OI

Do you have a place where you can go to get away from the world. I do, for me there is one place where I can just go to clear my head. After reading my other blogs it should be easy to guess it has something to do with water. It is a beach house that has been in my family for years. My grand parents bought about 45 years ago and left it to my family when they past away. Since then my dad and I have been taking care of the house which is really more like a hut. This house can not be reached by car and dose not even have what most people call real electricity. We do however have solar panels and a generator for when electricity is needed . When ever I go to this house on Oak island I can always count of having a good time. I have spent countless hours there perfecting the art of claming, crabbing, fishing, swimming, water skiing, and sailing . It is the best place to go for any reason. Ever since I was little I would always look forward to going to oak island on the weekends with my family and some friends and now that I am older it is great place for me to hang out with my friends and some family. When looking for a place to barbeque it can not be beat. This summer we even had a day where my friends and I called in sick to work so that we could go to Oak island and enjoy a perfect summers day This house has impacted my life in many ways. I don’t know what I would do with out it and could not imagine not spending my summer on oak island

ughhhhhhh

There is something about girl friends and the past that just never seem to mix. This weekend I got in a fight with my girl friend Lauren about my past. She brought up a girl that I hooked up with right before we started going out and said that I almost ruined our relationship. This is just a ridiculous statement and made me very mad for several reasons first of all I was not even close to ruining any relationship. I kissed this other girl at a party once and that was is. It did not have any lasting relationship I did not even get her phone number screen or name. I really did not have much interest in this other girl at all. It was clearly a one time thing and we weren’t going out. I really don’t understand what the problem is. I was also mad at Lauren because we have made a deal not to bring up past relationships. Those convos always end badly; I don’t know why they just do. We like each other a lot. Neither of us could ever cheat and there is really no threat to our relationship at all, we just always fight when we bring up past relationships. It really doesn’t make any since we are both fairly mature and understanding. It would also be hard to do to make it through 19 years and not have a past relationship so it’s something that just has to be dealt with. I just don’t understand why Lauren felt that is was necessary to bring up this other girl. We were talking on the phone about nothing the way most of our weekend night conversations go. We were joking around and having fun, and of cores she brought this up for no reason. Like most of out fights it lasted about an hour and then we just made up but that’s not the point. I just don’t it

to much work

This has been one of the worst weeks I can remember. I have been nonstop since Sunday night. For some reason all of my teachers decided to make something due in there class. I had a management test and paper due today, a geology test tomorrow, a quiz Monday, a test and paper due on Tuesday and then a test Wednesday and then a project due Thursday. It’s just out of control. I don’t know how I am going to keep up with all of this work. Last year the work load was not nearly as heavy. I have only had little time to my self every day because I have been so busy studying to doing homework. The one thing I have had to look forward to is the Yankees. I have tried very hard to make time to watch the games and I am so happy I have because they are doing amazing. Right now there are only a game and a half behind the red sox, closer then they have been in months. The season is coming to a close so all of the remaining games are important. The Yankees are also a very clutch team. SO watching the games will be fun. They also will spend the rest of there season playing teams with a losing record. These games have been great lately and taking my mind off school is even better. For the entire week it did not bother how much money any major league athlete was paid, not even A rod.

Rhode Island road trip

On Friday I left Suny Cortland on a road trip to Rhode Island. I was taking this trip for three reasons, to see one of my favorite bands Zox play a show, hang out with my friend Dennis and most importantly see Laur. We left at about 11:30, the drive took about five and a half hours and we reached a max speed of 103 mph. That was a little faster then any of us wanted to go, but on those country roads I could not help but speed. The drive was about average as far as road trips go. Good music comfortable tempter good conversation. It seemed like forever before we got to Providence College- Laur’s school where we hung out for a little then off to the show. It was sweet. After the show the rest of the night was low key. We had a few drinks and went to bed. On Saturday we got up and decided to go visit den. He goes to URI and as im sure I have mentioned will be leavening for Germany. He is actually on a plane right now as I am writing. After hanging with den for a while we made our way to the beach. Laur and I both love the beach so it was a good time. It started getting dark so we decided that it was time for dinner in New Port. We walked around the town for a little. It had a lot of those shops that girls love to go into and look around but never buy anything while guys just kind of follow them and hope they get board soon. After walking around for a while we decided to head back to providence. We started driving and of cores got lost. There I was driving aimlessly around Rhode Island. After a while we found our way back to the highway and made our way back. It did not take that long being as how it only takes about an hour to drive from one side of Rhode island to the other. Back at the dorm we just hung out till we passed out. Sunday morning came to quick. I woke up we said our good bye and I was on my way back to suny Cortland

skate board drama

The other day I let my friend borrow my skate board and he broke it. He wanted to use it to skate down newbig hill to his car. Right away I said “of cores you can use it.” We always use long boards to get to our cars. It is just easier. When he returns he informs me that the wheel fell off, he lost the nut and a huge chunk of the nose is missing. To make matters worse he can’t even buy me a new long board because I made this one. That’s right my friend crashed my home made skateboard. I started making boards a few years ago because I though the prices that were being charged were ridiculous, and since then I have gotten fairly good at the process. Instead of paying seventy dollars for the deck, I go to home depot and pay five dollars. I draw the shape I wish to have, used a jig saw to cut it out, and then use a bet sander to sand any mistakes. That process takes a few hours but is not even the hard part. After I am happy with my wood work I bring the unfinished skate board to my girl friend Lauren. She then paints on the bottom; this one was a picture of a sun set and waves. It is AWESOME! After she paints, I put a few coats of polyurethane and then grip tape on the top. The entire process takes about a week sometimes more. I don’t really like to make boards that often because I like them to be perfect and sometimes become very angry when I cant shape them the way I want. I will probably just keep this one, fix the wheel and ride it the way It is. I would make my life a lot easier. The moral of this story is a friend who breaks your home made long board is not a friend at all

the lindy croud

When you hear the phrase best friend what comes to mind? Is it one or two people? Do you have trouble picking out that one person? I know I could never pick just one. I have about ten best friends. We all hang out in one big group and are always there for each other. I have known these kids in my elementary school days. I went to a small catholic school in Lindenhurst, the town I live in. That’s where I met Matt, Kyle, Dennis, Ryan, Laur, Megan, Christine, Mitchelle, Jessica and Lauren. Threw the years we have become very close, closer then most families these days. One of the hardest things we have had to do is a group is go away to different schools. For the most part we scattered through the north east. Most of us staying in New York with the expectation of Laur and Dennis In Rhode Island, Kyle and Megan in Indiana and Ryan in Virginia. Just for the record the people in places had nothing to do with dating. Kyle and Megan are brother and sister and Laur and I date. Also some may wonder if we are so close why go to school so far apart. Most of it had to do with how different our GPAs are For example Kyle goes to Notre Dame and Laur is Going to Providence on a full academic scholar ship where as I am barley a B Student. When we are at school we try to stay in touch as much as possible and visit each other. Last year I went to Rhode Island a few times and even made the Trip to Indiana and Virginia. Hanging out with this group is always a blast and I can not wait till thanksgiving when we will all get to hang out again.

den at c state

So here I am writing again. It’s Thursday and I really can’t get the weekend out of my mind. I have very high hopes for this weekend for a few reasons. First of all my friend Dennis from home came up to visit he will be spending the next two semesters abroad and this is the last chance I will have to hang out with him before he leaves. I have known Dennis for many years and we have had many good times. We would spend out summers at the beach and our winters wishing it was summer. He is two years older and I have a lot good memories form visiting him at his college, but now it is my turn. He came up yesterday after I got out of class. As soon as he got here we decided to go long board some of the hills. Because Long island dose not have as many or as steep hills this was especially fun. The rest of the night was pretty low key we got diner and then just hung out. Today must have been boring for him because I had three classes. Tonight we will probably go out so I can show Den what Cortland is really like. I don’t have any real plans for the rest of the weekend but I am sure we will think of something.

just an other rainy day

A lot of people wake up and cheek the weather channel to give them self an idea of what the day will have in store for them. When most of these people see stormy conditions with wind gusting to 25 mph and scattered showers they think there day is over. This is not the case with me. When I see heavy wind in the forecast I immediately start thinking about who I can convince to go sailing with me. I make a few phone calls then grab my gear and head to the bay. I sail a few different kinds of boats but on windy days my favorite would have to be a vanguard 420. This fourteen foot boat is sailed with two people, two sails and a trapeze. Ill start to rig the 420 and its right about then that my friend Dennis will show up. He will usually be even more excited about the weather then I am. We rig the boat as quickly as we can make sure all the lines are as tight as we can make them; on windy days having all the lines as tight as they can go helps prevent capsizing. Finally were off, we get the boat in the water, hop in and immediately start to feel the wind push us. On stormy days these boats can reach speeds of close to twenty mph which on the water seems like forty. As Dennis and I cruse around the bay we notice some waves forming from the wind and decide to try and catch some. Because the boat is so small and light they can catch waves and use the wave to accelerate. When we come up to a wave we would like to catch we throw our body weight forward, this is called oching and pull our sails is really fast which is called pumping this gives us the small boost we need to drop in on the wave the wave shoots us across the bay. At this speed we couldn’t help but scream at the top of out lungs, were flying now with wind coming from behind catching wave after wave. After a while we decide to try our luck up wind and decide to gibe around. Gibing is the process of turning the boat around and letting the sails swing over your head. A lot of boats flip when trying to gibe on windy days we go it quickly and make it look easy. Now with us sailing into the wind the boat is even more likely to flip because the wind and the sail make an angle where the wind just wants t push the sail over. We decide to even increase the chances of flipping by pulling the sails all the way in. Although this increases the chances of flipping it also makes us go much faster. The boat is now right on the brink of flipping. We are doing everything we can to keep it flat and keep it moving so we can enjoy this wild roller coaster ride before we know it were are back to the beach were the boat is kept. We sail in derig and head home. Thinking yep just another rainy day