A Cool New Website

I went over to a friends house yesterday and he showed me a really cool website. Maybe its not a new find for some people, but if you have never seen it, you have to go check it out. It is at earth.google.com The website is a satellite image of the whole earth and you can zoom in on specific locations. All of the images are a couple of years old, so anything that has been built since then will not appear. Some of the locations that I personally found interesting to view were; the Eiffel Tower, Ground Zero, Six Flags Over Arlington, TX, the Red Square, Russia and an Ariel view of my college campus.

I am an uncle!

Last night my sister had her baby in Germany. They had to bring it C-section because it was so big. 21.5 inches and 8.5 lbs. My brother in law and sister are soo excited as is the rest of our family. They named it Drake Garrison. It is too bad we won't get to see it till the Christmas holiday, but they did e-mail pictures of it today. If you want to see it, just e-mail me and i'll forward the pictures to you. Well, i gotta get going. Today is the first teacher day at Taylor and I have to finish getting ready. Have a good one. God Bless.

Car shopping is the best

Car shopping is something else. There is nothing like waiting several hours for a little bit of paper work to get done. Today I bought a Honda CR-V and traded in my Toyota Corolla S. It amazed me how much of my time the guys in that place could waste. Everytime I had a question, especially financially, they would go in a room and stand there for like 15 minutes and talk about what seemed like nothing and then come back with an answer. I think it was a whole mental game. But it did not work on me. I went in with a price I was willing to pay and I walked out paying that price. I am excited about the SUV. It still gets 25 mpg which is a good thing saying gas prices just went up to 2.69 today and it has a lot more room than my car had. It also has four wheel drive which will be nice in the winter, especially during those trips to South Dakota in the winter. I am really excited about my camping trip to Turkey Run next month. I can't wait to load it full of my camping gear. It has been a long time since I have had something that isn't a car. Its a good feeling!

Taylor Titans

As of yeasterday I became a school teacher again. I recieved a call from the Teacher's Union VP and he offered me my old job back. I guess the union worked over the summer to get all of the teachers who had been riffed, layed off, jobs back. After they saw the surplus that the school was going to have in a year, well over 1 million dollars, they decided that the school really could afford to keep all the teachers they claimed that they no longer needed. So, good news for me. I am excited to know that my classroom is going to be in the high school building this year and that I may get to teach a couple of elective history classes.
The HVAC work is going well also. I will be done there next week. Today I worked on a house in Cicero that was over 8000 sq ft. It was awesome! (5 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 3 half baths, a library, wet bar, wine cellar, 7 person jacuzzi, 3 story deck, a kitchen the size of my house with all stainless steel jenaire appliances, a master bathroom with a countertop and cabinets larger than my kitchen, and all this in a beautiful woodsy setting) It all comes with a price though, but I guess you can afford that if you're an anesthesiologist. Maybe if i went together with a couple of other couples I could build a house like that... nah.

Is it already August?

My goodness, time does really fly. It seems like just yeasterday that I was on here talking about my new job. Now I am in my third week working there. The job has been going well. I have learned a lot and I am really enjoying it. I have learned how to install heaters, AC unites, heat pumps, and I have also installed bathroom fixtures and PVC. I am not sure if I will be working there much longer though, not because I don't want to, but tomorrow I will find out whether my old job is going to call me back to teach. I have mixed feelings about it. I really would like to stay where I am, but it would be insane to turn down the opportunity to return to my former school to teach and there is a huge salary difference. Tomorrow there is going to be a metting at school where a couple other teachers will have the chance to take the position that I had, but it is very likely that they will turn it down giving the type of students and classroom that they would have to teach. For some reason most people do not want to teach students who are not well motivated and have been in trouble. or in other words, the students who would be in my class. Well speaking of work, I have to start work at 6 a.m. so I need to be heading to bed. Goodnight