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09/26/08:
I plan on making my blog through blogger.com sometime in the near future. You should be albe to search for me on there and see my first post.
Also, please excuse the missing pictures. I just switched servers and I lost them. I have to look through my old computer to find some of the files I am missing.
Daivd H. Troyer :)
Time sure flies!
It seems like just yesterday when I wrote on here.
08/18/08:
School started for me on August 6th. I am teaching English I, II, IV, Physical Science, Biology, and Physical Education this year.
Daivd H. Troyer :)
I had a wonderful summer. We just switched servers, so the website may not have pictures for a little while.
I went to Pennsylvania to visit some family and to attend a wedding.
I also went to Metropolis. In Metropolis, we got to see Noel Neill again. We got to meet Allison Mack.
So far, it has been a pretty good year.
I am also the Dean of Students this year as well.
06/20/08:
Allison Mack (from Smallville) was there as well as Ned Beaty (Otis on the Superman movies). They answered questions as well as signed autographs.
If you havn't had a chance yet, please check out the Make It Clear Ministries message board.
Also, We just received our "Daily Pocket Prayer Reminders." It took us a month longer than we expected, but we got them and they look nice.
Until Next Time... Take care and God Bless,
Daivd H. Troyer :)
I have been out of school for a few weeks now. I just got back from my trip to Metropolis, IL. As most of you know, I go there every year with my family for the Superman Celebration. This year was a year for Superman as it was the 70th year for Superman, the 50th year that Noel Neill has played Lois Lane, the 30th aniversary of Superman: The Movie.
05/14/08:
Make It Clear Ministries now has a message board.
We are also expecting to have our "Daily Pocket Prayer Reminders"
I am working on a book for Make It Clear as well. Unless someone publishes the children's book, this looks like it will be the next one I publish. I am planning on having it published by the end of the 08-09 school year.
School is at an end. We are reviewing this week and we will be taking our exams next week... Half Days!!! :)
Please register and check it out when you get a chance.
04/16/08:
We then drove the 7 hours or so to my grandparents house and spent until Monday spending time with them and scanning some family photo albums.
We were able to go to the beach on Thursday and I had to work at my weekend job again on Friday, but the other highlight was with the AWANA Bible Quizzing on Saturday. This is an event where the clubbers from our AWANA club can go and compete with the clubbers from other AWANA Clubs by answering questions about the Bible and their handbooks. The first place team in every book gets a metal and anyone who answers all of the individual questions correctly gets a ribbon as well.
My Spring Break was really fun, but way too short. My Spring Break actually started with me working overnight at my weekend job. I got off in the early morning hours and then took a nap. I then had to get up and bring my wife to work; when she got off from work, I picked her up and we left from there.
After my Saturday morning nap... I went down the road to the church where it was being held and found out that I could have slept for another hour. :( Then I helped out as a Judge and got another really cool pin for helping out. This was my 6th year of helping with the Bible Quizzing.
03/31/08:
I was able to go to the Renaissance Festival yesterday. That was fun.
Happy Spring Break! The students are getting restless... They can't wait for spring break, and neither can I.
Sadly, my Busch Garden's Passes expire today. :( Hopefully I'll be able to renew them soon, but we're probably going to get some Disney passes first. (not year passes, although we would love those).
03/25/08:
Next weekend, we will be going to the Bay Area Renaissance Festival. We usually attend this whichever weekend we can fit it into our schedules.
Also, it looks like we will be able to go both to Metropolis and to see Dianna's sister get married this summer. I am still trying to decide where to teach or work next year. If I get a good job over the sumer, hopefully I will still be able to go to both of them.
The SAT (Stanford Achievement Test)is being administered this week at the school I am teaching at this year. I'm sure you probably took something like it when you were in school... "I am now going to give you your test booklet... Do not open your test booklet until I tell you to...Continue working on the next few pages until you come to the word STOP at the bottom of the page." I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I like Latin Phrases. I only know a few, but I hope to learn a few more as time goes on. Perhaps I'll put some of them on a page someday.
Also, I sent my children's book manuscripts out before Christmas and I still have not recieved a response from most of the companies which I sent them to. If you happen to know of an agent who is taking on new clients, or of a publishing house who is looking for some new books, please give me their contact information, or pass mine along to them.
I hope you had a Happy Easter! On Sunday My wife and I went to visit a church that my family attended probably ten years ago. They had a really nice service. My wife liked the stained glass windows. They are very pretty.
Well, needless to say, it's the first day and the students are already restless... Oh well.
03/15/08:
I did a lot of work on the Make It Clear Website over the last few days. We now have an online store. For the month of March, we are throwing in a bonus with every order we receive from our new store.
I have to go for now, Busch Gardens Awaits.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Last weekend I went to Megacon. I really enjoyed it. There were tons of booths to check out, plenty of artists, and a fair amount of people dressed up as their favorite characters as well.
Every time I go to an event like this, it makes me want to put up a page with some of the really cool pictures... perhaps I will someday.
Today I'm off to Busch Gardens with my wife Dianna and sometime in the next month we will be going to the Bay Area Reniassance Festival.
02/19/08:
I'm feeling a lot better today. I think my cold is almost gone.
I am praying and trying to decide if I should teach at the same school next year. I really like the school and the students... the only problem is the fact that it takes me an hour to get to school and an hour to get home every day(not to mention the $9.00 in gas per day to make that trip).
02/18/08: Monday
I can tell it is the third nine weeks. Some of the students are getting restless. It always seems to happen this time of the year.
I still have nine manuscripts out for review. I have mentioned before that I try to keep ten out at all times. (This is for my Children's book entitled I'd Choose A Fish.
I will be attending Megacon this year in Orlando. I will put the date(s) on my calendar soon. Also, Jason Rawley of Fireblade Comics is planning on shooting another online comic for his website soon. I should be helping with this one as well. If you have not already seen my work, please check out his website at www.firebladecomics.com
I have been sick lately, but I will try to add to my blog more often. Also, I will try to finally get my picture page straightened out. I am really excited about this because I have some pictures of myself and my wife with some celebrities that I really want to put on my website.
Valentine's Day was a few days ago. My wife and I had a wonderful time at a church activity. We went to The Melting Pot with probably twenty other couples from our church. It fairly pricy, but a very nice restaurant.
01/11/08: Friday
For Christmas this year, I got a new suit. This will be great for all of those book signings that are sure to come after my next book is published :)
I am still working on several ideas. Of course, I have about 3 children's books which are ready to be printed as soon as I find the right publisher (only one of them has color illustrations... the rest are just text). I have been focusing my efforts on one of my action/adventure books. Granted, I have several other books started, and I have many more Ideas than I know what to do with sometimes, but this is the book I think I will have the most success with (given the current market).
School is back in full swing. After the first week of classes, most of the students are ready to learn.
In science, we are studying gemstones metals and in English, we are talking about verbs. The senior class just finished reading MacBeth and the Juniors are almost finished reading Silas Marner.
12/20/07:
If you have not done so already, please check out the details from our Christmas Letter below.
Tomorrow we will have our homeroom Christmas party. One of the grandparents was nice enough to volunteer to bring in a skillet and cook for our class.
- We visited Pennsylvania for a wedding. One of Dianna's sisters got married last February The theme was "Winter Wonderland"
- We went to Metropolis, IL again last year. We got to see several of our old friends and we met several new ones.
Some of the guests included
* Noel Neill- The original Lois Lane
* Helen Slater- Supergirl from the movie
* Scott Cranford- The official Superman of the celebration (He retired from this job at the end of the celebration last year.)
* Jerry Maren- "The Lollypop Kid" from The Wizzard of Oz, and one of the Molemen from Superman and the Molemen.
* Steve Stanley- An artist who has worked on many different Superman projects www.stanleyart.com
* Lin Workman- One of the creators of the Bushi Tales comic. www.bushitales.com
* Kevin Williams- Creator of Muley the mule. His clips are available on www.veoh.com
* Jon Bogdanov- Guest Artist
* Antone and Janet Wade- Two of the creators of the Jetta comics. www.toshigawa.com/
* Andrew Chandler- A fabulous illustrator www.andrewchandler.net
- I started teaching again and my wife is working for the school as well.
- My wife and I will be celebrating our aniversary again very soon.
- I started my 12th year working in the AWANA youth program.
12/10/07:
I recieved a letter back from another publisher, which means I only have nine query letters out there. When one query letter comes back, I select another publisher to send my manuscript to. This is mostly due to the fact that I only have ten copies of the illustrated manuscript in color.
I am currently writing my exam review worksheets. I have six classes to write them for. The time has been passing fiarly quickly, but I still can't wait for the vacation to come.
11/29/07:
We made it back from Pennsylvania on Monday and then went out to eat with some friends. We were back at school on Tuesday and we are pretty much "back in the swing of things."
At Make It Clear, we just got a new shipment of Illusion tracts. They are a little bit darker shade of blue and they had only one or two minor changes. All in all, we are very pleased with them.
11/24/07:
My wife and I are still in Pennsylvania. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal and we have already helped to put up the Christmas tree up here. We will be going to church tomorrow and then returning home on Monday.
11/19/07:
My wife and I are in Pennsylvania right now. We arrived on Saturday night. It snowed last night and the snow seems to be sticking. I have been told that this is the first decent snowfall they have had up here this year.
We have been able to spend a lot of time with family so far and we are looking forward to a wonderful Thanksgiving meal this Thursday.
11/16/07:
I'll be leaving for Pennsylvania tomorrow morning and I may not be able to write for a week. If I don't write before then, have a Happy Thanksgiving.
11/15/07:
Since I put the message on the front page of my website about having professional illustrations for my manuscript, I have been sending out my manuscripts to different publishers in hopes of being published by a large, traditional publishing house.
I sent off 10 Manuscripts(mss) and I have already received four of them back. three said that my book was not for them, and the fourth mss was returned without being opened. (I think they went out of business)... what a waste of stamps.
Today, When I get home from school, I will be sending those four manuscripts back out to different companies. I figure that if I keep sending these mss out, I will eventually find the rigt publishing house.
In case you were wondering, the manuscripts I send out to the publishing houses are in a protective plastic sleeve and they are printed in full color.
Hi, and welcome to my blog. This is my first real entry. I will update this as often as I can. It may be to let you know news about what is happening, or to let you know what I've updated on my site, or perhaps just a few stray thoughts.
09/19/07:
I now have professional illustrations for one of my children's books. I will be submitting it to publishers soon. Please check back for details.
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