Week Off!!

Hello Everyone,

Public school is finally out for the summer so I finally get a week off before the summer program starts. This is a picture I took on the last day of school of me and my wonderful kids from this year. Thats Hipolito on my knee, he's freakin hilarious. I'm so blessed to have God put them in my life. Only one is going on to middle school so I'm happy I will get to see most of them this summer and next year.

This week I have done absolutely nothing, which is nice for a change. Well I guess that isn't entirely true, I just haven't done very many productive things. I am a movie freak so I have watched a new movie every day for the last eight days. Some of which include Letters From Iwo Jima, The Fountain, The Tiger and the Snow(Italian movie), the new Pirates of the Caribbean, and Pan's Labrynth. All of these have been pretty good and would recomend any of them. If you have a favorite movie, new/old, independent/major, foreign/english, please tell me about it and I will try my best to get ahold of it. I have also been enjoying some new cd's that I have bought in the last few days. Some of these include the new Travis(track 3-Closer, is especially good), the new Jeremy Enigk(he did the music for one of my favorite movies United States of Leland), the new Mogwai(soundtrack to the documentary about Zidane), and also I got two older albums by Sigur Ros which are great, as expected. This is also the first week in about 23 weeks to not have a new episode of Lost and I am already going through withdrawls. I think many would agree with me when I say that it is the best Drama/Action show on tv right now.

Better go. Talk to ya soon. Will try to post something you would care about reading tomorrow.

What Are Men?

Well I just finished reading some of my friends blogs and I now feel very depressed. I just realized that I don't know enough about the people that are closest to me. Does that mean they aren't really my friends? I guess they could probably say the same thing about me. This has to change, and now. I will keep you posted on my progress or failure.

Anyway, on a lighter note. Here is my first topical blog. WARNING: Much Sarcasm Involved. I call this:

What Are Men?

Why are men, men? Why are men from mars?

What makes us tick? What makes men so

masculine? Why are we all so rough and

rugged and irresistible to women?

These are some of the many questions about men.
And here at (insert clever title I have yet to come up with here), I aim to answer them.

First of all, men have XY hormones. I don't know what

that means, but it's important in the field of science.

But this is beside the fact that men are men are men.
We like meat. We like beer and wine and trucks. Us

men like fights (not me, however. Karate teaches me

to seek peace through force and to yield like the

willow tree but with deep roots that cannot be

severed). WE like paintball and laser tag and

Creedence and Medieval reenactments and German Culture.

But most importantly, men like women.

We certainly like their bodies and their outfits, but

we also like their soft lips and skin and taste in furniture.
Women make us who we are, not only with their wombs,but with their femininity.

Fact: Men are better at taking charge.

Fact: Men are better at maps and directions and driving.

Fact: Men are better at jousting and dueling.

Fact: Men are better at facts.

Question: What are women better at?

(Note: Please don't be offended, feminists. I respect you AND am probably attracted to some of you.)

Daniel Merker. Man.

Blog #1 - The Beginning

Here it is. My first blog.....Uhm....? Just kidding. I'm looking forward to this. I've wanted to get started for a while now. My good friend David's 100th blog posting inspired me to finally get started. You should check his out, http://dmesler.blogspot.com/ , it's really good.
With each new blog I will reveal alittle more about myself as well as offer my insights and advice on various things. I don't want to start off lame but its late and I'm going to bed. I will post something clever tomorrow. If anybody read this, Thanks. You've been with me from the very beginning.

P.S. I would like to add that eventually I will be coming up with a name for this blog. If you have any suggestions please let me know.