End of the trail...

End of the trail...

15.5//9.1//21//8.5//15.5//8//2.8//10.5 These are all the hours I've spent in our Huck-a-truck traveling over pretty much the entire east side of the US. That equals about 91 hours give or take a few. Whereas my mom, who flew in a private plane, racked up a rough total of an astounding 5 hours. Yeah mom tell us all about the rough trip.

5 kids+1 dad+ 91 hours together in a confined space= lots of advil.

1: We start. ( Easy enough, right?)

2: We went from where I live to Little Rock, Arkansas.

3: We went to Des Moines, Iowa.

4: We went to Manchester, New Hampshire.

5: We took a pit stop at home (yeah a 10 hour pit stop)

6:We went back to Little Rock.

7: After the loss in SC--- we head home... going through Alabama to visit our cousins.

8:Another stop in Georgia to visit more family(notice I'm deftly avoiding telling you exactly where we went.)

9:We return home. Total hours in car:91 hours.

Here's a nice map I did very roughly to give visual aid.

Well, so now our job with the campaign is over. Huckabee still has a chance-- but Super Tuesday will have the official word. I'll be liveblogging then...

PS: We had "HONK FOR HUCKABEE" Written on the back of our truck for the whole 91 hours. We lost count of how many honks we had. It seems most of them happened right when I was about to fall asleep. In one case, an 18-wheeler blew its airhorn at 1:15. In the morning. We figured the trucker supported Romney and just wanted to torture us.

Shout Out

Shout Out

I've received multiple e-mails from people in my class and they want me to say hi. Hi. Ms. T if you are reading this: Hi. Feel free to comment guys. And no I don't have a facebook. No, I'm not dead. LB, I can assure I am most certainly alive. So this concludes my little shout-out.

And LB thanks for the spam- nothing like cleaning out 100's of spam emails. ;-)

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The Bikenhead Drill

The Birkenhead Drill
The Birkenhead was a British troop ship that on January 8, 1852 set sail for Algoa Bay, which is off the coast of Africa. On board the ship there were about 640 men, women, and children. Many of these people were soldiers bound for the Kaffir wars. On February 26, around 2:00 am, the Birkenhead struck a ledge near Cape Danger. Within 20 minutes the boat would be entirely submerged surrounded by man-eating sharks. Like the Titanic disaster, there was calls for “Women and children first!” Unlike the Titanic not a single woman or child perished.
When the ship was finally doomed and all the women and children safe away in the lifeboats about 150 yards away, the captain(captain Salmond) ordered the men to jump and swim for their lives for the boats. At this point the three most senior officers under the command of captain Salmond : Lieutenant colonel Seton, Captain Wright, and Lieutenant Giradot corrected Captain Salmond’s order. They told the men to stay in rank. Not a single man left his position. Moments later the boat cracked in two and the stern was filled with water: sinking the ship. Many men were sucked under, but a lucky few made clear of the ship to try to swim ashore. Even fewer made it to the beach because of man-eating sharks. Some men came within 30 feet of survival only to be crushed by monstrous waves. More than 400 men perished, but not a single woman or child.
The Birkenhead Drill is a true story of bravery and disaster. And I think in some ways it can apply to our lives. In modern days there are some disasters, 9/11 for example. People die in life. That’s just how it is. The men on the Birkenhead chose a horrific, but heroic death. So did those firefighters and policemen. And especially those people in the planes, risking life to save the President. But the wives and sons and daughters moved on – in both disasters, the Birkenhead and 9/11. We still grieve over the lost loved ones. It’s hard to move on. But we do. And there are two things for sure: No one will ever forget the Birkenhead, and no one will ever forget September 11, 2001.


Bibliography
Phillips, Douglas. The Birkenhead Drill. San Antonio: the vision forum, 2002.

Broken Arm

Skiing is dangerous... sorta...


You cant have 4 feet of snow in New Hampshire and not want to go skiing. So we did. We skied(spell check?) at Pats Peak in NH and had a blast for 6 hours.710 vertical drop, 1o lifts, and night skiing. It was awesome. I did 3 green squares(easy) 2 blue diamonds(moderate) 2 black diamonds(hard) and 1 double black diamond(experts only). I only wiped out once and that was on the double black diamond. At the end of the slope there is a monstrous jump to go off of. I jumped it and then came down wrong on my left wrist, fracturing my radius. I have a clean break so the doc won't have to set the bones into place. But it's all good and I'm in a splint. I'll get a hard cast on monday. The x-ray pictures will be up soon, blogger has an error so it might take a bit.

Iowa Caucus

Iowa Caucus

Tomorrow the Iowa caucus is taking place. In order to prepare, I went with my mom to work to do the phones. My dad saw my uncomfort and offered 5$ for every call I made. I spent some 8 hours in that office calling people to remind them to vote for Governor Huckabee in the Iowa Caucus.8 hours. About 300 phone calls. You do the math. 300 phone calls 5$ each. Hehehe. I feel suddenly like a mini Bill Gates. Except for the fact my dad seems to have "forgotten" our little deal. But anyway I wasn't the only one in that office calling random people waiting to write down the response. I would say there was about 50 or 60. We totaled up all the phone calls and finished with 12,500 phone calls. Phew. Take that Mitt Romney.