Don't pass SOPA

Just writing

So I am writing my free writing first... Why? because it doesn't involve thinking. I really haven't thought sense I left school a couple weeks ago and I do not want to start thinking again at all. Even writing this is starting to hurt my head. Oh well, I am going to write a couple paragraphs as fast as i can and get this done with. I guess I'll just write about my break. So the first couple days were pretty boring up until the day before Christmas. I pretty much hung out with some friends and just relaxed. The 24th became slightly more fun though because we got to celebrate Christmas a day early! It was a pretty good year! I'm getting an iPhone, but I have to wait until March for my plan to run out. I got a whole bunch of ski stuff earlier and a couple of gift cards and some clothes! Nothing to complain about! Then around 7 am on the 25th we left for the airport! We were on our way to Steamboat Springs Colorado! Every year my family chooses a new place to go skiing and this year we chose steamboat! I skied four days and the rest of my family skied three days! My first day I took a racing lesson and got to ski with three old Olympians including Billy Kidd who won the silver metal in slalom in the 1964 Olympic games. That was really the highlight of my trip for the next three days were spent just skiing with my family. We got back on the 30th and I've been doing homework sense I got back except for a couple hours on New Years Eve when I went over to a friends house. Mkay, despite the fact that I said I'm going to write a couple paragraphs and I only wrote a big blog of words I am done. Oh yea, I nearly forgot, Packers won with seven of their best players inactive for the game to make sure they are healthy for the postseason. Superbowl? I think so. OK, bye.

Risk

I decided to be original and instead of finding the dictionary/Wikipedia definition of risk, I am going to write about the board game risk. I can hear it already... "That was not what I meant when I said write about risk!" too bad, Risk is a game I know and love which actually (not very surprisingly) involves quite a bit of risk and luck to be able to win. However the reason I chose to talk about the game Risk is that succeeding at Risk not only takes luck, but also takes quite a bit of skill. You need to know where to put your pieces in the beginning of the game. You need to come up with a strategic plan to keep gaining cards to get more troops and you need to analyze the risks of attacking at certain points in the game. But lets look back at the skill involved while taking a risk. Any high school athlete who chooses to slack off in the classroom and try to get into college and make a living through the sport is taking a risk, but you have to have skill in order for you to even have a chance to make it into the pros, or even college purely off of athletic excellence. The same thing is true for most things you have to take a risk to achieve.
So I guess that is how you decided when to take the risk. Make a honest, true, assessment of your skill, and if you decide the possible outcomes are worth the risk, are worth the chance of failure, then you should take it. If you decide you don't have the skill, or the outcomes are not worth the risk, then it's time to re-evaluate the situation and choose a new course of action.
And btw Packers lost :( oh well
Superbowl XLV, here we come

Random Ramblings

I don't have much to write about right now but here goes a post anyways... I think I am going to treat this like a free write.. Just kind of ramble on until I feel like stopping. And I think I am going to write it with my eyes closed too so I don't know how long it is... Idk if this will work or not... Ill probably end up opening my eyes soon anyways... Right now my dad is talking to one of his friends about possibly going to the Super Bowl again if the Packers go! And guess what spoiled rotten 16 year old would most likely get to go given the Packers are going? yep, this one. Time to be jealous starts now! OK stop.

Just realized I've been typing with my eyes open ever sense I said I was going to close my eyes... That one lasted a while... Oh well, it was worth a try!

This winter break I get to go to Steamboat to ski! Hopefully I can sign up to have some lessons for Downhill racing! Most of you probably wont know what that meas other than skiing downhill... but there is an actual kind of race called Downhill. I've never been able to do anything but slalom and a little bit of giant slalom so it would be tons of fun to try Downhill! Not to mention going out west is really the only time possible for me to try Downhill. With the hills here in Minnesota and the sizes of the turns for downhill racing each run would be about  one turn... so obviously it really isn't worth it. That's why the only kind of racing they have in Minnesota is slalom. The other kinds need much larger mountains to ski on.

OK, I think I wrote enough for this post. Have a happy Saturday and cheer for the Packers!
Go Pack, Go!

Rhetorical Modes - Trust

1. The trust one has in a person has to grow over time. My dad did not allow me to go driving by myself far distances the first day I had my license. I had not earned his respect yet. In fact the first time I went driving by myself was following my dad home from the car dealership when he picked up his new car. I had to earn my trust before he would allow me to go driving by myself.

2. Although being a trustworthy person is almost never the easy thing to do, and it may seem that caring about yourself more than others is the only way to survive, being a trustworthy friend always has it's advantages if your friend is also trustworthy. For instance if you sacrifice yourself to help your friend out, your friend is more likely to do the same for you in the future.

3. Trust is a confidence that someone will do their job. Trust is knowing that that the person you are relying on will have your back when you need it and that you will have this persons back when he or she needs it. Trust is formed over time. Trust cannot be bought, but only developed and grown.

4. In the beginning of the season no one knows each other, no on loves each other, and no one trusts each other. The beginning of each year is spent in a grueling trek of workouts and two-a-days. During the first day there are a lot of new faces and you have your doubts about all these new teammates. But by the first game we have endured hell together. We have established the trust that is necessary to have a great season.

5. Trust is a word that is used a lot in the English language, but no matter how it is used it always, or nearly always has the same meaning. A football player has to have trust in his teammates in order to be able to do his responsibility to the fullest. This kind of trust, while very similar, is in fact different than the trust a father has in a babysitter that the kid will be safe.

6. You need to have trust in Barrack Obama. Obama is the president of America and the "leader of the free world". While you may not agree with how Obama handles certain things or what some of his beliefs are he is still the president and his intentions are the same as every president before him; to make America a better nation, a more strong nation, and a world power.

10-0

So we are officially 10 and 0 now! yep, you guessed it, I'm writing another post about the Packers! Aaron Rodgers is still shredding apart defenses week after week throwing only his fourth int all year today. James Starks was injured but hopefully he'll be fine! Not only did the Packers win again, but the Vikings lost again! This is one of the best years in history to be Wisconsin sports fan! Our football team seems like it can't be beaten!
So on a different note i'll talk about the Trojans! Prep Bowl 2011 here we come! We played Cretin yesterday and everyone expected a close game, but that's not how it turned out! We clobbered Cretin in a 42-0 win! After this landslide victory I can't help but to feel overly confident about the state final game against EP. We've already defeated them once this season, our defense is stronger and faster than it's ever been, our offense is clicking and Martin has been hitting his receivers all day long! Much like Aaron Rodgers! Overall, I am in a happy place for all my football teams!

Another blog...

Watching the Packer game right now and it's been exactly like I expected. Rodgers has been throwing the ball as accurately as ever and our defense has pretty much been shutting down the Charger pass game. Both Tramon Williams and Charlie Peprah have a pic six and there have also been a couple more close interceptions. Another thing I noticed is that why the heck is it raining in San Diego. Shouldn't it be about 70 and sunny every day? What the heck is up with that? Rodgers is having a pretty good game as well. He only has about 100 yards but that is because we have barely had the ball! Our defense has two touchdowns and the Chargers have had a couple long drives that have wasted a long time. Right now the Packers are up by seven with the ball half way through the third quarter so I am pretty confident we will win! Another victory in Packer nation! 8-0!