I know I have kind of dropped the ball on the blog posts this semester but i still have time to play some catch up. What i am about to tell the world was my day without technology. For my day without technology I completed this task without using a phone, TV, and a computer, pretty much the big three in the common technology world. For this day I also asked a couple of friends to par-take in the festivities. We all went out to my friends land and we had a great day of first going scuba diving, where they have a pond where they conduct scuba classes where they are instructors. I have already been certified by a class that i took in high school to get open water certified, so we went down and fooled around until we were all about out of air when we surfaced.
After that we got into some dry clothes and we also brought with us multiple firearms. Just a few to include many semi-automatic rifles and hand guns as well as the good ol' shotgun. We set up targets down range and literally had a blast shooting with all the ammunition that we bought. We had competitions to see who could shoot better in different styles of shooting, no one really admits that they lost seeing as how the looser had to buy the beer. It ranged from a long distance shoot for accuracy to a grouping shoot with hand guns, a rapid fire with a magazine change accuracy, to the good old fashion skeet shooting with shotguns. It was a load of fun and also for me is a really big stress reliever.
After all the ammo was shot up and the targets and a couple of beavers, which were damming up a spill way that is putting their scuba pond in danger of breaking and they would lose a lot of money and time making that, we saddled up and started to drive back to the city where we came across a little fun park called celebration station where we wanted to ride some go-karts. We went in and bought up a couple of tickets to ride and we set off on the course. When we started we were the first 3 karts to go so we decided to mess with everyone behind us and get 3 wide and drive really slow so no one could pass us for the first couple of laps. So we did and kinda got on some peoples nerves but then we unleashed and went out and drove, a lot of other "racers" tried, and a couple of time succeeded, to put us in the wall for our nonsense at the beginning but it was all in good fun.
After the go-kart race we headed back to Norman where we spent the remainder of the night at the old O' Connells off Lindsey where reminisced and reflected on our day which was a lot of adventure and fun.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Well in class we have spoken a lot about technology, even though i do use technology i am not an avid user like i see some people around campus. For me I like to be more social and I see people who are walking around campus texting on their phones and almost running into everyone around them clueless to their surroundings. Also I grew up in a home where if it was a nice day outside i could not be inside i had to go out and play, and i am grateful for that, and thats just who i am. I understand that there are people who are all about computers and all the technology to their fingertips and they can do some neat things with that and they should go for it. As for me the whole technology i really do not care if it continues or not because the world has been going on before all of these things and it will continue to survive no matter what. Which is also when the professor told us to try and go a day without technology I already knew i could do that having done that before so I was ready to go for it and have a great time.
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