The Chronicles of John Trammell

For those who don't know, my cousin on my mom's side of the family, Amanda Clark, is leaving for basic training in a few days (AKA Boot Camp).  A few months ago, she announced that she has enlisted in the National Guard, and that she will be training to be a drone plane pilot.  She first heads to Boot Camp at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri.  Once she has graduated from Boot Camp, she heads right off to Ft. Huachuca in a small town of Sierra Vista, Arizona,  which is 20 miles from the Mexican Boarder.  She will be their for schooling till September, where hopefully she will be stationed in Portland, Oregon, which is where she has been living.  For the past month and a week, she has been living down here at the farm, and we have done alot of cool things, from going to Sea World to the San Diego Wild Animal Park.  Things have been great.  The hardest thing will be not having her at our camping trip at Yosemite this year. I will be going with Amanda, ...

I went with my cuz, Amanda, to the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Redwings Ice Hockey Game at the Honda Center in Anaheim. With the game starting at 7:00 pm, we decided to leave from the farm in Yucaipa at 4:00. We got into Anaheim at 5:30 pm, took awhile due to lovely California Traffic, and we we wanted to look for dinner. Right across the river from the center is a movie theater with restaurants, We found a mexican restaurant called Acapulco to have dinner. When we first arrived at Acapulco Mexican Food, we where able to get seated right away, which was great because we needed to get to the game. She took an order for drinks, my cuz had a beer and I ordered a Raspberry Mojito. We where just chilling, and we where out on the patio, so it was nice. While we where waiting for the drinks, chips and salsa came, and it was awesome. While eating the chips and salsa, we started to notice that there where a lot of people there that are going to the game. About ten minutes passed, and we finally...

For those who don't know, I turned 21 yesterday.  My 21st wasn't a normal type of celebration with drinking, but that is just fine with me.  I don't like alcohol that much to get drunk.  First thing was to go to school to take the Oceanography final.  Got to love having big tests on your b-day.  Good thing was, once the test ended, winter vacation has begun.  After the test, Scotty and I went to Carls Jr, then I went home to play some Halo 3 on xbox live.  There really wasn't too much else to do since it was raining outside.  For dinner, my immediate family, grandma, and aunt's family went to the Cheesecake Factory in Riverside.  I had a Strawberry Daquri, which was awesome, and then of course, had dinner, and also the best part of the meal, cheesecake!!!!! Yum.  When we went home, we watched The Dark Knight, till like 1 am, then i went to sleep.  It was a cool birthday.  I got money!!!!! All going for my Nikon D 90 DSRL Came...

Since January, I have been an employee for UC Riverside, and worked for Operation: Military Kids at the Dr. Karen Varco's Office, Consumer Econimics.  The Operation:Military Kids has moved on October 1 of this year to the State 4-H Office.  My boss has decided that it would be better if I was employed at Davis.  Starting on December 1st, I will be an employee of UC Davis, the Department of Agriculture and Natural resources, The California 4-H State Office.  I was at the State 4-H Office yesterday signing my employment papers and get keys for the office.  I will still be housed at the Consumer Economics office at UCR, so don't worry, im not moving.  Woot.  Good news with being employed by UC Davis is that I get a 57 cents raise, so I will now be making $17.07 an hour.  Woot Woot.  Only problem is that I lose working 16 hours a month.  But my hours will increase 20% for the summer, which is good news. 

On Tuesday of this week, Vanessa, Scotty, and I went to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA.  As part of our Oceanography Class assignments, we have to do a certain amount of points for class activities, and one of them was to go to the aquarium.  We picked a day, planned things out, and went.  We had a 5 page handout with questions we had to answer, which we would find throughout the aquarium. We left for the aquarium around 9:30.  Scotty had volunteered to drive, and we kinda got alittle lost when we got down to Long Beach.  It was cool because we got to see some oil pump thingys and some docks where a big cargo ship was being unloaded.  The ship probably came from Asia. We finally got to the aquarium after a nice little drive though downtown, and we where able to park on the first floor of the parking structor.  There was no line to get the tickets, and there was not that many people at the aquarium.  It was nice because we could ...

I am in the Press Enterprise newspaper today!   Below is the part with me in it.  For the entire article, visit this link h ttp://www.pe.com/localnews/redlands/stories/PE_News_Local_N_ntrails28.22aefbb.html Part of Article written by  MICHAEL PERRAULT of the Press Enterprise "Conservancy promotes Redlands' trails" For Highland resident John Trammell, in his third year as an East Valley 4-H Club leader, Saturday's Kids' Day event was an opportunity to introduce some kids to geo-caching. It's a sort of outdoor treasure-hunting game in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers, Trammell said. "Today, they're filled with candy, trinkets and other goodies," Trammell said.

For those who don't know, within the 4-H program, I am a member of the California 4-H Computer Corps (The state technology team).  This team was started back in 1887 or 8, and it was designed so the team would be in control of itself.  What I mean by that is the team controls its own missions, projects,and chooses and reviews it's own members to be on the team.  This was until the past month, when the state 4-H office has decided to take control of the Computer Corps, change the missions, and takes the power away from the team to select new members and rview if current members should say on the team.      This, if you can imagine, has hit most of the team members very hard.  What gives the right for the state 4-H office to all of a sudden take control of the team without even consulting the team.  I do say that there are some good ideas for change, but it is very fustrating, that a team that has been in control of itself for 10 years lost it...