Surgery Over

Well, I went though with it. I had my circumcision from when I was a kid redone. It doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would, however, whatever meds they gave me, I am feeling VERY DIZZY. At least I am not feeling nauseated too. My thing is not hiding now, however, I am having an issue going number 1, which is expected I guess.

Worried About My Son

I am having some concerns regarding my oldest son. He has been having a very hard time in school lately, and I fear if he doesn't change some of the choices that he is making, he will end up having something horrible happen to him. The problem is that he is such a hot head. Anything he perceives as an insult to him he just snaps and gets mad. Now he is on a kind of probation because he got mad and kicked the assistant principal at the middle school that he goes to. We keep telling him that he needs to control his emotions and not snap. Also, it seems like he purposely does stuff to get himself in trouble. He has also said that he thinks that he wants to be 'dead' by the time High School comes because there will lots of writing that he will have to do. I am really starting to get worried. He just doesn't seem to want to do anything to promote his cause or do anything that will be in his best interest. He dresses so that kids will mock him at school, and then he gets mad that he does. He eats and eats and eats, and I was really nervous when we were riding the other day on some exercise equipment that he was going to be having a heart attack, since his blood pressure was much worse than mine. He is 14 and I am approaching 40, and I am in much better shape. He should be able to ride or exercise rings around me. He has absolutely no resolution to keep working. When things get hard at all, he just gives up and doesn't bother trying, nor does he care.

I am at a lose of what to do. I give him advice which I think will help him, and so does his mother, but he never follows it. Also he is so addicted to video games, it is almost like he is having withdrawal symptoms when he can't use it. I am getting frustrated.

Welcome to Utah

So I still live in Washington State in the Western part. Centralia, Washington is where I call home. I am originally from Utah, so growing up I was pretty use to the snow. I didn't like it all that much, but I was used to it. I found the winters to be long, cold, soggy, and miserable. I remember trotting around the neighborhood in my 'moonboots', but even those after a while would get wet and I would find my feet to be cold. So Washington State, the Western part, has had one of the worst snow storms they have had in over 40 years. It was about 16 inches or over a foot of snow. The snow I am discovering is actually slightly wetter, and therefore slightly heavier, it seemed to me anyways, than the stuff we get in Utah. They are saying that it will not just melt off in a couple of days either, like it has done in the past, but that this is supposed to be an ongoing thing for the next couple of weeks or so.

One of the reasons that I think I moved out of Utah was to get away from the constant snow all the time. During the winter, it is supposed to RAIN here, NOT snow like it has been. I guess a good cold front from the Alaskan area is causing it to be a little bit colder than usual. It was really hard today because Andrew and I had to get dropped off at the daycare center and do some major shoveling, and it still doesn't seem to me that we got that much done for it. If it snows again tonight, all that shoveling will have been wasted.

Tina, Andrew, Derek, and Kameron are currently over there sleeping overnight, so that they will be ready for the place to be opened tomorrow morning. I on the other hand am here with Jakob, and we are spending the night in our nice normal comfortable beds. I sure hope that they are really having lots and lots of fun. I will probably curl up with the Kindle that I have and finish reading this book on Cyrus the Great that I have been perusing the last few nights. I sure hope that the snow has melted off some tomorrow.

Daily Resolutions

I thought that I would try and write a bit more stuff during this next year in order to record my thoughts and feelings for those who are interested and for my posterity, in case I become famous.
Today after spending the day 'working' at my small business, Valued Kids Childcare Center, I took my wife Tina out to dinner at the new Carl's Junior that they built a few exits to the South of us at Rush Road. It was really good. I did feel kind of nervous when a Muslim walked in. I know, I shouldn't 'judge', but generally MOST of the terrorist activities I have heard about and read about involve them trying to kill people. A Muslim at a fuel stop, I don't know, makes me nervous. If you could trust that they weren't trying to convert you or cause you to die for not converting, than I could be more calm about it.