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.

HOOOOORAY!

I can barely contain myself.

Everything starts happening today. At 3:00 PM, or a little earlier, we're off to pick up Lee from the airport. Joy!

So then, the next day, we all head to Utah. More joy!

Then I go to Jay's. EXTREME JOY!!!!

And... uh... stay there for a week, having fun, doing... whatever we're going to do.

So then we come back, and Lee and Jay spend a week at our house. SUPERB JOY!!!

Then... they leave.

But we're not thinking about that part, cause that's the sad part.

Joy! More joy! EXTREME JOY!!!! SUPERB JOY!!! Everybody party! Victory! Rock, rock on(warning-noise!)! Hoo-ah! He! Hehe! Fire! Hehehe!

...

Well, anyway, not a lot has been going on hereabouts. Really.

So that's all.

History is DONE!

Except for a few minor projects which I am avoiding whole-heartedly, World History is DONE! Par-tee!

Actually, not too long until a pool party. We're reading the Scarlet Letter, and it's looking like a really great book. It's about a woman who commits adultery, so she has to wear a big red letter A. 'Cause she's Puritan. It really makes you want to hunt down any remaining Puritans and make a point to them with blunt objects. Preferably with nails in them.

And... um... oh yeah. I went to Expedia.com and found out that it would only cost $407 for Andy and me to visit Paul. Both ways! Hooray! Not that I'm any closer to having any money, but... that's beside the point. I can probably mooch some off of Mom and Dad, if I'm lucky.

End of school in five days! YEE-HAW! Then it's only like two weeks and all the fun stuff kicks into overdrive! Yeah, bay-beh!

Hoo-ray!

Another post! I'm really on a roll!

Quite seriously, this is going on much more frequently than I had expected. In the end, it's a lot of fun, almost as much fun as a barrel of monkeys. Rolling down a hill. Towards... the ocean. Yeah.

Anyway, talking to Kaylene Dyer right now. She's a friend who moved away, sadly enough. She's a really great person. Indeed.

Just got back from a sort of orientation for Seminary next year. Well, great. There was a song... there were some talks... and there was a funny movie where all the Seminary kids get stuff out of their Bible, quite literally. For example, when they're reading about the Ark, one kid gets a facefull of wind and all that blowing on him, so he slams it shut, and when he peeks again, a splash of water soaks him. Plus he gets the horn for Jerico, and the plans for Solomon's temple. Quite some loot.

Err, I guess that's what's going on. Right-o. Bye.

Serious fireworks!

Woah! Serious fireworks erupting!
Quite seriously. Here's the story: We bought a job on our backyard from a guy who now turns out to be a scammer. He charged us something like $1000-$2500 for the job beforehand, and $1000 after. So he gets to work, and it's all crap. Nothing good. Rough cement, poorly done miniwall, etc. Then comes the capper: He's redoing the cement, and he brings in a cement truck. They won't pour cement until someone has paid, but they insist that we are paying for the cement. What? Wow. I don't believe this, but it's absolutely true. Ah well. Such is life.

Hrm. Andy's gone at the Stake Super Activity, which is actually just painting parks. Or maybe fences. Nothing really special, more of a service project than an activity.

Baptism for a new member at 3:30! Hooray!

Erm, nothing else new. So that's the news.

What's up!

Well. It's Sunday. What a great day.

Been camping a lot lately. In the rain. *sigh*
We went up to Mt. Tamalpais. We were originally going to hike about four miles, but it rained too hard, and we were all too miserable, so instead we hiked about a quarter of a mile to a viewing station on top. It was a fire watching thing, to watch the little fires that were inevitably going to pop up here and there.

Anyway, there was also a giant ampitheater, whose name I don't remember. It was MASSIVE, however. Like, large on the uber scale.

Nothin' else much going on. Although good news is that I've started up communications with Jay Mattinson again. He has the ticket for the trip and so it's final and settled! Riggidy-roll!

Big Bear

Whew! Third post ever.

Right now I'm in Big Bear. It's down in SoCal. I'm typing this on a laptop with little to no response from the spacebar. It's also not exactly running like a cheetah, we'll just say. It's a little slow.

Well, Katie and Mia are here, of course, along with Gary and Dad and Mom and pretty much everybody but Paul and Melissa. Which makes me sad. I really haven't seen them since Christmas, so you can understand, I suppose.

I read the newest Artemis Fowl book in about an afternoon and a morning. I was gonna save it for the trip, but that worked out well. Hrm.

Instead I've got Lord of the Rings, some paper (note: that's a picture of flash paper) and a pencil, and a game called Cashflow. It's pretty cool; you try to escape the rat race by getting your passive income to be greater than your expenses. Interesting game.

Speaking of which, I'm gonna try and convince everybody the play a game. Talk to you later. If I can.

April Fools Day

It's April Fools Day!

I've decided to do something more with my blog/journal. I'm supposed to be doing it regularly, so I'm going to try and do it Sunday and Wednesday, and go from there.

Anyway, Paul called recently! News is the move is done, and everything's going well. Just two carloads, as he said. Sounds like he has exactly the right amount of stuff for where he's moving. I told him about my idea for a funny picture, namely to take the part from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where the guy drinks from the wrong cup, then make him say, "TELL ME I'M PRETTY!" We'll see where that goes.

Did I say something about the hike a while ago? Well, one of these Thursdays past, we went on a hike. Robert Stevers, Tom Ross, Brother Ross, some of his co-workers, Brother Taylor, and Andy were all there. Oh, and so was I, unfortunately. Anyway, I made it to the top, and apparently a few didn't make it. Weird, huh? Like, someone who was supposed to be in shape, an adult, didn't make it, but I did. Probably because I knew that if I didn't, bad things would happen. So, yeah.

Well, that's a lot of Google Image searchs for one day. That's all, folks.

First post.

Today is my first post. I'm doing a journal for the sake of getting Duty to God.
Today was interesting, too. I showed up a half an hour early to church to be a part of the ward choir, which I've joined of recently, so we could sing for Ward conference. We sang a tuned-up version of Press Forward Saints. We did really well; I felt like I actually had my part, which is something, considering a lot of the time I'm signing the melody, instead of tenor like I am now.
Anyway, I had a great time. After church, I went to Luke Supinger's house. Played some Melee there; they had unlocked a character named Roy who I was going to unlock. The man is, as I know, amazing; agile, hard-hitting, etc. Fun game, too.
Anyway, after that, I came home to work on... well, Duty to God for Deacon's. So here I am after working an hour on a giant pedigree chart with Mom. Yep.
Further updates as events warret. I'll do it at least Sunday and Wednesday, but aim for daily. If there's nothing to say... well, there's nothing to say.