Haunted Cemetery near my new home

Here is a picture and a brief description of the Stonewall Cemetery that is located about half a mile from my parents house (where I'll be living for a while).

Stonewall Cemetery is located on Stonewall Cemetery Road, about ½ mile from US-22, outside Lancaster, Ohio (Hocking Township, Fairfield County). The coordinates are 39° 41' 28.55" N, 82° 38' 22.9" W. Stonewall Cemetery a small family cemetery that is no longer active. The cemetery is kept locked to prevent vandalism. The inscription above the gate gives some history about the cemetery. It reads:
THIS WALL which encloses the family burying ground of NATHANIAL WILSON (one of the early Pioneers of the West who emigrated from Cumberland County, Pa. and settled near this place A.D. 1798 when all around was one continued & uninhabited wilderness) was commenced by him A.D. 1838 & finished in the following year by his son GUSTIN the former having suddenly died May 12 1839.

The technique used to construct Stonewall Cemetery is amazing. The angles in the wall were cut into each individual stone. This is a one of a kind cemetery, there is not another one like it anywhere. The Fairfield County parks ordered the Lebanon cedar that is planted inside. These trees are very difficult to find, and this one replaced the original one. I was told that the entrance faces the Polaris. The North star is exactly over the arch. The cemetery is also known to be haunted. Legend has it that if you walk around the top of the cemetery's wall thirteen times at night flames will shoot up and you'll be pulled into hell! Dala, a website visitor and Vice President of the Pisgah Cemetery Association in Perry County, Ohio e-mailed me another legend about the cemetery. When Dala was a teenager she and three or four of her friends drove out to the cemetery one night from New Lexington, Ohio. Her friend's boyfriend told them that if you sat on the wall and lit 3 matches a ghost would knock you off the wall. Dala's friends hoisted her and her friend Kim up on the wall and they lit three matches. However, they were disappointed because nothing knocked them off the wall...I think I would have been happy about that! :) A big thanks to Dala for sharing her story with me!!

Information courtesy of http://www.graveaddiction.com/stonewall.html

I'm starting to feel it a bit ...

I think all of the changes coming up for me are finally starting to sink in. The last couple of days, I think I've really started to realize how different my life is about to become. Everything I know is about to change. In less than two weeks, I'll be living in a new state with no job to speak of. I haven't been without a job since 1992. The more I think about it, the weirder it sounds. I'm not doubting my decision at all - I still believe it to be the right one, just grasping the realities of it. I've got five days left at work and then it'll be time to get a move on to Ohio. There are a few people I would have liked to see before time to move, but I know everyone has their own things going on, so maybe I'll be able to catch up with them the next time I come down to Texas to visit. That's all for now!

Can I get a sidebar here?

Channel 8 is doing their after-game newscast from outside the AAC. While this might seem like a good idea, I believe it is not. They audio is awful and they look like idiots reading news stories in their casual clothes in front of a crowd of thousands.

Nice win!

Mavs with a 10-point victory. Only three wins to go for an NBA Championship!

Mavs with a decent lead with one minute left!

Damp just sent Shaq to the line - nice move. Shaq is o for the game for free throw makes.

Terry hot and cold in the fourth

Big threes and free throws, but some silly plays too. Hopefully they don't come back to haunt us. Damp going to the line after being fouled on the three-point line (what?).

This is not good

Mavs only up by three now and Devin Harris can't make a free-throw. The rest of the team can't make anything.

Scary!

Mavs had a nice, big 10-point lead, but it is now down to 6. Gotta get back to making good decisions and we can't blow any more open layups.

End three - Mavs lead, but not by much

Mavs by two at the end of the third quarter. Heat keeps sticking around. I don't like it.

Could be trouble for the Heat

Haslem with four fouls is good news for the Mavs, bad news for the Heat. Nice to see Dirk knocking Wade on his butt too.

Mavs lead at the half!

Dirk ends his drought with a big shot at the buzzer. Mavs lead 46-44 at the half! I love this game!

Tie Game!

Mavs tie it at 44 with 27.7 left. Heat are 12-0 when leading at the half. We cannot let them lead.

What an effort

Mavs have done a great job getting back into this game. Let's see how they finish this quarter.

Terry the hero so far

Dirk's been pretty bad so far, but Terry is lighting it up.

Wade is good

Can't let him have 13 points each quarter or this won't be much of a series. On another note, Dirk cannot throw a bad inbounds pass again in this series. This isn't game number 28 of the regular season -- this is the NBA Finals!

Gotta get J-Ho shooting better

Josh's shot isn't looking so good right now. Gotta get him to the rim and get his confidence going. We've got to get him to 20 points afterall.

Shaq travels

Can it be? A traveling call on big Diesel?

This is intense

Heat lead by 2 now. This is very nerve-racking, even in the first quarter.

Finals are on!

Mavs/Heat going down right now. This is amazing. I can't believe I'm actually watching this. Mavs up by one early on.

I finally saw it ... (X-Men spoiler alert)

... X-Men - The Last Stand that is. I can't believe it took me almost two weeks from the opening to see this movie. If you haven't seen the movie yet and are planning on it, you probably don't want to read this post.

I really enjoyed this movie. There were some really cool mutants that haven't been in the other two movies in this one and some of the ones that have been in the other films were really able to shine in this one.

I enjoyed getting to see Kitty Pryde play a big role in this movie - her battle with Juggernaut was great! Bobby Drake (Iceman) also got to be "iced up" in this one, which was cool. I thought Rogue was pretty useless in this film however. I also thought that having Psylocke in the movie was stupid. They never even got her into the action before she was turned into dust by Dark Phoenix.

Wolverine got to cut people up real good and Storm finally gets to fly and put her powers to good use.

I've got to say I was somewhat shocked by the demise of both Cyclops and Professor Xavier. I really didn't mind that they killed off Cyclops because I think he is a big whiner (like Tim Duncan), but I didn't like the killing of Charles.

All in all, I thought this was a fun action, comic book movie, but not nearly as good as the second X-Men film. They are planning a Wolverine movie, but I would also like to see them do something with all the younger X-Men. I think a good movie could be made using just Iceman, Shadowcat, Colossus and Rogue (maybe adding in some others we haven't seen much of, like Jubilee).

I give X-Men - The Last Stand 4 out of 5 stars.

Big Changes Upcoming ...

Well, I might as well get this out in public. On June 21, I'm moving from Texas to Ohio. My folks moved up there in April and I feel like I should be closer to them and that it is time for a change in my life. I'm turning in my two-week notice at work tomorrow and my last day there will be Friday, June 16. I'm renting a U-Haul trailer and my parents are driving down with their Lincoln Aviator to tow the trailer back up there. This was the right time for me to make this move, as my lease on the apartment ends at the end of June and I'm doing okay financially right now, so I can afford to be without a job for a little while. I'm planning on taking a couple of months off once I get up to Ohio so I can get my bearings in a new town/situation and so I can enjoy a little time off before getting started in a new career path. I'm both scared and excited about this. I'm going to miss all of my friends and co-workers, but this is the right choice for me to make at this time.