Big-D's Blog: February 2005

I Sayeth Unto Thee, That Doth Sucketh Verliy!!

So, walker killed a rabbit. Man, that sucks! Don't get me wrong. I'm not some animal lover or anything. You see...the thing is...I WANTED TO KILL THE RABBIT!! It's like everything I've worked for up to this point is worthless. Oh, the long nights of hoping and praying for the elusive cotton tailed rabbit to find it's way under my tires. All the squirrel's and chipmunks and birds and that kitten I managed to hit add up to nothing compaired to the elation of mangling a poor...hewpwess.....wabbit.....NOOOOOOO!!!

I was working in the neighborhood one day taking photos and these guys came running out of their house after me. I they wanted their picture taken, and to see me!

We saw this clay brick structure near our house. There's a guy researching clay brick building technology. He used these colored glass bottles and bowls for an artistic touch. It's an interesting sight to see. I am interested in learning how the clay bricks are made. It can be done anywhere there is clay, straw, sand, and water. It's remarkably strong too with a limestone coating over it.

Don't Be Labeled!

Happy Valentine's Day

The girls on my team put together a Valentine's Eve party. And because I am male and usually dread the girly things my feminine teammates do I was not sure I liked the idea. But the party was a smashing success. I had fun, ate alot of food, and got to kiss William Hung (the horrible American Idol singer). So we played this game called "Hang One on Hung". We put lipstick on people and blindfolded them. Then we spun them around and they had to try to kiss a picture of William Hung that was on our wall. Whoever was closest to his lips won. I ended up kissing the door and missed the picture all together. But it was still fun.

I'm tired. Ater the homeless census I slept from 6am to 11am on wednesday. It was enough to get through yesturday. But I'm still tired. Even after a full night's sleep last night. The census went ok. It was raining and remarkably foggy the whole night. It made it difficult to see homeless people. Imagine driving in the rain throughout the night. You get to go home when you make it through your "zones" by finishing a count of all the homeless people you find. But you can only see 15-20 feet in front of you...and you have to cover about a 5 mile radius. It was interesting to drive through our neighborhood at night though. It doesn't happen much. It suprising how many people we did see, besides the homeless. You might wonder how can you tell if someone is homeless? Well, we had a formerly homeless person in each car. They would tell us what to look for. For example, we were told you can tell if someone's homeless or not by looking at their shoes. Our formerly homeless person said he could also tell if they were a drug dealer by their shoes...And to think, mom always told me I should look up when I walk!

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It made me happy!

More sidewalk art!

Yeah, reeeeeaaly bored!!

On monday, my day off, I was really bored. So I bought sidewalk chalk and went crazy.

On "family night" our living room turned into a tent. We camped-out inside. We made smores via our space heater. It was fun!

I'm not sleeping tonight...oh, the memories!!

My team and I are participating in a homeless census. This means we will be driving around Atlanta late at night counting the homeless people we see sleeping outside. Why do it at night, you say? Because homeless people have no homes. And you can tell them apart because they stay outside when everyone else goes in. This is a really good cause, too. Programs will probably be getting money for this. These programs deal with the issues associated with homelessness. Yep, so no sleeping tonight! And we get free food. Those are two things I'm all too familiar with. No sleep and free food. Life is sweet, man!

I tried posting twice. Both times I lost everything I wrote. The first time was because of stupid internet bull-chair. The second time I posted on how I was going to copy my work and paste it again if I lost the internet connection. But guess what I tried to copy my writing and it got DELETED!! It's been so long that I've actually posted words that I think I forgot how to do it. I hope it works this time. Here goes everything........