The Essence Of Discovery

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summitt, keep the goal in mind, but many beautiful scences are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment, & the view from the summitt will prove to be astonishing.

Attitude

Whether you think you CAN or think you CAN'T ... you're probably right.

NOW

Anxiety and stress often stem from things we cannot control, i.e., things that have happened and things that have yet to happen. The great thing about things that have already happened is that you cannot change the actual event, but you can change where you go from that event and how you interpret it. Most importantly you can learn from things that have happened. Life is a continual growing process marked by constant learning and personal growth. To learn nothing from where we have been would make where we are going mindless wandering. Conversely, stress and anxiety that stems from things yet to happen are easily relieved when a person considers that these things have not happened yet. In other words, the event or stressor has not occurred and may, or may not happen the way you are thinking about it, so why be anxious about something that hasn’t happened yet? To that end I argue that keeping a present state of mind helps to relieve much of the tension we experience in our daily lives. Keeping our mind in the NOW, we are able to focus on the things that are happening the moment they happen.

... and then I said

Well take ye a look at this. I dun found my password and login stuff so I can write in this here thingy. So I figured I'd start cranking out some stuff fer yuns to read, if'n you ont too that is.

I got me some good learning about stuff in the past few years, so I thought I'd share some of it. Not all cause I don't want to give any of this cow... or is it the milk, away for free when you can eat cheese....

What I was trying to say is that I thought I would post some junk from what I have been studying in grad school up here so you can read it, I can't give away all the secrets because in an ideal world I would charge a nice fee to tell these things to people on a one-on-one basis. Since the majority of readers of this highly inactive blog are my family, I guess I can give them some free stuff. Imagine that a Burka or a Whalen accepting something for free....Just disclaimer along those lines. You get what you pay for!! So set your expectations low for this blog and you'll be amazed by the mediocrity of the posts.

Houses of Parliament from the London Eye.













Big Ben and Westminster Abbey from the London Eye.

Looking up at the London Eye.

Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives.

Look it is Robin Hood at the castle at Nottingham.

England

I made it to England all safe and sound to Kiley's dorm in Derby, England. We are going to Nottingham tomorrow to see the castle and vist the oldest pub in England to buy me a t-shirt. Right now it is 10 minutes after 8pm, and I am about to go to bed because of this thing called jet lagged. The plane ride is pretty lame because you just sit there for so danged long. I will start to put up some pictures as I get them.

Soccer Sucks

I have never quite understood this blogging business. On one hand it seems like you get the key to someone's diary and get to read about how their day was. On the other hand it seems you get the honor of getting to read someone's incessant rambling about nothing. So I am going to ramble about soccer.

I have figured out why Americans aren't that crazy about soccer. International soccer players are a bunch of girls. As soon as someone falls on the ground it is a foul. Whatsmore is you have guys that get "tripped" fall over in excruciating pain and get hauled off on a stretcher. Then all of a sudden once they get to the sidelines they are a miraculously cured from their "terrible" accident. In our game against Italy yesterday I saw more phantom falls and fouls than that scene in Mighty Ducks where Coach Bombay teaches his kids to fall down and act hurt. That is all International Soccer is. These so called world class athletes fall down and pretend to get hurt. Its even better if they do it when they are close to the goal because then they get to take their free kick nice and close. All I can say is for our team that they aren't a bunch of pansies like the rest of the world's teams. Our player that got an entire side of his face bloodied by an intentional elbow did not have to get carted off on a stretcher. But 5 Italian players did, each had the mysterious ankle injury that seems to run rampant at the international level. Our guy's face got busted up and was back in the game in two minutes. Americans don't like soccer because it is nothing more that bad acting. Even if our team won I wouldn't really care becasue that would just make us the best bad actors. Another thing that I have noticed with the referees is that everytime a player falls on the ground it is a foul. No matter if they tripped on their on accord or not. Someone fell so it must be a foul. OH no! Is that guy on the ground grasping at his ankle like it hurts? Must be a foul. Don't you dare slide into someone and hit the ball first then have the guy fall over your leg, then that is a yellow card. The guy that elbowed the US team member's face and busted it open deserved a red card. But our player that slid into a guy and hit the ball first, which of course caused the guy to fall over and grab his ankle, recieved a red card. If you make someone bleed give them a red card. If you merely are going for the ball then at worst its a foul, but if the guy falls over and pretends to be hurt tell him to suck it up and get off the ground. I for one don't want our team to be the best ankle grabbers in the world.

Here We Go!

And we're off!