Woody

We received our 'pile' of wood yesterday for the camp fires we plan to have in the summer. Wow! The pile is taller than I am (5' 5") and almost as wide as the house when stacked two deep.

I never realized how much wood is included in a cord. Now, I'll have to reconfigure my storage area to stack it all up nice and neat. The guy who delivered the load said he split it all by hand. This has GOT to be one helluva job, swinging an axe (or maul in the wood-splitting language) to make big pieces of wood smaller. He said he's is saving up for a log splitter to make the job easier. I wish him luck, considering the pile that he delivered.

Honors

I was inducted into the local Phi Theta Kappa chapter last evening. It was a nice ceremony, and there were about 80 people who became members of the two-year college honor society. One thing that impresse me was they did not dwell on it -- the ceremonty was quick and painless. I've never put much stock into ceremony. Even in the military, I did not enjoy getting up in front of a group of people to receive an award. It just wasn't me.

Now, we'll see if it's worth the trouble to participate in some of the activities they have planned. After all, I pretty much went through the ceremony for a resume bullet.

Shocking!

Really shocking things that I've heard and I'm totally distraught by them.All this time I never knew all these things and no one said anything to me.I'm sure they have been talking about it with each other but never with me.Why couldn't they have let me know instead of leaving it like this and then now decide that they can't take it anymore and turn their backs?In the first place all those things should have been brought up and misunderstandings would have been cleared.I truely think it is all misunderstandings from all the things that I've heard tho its not all of it cos I'm sure there is more. And in some ways its the problem of communication. Sometimes things can't really be put into words that's why I strongly feel that talking things out thru the net is the worst place and lotsa misinterpretations of words would occur in which it has happened. From what I've heard they would rather have the whole group together to talk it out but I feel that the problem lies with the individual and should be solved personally.I know that I should not put too much hope on this cos the mind is strongwilled and is dificult to change in thinking tho it is all misunderstanding.Whatever happens...so be it.From this I learn that it doesn't pay to be straight forward for the person's own good.