A Working Life

I got a job!!! I got the call today, I will start my job tomorrow. I have to be at the central office at 12:00. I will be a student technician for the Bullitt County Board of Education. I will go to school as normal for 1st and 2nd blocks, then go to work for the rest of the day. I will be making minimum wage, but also $.45 p/mile for gas for travelling to all the schools. I’ll have about 4 weeks to work before school starts back. I hope this job works out well.

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Hell yes I’m a Jr. fan.

Gas Prices

I don’t know how some people do it. Gas prices are killing my wallet. I mean, my car does reasonably well on gas, about 23 MPG, but $40.00 to fill up from 1/2 tank? Ridiculous. I look forward to the day when we can tell the Middle East what they can do with their stockpiles of oil when the US finally figures out some alternative energy solution. I still live at home so I just have to pay for my gas, some for my phone bill and car insurance. I don’t see how some of the starting out couples do it. Paying a Mortgage, car payments, insurance, all the bills, food and all the other expenses of life and all. My sister gets married in January, and their barely making ends meet now, renting a small apartment, and with no car payments. Oil per barrel prices hit another new record high while several stocks hit record lows. If people get to panicking and start selling stocks, it could be like the great depression all over again. First the company’s fail and close up, then the banks start to fail because they can’t get their money out of the company because they have none, and nobody can afford to buy it, so the banks are out that money. I’m just saying, it could happen again. Or there will be WW3.

Gas is currently $4.09 a gallon here, right about the state average. It should go up any day because of some stupid new state tax on gas. They keep talking about reducing or suspending the tax, and what do they do? They increase it. WTF. Tell me what you think about the gas prices.

Start Your Engines

For fathers day, me and dad got tickets to Kentucky Speedway for the Meijer 300 presented by Oreo. They say a picture speaks 1,000 words, so I’ll let the pictures do the talking here. Get ready for this if your on a slow connection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gone Fishing

You know what they say, I bad day fishing beats a good day working. Well, thats just what we did. My parents took off for vacation and I’m out of school for the summer, so we packed up the car and headed out to Nolin Lake. We mainly fished off the pier and shore line (we were at wax dock) with little luck. There were lots of little bluegills along the pier but nothing to try and catch. Mom eventually caught one trying to get the worm off.

All in all, it was a good day, just hot. Here are some pics of around the lake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serious fisherman at work here.

If you’ve been to Nolin, leave a commit, especially if you caught anything.

Car Wreck

Last night I found out the hard way that wet concrete is like ice. While driving down Bardstown road in Louisville, I looked away for about 1 second and turned back to find a car stopped about 30 feet in front of me. I was only going about 30 because I was looking for a gas station to buy a Coke from. Naturally, I slammed on the brakes, locked up, and slid into his bumper (So much for ABS). Luckily, he heard me trying to stop and tried to take off, creating a sort of cusion between the cars. It’s funny that we had just studied the transfer of energy between objects in physics just the other day. I drive a ‘99 Ford Taurus, it didn’t really do much damage to either car. I just had some paint scrached off and he had a slight dent. Here is a picture of my car before the accident, (I haven’t got a damage picture yet).

 

EARTHQUAKE

At about 5:36 (EST) this morning, we had a 5.2 earthquake rumble through town. I thought it was just the wind blowing hard until I got out of bed and the air was still. The Epicenter was in eastern Illinois, and took about 30 seconds for the shock waves to reach here. It scared the hell out of me once I had figured out what it was. This is the first earthquake I ever remember feeling. There was no real damage around here, just pictures off the wall and stuff of that nature. The weird part was that is was not the fault you would expect it to be from here, but from another one farther away. Leave a commit if you’ve been through an earthquake before.

Read about it at http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1919&from=rss_home

Thunder

Last weekend, I got to go to Thunder over Louisville (KY) for my first time. (For those of you unfortunate not to know what this is, it is a huge firework show, supposedly the largest in North America, that kicks off the Derby Festivities leading up to the Kentucky Derby). Unfortunately for me and the other 350,000 + crowd, it was COLD, just about 40 by the time the fireworks started. Figures that it was 80’s last week and 70’s this week, just a cold front for the weekend. Because of the cold the crowds were way down. If you’ve never seen thunder before, you should make a trip to town to see it one year. The fireworks are shot off the Second Street Bridge, crossing the Ohio River, and off of barges on either side of the bridge. After you see it once, you won’t want to miss it again. Wish i had pictures to post but I forget my camera. I watch it on TV every year but this was my first time watching it live. I Heard an interesting commit from one spectator, he said the difference between watching it on TV and watching it live is like the difference between looking at pictures and making love.

There is a huge air show during the afternoon. Planes and stunt pilots come from all over the country to perform. All this happens over the river, so there is a good view from both the Kentucky and Indiana sides. If you would like to know any more ask me in comments or go to http://www.thunderoverlouisville.org for more info.

First Post

This is my first time using this site so i’m still testng stuff out and seeing what I like. Consider this a test post.