Kyle Johnson

I found a new layout for the site that I really like and even created a small little logo at the top with my name to give it a “me” touch. Hope it’s easy on the eyes for people, if not just shoot me a message using the contact page up at the top and let me know what changes you would like to see.

As for content, I have a piece that I’ve been writing at work on notepad paper that I’m going to try and finish up and then post it on the site. Hopefully it’ll get some attention and bring some life back to the site. If not I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, I mean how long as it been since I’ve really given this site the attention it deserves? Exactly.

Hope everyone’s had a great year so far, holidays great, time with friends and family great. If not I’m hoping the rest of the year gets better for you.

After a few years out of school, I will finally be going back. My current goal is to only spend one semester at Ivy Tech, and then transferring to either IUPUI in downtown Indianapolis, or Butler University, which is also in downtown Indianapolis. While being out of school I have done nothing but work full time and have come to the realization that without some college education, there’s not much that I am qualified to do career wise. Every employer would rather have an applicant with a college degree than someone who has only a high school diploma and absolutely no experience in the field. So, it is my job to make sure that I am the applicant they want to hire.

For the spring 2010 semester I am going to take two classes, Math 050 and Introduction to Psychology. Both will be online classes so I can still attend a police academy if I get to that point with a department. I wanted to ensure that I’m not forced to have to choose one or the either, and that both can be achieved.

I was originally scheduled to take three courses this semester, with the other being English Composition 111 but opted to drop from that course because it wasn’t available online, and evening courses won’t work with the potential for a police academy. The good thing though is I will be able to take it another semester as it wasn’t required for this one. The only required course was Math 050 and that was because it won’t be offered at Ivy Tech after this semester and I needed to take it to advance to a higher math course.

Only thing left to do is actually pay for the courses and course materials and be able to get myself to do the necessary work without having to go into any class rooms. Payment is due tomorrow and then I can buy the books as well tomorrow, but courses don’t start until March for these two. They’re only two months long so a lot of material crammed into such a short time period.

All I can say, is I can do it! I will do it!

Alright so 2010 has started and it’s time for New Year resolutions to be set, and hopefully not broken. Like many Americans I am setting the resolution to lose weight. I was successful last year in losing weight, but unfortunately I don’t know exactly how much I lost through the year, and even more unfortunate was the fact that the last quarter of the year I actually put a lot of the weight back on. So I’m going to go a different route this year, and the website is going to be a big part of it. Not only will you be able to follow my progress, but I will have a way of easily keeping track of my progress.

The last time I was at the gym and used the life center to test my BMI, body fat percent, weight, and blood pressure was December 29th, 2009. Since I haven’t been since then, I’m going to use those stats for my starting point of the year. Below are those stats:

Blood Pressure:
Systolic:     114
Diastolic:     79

Body Mass Index:
32.4

Body Fat Percent:
27.1%

Weight:
242 lbs

One of the things I am going to start doing tomorrow is a running/walking workout. It’s a nine week process that is three times a week. Each week I will post what the workout entails for that particular week and indicate how the previous weeks went. For those who are wanting to lose weight this year as well, please feel free to follow these steps and post comments as to your progress!

“Week one begins with a brisk five minute warmup walk. After the walk, jog for 60 seconds and then walk for 90 seconds. Alternate the jogging and walking for a total of 20 minutes.”

Good luck to everyone on their New Year resolutions! Hope everyone is able to succeed with their goals, and I’m hoping that I can success in mine as well.

I’m sorry, Mr. Polian, but you did not give it your best. Sunday’s loss to the New York Jets made me really rethink the people we have running the Indianapolis Colts organization. With a shot at a 15-0 regular season record, one shy of a perfect regular season, Coach Caldwell decided it would be in the best interest of the team to pull Peyton Manning and the other offensive starters (minus the offensive line, mind you) and let them rest up. They didn’t want them to get hurt. Now don’t get me wrong, I do not in anyway want any of our players to be hurt. Without those players, we wouldn’t have won the first 14 games of the season. So they are vital to the success of the team.

But when will we ever have a chance to run the table in the regular season again? Sure, the ultimate goal IS to win the Super Bowl. No question about that, you will not hear an argument from me. But is not the purpose of playing games to win? Last I checked it was.

Now I don’t mean any disrespect to the young Curtis Painter, but the best chance we had to win that game was for him to be on the bench, and Peyton Manning behind center. Yes, Painter needs to get game experience so we can see what he is capable of doing in an NFL game. But isn’t that what preseason football is for when you have a very dependable quarterback like Peyton Manning? When the New England Patriots ran the table in the regular season, I didn’t see them pulling starters to prevent possible injury to them. I didn’t see Tom Brady on the sidelines while Matt Cassel went out so Bill Belichick could see what he’s capable of doing (although they found out the following season after Tom Brady’s season ending knee injury).

I’m sorry, but I absolutely can’t stand it when I’m sitting here listening to The Bill Polian Show, and he’s sitting there telling the listeners that they “gave it their best.” If that’s their best effort at winning a game, then I’d like to know who the hell was playing the first 14 games of the season. Because it obviously wasn’t the team that showed up yesterday.

The Colts have put themselves in a situation that they cannot win. If the team ends up winning the Super Bowl, they will be criticized for pulling the starters during this game yet again because then they’d of had the chance at what’s never been done before, 19-0. But on the opposite side of the coin, if they end up not making the Super Bowl, whether they lose in the second round or conference championship round, or even if they do make the Super Bowl and end up losing the game, they will then be criticized because they pulled the starters during this game and ruined their rhythm.

Only time will tell on which way they will be criticized. I just hope all the commotion dies down here in the Indianapolis area over what happened, because the obvious focus should now be on how we are going to handle the game against the Buffalo Bills this Sunday.

I’m not going to go into too much detail with this post. Details aren’t the important thing, the message is. Please make sure you take time out of your day to let your loved ones know how you feel, because at any moment it can all be taken away. No matter how young or old we are, or how much we feel nothing can knock us down, nobody out there is immune to the inevitable. We will all go one day, we just don’t know when that day will be. So again, make sure to tell those who you love that you do love them, because it could very well be the last thing you ever say to them.