Well, Slashdot has some more news apparently about the Nintendo DS, due out November 21st this year for $149.99. From what I understand, it may have a range well beyond the initially stated 30 feet, up to 100 feet, and perhaps even greater than that by some sort of hot spot... The article says something about "Marionette" and perhaps free updates on some software, I don't quite understand it. Consoles shouldn't need to be updated, and the DS most likely will not have a memory stick to keep track of data downloaded, so perhaps it will be able to write onto the games? I don't quite know. On the official DS site, it mentions that the new cartridges will store over a gigabit of information, approximately 800 megabytes of data. With only the capabilities slightly better than N64, the games won't take up too much space based on the engine, but instead of how long it would take to finish it (i.e. RPGs have shitloads more quests & a longer story) If they got the rights to it, they could perhaps republish FFVII on two cartridges... But lets not get our hopes up.

Today was a fitness day in gym, which I hate oh so much... Ten laps (250 yards) is pretty hard for me to do. I can easily run well past that, but swimming that much takes a lot out of you. We tried to flip our kayaks over when we're halfway over, which I can't do at all. Maybe the kayak wasn't snug enough, I won't know until tommorrow. The process involves putting both hands on top of each other, and then smashing your left leg up, and right leg down (if you're laying on the port side) while simultaniously keeping your head down (so as not to use your hands to push up instead, possibly sinking whats holding you up), which I find extremely difficult. In the process of staying halfway over, my left leg is already jabbed into the leg pad, my right already at the bottom, so I have to move them into a better position, which in turn, makes me spin even more: pushing me to the 140 or so degree mark (assuming the y axis marks 0), past the normal 110 ish area, which barely allows me to keep my head up above the water. Tommorrow we're trying it again, so I might figure it out by then. What sucks, though, is tightening the kayak's feet position any further really kills your legs. Your feet go numb in a few minutes if it's too tight, and if its too loose you can't do anything right. I wish our kayaks had like, half notches... Then maybe my feet wouldn't go numb. He said they're $900 kayaks after the school discount, and a discount 'cause the paint somewhere was bad and wouldn't sell to normal customers. But since we're a school, we don't give a shit how they look, because in a few years the chlorine in the pool (which is well above safe levels I'm confident) will have melted through what paint they had anyway.

Woah, caught myself phazing out. Time to stare at something else for a bit.

Adion is currently listening to: FFVII OST - Nobou Uematsu - Flowers Blooming in the Church [4:59]

Yeah so today I stayed after school for this club called the Business Professionals of America. Which sounds pretty lame, sure, but we have the best fucking club sponsor ever. He's really cool, we're gonna throw parties like, every month. And that's pretty much going to be the club. Of course, we're also supposed to compete against other schools somehow in relation to business.... Something like, who can make the best business. Whatever, that part is stupid. But if we make it to nationals, we get to go to Anaheim, CA ^_^ All expenses paid by the school too I believe. So, I'm hoping we get to go to nationals. In the mean time, I signed up to be perhaps voted president... Who knows, but if I do, that'll look good on my transcripts & on the applications. We're gonna have T-Shirts too, and they'll be all white, with skulls in the corner and blood coming out of it... With BPS CSHS right underneath (Carl Sandburg High School) & on the back we'll have nicknames. Like, Croix's is gonna be X-Factor. Mine'll probably end up something less than satisfactory, like... I don't know. But Adion doesn't really go well there as a nickname. I'll have to think about it.

This Saturday we're gonna have a sleepover at Pat's, playing D&D and naturally, his Neo-Geo & on his pool table. Whatever, really. And rumor has it that Ed'll actually SHOW UP. I hear they had it last Saturday while I was at Dave's, and it was good. I'll have to wait and see. I think I heard that they restarted the god damn campaign again. I swear to god... It better be good. Its pretty lame making a new character every week. I lost my flow... Not much to say anymore.

Uh, oh, I'm wondering what the hell is wrong with my profile. It shows me updating only 5 times a week, when I know for sure I've done at least one a day, except for last weekend, but I know I've done enough double posts to make up for that.

Adion is currently listening to The Pillows - Our Love & Peace [4:10]

Made some more touchups on the template, now it has the date, and I made the titles use the overline & underline thing that the rest of the page does. As Rae says, it looks more "titley".

Today I got home early... 3:43. And went right to getting out the strawberry ice cream ^_^, mom got me two of the 1.75 quart things (I think they're 1.75 quarts...) of it last week, I'm already through one and a half. They're so good... I spent most of today working on my calculus homework... 1-48 all. I got it friday, sure, but who expects their students to actually take it in parts? Come on... Anyways, I think I'm going to stop about where I'm at right now, #32, unless the next few are really easy, in which case I'll do them too.

Some pretty über n e w s on Slashdot, the DS will have wireless capabilities... I hadn't heard about that. Supposedly you'll be able to use it to chat over the internet too, if you have a wireless router. Which I don't, and never will. But my college will, mostly... So I might be able to use my DS (when I get one) to chat on AIM when I'm not in my room. That'd be pretty über.

Thats most of my news for today...
Adion is currently listening to In Flames - Everlost (Part II) [2:57]

Right now I think my dad's downloading some movie again... He does this on a far to consistant basis than I would like him to, because in the process he kills my bandwidth. He uses some 20 of our 30kbps upload and then all of a sudden my internet is worse than a 56.6 modem. The bastard. I found a program called bit tornado that regulates upload bandwidth, but who knows if it works on linux, I didn't check, and even if it did, I doubt he would care. What it all comes down to is that he is a hypocrite. He consistantly tells me not to pirate games and stuff, but at the same time he's telling me not to do that, he downloads movies he doesn't own. I admit, he does delete them after he watches them, and if he doesn't, then he hides them rather well.

Now that that's out of the way, I just thought I'd post a little shout out to Rae's LJ, 'cause she has me whipped. >.> I realized after I posted the comment that I made a mistake, and could have used the <img> tag, but oh well.

Today went rather well. In physics my mouse trap car went 5~6 meters, which was slightly less than I hoped for, but overall was a good run. I think we'll get 80/75 because we dressed up and we made the car look like a mouse. So that ought to be good for my grade in there... Also, in CAD (which is a boring class) we're finally working with the computer half of COMPUTER ASSISTED DRAFTING, which only took, what, a month and a half? I find that retarded. In challenge ed, we did some more cool stuff with the kayaks, which I found to be quite awesome. Also, we didn't do the 4 lap warmup this time, which I do not like, and instead we walked around in a circle over the shallow end. That was much easier, although hard. The goal was to make a whirlpool, which is impossible with just 26 kids anyway, and harder when you're trying to move the water of half of a regulation swimming pool. We're starting to use the skirts, which is awesome, because now my kayak won't just capsize when it gets too much water in it. I'm pleased. One final note, goggles that go over your nose so you have to breathe through your mouth rule. I found it ten times less difficult to stay underwater with one of those puppies on, maybe it's because there isn't water trying to push its way through my naval cavities. Whatever it is, I'm pleased.

Adion is currently listening to The Postal Service - Natural Anthem [5:07]

Ooh, I just noticed the title is that cool thing where two words are in one... Even though the one isn't a real word... >.> Anyways, this is mostly just a post to spill what happened over my weekend. Started out pretty decent on Friday night. Lorrie & I worked on the mousetrap car for a solid three or four hours, and eventually gave up when it was about eleven thirty and still not working. After that, I pretty much walked up the steps and fell on my bed, immediately asleep. Got up at about 6:40 so I'd be ready when Mark came to take me to the ACT test at Lincoln Way High Central, which is a nice looking but seemingly unconventional school. The hallways are all too skinny, I can't imagine sending 3000 students through them. I thought the ACT was a lot easier than last April, which is kinda surprising... The only thing wierd was that I got a bit confused on the Science, which should be the easiest part of the test because it's just reading graphs and junk. But they asked some really odd questions out of nowhere and I just didn't understand it I guess. But overall, I think I did better. I hope I aced it... Which is pretty much impossible. The math was all really easy stuff too, just simple systems and stuff like, is y=2x+3 a line, ellipse, circle, or parabola... So that was really easy.

After the ACT I ate some lunch & then found out our garage door is broke. There's a huge long spring and stuff thats above it, that is now cracked in half. I don't know what we're gonna do to fix it, perhaps buy a whole new door, I'm not sure yet. But mom's been bitching that the door doesn't work sometimes with the remote thing, so we might get a whole new everything. Only time will tell. After manually lifting the door (god that thing is heavy), my brother drove me over to Dave's house and dropped me off. I have to say, I had a much more fun time than I thought I would have. One of his friends came over and so we went to the basement to play his PS2 that I didn't know he had, and we played some game called Shrek 2, which I thought I had heard wasn't all that good. It turned out to be really fun, but really short. It's played like Gauntlet Legends or FF: Crystal Chronicals, if you're familiar with that. It lacks any items at all, which is pretty lame, but overall is a nice, short game. We beat that by eleven when his friends left, and I whipped out my gamecube that I brought. We played my F-Zero game for a few hours, where I consistantly schooled him (heh >.>). I wish it had a coop mode, that'd be cool. Next on the list was playing Need For Speed: Underground on his PS2, where he owned me, lol. The turning in that game is so much different than on F-Zero... Soon after we decided we'd played that long enough, Dave popped American Pie into his VCR, which was highly hilarious. After the movie we went to bed, where I was again able to fall asleep relatively fast.

Today I woke up at about eleven, woke up Dave, and we proceeded down the steps for some breakfast: french toast, bacon, and sausage. We then chilled on the couch and watched the Bears get schooled. Again. After the Bears game, I went home and put all my junk away. Lorrie came over again, and we made the car actually work. Now it goes 20 feet or so, at maximum. Hopefully tommorrow we can get it to go the full 7m, which would be totally schweet. Thats all for today I think... I'm done writing. This should have taken me like half an hour tops, and I think its been well over 40 or 50. Time to hit the sack...

Adion is currently listening to: Zebrahead - The Hell that is My Life [4:00], Airbase - Session 9 (7/28/04) [121:17]

Well, it's 5 and my brother isn't home. I expected him to be here by now, which is cool with me that he's not. Uhm... Lorrie is coming over at ~7 to do the "mousetrap" car today, which is also good, because that means I won't have to do it tommorrow, and it will probably be me, her, and my brother (who will hopefully leave us alone).

While browsing around my endless number of comic links to read, I came across this program that says it lets you talk while playing a game, and heres the kicker, with people outside of it. They started it on the 15th of this month and already have a lot of updates, so hopefully they'll have a bunch more soon with new things that they're planning to have... Like voice chat, connecting to AIM/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/What-have-you. It already supports IRC, which is nifty, but I wish it did AIM already. In time I suppose. Right now I told Ryan about it, he already tried using it in Never Winter Nights, and it apparently crashed his computer. He and I are both running Win98SE though, so it perhaps could be our operating system, or it could be just that it isn't supported yet. It isn't on their list, but they say a bunch of other games could be supported and they don't know yet. My hope is that by the time I have money for FFXI that it'll work with it beautifully. At which point, I won't need to put up an away message when I'm playing, and I'll be able to carry on huge conversations with my LS & people on AIM. So that'll be awesome, hopefully.

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Oh, one last minor note, I posted last that I'd be playing RO like a madman on Sunday, which I found out today is a lie, because my account ends on the twenty-seventh. I'm not sure if that means that I have till the twenty-sixth at midnight, or if its really the twenty-seventh at midnight. So, I'll probably log on and give all my stuff to Ryu because I won't need it and don't plan on getting another trial for it. The game really bores me now. The leveling is too slow, they changed all the monster spawns, and gayed mages yet again. So that game is pretty much dead to me. Unless they do something really awesome, like... Put the spawns back where they were, let mages use icewall in WoE, or get fucking servers that can handle the 4k people that are on (and that probably won't do it either), then I'm not coming back. Oh, if they make it free again I'd go back too. Those retards made the game shitty as all hell when they dropped the beta... 26k people dropped to 10k, and they will most likely never get it back. They still haven't fixed all their bad translations. I'm 99% sure if I ever play RO again, it will be on a private server. At least those have kRO's updates and english that makes sense.

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Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 5 (5/26/04) [118:22]
Mmm... more Airbase...

Well, only one person reads this, and she already knows this... But if anybody else ever reads it, I want to brag about this necklace that a friend (RYAN!) is making for me... Thats the start, he said he'd have it done probably by the end of the day, which is fine because I only see him during the major LP's. So thats my shoutout to Ryan.

On other less fun news, my parents are both leaving tommorrow (fast approaching today) for MO to watch my sister perform. Which leaves me home alone for about two hours until my brother gets home. The next day (Sunday) I leave with Mark to take the ACT test again at 7:15 and 8:00 AM respectively. After returning home, either my brother or Dave's mom takes me to his house, and I spend the rest of that day and most of the next at his house. During that period of time, I'll have to work on a "mousetrap" car for physics, which my dad and plotted out the schematics for earlier, right after lunch. That takes me to Sunday, when I return to my computer after it's had a long two day rest. The second I get home, I plan on running to my room and turning the poor guy on, he has most likely been lonely without me. That puts me back on AIM at approximately 5 or 6 PM at the latest on Sunday. At which point, I do my homework while simultaniously playing RO, Dungeon Siege, and Counter-Strike to make up for lost time.

Thats my weekend. Packed, as usual recently. This sucks. I never have a free weekend anymore. Anyways, if somebody perchaps reads this for some odd and unapparent reason, let me know what you think of my template... I think I like it more than my old one, but I need more opinions to make a decision like that. Heh, listen to me, it's almost as if I think how my blog looks will change the face of the world. >.> Whatever.

Adion is currently listening to: Paul Oakenfold - Live on Galaxy FM State-Side (9/23/04)

Well, mom seems to think she knows it all, yet again. First she claims I can't stay at home for two days over the weekend while she goes to MO to watch my sister do some football game's halftime performance. Shes in a 5 person colorguard, it isn't like she's going to miss some spectacular feat, and it isn't like she WASNT JUST THERE TWO WEEKS AGO! Jesus fucking christ. She is worried the police are going to come to the house or some such bullshit while I'm home alone and then give her some fine for being home alone and a minor. The police have NEVER EVER gone door to door before unless a murderer is loose from a jail that is NONEXISTANT. I'm really pissed right now, because she thinks I can't bring my computer to a friends house while I spend the night and some of a day there, claiming its "rude" or some such bullshit. Whatever, I'm not in a good mood.

Adion is currently listening to .hack//SIGN - Liminality [4:16]

By the way, tell me what you think about the new template, please.

I wrote out a chapter for my xanga, a long time ago--but I don't think the story has progressed enough yet for me to use it. But, I wan't to get it out there, I've gained the confidence to post something like this.. So, without further ado, I'll publish it here, making what changes I need to in the HTML so it shows up right. Hopefully. Here goes!

There.

It has been done.

I had been dying to do it for so long, but I finally found the opportunity, and I took it. I don't really know why I had been holding it back for so long. I could have easily created other opportunities for me to take. It wouldn't have been difficult. A few choice words here and there, and voila, problem solved.

But I resisted. Something inside me said to hold back, not to let it out just yet. I still don't know what it was that made me do that. Maybe it was my conscience, maybe it was just my personality, or perhaps it was my gut that said to keep it in. I don't think I'll ever know for sure. Not that I'm worried about it, mind you, it just bugs me at times. I'll get over it.

To make a long story short, it was not returned. At least, not to the degree I had hoped for. Maybe I just had my hopes set too high; but with something as good as this, I can't see any reason why I wouldn't. Some other time, some other day, some other words; I won't know what it takes. Maybe not ever, although I can certainly hope that that is not the case. I digress further.

Something inside me keeps be back on that subject though. I wish things had turned out differently, that I had been accepted. Some other time, some other day, some other words.

My heart ties itself in knots thinking about it. How much more different could things be, if but a few different circumstances were different? I like to think they would be much better, but in the end I'm bound by the same truths that I've always been bound by. It won't change, and most likely never will. I wish things had turned out differently, that I had been accepted, that I had been loved. Some other time, some other day, some other words, some other person.

I know how the saying goes: there are millions of fishes in the sea. Alas, why is it that the other fishes just don't seem right for me? I'm sorry for the metaphors, they seem to be the easiest way to describe how I feel without tearing my heart out and placing it on a platter for you to see yourself.

I regret this is all I have to say for now. The rest of my activities continue without stop and in good time. Perhaps the next time I update this, more things will have happened to inform you of.

Well, it isn't really luck, but... We didn't do anything with the homework, like every other day he doesn't mention doing a homework review or some such thing. By not doing anything, I mean not taking a quiz on it. We did go over one problem, which just so happened to be the one I couldn't solve, along with the rest of the page... Twice the homework today ;_; And I thought we might get away with not having to do a journal for gym this week because we didn't do one last friday, but alas, he remembered and gave us one due tommorrow ;_;. He says we'll do less of them for a few weeks, like two over the next four. But they'll be worth more, which is fine with me because he's been giving me 100s on them anyway. We're starting up swimming in gym, it sounds interesting, but I've never been kayaking before (w00t, I misspelled that), and I don't know whether or not to be afraid, scared, or anxious. Pat, who is the only other friend of mine in that class who has already taken the course, says the most fun is being pushed upside down and waiting for your buddies to flip you back over. That, to me seems like hell. Tommorrow we do some simple tests: can you hold your breath for 20 seconds, tread water for a minute, swim 25 yards? I can do all of those, and well over for some of them. It's already sounding like a much easier swim class than last year though, which blew. We did about a 200 yard warmup, then another 200 yards afterwords (total of 16 laps), and then we treaded water for the next 30 minutes because water polo sucks. God I wanted to kill everything within a mile of me after each day of that. It took more than the current reserves of willpower to resist the temptation. So, other than the current calculus homework and P.E. homework, I've got to draw some graphs for physics, which isn't hard at all, it's just damn annoying doing the same fucking lab in that class every day. I swear to god we've proved that gravity is -9.8m/s² in every lab we've done so far. So lame. Not to mention that he doesn't know how to teach and gives the shittiest lab quizzes. School sucks. I hope college isn't like this at all. From what I hear it's mostly just essays and finals, at least until I get into the 300 level classes, perhaps some 200s, depending on how many people take the class... We'll see. Thats about all for today. If I have time, Ryu says he'll mag me in Glast Heim, but who knows. I'm thinking about going to bed relatively early again today... Yesterday I tried to stop everything at 8:00, which I can see won't happen today because I haven't finished any of my homework yet... I finally went at 11:00 though, which is earlier than 1:30 heh ><. Trying to catch up on all the lost sleep I've been missing out on. I almost finished the new template yesterday also, I'm doing some minor touch ups before I implement it, such as all my links, and if I can, making the tabs a bit smaller on the sides of the blog so that the stuff that normally takes 5 lines on this one don't take 2 on the new one. Thats about all...

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 7 (6/23/04) [116:33]

Well I thought I'd start this off with a quick shout out to Rae, who's suffering unneccessarily do to her crummy old computer ;_; . I hope you get that fixed soon ^_^ Oh, and trippy dream by the way. Cool stuff.

I also have a question about some calculus stuff... Too bad nobody reads this to tell me. Heres the question. Find (dy/dx) of x+tan(xy)=0

Good luck, don't forget to IM me or post before I go to bed! Oyasumi kimi, Rae-senpai! Yoku nete ne! ('cause I know you won't see this today heh ;_; )

Adion is currently listening to NOTHING!? Yeah, I'm burning the FFVII OST... Need more RAM to get a clear sound while burning. Oh well. Yoru!

I really like this song, along with the rest of the .hack//SIGN soundtrack that I have. I wish I had the full OST, and the series at that. Seems like a good show, too bad my HD isn't big enough to get some more of it ;_; Not much to say today. I was really sleepy in school, I kept nodding off in class. I had three lectures today, out of the five actual classes. This also marks the first time I've ever been 90% asleep during school. I've been really tired before, sure, but this time I was just at that brink of falling asleep where my hand was still moving, taking notes, but when I realized what I was doing, for that brief period in time where I was fully awake again for a bit, I'd notice that all I was writting was scribbles, not letters or numbers as required to take notes that I could perhaps use again later for reference. I believe that's probably the longest sentence I've written, also. Probably one larrrrgeee runon. Uh, I got my personal statement from english back today, she liked it, but said I need to work on my conclusion and intro, which I already knew. I'm not good at that sort of thing. I can write a story, I'm good at writing those attractive first sentences; but she says mine isn't that relative to the rest of the essay. Which I would believe, I knew I needed to work on it. I like her, she uses constructive criticism, instead of most teachers who just say, "fix this" and nothing else. Agh, I just forgot what I was going to say... Umm... Well, yeah. I don't even know if I can use that essay for college. I know Truman University doesn't care, but UIUC I'll have to look at. I'm taking the ACT on Saturday, I hope I do OK, better would be nice. So I know getting the 28 wasn't a fluke. Oh, one thing I was thinking about earlier during school: a few posts ago I mentioned a story about where they made everybody equal... Its a short story named Harrison Bergeron. Oh how I hate that story, we read it just two days ago in class, I think the day after I posted I hated it. What are the odds, heh. Now we're reading The Handmaid's Tale, which is interesting, but continues along the sattire writing style which I'm not too fond of. Well, off to play some Dungeon Siege or RO, perhaps finish editing that new template. We'll see... Depends on who demands my attention first.

"Under the burning sun, I take a look around; imagine if this all came down... I'm waiting for the day to come..." - 30 Seconds to Mars - Oblivion (song came on a CD that came with the CD case my mom gave me... Which I've almost filled already.)

Adion is currently listening to .hack//SIGN - See-Saw - Tasogare No Umi [5:19]

Well, I'm fixing up a template I found over at blog skins. Rae, of course, found the website (I swear she's better than google!). Anyway the template looks a little like this...

Thats all for now, Hopefully it'll look semidecent when I'm finished. If not, I registered for a shoutbox, so I'll throw that here. Something positive came out at least heh.

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - T-Pod [6:54]

So, I got home late from my friend John's house today, around oneish I think, and noticed I had two messages on the machine... Both for the lasertag thing that was supposed to go on today. I left for that at around two thirty, and got there at about four after stopping by Jerry's house. He drives a little red BMW, 4 seater too. So cool. That reminds me, I've got to get some music by the Postal Service... I kinda liked them. He says they're old, so I might have a hard time finding them. Anyway, we played lasertag for $7.50, which is pretty expensive, but as far as I know, reasonable for a game of lasertag. I came in second place, it was a lot of fun ^_^ . Tiring, but fun. Running around a 100x100 foot room on two floors trying to find five other people gets pretty tiring. So after playing that, we walked over to Portillos & got some food. A nice ceasar salad for me, everybody else got some italian beef sandwich style food. After that was a half hour ride back to Jerrys house where we played Fable, which I'm not impressed at all with, before heading on home at about eight. Seems like a much less busy day than it was...

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!! YAR!!

Ok, now that that's done, on to other things. Ryu made priest this morning, job 50 style. I missed it because he'd rather wait for some guy he just met who's obsessed with the original sonics than have me be there. Whatever. Congrats anyway, even though you don't read this.

Thats about all I think...

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 2 (4/28/04) [117:48]

LONG POST AHEAD! I don't have a lot to talk about, I'm just really good at expanding nothing to something really long. Sorry!

You know how easy writing becomes when you actually write out a little outline before you do it? I just did a tiny one for this blog so I hopefully won't forget anything. Wow, I hit the backspace button so many times... Somethings wrong with my fingers. I can't type. This is annoying. Uh, in other only slightly more important news, I don't have much homework this weekend ^_^ I'm supposed to read some lab for a labquiz (RETARDED!) on monday, and a bit of calc homework, but nothing hard and it won't take long. My weekend is slightly less packed than I thought it was yesterday, I'm not taking the ACT this weekend, it's next. Which should be interesting... I should really start studying or something for it. I want a better score this time... Not that I'm angry with what I got, I just know I can do a lot better. So yeah, thats next week, and in its place slides John's house. I'm going there when he gets off of work at 6, so that'll be fun. I'm spending the night & bringing my computer, perhaps I'll be on that late, maybe not. Sunday is still Lazertag with Jerry and all the other cool kids, some thirty to fourty minutes away from my house. Why do I have to live out in boofu? Stupid parents. So that'll be fun, hopefully things will work out. Cause, he doesn't have my phone number and I'm not sure I have his... I do know other people's phone numbers who are going though, so if I really need to talk to him I can ask them.

Today's a bit odd. I got up at 9 and wasn't tired, I don't think I've yawned yet *knocks on wood*, but god my allergies are bad right now. Wish it would rain... That usually helps out a lot. But as I was saying about the day being odd, I don't really feel like listening to Airbase right now. I'll probably save that for Johns house so we have something awesome to listen to. ^_^ I need a job. Oh, John said he could get me a job where he works, but first I'll need my liscense, which I still have yet to get the hours I need for. Oh well, whatever. I've already blown like, a year and a half and haven't gotten my license.

So yesterday Ryu said he'd start up FFXI again if he got some money. Which he does have, just not a lot of, as far as I'm aware. That'll be awesome. If he starts playing again I'll play. Hopefully Kaelos isn't gone yet, cause if he is, heads will roll. I reallly don't want to start him over. Leveling a black mage is a pain until you get up there. If he's gone, I think I'll go taru theif. Cause I love the little guys. They're so cool looking. And when you sit their head rocks back and forth... I need to play that. Heh. That game rules. They even have different motions for a salute depending on what nation you're in legue with. It's hard to describe them through words, so I won't. Consider it a favor, heh. My typing has improved a bit... I take that back. I've been meaning to write on my xanga, but I only do that when I'm in the mood to write. I've finished two chapters that aren't going to be for a while. I've got to stop that heh. One won't happen for at least another 10 updates, a lot of stuff has to happen in between. Hopefully it'll be pretty cool when I've finished. The other day was parent teacher conferences and apparently my english teacher told my dad that she really likes my writing. I must be doing something right, but all we've done so far is a few short response essay questions, neither of which were over a paragraph long. I loaded up Kazaa the other night to see what all I was downloading way back before I stopped using it because it sucks, a bunch of it I've already found on SoulSeek, which has a funny URL: www.slsknet.org . Net dot org? Wierdos.

I don't think D&D is today, nobody's sent me any messages. And Pat said he was done DM'ing until he got a good group back, which will most likely be never because everybody who used to play except for a select few have stopped. Like, Ed (the god damn prick) stopped playing at Pat's house and started at Mojoes (a crappy coffee place with a fucking BOUNCER, thats retarded), which even he admits sucks. Why he doesn't come back to Pats is a mystery to me, and will probably remain that way for quite a while. This will probably be my longest blog update yet. Hmm...

Yesterday was an AP Comp Sci test, which I think I bombed, I forgot a bunch of stuff. Looks like this'll be the first class in High School that I've needed to study for. We'll see how I did, I'm not expecting anything higher than 70%. I think I'm done, can't think of anything else, and my outline ran out of topics like two paragraphs ago, >.>. Cya's.

Adion is currently listening to: U96 - Der Kommandant [3:14]

Yeah, time to write here. I wrote a poem for english for our 9/11 remembrance week. I might post it here... Maybe. I don't think its that awesome, but I'm sure she'll find something great about it, like english teachers do. Either that or they're just trying to make me feel better for writing so crappy. I'll never know. I'm waiting for t3h Jeff to show up online, he was supposed to go home and log on right away so he could host a Dungeon Siege server, but I guess that will have to wait. I have to get up early tommorrow to go to school early to take a quiz that I missed because of my field trip ;_; I hope it won't be that bad cause it'll be early and I'll be tired because thats all I know how to do at 8:00 AM. So much stuff is planned for this weekend. I think I'm retaking the ACT on Saturday, there's a lasertag or something event on Sunday, I'm supposed to help my friend fix his computer on Saturday... I'll need to do homework, D&D is Saturday, perhaps Exhalted Friday... Weekends need to be longer! Vote Adion in the 2004 election this November! 'Cause, you know, I'm 45 and can be legally elected. Uh, damn. A friend of mine just interrupted my chain of thought. I worked out the build of my mage/wiz for RO, although I don't think I'll even play him to job 40 by the end of the month. I lost interest in RO a while back, and it probably won't come back. They'd have to do something drastic like, improve graphics for me to want to really stay for any amount of time. Of course, I think they'd screw that up a lot and everything would look über gay. For now its fine, they finally got different sprites depending on what weapon you're using, those bums have been using the same sprites for all weapons of the same type for at least 2 years now. I smell food downstairs, but I'm not sure if its ready yet... mm... Food sounds like a good thing right now; I'm hungry. Hmm... if anybody wants to see my poem, put a comment and I'll think about it heh.

Adion is currently listening to: Black Dragon - Israel's Trance Addiction (9/13/04)

Yeah I nearly completely forgot about this thing. I got home and started up RO while doing calc homework and stuff. Twas fun. Oh, and the fieldtrip was awesome. We did a bunch more stuff that I didn't get to do freshman year, so I was happy about that. We had a hard time with all of it, but we eventually were able to complete every one. I enjoyed that, it was much more fun than sitting in school all day. Uh... I fixed John's wireless router, that took some doing, and even ended up calling their tech support and giving them a kind of hard time because they wanted junk that's not important. Eventually though, problems were solved, and now the router is fine. Uhm... One last thing... Oh, not the last thing but mom went to target and bought me a CD case which is awesome cause I've been needing one for a while now. So thats nice, it looks like a good one too. What was it... Ah whatever.

Adion is currently listening to: Johan Gielen - Global DJ Broadcast (09/13/04)

Yay, DJ Johan Gielen, he's one of my other favorites.

Yeah, nothing much is happening. Soto finally gave me the install disks for Dungeon Seige, its pretty fun but I won't have much time to play it between Ryu slavedriving me to train with him and doing homework. Tommorrows the field trip, it's supposed to be hot & muggy. Great. I'm excited though, it should be really fun. I did it freshman year (did I post that?) and I had a blast, even though our group sucked and couldn't do anything right. Hopefully, since our main goal is to get it right and junk we'll actually do stuff. We're less laid back and more focused. Hopefully. I gotta copy that disk... Before Ryu pulls me into RO again. Cya!

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 10 (8/11/04) [117:58]

I remember some of it... I was going to call attention to the new links on the side of my page, scroll down a bit & you'll see them. There are a few more I thought I should put on there later, like, the funny convo page. When I get around to it, heh. I'm eventually going to look around for one of those shoutboxes or whatever, that'll be pretty nifty I think. Calc homework is taking longer than I expected it to, even though its not really that many... And then the three graphs for physics... *sigh*. No gaming for me today ;_; And my soulseek isn't working, I think dad's been playing with the router. /sob

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 10 (8/11/04) [117:58]

I need to listen to something else... Nahhhhh, I love him too much.

I wanted to throw a shout out to Marty because I woke up at 8:08 today when he was picking me up to go to school at 8:00, and he waited. Thanks.

Now that thats over, Jeff speaks of some sort of RTS for Warhammer 40k, which sounds interesting, but is rather large. He says that it's the best demo he's ever played. I say its the only demo he's ever played: warhammer has a bad reputation when it comes to computer games. Uh, damn. I had a list of things in my head that I wanted to say, now I've forgotten. Ughh, curses the bad copy of this airbase song, it skips around the track, back and forth. So right as I'm starting to really like it, it skips to a different part and I have to readjust. Not a smooth transition like it should be. I'll have to find somebody else who has it, hopefully a good copy. I'm finally getting the install disks to Dungeon Seige tommorrow, if all goes to plan... Which it won't. Curses you Soto! Uh... hmm. Damn. Maybe I'll remember later today.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 4 (5/12/04) [94:17] {broken :( }

Who'd a thought it can be so entertaining to find new prefixes for metric units? Rae and I spent a solid 20 minutes deciding how large a pony was. Turns out, its an ounce. I mean, I've never even heard of these units, its crazy. I'm glad I was talking to Rae about ice cream and how much I eat, otherwise I would never have come across this vital to human life information. I mean, its extremely important to know that a yotta is 10^24th power. I would so walk up to some random drink vendor thing at a ballpark or something and ask for a yottaliter of soda. Also on the cool list, femto. Some pretty cool names for stuff that's never going to be used.

Today Akrin (Ryan) found me a pretty cool link to something awesome: how to make your own jedi robe! Its even got pictures ^_^ I wish I had money for some of this stuff, it'd be cool to walk around school with one of those on. And people just looking at you funny and stuff, oh the awesomeness.

I'm going to stab Soto soon, he still hasn't given me the install discs, and won't be able to tommorrow either. I was supposed to get those last thursday, what the hell.

Almost forgot, this Wednesday = crazy fun time. Going to willow grove for my gym class, and its essentially one awesomely large obstical course. So cool...

Jeff finally got xfire, it took weeks of persuasion to finally coax him into it. And now he can't log off ahahaha, he's always on ^^. Like me and AIM >.> Thats good though, whenever I need to randomly shout things I can shout at Jeff... I want that jedi robe. >.>

I've finally run out of room on my MP3 partition. I knew it was only a matter of time, but it held out longer than I expected. Seven months of random MP3's and movies there. I need a DVD burner so I can get rid of all those movies. And now back to talking to Rae, perhaps a little sleepage.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 1 (4/21/04) [121:02]

That one took a while to find, its old enough that www.ets-global.org doesn't have it, so I had to get it on SoulSeek. Good luck if you guys wanna hear it, I can't host a shoutcast server ;_;. Damn router. I'm done ^_^

Well, the traditional I-have-homework-and-I-don't-really-feel-like-doing-it-today-
but-I-have-to-anyway message... Ah, how I hate homework. And for some reason, my internet is really slow now, like I'm on a 56k >< I don't really know what it is. Yesterday night my aim wouldn't connect, now it connects but I can barely surf the internet--all around bad times. Thats about all I have to say for today. Oh, anybody who likes trance/techno should realllly go to www.ets-global.org and listen in. They're always doing livesets, and it's always so good.. They even let you download recently played tracks ^_^ I love them. A lot.

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 10 8/11/04 117:58

I'm trying to set up a shoutcast server, and right now it's not working because I'm behind a router. So I'm trying to find some ports that are open that I can broadcast on... It's going slow. And the test is finished, all my ports are stealthed. Damn. I guess I won't be hosting... Oh well. Yeah there was D&D today but I didn't go for no real reason. I'm bad, I didn't even tell them >.> Oh well, I'm sure I'll be told that it was awesome somebody did something random and stuff happened. It seems to go slowly when I'm there, and then pat gays us. Like last time, as I said, he took all of our equipment. What are we supposed to do? We can't camp somewhere cause then he'll be an asshole and send something at us while we're sleeping and we have no equipment. We can't go back to town because we're drow and everybody hates the drow. Whatever, I'm done.

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 8/11/04 (117:58) You can download it at the same place my last blog linked you to.

So today is Exalted ( I think it's actually spelled Exhalted.. dunno) at Pat's house. I'm leavin as soon as Brian takes a shower & makes it here & won't be back till about 1030 or something. Hopefully we'll actually play exalted, but if not I'm bringing controllers & my memory card so we can play F Zero GX & stuff. That'll be cool.

I was thinking today in English second hour when I realized that tommorrow is September 11th, and I found it kind of sad that only three years from a day when a shitload of people died that all we've done is invade two countries. One of which wasn't even related to the incident, and the other solved nothing. Well they both solved nothing. Either way, I also find it disturbing that there's going to be a party tommorrow with like 4 live bands at some guys house. A fucking party. This world is retarded. I'm not a sentimental guy, don't get me wrong. When I heard about 9/11 in Geography freshman year, I was like, ok, big deal. I guess thats a bad thing to be like that, most people I think should be more sad & stuff, but I'm not like that. A shitload of people die every day, and thats all that gets reported on the news, to me another bunch of people is nothing. I don't know, I'm kinda a bad guy, I guess. Agh, well hopefully I didn't just come off as an asshole completely incapable of feeling emotion, because that's not me at all. I'm very aware of all sorts of things that happen around me, and sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but it takes time, not a numeric value. Hopefully someday, somebody or a lot of somebodies will say enough is enough, and find some way to stop it all. Maybe it'll be genetic mutation, maybe it'll be something in the water, maybe it'll be something else, I don't know for sure, and nobody ever will probably. Hopefully it won't be anything drastic like that one story where everybody gets some wierd thing put on their head, that would suck. Only time will tell...

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 06 (Liveset from 6/23/04) (116:33)

(you can download it at http://www.ets-global.org)

I don't really know why I picked that title, mostly because it sounded cool when I explained to my friend that German is better than English. Ryu was playing my mage today, he somehow found a guy that was willing to tank him High Orcs, so that was damn nice exp. He was sharing with a merchant and got 5 base levels in an hour. Thats CRAZY exp.

From what I just heard from him, a friend of mine likes me; which is news to me. Dunno, we'll see how it plays out. Right now I think he's spilling loads of crap, who knows. He's not always the straightforward, honest type. So I figured out that the site I like to stream from also hosts torrents of files. Uh, w00t, somebody wants to form a share party with me. Cya'll later ^_^

Yay, heute war Deutsch Klub! Es macht mir spass. Frau Wiede sind unserer lehrerin, und Sie ist sehr nett.

Yay, I probably made like, 8 mistakes. Wrong tenses and endings and so forth. It's supposed to read "Yay, today was German club! It is fun for me. Mrs. Wiede is our teacher, and she is very nice." I've only got a small bit of homework, so thats good news. Hopefully I'll hit job 35 today on RO, thats my goal. I need to get to wizzy ASAP >< Mellissa has a guild apparently, and it's going to be a WoE guild (world of emporium, [PVP]), so I need to get there fast. Ryu's already a hunter (of course. damn.) so theres no hope for me leveling with him, and he isn't an acolyte or anything that can help me out anyway, so, whatever. I'm hopefully getting the install disks for Dungeon Siege tommorrow, at which point I'll install that so everybody has that going and stuff by the time LP2K4X4 actually happens (who knows ;_; ). That might distract me, along with F-Zero GX... So many games to play, not enough time to. On the bright side, the reason why I got F-Zero was to entertain myself when I got tired of sitting on the computer (hahahaha), which really is when mom thinks she's smart and tells me I can't play on my computer so I go downstairs & play GCN instead. Wow, that sentance was meant to brag that the person I played it first at had it for 9 months and got nowhere while I've had it for a week and already passed him up. Oh well, problem solved. I should be writing my personal statement for english (due tommorrow >.<) but meh.

I've got a cold >< I just thought about that as I sniffled my nose right there... Yeah. So I'm eating cough drops cause they taste good, and I don't care if they don't solve my runny nose. I found an awesome band the other day, "Airbase". They're, of course, hard techno/trance (my favorite, oh boy!), and they do it well. Actually, I think it's one guy. >.> So I'm trying to download some of him... Thats about all.

Adion is currently listening to Bitte Ein Beat Vol. 5 - CD2

Yeah so I technically shouldn't be on my computer right now, mom caught me up at like 12:30 on monday night and "took" away my computer until further notice. But she just walked in and was like you know, you shouldn't be on, and then she didn't do anything. So, yeah, not getting off. Yesterday I spent all my time playing FZero GX, so whatever. Uh, the year is starting to pick up in school. In physics we're all prepared to kill our teacher for being such an assmunch about grading and quiz giving. In calculus we're actually pushing farther ahead & stuff. The biggest and most cool is Challenge Ed(aka gym for people who dont want to play sports ^_^), cause we're going on a field trip to willow grove (an obsticle course basically) next Wednesday ^_^. I can't wait. Thats all the major news. Oh, we're sorta planning for LP2K4X4; Jeff's handing out the install discs to some of the games we're going to be playing. That'll be cool. Anyways, done for now.

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Emotion (4:03)

Yeah so a few blog posts back, I mentioned playing F-Zero at Pat's house after D&D. Actually I think it was the last one. Either way, I went out today and bought it. Best $20 investment all year: I'll be playing this forever to try and beat it on expert mode. The AI is so amazing, its hard as fucking hell to win 1st place in novice mode, standard I get first place just because the other racers kill each other off while I trail behind the pack 'cause I suck. At the end of the races I boost to just barely beat the other racers that live through it for the win. It's an amazingly difficult game, and it's so fun too. Custom racecars, 30 different cars to get, a story mode thats flipping impossible, custom emblems, 4 player vs mode (if I ever get that many people over at once), and other standard race game materal like practice & time attack. I hate racing games, I love F-Zero GX. Go out and buy it if you've got a GCN.

Other news, I'm screwed. Haven't started my homework yet, and time is slowly dwindling away... I think I'll start now. Cyah.

Adion is currently listening to Greenwave - Trance Destiny

So D&D was today, only played that for like an hour 'cause for some stupid reason we restarted the same campaign in a different location with new characters, which is getting annoying. I'm starting to get bored with the game, I feel like all the good character personalities have already been used by somebody else or I've used them and now I just don't find much interest in it. Everybody else is always the same personality: Brians always an ass who wants to dominate the world, Sullivan's always some ninja or bard who doesn't tell the party anything about him or help it most of the time, and everybody else is a mixture of things that usually are similar to the last one except for Eric who is always a completely different thing. I dunno, its just getting boring interacting with some guy who always is an ass, or some dude who won't even tell you his name. I hope they don't read this, I don't mean to offend them, they do what they do well, its just kinda boring for me now. Ed keeps claiming he'll come back, and then lying and not showing like a fag. Today's just a partially bad day. So many bad things going on: school on Tuesday, a bunch of homework to do today (calc, 2 page "personal statement" for english, 300 word thing for gym), and I have to do some college stuff so I actually apply before the deadlines up. On top of it all, I should be studying for the ACT I'm taking soon.

Anyways, sometime after we finished playing D&D and Pat gayed us by taking our weapons and armor, we ran up to Erics room & played a hell of a lot of F-Zero, which is a racing game for gamecube. It's really fast paced and awesome; I wish I could buy it. Agh and speaking of money, if I don't resubscribe to FFXI this month, Kaelos is gone forever into the hells of the main server's recycle bin ;_; . And I dunno if I want to resubscribe 'cause of all the junk going on and Ryu doesn't play anymore (he even uninstalled it ;_; ). I'd still be in my über linkshell, which is a plus, and a few of the people I met on it are still playing (logged on playonline & saw he was on today). But it takes so long to do anything in that game and I'd pay full price for just 24 days of FFXI instead of the full 30~31 which is lame to me. I wish I had a job, then I'd have money and wouldn't even think twice about paying. I'd also buy an MP3 player & another harddrive so I don't have to worry about my space problems that I've got right now. Today isn't a good day. Dads even downloading something big with bittorrent so I've got no upload to play CounterStrike or RO. I think I'll have to reorganize my life goals, first comes knowledge matrix style, then comes a time machine so I can go back in time & give the knowledge schematics to my formal self before I come up with them, and then finally the cleanliness thing, because I don't really mind sitting in a hot shower every now and then. Maybe I'll even make the Matrix sometime between then. Rawr. *sigh* if only my life goals were accomplishable. I suppose for now I have to be satisfied with my top 110 wpm typing skills, and my decent skills in Counter Strike.

Think I'm done moping and ranting and whining and all the other negative connotation words for writing.

Adion is currently listening to Fatboy Slim - Gangster Tripping (5:19)

Not too much is happening, its a three day weekend, so thats cool. I defragged my comp for most of yesterday while I played Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 on GCN. Mostly I played ep 2, and didn't really accomplish much. hmm... *blankly stares at monitor* I think I should write for my xanga soon... And the english personal statement homework... Yeah, can't think of anything.

On RO I hit 41/31 with my mage ^_^ Current status: owning Agriopes. I had a acolyte guy help me out, it went by a lot faster, even though I got slightly less EXP. Its just nice to have him for when I take a hit and he heals me instead of me using first aid 'cause I don't have a heal clip yet. For the purposes of getting a heal clip, I'm working on making a swordie who's sole purpose will be to run around in ant hell finding me a vitata card. Hopefully it'll work out. Ok now I'm done.

Adion is currently listening to Alphazone - Rockin' (Original Mix)

Man, I got so hyped up, only to be let down. I guess it was my own fault. Either way, no LP2K4X4 tommorrow ;_; . UNACCEPTABLE. Man. I was so hoping for some good LP times. Depressing. I just came back from Marks house, that was fun. Played a GCN game called Gladius, which was more entertaining than I initially expected it to be. I knew it was something like Final Fantasy Tactics, but at the same time its a bit different, because attacks work off of a meter (similar to the golf swing meters in those golf games), crits are small red bars, yellow bars are pretty long & normal hits, blue is a bad hit. Yeah, good times. Wish LP2K4X4 was tommorrow... Ok I'm done whining.

Adion is currently listening to Suzy Solar - Recorded Live Mix

I CAN'T WAIT!!!! It's gonna be so great. Ok, for those of you who don't know what LP2K4X4 means, its Lan Party 2004x4, aka the fourth one this year. It's at Jeff Desch's house, and it'll probably be tommorrow ^_^ So much fun, we'll be playing bunches of games... Counter-Strike, Condition Zero, Starcraft, Quake 3: Arena, Conquest Frontier Wars, Dungeon Seige, Crimsonland, and COUNTLESS others like Halo. So much fun to be had, so little time to have it all in. Man. EXCITING!!!

Ok, enough about the lan party. Now to todays news. Mellissa (lanfearofmidgard) saw me on RO today just a few mins ago & we started chatting... She essentially blocked me on aim, but it was the if you're not on the buddy list you dont get to see her block, not traditional style. I knew she blocked me in some form or another, but meh. Might go to a friends house tonight... Might bring my PC, but I dunno. 7-10 hardly seems worth all the effort. Uhm.... 3 day weekend! Yay! But, I've got a bunch of homework ;_; . Calculus, Physics, 2 page personal statement for english... It's gonna be hectic finishing it all on Monday haha. Uh... Congrats to Rae if she reads this with the having all of Miyavi ^^ Must have taken months or years to get them all haha. Um. I think thats everything.

Adion is currently listening to Mozart - Divertimento
Ok so I'm listening to classical, leave me alone. It supposedly raises IQ >.> Not that thats why I'm listening...

I'm a day behind! >.> Sorry, not that anybody cares. I only rant here mostly anyway hehe. I dunno, nothings really happening here. I'm excited, it's Friday already ^_^ And Jeff-Desch is possibly gonna host a lan party cause we get monday off. Can't wait >< Maybe I'll even get a mic. Who knows? Yeah, so thats all for now. Nothing exiting, heh. Sleepy time.

Adion is currently listening to Lucid Dreams (February 2004) - Mixed by Morlack