It has been awhile since I last wrote on this little blog guy. But the truth is nothing has really happened worth writing down in the last two weeks. But, I will recap anyways.
Two weekends ago I was supposed to go to Janaye Brown's (now Janaye Rayman) wedding in Spearfish, SD. I wrestled with the idea of making this gigantic 11 hour drive by myself in a car that needs new rotors and finally decided I would go and I packed a bag and set my alarm. The next morning I was still questioning my decision and about an hour in after consulting my mother and father that this was probably a bad idea. I could have flown there in no time on the way there. The way back, hungover, would not have been the best time and probably not the safest activity in the world with no one to keep me awake. Soooooooo I ended up just swinging in to West Des Moines, IA and stayed with Jenny's parents for the weekend.
It wasn't a bad weekend, I did some lawn construction, watched some James Bond, watched an Iowa Cubs game, and played with the animals. The lawn construction was actually really fun. Mr. Klein had a drain pipe that needed to be moved because it was causing the area around the outlet to flood and stay soggy. We moved the pipe so it flowed down a hill and didn't pool up. We had to first find the old pipe and get it out of there. Then we had to cut the sod path for the new pipe, make sure the ground was relatively level, put the pipe in and cover it up. Some extra work did need to be done at the outlet because its a little higher and uneven that it used to be but the whole thing actually works. It stormed right after we put it in and it worked great. As a potential hydraulic engineer I'm going to put this on my resume. James Bond movies are playing all month long on G4 but the days I watched I got From Russia With Love which is a good one then I got 3 or 4 of that one bond that no one likes. The Iowa Cubs are the Chicago Cubs farm team so it was a good time going to see that. It's the skill level of the minor leagues with the prices of the majors (1 24oz beer = $8).
Yep so that was that. Last week was the start of soccer's World Cup. After watching the first couple games that all ended in 0-0 draws I remembered why I (and the United States) hate this game. The soccer community is simply OK with ties. A team can supposedly be vastly superior to another and still the game will be a tie or the teams will be separated by barely one goal. In the United States if you suck and you are playing a good team you are going to get freaking killed and there's no getting around it. This explains why in some college basketball games, teams get beat by double their own score for example. Also the field is HUGE. This explains why nothing happens because it takes forever to get anywhere on this field. They run around for 90 minutes and both teams combined maybe take 10 shots in one game. You may argue that soccer is like hockey in that teams don't score very often but i would argue that at least it's way faster of a game and people get knocked down, smashed against the boards, and they don't cry about calls like certain soccer players. I believe soccer is the sport with the most complaining, it's ridiculous. Anyways just my thoughts on the game but I will watch it because sports are a bit thin right now.
Well, my plane leaves for Paris tomorrow. I'm really excited about it. I've never really been outside the country. I did go to Canada a couple times but Canada is like America's hat anyways. I also went to Mexico but I don't count that either because it really wasn't that great of a time and I would have rather done something else with all the money I spent going there. I think I'm going to get up around 3:30 or 4 am and drive to Chicago. Park my car at Jenny's friend Alex's house. Thank you Alex you are a sweetie for letting me do that. Then it's decision time. I either pay under $10 bucks for a cab and train ride to the airport that will take around 2 hrs or pay around $50 to take a cab all the way and get there within a half hour. It's a big decision because I need to be to the airport at around 11 am for my international flight that takes off at 1 pm. I should get to Montreal around 4ish Eastern Time. Then my flight leaves at 7pm and I arrive in Paris at 8:30 am. Jenny informs me that they have TV screens in the headrests so I plan on watching Avatar since I have not seen that one yet. If Jenny's troubles with flying are any indication of how this is going to go down I'm in for a long couple days. I will write another one when I get there or as soon as possible. IF not it's off to England for a week and then after that Paris for the rest of the summer.
Au revoir!
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