THIS IS A TEST OF LEARNING !

For the next sixty seconds this blog is conducting a test of the Emergency Blog Broadcast System ! I repeat...This is only a test !BEEEEP !A longer BEEEEEP! BEEP , BEEP, BEEP ! This has been a test of the Emergency Blog Broadcast System, If this had been a real blog emergency you would have been instructed to drop and cover ! I often wonder what they were thinking back in the day of the cold war.
The them against us mentality was such a big deal back then. Or was it ?
Who are the people in control, that make the wars on the whims of their own?
(is whims a word?) Are you still there? I hope I'm not putting you to sleep.
Well anyway without further ado...here's today's blog entry.

I miss the daily grind of learning stuff in school. And after graduation I had to figure out what I wanted to do or be for the rest of my life. I wish that I had decided when I was in school what it was that I wanted to do so that I could have learned all about it.
But I didn't know what I wanted to do or be at that time.
For twelve years I made that daily trek to school, The big yellow buses were only used for the kids that lived farther away than I did from the schools. After all what's wrong with a two or three mile walk early in the morning to get your sleepy brain cells ready to learn stuff.
Some school days must have been good but I don't remember them! It was after school every day that I remember. Mostly remembering having to walk home from school.
Living at the top of a hill was a tough climb at the end of a long school day especially in the colder days of winter.I felt that the teachers were just waisting my time. And today I understand that they weren't. Learning is a life long process. At times I believe I've forgotten more than I remember all the different stuff I've learned in my lifetime. In school I didn't have that many Friends and the people that were friendly to me I considered very weird hippy types that were into drugs. I didn't do any drugs, pills,or alcohol that stuff is for losers in life. And I was into learning but at the time I thought that I knew more than what everybody was trying to teach me. I never skipped one class though, not one! Partly in the fear of disappointing my Dad but mostly because I really liked to learn stuff. Learning is a lifetime thing, I knew a woman, Mrs. Grababich, she was over one hundred years old and told me to call her Cathy even though her name was Kathrine and up to that point I called her Mrs. Grababich.I would sit with her as she reminisced in her younger days of starting a fire to heat the water for the bathing of her six kids. Six kids to bath with water heated up from a wood fire. She reminded me of just how tough of a life they had in her days. Today I get impatient waiting for the microwave to heat a cup of water. I'm still in the school of life. Today my locker is my mailbox.


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