carl420024's blog

Just got off work at the factory I work at.  I use air tools to trim aluminum castings.  The physical labor sure does suck, and it really isn't worth $9.00 per hour.  At the main factory in Iowa, they make about $12 per hour doing what I do.  I'm just glad today wasn't a very hot day, the fan was actually blowing cool air.  All I know is I am ready to quit my job on the 26th and start my new part time job on the 30th.  The reason behind this switch is so I can focus more time on my education.  My whole plan is to further my education so i'm not left working in a factory the rest of my life.  There's no way I could do it, I would lose my mind.  Not to mention i'm 22, and with all this phsyical labor i feel like i'm already in my 40s........My part time j  Read More »

I am very excited to be enrolled in school.  I take my ACT Compass Placement exam on the 24th.  I bought an ACT study book at Barnes and Noble bookstore on Sunday.  I have done a few of the practices tests.  I do pretty good at the english portion, done a few of these tests on Sunday.  I did 45 questions, and got 43 of them correct.  So I'm not too worried about that.  But tonight I did a few of the math questions.  Wow, I didn't realize how hard math was if you haven't done it in five years.  It almost makes me feel stupid doing these questions in the practice book.  It's a good book though, it has the answers and it explains the answers.  It walks you through the process of doing the formulas and what not.  First looking at the questions, I was pretty clueless  Read More »

Well, today is July 19, 2007.  I have been in the 41st Judicial Drug Court since May 7th, 2007 now.  This program has helped me out a lot in life.  The reason I am in this program is because I had a problem with drugs.  My drug of choice was marijuana, and on March 10th, I got arrested for having a half pound of marijuana.

For the first couple of months after I got arrested, I was pretty heated about getting in trouble and that I wouldn't be able to smoke weed anymore.  But now that I have been in drug court for about 3 months now, I am glad that I got in trouble.  Read More »