- Signed: Matthew Hartman
- Filed under activities , air-show , heat , relationships , weather .
So this is what it feels like to be truly sunburnt. I haven't felt this in a while. It isn't quite as bad as it looks, but my skin feels fairly warm on the back of my neck, on my ears, my face and my arms. A couple co-workers and I went out to the Grand Forks Air-Base this afternoon to catch the "Thunder Over the Red River" air-show. It was pretty neat to walk around the tarmac and check out some of the US Air Force transport jets, the classic planes, and the fighter jets. The air performances were entertaining as well. We made it out there around 12:30pm and caught a few solo performances and walked around looking at exhibition aircraft, then watched the USAF Thunderbirds perform their manuevers. They were very entertaining... I hadn't been to an air-show since I was probably 10 years old, so it brought back a lot of childhood memories of seeing the US. Navy Blue Angels. My parents took me up to the Fort Wayne International Airport on several occasions to see them when I was younger. Ah, the memories... It was fun for something different. We were out there until around 3:00pm, so figure 2 and half hours in the scorching sun and yeah, that's about how red we all are.
It's not hurting yet... but I may need some aloe vera or some calamine lotion over the next day or two if starts burning at all. After I got back to the apartment, I went directly for the pool. That felt so damn good I didn't want to get out. Of course, though, I virtually have no food in my apartment, so I had to hit up the grocery store.
Otherwise, not much new is going on up here in the wonderful city of Grand Forks. It's been a very warm last couple of weeks and with the exception a few interspersed days of slightly cooler temperatures, it's mostly been in the 80's and 90's. We experienced a stretch of 6 days straight of 90°+ temperatures and even hit a record high on Sunday the 12th and 16th. I'll have more information over in the WeatherBlog shortly, regarding the recent warmth and the continuing drought conditions we've also been experiencing over the past month or so.
In my personal life, not much new there either... CT and I have been talking much less than we used to. This woman finally (again, I repeat, FINALLY) gave me a phone number so that I could call and talk to her. But, get this, it was some 1-800 number. Apparently, because she had so many problems with her previous ex that she had to get some sort of security service that transfers phone calls to her. It sounded rediculous, but I gave in to the $1.89/min charge (yeah, totally insane!) the once, just so I could, at least, talk to her. We didn't really get anywhere and from what I gathered, she had no other way for me to communicate with her, besides our continuing e-mail correspondence. So, that turned me off immediately. I don't know what it is with me meeting these total spaz-oids... I'm beginning to think meeting women off the Internet is a waste of time and that I should just grow a pair and actually try to meet a woman the traditional way. You know, the way that normal men do.
I'm kind of tired of being alone and single... but at the same time, it's probably better that I am. Especially, now, when I can hardly afford to support myself on the bills I already have. I can't really afford to be going on dates every weekend or so. It's sad, I know. I just wish I could get a few things paid off. Getting my car paid off will help tremendously... and getting the one student loan of mine paid off, will be nice, as well. I've got about a year left on my car loan, so I'm very excited about that!
Anywho, I have more to write over in my WeatherBlog before I log completely out of this Blogger thing. Maybe I'll drop by in here again tomorrow to show off some pictures from the air-show today. I took a bunch!
Ta-ta for now...
It's not hurting yet... but I may need some aloe vera or some calamine lotion over the next day or two if starts burning at all. After I got back to the apartment, I went directly for the pool. That felt so damn good I didn't want to get out. Of course, though, I virtually have no food in my apartment, so I had to hit up the grocery store.
Otherwise, not much new is going on up here in the wonderful city of Grand Forks. It's been a very warm last couple of weeks and with the exception a few interspersed days of slightly cooler temperatures, it's mostly been in the 80's and 90's. We experienced a stretch of 6 days straight of 90°+ temperatures and even hit a record high on Sunday the 12th and 16th. I'll have more information over in the WeatherBlog shortly, regarding the recent warmth and the continuing drought conditions we've also been experiencing over the past month or so.
In my personal life, not much new there either... CT and I have been talking much less than we used to. This woman finally (again, I repeat, FINALLY) gave me a phone number so that I could call and talk to her. But, get this, it was some 1-800 number. Apparently, because she had so many problems with her previous ex that she had to get some sort of security service that transfers phone calls to her. It sounded rediculous, but I gave in to the $1.89/min charge (yeah, totally insane!) the once, just so I could, at least, talk to her. We didn't really get anywhere and from what I gathered, she had no other way for me to communicate with her, besides our continuing e-mail correspondence. So, that turned me off immediately. I don't know what it is with me meeting these total spaz-oids... I'm beginning to think meeting women off the Internet is a waste of time and that I should just grow a pair and actually try to meet a woman the traditional way. You know, the way that normal men do.
I'm kind of tired of being alone and single... but at the same time, it's probably better that I am. Especially, now, when I can hardly afford to support myself on the bills I already have. I can't really afford to be going on dates every weekend or so. It's sad, I know. I just wish I could get a few things paid off. Getting my car paid off will help tremendously... and getting the one student loan of mine paid off, will be nice, as well. I've got about a year left on my car loan, so I'm very excited about that!
Anywho, I have more to write over in my WeatherBlog before I log completely out of this Blogger thing. Maybe I'll drop by in here again tomorrow to show off some pictures from the air-show today. I took a bunch!
Ta-ta for now...
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