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Reasons to agree : Trips to the zoo are good for kids . Chicago has good zoos.  The Indiana Sand Dunes are cool, and close to Chicago .  Chicago has good opportunities to watch sports . Chicago has good museums .  People watching is entertaining around Chicago . Naperville Last Fling is Fun Images that agree : April 2005, with James on the train Tony and Tina's Wedding, November 2006 2007 Highland games. Very HOT that day. 2008 at the Shedd Aquarium with the baby beluga. James' first animal. When KC came to visit, I invited myself along for the trip to the city. We ended up walking, with 3 kids, all the way from the train station, to Millenium Park, and to The Hancock Tower. We walked back to Navy Pear and caught a water taxi to the train station. 2006 Nextfest Tastes of Chicago James on our death march from union station to the Hancock building

June 4, 2006 to Las Vegas Lightfair From my window in Las Vegas THE FLIGHT Our plane was supposed to leave at 6:05, but it left the ground at 10:15, leaving me stuck with Red Necks on there way to a pool tournament in Vegas for 7 and a half hours. They took up the plane and acted like it was theirs. They whistled at the stewards the first time she walked buy, and one of them used their camera-cell phone to take a picture up her skirt when she went buy with the cart. These guys were low-life’s. They had BO, BB (bad breath), long skanky hair, tattoos, and big ugly girl friends. We watched King Kong before we even got in the air, and last Holliday (Queen Latifa) once we were no loner run-way-bound. Cathy Ed and I get out of the airport almost 2:00 in the morning. I woke up at 6:30 with my tonsillitis hurting and I couldn't go back to sleep. LIGHT FAIR 2006 Lightfaire was pretty cool; however I wish I would have spent more time. I only had time to hang out at the big ex...

Images that agree : Alison turning 2

Reasons to agree : I learned how to row.  I got good at canoeing, small boat sailing, and snorkeling. I met some cool people. I learned how to Eskimo roll in a kayak. I learned how to live on my own, and take care of myself.  You get a sense of who you are living alone and in a new place.  You get to know people pretty well living with them. I met a lot of cool people (Gomer, Lumpy, Bryan, Brad, Nathan, Emily,  Reasons to disagree :  I made less than minimum wage. I worked more than 8 hours, but got paid minimum wage for an 8 hour day. I met some cool people, but I didn't spend time with the most important people in my life, my family and the people I was going to school with.  Rowing, canoeing, small boat sailing, and snorkeling are not marketable, or used very often.  I worked for 3 summers in McCall on the aquatic staff of Camp Morrison. While in McCall I: mounted a potato gun to our sail boat A potato gun is made with PVC...

I have lived in: 2 homes with my parents in Nampa 2 Tents and a "cabin" in McCall (1 tent at the top of the mountain, and 1 tent at the water front) 5 or 6 apartment in Tennessee and Kentucky And 6 places with Megan. Below are some of the places I've lived Our 2nd apartment, on Boise Avenue. A sketch I did of our front room. My 1st Home (may be when I came home from hospital) Home summer of 1994 Home summer of 1994 My dad helping Megan and I moving out of our 1st apartment The crib in 2004 Home 2004 My current home (Christmas Morning 2011)

Images that agree : My son's puddle Line My son at the Bolingbrook High School Parking Lot My dad giving my son a ride. My dad loves himself some 4-wheeler, and knows Owyhee County like the back of his hand.  James and I, 2006ish, on Meg K's bike With some money that I was able to get from my job at Miner's RV, I bought my first car when I was 14. It was a 1986 ford escort, 2-door, hatch-back, with automatic seat-belts. I bought it from my dad for $500 dollar (photos of each car to follow later). Bike in the snake-swamp at Camp Morison in McCall At Bogus basin above Boise. I'm the one on the right.  After getting too many tickets, Al-State would no longer insure me. So I rode my bike to school a good portion of my Senior Year. Nothing says chick magnet like pulling up to school on a bicycle... My bike with random water-colors and ink My parents mailed my bike to me in Tennessee Video of Ali and James r...

James at my work, drawing the sun saying, "Nice Picture". The moon saying: "all I'm waiting for is night", a cloud saying, "I like to fly", a bird saying, "all I'm waiting for is food", James saying, "I like outside", me saying, "What!", a tree saying, "I like the sun", and a flower saying, "me to".  Drawing Teachers: 1992 In Jr. High I started drawing teachers as a way to look at a teacher without really paying attention. I know it is not great art, but I really like the concept of sharing sketches (see Dan Price's moonlight chronicles). I think sketching forces you to look at the world, and sharing sketches is a great way of seeing a moment of time through someone else's eyes. Its doesn't do anything profound, or teach you any great lessons, unless the subject matter is great, but I think it is sort of fun and interesting. Jr. Principal, Mr. Beamer with ...