Random. Sorry that pretty much sums up this post. First off I would like to apologize to anyone that did not like my comments on the last post, I did not do a very good job of removing myself from the situation, sorry.
Spring break was AWESOME!!! I even made some money and will hopefully work with that guy more this summer! I had a lot of fun hanging out with my girl friend and friends last week just relaxing and having fun together, it was very enjoyable. On Wednesday night I went to an Eagles concert in Davenport with a couple friends, all I can say is it was EPIC by far the best concert I have ever been to, it was worth every cent. If you enjoy their music and ever have a chance to go see them I strongly urge you to go, even if it is expensive you will not regret it. They were the only band and played for a solid three hours.
I guess it is time to get back to school though. It was pretty hard to leave after such a fun, enjoyable, and relaxing week. I keep trying to tell myself that I will be back for the WHOLE summer in six weeks, that is easier said than done though since that seems like a year away. I am really looking forward to the summer if you couldn't tell. I have been here basically since last June. I did have a week off in August, another in November, and of course this past week along with three weeks for Christmas, but that just doesn't seem like enough. When you have been at school for basically nine months with another month and a half left you start to get burned pretty quickly. Hopefully I will have a car by then as well, my dad and I started looking for one this past weekend (if you have a good used car let me know). I found one on Craigslist, but no response from the seller yet.
I think that is it for now. Spring practice starts on Tuesday so that should mean work, however I have not heard yet from my boss, oh well. If you were Wondering VEISHEA is the week of April 13-19, the spring game is that Saturday as well. That is all for now, have a great week! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Why?
A certain Cedar Rapids TV station reported last night that a Linn-Mar high school basketball player was cited for having a disorderly house. There was drinking going on, however he was not drinking nor did he supply any of it. I am not going to make this into a everyone hates Linn-Mar post, quite frankly that's nothing new.
This is going to sound wrong but he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it would not have been his house he would have been released with no charges or citations. Some people say that he has to sit and he is done. This is also wrong according to state and school policy if he did not test positive for alcohol then he did nothing wrong. This makes it completely up to coach Robertson on what to do, I imagine that would include not starting Wednesday night but we will find out.
I do not know how this got reported. I understand yes a star high school basketball player had a party that there was drinking at and that is somewhat of a story, but the story was not reported well in my opinion. In my own opinion if you are going to report this you better report every other high school party that gets broken up by the cops in which athletes are present, it happens at every school INCLUDING private and christian/catholic schools. I think a better way to report this would have been in a story outlining how much of a problem it is.
How do I know all this? I just graduated from Linn-Mar and due to the anti-alcohol and drug organizations I was part of I have had several conversations with school officials about what school and state policies are and what the consequences are. Being a recent graduate I also know that this happens at every other school and if you think it doesn't or that there were not students or athletes from other schools at that party you are blind and ignorant. Most of these players are on club teams and are very close friends even though they go to other schools. Basically just because it was a party at a house of Lion player doesn't mean there were not people from other schools as well.
I do understand the situation and that it happened the weekend before state. None of us will ever know the entire situation or what happened. For all we know he tried to get the people with the alcohol to leave. Overall I believe this situation has gotten blown WAY out of proportion. If given the chance I would love to sit down with the reporter who did the story and just discuss everything, and yes I would be calm and understanding of all points I would just emphasize that the all the facts were not reported which is causing this to spiral out of control, if by chance anyone at that station reads this I would like to hear your side of this as well and will be in Cedar Rapids next week if you would like to meet. Other than that I hope the boys can put this behind them for now and play some great ball in Des Moines. GO LIONS!!! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
This is going to sound wrong but he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it would not have been his house he would have been released with no charges or citations. Some people say that he has to sit and he is done. This is also wrong according to state and school policy if he did not test positive for alcohol then he did nothing wrong. This makes it completely up to coach Robertson on what to do, I imagine that would include not starting Wednesday night but we will find out.
I do not know how this got reported. I understand yes a star high school basketball player had a party that there was drinking at and that is somewhat of a story, but the story was not reported well in my opinion. In my own opinion if you are going to report this you better report every other high school party that gets broken up by the cops in which athletes are present, it happens at every school INCLUDING private and christian/catholic schools. I think a better way to report this would have been in a story outlining how much of a problem it is.
How do I know all this? I just graduated from Linn-Mar and due to the anti-alcohol and drug organizations I was part of I have had several conversations with school officials about what school and state policies are and what the consequences are. Being a recent graduate I also know that this happens at every other school and if you think it doesn't or that there were not students or athletes from other schools at that party you are blind and ignorant. Most of these players are on club teams and are very close friends even though they go to other schools. Basically just because it was a party at a house of Lion player doesn't mean there were not people from other schools as well.
I do understand the situation and that it happened the weekend before state. None of us will ever know the entire situation or what happened. For all we know he tried to get the people with the alcohol to leave. Overall I believe this situation has gotten blown WAY out of proportion. If given the chance I would love to sit down with the reporter who did the story and just discuss everything, and yes I would be calm and understanding of all points I would just emphasize that the all the facts were not reported which is causing this to spiral out of control, if by chance anyone at that station reads this I would like to hear your side of this as well and will be in Cedar Rapids next week if you would like to meet. Other than that I hope the boys can put this behind them for now and play some great ball in Des Moines. GO LIONS!!! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Spring is....
In the air! Today was AMAZING!!! It got to around 72 today here in Ames, and my roommate complained about being hot. I wanted to respond with something along the lines of "Then I think you could take off 3 or 4 of your layers" but I decided not too. This is the time of year that we finally start getting warmer and have nice warm days and cold nights. In fact as I write this it's 8pm and the temperature is already 49 degrees. If you want to know why this is take a basic meteorology class, or ask me sometime when we both have time and you know you will be interested, once I start it's hard to stop.
I was waiting for my stat lab to start today and was looking through some weather stuff on my phone and pulled up the visible sat elite image. These visible images basically just take a snap shot and anything that reflects the suns radiation shows up. Due to this you can see snow and even sand. With the warm temperatures today you could see the rapid snow melt in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Sometime this weekend check out this website http://tinyurl.com/ (You have to do it during the day however). This is one of my favorite things to watch when storms are developing because you can really see them build. There are numerous weather websites that I check regularly and get my information from as well. Another one of my favorites is the iembot monitor. Basically you pick which NWS office you want to monitor and it shows all of the watches, warnings, and advisories as they issue them. It also shows the storm reports they receive as they enter them into the system. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/5gef93
Other than that I mostly just look at models and stuff. One last descent website is weather underground at wunderground.com It's loaded with ad's which makes it annoying though. Speaking of weather my Meteorology class has been going pretty well until this week. Our old professor decided he was getting behind on his research and now we have a grad student that speaks in a monotone voice teaching the class. This doesn't make learning about thermodynamics any easier by the way, which I will spend some time studying over spring break...yay.
I want to congratulate the Linn-Mar girl's and boy's basketball teams on their great seasons and advancement to the State tournament. The girls won an UGLY game against Xavier on Wednesday to advance to the semi-final round on Friday to play second ranked Ames. It is beyond me why the girls athletic association matches the two top teams in a semi final game, oh well. Hopefully my Lions win tomorrow and advance to the championship game on Saturday night so I can go! The girls are 24-0 and deserve to win it all, good luck girls!!! I got to see the boys play last Friday night against Xavier, it was well an interesting game. Xavier is a great team that came out and took it to the Lions when they didn't come out of the gate and play, however the second half was completely different. With about two minutes left the Saints put in Kyle Jacobe (spelling?) Kyle has leukemia, Linn-Mar played defense and the Saints kept giving him the ball until he scored. When Kyle scored Linn-Mar called a timeout and Kyle came out of the game crying while every person in the gym gave him a standing ovation for several minutes. Some people would not want to be recognized like that but that is what sportsmanship is all about. The boys play Cedar Falls Wednesday night at 6:30, this will be a very good game since the Tigers beat the Lions in the regular season finale and then beat third ranked Kennedy to get to the state tournament, both wins however were in Cedar Falls. I think the Lions will win that game in a close one, lets hope. That's all I have for now. GO LIONS!!! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
Other than that I mostly just look at models and stuff. One last descent website is weather underground at wunderground.com It's loaded with ad's which makes it annoying though. Speaking of weather my Meteorology class has been going pretty well until this week. Our old professor decided he was getting behind on his research and now we have a grad student that speaks in a monotone voice teaching the class. This doesn't make learning about thermodynamics any easier by the way, which I will spend some time studying over spring break...yay.
I want to congratulate the Linn-Mar girl's and boy's basketball teams on their great seasons and advancement to the State tournament. The girls won an UGLY game against Xavier on Wednesday to advance to the semi-final round on Friday to play second ranked Ames. It is beyond me why the girls athletic association matches the two top teams in a semi final game, oh well. Hopefully my Lions win tomorrow and advance to the championship game on Saturday night so I can go! The girls are 24-0 and deserve to win it all, good luck girls!!! I got to see the boys play last Friday night against Xavier, it was well an interesting game. Xavier is a great team that came out and took it to the Lions when they didn't come out of the gate and play, however the second half was completely different. With about two minutes left the Saints put in Kyle Jacobe (spelling?) Kyle has leukemia, Linn-Mar played defense and the Saints kept giving him the ball until he scored. When Kyle scored Linn-Mar called a timeout and Kyle came out of the game crying while every person in the gym gave him a standing ovation for several minutes. Some people would not want to be recognized like that but that is what sportsmanship is all about. The boys play Cedar Falls Wednesday night at 6:30, this will be a very good game since the Tigers beat the Lions in the regular season finale and then beat third ranked Kennedy to get to the state tournament, both wins however were in Cedar Falls. I think the Lions will win that game in a close one, lets hope. That's all I have for now. GO LIONS!!! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
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