It's My Life

Greenfield, SD

2013-05-30T20:47:00.001-07:00

I decided to go for a long ride today because the weather was pretty nice(Workout Data). Especially compared to the weather that we have been having lately. I didn't check the wind direction before i left soo..... naturally i headed out with the wind at my back rather than in my face like i normally prefer on a ride (that way i have it at my back on the way home).

I headed east first and crossed I-29 without any real incident. Not very long after i turned north towards Spink, Sd i got chased for nearly a quarter mile by two black labs that didnt want to give up despite the fact that i was quickly out distancing them. I was planning this ride based on a route that i had planned out before, but i didnt really know all the details so when i hit SD HWY 48, the first east-west paved road i figured that it would be the one to take me back across I-29.

Well, it did. However, as soon as i cross the interstate i found myself on a gravel road. Thinking that i was close to my North-South paved road that i wanted i braved it for several miles. For those of you who don't know, gravel really sucks when you are riding on top 1 inch wide tires. When i did reach a paved road i thought it was University and headed north hoping to ride past one of my co-worker's house, but it wasn't the road i thought i was. I stopped and ate some granola and took these pictures which i later found out was very near to the tiny town of Greenfield, SD.

myself

I then headed home. Into the wind. Trying to outrace those storm clouds. Which were headed right at me. I made it home in time and it looked like the storm was going to miss me so i decided to keep going a little longer as a cooldown. That's when i got soaked. I dont mean a drizzle, i mean an all out downpour. Then it started to throw in some hail. I decided i had better take cover and headed for cover at a nearby friend's place but as soon as i got there it stopped raining and i was rewarded with this.

Below is a pic of the tail-end of the storm

Workout Data

Microwave Cake

2012-03-23T21:57:00.001-07:00

If you are ever in the mood for a cake and don't want to wait the full 20 minutes, then you have a lot in common with me and my grandma late at night after watching an old VHS recording of Sarah Plain and Tall.

Now don't judge, it's something from my childhood. Anyways, we were getting ice cream out and then thought it would be nice to have some cake with it. Since the ice cream was already out we decided to microwave the cake because according to my grandma it only takes 7 minutes.

We ended up cooking it for 8 minutes and it was fully cooked and fully risen. It tasted pretty good and was very moist. We used a box mix of cherry chip cake and had a large glass pan. The taste was a little off and after looking it up online it was most likely the eggs. Some other alternatives were meringue powder or powdered pudding.

All in all it was pretty convenient and with a little tweaking it could be a new favorite.

Signed Antique: "Voyage of the Liberdade"

2012-03-22T14:55:00.010-07:00

Ok, so i have had this book for a long time and reached that point in my life where i would like to know what it is worth. I know i don't really have any viewers but if someone were to stumble upon my page and happen to know anything about antiques i could use some help.

The book is called The Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum and was published in 1894.

This is a picture of the front cover which is pretty beaten up.

It appears to have been a gift from the author to one of his children because of a letter written on one of the blank pages. The name starts with a "J" and to me lookes like james but he did not have a james. He did however have a daughter nameds Jessie. I can figure out most of the words but i could use a little help getting them all down.

Inside there was also a piece of cardboard with names of ships and dates written on it. One of the names is Aquidneck, which was the name of one his boats. It also says Brazil on it which is where the Aquidneck was shipwrecked. I don't know what this is or if it is important but i scanned it in as well. If anyone can figure out what it all says i would appreciate it.

I have also included a picture of the title page and the copyright page, as well as a small print of a boat that i found in the book, though i assume someone was simply using it as a bookmark.

As you can see it is pretty beat up and the spine is coming away from the pages. I think some pages are even completed loose but once the text starts it is in decent shape.

I'm not really looking to sell it because i love collecting books but if it was worth enough i might part with it.

Consumer Whore - StumbleUpon

2011-10-15T23:14:00.000-07:00

Consumer Whore - StumbleUpon: just want to clarify, i love Starbucks. When i think of Starbucks i think coffee. when i think of coffee i think Starbucks.

'via Blog this'

Black and white twins | Life and style | The Guardian

2011-10-13T20:47:00.000-07:00

Black and white twins | Life and style | The Guardian: 'via Blog this'

Aaren Reale - Black (Original Mix) by Aaren Reale on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

2011-10-12T15:29:00.000-07:00

Aaren Reale - Black (Original Mix) by Aaren Reale on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free: Wow.... this is verrry epic. I think some parts can get a little repetitive but a great song that could very easily belong to a serious sound track for a movie. Thank you Aaren Reale! 'via Blog this'

Ultra-High Fidelity Music Box | Flight of the Conchords - StumbleUpon

2011-10-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

Ultra-High Fidelity Music Box | Flight of the Conchords - StumbleUpon:

I'm not really sure what this is or how they made it.... but u think flight of the conchords is one of my new favorite bands. 'via Blog this'

YouTube - Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Audio)

2011-02-11T09:14:00.000-08:00

Its Decent

YouTube - Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Audio)

IMDb Video: Battle: Los Angeles -- Super Bowl Spot

2011-02-10T18:11:00.000-08:00

IMDb Video: Battle: Los Angeles -- Super Bowl Spot

Sick looking movie. I will see it. along with black swan some time.

YouTube - jumpchrisjump.com: How Vaulting Poles are Made

2011-02-07T18:38:00.000-08:00

YouTube - jumpchrisjump.com: How Vaulting Poles are Made

YouTube - Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside

2011-02-03T16:02:00.000-08:00

YouTube - Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside

I really loved this video for some reason. Maybe because it is just how life works out. Dreams are just that dreams. You just have to reach your destination with what you have and live with it. I think it makes a cool idea for a movie.

The Data of Life

2011-02-02T21:52:00.000-08:00

So my psych textbook said that we take in 11,000,000 bits of information from our senses every second. I calculated that to be: 1.3 MB/Second 78.7MB/Minute 4.6 GB/ Hour 110 GB/ Day 39.5 TB/ Year 710 TB/ On 18th birthday 3 PB(3094TB)/ Expected american lifespan 78.4 years yeah i'm cool

bomomo

2011-01-30T20:44:00.000-08:00

bomomo

quite the stress reliever. Gets old fast though

My Temple

2011-01-30T17:26:00.000-08:00

I have decided to get my ear pierced. I want to, i think it looks cool, and i really think that it would at least make me feel cool regardless of what other people think of it.

I think that i have decided on a cartilage piercing and i am just going to want a ring not a stud.

Cartilage seems better to me not only because it looks cooler but also because it is harder to see the hole when i take it out. if i ever need to do so....

I asked my best friend to go with me but at this time it seems as though i might just go on my own. Thats what you get for growing up. you have to live your own life and do things on your own. Like me insisting to move myself into college

1-28-11

2011-01-30T16:23:00.000-08:00

This is what the inside of a Papaya looks like just in case you are curious

Today my only breakfast was a fruit smoothie, and my only lunch was also a fruit smoothie. Since i bought all those fruits i just couldn't help myself. I use the soy milk and for lunch i mixed in a naked fruit drink.

The whole time i have lived here i have marveled at the fact that there are never any bugs of any kind in my room. I don't always clean my dishes right away and i have food in my room which my parents have always said not to do, and still no bugs. all of this went through my head when i found a spider in my room today. It wasn't a big one and wasn't brightly colored but it was a bug in my room. I left it alone and just took a picture. I have a feeling it is from mexico(papaya) or where ever the bananas and the pineapple came from.

My hands hurt pretty bad today and i accidently put hand sanitizer on them and it killed.

I forgot to do my spanish homework.

I drove to Calculus today and on my way i opened my sunroof. It was great absolutly magical. It opened like it had never closed. My car was actually hot enough that i had needed to open the sunroof.

1-27-11

2011-01-30T15:06:00.000-08:00

Today was an absolutly beautiful. I know it is still midwinter but i am begining to have hope that maybe the winter is ending early. The chances of this being true are very small but it keeps me going.

Today i read a short story by margaret atwood for english class. It was a very interesting piece because there was no plot but rather several possible plots; each one dealing with love and relationship but in each story ever one the characters all die. In some of the plots the characters are perfect and nice, in others thay are cheating and rebellious, or they are weak and downtrodden, but they all die.

Practice was pretty easy. Just a warm up, bar drill,and med throw. In the bar workout i got a big blister that ripped off the palm of each of my hands. It killed so bad. I was not capable of finishing the workout dispite the blisters. I am much weaker than the rest of the of the team and i am just not strong enough. The Blisters don't look too bad here but they keep getting worse and with the dry air they are cracking and it hurts to hold the pole.

I went to walmart because sometimes i just need to shop. Just going and looking at everything that is out there that i may one day be able to have is fun. I went a little crazy and spent a little more than i would. I bought: a mug(black), a pineapple, bananas, a papaya(4 and a half freaking dollars), bread, soymilk, and v8 splash.

Competing Today

2011-01-29T06:35:00.000-08:00

I am competeing today in Aimes Iowa. The track is more than 200 meters like 300 or something like that. Weird never seen that before, though i am not going to even run on it. Today i am polevaulting and hurdling i have two bad blisters on my hands that i hope won't affect me that much. i want a PR in pole vault and at least 8.9 in hurdles

So Its Been A While

2011-01-26T20:34:00.000-08:00

I don't really know what to say but i have decided that blogging was definitely made me feel happier. Since the last blog i made i have started college. It has had its ups and downs but for the most part its been good. In track i focused on The multi event but after we returned from christmas vacation i was moved on to the vault and hurdle squad instead. First Semester i took Spanish 201, English 101, Medical Terminology, and Sociology 101. My GPA was a 4.0 which i am happy with and would really like to continue next semester. This semester i am taking chem 114, Span 202, Engl 210, Calc 123, and Psych 101. i havn't taken chem in 3 years since i took AP chem in high school and i am kind of struggling with coming in halfway through the semester.

I originally had a room mate but he moved in with his friends so now i have had the room to myself since halfway through first semester. I like it but there is no longer any motivation for me to keep my room clean. My room is pretty cool though. I have a tv(tube) hooked up to surround sound and my computer which is also hooked up to the surround sound and my hard drive which is on my bookshelf. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse so i can be laying on the top bunk with the computer screen on the TV and surf the internet, do homework, listen to music/ watch movies off the hard drive, or watch movies off Netflix which i got myself for christmas.

I really hate the winter and this has been a hard one on me but i really think that it is almost over. It is sooo much colder here than in NY. And on top of that it is always windy, so the snow really drifts up.The days are getting longer and the last 2 days have been above freezing. All of this has prompted me to do a lot of daydreaming about my trips to california and spain. And spring in general. i reeeallly want to be able to do homework outside on lush green grass. Oh well.

Well this was fun. Ill catch up more tm.

Heaven

2010-08-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

Hey stuart do you want breakfast. Thats what i woke up to. Ill start first with what i woke up from. I was having the weirdest dream. Bethany Kohler/Peters, some other girl, and i were in a room. they were both facing me and behind me there was a big picture window with a bunch of kids playing on a Jungle Gym thing. Anyways for some reason we start talking in spanish and then the rest of the dream everyone was speaking Spanish. Until at one point i just switch into French and no one else spoke it. Right at this time i look out the window and it was like something from the wizard of oz. there were objects blowing past the window but the kids were still just sitting there playing like nothing was going on. This is where i woke up.

Breakfast was biscuits and gravy with both choc

olate gravy and country gravy. It was amazing. After breakfast i went to lay down while Papa got stuff ready for our day at the beach. Grandma slep

t the whole way out to okechobee or okabogee whichever one we went to. When we got there it was the most peaceful thing ever. I loved it so much and it was gorgeous there.

Words and pictures dont capture it. There was NO ONE else there and there wern't even any boats on the lake. The whole time was just amazing and i am looking forward to it next summer.

Tonight i went to Tina's app. to watch some movies. First was aliens in the attic which sucked and we didnt finish. Second one was Bounty Hunter which was funny but not that goood.

I'm not going to try to tell you everything

2010-08-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

I can't keep up with a daily play by play but i can give some highlights. In the past week or so i had a second grad party for family and friends in South Dakota, and it went pretty well. I think the entire church showed up as well as some family members they just wern't all there at the same time. I dont think there was ever more than 4 families there at the same time. It was 104-107 that day and everyone was kind of not feeling good. There was also lots wind that day. When i got home from spending the entire day at church it was night time and dark and in the field in front of my grandma's house there was this huge dark object several times larger than a house that had definatly not been there that morning when i left. It ended up being hay bales. It really is pretty impressive and blocks most of the train noise as well as the street sounds.

I had my last day of work before all of this. It was very uneventful and i left pretty early. I spent that night at my Biological father's house because the next day we were leaving for rapid city for a mini vacation. My stomach had other plans. The next day i woke up feeling sick. I txted my grandma to see if she was town so i could meet up with her. She wanted to go to have Donuts because she hadn't eaten. I reminded her that i was sick and that didnt sound like too good of an idea to me. She then suggested that we eat at Hardee's for breakfast. Guess what she wanted to get.... Biscuits and Gravy. I convinced her that we should just go home. So i met her at walmart and we both drove home. I slept for a hour when dad came over to pick me up.. The rest is for another post.

I Promise

2010-08-24T12:01:00.001-07:00

I will post tonight.

Nothing Much

2010-08-11T22:08:00.000-07:00

Well i didn't really have a very eventful day today. I woke up... got some Thank You cards deposited my paycheck. Worked 3 hours hauling boxes of paperwork. Then i watched Death Race with my sister. It was a pretty good movie. I liked it which lately i have been having trouble finding. Then i went to church with my grandparents. There was a big thunder storm

and i got a few good pics.

MAD tv - Bon Qui Qui at King Burger

2010-08-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

Currently my favorite youtube video!!!

2010-08-11T00:02:00.000-07:00

Garden Spiders from Stuart Charbonneau on Vimeo.

I have better video's i just havn't uploaded them yet.

It's Called Cruzin'

2010-08-10T23:07:00.000-07:00

It's also called $15 of gas. Also called 150 miles. Me and my sister decided to hang out. She had her cousin Keana come with us. We First just drove out of town onto th highways just so we could go fast but we quickly found out that with only 4 cylinders my car cannot kick like normal with more than two people in it. It was a Sunday so not very many people were out so it wasn't too much fun but we listened to lots of music and i loved being able to talk to my sister .