Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!

The title above translates:

"If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!"

I have officially terminated all my other blogs and have started anew. I realized that I had really stopped doing what I enjoyed and got side tracked, so I figured it was time to get back to what really gets me going. Writing!

I will begin with a list of the various things that have occupied my summer. Classes start next week, so with a week of summer vacation left, I don't think it's too early to summarize this past summer. It's been a very good summer in any number of ways. I'll break the list down into a number of general categories.


Personal:
~I helped coach the Gorillas 11 and under travel baseball team to a Third place finish at the BPA Western World Series.
~I helped coach the Gorillas 12 and under travel baseball team to a First place finish at the Triple Crown Fall National Qualifier.
~The Gorillas travel team went to the beach for the Jr. OTL National Championships for the second year.
~I will be coaching this weekend, at the Triple Crown So. Cal. State Championship Tournament for the Gorillas 11 and under.
~I am still going to school, full-time now from summer through fall, unlike last summer, when I took the summer off.

School/Research:
~I did a lot of reading this summer, especially on Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Marriage, and Ethics.
~Books I read included: Dantes Divine Comedy, The Bible, The Gospel of the Flying Spagehtti Monster (Behold the Church of the FSM, today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion), Marriage and Sacrament, and the Ethics of Aquinas.
~I wrote many papers for school this summer. This was my first real experience with writing philososphy/theology papers and I think it went fairly well. The exception being my arguments about the existence of God and what Jesus' dying meant to me... Although they were great agruments they didn't go over so well with some of the Hard-core bible thumpers at school.

Other stuff, including family:
~As mentioned above, I'm on my week vacation from summer school now and awaiting fall semester to begin.
~Adrian moved away from San Diego to Montana this summer and I guess it is going ok for him at the moment.
~Mikey is doing great with his construction estimating job. He also has finished up a ton of classes at SDSU for construction management.
~My Dad is still working on his backyard, he is almost done with his fountain. I will post the pics when Mikey gives them to me.
~My Mom is still working at Children's hospital and talking about work stuff daily when she gets home. I guess everyday there is so much crap a that place that she needs to vent, so we listen. =)