 meteors in an HOUR! crazy i know… but depending on where you are, and brightness of the moon, you might only see 20 to 30… (which my gf thinks is boring.) So if the weather is permitting I would suggest everyone to grab their special someone, (or by yourself) and lay out under the stars and wish your heart away before it’s too late… the more wishes, the better the odds of one of them coming true…. right???? 😉

Thought of the day…

As I sit here at work bored. Staring at my computer reading other blogs, I think to myself (what a wonderful day…haha)… I think to myself, what can I bring to the blogging community that isn’t written by a sociology undergrad at Starbucks?..( no offense, i actually wish I was a sociology major, or even an undecided undergrad.. and damn Starbucks does sound good. 😉 lol ) Maybe I can bring my high school + 1 knowledge on life and beliefs and hope for some great feedback! positive or negative…

My thought for today is how do I make these blogs interesting? how can I reach people who have no idea who I am or what I have or haven’t accomplished. Unlike other viral sites ( facebook, twitter, myspace) I can reach and read and discover, people who I would never would here in a little town in the Midwest United states. But in a way, am I “cheating” on other people in my life? the people who do know me? I guess i can always post these blogs on my facebook page, but this is what makes this differnent.. if the people I am friends with or know really wanted to know what my thoughts and opinions are, they would ask… right? but on a blog such as this, there is no asking… just reading… if someone doesn’t want to hear my opinions on life… or on something such as  Justin Beiber (which i doubt i will.. but its an example  lol) they can simply not read my blog.

I mean, maybe there is a reason for my blogging… maybe there is some reason why I found somebody’s blog and decide to start doing some of my own?.. or maybe I’ll get bored and tired with here after a week.. lol.. I do not know, but that is what makes this, everything interesting is not knowing the outcome…. right?

olympics

seeing as most of the world is watching or paying attention to the olympics right now, only makes sense to devote my first opinionated blog on the one thing that might get the most hits… the olympics. 🙂

is it just me or have this years olympics for the most part been…. “sub par”…. I mean even after all the spoilers (thanks MSN, YAHOO, CNN, RADIO, TWITTER, FACEBOOK…pretty much everybody i talk to)….. there is no excitement… Living here in America, the olympics are on live, from like 6 in the morning till about 3 or 4 in the afternoon…. (the time the majority of America is at work….) then by the time we all would like to sit down, munch on some popcorn in our snuggie and get ready to watch some gymnastics…. we already know the outcome, so by the time 10 o’clock comes around we already know that Michael Phelps won gold, or that Gabby Douglas did not…. we stop watching or fast forward our DVR to something that hasn’t gotten as much attention like synchronized diving. (at least we don’t know who won!) . It has been four years (well two years since the winter Olympics)… and we can’t have the excitement or drama that Olympics always brings… I fell there should be some sort of FCC law prohibiting news outlets from spoiling outcomes until after we can watch them first. To me, that would be best for everybody involved, the Station gets higher viewing and ratings, advertisers can actually have their commercials watched and not DVRed through… and everyone can experience the joy and drama that the Olympics always brings!

but the olympics haven’t been all too bad this year i mean there are things like the Missy Franklin and the US  swim teams you tube video singing “Call me maybe”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KbmxiQ0OM

 

　

Missy Frankin and the US woman’s swim team kicking @$$ in everything, Michael Phelps breaking olympic records (Ryan Lochte is kind of a douche though..) US women winning Gymnastics gold… The basketball teams, the woman’s soccer teams, the volleyball teams…(none of who get any televised time for some reason) and after reading a SI article about everyone in the olympic village partying and having sex… makes these athletes a little athletes a little cooler than just your spoiled rich kids whos parents send them away for years and years of training just for 2 weeks of televised competition.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine

One thing is for certain, the US who’s mainly made up of early twenty somethings and teenagers, 2016 in Rio should be epic. The 2016 games shouldn’t be on tape delay, should be live, and just like Rio itself should be a party!…. even though Rio is a sh**hole and not sure how they are going to be able to afford all the olympic venues and make them nice and extravagant like they should be… guess we’ll have to wait and see….!!!!

GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First blog!

Hello blog world, this is my first blog….. 🙂 not quite sure what all to type about, but figures it will be a little bit of my thoughts on different things, stuff going on with myself and some videos and other things that i might come across on the ol web that intrigues me 🙂

some things about myself, are that I’m 27 Years old male, with 3 kids, and some very opinionated outlooks on life! I Started blogging after reading someone else’s blogs, and found it very interesting. I’ts things that you can talk about and share and not have to limit yourself to what you can say or post. I know blogging has been around a while, but I feel the way that society is, blogging will be really big here soon, so might as well get my foot in the so called “blog door” 🙂 So if you find me and my upcoming blogs interesting, please follow me!! as I am also going to try and find some new interesting people to follow myself 🙂

Thanks!!!