Long time no talk

So it has been a "couple of days" since I've dropped a blog post.

Well, this blog finds me in a mental situation that I'm not exactly happy I am in.  To put everyone's minds at ease, no I'm not thinking of hurting myself or anything along those lines.

I have been the president of a square dance club for five of the past seven years.  To say that I'm getting burned out would be an understatement.  The problem is that when I ask everyone in the club if they would like to run for vice president, every single one of them say one of two things.  Either a) "But you are doing such a fine job, I wouldn't want to ruin your track run."  or b) "I'm much more of a follower than I am a leader."

I'm about to say screw it and walk away from the whole mess.  But then, I feel guilty about not fulfilling my duties so I go back and try and figure out who I could ask to run for VP or president.

In other news, since my last post I have been hired as the PA Announcer (for 3 sports) and Play-by-Play Announcer (for 3 other sports, including baseball!) for the Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions.  While I love these jobs, they don't pay worth shit.  I also am a reporter for a website that specializes in high school sports.  I have also offered to do Play-by-Play for the high schools, but no one has been willing to pay the $50 to bring me out to do that.  It is really bugging me since I laid out $800 for the equipment this past summer.

I think I'm done venting and stuff.

Talk to you in a few weeks.

Avalanche season opening notes

These are just going to be short posts about how the Avs season goes in the 48-game sprint...

Fine job tonight (alright last night by now) by Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov against the Wild.  Got tagged with the L, only cause the skaters couldn't stay out of the box in the second period.  Not really sure who played worse, the Aztecs or the Avs in the 2nd period...

AVALANCHE - 1  0  1 = 2
WILD - 0 3 1 = 4
PIM's: COL - 19 (12 in the 2nd period alone), MIN - 11
SOG's: COL - 27, MIN - 35 (18 in the 2nd period)

Elections

OK, first off I would like to state my opinion on elections.  I DON'T CARE WHO OR HOW YOU VOTE, AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY AND ACTUALLY VOTE.

Now that I have that out of the way...

I would encourage a Yes vote on Prop 30, for multiple reasons.  But I will simply state this, if you vote yes and it passes, I get my job back at one of my jobs.

The one proposition that I would really like to talk about here is Prop 35.  I would first state that I am totally against Human Trafficking.  However, this prop in my opinion is not written correctly.  According to this proposition 

"290.024. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms apply:(a) “Internet service provider” means a business, organization, or other entity providing a computer and communications facility directly to consumers through which a person may obtain access to the Internet. An Internet service provider does not include a business, organization, or other entity that provides only telecommunications services, cable services, or video services, or any system operated or services offered by a library or educational institution.(b) “Internet identifier” means an electronic mail address, user name, screen name, or similar identifier used for the purpose of Internet forum discussions, Internet chat room discussions, instant messaging, social networking, or similar Internet communication."Page 104 of California State voter information guide

Now that everyone knows where I'm going on this.  I am all for strengthening the law, but hold on here.  First, if a person is convicted of being a sexual predator their lives are over.  No smart business will hire that person for fear of it coming out in the press and the public backlash.  Second, is it really necessary to follow what the convicted person does on say a family website?  Yeah, chat rooms that they could possibly find a new victim, I have no problem with it.  But with the way this law is written, you could have people talking to family members that have no intent on doing anything wrong and still be investigated.

I was going to say that there is the other side of the issue of "Commercial sex acts" which I believe would cover prostitutes.  I don't know, but I'm sure that many of the "pros" that are out there are there on their own volition.  Thankfully, that portion of the act has been stricken from the California voter guide, so I would assume (and when dealing with government it truly is make an ass out of u and me) it is no longer part of the law.

I have now stated my peace, thanks for reading.  I would like to close by restating my overall theory, if you are registered and can vote, DO IT.  If you don't vote you can't complain about the country and where the elected officials are taking us, because you fucked up and didn't vote!

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Too much on my plate???

Two weeks into the new year and is my plate full.

You have school which in and of itself, will be tricky to handle later in the quarter, but here in the early portion is ok. This quarter I'm taking Inter-cultural Communications online (all I have to do in this class is write 2 papers of 3-4 pages each and three posts in the weekly discussion posts...that reminds me, I should go look and see how many I have this week). I also have Technical & Report writing in which I have to basically write a different letter each week. Then I have Legal environment of Domestic and International business... Business Law. I love the teacher in this class, he has us talk about law cases and present as if we are lawyers in the case, also if we take notes in the class, we are in trouble. Then I have Finite Math, which I really don't understand why I have to take this class, as I've already passed Statistics and this class is more along the lines of algebra...who knows. Then we have my "easy" class, the school newspaper. Sounds easy, and most of the time it is, but you try getting one article done (which for me usually turns into more like three or four) and all of your homework before noon on Sunday, when the games sometimes don't happen until 7p on Saturday.

Then you have San Diego State hockey. For those that read this and don't know I'm the media relations contact for the club team. I put out a weekly press release every week during the season. I'm also the announcer, and have been given the responsibilities if not the title of General Manager for the team. You have to start somewhere, right?

Then I have my job here at school working in the Athletic department. It doesn't sound hard, but when you have to juggle running the scoreboard for the swim meets, the water polo matches, and hopefully working with the baseball team it can get pretty hectic.

And now I'm also helping out the CSUB Dugout club. That is the parents and supporters for the baseball team. So far all I've had to do for them is create a Facebook profile, and take some pictures. But now they are looking at possibly asking me to keep a blog for them (I have a hard enough time keeping my own blog here up to date!).

So I ask you my fateful followers, do I have enough on my plate or should I try and add something else?