When is too far going to be too far?

There is some guys out there, flexing with every angle of muscle showing definition, and veins popping out all over the place. The girls seem somehow turned off, and it’s the veins all over the place that they don’t like. I just wondered if the girls try to do the same thing, which almost never happens, to flex and show all of the veins that would scare guys away, making them believe that these girls were once men before. I’d be freaked out too, ladies should just be ladies. They can play any sport they want, I don’t mind if they play hockey, football, and wrestling, it’s just about how they condition themselves.

I’ve been there when I was a little kid, I used to be extremely ripped and felt great all the time, now I just eat a lot, but try to burn it off as I work out in my short amounts of time in spite of the three AP classes I have and 30 hours of work every week. Among with a few clubs I’m in; it just doesn’t get to me anymore. I would love to get that energy again, but I just don’t have the time to condition myself, but I definitely don’t have the time to OVER condition and would never do it anyways. Those who over condition themselves must have some sort of problems later in life as they get older, don’t they?

Body builders have to constantly drink water as they age, so their muscles wouldn’t have to sag as fast. I’d rather work on the core strength, the pound for pound strength, where I wouldn’t have much to sag as I age. Where do those guys with tons of veins popping out go when they age?

Some guys didn’t work out until later in life. There was one crazy story of a 93 year old man who started bodybuilding at the age of 80 just to get attention from 70 year olds. Crazy story right? He said anyone can start, and should never stop. Well I guess I started really early, and should never stop? I’ve stopped running for a month or two, now I feel like crap, so I guess I’ll have to run again, and same goes with weightlifting. The only thing that is good about it is being able to eat a lot more to keep those calories restored, and I love eating, so it’s all good for me. Staying in condition if you weightlift and run would be 3000 calories a day, but if you don’t other than breathing and walking, then it’ll be 2000 per day.

Guttenburg review

The fishing trip to Guttenberg dam was time consuming, but it was worth it as you see so many hills, so many trees out there without leaves, it still covers up the hills 100%. The land is so pure, Amish people had the lands and we had the guide in this small town. The whole population of the small town however, fishes. There are walleyes, saugeyes, and saugers at every angle in the Mississippi river. They’re everywhere; it’s like pan-fishing for these toothy big fish. I could not imagine how big some of them can get in this area. I’d buy all of my time in the spring break to catch one of these monster walleyes and saugers to hang up on the wall. I need some neat outdoor furniture’s, and mostly it has to be outdoor things I’ve earned, and I know I’ve said this many times, but it is my life.

This would be the place to go for walleyes, although if I can go everywhere on earth, I would choose red river in Canada. The red river has extraordinary walleyes, one of a kind in this only planet. The walleyes can get up to a potential of 40 inches, which means “mother of all walleyes”. I don’t know if there is one that BIG out there, but they’ve caught 38 inchers up there. In Guttenberg the biggest walleyes caught there were 34 inches. But there could be bigger hiding on the bottom in those endless gallons of water. Guttenberg would be your best chance of all odds to get a monster walleye in Iowa. In any body of water in Canada, you could get many 30 inchers, but it all comes down to Red River, where only a few folks live in. I think if we had as many fishermen’s in Guttenberg as we do in Red River, the odds of someone catching a 40 incher is pretty immense. There are hundreds of boats out there in the spring time to catch these hungry walleyes. In Red River, a few Amish folks, and fishermen’s would go there, and come across some nice ones.

Just think of it as this, if you went to Red River in Canada and your first fish was a 30 inch walleye, would you be excited to imagine if you could catch a bigger one in that river? In Guttenberg, you’re really likely to catch a 15 incher walleye right off the bat, or your first one of the day. Then you’d think you’re going to catch many more of the same length walleyes. I have no clear explanation why people don’t go up to Red River, maybe because it’s too cold? I would go out of my way to get some big fish like that though!

Lost in screens

Wow, look at that 90 inch flat screen T.V, wow look at the new I-pad, wow look at that I-pod touch, wow look at these apps on this fancy smart phone, wow look at these new crazy laptops, and whoa there’s new game console better than the x-box? What do they all have in common? They’re electronics that are easy to get lost in. You’d be lost in the world of electronics just like that, because they’re very distracting and you could spent hours on end being distracted by them. They’re surprisingly cheaper, you may think it’s a lot of money, but if we didn’t have Chinese people working for these electronics and replace it on U.S workers based on the salary, it’ll cost an I-pad 15,000 to sell. We have all of these goods with such high marginal utility, that it’ll go through the roof, almost as effective as crack.

It’s too bad you’re going to be able to use it during your job shift, but afterwards, during your free time, you’d get your hands on it right away, because you don’t even want to go outside to enjoy the fresh air, just vegetating indoors, and growing unnatural paleness. It’s just not right, around Christmas times, people will still use their screens to keep themselves distracted from talking to their families and friends, or I should say the holidays and any other given time.

I don’t know if it’s just as a kid, but I cherish things more out of little things, I derived happiness more than I do now. It could also coincidentally be around the time when these screens weren’t so distracting in the ninety’s. It was more interacting with your family, especially during the holidays. I guess when it reaches to the thirties in the year of two thousand, it’ll be more distracting and I’ll start to notice I wasn’t exaggerating at all. I mean look at how much we’ve progressed in just a decade, we went from little toys to fancy smartphones, twitter, Facebook, and more ways to get attention from girls through the internet. It just doesn’t seem right at all. It should be more of saying hi to people like the normal people would, and it’ll be as realistic as it gets, when it comes to girls, because you’re actually there saying hi to them, and not through deceiving pictures on social networks.

New truck!

After searching for a great truck at a reasonable price, reasonable mileage, and reliable transmission, engine, and so on. My time has finally been paid off, saving money by the thousands, and only eighty two thousand miles. A ford ranger that is a decade old, is going to be my first car that’ll get me from point A to B. How do some people, however, get a nice big avalanche for their first car, isn’t that forty thousand dollars? People should be thankful that their parents are paying for part of it. I’m thankful that I have to pay for only half of it, not only because they’re helping me with it, but I get to resell that car for more than the half price if I keep it in good condition.

It just amazes me how some people would buy not only by the thousands on the cars, but by the hundred thousands, and perhaps millions. Isn’t that a little bit too much? It’s kind of like saying, ok, your monthly payment on this car is going to be twenty thousand EACH month. A million dollar car is worth more than ninety five percent of the Americans homes. It’s ridiculous to see that they invest their life for a car; however, I like to see that dogs in the cars get more attention from the kids rather than the sports cars. This is one of the very few things that should be that way, out of the many ways that shouldn’t be in our society.

This truck is a big step into my adulthood, to start progressing in jobs, internships, college, housing, and furniture’s, groceries, and yeah lots of budgeting. Now that I can travel anywhere at any given time with a full license, I can do more without having to borrow my parents car. This is just an example though, everyone always has it hard at the start, it’s a fact, because they don’t make as much, but they’re young and they want to have lots of fun in doing what they can do while they’re young. As you make the money you worked for, you’ll be older by then, and you’ll never have the youth in you to do what you’ve always wanted to do. Although I believe that experience should lead you to making more wage, and as a young person it is hard to get in the job, so you should be thankful once you have a good paying one, although it wouldn’t be as much for a starting year.

I worked with my minimum wage of Hy-Vee money to get all of this truck, which is only step one. I’ll need to work more on the internship so I can get a good job after college. It’ll be another big step, bigger than getting my first car.

Ice fishing

It’s that time of the year to start the stew, and let it warm up as you enjoy the warm tent indoors. The stew is the unlimited food for our unlimited time of spending time on ice. We would get in a group of five or more tents and share the stew in the middle of the five or so tents encircling it. We catch crappies all day and for a bonus, we’d come across some nice walleyes. It would be an exhilarating encounter if we ever come across some monster muskies with our only tiny two foot long ice fishing rods. It’s not unheard of, but we also heard of guys catching lots of nice 15-16 inch crappies all day at MacBride. It would be a dream to have those days, but it would be awesome if we ever get to get these monstrous 18 inch crappies, which would be a wall hanger for my room.

This year, my friend and I plan on making a homemade ice-fishing tent that would be six by seven ft. wide, and it would only cost us less than 40 dollars. That is money being saved right there, we would have more room than an ice fishing tent worth 200 dollars. The only thing we need now is “slammers” which is basically a wooden plank that would shoot the flag up if there’s a fish on, jigs, and more jigs. We would also need wax worms for bluegills and minnows for the hungry crappies and some walleyes. We would need a giant chub “minnow” for monster muskies that would bother to eat them, and they are not just the muskies you get in the summer, they packed on pounds to survive the winter, so they have a unique one of a kind, one season only, body. So if we do get one that is over 50 inches, it’s a wall hanger, otherwise in the summer it has to be over 55 inches.

We focus on the safety part; however, lots of ice fishermen die each year, by carbon monoxide, ice breaks, and freezing to death. We use propane heaters that would not produce carbon monoxide for us to breathe in. We also have our ice fishing tents and some extra warm gear if it gets less than 32 degrees, if it’s above 32 degrees, we’d be able to survive for days outside if you have sufficient sums of carbs in your body. Lots of people fuss out when it’s cold, only because their mentality isn’t that all great when they only focus on being warm. We’re also trained to tell how thick the ice is just by looking at the frozen lake. We can also tell how the ice is “rotten”, even if it’s a half a foot of ice; we can still break right through it, because it’s like Swiss cheese.

We really want it to freeze, not only to ice fish, but to get access to warm flowing parts of the lake, so we can safely get all the fish right under our tent as it is only vertical fishing technique possible. I want at least a foot of ice in the lakes, so I can get to the warm flowing parts of the water, which may only be 4 inches, but it’s still safe. This is the time of the year, early winter, to locate where the warm spots are as we observe ice and no ice, the spots where there is no ice would be the “hot” spot for fishing, and it should be easy to remember, hot means warm spot full of fish. We need the freeze now!

Global Warming

Global warming, if you disallow me to go ice fishing before January, then you crossed my line.

I missed those old days where there was snow during thanksgiving break. I missed those days where you could drive across the lake with your full-sized pickup truck. I missed those days where you could do doughnuts in the parking lot. I missed those days where you could make snowman and igloos. I missed those days where you could snowboard and ski without worrying about tripping on frictional grass. I missed those days where you’d wear solid white camouflage to hide yourself while deer hunting. I missed those days where you could drink hot coca by the fireplace after you’ve been outside having fun in the long cold nights. I missed those days where you could see snow reflecting like diamonds under the moonlight sky. I missed them so much, dearly, now it’s time to move on with global warming weather.

It’s all burning coal, making sulfur, warming up the greenhouse gases. Dealing with more mosquitoes that survived the weak winter kills, dealing with droughts in the spring, dealing with heat strokes, and dealing with pools being your best friends. You’d also have to deal with your ice cream melting after you just bought it in the grocery store. This is just not right, we need to change the weather, don’t use coal, don’t use these warming things. The choice is clear, use green energy, and you’ll get snow and regular temperature. Then you’ll get good crops, good biodiversity, and people enjoying the enhanced weather. If you don’t, then you may melt the Arctic, and it’ll melt even more as the weather gets hotter, and the water will be exposed and taking in the sun’s ray of heat, instead of ice deflecting the heat. You will get a flooded coastline, such as Baltimore with swimming sharks in the stadiums, and the fish get to take your house away as you go to Iowa. The middle of U.S.A, and we wouldn’t appreciate you taking our cornfields and civilize it. We used these cornfields to maintain our economy, we’ll have to push our price up, and less supplied, and our total revenue will go down, so we wouldn’t have as many farmers. So you must keep the green energy going and we’ll all be normal and fine.

The economy and the environment correlates a whole lot, you don’t think so? The environment is the place where we live, if we live in a bad economy, do we want to live there when there’s a better one?

World Ending

Something’s wrong with the weather recently. If it stays at sixty degrees in December, then I’m moving out, because imagine what would happen if it was the summer of the following year. It’d be literally a hundred degrees every single day in the summer. I would be dying in the hot car, I’ll be in debt after using too much output of cooler in the house and worse yet, and I’d have hard time fishing for fish that would bother to bite in such burning weather.

Its sixty degrees in December, in Iowa? Oh and Twinkies are going out of business? Yep the world is sure going to end the 21st of December. The people in extreme preppers however are just going way out of their way to live. They make a million dollar house underground to survive under any circumstances that happen on the crust of earth. They make supplies of food and pack them in a giant endless storage unit. They made multiple generators, and they have underground faucet that is extracting from aquifers only few feet under their lengthy underground home. This is just a crazy thing, because what could possibly go much worse than the outdoor weather, the war we have in the east, and Twinkies?

Apparently I have a partial belief in this case, there would be a time soon this upcoming near future where a virus of some sort will kill millions of people and will disrupt our economy. Then there will be a positive feedback loop and we will hit recession again. Only worse this time, because we might not recover this time.

People would be overcrowded and would fight for a grain of bread, just as Thomas Malthus has theorized. It is already happening, I mean look at the price of meat. It is so high, and how would they supply that to everyone on earth? That’s why it’s so high in price, so the demand for that would go down and it’ll be leveled off, even including the substitutes for this specific brand, there is probably tons of other brands just for meat, and they saved them from running out of supplies, because that is a large population we have out there on earth. More is supplied with more firms in meat, which still tries to force the price down on this pricy product, but what if it starts to climb on our inferior good? Then that is where we’re screwed. Now that poor people wouldn’t afford the inferior goods, they’ll start stealing, and they’ll pull the economy down. Not to sound politically scary, but it’s the fact. Guess I’ll have to go out hunting and fishing if I want my own food now. Hopefully the virus doesn’t get in what I eat, because with the bio-magnification in the food chain, I’d be dead already.

Be careful with guns!

Hunting is the best thing out there since fishing. Guns are very useful if you want to get a deer that would always be out of your range when you bow-hunt. However, lots of hunters die by gun related accidents yearly. It’s overlooked, it’s like saying the amount of deer that die being hit by a car is like the amount of hunters getting killed by guns. Of course fishing can’t go any more wrong than getting a hook in your hand. There are many types of guns that have their own special settings. So rule number one, don’t borrow another person’s gun, unless if they are the exact same type as the ones you’re used to. Why? Because the hammer, the cap, the pump, the bullet could be in all different places of the gun, and you would not have a clue what to do other than pull the trigger and shoot.

For me, a traumatic experience I once had was when I had a muzzleloader pointed away from me as I tried to hold the hammer as I pull the trigger so the bullet wouldn’t shoot. Well I had gloves on and with a big bang! The friction got the best of me, so the hammer went all the way to the cap and out goes a metal flinging through the woods at 1,000 ft per second. It could’ve easily gone a mile until it hit something, maybe a hunter, maybe if I was luckier a deer. But it was a serious case, because what if I pointed the gun at myself while taking the cap off. Yep, I’d be screwed. It was a 150 grain of pure recoil that would make your nerves jump.

Of course there goes an explanation why you don’t see very many old rednecks, because they disappear after a few more decades into their lives because of their cocky use of the gun. You don’t have to be a hunter to get guns; anyone can get one, the rule “right to bear arms”. It’s just dumb that people think you need special licensing for a gun, and that they’d think hunters would go insane and raid the city. People need it for self defense, and holy shit! Have you seen a grizzly bear in real life?! You probably haven’t because you live in a city, not Alaska/Canada. Their heads are so massive, and full of muscles, that you’d be in pieces before you could run away. Wolves too, you’d be as big as a deer, and only observed as 200 lbs of meat, just like a deer, and they will pack around you if they’re hungry enough. Deer can run much faster than you, so don’t think you can out-run them. Guns are useful that way!

The only thing I think is ridiculous is a gun that shoots more than 5 rounds per second. Who needs that? That’s overkill for an animal and a waste of bullets, and that is ideal for a large crowd, or war-like equipments, so why do they sell machine guns out there in the market? You obviously know it’s not just for collection, unless if you’re a rich person that will pay thousands just to make it a dust collecting piece in your museum like basement. All I can ask for is careful what you shoot that bullet with, and where that gun aims at.

Oh deer!

It’s that time of the year, first week shotgun season! This is where all of the wary monster bucks are far away to a point where bow hunters cannot shoot at. The only way to get this distant deer is the use of the shotgun. I am going to get in the woods this weekend; hopefully someone will be able to take my shift as I go out to hunt!

The original plan is to get out four in the morning and cross the river at five while the sun isn’t out yet, then get to land in order to not spook any monster bucks. The other hunters would never thought of crossing the river into public land as they walk in from the parking lot to scare all of the whitetails to my direction. My step-dad has done this a couple of times and witnessed the biggest buck in the neck of the woods. It was said to be a nine/ ten pointer with huge antler mass that you couldn’t get your hands around. That’s what I’m after, a buck with antler mass, not the lengthy tines and beams.

With a 350 pound structure, this was tough to kill with an arrow, this deer was in the shooting range a couple of times, but he couldn’t find a way to get the arrow in his broadside body without letting it escape injured. We wanted him down, I’ve got the muzzleloader, and he’s going down as I get him in the vitals. I’m excited once I see this huge antler mass strutting around in the dense woods. My range would be more than 100 yards, and it will hit with such impact.

There were other nice ones in the woods too, not with antler mass, but lengthy tines, and if I seem to never find that buck within only 3 days of my short hunting season, I might as well not let a nice one pass up and I’ll take it. My step-dad passed a lot of nice ones, but his clock is running out for “the one” and now that bow season is over, he regretted it, but here is my chance to get the deer he wanted.

It would be a nice addition to my small room, the wall hanger of this ginormous buck that would be my third one ever. So far the bucks I’ve shot have gotten bigger in count. My first buck was a tiny eight, and recently I shot a massive five pointer with hardly any antler mass, but this should be my third and biggest one yet. I really want this buck badly! I need more than just an antler and skull mount of whitetails in my room; I would definitely hire a taxidermist for 500 dollars for this monster buck. I would also need walleyes and monster muskies in the room as well.

Hyptonntist, are they real?

The hypnotist, has introduced us to this glowing light beams, it’s neon red orb spinning, the blue line going up in array, up and down, up and down, I stare as my vision starts to become cloudy around the clear orb. The orb is the modern fashion of the old tick-tocking watch. I look away, because I didn’t want to be hypnotized, who knew what your hypnotist would want you to do! I was oddly tired, not eye-rubbing tired but consciously tired.

The volunteers were out tired, and some audience joined with, as the rest of the audience refused to be hypnotized. I looked back as the rumbling music was over, and voila! I see all fifteen volunteers sleep, and very few of our audience as Kaela, who happened to be at our table happened to be one of the. They made sound effects of a gunshot, as the hypnotized people acted as if they were shot. Was this all a set up? Couldn’t they help themselves if they were being shot by sound effects? It was really funny, I couldn’t stop laughing at people I know being in their hypnotized dance mode. Some were shaking their booty like no one was around, some danced the gangnam style, and then the hypnotist said let’s enjoy the car ride! Made revving sound effects as all of them acted as if they were in the car, and basked in the nice warm sun. Then he said, oh an officer has just pulled you all over! They started to act stressed, every one of them, and our tablemate even cried. I couldn’t tell if this was a flash-mob, or if they’re too good at acting.

I started to get confused, but it was good, they were all good at acting. They should have volunteers who are nervous in front of the crowd, whom can’t act well, and I’ll see if they’re hypnotized. If they could act out, be bold, and then I’ll start to believe that the hypnotist are real. It amazes me how much they can trick the human mind, they must’ve learned by trial and error, but here’s one problem. Have they ever hypnotized anyone like me? With a hearing –aid, and if I danced to the groove and it fell off, now what? How would I listen to them as I follow their hypnotized instructions, would I be out forever until someone finds a way to put my hearing back on so I can follow instructions to wake up?

The thoughts were scary, but the experience is what I want out of it. I’ll still work at Hy-Vee as I get into college, and they’ll have that traditional feast again. I’ll volunteer this time, and I’ll tell the hypnotist in advance. They didn’t allow video recording though! So I wouldn’t know how I would dance as if no one was around, and I still don’t get why they wouldn’t allow cameras, what could possibly go wrong, would they be startled for life in their hypnotized process? This concept still amazes me, and I’ll find a way to understand the whole process of hypnotizing, maybe I could do that to any girl and they’ll like me! Well we’ll see how good I am at first. This is what I call one of a kind subject.

Break schedules

I know summer is great, thanksgiving break is good, winter break is better, and spring break is reviving! Why not reallocate all of our break time into one extreme break. It would be advantageous for me, because I’ll be able to work 40 hour schedule without overlapping other projects being in my way during the short breaks during school year. If we added three of our breaks we get during school year, we would have a total of four weeks off, and we would love to take an extra month off. But which month should we take off? I’d say November would be best, because I would be able to hunt more, but I’ll miss early summer, when fishing is at its peak. It’s so hard to choose! Why do I have to have nine months of school and only three months off of summer break? It should be more like 50/50 school and break. Some would love half days, but not all year. Others would love to get it all done, school every single day including the weekends, just so they can get out much earlier.

For me personally, I think I would love to have every day of school including the weekends, just so I can have only six months of school, as I cram all of my weekends off, my summer break, spring, thanksgiving, and winter break, all into one big break I would call the epic time. During my epic time which would be during the spring until six months into late fall. So I could enjoy the weather, hunt, fish, and all of the outdoors activities when it’s necessary. The only problem is the ice fishing, snowboarding, and skiing activities. Well school should give us a 10 day emergency pass, where we’ve got to do what we love to do now, and besides, it’ll be snow day almost often when it’s such a wintery weather out there. So I’d call that the win-win situation of this epic break.

What would you do? Call the whole year a break? Just so we can relax all year and the year after until we all turn 18? That would be a great dream to have. We would be healthy too! Our stress is at ease, we would work out more often because we have time, and we wouldn’t be sitting for eight hours at a time at school, storing our fat that we just ate previously in school lunch. Our demographic population wouldn’t consist of many obese people because of the school hours we spend too much time on. Some people want to learn at a faster pace because it’s easier, that would be one of me. Imagine all of my free time I would have if all I had to do was walk in school, move around like its trick or treating to all of your classes, and ask your teachers for concepts you don’t currently have a grasp on and once you understand it you can leave on to another class. That would be a great thing, we wouldn’t have any more surprise déjà vu’s, where we are like; didn’t we already go over this?

Things to Live for

It was 50 degrees and dead wind, it was approaching sunset. I went out to have step-father/son time to fish on a slow day of fishing, but the weather was beautiful. The coyotes were yelping, the river was very slow-moving, and the sun started to turn everything orange as it settled. The trees turning black on the other side of the river, as for the trees on our side, in which we faced the sunset, was turning into a very memorable sepia color. The evening feeling just turned into a place where people who were in a bad mood could easily be cherished.

This image below is worth a thousand words. I was walking on a fallen tree to reach to a good fishing spot, where the river reached to 8 feet, in spite of its very slow moving current. Then it struck me that this should be a great place to take a picture of any trophy fish I caught here, but the camera couldn’t get every geometric angle of this beautiful landscape. It was only to the eye’s peripheral vision that could be touched; the scenic land can only be enjoyed by sight. Have you ever tried to take a picture of the giant full moon that amused you, and it only turned out to be a tiny white dot in the sky? That is what I’m talking about right there, but this image is close as I can get.

Someday I would go fishing, but stop focusing on the catching the fish part and just watch the sunset, every sunset is different, from the same star, same goes for hunting too. It just seems like it’s something you should be appreciating every day. Then out of nowhere, Perseids, Lenoids, Geminids, and Orinids shine in the night sky, shooting stars everywhere, the night is lively, and the nocturnal animals awaken. So mostly it’s the nature that I look into, not just the fishing and hunting. The landscapes are slowly dying, to a point where the river is filled with sand, because dams are being installed into it, where dedicous forests are demolished into flat cornfields, where clean rivers turn dirty by factories, all because of those factors, the fish aren’t as big as they normally get, and the whitetails aren’t as big as their fossilized ones.

So decades from now, this image would be worth thousands of dollars to visit, you may call b.s on that, but think about it, we’re already paying thousands of dollars to go on vacations, why? Because the atmosphere of that place may still be preserved, aesthetic values, pure biome, and healthy animals, all you wanted to see, just the way it was centuries ago. It’ll just become more common for vacations like that, and you’re slowly noticing this as the population goes up and industrial age keeps cutting this landscape away, and the city lights will shut out the stars in the sky, and we would be in a trap.

So what to do now? Noticeably, the holidays are not being as cherished too, or at least in our family, because we couldn’t enjoy the plentiful amount of snow, as the industrial weather keeps varying, and it’s brown grass in the winter, and hot spring weather, where finding your Easter eggs in cool dewy grass is impossible, you would find it cooking itself, and invasive species of pests chewing it up, and you’ll never find your Easter egg again, true as it sounds. It may sound funny, but it happened to me.

AP CALCULUS! Arrrgh!

Higher Order Derivatives through implicit functions, with HO: DHI methods, oh that’s the easy part. I meant finding rate of the water in a cone dripping into a big cylinder, where you need to figure out how much water is left in after certain amounts of time and what the radius of the water in the cone will be at this certain height in a given derived rate. Geeez! Thank goodness I’m taking it now, so I can get done with this thing.

I remembered when I first loved math, but now where did the numbers go? Now it’s all strategic method of arithmetic order. Some dropped the class to do AP stat, but my brinkmanship for getting a 4 or better on the AP calculus exam is there, I want to understand these concepts thoroughly, and it will be a big part of my college credits I’ll have later in life. The average person will take 16 college credits per term, and I want to skip a term in college, to get ahead of the game, so far I have a 4 in APES, which is much easier than AP calculus, and two exams coming up from Econ, and this class, which I hope to get a 4 or 5, after learning all of the structures in literature. If everything went smooth, then I would be able to get approximately 20 college credits or so.

That would be a great head start, but I need to get this math thing down, and of course a normal response would be what would this thing to for our life, and I know it would never be used for real life, I mean who is gonna use derivatives to find how fast the water is coming out of a cone. Something smart people would do in their leisure. But I finally found out that it is a way to test your capacity of knowledge, so when you are going to get hired, you want to show them how much you know, and these hard math classes will get you up there.

Look at these math equations, tell me if they make any sense, it’s not super long, but it is pretty darn complex, I tried to make it as simple as possible, but each step is an arithmetic method that you are supposed to memorize and to be able to understand THROUGHLY.

Notice how the varible to number ratio is almost 1:1, and you can't just plug in the variable, just keep on shifting it around, and deriving it until it gets settled and you're now ready to plug in the variables, but you still have to know which ones to put in.

Junk food habit

Why do they call it junk food?! It’s so delicious; I can eat them until I get sick. I guess that’s why junk food is junk, to make people sick, but that still doesn’t stop the little kids eating all of the trick or treat candy in one night. It’s scary, cause if you get sick from eating it, and you have lots of them left in your house, you’re just gonna get sick more, it’s a hard habit to break. It’s not like vomiting sick, it’s just hunching over and feeling like crap sort of sickness.

I mean look at this image below! How could you resist yourself from eating all of that good stuff in between the Oreos? You know the consequences, but hey, it’s always good in the end and you wouldn’t regret a thing right?

I actually had a second thought, and started to stop eating this delicious type of food. It is the reason why these annoying zits are growing around, and no it’s not a myth Dr. Oz, I see it happening, and I don’t feel as great in the inside, changing my mood a little. I am also in health and fitness, and I want to gain more than 15 pounds before the track season begins, and if I want to do that, I have to eat the right food in order to gain the right weight.

My only desserts that I will make for myself are apples in a dessert form, like sugar covered, caramel apple. Apples have natural sugars too. If I wanted pop, I would stick to flavored sparkling water; it’s just carbonation, no sugar, caffeine, and a lot cheaper. You could still feel good after drinking 4 liters of that, and if you drank 4 liters of mountain dew, obviously you’re gonna get sick.

Besides, the junk food will make you sick, and will prevent you from your ability to try to work harder in weightlifting, and it will get you into a positive feedback loop, in which you are going to eat more food, and not decide to work out because it’ll ruin your “fresh” feeling, and that extra calorie will be stored and you will continue eating more of these deliciousness.

Thanksgiving is coming around the corner, keep in mind, if there is pie, don’t just go all YOLO and eat as much as you can, it’s not only just one time, there are 365 days a year, and you might come across this hundreds of times and never thought about it. Hundred times the number of calories of junk food adds up a lot, and that extra weight wouldn’t needed to be shredded off in the first place while you’re weightlifting and trying to get your muscle building hormones to get easier acce

Pitch Perfect, So Funny!

I would marry anyone that is just like fat Amy, her personality and everything she says is just too funny! The movie almost states a perfect college life, where there are lots of drama, interesting people, and of course the competitions. As obsessed as I am into music, this movie was the right one. I don’t want to give away the funny scenes, but you’ve gotta watch it!

It’s great to see the dynamic characters in almost everyone in the singing club, except for Fat Amy, because she is perfect the way she was. I just figured that they have a twitter account, fan-page of her, although I don’t have twitter, I would follow her if I had one at the instant.

This is a great lesson though, to be open-minded, and to join clubs to make new friends that can make a big difference to you. You’ll meet people that have a lot in common, because they joined the club for the same reason like yours. I like how the club is unique and weird at the same time, “I (sing your name) promise not to do “business” with guys and disallow wolves from ripping my vocal cords out”. The oath I just had to die laughing at, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t laugh for a minute during the movie. The trailer was funny as usual, but this movie had the whole stretch of comedy unlike every other movie. Some movies have great trailers, but not as funny as you thought it would be.

I’m not really an obsessed movie guy, unlike my brother, where he watches trailers and looks up EW. (Entertainment weekly) over every actor and actresses in it and looks up “rotten tomatoes and good tomatoes” A critic site of movie reviews. He said, In spite of all 35 movie trips he went to at Wherenberg this year, this was one of his tops, so I had to go, and it was great. I wish I had the comedy like they do, I’m just awkward sometimes. They are like a bunch of really good singers and very good at facial expressions and acting. I want to see more of these people in other movies; it is kind of like benchwarmers, why can’t they have all of the funny actors in different movies, so I can enjoy watching them as well?

I know with comedy, come with offensive terms, but come on, its comedy, nothing is taken seriously. Pitch perfect might as well be a perfect movie in comedy!

Bieber Fever

I don’t get why people hate on Justin Bieber, he hasn’t even done anything but sing. It’s not like he’s cocky or anything, he just has a really great moral of leadership and makes all of the normal guys mad at him, because they can’t be as successful. The fact is that he is young too.

The girls only like him because he could “just be that guy”. Unique voice, and has talent. Obviously you want to get noticed by someone who has accomplished so much, but would try to make their best accomplishment to be you. Some girls may dream on and try to get him to notice.

To me personally, I think he is just like one of the famous singers, like Usher, Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Eminem, and other people who just sing for the passion. To get more fans to follow their passion.

Just to prove that is like everyone else, he wanted to get noticed like we would when we’re freshmen, except he is on the large scale, and throughout the years he transited into wanting girls, well don’t blame him, you do too guys! Then he sang songs about having good times and still sings about girls, but hey, have you felt that way too? Sure you have, and he has new style added into the trends that guys even follow, maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was so the guys could get girls attention the way J.B did.

I don’t know why you hate so much while other guys like Lil Wayne, and wiz gets all of their fans singing about girls too. Did they get any hates, a few, only because they didn’t like swear words or their race, or style of life. I am into variety of songs, even if they clash, I just like every artist in a certain way, only because they all have one thing in common, passion.

I still see youtube comments of stupid people who have no lives and constantly post hate letters on their wall. It’s almost as if they had something better to do, seriously, and they couldn’t be as successful if they’re not open minded in the first place. To follow those who succeeded in the past.

So all I’m just saying is respect everyone for their efforts, I just don’t get why not a lot of people don’t respect Justin Bieber, it just doesn’t make sense. It’s just like saying respect your President, no matter who runs it, they’re doing it for your country.

Weightlifting at 7 p.m, why not high school?!

The school program sucks in a way. They have weightlifting until 6th hour is over, then they close the room, with no one allowed in it. I’m ok with that during the first trimester because I have better things to do during that time, like running ten miles everyday, but now in the winter, what am I going to do? It is that awkward time frame when the daylight hours are short and it gets dark early. I like the early darkness feeling, because it makes you feel like you stayed up late. But why not weightlifting during that time?

I remember freshman year, the year I gained 20 pounds, when I was a scrawny little guy, into a moderate lean guy. I loved the weightlifting program everyday after school, and wrestling had their program involved with weightlifting too. I would weight lift after school until they showed up, the room really warms up. It just feels great to get a lot of work done and get outside in the cold dark blue night while I’ve warmed up a lot. I wouldn’t feel the chill at all. The iron is going in my system and as I get back home to get a long hot shower, I almost feel as if I was never going to get cold again.

So why not weightlifting after school? All I need is a partner that’ll be there to spot me for certain workouts such as bench, squats, and other weightlifting techniques that can go wrong badly. I can see it’s a safety thing, because there are too many freshmen that are like gym-monkeys, who would try to show off and max out every time they weight lift instead of doing the reps for the retails. They want to impress the upperclassmen that have done so much weightlifting that they are literally doing the freshman’s max-outs with an exception that they’re doing it in ten reps.

I thought weightlifting would help so much, but my running has gotten worse, and I’ve decided now that bulking up would be better than running long-long-long distances. I was the biggest guy in the team, and was only the top six of the team while I ran everyday in the winter (another way of staying warm in such cold weather). It’s just the schedule I want to work with, schoolwork all day, weightlifting at night and social life on the weekends. But work is tightening that schedule too. I prefer the work to be on weekdays, which is perfect because I can work 2-6 p.m every day and if only I could weight lift every day after 6 p.m my life would be perfect. I would definitely get early bird class and finish all five classes soon and have a comfortable evening.

When I get done with weightlifting at night during my freshman years, I felt productive and full of energy, and felt like I should do more things, it’s just me. Oh and I want a spa too, every day after the long wintery nights, I might as well hop in and enjoy.

P.S, my goal is to gain twenty five pounds by the end of winter! (530)

Weather and fishing

I was fishing today, in spite of the rain; I thought we’d catch tons of them. But instead, we were struggling to catch fish, because of the weather itself. We didn’t know for sure if the fish were actually biting. I was fishing under a bridge, trying to stay dry and enjoying the delicious food I just bought. But NO, it was raining sideways! So the rain water caught my food and pooled up a muddy puddle where my tackle box and fishing equipments are catching all of the gritty sand, oh and yeah the rain caught me too, while being wet and catching all the wind wasn’t a pretty sight.

So we packed up and went back home. Enjoying the heat coming out of our car vent was a good thing. Overall it was fun, a story to tell later in life. But come on! Rain in October? It should rather be snowing, but I can see why it was rain, because the south wind was up into Iowa. I don’t know how many crazy fishermen are out there, but I sure hope there is enough for me to not stand out as the very few and odd ones. I just wanted to catch fish. Is that too much to ask for?

Some will give up fishing if they don’t catch anything for ten minutes, but the real reason why I love fishing is because the next second you could have a ginormous fish on the end of your line, just as your about to leave. So any moment could be your moment, which is why I fished in this weather, while no one else is, while the fish have to eat at some point, and not knowing what could come next.

That is why fishing could be funny sometimes, while we’re going out hoping for luck, we’d say it sucks if we didn’t get any, and once as it happened, one of the lines will go out and “BUZZZZZZ, CRACK!” a big fish just snapped the line and took off without a second notice. It’ll just make me wonder, when will the next bite happen, and how big was that thing, what kind was it, could’ve been a state record? That is why I’m always up on my gears waiting for hours that something may happen at a moment.

That could also be the reason why people have lies to tell, it could be true, but we’re not sure and we’ll never know because we weren’t out in certain weather conditions. Some people could easily say that giant fish only bite when it’s storming, raining, with a high barometer, when no one is out there risking their life to find out about the fish story, just a fish. Crazy things people would do just for the sake of fish.

Wanna bully?

Why do idiots bully people? Don’t they have anything better to do? Or do they just wanna get their “cool points”? It just makes me mad! The best people in high school are the ones that are friends with everyone, no matter who they are. But you want to be the “cool” one? I’ll show you cool, they’re the reason why my neighbor doesn’t get out much.

He has autism, AD/HD, and many other problems when he was adopted, which doesn’t mean he deserves crap from you people. If I find out who you are, I’ll find out where you usually hang out outside of school, I’ll slam you down the way my uncle did in his fifth year as a varsity wrestler, I’ll drop kick you the way my older brother did in the regional league of UFC, I’ll run after you like an angry cross country runner that will never give up until he gets ya, I’ll burn your “cool points” until you drop it cause it’s hot.

Don’t care where it’s at, as long as it’s outside of the school, where your mamma can’t save you. When you call for mercy, I’ll say no, your next visit will be mercy hospital. Bet you wish you never read this huh? I’ll find out whom that bully is, because it is just stupid, that bully should be easy to find, because they’re awkward people who think they’re cool. Think this is funny? Think again!

The bullies are the reason to many suicides, and those people may have the knowledge to cure cancer, but you made fun of him because he’s geeky, others may find a solution to be the next president that’ll help the economy greatly, but you make fun of him, because all he does is talk about politics, there could be a way to make really efficient cars, but you put him down, and b.s him that it’ll never happen.

So what do you get back? No respect, die of cancer, keep paying your debt and watch as the U.S debt plunge into a freefall, pay for expensive gas to a point where that is all you buy, or bike to work. If you could only get your mind straightened out, and be nice to everyone, then maybe the world will be a better place, OBVIOUSLY it’ll be a better place. Why do you think harassing is illegal in high school? Well it is there for a reason!

Please don’t make me use violence to straighten up your mind, I might accidentally bust it anyways, just get the message and take it for granted. Not too much to ask for isn't it? (445)

Anyone agree?

I don’t know about you, but in the winter, I can smell the outdoors differently than the summer air. Not only in Cedar Rapids could you smell that burning landfill but the different stench of smell. Winter, not only everyone has the sniffles, but winter has a different stench of smell. Anyone agree with me? Cause everyone seems to disagree.

The summer smells like grass with an exception that it has more smell to it in the atmosphere, and the winter, it’s like a stench of stale wood. You could almost taste the cold water with the smell. I’m not weird or anything! I just smell these things.

In the spring, my dog would always put his head up and take a big noticeable whiff as the wind blows in his direction. In the winter, he doesn’t do that anymore, he just sniffs the ground more often, so little patters that I take big notice of. That tells me the grass smell has gone from the atmosphere to the ground as the winter weather has a certain temperature to take that smell away.

Overall, I think the smell of winter is better than the smell of summer, only because the fragrant of stale wood make the place seem different in a good way.

As I learned from APES the nitrogen fixation bacteria will be strongly activated when it has oxygen and decompose the leaves in the fall. That is why fall has a different fragrance than summer and spring, spring is like the smell of an after storm, whereas you could smell the N02 in the air, and has that barometer; that everyone likes to breathe in.( If you know what I’m saying.)

But winter, has none, they are all enclosed under ice, and in the ground as the oxygen slightly drops in the cold weather; I just like the smell of winter, because it is fresh, and yet stale. I hope it’s not just me; you all should be able to smell the difference of the seasons. I think….

I mean, my dog has a different sniffing pattern throughout the season, watch your pets some days, and try to distinguish their sniffing patterns throughout the season. It may be too long to notice the changes, but I’ve noticed it.

My very own vacation!

During this winter break, I’ll be driving out to Lake Okoboji to ice-fish for two full days, while we’re going to rent a five star hotel (obviously has to have a spa in it), and two straight nights of eating out at some nice restaurants. I want to be able to complete one of my master angler requirements; which involves catching a perch more than 12 inches. At Okoboji they have perch shaped like a football and could be 16 inches at the most. Josh and I are going to try to find a humongous weed bedded area to catch them all. Even the pumpkinseeds, bluegills, green sunfish, and maybe rock bass too.

The perch can really pack on the pounds during the spawning season, which is in the spring, and then they’ll stretch longer as they lose the caviar. Just like the walleyes, and we have to catch them while they’re “fresh” and in no knowledge of what has hooks and what does not. Perch will look like the ones below, while we were out in the Mississippi river to catch tons of.

But just imagine what a perch would look like if it were 16 inches, and had that amount of fatty deposits and caviar, but muscular as well, because it’s genes are preserved in Okoboji. It would be a nice defined two pounder, like a mini but stocky walleye that would be a nice wall hanger. So in the winter we’re after this, but only because the muscles of the fish will be defined, not the fats, it’s only about length anyways, but it would be a nice trophy to catch in the spring.

If we catch only tiny ones, then we’ll keep some, and walk out farther to a flat ground, and put them into the danger of being bit by a tiger musky, musky, and northern, as well as some giant walleyes, in spite of the fact that they are in the same “family”. It’s hard to tell if they would bite by its tide and moon phase, so I don’t want to waste the vacation catching nothing, so I am going to fish on full moon in December, also known as the Long Night Moon; when the fish bite more towards the early sunset. Josh and I never had a day when we never caught fish; so far we are on this four month streak since we’ve starting fishing together.

One fish down, nine more to go

This is one of the easiest fish for me to accomplish, because I fish for these all the time. Since I moved to my new house, by Xavier, there is that one pond with several monster largemouth bass. I also caught my master angler bullhead there, but I wasn’t part of the program at the time while the minimum length was 15 while I caught a stunning 17.5 inches, neighboring the state record. My friend also caught a channel catfish that was 31 inches while the length limit was 30. But once again, we weren’t in the program at the time. There is a huge bass that Josh and I would call Mrs. Texas, she was big and was only ounces off the state record, but we never bothered to tell anyone. This pond is really small, so it was confusing why we had such a big bass, and I figured the oxygen levels are always in the norm because the water table of the creek next to the pond helped it stay stable during the wintery seasons.

This bass broke my line many times, so that is why I hate mono lines. The braided line I have works really well, but she is too smart to bite at it, because she could see the line. The only way to fool the bass, (was the method Josh and I both used to catch our record bass), was to either snag a leopard frog, or catch creek chubs from the neighboring creek and fish with it. As for I, I stood on the stand that allowed me to see tons of bluegills in the water, until I see a huge dark olive colored oval shaped figure in the pond, I would cast my leopard frog right next to it. As the frog skids in fear, the bass takes a big inhale at it, and then I would give it a second or two and set the hook “Jeremy Wade” style, for those who saw river monsters on animal planet. Boom! I just caught my one master angler qualifying fish, Josh joined in and with a rock bass minnow he caught from the creek, he also casted where I had recently, and boom! Another largemouth bass was landed, both identical, both qualifying, and both easy to catch.

That bass above is my friend Josh's first qualifier, which he used a small rock bass to capture it within the first five minuites he was after it.

That fish above is mine, my first qualifying catch while starting in this program. However, I didn't use a minnow or a frog, it was unique fish, because I caught it with a five inch bluegill! That's a big bite for a good sized largemouth bass. I caught this in matter of seconds I used this bluegill, it's not luck, this pound is small and I know every part of it.

The pond monster though was caught two years ago by one of my neighbors/friend. On a full moon, I guided him on a harvest full moon night, while the pond was unusually quiet. I told him to toss his tons of nightcrawlers to this very certain territorial spot that I scared this one big fish away. With a big bang! He landed it and it measured 23 inches. WAAAY over the requirements, and still growing in that pond! A potentional state record we call Mrs. Texas.

My neighbor above, with the tiny Mrs. Texas, she's still out there inhaling big bullfrogs. (585)

Master Angler Stats

There is a thing that my friend Josh and I have in between us. We are now going to try to get the gold medallion in master angler awards. So far only one guy has done this; out of the three million Iowa residents. This may make it sound like a very hard mission for us to accomplish. Josh and I have fished three times a week in the summer, but now school is around. Whenever we have free time, we would fish at the instant. This gold medallion requires ten different species of fish on their “monster” sized length limits. So for example muskies, you must catch a 45 inch Muskie, and that is very hard to accomplish for a place in Iowa. So that is an example of a challenge that we have to beat. Silver medallion is when you must get five different types of fish. A master angler award is simply to catch one type of fish beating the length limit.

As for Josh and I, we both have the master angler award now, with a twenty inch largemouth bass that be both caught at a pond that we fish out often. We are going to now work on catching a green sunfish/hybrid. With a length limit being ten inches, we have to find a good place for our potential to be reached. So we’re going to camp at Walnut acres late October; when they start to bite.

Then we’ll try to catch a 35+ inch northern pike at the Wapsipinicon River late November. The 26+ inch walleyes are really hard to get, you must be really lucky to catch a fish like that, so we’re going to Palo Lake during ice-fishing season, so that way we can fish wherever the other guys can go with their boats in the summer. The muskies will be our best bet there as well; we’ll have to use “slammers” though. The yellow bass will also be our way to success if we fish at Palo during the winter, because in the summer we caught hundreds of them, and we’ve already caught more than ten of them beating the limit for master angler awards, we just didn’t get into the master angler program at the time. Then we’ll go to Belva Deer Lake to ice-fish for a 14+ inch crappie and a 10+ inch bluegill as well. That will be seven of the ten we have to catch, and not only is it for me, but Josh will have to be just as lucky as me, or the other way around.

So this challenge will be a journey that I’ll enjoy, because later on it’ll pay off a lot, and we could both be the second person ever to get into the master angler’s gold medallion awards, while it’s a 24K gold and a big trophy worth preserving. Later in the blog posts, we’ll show you each thing we have done in each location of each trophy fish species we’ve caught.

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Silent thoughts

This is the time of the year I don’t want to think about things a lot, just to keep things simple. The leaves turn golden; like a rich colored forest, saffron colored too, with a golden texture to it, and the creek is clearer and oxidized more than usual. I would just sit to watch the creek chubs, bullheads, rock bass, shiners, gold-eyes, moon-eyes, darters, and varieties of minnows in an aquarium-like creek. Sometimes I would take my hearing off, and things just seems more beautiful than usual, (probably because of the cars, lawnmowers, and so fourth).

I fish some of these fish out, because they are just like picking fruits out of the trees, you get a closer look at them, and enjoy the fight they put up. The “fruits are always up high on the trees” so that is the reason I have to fish. I want my house to be like a garden, where you get to see everything that you’ve caught, and hunted. Just to take a moment and review all of the amazing things you’ve earned with your passion.

But why fall? It is the most active season that I’d get these trophy deer and walleyes, northerns, muskies, e.g. I just like to see them, to show that I’ve earned them, and to not think and stress about so many things. I would always take the background as an important theme just as equal as the “fruit” I’ve gotten. So to say, if I caught a big walleye, it has to look good, like it can inhabit in the area, and scenic to us, so it would be more decorative to what I would call “my garden”. Here are back to back examples of these fish mounts that would make sense me, including all of you.

So as you can see above is a picture of a walleye, just plainly setting up on a white wall; the best way to describe your background. Just claiming you caught it, with no scenery. But the picture below is more ideal, it shows more of an inhabited place for walleyes, and has aesthetic value; all of the perch, bluegill, and crappie minnows with nice wooden background as well as the logs the minnows use for shelter as these big noticeable predators hang out there.

So in the fall, I just think more about these things in nature in life. I just like to look at these things and imagine more about what the potential is in my future, if I would ever catch big ones, or remember this specific day because something amazing happened. Cabelas outdoors stores would show you all of these things that I have always been in awed with. It’s your outdoor story that you have the lifetime to make. I’ve already started one young, because I caught the optimistic views of them. Just one sense of optimism of the beautiful outdoors, you would be snagged to this obsession I already have.

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Jobs?

Jobs determine the wages you will receive annually not your high school grades. Sure the good grades will help you get the good job you want, but it all comes down to the resumes eventually, you could be doing well in school for ages, then do bad on a ten minute job interview and not get your job you wanted. Which is why I am currently working right now, and managing decent grades, but it all comes down to seeing what your future manager would want to see in the resumes.

The highlighted things you want to have in the resumes are the community involvements you have participated in, your previous work experience, like saying that I worked at Hy-Vee for more than four years, job shadowing with the jobs you want to have; which could be internships, and your degree that you’ve earned.

I would work hard, because I always fear that the boss would warn me that I was working slow, which would put a reputation among them, and I don’t want these people to have a “Jamias vu” within the next shift they view me working simply because my work error only happened once. It just annoys me when the assistant manager only sees bad things happen, not your prestigious work that you’ve done.

However, the best job you can get is if you were an employee of some career that had no managers, shooting your potential through the roof. Such as working as a resort owner (which I want to be one), small businesses, and making rents and growing money off of mortgage loans that branch off of your other vehicle, house, and so on rents of things that have a very elastic opportunity costs.

So pretend you’re a manager, what would you try to hire in a person, because a manager is a person just like us, well some are just not human beings, but they are people too, they want to do what’s best for their business, so they need to hire people that they think would best benefit their business, so ask yourself why do you think you should be hired? Why would you best benefit your new career? Was it all of the community services, internship, previous jobs, all of the things that factor in your reality smartness, not the book smart side of your own, which would be a nice additional too, such as high school grades, college degrees, and things that involves grades or seminars. (420 words)

A change in trance

Freshman year I wanted to be the fastest 5k runner in high school, I was only 100 pounds during that time and was always looking forward to getting better. The weightlifting room seemed tempting to me to hang out around. Then I made a jump to 130 pounds around the winter of my sophomore year, realizing that my running time was staying consistent. I realized I could’ve run faster if I didn’t try to gain muscle weight from the weight room. Thirty pounds was like carrying a back pack with an exception that the weight was on my lats and pecs while running. But the weight room was still a tempting place to hit. I ran faster and faster and tried to work hard in cross country to get a good 5k while gaining muscle weight, I dropped two minutes junior year, scoring times in every varsity meet, I was proud, but the following winter got the best of me offseason. I lifted more weights and jumped to 160 before I knew my senior year came by. I grew too, not all muscle gaining during my freshman year. So basically, I’m a 5k runner that is barely in the varsity league, and lifts weights just as much as the senior football players could. It’s a clash, but as the final year of cross country passes, I decided that I should do intense weightlifting, because I’m doing it for the retails. I’ve planned on reaching the 200 pound mark, and for track season, I would only do 400 meter dash, and possibly 800 meter dash, depending how the cardio/weighs would go together. I’ve done two mile races within the mile runs I would normally do. I also have three college classes with a job at hyvee that I work 20 hours weekly as an employee as a senior in high school, I also hang out with friends almost endlessly, and I literally never have time to watch TV for two hours straight at home. So that’s why next term I’ll be taking early bird and getting out 4th hour to work and all of that jazz, and I’ll head back to Kennedy high to do weightlifting until nighttime, I take this opportunity as a golden one, because weightlifting at school is free. My heart rate is 40 bpm; the only problem is that my cardio muscles are a tiny bit imbalanced, so I’m not at my full potential as a cardio runner. Otherwise I would’ve surpassed every cross country runner with a heart rate greater than 40. That is another reason why I’m going to hit the weight room, I’ll get better at something else other than the running.

My sisters wedding

My sister is getting married! This following weekend this graduated student with a master’s degree and my soon to be brother in law with a bachelors in engineering, and someone who started business in his early twenty’s will get married on September 22, 2012. My sister chose this unique day, only because the world is claimed to end on this day, if not; December 21, 2012 would be the next guess. So they pretty much gave us a wedding invitation letter, saying “save the date”, with two hypothetical meanings, to literally save the date, and to schedule the date as the first priority. Party potatoes, tons of food, drinks, and at a beautiful park are going to be included. There will be at least 400 of our closest people attending this wedding, while this would be my first time for me to visit at a rehearsal dinner. Since this is a direct family member of mine. I am looking forward to tons of food, to be a brother in law, to get to know all of the people there, and to congratulate my sister for another major event accomplished. If I were to have a wedding, I’m not the guy that’ll make the plans, it’s always the girls planning on limo, food, where, when, theme, songs, and so on. I think that is how the tradition is around here. Same thing to my sister, she made more than half of the plans, while my brother in law and I would talk about how awesome life is. The songs were easy to make, because we all are obsessed with music and we would constantly put songs on the playlist that goes well in order, the food wasn’t an issue, just the pricing we had to decide on, the theme was made almost at an instant, where they want to set up a wedding out in the country, because all they have been doing the past years were going into big cities for travel, and living in Washington D.C. Mostly because most of us live in Iowa too. The only thing different that a traditional wedding wouldn’t have is the fact that we don’t use a limo, but a normal car ride. This wedding would go well I’m pretty sure, because they planned this for a year; they couldn’t do it months after their proposal, because she is still getting her degree at the time. I’m looking forward to it, and to induct Mike, my new brother in law into our family.

Big Appetite

I’m hungry all the time! Before school, during school, before lunch, after lunch, after school, during work, and during my sleep! It’s not to a point to where I am feeling weak because I hardly had any food to eat, but my stomach is always growling because it digests food so fast. My parents are a little frustrated that the food bills are going through the roof. So we had to compromise, because my parents want extra money to spend on other things, not for my appetite. So we made a plan that instead of donating deer meat during our hunting season, I would filate the whole deer and eat the whole dear through the winter, maybe eat two.

I could buy tons of potatoes, because they’re cheap, and put any slab of deer meat on the grill, or on a frying pan, I would also eat tons of fish that I could filate in matter of seconds, I just need to learn how to cook it like a chef would, and yes I’m picky about bones in the fish meat, it’s hard to keep the northern meat pure. So instead, having tons of crappies and bluegills are ideal to me because they take only seconds to cut up and half an hour to prepare the whole meal. As good as they sound being free; we could now save the opportunity cost of our grocery bills of more than a thousand a month, to the average cost of an average consumer.

This way of method is good, but there is one problem, the ice-cream, as an addict, I would eat lots of them and the cost for them is high, and I don’t know any alternative eats for ice-cream. So I would have to pay half of the ice-cream bills per month, if I continue this. You would picture me as an overweight eater with an appetite shaped with a “beer gut”, however, I weigh only 150 pounds, lean, and does cross country with a competition in weightlifting. This plenty of food source helps me with my cardio to work on while being able to lift so much weight. I have been close to setting pound for pound records in high school, but I have done tons of pull-ups that determine your strength ratio.

Otherwise I cannot imagine a world without plenty of food; I would be starving like a wrestler in season. Oh and I just got done eating twenty rolls of tootsie rolls as I typed this blog.

World without music...

I was born into a world of no sounds, and when I had my hearing replaced, I only used it for communication and never bothered listening to music. As the time went by, I heard of songs, but never really got into them. Only because the people were singing; I liked techno songs back then. Until the day I had a new kind of hearing equipment, I could hear everything better, and I listened to a couple of songs I’ve heard of before, but they sounded so much better. I then scrolled to another genre of songs, and pretty soon I listened to millions of songs that I never got to hear since a whole decade and a half since I was born. I was literally obsessed and constantly waiting for new songs to be up on I-tunes. The world without music would be chaotic, because some music lovers like me would go insane if we went through the whole day without listening to music. I am just like my mom, where I would listen to tons of songs and know which ones they are right away. I can’t even think of why I could easily remember tons of songs but not know tons of concepts that I have to learn from school. I listen to literally any kinds of songs except for country. Country is just a little under my league, I must listen to music that holds a lot of rhythmic verses and has catchy beats that change from time to time. Country is just a “dragging wet mop of noises” My most favorite kind of songs are the ones with their own unique beat and yet catchy, they have to usually be fast paced, like hip hop, pop, rap, and songs that would sound a lot like they are “on the ball” I can’t stand listening to very slow music where they sound as if they put too much passion into their voice, and almost sound as if they were about to run out of words. Besides country songs are usually like the blues, there is usually a depress country singer singing about depressing events, as for I; I’m always wanting to move on and listen to cheery songs. Songs like that surprisingly have a lot of influence on my mood. I would listen to alternative songs while working out, listen to hip hop when I want to spice up the boring mood of knowing that I have to wait or kill time before I could do something fun that I planned on. When I go to places like camping, I would still listen to music. If I was working, at Hy-Vee, I would be tired, not because of the work there, but because there is no music to listen to . So music has lots of influence on my daily living, hearing the same songs still doesn’t matter, I would always “hear it differently”. What would you do on a day without music, perhaps forever? Make your own?

Got fish?

When I was young, I would see others fishing near me and they would catch tons of fish while I catch hardly any. I was about to go insane and realized this guy knew where these fish were. He didn’t have a ranger, a depth finder, and fancy lures. He just had a sheet of all of the depth mapped out in the lake I was fishing in. He just pointed them out and fished the fish out of it. He found weed beds by seeing through the clear water, while I was fishing on sandy grounds where nothing but perch would bite if you were lucky. So I studied how to fish through trial and error. Eventually I got to a point where if I took a rookie out to fish, I would get five before they even get one. It is all about indication where the depth is, oxidation levels, drop offs, structure, and the lures you are using. Other people would just depend on worms. There are variety of fish I go after, but the ones I mainly go after is the Muskie and northerns. They hang out on top of the weed beds when the barometer is in the 29 range and when it’s cloudy and less UV rays out, it’s all about common sense, fish sense. You would likely use blazing neon lures in clear water over those weed beds, and when it is murky, chances are good to catch one if you use darker colored lures, mepps, spinners, and non- crank bait lures work best. Jerk baits work the best when it is an unusually calm morning or evening only with any color. When it’s really cold they are in the bottom zone feeding on perch, so you could use crank baits and troll around the weed beds where they disappear. The image below is an example of the weed bed area, where the pan fish are inside of to protect themselves from big game fish that I am after. To catch muskies you should troll in the empty space on the maximum depth side, because they will hammer on the pan fish that pop out of the weed bed with no shelter. To catch smaller fish like bass, sometimes northerns, crappies, you should take the minimum depth side to cast and reel in lures the classic way.

Some of these monster muskies can be up to 50 pounds, and yes they do live in Iowa, and Palo; the neighboring county of my hometown Cedar Rapids, as well. So it is pretty much like a shark that lives in the lakes of the cornfields. This fish below is the kind of fish I’m after, and is a great thing to win.

Unexplained Opinion of Oddities

I cannot explain accordingly to my opinion why people play videogames so much. I’ve asked a couple of obsessed gamers why they do it. Their answers, “You get experience”. I would say experience of what? They would just keep on saying that it was fun and always trying to topple high scores and impress people. To me, it makes no sense. However, I would occasionally compare how some gamers later in life win nothing but enhanced memory cards of the games they beat. As for I, would win tons of trophy deer, fish, and business experience to increase wages. Wages that’ll help me achieve what I want, a lakeside view lodge where I could see the sunset on the lake in amazement. A place where I could put all of my trophies up, in sports, hunting, fishing, and all the above on my wall except for memory cards. This is obviously my dream home, something that would not clash with all of the trophies I have received on my journey being an outdoorsman. This picture below is what a video gamer would only win. Yep, this masterpiece is formed after tons and tons of hours of useless effort are put into.

It still startles me how these video gamers still want to play and waste their hours away. I took some of these guys to go camping where things can be achieved. They had lots of fun catching their first fish, their first daredevil acts, such as swimming in the river, or doing other red neck like activities that are fun to do but unethical to the city dwellers. But at night they are homesick, they want to go back and play video games, I tell them you could watch the stars and do other things, but they have gotten themselves so blinded up into a net of the two dimensional world of mine craft, neo-pets, and so on. So it is literally possible to get yourself addicted to these games, I never needed a rehab, I just used common sense to realize this activity is stupid and there are better things to do. Think outside of the box, outdoors alike, not in the box, like an x-box.

Camping weekly （If only...)

Every weekend, I either work all day or camp all day and night. This weekend, however, I couldn’t camp, because I have to work a total of 11 hours this weekend. I need to shift my schedule to a point where I could work many hours, still be in cross country practices/meets, and camp all weekend. A dream that would be, I have to wait until October to readjust the schedule to camp. When I mention camping, that could range from Vinton, Iowa to Walnut Acres. Everywhere I go to camp, I meet lots of new people and they have a lot in common, because they love to camp like you too, and they’re by lakes and rivers all the time, assuming that they fish often. Why camping? It’s like going to resorts, but much cheaper and there are usually more people to meet, or invite to one of your bonfire nights and it always ends up being a great night to gather. After all of the adults enjoy their rounds of beer, they’ll go in the camper to pass out and sleep in as for us kids, we would star gaze or try to catch ginormous midnight catfish. There is that wide ten hour frame where adults are not around, and you can do all sorts of crazy stuff. By crazy stuff, I mean jumping off trees into rivers, (yeah at night), and we could sometimes go noodling for big flatheads if there is no snapping turtles in the zone, (I know it’s not legal in Iowa). Then we would do more of a normal type activity, such as playing ultimate, (glow in the dark Frisbees). I would with my friend eat tons of food that is still left out on the tables during the adult’s potluck. They would be glad to know that we cleaned up their tables, but they would have no idea where the food went until the following noon. I just love the sound of fires crackling and feeling the warmth of the air, and watch the stars ranging from Perseids to leniods regions, and see several shooting stars. We would make wishes, and on the nights we see meteor showers, we would end up with a ton of wishes, ridiculous ones. They never come true, unless if you make it happen. Not saying I’m a skeptical person, but I have optimism the size of a planet. The worst part is coming back home, knowing that you have school and a daily route. But I am going to constantly look forward to the next weekend, or week after, if the work schedule is in my way.

Freeze up already!

I am frustrated to see people out there fishing with their boats, they have a huge advantage in fishing, as for my friend and I as broke teens fish off the banks. My friend and I fished for an average of three days a week for the whole summer. We started to figure out fishing patterns and where their next favorable drop offs are. I just can't wait until winter; because I’ll be able to fish in places where other people will be able to with their boats. I'll be walking on ice, pick pocketing all of the giant fish we've been desired to catch. Lake Palo, Iowa, has been known to have some of the largest muskies of Iowa, with several potentional state records, and my friend and I are planning to obsessively go ice-fishing there. We're down with vexlars, aqua-vu, frabil tents, spring bobbers, propane cans, and so forth. We will be able to get geared up to catch these monsters. The lake itself would seem like a spot where only panfish would live, because of the murky waters and several largemouths, like a farm pond. However, it has bunch of striped bass in there, and they behave as "big minnows" for these monster muskies to feed on. So they grow to a certain size and are almost unheard of, because they have so many places to roam in this giant man-made lake. There are hidden structures out there, and I can hint to you Iowans that there is a bridge underwater in that lake, there is a giant drop-off, so the bridge is settled lateral to the ground. Cornering up fish there would be great, like a quarry structure, the fish will be lined up by the wall, until they see a minnow submerging along the bridge, any fish of any size bigger than the minnow is defiantly likely to inhale it. Back to the musky, there is a giant one out there, I don't know specifically where, but I can tell you that the D.N.R stunned them to put these Palo fish on charts and study the statistics of these fish growths, population, and set rules on possession limits, size limit, e.g. The D.N.R apparently stunned a muskie that was well over 56 inches. (Bigger than some flat screen TVs!) I have, however, heard of a story, more like folklore to me, but it took place in Itasca County, Minnesota. It started out with a stormy weather, as the storm passed over, a boat plane soared over the lake, and something that appeared to be a crocodile caught his eye as it sways by the channel, and they flew closer to it and realized that it was a muskie! Apparently this muskie was literally the size of a pondtune floater, which meant this fish was way off charts, measuring up to ten feet, if not more. So that fish there would be considered an off the charts species, almost impossible to imagine. Of course, they never caught the stunned fish, but hundreds of people gathered up to try to find it on the shore assuming that the fish was dead, but was never seen as it submerged back into the waters. Afterwards, resorts sprung up on the lakeside view of this lake, and people pass on the story that has been carried on until this very day, which is 40 years since it happened.

Open Season yet?

The colors on the trees of Iowa is turning into red, orange, brown, in very few spots of the woods. The temperature is starting to drop, the daylight is starting to get shorter and shorter. The open season is about to begin later. I have been tracking for these whitetails through deer cameras, searching for scrapes, and enjoy viewing these monster bucks polishing the velvet off their antlers. It is about time to find a perfect tree stand to get these trophy deer. I want to find what I would call "natural funnels" where the trail is enclosed into a single line, because there are obstacles such as fallen trees, creeks, thick bushes, steep hills, that the whitetails would walk around instead. When they walk around these obstacles, my tree stand will be preserved at a blind corner where they will walk around towards me.

There's more to hunting than just getting deer, I see lots of things happening while i'm on the tree stand. I've seen coyotes attacking birds and snatching them away, i've seen squirrels riding on some does, it just amazes me how many things could possibly happen in just a plain vast forest. I also enjoy seeing birds with red dots on their heads that looks very similar to a cherry, and the fruit flies would try to get to the cherry, and before you know it, the bird snaps at them and poof! The flies are gone. I enjoy seeing them flocking away at sunset as well. I love watching the sunset while i'm on the treestands, the forest gets darker before the city does. As I walk out of the dark forest at night, the moonlight is like a streetlight with an exception that the light is blue/grayish color; you could see literally everything in the grassy fields, the crickets, grasshoppers, minks, mice, rabbits and some coyotes howling. The creek is flowing so quietly, the littlest noise you'd hear is the current changing, with a single tiny minnow darting across the crystal clear creek.

In the daytime it is actually suprisingly quiter than the nights in the neck of the woods. I would sometimes sleep and then wake up at an instant because I would hear leaves scruffling, but it's not the whitetails walking through, usually it's the squirrels flipping leaves over to find nuts. (They're so insane somedays I wonder if they lost a wedding ring in the leaf pile) Overall, the relaxation, excitement, patience, curiosity, and readiness always pays off when it comes to hunting.

Why do I love freezing?

I love being in the outdoors world, especially when it is winter themed and there are lots of boreal trees and boundary waters up north. When lots of people think about winter, they would think about staying in their house and have their "winter blues" until the snow melts away. For me, it's more like I have the "summer blues", becasue I can't wait until winter, to be able to do so many activities! There is ice-fishing, hunting, camping, skiing, snowmobling, hiking, and so many more on the list. I love ice-fishing, it's actually pretty warm in the tent, and some people I know live in a ice-fishing tent that owns a refridgerator, microwave, flooring, couch, and tv, just like a real house! With an exception that there is a hole in there that fish get caught through. I try to catch northerns through the ice, because at that time of the year, they pack on pounds and you could use aqua-vu to see the northerns the size of fence posts swimming through the waters, and the best part, to see it inhale the minnow you have on. I go hunting for monster whitetails out there, especially around the Burglinton, Iowa region, where they have huge antlers! (Big enough you can't grab your hands around their brow tines) I just love the feeling of being able to ambush whitetail deer as they walk through the snowy grounds, easier to track their blood trails, and the best part is going back to the hotel to soak in the spa. To talk about what happened during the hunting session, there's always a story. Not only do I ski, but cross country skiing seems to be one of my "must" do. I want to go out skiing at night to see snow reflecting upon the moonlight in a rich silvery glittery pattern. I enjoy these things, even when I go sledding with my neighbors, we will still see the same pattern on these snow grounds during moonlight time. Hiking has the same perception too, just different because you're out to see wolves, moose, deer, and anything that may catch your eye, (even the sasquatch!). Last thing I would do after enjoying that outdoor activity is go back inside to sit by the fire and drink hot coca, or I could be watching the wintery constellations in the sky to watch for geminids meteor showers or northern lights if I'm lucky enough while being in a spa on a roof (If only I could afford that), and listen to music. There's just lots of things I love to do during the wintery seasons, I could care less about the temperature, tis the season to be jolly! No more dealing with hot weather, sweating unconditionally, and getting heat strokes like I would easily get. No more dealing with mosquito bites, bugs buzzing by your ears, and sitting in hot cars, sitting on metal benches, and more pain that involves heat. When winter comes by, be prepared to agree with me how much fun winter is as I demonstrate how great this weather is and what to do in such freezing weather, don't fight the cold, enjoy it.