To the LEFT

OK, POP Quiz - 

There are two lanes to a freeway as a minimum, what is the left lane used for? 

A. Kickin it old school so my homies can see my ride? 

B. Passing those who go at or under the speed limit? 

C. Semi Trucks to caravan in so cars may exit easily? 

D. Multitaskers, those who can eat, text, apply makeup, or change their clothes while driving? 

and the correct answer is.. . . . . . . . . . .  . 

B. PASSING 

PLEASE    People - this is why the autobahn concept wouldn't work in this country! If you want to cruise or go slower, keep your cracker jack a** in the right lane. Too bad if you have to take the car off cruise control! 

You're not making the roads any safer by causing the person doing 90 to hit their brakes or try to climb into your backseat. In most instances YOU are making the roads more dangerous. 

THE LIST

Ok, so I have seen this list for a few months now on Blogs and I thought I would put a different spin on mine. Of course the ones in Bold are things I have done. I think once this list is completed it's time for me to Die. Now that I have an end in sight I better get to work!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland.
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a Praying Mantis.
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train.
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David.
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted.
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling.
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in movie.
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican.
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life.
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Talked your way out of a ticket

Hmmmm after looking at some of these, it looks like I will never die. :)

DEUTCHLAND

Hmm, I might be the only one but somehow I think in the next 4 years we all will get to experience what Germans felt when Hitler was on his rise to power and attempted world domination.

Let the PROPAGANDA begin! 

Changes I have noticed as I get older

For some reason lately I have noticed scouting a bit more and realized there have been changes since I was a boy in the program. The main one that is sort of upsetting is the way Eagle Scouts are completing their service projects.

I am an Eagle Scout and have been most of my scouting years. I will tell you about my service project and tell me if you see a difference in an example of one completed today.

For my service project, I decided to paint the trash cans for the parks and recreation department for our city parks. (It was a smaller town so maybe 50 cans or barrels total)

To complete this project I had to call the Parks and Rec. dept, arrange a place to paint the barrels, find the materials, or someone to donate the materials and coordinate the troop to complete the labor. During all of this my leaders and my father told me they were there if I had a question but basically I was on my own.

Now I had an edge since our family was in the painting business, so the tools and the painting area were easy to arrange. I remember it taking me several weeks to complete the planning and setting up the arrangements. As young as I was, it felt like a great accomplishment and I can see the lessons I learned in what I do today.

Now let’s look at the current projects. So far I have seen 2 boys complete “coat drives” for their project. Now I haven’t completed this but I don’t see how much involvement it takes to set up a box, ask the Church leadership if they can place them in the foyer, and make an announcement. Yeah maybe the boy and his father has to go around picking them up and dropping them off but where is the involvement of the troop? Where is the display of leadership over other scouts?

Maybe the focus is all about the charity now, I think for me it was more about the leading and management skills learned in the process. I don’t see our youth learning much of that and I would hope that that level of scouting would provide that.

But then again, other then when I got my Eagle Badge, my wife has been the only one who has mentioned the Eagle Scout accomplishment. Maybe that distinction has lost its mark in society.