Athens Nightlife!

Who says there is nothing to do in Athens?

Tonight we went to an art opening of some undergraduate work at OU. One of the frisbee kids, "Big" Keith, had a piece in the show. It is a juried show with painting, sculpture, photo, and ceramics. Does anyone out there remember Shawn Busse. He went to OU for grad school in ceramics. If you have ever seen the porcelain "Athens Block"s in our house, he did them. The reason I bring this up is because one of the other students had a similar piece to Busse's. Basically, ceramic blocks are going across some steel (Busse had a conveyor belt) and then they fall and break. What is it about watching things crash. It's like the smash up derby at the fair. It goes against most of my ecological principles (waste of gas, waste of cars, gratuitous expending of energy), but it still draws me in...

I digress.

Here's Keith and his painting.


Tonight is also barbershop night. Two other frisbee kids, Drew and Massey, came over for a hair cut. Kent is the coach as well as team barber. Convenient for all.

Snow FUN

Here are a few more shots of our fun-in-the-snow-weekend. Lori and I, accompanied by our neighbor and friend Tony Xenos, drove out to Duane's house to go sled-riding with his son (my Godson)Fisher. We had a blast. Fisher was great. He went trekking all over the place with us as we climbed up and down the big-hills on Duane's property. Tony brought his snowboards and seemed to carve out some good runs. Lori, Duane, Fisher and I all managed to survive some wild sled riding.

It Snowed!

It finally snowed. A real snow. Three inches (maybe). We went for a run in the morning and this is Kent's beard when we got back. It was a little tough trodding through the snow on the bike path. Like running in sand.

Later in the day we went sled riding out in the country. We'll print more photos of that later.

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio, aka, Cowtown, Clumpy, will-they-ever-be-done-with-I-270-town.

We went to the capital on Saturday to attend the 40th birthday party of our friend, Paul (aka Devo). I can't believe we have friends reaching this milestone in age. Criminy, Kent will be 37 this year, although, I shouldn't broadcast this, because of our age difference. I will be 29 (again). The party was a good chance to catch up with some Columbus frisbee folks, and then we spent the night at the Breglias.

After a great breakfast of waffles and omelets, the four of us headed downtown to the Columbus Museum of Art. Degas and Kehinde Wiley were the featured exhibits of interest. The Degas show was very crowded. It featured his landscape work, which isn't the stuff he is known for. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see the variety of work by a particular artist. He dabbled in many mediums; painting, printmaking, sculpture. He even picked up photography in his sixties. Apparently, though, Degas was a bit of a pompous ass and womanizer.

After the museum we went to the North Market to get lunch. ummmmmm. yummmy food abound. This very cool indoor market has a multitude of eating establishments to choose from. I went with the Middle Eastern place, since I've been on that kick for awile. Kent and Doug got Italian. Gina got a hotdog and popcorn. (She's preggers. Enough said.) Then the best part; ice cream!. There is a place called Jeni's, and they have crazy flavors: salty caramel, Thai Chili, butternut squash with pralines! But I went with an old favorite I found in Italy. Queen City Cayenne. Yep, dark chocolate with cayenne pepper. This is such a wonderful mix of flavors that I highly recommend it to anyone, even if you don't like hot foods. (I sure don't) As long as you like chocolate, you'll enjoy this. We left with some treats to take home and back to Athens we went.

OU vs UC

For the New Years Weekend we drove to Cleveland to observe OU whoop-ass on the UC bearkittens. We got to spend a lot of time with family and friends but neglected to take any pictures. I mentioned this to my bro, and he promptly sent a few picts he had taken on his cell phone. So the quality isn't very good, but I thought I would post it anyway.


Thanks for the picture Jeff. And I'll try to remember to take more in the future.

Athens

I was out walking around today in 60 degree weather and I thought how nice it is to live in Athens. Yeah, the students drive me nuts sometimes, but at the same time, they have been my ultimate practice buddies for the past 12 years. Plus, OU provides some great athletic venues and decent art/theatre/music scene. The farmer's market is kick-ass and is open all year round. The people are top notch and the outdoor adventures are just minutes away. So if you've never been here, please visit. And if this makes you miss it, come on back.

Transtheoretical Model of Change

In my 16 credit hours of graduate studies, this is one of the few things I actually learned. TMC is a change process involving progress through a series of 5 steps.

Precontemplation-you have no intention to take action in the next 6 months.

Contemplation- you start to think about change and may start to take action in the next 6 months.

Preparation- you have a plan of action to make a change in the next month.

Action- modifications have been made in your behaviour and you are taking action not to relapse to old behaviour patterns.

Maintenance- you work to prevent relapse although temptations are not as hard.

This is obviously a scaled down version of a study conducted by some very smart people so it may be somewhat elementary. However, I felt this is a good time of year to relay this information to those who may have made New Year's resolution. Although, I don't see how this is going to help me find new friends with villas in the country.