Memorial to the nine at the capital.

The school where the nine went. (Anti-segregation thing)

At the Purple Cow in Arkansas. It was a restaurant recommended to us by our friends that live in California, but were raised in Arkansas before moving to Washington, then to California.

My purple shake at the Purple Cow.

My snack, a frozen bottle of Gatorade. It worked out well I must say.

Dad: Hey kids look, the Ozark Mountains.
Kathryn: Where?
Dad: In front of us
David: I don't think those are really mountains.

The Ozark "Mountains." In reality, they are hills to us Washingtonians.

The original roll in the hay.

Huzzah, someone out in the Ozarks actually owns a nice Mustang.

I think they need to get their numbers straight. 7 or 12?

Me: WE MUST EAT THERE!!!!!!!11

How to cheat hicks out of a few more bucks.

The second best hitch in the world. The best is my army hitch. This one was pretty sweet though, I must admit.

My horribly overjoyed expression upon finally realizing that we were going to eat at Steak 'n Shake. BTW, it pwned food.

Dad, Kathryn, and I on one of the roller coasters at Silver Dollar City. This one was cool because it had a bunch of loops and stuff.

Internet Findings

"Wow," I thought to myself, "How could this ad get any dumber?"
My answer came a few days later.
I had forgotten to post this.

Oh come on now, Oblivion.

I think this speaks for itself. If it doesn't note that the symbol is somewhat phallic and the spell it represents is alteration.

Cleaned Room.

This actually was taken after about half an hour of cleaning, so it is abou 5% cleaner than when I actually started. This should paint a picture though of how much worse it was.
This is the same room after spending 15 hours over 3 days cleaning it.

It's been a good while and this is some of the only time I have spent on my computer.

Well I have cured my addiction to the computer. I have become addicted to reading, playing Xbox, playing tennis, and starting mini projects outside and inside. I think instead of by days(I may wind up using them anyway), I will go by subjects.

Reading:
Well since I got back, I haven't read much until I got Harry Potter. I got it the Wednesday after it came out(on a Saturday). I had to clean my room first. It's a good book. I read for two hours today and got through about 200 pages. It flies by as I read, but its worth it.

Playing Xbox:
Well it's been Oblivion pretty much all the time. I have 90 hours under my belt in that game now. I completed all the faction quests and the main quests. I am doing Daedric and Miscellaneous quests right now and the game keeps on throwing new stuff at me. I also found an old Xbox magazine demo disk whilst cleaning my room and it had 2 free Oblivion downloads on it that were small, but cool downloads.

Davis also came over and we started working on Gears of War Insane mode only to discover that it was a lot easier than Halo 2 on Legendary. In 5 hours of playing, we beat through act three. We only have 4 and 5 left.

Playing Tennis:
I have been doing it every day with the exception of weekends. We had a tournament in Marysville last friday and their coach was Mr. Moreno himself. I got to show off my ability to pwn his students in front of him and I also got to talk to him about my Eagle Project.

Recently, I finally won a challenge match while challenging up the ladder. I hadn't moved up in 2 years. This win made me displace 5 people and I am in the second. I am now number 16 on the ladder, but I think I can move up with this newfound confidence.

Outside stuff:
The neighbors had a water balloon fight against our house today which was quite entertaining. Other things I have done include taking stuff apart, helping redo the garage, working at grandpa's house, etc.

Inside stuff:
Well, actually this is like the reading section. A minor thing. I cleaned my room. Pictures will come. It went from literally no floor to wow that's clean.


Speaking of pictures, I, along with CompUSA have been helping Melissa get the pictures out to everyone. I told her that her current technology wouldn't work for that much stuff and CompUSA told her what to get. Now I have been trying to help her work it through the family website which is hard because it isnt instant messaging and she lives in Florida. Hopefully the pictures will come soon though. I am going to post the pictures of before the reunion before I leave since I think that her pictures will come after I get back.

In other news, my first weekend of 2 of my Eagle project is saturday from 9am to noon. It probably wont last that long, but there is free food anyway. Peace out for now.

BREAKING NEWS: Indisputable Evidence Shows That Gamefaqs Users ARE, In Fact, N00bs.

I am outraged by this obvious display of pure idiocy. Davis has also expressed his anger at this problem. The word "Pwn" is popularly believed to be prounounced (pone) which I admit is the way I used to say it before I was educated properly. The only thing that can still be referred to as poning is the belt of pownage. I can't bring myself to change it. Getting back on topic, not only is pone the most frequently used variation, but what should come in second? Own? Own, the correct way to say it, should have come in second(and it should have been a close second), but no, the users on gamefaqs selected "pawn." THIS IS NOT CHESS PEOPLE. This is pwning someone. Pawns do not Pwn. What can you do to prevent this problem from spreading? When you walk around, simply come up to every person you see and show them the word "Pwn." Ask them how they pronounce it. If they say anything other than Own, hit them.

Bringing back the glory

After seeing Davis' super liberal bumper stickers, I decided I wanted to bring back my truck's super conservative ones.
I am looking for I love Adak(coast guard base in Alaska) and Go to Church, don't wait for the hearse to take you.

Along my search, I have found more good religious ones.

Come the rapture can I have your car?
God gave man 2 heads and only enough blood to use one.
God must love stupid people, he made so many.
I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha!
National Atheist's Day April 1
Reincarnation is making a comeback!
Sorry I missed Church, I've been studying WitchCraft and becoming a Lesbian.
You're the reason God created the middle finger.
You found God? If nobody claims him in 30 days, he's yours!

The first week back.

Well this week has had it ups and downs, but mostly it has had its Oblivions. The days have kind of jumbled into a blur from Oblivion and I would tend to do a day post, but each day would consist of "Well I woke up, ate, played tennis, played Oblivion, ate, went to the bathroom, played Oblivion, ate, slept, then it repeats. Tennis has been fun as usual.

My tennis schedule is as follows:
Sunday: Nothing
Monday: Lesson(10:15-11:00am) and Team Practice(3:00-4:15pm)
Tuesday: Lesson(10:15-11:00am)
Wednesday: Lesson(10:15-11:00am) and possibly matches in the afternoons.
Thursday: Possible lesson makeup in the morning if it rained earlier in the week and Team Practice(3:00-4:15pm)
Friday: Generally open all day with the possible exception of an afternoon match. I can miss them usually if anyone has a solid plan. I am done around 4ish anyway.
Saturday: Nothing

Oblivion:
Yes this game is so good. In the past 7 days, I have only spent 5 and 1/2 days doing something other than playing Oblivion. 36 hours on the game in the first week. What awesome level have I aspired to? Level 3. I would have leveled up faster, but I have been doing guild quests that work on minor skills, which make me level up slower. I am the leader of the Dark Brotherhood(fun quests) and the leader of the Thieves Guild(good loot). I am halfway up the Mages Guild right now. I'm probably the only mage that doesn't use magic as I am a Redguard Knight(uber melee fighter). After the Mages Guild, I will do the Fighters Guild, then the Arena to level up fast, then I will get back on the Main Questline again. The game is so fun that I have not really been on the computer at all. When I have, its because the rest of the family forced me off the TV.

Pictures are coming soon. If Melissa takes too much longer, I am just going to post pictures of everything but the reunion, then post reunion pictures when they are finally up.

Here it is, forks.

Well this is it. The big play by play. Yes, I know it can be intimidating, but I suggest you read it. The description of the days will probably get shorter as I go on. What better things do you have to do? Hang out with your girlfriend? Ha, unlikely. The only person that has something else to do is Zack(has to go see the pink elephant and the flowers in make believe land). Pictures from my family are on my computer. Pictures from the professional group photos are up on the internet as well. I am waiting on Melissa to post her pictures. I expect to start putting up my pictures very soon, as soon as she puts them online. I am going to do it in the style of Europe last year, where I put up the pictures in backwards order so that you see them progressing through as you scroll down.



Saturday, 6/30:
So on Saturday, our flight left at 7:50 in the morning. I got up really early to get the last single player achievement in COD3. Vetran mode FTW! We were trying to leave at 6:30, but dad kept us until 6:45. When we all got up to the airport, the lines were humongous. It was surprising for that early in the day. When it was time to start boarding the flight, we started into the security line. At 7:45, 5 minutes before the flight was supposed to leave, we got to the front of the line. Of course, luck would have it that we got stuck behind a handicapped lady that didn't care if we were rushing, she wanted to climb out of her wheelchair and hobble around. So we got through the security checkpoint with 2 minutes to spare, so I let my family take my bags and I booked it down the A gate. Now for those of you that don't know, I sure didn't, but the A gate is like a large straight run. It went down very very far until gate A6 at the end, then it turned. It was about a half mile run from the security checkpoint to the gate A16. When I got there, the lady recognized me as part of the group the flight was waiting on. I told her I was with a handicapped person (mom's back was hurting so I figured why not). That bought some time. Then we got on the plane and the announcer said "Those people held up at security finally got here."

So the flight was 2 hours and the plane reeked of jet fuel. When we touched down in Saint Louis, the first thing that I noticed was the quality of the air(low), then the humidity(high). We got to the rental place and they didn't have the car we requested, but they gave us a Jeep Liberty. The window controls were in the middle of the car and the back had no shocks. I rode in the front a lot though luckily.

So we went straight to Anheuser Busch Brewery to meet Dad's old boss from US bank and his family for a tour of the Brewery. It was pretty cool, but not as cool as the Guinness tour. After that, we went to the Italian part of town and ate at this restaurant with good pizza. Milo's or something like that. After that, Greg(dad's boss) took us to show us this great frozen custard place. Ted Drewes. It looks crowded, but it moves you through within 3 minutes. Don't be put off by the crowd outside. It's always there. It doesn't slow it down at all. After that, we went back to the hotel and got some rest.


Sunday, 7/1:
We got up around 9 and headed out in search of food. We didn't find any. Since we were in a Red State, the city was literally deserted in the morning because everyone was at church. We got to the Gateway Arch and had virtually no line to get in. It was pretty cool. So after that, we went on this stupid steamboat ride up the Misissippi. There was a fat lady with her underwear and crack haning out on different levels, so I couldn't take pictures for the first half. On the way back in, our announcer was Dave from the parks department. Now my mom is very easily amused and she almost fell asleep. He pause in the most..........inappropriate times in.........his sentences, and he spoke in montone. He was so boring I almost jumped out into the river, but the river was brown, and I did not want to get a disease. Later in the day, we waited around for the Parry's to arrive. The Parry's conist of Dave, the dad; Melissa, mom's cousin; and her kids(my first cousins once removed) Kelsey(my age) and the triplets(Kathryn's age) Anna, Abagail, and Will. All of the kids are adopted, although I don't know why. More on that subject later. We hung out with them for a while, Will hung out with me and the girls clicked. Kelsey didn't really talk at all or seem interested in the least. After a while with them, we went to the train station to get Sue, who had taken the train from Syracuse to St. Louis. She is a very interesting person.


That night, more relatives came and we had a party of 15 at The Old Spaghetti factory. The area it was in looked similar to the area the one in Seattle is in. Another interesting thing about Missourri is that children are allowed in the bar. After the dinner, everyone went their own ways.



Monday, 7/2:
We had breakfast with the Parrys (minus Dave(dad) and Kelsey) and Sue. After that, we got on the highway to Memphis. The highways in the midwest have very few curves. They seem to go on forever at one point. Also, there are tons of billboards along the highways. Many are funny for different reasons, but unfortunately, I didn't figure out to take pictures for a while and lots of funny ones are behind trees until its too late to snap a picture of them. The best billboard said "Pray to end abortion." and had a baby praying next to it. We arrived in Memphis in the mid afternoon, just in time to check into our hotel(the peabody) and to see this tradition they have where they march some ducks around. We went and saw the Civil Rights museum as well where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. After that, we went to this restaurant called Rum Boogie Cafe for dinner. It was really cool because many famous guitarists including Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top have eaten there and signed a guitar to hang from the ceiling. It was cool to walk around and look at them, but unfortunately I couldn't take pictures because it was so poorly lit and the flash only made it a giant glare.



Tuesday, 7/3:
We got up around 9 and went to the Gibson Guitar factory tour. It was interesting, despite the tourguide, who was boring. After lunch, we hit the road again to go off to Little Rock, Arkansas to see the city where our friends who now live in California grew up. In Little Rock, we saw the capitol building and the school where the 9 went(anti-segregation thing in the 60's). For dinner, we ate at the Purple Cow, a favorite restaurant of our friends. I was angry because it was a '50's diner, which I usually hate, but this one was good. They food color milkshakes purple if you so desire, so I desired. It was good food.



Wednesday, 7/4:
Happy fourth of july everyone. We celebrated by driving through the Ozark Mountains(more like hills). There were lots of rednecks there. I am serious, it was actually funny how stereotypically accurate they are. We got to Branson at around 2:00 to find that Dad and I were the only men there since the rest had gone golfing and the women were doing Karaoke in Cabin 18(Melissa's cabin, the headquarters.(other than the pavillion). After being there for a little bit, we decided to all saddle out to the pavillion, which was a covered area by the pool. It was reserved for us each night, so we all met there for dinner every day.

Eventually, everyone showed up and there was much reunioning. I saw lots of people I never knew before and some of the kids didn't get along and Kelsey sat off to the side again(no surprise there). The kid a year younger than me with the 4 handicap(extremely good) in golf came as well. He was nice, but he isn't a very loud person, which I guess was okay. So later in the night, it cut loose on us. We stayed out an extra hour and a half for the rain to pass. After everyone split up, a bunch of older people went to do Karaoke and wound up staying up until breakfast, getting hangovers, and missing most of the next day.

Note: In the future, when I say we without first putting people in that group, I am referring to my family and The Parrys.

Thursday, 7/5:
We didn't really get to do anything until in the afternoon, when we decided to go to Silver Dollar City, this tacky, yet fun amusement park nearby. We all went and got tickets. The first ride we went to was Thunderation, a roller coaster where you have the option to ride backwards or forwards. It got closed after we had been in line for a bit due to "someone mistreating the gates." Someone pushed against those little things that open for you to get on the ride and the whole ride had to close. After that, we went to another section. We got hit by the cutoff on this one ride, but when it finished, the whole park closed for lightning in the area. Evidently parks do that often over there. We left since we had been there for about half an hour and we got rain delay passes to come back sometime.

We all just went back to the pavillion and swam around in the pool there until dinner. Everyone showed up for dinner and then there was some Karaoke indoors. Maya(3 or 4 year old) sang some who let the dogs out and YMCA. Some of the kids showed her dance moves and she would imitate them. I showed her how to do the Saturday Night Fever(John Travolta finger joust disco).

Friday, 7/6:
We went on my idea and had our two families get going on the road at 9 to get to Silver Dollar City when it opened. We got there half an hour after it opened and immediately did Wildfire. Very short rollercoaster(1-1.5 minutes), but it has a huge drop at the start where you can't really breathe at all and it has lots of loops and corkscrews and the likes. It was awesome. Then we did Powder Keg. It does an electromagnetic start where you go 0-max speed in about 2 seconds. It was a little scary because all you had holding you in was this little waist strap. Like a thick foam seatbelt. It was a very fun one anyway though. Our party got separated unfortunately, so I was with Anna behind Kelsey and Melissa. After those rides, we did this "black diamond scary" ride called fire in the hole. It was basically a cart running around in the dark going past scenes of fire and some guy climbing into a hotel second story window yelling that he had no pants. At the end you get sprayed with water. It was a stupid ride. Stupid to the macks. So after lunch, Dad, Anna, Abagail, Kelsey, and I went to do "the giant swings." Dad finally got Kelsey to open up and talk, which she started doing more of. He gets the award there for his persistent talking. I guess I have just learned how to get him to stop. So the swings were fun. After that, Will and Dad went to go on the river ride there. The rest of us went to the small rides that we missed. Anna, Abagail, Kelsey, and I went on the ride we got cheated out of at the lightning the other day. It was pretty fun. In line in front of us, there were some ho girls around Kelsey and my age talking about how the cops "killed their fun when they tried to smuggle beer onto a beach back home." They were stupid. After that ride, Kelsey sat with mom and Melissa. Kathryn and Abagail went to do the swing rides. Anna and I went over to our favorite ride, the swinging pirate ship. We were mistaken though, because it did not go around all the way, it just got high up. The nazi instructor lady said no hands in the air, so we decided to be rebels. After that, we went on this other ride where it spins you around really fast and it shoved us to the outside, so my arm was a little sore for a while after I endured Anna being pushed against it for the duration of the ride. That night, there was more partyage at the pavillion. That night at the pavillion, there was an ant show with Uncle Tom and Dick in which they drowned ants then poured salt on them to bring them back to life. It was a cool show.

Saturday, 7/7:
On saturday, we went go-karting with Uncle John and his daughter Nicole. The carting was fun. There was a huge wooden structure on which to race. Anna, Kathryn and I formed an alliance to win all the races. It worked well. Bumping was not allowed, but everyone bumped a ton and nobody cared. On one of the rides, Abagail got T-boned and got whiplash and had to stop for the day. She recovered by the end of the day. After carting, I went to Uncle John's hotel to play tennis with him. I didn't have my camera, but what it was was the building where the pool was. The court was on the roof, up by the American flag. Very nice views and a unique experience, but it was 90 degrees in the shade, plus humidity, plus the roof of a building, plus tennis court meant it was over 100, maybe up to 110 degrees on the court. It was fun to play on though, even if our occasional spectators had to leave after they got too hot. That night at the pavillion, there was a scavenger hunt for the kids. Anna and I teamed up because we had been hanging out a lot. We won of course, being the only ones to get more than 15,000 points(we got 30,000). We almost got the whole list filled up. We used good finding methods, such as when looking for the rope, we went into the hotel and stole a rope from them. Anna still has it. It is her scavenging sash. Mine is this broken tape measurer. We dominated and that's all I can say. After that, everyone went to bed.

Sunday, 7/8:
We hung around the pavillion most of the day. In the middle of the day we hung around with different people and it wasn't too exciting. Lunch at Steak and Shake because I really had my mind set on going there. It was pretty much God's restaurant. If you ever see one, go into it without question. Dinner at the pavillion again was fun and everyone said goodbye because everyone left the following morning.

Monday, 7/9:
We decided to use our last day in the passes at Silver Dollar City to ride the rides one more times since we are never going back to the Midwest, God willing. We rode Wildfire again as well as Powder Keg. After that, dad went to get Will's glasses at the river ride, where I failed to mention he lost them back when they last went on them. We found them and called the Parry's who had left for Florida. We mailed them back later. We tried to get on Thunderation, but before we could get on, lightning in the area, everything closed. That ride is cursed. We decided to go to the car to hit the road. We barely made it before the rain just shot down in a wall. We dove into the car and no sooner did we, than we couldn't see out the windshield because it was so wet. Dad got the wipers going and we set off. We ate lunch at The Cracker Barrel, which had good food and random stuff. We made our flight in plenty of time and got home around midnight.

That's it for the trip. Pictures soon. A post about the week soon as well.

Quick post now so Oblivion can be played.

Well I am back from the Midwest. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was worse. The family reunion was very fun though. Meeting all the cool people was fun, but the midwest itself as a region.....been there, done that. I will give the play by play post sometime soon here, but not now because I really want to start up Oblivion. I will also be posting pictures, but I have no idea when exactly because I am going to be using not only mine, mom's, and Kathryn's, but I will also be using some pictures Melissa took because I liked a lot of them that I saw. It's up to her when she puts them on though, but I expect she will soon, so pictures are coming eventually. The play by play will be within the next couple of days, maybe later today if I feel like it. To tide you over, here are some differences about the midwest.

1. There are a lot of African Americans there. I was a minority about half the time.

2. For some reason or another, it is incredibly humid over there. I do not lie. The humidity adds about 10 degrees to the actual temperature. Memphis had the worst humidity.

3. When it rains it pours. It doesn't rain too often, but when it does, it comes without warning and pwns everything in its path.

4. It is very boring.

5. People smoke everywhere.

6. The highways are very straight.

7. Along the highways, billboards are common. I saw so many funny ones and funny religious ones. I wanted to take pictures of them all, but many caught me off guard, being mostly surrounded by trees until it was too late to realize what it said.

8. People seem to think that the Confederate States of America exist.

9. Rednecks portrayed it movies are not stereotypical. That's how they really are.

10. Did I mention it was unbearably hot and humid already?

I wish I didn't have to go

Well the week went well.

Monday:
Chemistry and Ice Cream. It was sweet(literally) we put too much sugar in. Steven and Orion had the soupy ice cream while mine came out right only because I was very familliar with how to make it since my family used to think making our own stuff saved money. It was not true with ice cream. English ensued after chemistry and I got the speech award I wanted. Most interesting topic. At the start of the speeches, Mrs, Gade said "as the last winner of the most interesting topic award, I expect no less from you this time." Well I got 60/60 on my speech and the best topic and proposition award. That made me happy.

Tuesday:
In APUSH we played the Guthrie games, which is just a series of tag-related games. They were still very fun though. In Band, we played some frisbee and I gave my mellophone to Harshman so it could be repaired over the summer. We left about 10 minutes early from school and my summer began then. There was some gameage after school, but I had to go a bit early to time for some volunteer hours at a swim meet at Klahaya. 4 more hours for me hee heheh e.

Wednesday:
Huzzah my birthday hath come. It was a smaller birthday due to the fact that I got an Xbox 360 for Christmas. My parents got me a Lexus but it wasn't the one I wanted so I had them take it back..............................Yeah right. I saw that on the news though. Some kids are spoiled. For my birthday, I got Guitar Hero 2 from my parents, Nightfall from my grandpa, the set of Star Wars postage stamps(actually very cool) and a ZZ Top CD from my aunt, and Call of Duty 2 from my Cousins. COD2 YESSSSS. That means that even though some chode sold his, we can still multiplayer it up. My cousin also gave back Oblivion and said its very fun. I gave back Hitman and I also gave him The Godfather since he is now lending me Ghost Recon. It's not a very good game. So Zach and Steven came over around 9:30 and we played a bunch of stuff until 1:30 when Davis came. We broke jump rope records and we eventually played some GoW.

Thursday:
I spent the whole day gaming because of Tennis cancellations.

Friday:
Packing today for Branson. I get back on July 9. See you guys soon.

How to trick Davis and Keir

These are two simultaneous conversations. Fortunately for you they are organized by time and separated for a different person.

To Keir:
brittlebrit187 (1:10:29 PM): scccccccc
RunningInSquare3 (1:10:36 PM): is davis getting on?
RunningInSquare3 (1:10:40 PM): he istn responding to me
brittlebrit187 (1:10:47 PM): thats cus he hates you
RunningInSquare3 (1:10:58 PM): :U
brittlebrit187 (1:11:07 PM): he was talking to the love of his life
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:12 PM): orion?
brittlebrit187 (1:11:18 PM): then he was like: hmmm....ill go check out the new clan teriyaki homepage
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:26 PM): LOLOLO0LOLOLO0O0OLL
brittlebrit187 (1:11:26 PM): no, megan
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:31 PM): who is megan
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:35 PM): thats ur gf isnt it
brittlebrit187 (1:11:37 PM): the love of his life
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:39 PM): oh
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:44 PM): did he check out the clan teriyaki page?
brittlebrit187 (1:11:44 PM): OWAH i have a girlfriend?
brittlebrit187 (1:11:47 PM): yes
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:47 PM): no
brittlebrit187 (1:11:52 PM): whilst he was talkign to megan

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:11:57 PM): i hear u checked the teriyaki page

To Keir:
brittlebrit187 (1:12:02 PM): now he will never talk to you ever again

To Davis:
bananaoracle89 (1:12:04 PM): I did

To Keir:
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:08 PM): who t f is megan

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:16 PM): megan does not exist right?

To Keir:
brittlebrit187 (1:12:23 PM): the love of his life

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:27 PM): keir says u r in luv with a megan
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:36 PM): but thats impossible cuz ur in luv w/ sc
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:39 PM): right????

To Keir:
RunningInSquare3 (1:12:46 PM): TEEEHEHEHEHEEHHEEHHEEHEHEHEHE
brittlebrit187 (1:13:12 PM): so not funny!

To Davis:
bananaoracle89 (1:13:21 PM): wiat a minute
bananaoracle89 (1:13:23 PM): what?
bananaoracle89 (1:13:24 PM): megan?
RunningInSquare3 (1:13:37 PM): brittlebrit187: whilst he was talkign to megan; brittlebrit187: now he will never talk to you ever again; RunningInSquare3 (1:12:08 PM): who t f is megan; brittlebrit187 (1:12:23 PM): the love of his life
RunningInSquare3 (1:13:55 PM): he is lying right?
RunningInSquare3 (1:13:59 PM): he is really sticking to this story
bananaoracle89 (1:14:14 PM): haha

To Keir:
RunningInSquare3 (1:14:30 PM): bananaoracle89: why did he tell you about megan?

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:14:53 PM): hee hee
RunningInSquare3 (1:14:59 PM): now i "copied" u saying
RunningInSquare3 (1:15:05 PM): how did u find out about megan?

To Keir:
RunningInSquare3 (1:15:30 PM): bananaoracle89: i dont even remember telling him about her...
brittlebrit187 (1:15:42 PM): i jsut guessed a random name

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:15:49 PM): brittlebrit187: i jsut guessed a random name
RunningInSquare3 (1:15:54 PM): TEEHEEHEHEHEEEEHEEEEE

To Keir:
brittlebrit187 (1:15:57 PM): oh fuck is he mad at me?
RunningInSquare3 (1:16:05 PM): idk

To Davis:
bananaoracle89 (1:16:12 PM): great David
RunningInSquare3 (1:16:15 PM): brittlebrit187: oh fuck is he mad at me?

To Keir:
RunningInSquare3 (1:16:27 PM): no im jsut messin iwht u
RunningInSquare3 (1:16:31 PM): come on lets sc it up

To Davis:
RunningInSquare3 (1:16:38 PM): LAWL
RunningInSquare3 (1:17:16 PM): ok lets play some sc with keir

*David and Keir skype it up*
David: Yeah that was funny with megan.
Keir: yeah wow I jsut picked a random name.
David: Wait didn't you get my message?
Keir: What message?
David: The one where I said I was just messing with you.
Keir: oh you bastard.
David: oh this is so going into my blog.
Keir: that's good, nobody will read about it then.

Race To The Finish!

Me: Well his last word to me before he signed off was WOW, so that must be a good sign
Orion: Unless that means he actually bought wow instead for some reason

Me: Wanna play checkers like they do in the motherland?
Keir: Well I have to research Peru
Keir: So yes

So with those quotes leaving my profile, expect some new ones to come in. Specifically some from Davis.

Eagle Project info from what I have now at the bottom of the post, more specific stuff to come very soon.

Wednesday:
Ben came by in math and he played cards with Josh, Albert, and I. After a while, we watched Scarface on our laptops. I only got through an hour and I need to finish it up on my PC now. So in Individual Sport, I finally started my Eagle project. I know exactly what I need to do and all I need to do now is set the dates based on when the courts are getting power washed. I also need to get permission and jump through the hoops that the bureaucrats make me jump through. While selling pop at lunch, some guy offered me 50 cents for a pop, so I sold him a Sprite making him think he got a good deal, when if he could read, he could have read that it was regularly 50 cents. He came back later with the can open and a hair in it. I might have believed him if he had not claimed we put a hair in a closed can. He got his revenge by standing near the place we were selling and awkwardly looking at us and planning for something. He put hairs on a can, but I washed them off later and nobody noticed. I think that guy was more of and SD than me, so I need a new nickname Orion. In Chemistry, we gave back the laptops. I shut mine down then closed it too early on purpose when they asked us to just log out. So when we went to turn them in, it turned out that we needed to have it ready to go so the tech people could look at it easily. She had a tough time turning it on, then it random shutdown on her twice, so I took a while to get out of there. After school, Steven, Davis, Orion, and I played some frisbee at Echo Lake.

Thursday:
Well Thursday was a nice day. In APUSH, we were going to have fun, but instead it was raining so we stayed inside and will have fun on Tuesday. Mr. Guthrie gave his farewell address and we wrote letters to ourselves then had a current events quiz. One question I answered too early was about Springfields. As soon as he said Springfield I knew it was that they were vying for the Simpson's movie preview in that town, so I said it. Apparently that was wrong, they were vying to be the hometown. I looked it up and my answer and the real answer meant the same thing. I WANT MY 80 POINTS GUTHRIE. Oh well, good news in that class, I got up to a B- which is acceptable. If I get a 4 or 5 on the AP exam, I can safely raise 1st semester's grade. During STAR, I happened upon the Wind Ensemble List and I MADE IT WOOOOO. Very happy about that. In Band, we played ultimate frisbee. By "we" I mean Orion, Steven, and I along with 5 other people. The rest sat around and did nothing all period. At lunch, the guy got his further revenge by flipping us off as he passed by. N00bzorcks. to the max. In English, we watched more Grapes of Wrath. There was some studyage at Davis' with Steven and I and Davis for Chemistry.

Friday:
Friday was pretty cool, *like borat* NOT. Math was boring, just Albert and me (no offense Albert). I played Gold version while the class watched Toy Story 2. In Individual Sports, I just left, then went to the theatre to watch the Spanish classes perform the Flamenco. The Chemistry final was quite difficult. I am expecting somewhere in the range of 30-40. 50 is an A I hear, so maybe I can work the curve on this. I really hope I can. I want that B-.

So after school, the plan was a Gears party at Zack's. I went with Steven and Orion to do the paper route while Davis figured out when to go over there. He called me to tell me that he finally was able to get a hold of Zack. Only Zack was in Portland for a concert. Without warning to us, he just ditched. Thank's Zack. So screwed at that point, we just hung out at Orion's. Zack, you owe us for that. Wednesday after school. No if's and's or butt's. It's a yes. My house, though.(birthday party).

Saturday:
All I really did was play some Tennis at noon for team. It was fun. Then I went and saw my sister's dance performance. I also knew some girls from high school or tennis team that go to Edmonds Woodway. That was slightly interesting, but the whole thing is always boring. That night, I learned how to stream music on my 360 from my PC. All I had to do was download unecessary software for a Zune that I don't have. The problem is the Zune player recognizes only downloaded music. No CD's were recognized so I had to manually put those on the Hard Drive.

Sunday:
Well Sunday was kind of on the fly. I went with Dad and Mom to get a couch moved out of this teacher's room at Mom's school. We brought it back home. Then dad and I power washed the truck, so it is shiny white now. We then took a bunch of garbage to the dump. While loading the truck, dad discovered a birds nest, so we put it in a safe spot next to where we found it so that no animals, except for the mother bird could get to it. In the nest were 2 marble sized eggs and a hatchling. It looked like swallows. I guess our banging around woke the bird up, if they can hear. So we took all the junk to the dump. In snohomish, they do things the typical snohomish stupid way. Instead of the pwnage King county dump where we toss crap into the big truck directly, at the snohomish dump, they put it all in piles, then a backhoe loads the trucks. So in the middle fo the floor is a huge ass pile of trash. Really smart snohomish you freaking morons. After that, there was some SC and now nothing much.

Eagle Project:
So I shall tell you what I know as of now.
-It will be over the course of three saturdays, the last 2 in July, and one in August, preferably the first one I am available for.
-The court drains will be cleared.
-The weeds will be sprayed the first weekend and pulled the second.
-The sunblocker nets around the courts will be ziptied back up so they don't sag anymore.
-Between weekends 2 and 3, the courts are being professionally power washed.
-On the third weekend, we are going to be putting up brand new nets!
-The grass around the area will be mowed, as it is not regularly mowed by that guy that does it around school.
-That work will be done by scouts and anyone else that wants to help(all of you I hope). I cannot partake in much as my job is to organize. Otherwise I would totally be helping.
-I can actually help with the building of the tennis ladder. I need to get the design from Corliss to know what she wanted. I will work in a small group to build it with preferably Davis, Orion, Steven, Sai, and maybe a couple other people around our age. It shouldn't require much work guys, but I need expertise for it that scouts can't give because they aren't as awesome as SOT.

So one thing I just found out is that Steven Sweeney had his project already approved. He is painting the American Flag back on the playground at Highland Terrace*yawn*. I cannot allow him to beat me to Eagle. I want my name right under Davis' on the list, so I am going as fast as I can. Expect sudden cancellations of Guild Wars or Starcraft as I might need to suddenly do some work. If I commit to a party or something, I will go to that.*cough zack cough*.

That's it for now. GLHFDD on this last week of school.

I might start posting more often again here.

Well sorry, some things happened and I got too busy to post. I would have done it this weekend, but it was "to dye for." More on that later.

Wednesday:
I absolutely LOVED the math final. It was set up perfectly for a guy like me. First, it was scantron, so the answers were already there for me. Second, if an answer had not been marked in a while, it would be suddenly the right answer for a couple questions (tried and true for that). Individual sports was okay, we really didn't do much. In Chemistry, we tie dyed. That was very fun. Afterwards, Connor, Emily, Fritzie, and I went to clean up the tables outside and that was cool too because I like cleaning up after labs for some reason. Then I had to show off my manliness by bringing in 3 tables (separately) by myself.

Thursday:
APUSH was a "work" day. Lots of tetris. Band went a lot smoother than tuesday. Mr. Harshman was much happier. Zac also asked Mr. Harshman about Wind Ensemble because he has Culinary arts next year and needs Wind Ensemble or it wont work with his schedule to have a band class. When he asked Mr. Harshman, he was told something along the lines of there will be 5 horns, implying Maddy, Brad and Chip, Me, and a freshman from this year. Chip might quit though, which would be interesting because then how do I refer to Brad and Chip? Just Brad or just Chip? Wierd. So I got out my music folder to find that someone had stolen my alma mater. Mr. Harshman said that I probably lost it, but I knew someone stole it.
In English, I had my speech. I originally planned to scare people for my "generated emotion" or "pathos." Once I made my first joke though, allwas lost on that front, so I tried to be funny. One of my choice moments was when I showed a picture of the 6 times the Earth's size in perspective with other plantets. "As you can see, we are encroaching upon the size of Uranus..and Neptune." As soon as I said Uranus, I thought wow did I just accidentally make a Uranus joke? I tried to keep a straight face, but people caught onto the joke and laughed. My speech was well recieved, so maybe I will get another award.

Friday:
Shortened classes. Very boring. In Individual Sport, Howie needed guys to move costumes from the fire hazard costume storage room(we had one???) to another location. I helped, then just left to my truck for the last 40 minutes of class because we were doing self defense. The moving up assembly was very odd. The band played and we only had to play Pomp and Circumstance once through. Ben Doherty made a very liberal speech about Iraq, prompting a few students to walk out. Apparently, it was not preapproved by Mr. Green. After school, Davis came over and we BEAT HALO2 LEGENDARY CAMPAIGN OH YEAHHHHH. After that, dad took him home then he and I took grandpa to see the Fantastic 4 2. Bad movie, enough said.

Saturday:
I went to Klahaya for tennis team practice at noon. Everyone seemed to have changed a lot since last year. We all had so much fun, we stayed and played for an extra half hour. After that, my family went to my dad's friend's son's graduation party for family. We saw lots of people I know and that was cool I guess.

Sunday:
I played at graduation. We played Pomp and Circumstance for about 15 minutes straight. My lips felt like they were going to fall off. It was like a John Phillip Sousa french horn part from hell.(He gives us lots of short notes that hurt your chops like crazy after a while.) Graduation was OObr boring. I did manage to find out however that I did not "lose" my copy of Alma mater as Mr. Harshman assumed, but Brad and Chip stole it from me.

Monday:
Not much at all happened. I found out Mr. Moreno is definately the Varsity Tennis coach next year, which is nice because he knows me and knows what I can do as opposed to Corliss, where I had to be really good to get her to notice me.

Tuesday:
We presented in APUSH and I supposedly had the best segment, which I opened by doing my Michael Jackson spin/crotch grab move. Not much else happened really. I didn't do good on my Super Duper Chromatic, which is usually a giveaway, but I did good on my scales. I also got a bonus point for guessing Scott's articulation correctly.

Guild Wars "Weekend To Dye For":
Basically, it meant that we would get 3x the chance of a dye drop. I played for so long, only to get 5 dyes. Orion on the other hand got 25. I was originally mad, but now I have found how the market can help me. Noobs and their dumb luck (and some regular lucky Orions) get good dyes and without thinking of how the price will go up later, sell them for a low price. They use this newfound money to buy junk that I sell at a higher price becaus they dont know the fair price. I then use that money to buy cheap stuff that is worth way more than people sell it for or to buy black dyes at their 5k price in hopes that the price will go back up. I predict it will get back to normal on my birthday. Speaking of which,

School on my birthday:
Well the last 3 days of school are all half days (early release at 10:40). To coincide with some stupid running start schedule, periods 5 and 6 are on monday. I originally thought 2 and 4 were on wednesday (last day of school and my birthday), so I was going to go because they were the two classes I actually liked. I found out that 1 and 3 are on the last day, so if you think you will see me on school grounds on my birthday, you are sadly mistaken. My last day of school is the same as Orion's, June 26th.

Quotes:

From Cops:
Cop: What seems to be the problem ma'am?
Woman: That lady stole ma money.
Cop: Why do you say that?
Woman: Ah gave her 20 bucks for crack and she didn't give me any.
*Cop Walks to other lady*
Cop: This woman says she gave you 20 dollars for some drugs.
Drug Dealer Woman: Ah ain't a drug dealer, Ah'm a prostitute.

From Guild Wars:
"Selling GW account----100k----PM me if interested"

A couple pictures, and a post about the day while I'm at it I guess

I go upstairs last week and randomly find: Sugar, A spoon, a petri knife, and a lighter. WTF what going on up there?
Ah gots me some 4 inches done cut off mah ayer!

So yeah I guess I shall mention the events of today since I am already here.

In APUSH, we started a decade project, which oddly did not consist of doing anything about a decade. We got into groups of 5. Orion rejected me and wound up with all girls (sucker) and I wound up with a good group, Josh, Ben, Albert, Mike, and I. So everyone got 5 year periods. We got 1980-1984, so I took Arts/Entertainment as quickly as I could, then volunteered to do fashion when nobody else wanted to.

In band, Mr. Harshman was set off early by the lack of people bringing flip folders and the need to make 2 runs to the copier to copy said parts. I can't blame him. He was very testy the rest of the class. We didn't do good on any of the songs, so he got very mad and even went as far as to threten Alec and I with rejection from Wind Ensemble. As soon as he gives us free time for the last 40 minutes in his anger, people stop playing. I kept going for 20 more minutes to be doing something and to sound good because I flubbed on a couple parts.

Orion forgot the money, so we didn't sell pop cans at lunch.

In English, Mrs. Gade was handing out papers from a while back. She handed out a paper to me that was an essay on Their Eyes Were Watching God. I recognized it after a second (because it had been a while since I saw it), but then remembered that I had thought that I would get a very good grade on the essay. Not only did I get a perfect score, but Mrs. Gade told me and had written on my paper that she loved the essay and I was the only student in both of her english classes to get a perfect score. We have some good writers in our class and I don't particularly find my writing skill to be that great, but if I can pull off the only perfect score in both classes, then I must be doing something right.

So I have my math final tomorrow and my persuasive speech on Thursday. I will probably not play games much between now and Thursday when school gets out for the day. On Thursday afternoon, you can most definately count on me being online for some gameage.

Ok now I have time to post so I shall

I would have posted last week, but it got too busy too fast and suddenly it was sunday and I wanted to wait to see how the FBLA sale went.

Tuesday:
So APUSH went as usual, we finished up Schindler's list. It was a sad ending, but my manliness prevented me from crying. Ah well it does not matter. In band, Mr. Harshman was very stressed because it was the day of the concert. We just repeated the songs over and over, especially our special ending to the Simple Song. English was not very interesting. The concert that night was very interesting. I pulled in in the spot next to Mr. Harshman's car because I am so determined to get that "needs driving practice" comment from him on my progress report someday. So in the concert, Freshman band did pretty good. We went second. We started with When the Morning Stars sang. The soloists did pretty good. Sam Ryan did pretty bad, but it sounded like a technical problem, not user error, because he seemed rehearsed on his solos. On the Simple Song, it was going very well. I nailed the solo with no good spot to breathe. When it came time for the end, it was supposed to be Sam and I holding a note with Wilfred and Leena holding theirs still from earlier. So we got to the last note and Wilfred and Leena had died off a little early, which was ok. Suddenly, I hear some nothingness and I see Harshman making eye contact with me and think "Oh my God am I alone right now? Why am I alone?" So Sam dropped out, but I held the note with Mr. Harshman until the end and when I did, it was kind of like getting a get out of jail free card. He thanked me right after the song and later thanked me again for "saving the song." I felt cool after that. So I helped clean up for a while and was last out of the band room and heard Mr. Harshman and Mr. Frasier's plans to got to Las Margaritas to celebrate.

Wednesday:
Really nothing much happened on Wednesday. It was just more boringness. Chemistry was ok, but it was mostly note taking.

Thursday:
Another plain day. Plain to the max. We got Pomp and Circumstance in Band and Celebration as well for graduation. There were more speeches in English, but my speech buddy didn't get to go because we ran out of time.

Friday:
The most interesting part of the day was in Chemistry. This sub was giving me sass, so I backsassed her. We were doing explore learning.
*David opens laptop, Starcraft 2 background is visible*
Sub: hey is that what you're supposed to be doing? Starcraft 2, what is that?
David: Well see these folders? That means that this is a background, you know what that is right?
Yeah I hope I never see her again, even though she didn't talk for the end of the period (last 80 minutes). After school, I went home, then went back out to Steven's and then Sai came over and Orion went home to sleep for the ACT. Sai, Steven, and I went to Jake's for poker. Once again, I did not win, so my record is 4 wins in 10 games. When I was eliminated, I played some Guitar Hero 2. It is such a fun game, I must acquire it while Jake acquires Gears of War.

Saturday:
It rained, so tennis was cancelled, but I did get my haircut at 1:40. Jack probably wants to see, so I will post a picture later.

Sunday:
Mostly Guild Wars the whole day. I was plagued with random shutdown. At 9:00 at night, Orion and I needed ideas to help us back up the potential losses for the RPS tourney. I came up with selling cans of non diet pop. We wound up going with that.

Monday:
I got up early and went to the store with Orion for much pops. We got a total of 216 cans. Short periods were stupid and our booth was set up with much goodness. 28 people signed up for the RPS tourney (needed 3o to break even), but we got rid of all the lolipops finally, so it was worth it. We made a profit in the first day even, so there will be more selling tomorrow. I want to play Guild Wars now so that's it.

Out with the old and check my aim profile for new quotes

OK well in order to make room for new profile quotes, I must get rid of some classics.
I know Zack will enjoy this post...

Here is one I accidentally stumbled upon from back in the days of Maple Story:
GateZero: k cya soon tear
Imatearitup: k
Imatearitup: if im still alive
RuninSquare: don’t worry, u will be alive
RuninSquare: cuz im here
RuninSquare: and I am teh pwnage
Imatearitup: ur what?
RuninSquare: teh pwnage
Imatearitup: wtf is that
RuninSquare: (the pwnage)
Imatearitup: wtf is that
RuninSquare: u don’t know what pwn is?
Imatearitup: no
RuninSquare: oh
RuninSquare: maybe u will die then
Imatearitup: wtf
RuninSquare: pwn is basically own but cooler and stuff
RuninSquare: its hard to explain
RuninSquare: u can search Wikipedia for pwn though
RuninSquare: u know what Wikipedia is right?
Imatearitup: no
RuninSquare: oh wow u r so screwed man

Another with Alex from a while ago:
RunningInSquare3: sh-sh-sh-shalom
Breadman690: wtf
Breadman690: u r jew?
RunningInSquare3: HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
RunningInSquare3: no
RunningInSquare3: u just stole their word
RunningInSquare3: actually i am jewish
Breadman690: really?
RunningInSquare3: havent u seen my yamukah?
Breadman690: a dutch jew
Breadman690: nopw
RunningInSquare3: they dont exist
Breadman690: nope*
RunningInSquare3: the quakers are all christian
Breadman690: hey i wasnt invited to the fucking barmitzvah
Breadman690: either
RunningInSquare3: i became a man in 2 ways that day
RunningInSquare3: the barmitzfah was one
RunningInSquare3: the other was
RunningInSquare3: well you know
RunningInSquare3: circumcision
RunningInSquare3: the barmitzfah i had was really gay
RunningInSquare3: more of a batmitzfah if you catch my drift
Breadman690: hhahahh
Breadman690: and ugh
Breadman690: i didnt really need to know about the second one
RunningInSquare3: lol
Breadman690: i thought u were going to say sex
Breadman690: and i was like
Breadman690): cool
RunningInSquare3: i thought u would think that
Breadman690: but then u just talked about penis
RunningInSquare3: im not jewish btw
Breadman690: and i was like no
Breadman690: ur not???/
RunningInSquare3: lol
Breadman690: welll.....im
Breadman690: im
RunningInSquare3: asian
Breadman690: astounded
Breadman690: lol
RunningInSquare3: whasian
Breadman690: hahah
Breadman690: duteng
RunningInSquare3: indeed
RunningInSquare3: the dutch arent white
RunningInSquare3: we are dutch
RunningInSquare3: im multiracial
RunningInSquare3: those fools at the standardized testing things are wrong
RunningInSquare3: i should give them a piece of my mind
RunningInSquare3: they can raise it as a boy and clone it into a mini-me at age 13
Breadman690: lol
RunningInSquare3: in time for the barmitzfah
Breadman690: hahah

Steven: Protection from evil, that's a good spell right?
David: heh heh
Steven *like borat*: NOT!

Sai: I know ww2!
Sai: After that there is a gray area, and then I remember playing super mario brothers and being born.
Me: In that order?

From today in chemistry:
Matt: Are there negatrons, like the opposite of positrons?
Mrs. Nagy: You mean like electrons?
Me: Yeah negatrons exist matt, they are best friends with kilopies.
Owen: Yeah very funny guys.
Matt: Yes, kilopies. That's how you measure the weight of unicorns.

Quick recap of the past couple of days, basically tuesday.

You know what, on second thought, I will do that later.

I will post the story later, I need to post about the week first

Huzzah, time to post about the week.

Wednesday:
In math, Ms. Weis came in in a good mood and wiped the note saying "test friday" off the board. Other than that, it was one of those really boring days. Days that I like to call odd days. The only mildly interesting thing was the FBLA meeting in which we planned the rock paper scissors tournament, which people are accurately saying will either flop completely or it will be great success. I went home and made up some simple ads that night, one for each of the eight gambits.

Thursday:
In APUSH we started Schindler's list. I was right, Liam Neeson is playing Oscar Schindler. It's actually a really good movie, but I expected no less from Steven Spielberg. In band, Harshman tried to stay happy with us the whole day, but with the drumline being ever bent on finding ways to be completely stupid, he became angry later on. We also perfected the end of Simple Song yet again, and Wilfred actually showed up, for about half an hour.

Friday:
Yep friday was pretty average as well. It was an odd day, so how good could that be? The chemistry test went all right. After school, I went to Steven's with Davis and Orion, but had to leave early for a memorial service for dad's old boss. After that, we took my grandpa to dinner and I came back to get the truck from Steven's. Then I went to Orion's house and played some Back to Bagdhad with him and Davis for about half an hour. It is very hard when we don't have 4 people.

Saturday:
I got up like it was a school day to get ready for the SAT. I left at 7 and made it in plenty of time to Mill Creek at Heatherwood middle school (I know, why was the SAT at a middle school?). I took a while to find my room, until I learned that there was more than one floor. There was free seating in the room and our instructor was this really ripped guy with a tight t-shirt and a really high voice. The girl on my left kept staring at me and the guy on my right couldn't read in his head. I would constantly hear him whispering the question out to himself, even right before the instructor called time, so he must not have finished a single section. I forgot my calculator, which threw off the instructor when he called for us to show calculators. I think I will do ok on the math section because the calculator wasn't there to distract me. The one section I didn't finish was the section where we bubble in the math answers. I screwed around trying to show my work when I realized it wasn't a math test at school and I didn't need to show it step by step. I liked the math question where it asked:
List 1: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8]
List 2: [4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12]
How many numbers that are in list 1 are not in list 2?
Where they testing to see if we spoke english?
(that was a joke btw, I know it isn't "where")

Sunday:
I got to relax the whole day. Orion and I beat the Guild Wars Prophecies campaign. Wow yeah that was really all that we did.

Monday:
The first regular monday I had in a while, but I would rather have had campus day as planned. In the afternoon, I felt smart because I wore a sweatshirt and it was chilly.

Ok now the part people have been waiting for.

Dad's job:
So it started out before I was born at Ranier Bank or Seafirst Bank or something. He worked at that bank and it got merged about 8 or 9 times in 10 years before finally becoming US bank. So my dad worked at US bank as a loan officer for big companies in the northwest and in some other areas as well, which took him on many travels without us. Eventually, he got very tired of doing that and decided to go work for a smaller bank. US bank was also starting to get kind of "Ugly Stupid" bank I guess as well.

So my dad got a job while I was in 8th grade at The Commerce Bank. He was promised an even better position after the manager retired in about 7-10 years, but dad didn't want to stay around that long to wait. He also felt odd being "the young guy" even at age 45. The boss at The Commerce Bank, Dave Freidenberg, became a good friend and was very interested in my playing the french horn because he was big into the symphony. We didn't know it at the time, but he had once been a director of the symphony (board of directors).

When I was a freshman, about a year after he joined The Commerce Bank, he left to move to a bank in Bellevue that had only been around for 5 years. The guy that started the bank was a guy named Dave (he seems to work for a lot of them). So Dave brought dad on board and Dave is not a young guy, he had just spend 5 years making this bank and putting his trusted friends on the board there and promised dad a position as president I think after Dave retired. Dad came in as an executive vice president, so that was a very good start.

So not too long after dad got on board, it became apparent that the board didn't really think highly of Dave, which was odd because he was close friends with everyone on the board, or was at least. Dad had recruited his friend Craig, and a couple other good guys over, but the board was putting the squeeze on Dave to push their own agenda. They brought in this lady, Diane, who they were obvuously grooming to take over for Dave, which was the position promised to dad. Well Dave didn't really like that and told dad one day that he thought they should go form a new bank and take this bank's customers along with since they trusted Dave. It took him a year, but in January this year, Dave finally "retired." Diane took over and immediately imposed her rule. Dad likes to think of her as "bitch." After Dave left, he needed the tech lady to come along with him to help set up the new bank, so she resigned, which created more work for dad, but it was cool.

Dad's roll in this plan was to stay at the bank until the last possible moment so that there would be no suspicion and trying to secure customers before Dave got them back. So Craig and the other guys went to The Commerce Bank. Dad was either going to go help Dave, go back to Commerce, or go to this newer bank in Seattle. The Commerce Bank offered him a job, but at about 30% less than what he was currently making, so he had to turn it down and decided to just help out Dave after all.

So Diane brought in this guy, Harve, who was nice, but kind of dumb. She also tried to get people to basically do the business equivalent of give up your first amendment rights because she was getting nervous at the massive resignations of people. A lot of people left to go to other banks. On friday, Dad handed in his letter of resignation. Diane was gone, so Harve accepted it and told dad to come back on monday to fix stuff. They blocked his security and email stuff though, so he had to be let in. He packed up on monday and left because even though he gave 2 weeks notice, they just had him leave since there was nothing left to do. So now he is going to be unemployed for probably 2 weeks, maybe 3 if he really wants to, but then he will go to this new bank" Core Business Bank." He will work for Dave there and hopefully it will be "status quo ante bellum."

That's it for now, time for some vg's

The point at which I stopped using this SAT study program.

And to think I let it prepare me for the SAT.

Conservative Weekend

Well excuse me, I had better start with the rest of the week before it ends (hence weekend).

Tuesday:
In APUSH we learned about the economy and how we are screwing the earth by helping it. In English, I changed my speech topic to Affluenza because we had learned about it that day in APUSH. After school, STARCRAFT. Oh man it was so fun, even despite Steven not being able to work it.

Wednesday:
Really nothing much happened. I actually understood the Chemistry lesson though. After school, some Guild Wars because Steven cannot play SC anymore since it doesnt work. Guild Wars went well.

Thursday:
Yeah after school, I learned about being awesome. I got my first Guild Wars title! 60.0% exploration. Now onto the next one. Some more Starcraft with just Keir happened. We watched a lot of replays.

Friday:
I understood the math lesson, but not much else the rest of the day. After school, I hung around until 3 with Davis, Ahmad, and Amanuel. Davis and I planned on playing some SC, but he never got on. I played some Guild Wars instead.

Saturday:
Got up at 8 to go to my grandparents house in Vancouver. We got there and had lunch. We hung out around their house afterwards. My dad, grandpa, and I played pitch into the pot, where you use your pitching wedge to hit a ball into a pot that is far out. I won with 2 and dad came in 2nd with 1. Grandpa had 0. Oh well though.

Sunday:
I drove home and since my family was either watching a DVD or sleeping, I got to go the speed I wanted to go. By exceeding the speed limit by at least 10 miles per hour the whole way, I was able to set a new record: Vancouver-Home in just under 2 hours (normally a 3 hour or longer drive). That night, I went to Steven's for some poker. I got raypt though. Before I went out, I got two cards higher than a jack the whole time. Very bad hands. I at least managed to beat Amanuel.

Monday:
I did the Memorial Day service at Evergreen Washelli for scouts. Unfortunately, the speaker was too preachy, not as good as last year's guy. She was bragging about since her son died in Iraq, that pretty much makes her great. Keir and I played some serious Starcraft and weould have won, but were barely beaten. We got them to practically no buildings, but they got us to practically no units and no econ. Fortunately, they were nice and decided to ally us because we were very evenly matched. Later, Orion and I played some Guild Wars later and finally wound up with a good team and beat a mission. Hooray for more conservativeness, support the troops or something.

Tuesday:
Yeah last night when I started this post, I got really bored and saved it as a draft. Today went well. APUSH had an interesting video with a lady that overanalyzed everything she saw in ads. In band, we were visited first by an armada of Korean educators, then a lady that was evaluating Mr. Frasier's teaching. In English, my speech buddy and I had to make some funny speeches and it worked out ok. So for speech order, Mrs. Gade takes the class list and has a computer randomize it and then she uses that order. For the first speeches, I got to pick 4th and this time I got to pick 3rd. That random thing likes me.

Yay one of those nice cliche shots. Unfortunately, I have seen some other people's pictures and I have seen shots like this too many times.

Hee hee, guess what pier we departed from.

Viking Life Saving Equiptment. Something about that title makes me think I should try another brand.

He was having such a good time. This was right before the insane fat panty dangling lady.

Go crazy old man, go.