Jeez.

I sincerely need to remember to update this thing much more often. Much much.

Let's see. How'd today go? Well, I accomplished two math lessons - that is not insignificant at all. In fact, it is quite an accomplishment. I'm impressed. You should be too.

So of course there was school, and it went just fine. Accomplished plenty. Done thirty minutes late, but that's not bad at all, not at all. Especially given that I paid a visit to the orthodontist, and now my teeth hurt. Not like it's really his fault, because he's doing it 'cause he's getting paid, but that doesn't stop my teeth from hurting, you know. So I personally think I came out on the south end of that deal. Sure my teeth will look neat and shiny later, but for now, they feel like they are rotting. They're not, they just hurt. Darned gum bruising.

After that, I watched an episode of a show called "Stargate Atlantis." It's about Stargates (little wormhole portal device thingies), and the particular crew that mans the Stargate in Atlantis. This episode was about some other people, who supposedly had a rebellion, but the rebellion leader was just there to draw the Stargate military commander person over. Primarily so as to trade for flying vehicles. But then the rebellion leader learned that the Stargate people could heal people with radiation poisoning, so he actually pulled off the coup d'etat and took over. And the Stargate doctor fixed the radiation poisoned people, or at least those that he could. So all in all, a good episode.

Then Andy and I performed a superb and yet makeshift computer modification. My computer is now running at 111 F as opposed to an average 170 F. See, we replaced a side (with cardboard) and built a vent tube to the CPU fan, so fresh air is always coming in. It's worked brilliantly, as long as the tube stays perfectly on line with the fan, but if you let it off, it stops working perfectly, and will slowly but inevitably overheat. Like it always does. So this is just a temporary stop - the permanent version will use PVC, I think - but it's good progress, a milestone to say the least. Proof of concept is invaluable.

I think that's all that's really important to report on. Although our sister blog (Morrowlife) has had a Juggernaut update - you should check it out. Then again, if you're actually reading this blog, than you probably already have. Hrm.

Whoops.

I don't spend long enough on this thing...

Anyhow, due to the long time of absence, I cannot report anything in particular. Um. Mitt Romney dropped out of the running, leaving us with the potential of having The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly. What a shame. No good-looking people out there to vote for. Why oh why can't we elect the Govahnahtah president? The world would be a better place.

Politics aside, there is still very little to report. Grandma's visiting, so I guess that's not a small thing, but still. It's only one thing. And I can't even think of any images to go with that.

I also went and helped Robert Stevers with his Eagle Scout Project.

In other news, this picture is really cool.

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

SHOOP DA WHOOP!

The whole lazer Internet Phenomenon. What a great Internet Phenomenon.

It's compounded by this.

What a great set of movies.

Everything's going great here. There is news, however!

Friday night I went to a church. It was a regular old church, some orthodox Christian thing. And on that particular night, there was a big organ show, and a lot of people were playing. Most of them were old people. There was one young person, though. (Below 20, I mean.) That person was me. I played what was, in my opinion, the hardest piece anyone did in that entire show. It was magic, 'cause I did so well. Everyone congratulated me while I was drinking the after-show apple cider and eating the after-show banana bread. It was great.

Uuuuhm. Oh yeah, I talked to Paul a lot very recently. He's bought his tickets, hooray. He's still bringing Guitar Hero, despite flying. That's even better! We also discussed (or more like he told me about) an interesting game, combining RTS and action. It's called "Battlestations: Midway", and it's a naval simulator where you have to command your forces, but you can also control individual boats and planes. It looks really neat and like a lot of fun, but it's only a demo for the time being, and apparently a demo without instructions. I can't wait to see the real game and mayhap make some copies when Paul buys it and brings it. Maybe we can bypass the cursed "check for copy" feature. It sounds like cheating them, but it seems perfectly fair to me that I should be able to make a copy and keep it, doesn't it?

That's all I can think of.

10 school days to Christmas, hooray.

Than'sgivin' and Black Friday!

Hooray for Than'sgivin'! And, I suppose for Black Friday.

We've had a terrific weekend. Katie and Gary and Mia arrived Wednesday afternoon, and spent the night. I spent the night hanging out with Gary, and playing Super Mario World. What a great game. Gary knows practically every secret to the whole gosh darned thing. It's incredible. Unreal. Remarkable. Decisive. Umm... inhuman?

So then it was THAN'SGIVIN', and Gary and I were playing MORE Sup Mar Wor. (We beat it that day.) And the peeps downstairs made a cheesebowl, which we ate some of, and they also made eggnogg, which we drank a great deal of, and they were also making stuffing and turkey and potatoes and fruit salad. And then we ate all that for dinner (minus the cheesebowl and the eggnogg, which we'd already finished off), and it was really good. Then we ate pumpkin pie that they had made. And then we went back to bed.

The next day it was BLACK FRIDAY, and Andy went out and bought some stuff, and Mom and Dad went out really early too, but they were already back home by the time I woke up. So Gary and I played Super Punchout!! for a bit. It's a hard game to get the timing right. A little disorienting. Anyhow, then Katie and Gary left.

Now it's TODAY, the third day of my five-day weekend. I slept in 'till like 9 (something almost unheard of for me), and it felt really good. Now I'm Blogging, and I'll probably go eat breakfast after I post.

I started reading the third book in the Bartimaeus trilogy on BLACK FRIDAY, and finished it on the same day. In fact, at about midnight last night. It was really good, but the end is kinda sad. I don't know why they did it the way they did it, but they did, and it's the end of the trilogy, and so I can't tell you what happened, but they don't tell you anyway, and it's just kinda bothersome. I mean... c'mon, couldn't it have been a happy ending? Why does everyone do this to characters who have just turned good again? ERRRRG!

That's all for now.

WHA-CHOW!

Annanotherone!

So. I found out something superbly awesome. Paul is definately coming for Christmas. And he's bringing Guitar Hero 3. Totally excellent.

At the moment I'm watching... "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,". It's hilarious. I love it. All sorts of things are going wrong. All the driving and the flying and all the insanity. It's just great.They're driving like fools. And all sorts of good stuff like that.

Swordfighting was fun today. We did exercises with sort of charging attacks. Jumping and stuff. Michael's jumps were humorous. My jumps ended up looking like galloping at one point. It was all an AWESOME time.

Ahm. I can't think of much else. Lots of fun.

The Campfest

Whew.

I am officially tired.

See, we just got back from a pseudo-camping trip. The reason I call it a pseudo camping trip is because we were staying in a cabin. It was still harsh, though. It was cold. I had liquid egg spilled on my sleeve. I had to share a room with John.

That cabin we were staying in was insane. We looked at the foundations, and some of the bits of the cabin were being held up by logs. It was to a degree terrifying.

The game of football we played was excellent. I actually only got the ball once, but I didn't fumble, and I got a fairly impressive run in, that even from a short pass. Apparently if I'd gone a different direction I could've gotten further, but I didn't, so whatever. We did, however, have Bro. Drinkwater, Andy, and Dannle on our team, so we had a good team. I'll admit, the opposition did have a lot of the fast guys, like Michael Greer and John Osborn, but we still managed to almost win. The only reason they tied with us was because I let my eye off of Josh Cook for one single play. I paid for that mistake.

So anyway, we made it home alive. Not much to report since then.

Um.

'Bye.

Altogether Unfortunate.

It has officially been centuries since my last post. Regrettable.

Plus there's this picture, too.

I shan't bother trying to update you on everything I've done for the past century (haha), so we'll start anew with what happened recently.

First of all, I went upon a vacation. We went camping to Calaveras State Park. They've got sequoias (note: a word with all five vowels in it) - redwoods. They're spectacular. The biggest one they've got is a stump, because the stupid 49'ers cut it down with augers. They had to use augers because it was that big. Heck, they had dances on the stupid thing. It's massive. The trees just in general tower above your head like... I dunno, like giant, angry moths. Or like nature's skyscrapers. Apparently they're the largest living things in the world, perhaps with the exception of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

If you check out Morrowlife, you'll probably find a picture of me walking down a path in the midst of the giant trees. If you don't see it, you're reading this very shortly after I'm writing it. I'm impressed that anybody even noticed this existed, if they do happen to see it.

I got a chance to talk to Paul again. Only for a few minutes. Apparently his Xbox 360 red-lined/red-ringed/red-circled/red-sphered or whatever it is. Absolutely terrible. Thankfully, it's under warranty, so all's well that ends well.

Went to a Halloween Church Ball last night. Quite a bit of fun. One of my friends was dressed up as an 8-9 foot violin. He made it out of cardboard. What can't be made out of cardboard? One of the young women from our ward was gussied up as the good witch from the Wizard of Oz (apparently), and another was wearing a ninja costume for the first portion, and a clown for the rest. High class dancing apparel.

Aaaand that's it, for now.