soooooo

amanda's gone this weekend with my mom and sisters to the ladies retreat... i was planning on fishing all weekend... seriously... i've been looking forward to fishing since the last fishing season closed, 33 days ago... the only thing is, we've had lousy weather for the past month... seriously... it's been cold... even snowing a couple times... which means that the ice didn't melt... which means that we couldn't launch the boat... which means we had to fish from the shore, which means we were limited in where we could fish because only 2 spots had enough ice gone so we could cast... which means the water is still too cold at the surface for the fish to move to the top and spawn and eat, which means we didn't catch crap... well, that's not entirely true, one of the guys caught crap, and by crap i mean an old take out dish someone had dumped in the lake. but other than that, it sucked. i'm not even going tomorrow... unless the wind dies down, then maybe i might but it's not supposed to... we'll see... but not to blackstrap... i'll save that til the ice is gone. so, my weekend that was planned out fully, just became fully unplanned... and i am fully bored out of my skull already... oh well... it happens

it's my birthday...

woooo....

something funny to make becky a happy cheerful person again

The preschool teacher says, "We're going to do vocabulary today. Who can use the word 'definitely' in a sentence?"

Mary raises her hand and exclaims, "Me me me!"

The teacher says, "Go ahead, what's the sentence?

Mary replies, "The sky is definitely blue."

"That's good, Mary," says the teacher, "but the sky can also be gray or white."

Sam raises his hand and states, "Grass is definitely green."

The teacher says, "That's good, Sam, but grass can be brown, too."

Little Johnny raises his hand and asks, "Do farts have lumps in them?"

The teacher says, "No Johnny, why do you ask that?"

Little Johnny replies, "Well, I definitely sh*t my pants."


and another...
Little Johnny is always being teased by the other neighborhood boys for being stupid. Their favorite joke is to offer Johnny his choice between a nickel and a dime -- Little Johnny always takes the nickel.

One day, after Johnny takes the nickel, a neighbor man takes him aside and says, "Johnny, those boys are making fun of you. Don't you know that a dime is worth more than a nickel, even though the nickel's bigger?"

Johnny grins and says, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd stop doing it, and so far I've made $20!"


and some more...

A new teacher tries to make use of her psychology courses. The first day of class, she starts by saying, "Everyone who thinks they're stupid, stand up!"

After a few seconds, Little Johnny stands up. The teacher asks, "Do you think you're stupid, Johnny?"

"No, ma'am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself."


and again...

Teacher: "Little Johnny, give me a sentence using the word, 'geometry.'"

Little Johnny: "A little acorn grew and grew until it finally awoke one day and said, 'Gee, I'm a tree.'"



there you go beck... i hope that these made you happy.... oh yeah... i hope your birthday was happy too.... because you're aweosme and you should be happy... you're funner when you're happy lol

what's your opinion?

Dad of girls who froze to death handed 3 years jail
Updated Fri. Mar. 6 2009 3:57 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A Saskatchewan father who drunkenly lost his two young daughters outside in a snowstorm has been handed a three-year jail sentence for their deaths.

Christopher Pauchay, 25, pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death after his daughters -- three-year-old Kaydance and one-year-old Santana -- were found buried in snowdrifts in January of last year.

The prison term comes despite calls from an aboriginal sentencing circle that Pauchay be spared jail time and be allowed to heal in his community.

But in handing out the sentence, Judge Barry Morgan said that Pauchay hadn't taken responsibility for the deaths and didn't seem to understand how his actions had led to the tragedy.

Pauchay, who had been drinking heavily on the night of the deaths, had taken the girls out of his home on the Yellow Quill First Nation reserve in the early hours of Jan. 28.

They became separated in the -50 C weather, and the girls froze to death.

Pauchay also suffered severe frostbite and hypothermia but survived after being found by a neighbour.

The Crown noted that Pauchay already has a long criminal record, with more than 50 convictions. The three-year jail term lands on the lower end on the Crown's request, who were seeking a maximum sentence of five years in jail.

Pauchay's lawyer had argued that sending the father to prison would only hurt his family.

On Thursday in the Rose Valley, Sask., courtroom, Pauchay told Judge Barry Morgan that his new infant daughter has kept him sober and given him a new lease on life.

After the girls' deaths, Yellow Quill First Nation Chief Robert Whitehead announced plans to establish an addiction treatment centre on the reserve, which has been plagued by alcohol abuse.

The Saskatoon Tribal Council is still reviewing the plans for the treatment centre.

Elders in a 24-member sentencing circle recommended that Pauchay not be sent to prison.

Pauchay's stepmother Jo Anne Machiskinic earlier told a sentencing circle she was angry that it took such a tragedy for the reserve to own up to the drinking problems it faces.

"I felt at the time, why does it always take something this bad to make people open their eyes?" Machiskinic said last month.

She said she is concerned about the depression Pauchay faced in the months following his daughters' deaths, and she is not mad at him about their deaths because he did not intend to hurt them.


ok... so now that you've read all of that, and maybe you saw it on the news, or heard about it on the radio... what's your opinion?

i know a lot of people will say that he deserves a lot longer than three years, and frankly i agree. i think that criminal negligance causing death is a bullshit charge, pardon my french, and that it should be nothing short of a manslaughter charge. if not a second degree murder. i think that he should rot in a jail cell personally. but according to the canadian legal system (we've been down this road before, it is in no way a justice system) that's pretty much the max that he could be charged with. so that being said, i'm glad he got the max. what really burns me up is that the council at the reserve (healing circle) is upset because they feel like they have been ignored. i'm sorry... what? the healing circle was ignored? oh shucks. what are we going to do? i guess the feelings of the healing circle are more important than seeing justice (if you can call that puny sentance justice) served on the drunken bastard who let his two daughters freeze to death because he wanted more beer. anyways, before i go way off course and write something i probably shouldn't post, i'll end it here... what's your opinion?

there, i did it

there it is.... isn't it beautiful? now answer it...
maybe be i should give it more than a week. i'll give it two weeks.

so, it's the end of feburary, and the beginning of march

and i don't know what to write. becky thinks i can write an essay, but i strongly disagree... i'm having a heck of a time coming up with something for this post. i admit, i seriously ripped all of you off with that last one... and btw... i still haven't told her what i wiped my hand on... i don't think i remember anymore even.

so, i don't know what to write about, i'm sure i could come up with something, but i don't know how deep and personal i want to get on here. we'll see... maybe i should make a blog that i write on daily, where i'm the only one who knows about it, and then i can pick and choose what goes on this one. maybe i'll do that... hmmmm.... maybe i should see if i can find some kind of poll for this. yeah... i'm going to go kill time looking for a poll to put up... stay tuned

it's just about been a month... time for something new...

i just sneezed all over my hand... i wiped it off before i typed this... but i'm not gonna tell my wife what i wiped it on... :P

honest crap.... i mean honest scrap :P

so... i guess i was awarded (is this the new version of being tagged?) the honesty scrap award by my wonderful auntie chris (you can find her blog to the right of your screen... under chris's coop... go there... it's good... i'm not sure if this is because people think i'm honest, or people think i'm a liar and should be honest... but anyways... i'm supposed to come up with 10 honest things about me... so here goes...
1. i hate these things... lol... what a way to start off.... but yeah... i hate them... i have a hard time finding words for everything that's going on in my head... i could sit and talk to you face to face and tell you everything i want to say, but i just have a heck of a time finding words to write it all down. that's why i rarely blog
2. i don't have very many friends. i'm friendly with people, but i don't open up to very many people... really... just my wife for the most part... it's not that i am incapable of making friends, i just don't want them...
3. i am a redneck... i know... most of you already know this... but some people don't... i listen to country music, drive my truck through the mud, go fishing as often as i can, i do everything that rednecks do, except drink beer...
4. i don't drink beer. i'll drink pretty much everything else tho... except tequilla... i just don't like beer... unless there's a lot of clam to go with it
5. it has been 261 days since i quit smoking... i've tried to have one here or there, but i can't...
6. i'm running out of things to say... honestly.... don't be offended... but refer to number 2
7. i hate how the post secondary education system works. seriously... i have a heck of a time writing essays... not because i never learned how, but because my brain doesn't work that way... i can sit in class and not take any notes at all, go to write a test at the end of the year and score in the 90's why doesn't that count for anything anymore?
8. my answer to number 7 makes me feel stuck. because i'm not "school smart" i will never get a good job. i will never make it to where i want to be, do what i want to do, or become who i want to be.
9. my answer to number 8 makes me feel angry. i hate how because somebody who likes writing essays (a totally worthless skill unless you're an author)decided that it should be a requirement for post secondary education, i am stuck working dead end jobs for the rest of my life. i hate that person. with an incredible amount of sincerity, i hate them. i wish ill on them.
10. when i get angry i like to fight. well... i like to fight in general... my mom hates, it, my wife hates it... grampa braun used to always ask me if i had gotten in any fights lately, but we had to whisper back and forth so that grandma couldn't hear us talking about it... i think he knew that me winning a fight made me feel good at my job and that he liked to see me proud of myself. maybe he didn't like that i got in fights... but he loved to see me proud of myself.... i just realized that now... now i really miss him. a lot.


there's 10 things... all of them are honest... all of them are truth. i think that certain ones go into my life in greater detail than others, that's how it's gonna work... i'm supposed to tag some other people for this thing too.... so, i will tag cindi, jen, and carrie.

Awards rules: Pick up your award and post it on your blog. Link back to who you received the award from. Pass it on to ten other people. (Sorry I did not do this. Here's another honest thing... i don't know how to link to people.) If you can not award it to ten just do the best you can.