Teen Tech

This is the third time that I’ve been up at around 2:00 a.m. worrying about my Eagle project and how I’m going to get done before my deadline. I have until November 5th to get everything done and turned in. That’s only about twelve days away. Let me explain what I’m doing as my project, or first, let me explain what an Eagle Project is. The project is a leadership project where I lead a group of people, which can be fellow scouts, but also community members, to do some community service task that does not benefit scouting. For my project, I’m building flower planters for the City of Tecumseh. Here’s the plans that I’ve drafted using AutoCAD 2006:

(Clicking on the images brings up the full size drawings)

So, that’s what I’ve been working on getting everything in place. The city wants one built as a model before they actually go and get the stuff, and the model is not done yet meaning that I need that to be done by the end of the day tomorrow, so that the city can come out and inspect it, then so that they can get the materials and deliver them by Saturday when I plan to finally finish this.

Ok,

So, I’m working on my stuff to get the rank of Eagle Scout.  That alone is hard enough.  Try adding in school, a business, and life in general and it becomes chaos extremely quickly.  That’s what I’ve been up against this past month or so.  That is why my blogging has slowed down dramatically.  I just can’t keep up with everything, so I’ve begun to throttle back everything that is not as important as the other stuff in comparison.  Unfortunately the blogging is one of those things.  I’m still here and will give updates on my progress, but I will not be able to blog as much as usual.  I will probably continue at a good pace after this month, but I’ll drop in every now and then between here and then, so wish me luck.

Aaron

I used to have this old LiveJournal blog that I blogged in for a while.  Well, today I went back to those old posts, and they surprised me.  I forgot about some of the stuff that I wrote about,  so the next few posts will be about my more insightful posts in 2005.

Title: Discipline

“Its not that no one has it (seemingly), but its that no one uses it in cooperation with common sense and self control.  There was recently a kid in my English class who was posing as another kid, so the other kid would not be marked absent.  Does this kid have disciple? Probably.  Common Sense and Self control?  Absolutely.  Did he use them together as a guide?  Definently Not.   Why would someone have all of these tools in life and not use them?  Granted there are those who are uneducated and don’t know right from wrong, but this and a majority of the others are not this case.  This is a human who takes what God gives them and throws it away.  I, at all times am not perfect.  In fact, about a month ago, I just walked out of class with another student while the teacher was doing something and was oblivious to all but what she was grading at one of the back tables.  At this time was I doing what I should have?  No I wasn’t.  There are a few instances like this where I will go out of character and do something irrational, though that is not often.  Thus here is my question of the day.  How do you define “out of character”  the person develops their own character according to what they have been taught.  How do we know what our own characters are?  How can one be truly sure?”

This post surprised me tonight when reading it.  I completely forgot about what had happened 2 years ago, and my line of thinking, though it is starting to come back.  This is just food for thought.  I don’t have anything to add to this post.  It just fits with the events in my life right now.