It has been a long time since I posted any entries in the blog. I know some of you wanted to know what is going on. Well every thing in school is going well and I decided to take one class session off. I feel that I need this time off, after four years without any time off at all. My grade point is way up there and was a perfect time take sometime off from my studies. To have rest time and then go back on May 24.   I feel that this is the right decision and I would benefit from this time.  Florida is getting very hot now, with a temperature today of 88 degrees. It can get up to 100 degrees in the summer. This would be a good time to go to the beach and enjoy it, while it is still not more than 90 degrees. Florida is such a vast different from Maine and being in the woods (I was living in central Maine) and so far from the coast. Tomorrow will mark one year in Florida, and since I moved from Maine. The people are so different and the weather is more tropical; no cold snow l down here, we see 34 degrees at times in the winter months. I will stop here and wanted to update you on what has been happening since the last blog entry.

Boy, did this bring back memories of being in High school in the 70's. It was 1975 when "walk this way," by Areosmith came out. I remember hemming or singing this in the hallways(we all did).  It brought the 70's and it all back when I listen to it on Youtube after so long not hearing it. what great music we had back then and the pure classic rock of areosmith and other great bands of the 1970's.

Aerosmith - Walk This Way lyrics



Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers
 Till I talked to your daddy, he say
 He said "you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin
 Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways"
 I met a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder
 Oh, the times I could reminisce
 'Cause the best things of lovin' with her sister and her cousin
 Only started with a little kiss
 Like this!
 
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
 And your feet flyin' up in the air
 Singin' "hey diddle diddle"
 With your kitty in the middle of the swing
 Like you didn't care
 So I took a big chance at the high school dance
 With a missy who was ready to play
 Wasn't me she was foolin'
 'Cause she knew what she was doin'
 And I knowed love was here to stay
 When she told me to
 
Walk this way
 Just gimme a kiss
 Like this!
 
Schoolgirl sweetie with a classy kinda sassy
 Little skirt's climbin' way up the knee
 There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
 When I noticed they was lookin' at me
 I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady
 Till the boys told me somethin' I missed
 Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor
 So I gave her just a little kiss
 Like this!
 
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
 And your feet flyin' up in the air
 Singin' "hey diddle diddle"
 With your kitty in the middle of the swing
 Like you didn't care
 So I took a big chance at the high school dance
 With a missy who was ready to play
 Wasn't me she was foolin'
 'Cause she knew what she was doin'
 And I knowed love was here to stay
 When she told me to
 
When she told me how to walk this way, she told me to
 
[Repeat x8]
 Walk this way

Just gimme a kiss
 Like this!

We all go though life with rose-colored glasses on, with reflections of the people who came in and out of our life. We wonder where they are now and how things turned out for them. How the years weathered them and tare away what they once were in reflecting. We can see where we were and how changed and revolved over time. With the passing of time, I reflect on my youth, with a grin and a laugh at the things we thought was earth shattering in our life. We now know that most of it was just trivial thing(s) that we went though in life. The games of who said what to whom about you doesn’t contain much true meaning now or then; Although then it tore though you and stung with each word that they said.

Where did all those people that I knew back then have gone? What are their lives like now and how did they change over the pass thirty or fourty years? All the people that I knew in the eight different states that I lived in are just a memory of what was. Now is only a reflection in thought, which is now just a place holder of what once was -And no way what is now or what I have become. Looking back is fun and wonder about all the people you knew. Even though, you have very little in common with them now, except the memory of a period in time. John Lennon said it best "In My life" on the 1965 rubber soul album:

Though I know I’ll never lose affection.

For the people and things that went before.

I know I’ll often stop and think about them...

 

Memories and refection are good as long as they don’t get in the way of what you are doing now and what your life is in the present.

Life down here in Florida is quite good.  The weather is more like Spring/ Summer Year around.  Still, I would not want to go swimming in November but the water in the gulf is warm as bath water in the Summer.  The year around there is always a lot to do on the beach area and in town. The southern hospitality is well and strong down here, where your neighbors wave to you  and talk to each other.  This is such a big change from New England and the Yankee’s cold ways.  Now we must understand that I am a Yankee born and bread and lived in New England for a good part of my life.  I remember one account while living in Danvers Massachusetts, in the Spring in 2006 I was out in my yard and my neighbor was out in his yard across the street.  I waved to him and said HI to him.  He gave me this cold look and did move at all.  It was like I just  gone after him and his whole family with a chain saw or an axe.  He never did say a word and just turn around and went on walking into his house.  People in Massachusetts and New England is known to be cold and unfriendly; I am not saying that everyone is like this but they are known to be snobby and unfriendly.  Maine was a little bit better but where I was living it was pretty much up in the sticks and a lot of country, woods and farm land - not being a country boy at all and like city life, it was not for me.  Jobs in Maine are low, only if you want to work in the building trades, lumber jack, work on a farm, pulp mills or fishing industry.  I did not live in Maine for long and this was my second time and last time that I would live in Maine. I lived in Massachusetts for years,  from 1982 to 2004.  Boston is a great Town and has a great new England feel to it.  I do miss Boston and the feel of Boston.

So now I am down in Florida, where so far the nights and days are 57F/82F Degrees and it is still pleasant. The only drawback is the Hurricanes, but they told me the last one that hit in this part of Florida was in the 70's, most of then ver off to the east or head to Mississippi.  As I said before, the water is warm as bath water in the summer. Up North the water in the summertime is still very cold even in the heat of the summer, so the weather is still not to bad at all here in the Sunshine state. I guess I won’t need my Snow shoes and X-country skis down here. Yes I still have them but maybe I will go up North to use them or down to the beach in the sand - they would put the net over me and lock me up.

School is going well for me and this class is a lot better then the last one. I am in a speech class now and I am not having any trouble at all in this class. It is hard to believe that there is only about a year and half to go before I am out of school. This degree is a four-year program.  It seemed to be lasting forever at times and seems to be speeding up other times, but in many ways I am not looking forward to finish and move on.  I don’t know why or how to put it into words, but some how it is going to be hard to leave school.  I know that might sound odd but that is how I am feeling right now.  It will be exciting to go out and work at a studio and work on film projects and animation but leaving school will be hard.  In all, school has been a mix of  good and bad times while I have been attending this school. Well I think that is it for now and I have said everything that I wanted to say for right now.  Stay tuned for more in the up coming weeks.