The thoughts of Adam Bednar
On Friday, the weather in Columbus was actually nice for a change. So, before the weather decided we had too much of a nice thing and change on us, we took a walk downtown along the Scioto Mile. I grabbed a few pictures before it got too dark.
The first picture is of the Main Street Bridge, along with Miranova Place, and the CoverMyMeds building.
This past week, I made my first trip to Oklahoma. For this trip, American Airlines provided all of my flights.
My first flight was provided by CRJ-200 N262PS for a quick trip to Charlotte. I was supposed to have a quick connection here and was afraid I would miss it since the first flight was delayed 30 minutes, but my second flight had already been delayed. Here is N262PS after we landed in Charlotte. We did not have a jet bridge, so I was able to grab a great shot of it from the ground.
I was able to grab a few pictures during my recent trip to Memphis. This trip was a split of American Airlines and United Airlines.
On this trip, I was able to fly my first MD-83, at least from what I can remember. I might have flown one when I was younger, but back then I wasn’t as interested in the types of planes I was getting to fly. This plane has an interesting layout with 2 seats on the left side and three seats on the right side. Say hello to N9616G!
It looks like I will be traveling just about every week in April. I hope to document some or all of my flights to finally start putting this blog to use. During my trips I will also get to check off some states and airplanes I have not be to or on before.
Here’s hoping to no major delays or cancellations!
On Friday, we took advantage of the long holiday weekend to take a trip out to Yellow Springs, OH. First up were the sunflower fields. 
There are around 400,000 plants in this field and it was amazing to see so many of them at once. I think we were a bit early still because many of them hadn’t bloomed yet. It was also cold and wet so I am sure that didn’t help.
After the sunflower fields, we went a bit to the southeast to Clifton Gorge.
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High School Football is back for another season. On Friday, I was able to watch the Hilliard Bradley Jaguars defeat the Findlay Trojans 55-20. Of to a great start already this year and hope to see many more wins. Up next is New Albany. I hope to have more pictures next time.
Here in the United States, we moved our clocks ahead one hour and moved into Daylight Saving Time (DST). This time setting will last 238 days (65% of the year) until November 5th and then we will move back to Standard Time. I agree with most of the complaints that changing clocks twice a year is quite a hassle and should be discontinued. This problem is compounded because not all parts of the United States conform to DST let alone other countries which may change on different dates. It also can be a huge problem for software and constantly keeping up to date with any legislative changes to DST.
However, unlike most of those complaints I contend that DST is the superior choice for year-round time setting and we should adopt it as the new standard. What DST does is move the sunlit hours into the time period in which more people can use them. If we were to stay on standard time throughout the year, at the peak of sunlit hours in the summer, most of them would be wasted since the sun would rise at almost 5am. I put together some poorly editted examples from a graph I got from TimeandDate.com of the current sunrise and sunset times for my location. I also put in lines for my approximate hours of activity from 7am to 10pm or 0700 – 2200.
Current Setting
All Year Daylight Saving Time
All Year Standard Time
As you can see from the above, the Current Setting does a decent job at keeping all of the sunlit hours within my active hours. DST does the best job and moves more of those sunlit hours into later in the day which is especially nice during the winter because when I get home from work it is usually already completely dark. With DST year-round it would be somewhat dark but not completely. Finally, we see that all year Standard Time is the worst choice. The amount of sunlit hours wasted is incredibly high compared to all the others.
I believe that we will continue to endure with having to adjust the clocks twice a year for some foreseeable time. It is a good fit even if it is a hassle and causes issues albeit for a short period of time that it takes us to adjust. However, should we desire to abolish the time adjustment completely the choice is clear and it be DST that perseveres.
This post has been on my mind for a while, but I just never got around to making it. I have been super busy lately and my time on the computer outside of work is very rare these days. That may be good or bad. Anyhow, I just want to make a summary of the summer so that I don’t forget it in the future if anything else.
June: This month started off well and the first week in I finally got a house! It was my seventh attempt, but I finally got one that accepted my offer and I was in contract. However, the very next week I started feeling awful and it got to the point where I decided I needed to go to a doctor. I thought it might be the flu but it turns out I had mono. That’s something you are supposed to get when you are in K-12 and here I am almost 30 getting mono. Just my luck! The first three weeks were pretty awful but after that the symptoms started to tapper off. I hope that they will find a vaccine for this sometime in the future, but at least for me I will never have to deal with it again. June wrapped up with a business trip as well as the typical house buying activities.
July: July was very hot and by the middle of the month I had completed all of the stuff for my house and was now a home owner. I also made a much needed trip to IKEA. I can’t wait until it is in Columbus next year. Very exciting but also somewhat scary. Luckily there was not too much rain during August so I didn’t have to do much mowing. I did do a lot of spending though because as I found out my house needs many more things than apartment life needed. By now all my mono symptoms had vanished.
August: The start of August was a lot more of July just busy getting things I needed and doing things for the house. However soon enough high school football kicked off and that started to occupy my weekends. I also had two weddings in the span of a couple weeks. I did get to travel Wisconsin and see some old friends which was nice. About this time though I started to get my yard in shape after acquiring many yard tools.
September: Another wedding and more high school football. The Buckeyes were rolling up to this point which was great. The Browns were being awful which was expected. This was also my birthday month and I turned 30. I entered another decade of my life. This month also brings along fall and soon enough the weather will begin to dramatically change.
So that was a quick overview of June to September. It doesn’t seem like much in text but there was a lot packed into these months. I did take a lot of pictures to document the memories. In the future I hope to post more often and include those pictures to keep all the details straight.
It hasn’t been exactly one month yet, but I have been in my own house since July 11th, so just under three weeks. I have learned a lot so far and discovered that I need a lot of things I did not previously own in my apartment. Namely, everything that has to do with being outdoors. I still need a patio set, but I do have a mower and I have mowed already. I am sure my neighbors appreciate me mowing though July has been dry and not much has grown. I also did some pest control this week since I have been experiencing some centipedes which are just plain creepy. No bug needs that many legs! The next steps will be to get the patio set and also a dining room set since I have been using the coffee table for this purpose so far. Then there is the neverending cleaning aspect. I could usually do this in a weekend at my apartment but here everything has been multiplied. Overall though it has been a lot of fun and I do not for one second regret buying a house. I finally have a place that I can call my own and put my own mark or spin.
The summer has been going fast, too fast, and it is almost August. I feel like I have been wishing away most of June to get in my house and it is already August. It has been hot, but not terrible. Recently we did get some heavy rain which I am sure my yard enjoys. On the other hand it is almost football season! So I am really torn between the two of enjoying warm weather and having football season. I do know that once football season starts that the cold weather will soon follow. This year though I will have a nice firepit so that I will be able to enjoy that.
Things have been settling down, so I hope I am able to get back to updating this.
I am going to finally start using this thing. It has been installed for months, but never really used. As for what I will use it for? I am not entirely sure at the moment. Probably just my ramblings. Stay tuned!