Time for another writing about people who have influenced me in big ways in my life. This one is about a couple of my friends growing up: Josh J. and Aaron G. These two guys were church friends. I met them at church when my family started attending the church when I was 10. There…
Month: November 2023
Thanksgiving 2023
This year is a lot like the last few years for my family when it comes to Thanksgiving. On Wednesday we get together with my parents and my in-laws at my parent’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. We do this so that my family can then head up to our cabin afterwards for the long weekend….
Car issues and thankfulness
As you know my motorcycle is in pieces at the moment due to the drive shaft repair. So, that vehicle, my normal commuter vehicle, is out of commission and will be for a couple weeks still. So I have been driving our Ford to school. That has worked well since my wife and kids bike…
Moral the Wombat with TV and Movie Celebrities Part 2
So, we are back and now you get to see who else Moral has meet on his travels with me to conventions. In 2017 I again went to Fan Fusion in Phoenix, and here are the celebrities he got pictures with there: David Anders (Alias and more). He went for the stare down. I think…
The Drifter Update and Beginnings of a Repair
I was able to take my motorcycle into D&D Discount Motorcycles on Saturday. It was raining when I woke up and was hoping it was going to clear up. It cleared up for my trip there. They looked it over and had to remove some parts to take a deeper look. While they were doing…
The Iron Pours
These are the iron pours from the Artie-Polooza event at SCC I mentioned before. These were made from sand blocks (stratch blocks) that my family all worked on a week or so before the event. At the actual iron pour they filled all the sand blocks with iron and then they are left to cool…
What is Tolerance?
I want to spend some time today talking about the word tolerance. Over the years this word has changed meaning (to many people) in my opinion. According to the dictionary the word means: (Merriam-Webster) capacity to endure pain or hardship 2a: sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one’s own…
Veteran’s Weekend 2023
This past weekend my family spent a few days up in the Flagstaff area. My wife had this great idea that we should go see a few of the national monuments in that area since we had the ability to get a national park pass, and Veteran’s Day was a free national park day as…
The problem with the BS and BA (are there other B#?)
As you all know I have been a college teacher for a long while now. I teach at a two-year community college. A large majority of the students I have had over the years have gone to the community to work their way through their first 2 years of college before going to a 4-year…
Artie-Palooza at SCC
This last Saturday, Scottsdale Community College held an open house that it called: Artie-Palooza! It was a time to showcase the school to the community. I was asked by my division if I could help and I decided that I would. I offered to do rocket launches and water balloon launching. I was told that…