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This is the pain I feel while playing Guitar Hero.
So basically last week was alright, but I should break it down by day.
Sunday:
I spent the day doing pretty much nothing but play Oblivion: The Shivering Isles. It is really fun.
Monday:
I learned that homecoming went well, which relieved me to hear that at least one plan went well. While the party was fun, I really want to play Gears really badly now.
Tuesday:
We had a mock trial in Law class. I had been by chance put on the side defending a guy that burned a cross. I knew that the outcome in rl was that my side won, but our judges were very predisposed against us it seemed. They only had questions prepared for our side. The other side only got asked one question while we got asked about ten. During our two minute rebuttle though, I came up with a good argument for our side (trying to pull away from the judges assuming our client was tied to the KKK because he burned a cross). I managed to swing the focus away from that and I think the judges began to see the light after that. Our side won 4-1.
Wednesday:
FBLA conference! Day off of school! Basically, everyone met in the parking lot at Shoreline Center to tie ties until 8, then we went in. The keynote speaker was really boring, but they always are. Danniel had told Orion the day before he would be reciting the creed, but Orion did it well. That day also, Danniel made members of SW FBLA introduce speakers at classes because he knew that we wouldn't tell on him for not having it done weeks ago when he was supposed to. The conference went well. I made 2 flipbooks and met Ming's "Girlfriend" because I had to introduce her. Orion showed off his game by picking up a girl. After that, we ate pizza in the Shoreline room, which was pretty awesome because it was just our whole chapter in the room sitting and eating pizza and talking randomly. Mr. Noyes had brought with him a friend who we were sure was gay and I finally gave in and thought Mr. Noyes was gay as well. I held out as long as I could. After the conference, I went to Justin's to wait until it was ok to go home(2:25).
Thursday:
The Guild Wars decorations went up this day! In Hollywood and History, we started watching "Tender Comrade." Judging by the title and the only description we got of the movie from a question in the packet (describe life on the home front), I was ready for a cool movie about the Russian army during World War 2. Well I was sadly mistaken. It is a chick flick about 4 women during World War 2 who buy a house together. I was VERY disappointed. I was hoping for a movie that was good, but I got a crap pile.
Friday:
I just farmed on Guild Wars to get Halloween items.
Saturday:
I got up in the morning to go over to my neighbor's house around 9am to make Sauerkraut. There were a couple other kids my age there from his church doing this for their youth group. I have now done more with another church's youth group than my own. The Sauerkraut making was really cool and took only 3 hours to make about 450-500 pounds of Sauerkraut. For the rest of the day, I played a ton of Guild Wars.
Sunday:
I meant to play Guild Wars, but I got caught up in Oblivion for 8 hours. It just got really good and I couldn't pull myself away.
Yeah that's it for now. I need to show people the picture from at homecoming that I got last week. Davis has seen it. I also need to post assorted pictures. Peace out.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Ahahahaha that's right you went to homecoming didn't you? Well that was probably smart on your part.
I will get to the party and all the ways it crashed and burned at the end of the post. First you get to read about my week.
Tuesday:
Even classes and it was nice because I was thinking it was monday, but then realizing it was tuesday. The classes weren't too bad. I didn't hear on the morning announcement that there was a marching practice. I sit as far away as I can from the PA in my 2nd period class. I could have listened and heard the announcements if I had wanted, but let's face it, I didn't exactly expect "Marching Band rehearsal today" to come up. So I noticed as students that were late were running out and I figured it would probably be worse to be late than not at all, so I just didn't go.
Wednesday:
More going well of classes. I was content all day and the FBLA meeting went well.
Thursday:
In Lifetime Sports, God(Mrs. Faidley) decided that it was too rainy to go to Greenlake, so she decided to make us suffer by dancing again. I spent most of the time dancing with Reece's girlfriend, who helped me to learn that not all goths are weird and scary. She was actually nice and funny. As I started dancing with her, all we were doing was dancing in squares (I know it was made for me), so I said:
Me: Well if we did have to dance I'm glad it's this one, it's pretty easy.
Lexi: Yeah, unless you're dyslexic.
Me: *laughter to humor her for making a joke*
Lexi: Like me
Me: *immediate stoppage of laughter*
I did enjoy myself after school as well. I got my actual 100% in the desert on Guild Wars. It took 3 more hours, which were enjoyable, but I was done for the day after that. As I was looking for something to do, Steven called me and said his power was out and I suggested that he and Orion come play here. He said they were just about to invite themselves over. We played Halo 3 for a couple hours and discovered a great new game: Hit people with the man cannon (needs a name). This game rivals others, such as "Throw shit in the fan" and "see how far you can bounce the ball up the cheerleader's skirt."
Friday:
Hooray it was friday with shortened periods. Nothing really happened until the homecoming assembly in which I got to play the fanfare. It was really cool. The seniors finally won. It helps when its rigged I guess. We did have the best skit though. Thrill the world looked really cool, but I couldn't find Alex because I was down on the floor and couldn't see it very well, but what I saw looked good.
After that ended, Sai and I went to Steven's house where we were met by Steven and Orion to do the paper route.
After that, Sai, Steven, and I went to my house and had a little practice party with some Gears of War. When that was done, I drove Sai home and took Steven to the game with me in the car. We had to run to the stadium through the rain. It stopped really raining after we got under cover of course. At halftime, we got rained on again, although not to the extent of freshman year. I got to play the fanfare again at halftime and the 6 of us sounded good despite the rain. It was very cool to finally be a part of that. So Shorewood lost of course, but we lost 3-7. The most enraging part was our last drive of the game. It was 2nd & 6. Our quarterback threw some kind of huge ass lob/hail mary pass right into 4 Jackson players. Who knows, maybe we could have won. Oh well, stupid football team.
Saturday:
Here it is, it was party day. I will recap events leading up to and then during the party. Afterwards, I will complain about it.
So I woke up and had to go get a copy of Gears of War since Gerard did not have a copy. It cost $10 to rent, but I figured since it was for 4v4 gears, it was worth it. So everything looked good, until an hour before the party, I find out that Gerard cancelled for an unknown reason. Well there's a good waste of $10. Sai decided to invite the freshman who really wanted to come to the party and orignally wouldn't let us borrow his copy of Gears. Well I figured at least he would be dedicated (foreshadowing). So I had to bring 2 tv's because I was planning on Zack being there. At 3:30, I called to remind him. No answer. At that point I knew he wasn't coming. So nobody wanted to play Gears, except Steven and Eric. Everyone else played Halo 3. Tom the freshman made people play on his custom maps, so of course he won since nobody else knew them. I didn't even give into that crap, I just played Quinn.
At 6:00, I had to go back home for Kathryn's family birthday dinner. My cousin was over and he brought his copy of the Game of the Year Oblivion (includes Knights of Nine and Shivering Isles for installation. He left it with me to install onto my 360. Since we had no 360, we resorted to N64. We started with Super Smash Brothers, which quickly got boring. After that, we played on Goldeneye. I learned that 2 person Proximity mines is really fun. Lots of booby trapping and accidental suicides. I stayed longer than I needed to because it was cooler than just waiting for people to be ready to play Gears. When I got back to the party, I learned that Tom the freshman had left, which pissed me off because he seemed to want to come so bad. So we were down to 2 360's with 5 controllers and we couldn't do Gears because Ahmad had to download an update from live for it. We couldn't get onto live, so Halo 3 was the only option. It was still fun, but in reality, I really wanted to play Gears. Ok now it's time to complain about failures.
Zack: Thank's for offering it at your house, but I now know that if we don't have a party at your house, then I will not plan on you coming. The least you could do is call though if you don't want to go.
Gerard: You cost me $10. If you want to cancel, do it sooner than the day of the party.
Tom the freshman: If you really wanted to come to the party, then why did you leave at 6? Just give us your copy of Gears if we need it or stay for the whole time.
Ahmad: Well I can't get mad at you because I have been in this situation before as well, but next time check to see if you have all the updates. This was a minimal failure offset by the fact that you had another controller, which enabled almost everyone to play at once. For that, don't even worry about the problem with Gears.
Well that's it for now. I hope everyone that went to homecoming had fun. The party was pretty good, but I think that the next one we have needs to be absolutely solid. Don't forget that we are going to have a 1 year anniversary of Gears of War party. The actual date is November 7, but that is a wednesday. Furthermore, due to the really hella cheap plane and hotel fare I told you about a couple of posts back, I am going to disneyland on Vetran's day weekend with my family and all of us for less than the price of a 360. I am looking at November 16th or 17th for a party. That's a friday or saturday. Please help me plan this by RSVPing when its DEFINITE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I am hoping for 8 person Gears and since many aren't at homecoming, I think we will also want a Gamecube or something to keep busy the people not playing Gears.
Tuesday:
Even classes and it was nice because I was thinking it was monday, but then realizing it was tuesday. The classes weren't too bad. I didn't hear on the morning announcement that there was a marching practice. I sit as far away as I can from the PA in my 2nd period class. I could have listened and heard the announcements if I had wanted, but let's face it, I didn't exactly expect "Marching Band rehearsal today" to come up. So I noticed as students that were late were running out and I figured it would probably be worse to be late than not at all, so I just didn't go.
Wednesday:
More going well of classes. I was content all day and the FBLA meeting went well.
Thursday:
In Lifetime Sports, God(Mrs. Faidley) decided that it was too rainy to go to Greenlake, so she decided to make us suffer by dancing again. I spent most of the time dancing with Reece's girlfriend, who helped me to learn that not all goths are weird and scary. She was actually nice and funny. As I started dancing with her, all we were doing was dancing in squares (I know it was made for me), so I said:
Me: Well if we did have to dance I'm glad it's this one, it's pretty easy.
Lexi: Yeah, unless you're dyslexic.
Me: *laughter to humor her for making a joke*
Lexi: Like me
Me: *immediate stoppage of laughter*
I did enjoy myself after school as well. I got my actual 100% in the desert on Guild Wars. It took 3 more hours, which were enjoyable, but I was done for the day after that. As I was looking for something to do, Steven called me and said his power was out and I suggested that he and Orion come play here. He said they were just about to invite themselves over. We played Halo 3 for a couple hours and discovered a great new game: Hit people with the man cannon (needs a name). This game rivals others, such as "Throw shit in the fan" and "see how far you can bounce the ball up the cheerleader's skirt."
Friday:
Hooray it was friday with shortened periods. Nothing really happened until the homecoming assembly in which I got to play the fanfare. It was really cool. The seniors finally won. It helps when its rigged I guess. We did have the best skit though. Thrill the world looked really cool, but I couldn't find Alex because I was down on the floor and couldn't see it very well, but what I saw looked good.
After that ended, Sai and I went to Steven's house where we were met by Steven and Orion to do the paper route.
After that, Sai, Steven, and I went to my house and had a little practice party with some Gears of War. When that was done, I drove Sai home and took Steven to the game with me in the car. We had to run to the stadium through the rain. It stopped really raining after we got under cover of course. At halftime, we got rained on again, although not to the extent of freshman year. I got to play the fanfare again at halftime and the 6 of us sounded good despite the rain. It was very cool to finally be a part of that. So Shorewood lost of course, but we lost 3-7. The most enraging part was our last drive of the game. It was 2nd & 6. Our quarterback threw some kind of huge ass lob/hail mary pass right into 4 Jackson players. Who knows, maybe we could have won. Oh well, stupid football team.
Saturday:
Here it is, it was party day. I will recap events leading up to and then during the party. Afterwards, I will complain about it.
So I woke up and had to go get a copy of Gears of War since Gerard did not have a copy. It cost $10 to rent, but I figured since it was for 4v4 gears, it was worth it. So everything looked good, until an hour before the party, I find out that Gerard cancelled for an unknown reason. Well there's a good waste of $10. Sai decided to invite the freshman who really wanted to come to the party and orignally wouldn't let us borrow his copy of Gears. Well I figured at least he would be dedicated (foreshadowing). So I had to bring 2 tv's because I was planning on Zack being there. At 3:30, I called to remind him. No answer. At that point I knew he wasn't coming. So nobody wanted to play Gears, except Steven and Eric. Everyone else played Halo 3. Tom the freshman made people play on his custom maps, so of course he won since nobody else knew them. I didn't even give into that crap, I just played Quinn.
At 6:00, I had to go back home for Kathryn's family birthday dinner. My cousin was over and he brought his copy of the Game of the Year Oblivion (includes Knights of Nine and Shivering Isles for installation. He left it with me to install onto my 360. Since we had no 360, we resorted to N64. We started with Super Smash Brothers, which quickly got boring. After that, we played on Goldeneye. I learned that 2 person Proximity mines is really fun. Lots of booby trapping and accidental suicides. I stayed longer than I needed to because it was cooler than just waiting for people to be ready to play Gears. When I got back to the party, I learned that Tom the freshman had left, which pissed me off because he seemed to want to come so bad. So we were down to 2 360's with 5 controllers and we couldn't do Gears because Ahmad had to download an update from live for it. We couldn't get onto live, so Halo 3 was the only option. It was still fun, but in reality, I really wanted to play Gears. Ok now it's time to complain about failures.
Zack: Thank's for offering it at your house, but I now know that if we don't have a party at your house, then I will not plan on you coming. The least you could do is call though if you don't want to go.
Gerard: You cost me $10. If you want to cancel, do it sooner than the day of the party.
Tom the freshman: If you really wanted to come to the party, then why did you leave at 6? Just give us your copy of Gears if we need it or stay for the whole time.
Ahmad: Well I can't get mad at you because I have been in this situation before as well, but next time check to see if you have all the updates. This was a minimal failure offset by the fact that you had another controller, which enabled almost everyone to play at once. For that, don't even worry about the problem with Gears.
Well that's it for now. I hope everyone that went to homecoming had fun. The party was pretty good, but I think that the next one we have needs to be absolutely solid. Don't forget that we are going to have a 1 year anniversary of Gears of War party. The actual date is November 7, but that is a wednesday. Furthermore, due to the really hella cheap plane and hotel fare I told you about a couple of posts back, I am going to disneyland on Vetran's day weekend with my family and all of us for less than the price of a 360. I am looking at November 16th or 17th for a party. That's a friday or saturday. Please help me plan this by RSVPing when its DEFINITE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I am hoping for 8 person Gears and since many aren't at homecoming, I think we will also want a Gamecube or something to keep busy the people not playing Gears.
Monday, October 15, 2007
I want YOU. To be player 8.
Well before I get down to business with the upcoming anti-homecoming party, I should explain why this was a rather good week. It might be worth your time someday to read this post, but if you are looking for the party stuff, then use Ctrl+F on "Partay:" to get there quickly or scroll down.
Monday:
It was an odd day since it was a 4 day week. I woke up and realized "hey this means odd periods shortened today since it's early release monday." Then I woke up further and realized that THERE ARE NO MORE EARLY RELEASE MONDAYS. I got pretty mad at that. So ever since freshman year when I saw the trumpets play the fanfare at homecoming, I knew that I wanted to do that someday. I soon came to the horrible reality that I played an unimportant instrument(ie not a trumpet) and would not be able to play the fanfare. When I offered to play trumpet this year, I forgot entirely about the fanfare, but on monday Mr. Harshman was passing it out and I got a copy. That's right, I am going to play fanfare at homecoming. That pretty much made the day right there. There was a tennis match at Edway that afternoon. I got a slurpee because of the school's close proximity to Dairy Queen and 7-11. The slurpee machine as acting up, so my slurpee was oddly thick and very sweet, which was really cool. Extreme sugar high ftw. That night, I went to the court of honor for Kimi's Teriyaki. Davis was there as well. Some really cool guy that looked like teh uber mountainman came to award dad with his woodbadge. I got the cycling merit badge, thus completing my collection needed for eagle.
Tuesday:
It was even periods and we watched the rest of the Great Dictator in Hollywood & History. It was a pretty good movie. During Law (6th period), I got called to yearbook to talk about the JV tennis team. I didn't realize I had just put in my quote when I said the freshmen and sophomores had stepped up well this year. She thanked me for my quote and I walked out confused not realizing I had just accidentally given her a quote. Not much else happened at school, but after school, I went home and dicked around the Guild Wars Forums for about 2 hours learning every little detail about the 100% title. I then set out to start cleaning up my edges on the map. Lots of the areas look good and there is a 1-1.5% leway meaning you don't have to have exactly 100% to get the title, but it still is a pain in the ass to get nonetheless. The leway covers areas that are no longer accessible on the map. I managed to get .7% that day, the most I had gotten in a single day since I stopped using the 1% every day method 2 weeks ago when I came too busy to keep up with it.
Wednesday:
I got further incorporated into the fanfare, so it was a sure thing that I would be playing it. Other than that, I did not do much else. The Jackson match got cancelled, so I played some Halo 3 on Xbox Live.
Thursday:
The end of the four day week! Most huzzahulent. The day went very smoothly. After school, the top half of the JV team went up to Jackson with Varsity while the other half played at Mountlake Terrace. On the way there, we saw a transient holding a sign that read: I'll be here until the 11 million Mexicans leave. Everyone had a laugh at him, except for Mr. Moreno. I was with a new partner and he was good, so we dominated 6-1 and 6-2. After that, I stayed up late because it was a weekend.
Friday:
Late waking up since it was a weekend. Dad and I went to get new windshield wipers for the freestyle and when we got there, a strange guy that sounded like Michael Jackson who apparently worked there tried to get us to trade in the freestyle for a new car since most of their sales are of used cars and ours was an ideal one. We test drove a couple and dad worked a deal to get the cars for a cheaper monthly payment that our current one. We had to ask mom about it first. There was a match for JV at Meadowdale. Scott was once again not there. I had to play with a guy I had never played with before. He was levels below me and the other team noticed quickly. They hit every shot that they weren't required to hit at me at him. I only really hit the ball if I was serving or returning and maybe one little hit per game. So bascially we got stomped because he has a lot to work on. My parents came to watch and then we had to run after I got out because we had a play(Spamalot) at 8 and dinner at 6. Spamalot was quite good. On the way back out of it, I saw this really pretty girl. So pretty that if I were to talk to her, I would accidentally blurt out that I want to go out with her. Upon my inspection of her.....body, I noticed something horrible. A Saints jersey. I then almost walked into a Saints player. I looked for farmilliar players, but none were seen, just their luggage.
Saturday:
I had to get up early to return the favor to Will who was having his Eagle project. I felt obligated since he came to mine. Upon getting there, the first thing he says to me is a query for advice because he "has no idea what to do." At that point I knew this would be interesting. It was basically Will's two younger brothers trying to control everyone, then Will trying to control them, then Dave trying to control Will, then Jan controlling everything. Some interesting points in the project were:
*Steven and Kristian walk away*
*10 minutes*
*Kyle walks away*
*5 minutes*
*Cole walks by humming some tune*
Me: Dad, I think we're the only ones working.
Sure enough we were, but the project got somewhat done while we were there. One interesting find was crack concealed in a sprinkler head. Police were called and they took it back to the station probably to smoke it. Davis came eventually, which was pretty cool. He got working on a different area than me.
That afternoon, we went and test drove the Ford Edge and the Taurus X which we had driven the day before. After much deliberation between mom, dad, and I, they decided to swap our Freestyle for the Taurus X. While the paperwork was being taken care of, I went with Rick(Michael Jackson guy) to drive a Mustang just for fun because it was a slow business day. Whilst out on the drive, I saw Mr. Hendrix.
So you guy's gotta see this new Taurus X we got. It's pretty awesome. It has a GPS. That's cool right there. I went and looked at a lot of the technology after we bought it, so I am rather familliar now. That night, nothing much else happened.
Sunday:
I played some GRAW until I left for the football game with Grandpa. On the way in, I saw a transient holding a sign that read: Ninjas killed my father, need money for karate lessons. If I had small change on me, I totally would have given it to that guy. It was good except that we gave the Saints their first win of the season. Also, I am mad at Plackemeier for dropping that ball and giving them an easy touchdown. Josh Brown, though had a pwnage 52 yard field goal. It was quite secksy. During the first quarter, the NBC overhead camera fell down onto the field causing much hilarity and a 10 minute delay. When they brought it back up, it fell again and almost hit a player. It then had to be hung off the field where it wouldn't cause problems and unfortunately, it "accidentally" recorded Mike Holmgren's playcard. The Saints claim they didn't know of this.
Monday:
Well nothing much has happened today. I have to finish some homework, then I might get on Guild Wars for a while.
Partay:
Yeah party time. Anti homecoming party to be exact. So here's the plan so far.
When: Saturday, exact hours TBD.
Where: Zack's house. Don't know where? I guess I can give a couple rides.
Who: Zack, Sai, Steven, Ahmad, Gerard, Amanuel, and I. We need an 8th person. If this is you or if you know of one, please don't hesitate to tell us.
So I have to be here at my house for dinner from 6-8 pm. I can be at the party at any time but those 2 hours, so I will leave my 360 with Zack while I am gone.
And yes I know that I still need to make some postage happen. Specifically:
-homecoming in california pictures
-hawaii pictures
-senior pictures
-family reunion pictures(if they ever come)
Peace out for now.
Monday:
It was an odd day since it was a 4 day week. I woke up and realized "hey this means odd periods shortened today since it's early release monday." Then I woke up further and realized that THERE ARE NO MORE EARLY RELEASE MONDAYS. I got pretty mad at that. So ever since freshman year when I saw the trumpets play the fanfare at homecoming, I knew that I wanted to do that someday. I soon came to the horrible reality that I played an unimportant instrument(ie not a trumpet) and would not be able to play the fanfare. When I offered to play trumpet this year, I forgot entirely about the fanfare, but on monday Mr. Harshman was passing it out and I got a copy. That's right, I am going to play fanfare at homecoming. That pretty much made the day right there. There was a tennis match at Edway that afternoon. I got a slurpee because of the school's close proximity to Dairy Queen and 7-11. The slurpee machine as acting up, so my slurpee was oddly thick and very sweet, which was really cool. Extreme sugar high ftw. That night, I went to the court of honor for Kimi's Teriyaki. Davis was there as well. Some really cool guy that looked like teh uber mountainman came to award dad with his woodbadge. I got the cycling merit badge, thus completing my collection needed for eagle.
Tuesday:
It was even periods and we watched the rest of the Great Dictator in Hollywood & History. It was a pretty good movie. During Law (6th period), I got called to yearbook to talk about the JV tennis team. I didn't realize I had just put in my quote when I said the freshmen and sophomores had stepped up well this year. She thanked me for my quote and I walked out confused not realizing I had just accidentally given her a quote. Not much else happened at school, but after school, I went home and dicked around the Guild Wars Forums for about 2 hours learning every little detail about the 100% title. I then set out to start cleaning up my edges on the map. Lots of the areas look good and there is a 1-1.5% leway meaning you don't have to have exactly 100% to get the title, but it still is a pain in the ass to get nonetheless. The leway covers areas that are no longer accessible on the map. I managed to get .7% that day, the most I had gotten in a single day since I stopped using the 1% every day method 2 weeks ago when I came too busy to keep up with it.
Wednesday:
I got further incorporated into the fanfare, so it was a sure thing that I would be playing it. Other than that, I did not do much else. The Jackson match got cancelled, so I played some Halo 3 on Xbox Live.
Thursday:
The end of the four day week! Most huzzahulent. The day went very smoothly. After school, the top half of the JV team went up to Jackson with Varsity while the other half played at Mountlake Terrace. On the way there, we saw a transient holding a sign that read: I'll be here until the 11 million Mexicans leave. Everyone had a laugh at him, except for Mr. Moreno. I was with a new partner and he was good, so we dominated 6-1 and 6-2. After that, I stayed up late because it was a weekend.
Friday:
Late waking up since it was a weekend. Dad and I went to get new windshield wipers for the freestyle and when we got there, a strange guy that sounded like Michael Jackson who apparently worked there tried to get us to trade in the freestyle for a new car since most of their sales are of used cars and ours was an ideal one. We test drove a couple and dad worked a deal to get the cars for a cheaper monthly payment that our current one. We had to ask mom about it first. There was a match for JV at Meadowdale. Scott was once again not there. I had to play with a guy I had never played with before. He was levels below me and the other team noticed quickly. They hit every shot that they weren't required to hit at me at him. I only really hit the ball if I was serving or returning and maybe one little hit per game. So bascially we got stomped because he has a lot to work on. My parents came to watch and then we had to run after I got out because we had a play(Spamalot) at 8 and dinner at 6. Spamalot was quite good. On the way back out of it, I saw this really pretty girl. So pretty that if I were to talk to her, I would accidentally blurt out that I want to go out with her. Upon my inspection of her.....body, I noticed something horrible. A Saints jersey. I then almost walked into a Saints player. I looked for farmilliar players, but none were seen, just their luggage.
Saturday:
I had to get up early to return the favor to Will who was having his Eagle project. I felt obligated since he came to mine. Upon getting there, the first thing he says to me is a query for advice because he "has no idea what to do." At that point I knew this would be interesting. It was basically Will's two younger brothers trying to control everyone, then Will trying to control them, then Dave trying to control Will, then Jan controlling everything. Some interesting points in the project were:
*Steven and Kristian walk away*
*10 minutes*
*Kyle walks away*
*5 minutes*
*Cole walks by humming some tune*
Me: Dad, I think we're the only ones working.
Sure enough we were, but the project got somewhat done while we were there. One interesting find was crack concealed in a sprinkler head. Police were called and they took it back to the station probably to smoke it. Davis came eventually, which was pretty cool. He got working on a different area than me.
That afternoon, we went and test drove the Ford Edge and the Taurus X which we had driven the day before. After much deliberation between mom, dad, and I, they decided to swap our Freestyle for the Taurus X. While the paperwork was being taken care of, I went with Rick(Michael Jackson guy) to drive a Mustang just for fun because it was a slow business day. Whilst out on the drive, I saw Mr. Hendrix.
So you guy's gotta see this new Taurus X we got. It's pretty awesome. It has a GPS. That's cool right there. I went and looked at a lot of the technology after we bought it, so I am rather familliar now. That night, nothing much else happened.
Sunday:
I played some GRAW until I left for the football game with Grandpa. On the way in, I saw a transient holding a sign that read: Ninjas killed my father, need money for karate lessons. If I had small change on me, I totally would have given it to that guy. It was good except that we gave the Saints their first win of the season. Also, I am mad at Plackemeier for dropping that ball and giving them an easy touchdown. Josh Brown, though had a pwnage 52 yard field goal. It was quite secksy. During the first quarter, the NBC overhead camera fell down onto the field causing much hilarity and a 10 minute delay. When they brought it back up, it fell again and almost hit a player. It then had to be hung off the field where it wouldn't cause problems and unfortunately, it "accidentally" recorded Mike Holmgren's playcard. The Saints claim they didn't know of this.
Monday:
Well nothing much has happened today. I have to finish some homework, then I might get on Guild Wars for a while.
Partay:
Yeah party time. Anti homecoming party to be exact. So here's the plan so far.
When: Saturday, exact hours TBD.
Where: Zack's house. Don't know where? I guess I can give a couple rides.
Who: Zack, Sai, Steven, Ahmad, Gerard, Amanuel, and I. We need an 8th person. If this is you or if you know of one, please don't hesitate to tell us.
So I have to be here at my house for dinner from 6-8 pm. I can be at the party at any time but those 2 hours, so I will leave my 360 with Zack while I am gone.
And yes I know that I still need to make some postage happen. Specifically:
-homecoming in california pictures
-hawaii pictures
-senior pictures
-family reunion pictures(if they ever come)
Peace out for now.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Orion: All those environmentalists can sleep with the fishes.
Sorry Orion, it was next in line to go. Luckily for you it made it to a title. This quote was from February or whenever regionals for FBLA was. Orion randomly said it on the bus.
Some other convos before I get down to business:
brittlebrit187: lock me up and throw away the key
brittlebrit187: but give me a role of toilet paper and a paper clip and I will escape brittlebrit187: cuz im tits mcgee
RunningInSquare3: how far r u
oreo2476: done
RunningInSquare3: YAY
oreo2476: and by done i mean not done
RunningInSquare3: CRAP
RunningInSquare3: have u gotten to the last discussion question?
oreo2476: have i gotten to data?
oreo2476: the answer to both of these is yes
RunningInSquare3: YAY
oreo2476: and by yes i mean no
RunningInSquare3: stop doing that
Party on homecoming day. That is October 20. Unfortunately, we cannot have it here because it is Kathryn's birthday and she is having a party here. If anyone could offer up their place for it, we will be forever in your debt. So far, it is Sai and I for sure, Steven if he wants, Ahmad if he wants, Zack if he can, and one more hopefully for a 3v3 going. If we can find a fourth 360 and Gears, then we can get 2 more people beyond that person for a good 4v4 going on.
Some other convos before I get down to business:
brittlebrit187: lock me up and throw away the key
brittlebrit187: but give me a role of toilet paper and a paper clip and I will escape brittlebrit187: cuz im tits mcgee
RunningInSquare3: how far r u
oreo2476: done
RunningInSquare3: YAY
oreo2476: and by done i mean not done
RunningInSquare3: CRAP
RunningInSquare3: have u gotten to the last discussion question?
oreo2476: have i gotten to data?
oreo2476: the answer to both of these is yes
RunningInSquare3: YAY
oreo2476: and by yes i mean no
RunningInSquare3: stop doing that
Party on homecoming day. That is October 20. Unfortunately, we cannot have it here because it is Kathryn's birthday and she is having a party here. If anyone could offer up their place for it, we will be forever in your debt. So far, it is Sai and I for sure, Steven if he wants, Ahmad if he wants, Zack if he can, and one more hopefully for a 3v3 going. If we can find a fourth 360 and Gears, then we can get 2 more people beyond that person for a good 4v4 going on.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Time Flies When You Throw It In The Air.
So I last posted back on the 19th. I know I said I was going to start posting regularly, but I guess I was lying. That and I actually have excuses for running(IN SQUARES) out of time to post on most days.
But let us start with where I left off. In the weekdays following my post, there was nothing much that was interesting. On that saturday, I had to get up before 7 to drive down to Bellevue on my family's way to Vancouver. In Bellevue, dad had to let the guys cleaning the carpet in. His bank is moving into a temporary office for 9 months until their permanent one is finished. Their permanent office will be in the building located on the site from which that crane in Bellevue fell down last year. They will be on the ground floor since Expedia rented out the rest of the building. So I made it down to Vancouver in average time, which is 3 hours from home. I didn't really have good opportunities to speed, so I didn't really at all. By not speeding, I mean I was always going about 5 or 10 miles per hour over on the freeway, but nobody cares about that so whatever.
We got down to Vancouver around noonish and met my grandparents at Macy's where my grandpa was buying new pants. We bought me a black shirt and tie for my new suit for my upcoming date for homecoming (much more on that later). We went to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch, which is this place we like to eat when down there since it reminds us of Zoopa's. There was some assorted hanging around playing Miss Spider's Tea Party on their PS1 since it was the only form of video game there. Mom and dad and my grandparents went out to their wedding which was the reason we came in the first place. I tricked Kathryn into watching a James Bond movie, but I fell asleep when I realized I had watched it a couple weeks eariler. That night, I watched Goldeneye.
The next morning, we left for home to make it in time for Kathryn's soccer game. I got us back in 3 hours despite Seahawks traffic. I did my homework, then thought about how much fun I was going to have when Halo 3 came out and I started my abstinence from it until Christmas.
Now for my main stories since nothing happened much during the week last week and since nothing much has happened this week so far except a law field trip to the courthouse.
Halo 3:
On tuesday, I started my Halo 3 abstinence. The first day was hard because everyone that had it gave it such high marks and I really wanted it, but put away my desires by thinking of how much more I wanted Mass Effect. On wednesday, I went with dad to get stuff for the bulletin board for my eagle project at Costco and happened upon a stand ripe with Halo 3's. Not only that, but these Halo 3's were $10 cheaper than other Halo 3's elsewhere. After much much though, I decided that it was best to get it. Less than 2 days into avoiding Halo 3 until Christmas, I gave up. It was a pretty good game. The plotline was crap and it felt like an expansion of Halo 2. I did enjoy the ability to walk around with a turret though. Of course everyone is giving it a fanboy 10/10. Even the toughest graders in the world, Official Xbox Magazine, gave it a perfect 10. It joins only 2 other games that have made a perfect: Gears of War and Bioshock. I personally would give Halo 3 a 7/10 because it was lacking in more substance. I don't buy a game just because it has good multiplayer, which does kick ass I will admit. I like to go off on my own once in a while too.
My adventure to California:
So a couple weeks ago, my friend from California who is my oldest friend in the sense that I have known her since kindergarden.(don't worry Davis, you are still the oldest friend I have(I think). Anyway, she emailed me to ask if I wanted to come down for homecoming. The first thing I could think of was OF COURSE. Unfortunately, plane tickets to Sacramento cost $$$. 290 to be exact. I asked my parents and they said they would look for a good price. Luckily, they happened to look on the "cattle call" day for Southwest Airlines. They offered pwnage to the max deals in hopes to get business to come their way. Long story short, I got a ticket down and back for $78. Not bad since they figured I would pay not too much less than that had I brought her up here, plus it was someone I really wanted to go with. Another long story short, for the same price per person, we are going to disneyland in november and again with Rachel(my friend in California and her family). I think we have miles to use for one of those trips though. I don't know how it works at all.
Anyway I should get back on topic.
So I left immediately after school on friday. I didn't even drive myself to school in the morning. I was skipping a tennis match, but it was against lynnwood, so it was a guaranteed win and I was skipping a football game as well. Mr. Harshman later told my mom "Whatever it takes to get that guy a date." In the airport, I saw two people that were on this reality show I watch during the summer (big brother). They were the two I was rooting for, but unfortunately they didn't win. My dad actually said hi to them as a reflex because he felt like he knew them. I wasn't by him when he said that, but he said the girl said hi back and the guy shyly nodded. They knew he knew who they were off of tv, so it wasn't awkward other than the fact that they were trying to keep a low profile. The plane ride over wasn't too bad at all. I sat next to this Australian couple. I wound up sleeping despite this loud guy hitting on a girl that had mentioned her boyfriend she was going back to live with as they started talking.
When I touched down, I met up with Rachel and her parents. They drove us to the homecoming game. On the way there, we had to sit stopped in traffic for 40 minutes without moving because of a 3 fatality accident. 3 people were rushed out in ambulences. It was pretty narsty as we drove by. We got there for half time. Rachel proceeded to introduce me to everyone and their moms (literally). It wasn't bad though. I already knew some of the people from when I was there in december. Yes I realize what month I posted that in. Anyway, the game was cool because their band is small and does marching DURING SONGS. Their drum major is really good at doing it(plus he is cool and has a moustache that is almost as awesome as sideburns.) Sideburns would totally kick his moustache's butt though. Anyway, they also have fireworks at halftime. Finally, their team scored more points than the other team, which was a huge difference for me. After the game, a lot of people went to Mountain Mike's pizza (good place) for dinner. I met Shannon (Rachel's sister)'s boyfriend who was a.....well he was a n00b.
On saturday, I woke up early at 6:00. I figured since I got to wake up late on thursday for the teacher's strike, I could get up early for the day. I went with Rachel and her dad Marc to her soccer game. They had to play 1 down probably because it was homecoming day and lots of girls didn't want to play. I thought about playing as the girl from up in the hills that is really butch, but they didn't have another uniform for me. They lost, but it was cool to watch and it made me sad that I am not playing this year. Later in the afternoon around 2, all the girls in our group started arriving to get ready for homecoming, so Marc and I went out to play some tennis so I wouldn't get out of practice. I wound up playing my first pro length match ever. For those of you that don't know, that means best 3 out of 5 sets. I won 3 in a row, but it took about two hours, so I was pretty tired afterwards. I went back and took a quick shower before everyone had shown up to the house.
When I got out, I had enough time to wait before suiting up. Eventually I did and when I came out, Tyler(shannon's boyfriend) was in the living room. As more people showed up, it became apparent that the only other person wearing a suit jacket was Peter(a guy that was a sophomore, but actually cool). That meant he was the only other pr0 there, but it turned out that I was the only one thinking ahead. They all mocked my suit jacket wearing, but I told them they would realize why I did it later on. So all the girls came down one by one. Rachel came first, but she looked like an entirely different person. All 5 of us guys really didn't know who she was at first, but then I noticed then somebody said "Oh its Rachel." I should say she really went all out and I definately had the hot date for the night. There were pictures on the front lawn, then we all set off in the big group van to get pictures. We got pictures taken after much awkwardness. Many poses I moved too slow getting into so they would switch me. After 2 pictures, the guy behind the camera said "Um do you ever not uthe ur glatheth?"(lisp). All I said was "No." Just a stern no, which is what I always say when a photographer tries to make me push up my glasses.
After pictures, the group got back in the van and headed to this restaurant of which I forget the name. The food was good and Tyler was able to remove his n00b status. After the dinner, we got back in the van and headed to the dance. The line getting in wasn't bad. We met up with lots of people that were friends, but not in the group. In the dance, it was pretty boring. I recognized one song the whole time we were there. Nobody really danced, but instead mostly had sex with clothes on. There was a bench in the back where you could go if you were tired......and wanted to make out for 20 minutes. Rachel showed me around to all her friends and wandered a lot with me because she said that's what she usually does at dances. I was glad to wander because it occasionally led us away from the crappy dj. ("Yo where's my white folks at? Yeah how about mah lateeenooooos? Yeah, how about mah ayyshinnnnssss. Yeah how about mah blayck folks. Jeeuh boy.") I took nothing he said seriously after he did that. Not to say I did before. I couldn't understant him. The dance was cool, but the things before that had been cooler. Plus it was cool to spend time with Rachel and walk around with her and get introduced to very quirky drama people. When the dance finally ended, we walked outside and I could feel it was cold even through my suit. That little alarm in my head went off and I knew it was time to reveal why I had worn the suit coat. I offered it to Rachel so she wouldn't get cold. The rest of the group now understood why I was wearing it. I just have good gentleman micro or something.
After we all got back, the adults had been drinking their drinks and we watched part of Love Actually before the guys got kicked out. I got banished downstairs because the girls were having a sleepover.
The next day, Rachel and her parents took me to the airport. It was sad to leave because it was such a good weekend, but I had to so I went and got on the plane.
After landing, I went back out to get my cycling merit badge. Mission Accomplished.
So all in all, it was pretty much the best weekend ever. I'm going to get her to come up for prom as soon as I find out when prom is.
But let us start with where I left off. In the weekdays following my post, there was nothing much that was interesting. On that saturday, I had to get up before 7 to drive down to Bellevue on my family's way to Vancouver. In Bellevue, dad had to let the guys cleaning the carpet in. His bank is moving into a temporary office for 9 months until their permanent one is finished. Their permanent office will be in the building located on the site from which that crane in Bellevue fell down last year. They will be on the ground floor since Expedia rented out the rest of the building. So I made it down to Vancouver in average time, which is 3 hours from home. I didn't really have good opportunities to speed, so I didn't really at all. By not speeding, I mean I was always going about 5 or 10 miles per hour over on the freeway, but nobody cares about that so whatever.
We got down to Vancouver around noonish and met my grandparents at Macy's where my grandpa was buying new pants. We bought me a black shirt and tie for my new suit for my upcoming date for homecoming (much more on that later). We went to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch, which is this place we like to eat when down there since it reminds us of Zoopa's. There was some assorted hanging around playing Miss Spider's Tea Party on their PS1 since it was the only form of video game there. Mom and dad and my grandparents went out to their wedding which was the reason we came in the first place. I tricked Kathryn into watching a James Bond movie, but I fell asleep when I realized I had watched it a couple weeks eariler. That night, I watched Goldeneye.
The next morning, we left for home to make it in time for Kathryn's soccer game. I got us back in 3 hours despite Seahawks traffic. I did my homework, then thought about how much fun I was going to have when Halo 3 came out and I started my abstinence from it until Christmas.
Now for my main stories since nothing happened much during the week last week and since nothing much has happened this week so far except a law field trip to the courthouse.
Halo 3:
On tuesday, I started my Halo 3 abstinence. The first day was hard because everyone that had it gave it such high marks and I really wanted it, but put away my desires by thinking of how much more I wanted Mass Effect. On wednesday, I went with dad to get stuff for the bulletin board for my eagle project at Costco and happened upon a stand ripe with Halo 3's. Not only that, but these Halo 3's were $10 cheaper than other Halo 3's elsewhere. After much much though, I decided that it was best to get it. Less than 2 days into avoiding Halo 3 until Christmas, I gave up. It was a pretty good game. The plotline was crap and it felt like an expansion of Halo 2. I did enjoy the ability to walk around with a turret though. Of course everyone is giving it a fanboy 10/10. Even the toughest graders in the world, Official Xbox Magazine, gave it a perfect 10. It joins only 2 other games that have made a perfect: Gears of War and Bioshock. I personally would give Halo 3 a 7/10 because it was lacking in more substance. I don't buy a game just because it has good multiplayer, which does kick ass I will admit. I like to go off on my own once in a while too.
My adventure to California:
So a couple weeks ago, my friend from California who is my oldest friend in the sense that I have known her since kindergarden.(don't worry Davis, you are still the oldest friend I have(I think). Anyway, she emailed me to ask if I wanted to come down for homecoming. The first thing I could think of was OF COURSE. Unfortunately, plane tickets to Sacramento cost $$$. 290 to be exact. I asked my parents and they said they would look for a good price. Luckily, they happened to look on the "cattle call" day for Southwest Airlines. They offered pwnage to the max deals in hopes to get business to come their way. Long story short, I got a ticket down and back for $78. Not bad since they figured I would pay not too much less than that had I brought her up here, plus it was someone I really wanted to go with. Another long story short, for the same price per person, we are going to disneyland in november and again with Rachel(my friend in California and her family). I think we have miles to use for one of those trips though. I don't know how it works at all.
Anyway I should get back on topic.
So I left immediately after school on friday. I didn't even drive myself to school in the morning. I was skipping a tennis match, but it was against lynnwood, so it was a guaranteed win and I was skipping a football game as well. Mr. Harshman later told my mom "Whatever it takes to get that guy a date." In the airport, I saw two people that were on this reality show I watch during the summer (big brother). They were the two I was rooting for, but unfortunately they didn't win. My dad actually said hi to them as a reflex because he felt like he knew them. I wasn't by him when he said that, but he said the girl said hi back and the guy shyly nodded. They knew he knew who they were off of tv, so it wasn't awkward other than the fact that they were trying to keep a low profile. The plane ride over wasn't too bad at all. I sat next to this Australian couple. I wound up sleeping despite this loud guy hitting on a girl that had mentioned her boyfriend she was going back to live with as they started talking.
When I touched down, I met up with Rachel and her parents. They drove us to the homecoming game. On the way there, we had to sit stopped in traffic for 40 minutes without moving because of a 3 fatality accident. 3 people were rushed out in ambulences. It was pretty narsty as we drove by. We got there for half time. Rachel proceeded to introduce me to everyone and their moms (literally). It wasn't bad though. I already knew some of the people from when I was there in december. Yes I realize what month I posted that in. Anyway, the game was cool because their band is small and does marching DURING SONGS. Their drum major is really good at doing it(plus he is cool and has a moustache that is almost as awesome as sideburns.) Sideburns would totally kick his moustache's butt though. Anyway, they also have fireworks at halftime. Finally, their team scored more points than the other team, which was a huge difference for me. After the game, a lot of people went to Mountain Mike's pizza (good place) for dinner. I met Shannon (Rachel's sister)'s boyfriend who was a.....well he was a n00b.
On saturday, I woke up early at 6:00. I figured since I got to wake up late on thursday for the teacher's strike, I could get up early for the day. I went with Rachel and her dad Marc to her soccer game. They had to play 1 down probably because it was homecoming day and lots of girls didn't want to play. I thought about playing as the girl from up in the hills that is really butch, but they didn't have another uniform for me. They lost, but it was cool to watch and it made me sad that I am not playing this year. Later in the afternoon around 2, all the girls in our group started arriving to get ready for homecoming, so Marc and I went out to play some tennis so I wouldn't get out of practice. I wound up playing my first pro length match ever. For those of you that don't know, that means best 3 out of 5 sets. I won 3 in a row, but it took about two hours, so I was pretty tired afterwards. I went back and took a quick shower before everyone had shown up to the house.
When I got out, I had enough time to wait before suiting up. Eventually I did and when I came out, Tyler(shannon's boyfriend) was in the living room. As more people showed up, it became apparent that the only other person wearing a suit jacket was Peter(a guy that was a sophomore, but actually cool). That meant he was the only other pr0 there, but it turned out that I was the only one thinking ahead. They all mocked my suit jacket wearing, but I told them they would realize why I did it later on. So all the girls came down one by one. Rachel came first, but she looked like an entirely different person. All 5 of us guys really didn't know who she was at first, but then I noticed then somebody said "Oh its Rachel." I should say she really went all out and I definately had the hot date for the night. There were pictures on the front lawn, then we all set off in the big group van to get pictures. We got pictures taken after much awkwardness. Many poses I moved too slow getting into so they would switch me. After 2 pictures, the guy behind the camera said "Um do you ever not uthe ur glatheth?"(lisp). All I said was "No." Just a stern no, which is what I always say when a photographer tries to make me push up my glasses.
After pictures, the group got back in the van and headed to this restaurant of which I forget the name. The food was good and Tyler was able to remove his n00b status. After the dinner, we got back in the van and headed to the dance. The line getting in wasn't bad. We met up with lots of people that were friends, but not in the group. In the dance, it was pretty boring. I recognized one song the whole time we were there. Nobody really danced, but instead mostly had sex with clothes on. There was a bench in the back where you could go if you were tired......and wanted to make out for 20 minutes. Rachel showed me around to all her friends and wandered a lot with me because she said that's what she usually does at dances. I was glad to wander because it occasionally led us away from the crappy dj. ("Yo where's my white folks at? Yeah how about mah lateeenooooos? Yeah, how about mah ayyshinnnnssss. Yeah how about mah blayck folks. Jeeuh boy.") I took nothing he said seriously after he did that. Not to say I did before. I couldn't understant him. The dance was cool, but the things before that had been cooler. Plus it was cool to spend time with Rachel and walk around with her and get introduced to very quirky drama people. When the dance finally ended, we walked outside and I could feel it was cold even through my suit. That little alarm in my head went off and I knew it was time to reveal why I had worn the suit coat. I offered it to Rachel so she wouldn't get cold. The rest of the group now understood why I was wearing it. I just have good gentleman micro or something.
After we all got back, the adults had been drinking their drinks and we watched part of Love Actually before the guys got kicked out. I got banished downstairs because the girls were having a sleepover.
The next day, Rachel and her parents took me to the airport. It was sad to leave because it was such a good weekend, but I had to so I went and got on the plane.
After landing, I went back out to get my cycling merit badge. Mission Accomplished.
So all in all, it was pretty much the best weekend ever. I'm going to get her to come up for prom as soon as I find out when prom is.
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