Wow, my weekend was packed. My lan party came through yesterday, worked out pretty well overall. That made up a really good portion of my weekend. I got about two hours of sleep over the past two days, so I don't really have much time to burn, need to get some sleep before tommorrow or I'm going to be dead. Tired. Anyway, I went trick or treating in my costume just a few hours ago, finished at about 7 my time, (for about an hours worth of trick or treating) and grabbed a few pounds of free candy. After that I chilled at Mark's house for a bit, playing Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast on his GCN. Grabbed Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy from him, hopefully I'll make a good copy this time that works. But I'll do that later, right now I'm more concerned with finishing this blog, doing my Gym homework (journal ...) and then hitting the sack. Uhm... Total LAN party attendance: Jeff Desch, Mark Murskyj, Brian West, Matt Soto, Kevin Kujawa, and of course, me. Had a bit of trouble finding space for everybody, but once I got everybody in fitting spots it went pretty smoothly. Played a bunch of CounterStrike and Condition Zero, along with Starcraft. Those were the main games, a little Dawn of War for Jeff, I played some Crimsonland... I should really be linking all these games, but meh. I think I'm done for now, if I'm awake enough tommorrow I'll write a better journal of events. No time now.

Adion is currently listening to: Factor 9 - Release Me (Svenson & Gielen) [3:56]

fucking christ. i'm too lazy to type this all out right now. i spent the past like, hour typing up a blog, and now its all gone because my POS computer crashed.... a quick summary:

cant check rae's LJ, pissed me off... emailed the people at dragon mango, asking if they'd be cool enough to make a hoodie that i could purchase because i wear trogdor so much he's wearing out.

our project for physics worked pretty well, got 15 points of extra credit, and i think we got a 75/75 on the project as a whole.

pat told me today before roll call in gym that he thinks i should cosplay. i said alucard is über, he said he could probably get somebody to make most of the costume for me. only hard part for me would be getting his really cool .454 casull. (there was like three links to cool stuff in this paragraph... not anymore.) i'm excited if it works out.

figured out a lot of what to do in the counterstrike map editor. i now have most of the parking lot done, and am trying to learn more. need to know how to do vent systems and ladders, but ladders arent in the help so i dont know if i'll ever figure it out. if i cant get ladders then i wont need to know how to do vents because there wont be any way to get to the roof where the vents would be.

lan party at my house tommorrow maybe possibly probably. only it might just be me and mark, because i'm too lazy to tell people about it. i should call jerry because i think we'll be trick or treating with him.

costume was a success, people were talking about me behind my back, some positive, some i dont know because i could only make out words like "look a jedi" or "from star wars" as i walked by them.... that was my journal, only twice as long and no grammar errors, capital letters, that sort of thing. stupid fucking computer.

Adion is currently listening to: DDRMAX2 - Burning Heat [1:34]

Well, after a short ban, I'm back. I spend most of yesterday chillin' on the sofa watching the Red Sox game. Not much happened, somebody gets a triple, and then the last two outs come and go, nothing cool happens. Low scoring games aren't fun. But congratulations to them anyway for winning. Finally. Not too much happened over the two days though. Tommorrow we're lauching the pumpkins in Physics, only he's letting us use a raquet ball, which is totally awesome because it goes like three times as far than a pumpkin. In challenge ed today we did one of the hardest workouts I've ever done... Two ten pound dumbbells in either hand (one in each), a minute of cleans (start in a position like you're going to pounce something, only with the weights touching the ground, and then stand, raise the weights so that your elbow bends only (like a curl), then raise above your head, reverse the process till you're on the ground again, then repeat.), ten second break. Then, tricep extention (raise both your elbows to about your ears, hands behind your head, raise the weights to the point where your elbows are straight, so the weights are straight up above your head) with both those weights for a minute, ten second break. Proceed to dumbell curls, which aren't too hard, same thing, one minute of that, ten second break. Finally, go to lunges, with the same deal, 1 minute on, 10 seconds off. Repeat that WHOLE thing three times. It gets tiring FAST. Anyway, after we did that, we were forced to traverse (climb sideways instead of up) the rock climbing wall we have in the gym, which is two 40 foot segments. The wall is a lot of fun, but realllyyy tiring, especially after all that arm work. But, I think that it's making me stronger, one day at a time. Pretty impressive for a class that isn't meant to do it. Normal PE doesn't do anything for me, besides piss me off. But challenge ed is cool. I'm glad I'm in it. Fun fun fun.

Off of school, I tried to make that map for CounterStrike the other day, and man it's impossible. I have to read the help file if I want to do anything, and it's huge. But I hear it really does have a great help system, so I shouldn't be entirely screwed. I just need to find a map of our school. Just a rough guess here and there would be nice. I'll look around my house, I think we've got one somewhere...

Not much else to say, so I'd like to try to remind myself to link to Wikipedia later.

Adion is currently listening to worldchanging stream from itconversations.com

I just spent some 5 minutes queuing all the files on my playlist into a cool order... Well, not all of them, but all of them that I want to hear anytime soon at least. Got quite a mix coming up here, some 50 songs in a row of goodness. Some of which I have not heard that many times recently. Like, from the FFVII OST. Good songs... Anyways, I decided today to do a short little outline in a text file, which reminded me of the day I actually did that and announced I was doing it, the 12th of this month. I read some of the outline, was completely lost as to what some of it meant ("finished giving RO to ryu" confused me, it meant sending acRO client...). Anyway, I noticed I mentioned something about a poll, as to what my next character should be. I completely forgot about that. Maybe I'll look around tonight. I've got a lot of things to do today... Starting with reading chapter four for Physics. After that, a quick glance at the problems we're doing in class for a little quiz I guess in Calculus. Followed by either some relaxing gaming (i.e. RO or maybe even SNES, need to pull that emu out... it's gotten dusty. I've been meaning to beat some of those SNES games, and play that one game Ness came from, Earthbound), or otherwise, a glance at the amount of work involved in adding a second bar to the right side of my blog. I know I can do it, it's just a matter if I want to spend the time to make it work. I'd have to look at the code a bit, decide how the original author of it did what he did, find the part about the table I need to copy and paste, and voila. A huge bar that includes things I already have on there, like all my links. I'll probably throw my shoutbox & the archive links over there. If I can find any free code for a poll, I'll try to throw that over there too, after the shoutbox, before the archives. Anyways, thats the site goals. Uh, after thinking about doing that and deciding if I want to get started today, I'll switch gears to finding blueprints for my school so I can hopefully get started on making a CounterStrike map of it. The only type that makes much sense to have in it would be a hostage map, although I guess I could have the CTs start in the school and the T's in the parking lot for a bomb plant mission. But that wouldn't be very realistic, theres only like 4 cops at my school and they only have .22's. Fat lot of good they'd do on a Terrorist squad with AK's. And what would any terrorist want to bomb here anyway? Nothing important going on here, no WMD research, nothing cool. We might still have those talking trash cans that the school wasted 55k on each in a storage closet somewhere. We don't even get to use them, because they're afraid we'll break them. NO DUH MORONS! Not to mention those cool desks we're supposed to get that actually fit in classrooms. We've got these monsters that don't fit well in our classes 'cause they're huge and the classrooms are small. 30+ people don't fit in a room with those desks, assuming you want to have space for the teacher to walk around, set up an overhead, any sort of lecturing. I hate my school. Not only did they do an extremely shitty job of constructing (they made the main hall thinner three years ago, my town is booming. AKA, freshmen class keeps expanding... 3.6k people I believe in my school, approx. 1.5k people need to get through a hall about 20 feet wide in the span of seven minutes. Some need to get a quarter mile away from there to the south building. Somebody stops in that hall, to say, use their locker [which makes up another 2 feet on either side, plus the space that takes up when somebody uses it, with their body low to the ground and their legs sticking out, say another 2 feet...], and the place just jams. And, it's all the fault of some RETARDED architect who doesn't know anything about design for a school. Also, the east building that the school spent a cool million on just WINDOWS (not program, actual windows, transparent pieces of glass) is poorly designed, all the rooms echo. Try teaching and or learning in a room where you hear your voice reverberate around you a few times after you say it. Biggest headache ever, and I only sit there for 48 minutes. I feel really sorry for the teachers who teach in the east building all day... ending this long rant in a parenthesis: now!).... *cough* What the hell was I talking about? Hmm... *copies & pastes* Not only did they do an extremely shitty job of constructing, but all of the administration is a bunch of dumbasses. They cut budget on the cleaning crew, band (which makes more capital than spends because of concerts), plays (same deal), and clubs (same deal again). Retards. This of course, is because they spent too much on the east building, which as I just ranted is poorly constructed. Retards...

OK, sorry to bore you so long with junk about my school. I'm gonna look around for blueprints, then probably sleep. No real work today. Just had dinner, lost all train of thought. Short outline says I haven't mentioned how Ryan lectured me yesterday about how most of the stuff for making 'Mechs is already in existant, the only thing we're missing is good lasers that'll actually do what those ones do, and fusion power. Fusion power seems to be the major setback to me. We've already got gyro's that'll support people on just two wheels, feet seems a bit more challenging. Apparently myomer already exists, some sort of polymer that you can put an electric charge to will make it contract and stuff like a human muscle. All thats left is really fusion power, and ferro-fibrous armor. Mmm... fusion power... Anyways, thats my blog for the day I think. Now to get to work...

Adion is currently listening to: Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out [3:57]
I apologize for confusion in that first paragraph... That'll teach me to write huge things in parenthesis...

I had a good topic to write about today, but I forgot. My bad.

My day: Long, boring. Although calc was funny, 'cause Mr. R. played a trick on us. He made us all think that he didn't have enough material to teach today, so we finished like 15 minutes early. And then since he's Mr. R., he said he had to improvise another explination problem thingy... Came up with something about least amount of area on an aluminum can ('cause he was drinking one, he never drinks sodas in class...), and we did a bunch of calculus with it to figure out the best shape that would use the least amound of aluminum. It turns out to be a really squat thing, and doesn't look that cool. And then he gave us a 2-liter of hawaiian punch. Not each, the class... Drawing 3-D figures in CADD, and at lunch we decided how cool it would be to make our school into a huge CounterStrike map. Physics: teacher is letting us use the raquett ball, which goes at least 30 feet, well beyond the 7m requirements for max points. I think this project's going to be like, a 90 or so out of 75. So much extra credit to be had ^_^ . Just finished playing RO for the past like 3 hours with Ryan, now my thief is 42/31. 19 more job levels to go... And I saw that in pront my guild is recruiting. Which is fine, but it seems all the recruits aren't active at all. Pretty depressing, but they might be on the other side of the world or something for all I know. Our guild needs forums... Probably has them somewhere, I just don't know about them yet. Meh.

OH! I remember what the topic was gonna be about. Mom went out to Toys 'R Us today & bought me a lightsaber ^_^ So now my costume is complete, and I spent like half an hour just throwing the blade out and putting it back in. New toys are fun. Got mom to take a bunch of pictures of me too, so I'll have to grab them sooner or later. Only complaint I have is that the blade is so short. Its so disproprotional... Oh well. But anyway, I can't wait for halloween >< I'm thinking about hosting like, the smallest LAN party the world has ever seen, overnight, and then going trick or treating on Sunday with the peoples who stayed for the LP. If anybody is interested who reads this let me know... I think my basement has the voltage for it heh. Ok thats my day. Boring as it always is. I need a cooler life. Why can't stuff from video games be true? 'Mechs, Pokemon, laser guns, space ships, time travel, the list goes on. *Sigh* Too bad...

Adion is currently listening to: Cowboy Bebop - The Real Folk Blues [6:16]

Well, I was gandering around Rae's various journals when I saw a post about a handwriting test thingy... Being as curious as I am, I did a few double posts (curses LJ not liking me putting names in the sign in when I don't have an account! It leaves the blank open when you select anonymous, they're asking for it >.> ), and she gave me a link to the site. After not doing what they said to do, I proceeded to take the test. I expected it to be a heck of a lot more weird, with taking a picture of my handwriting and sending it in, or something like that. Its just a bunch of pictures and you select which one is closest to your writing... Oh well. So, without further ado, my results (most of which were the same as Rae's >.>):


Alex has a healthy imagination and displays a fair amount of trust. He lets new people into his circle of friends. He uses his imagination to understand new ideas, things, and people.

Alex is a practical person whose goals are planned, practical, and down to earth. This is typical of people with normal healthy self-esteem. He needs to visualize the end of a project before he starts. he finds joy in anticipation and planning. Notice that I said he plans everything he is going to do, that doesn't necessarily mean things go as planned. Alex basically feels good about himself. He has a positive self-esteem which contributes to his success. He feels he has the ability to achieve anything he sets his mind to. However, he sets his goals using practicality-- not too "out of reach". He has enough self-confidence to leave a bad situation, yet, he will not take great risks, as they relate to his goals. A good esteem is one key to a happy life. Although there is room for improvement in the confidence catagery, his self-perception is better than average.

In reference to Alex's mental abilities, he has a very investigating and creating mind. He investigates projects rapidly because he is curious about many things. He gets involved in many projects that seem good at the beginning, but he soon must slow down and look at all the angles. He probably gets too many things going at once. When Alex slows down, then he becomes more creative than before. Since it takes time to be creative, he must slow down to do it. He then decides what projects he has time to finish. Thus he finishes at a slower pace than when he started the project. He has the best of two kinds of minds. One is the quick investigating mind. The other is the creative mind. His mind thinks quick and rapidly in the investigative mode. He can learn quicker, investigate more, and think faster. Alex can then switch into his low gear. When he is in the slower mode, he can be creative, remember longer and stack facts in a logical manner. He is more logical this way and can climb mental mountains with a much better grip.

Alex is secretive. He has secrets which he does not wish to share with others. He intentionally conceals things about himself. He has a private side that he intends to keep that way, especially concerning certain events in his past. (ooh, >.> )

When Alex expresses an opinion on a issue he will stick to that opinion, and probably will not change his mind. In other words... Alex is stubborn. When he is wrong about something that he has decided upon, he will have trouble admitting he is wrong. Changing Alex's mind can be very difficult. Once Alex makes up his mind, he doesn't want to be confused with the facts!

Alex uses judgment to make decisions. He is ruled by his head, not his heart. He is a cool, collected person who is usually unexpressive emotionally. Some may see him as unemotional. He does have emotions but has no need to express them. He is withdrawn into himself and enjoys being alone. The circumstances when Alex does express emotions include: extreme anger, extreme passion, and tremendous stress. If someone gets him mad enough to tell him off, he will not be sorry about it later. He puts a mark in his mind when someone angers him. He keeps track of these marks and when he hits that last mark he will let them know they have gone too far. He is ruled somewhat by self-interest. All his conclusions are made without outside emotional influence. He is very level-headed and will remain calm in an emergency situation. In a situation where other people might get hysterical, he has poise. Alex will work more efficiently if given space and time to be alone. He would rather not be surrounded by people constantly. In a relationship, he will show his love by the things he does rather than by the things he says. Saying "I love you" is not a needed routine because he feels his mate should already know. The only exception to this is if he has logically concluded that it is best for his mate to hear him express his love verbally. Alex is not subject to emotional appeals. If someone is selling a product to him, they will need to present only the facts. They should present them from a standpoint of his sound judgment. He will not be taken in by an emotional story about someone else. He will meet emergencies without getting hysterical and he will always ask "Is this best for me?"

People that write their letters in an average height and average size are moderate in their ability to interact socially. According to the data input, Alex doesn't write too large or too small, indicating a balanced ability to be social and interact with others.
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So thats my results... Rae & I got like, the exact same results. Except for a few things... But either way, I think it's cool. Now on to a boring reprint of what happened today... I went to Starving Rock state park, which was probably the least fun of all the parks I've been to. The rock, which is not starving at all, there are thousands of ladybugs flying around it, is hardly noticeable. They seriously put a huge wooden deck over most of it so you could get up there, and then they have a really small little stone plaque in front of it that says it's a really huge rock. The most exciting part was listening to a boat get too close to the dam nearby, and having some guy like, flip out over a loudspeaker, saying stuff like, "BACK AWAY FROM THE DAM! *long pause* I'M SERIOUS, PEOPLE HAVE DIED DOING STUFF LIKE THAT!". It was pretty funny, because there was pretty much no way in hell that boat was going anywhere (as a result of the flow from the dam), even if he went right into it. Oh and after leaving the rock, we followed another trail around the place where there was a cool waterfall, but since there hasn't been enough rain recently, it wasn't flowing very much. So I got to walk up really close to a waterfall with a 40 foot drop. That, was the best part after the boat thing.

After the park, we went back home (*sigh* longest 50 minute drive of my life. Nothing but fields the whole way. I slept the way in ^_^), and had Subway sandwiches... Footlong chicken bacon & ranch or something like that toasted sub for me ^_^. Ate 6" at home, the next 6" for lunch tommorrow at school. This would be the third time I've eaten Subway at school. I love Subway. ^^

And that marks my day. Not much else happened. I played my thief on acRO a lot in the morning, he's something like 32/23. Thats all for now, I'll post again tommorrow...

Adion is currently listening to: Hellsing OST Ruins - Tsumihoroboshi Shinpushi [2:35]

Woah, cool. I just woke up, and I was dreaming... Of course... And I dreamt that Rae came to Jordans house, and I was already there, and Rae & I watched the fourth episode of an anime. I don't remember which one, but I remember telling Jordan that I've got to go to his house every week and watch the rest of the show. I think for some reason both my parents were there, 'cause when I woke up at Jordans house (the anime was on at night, so I slept), I think I asked my dad where Becky was... And he said she was already driving back. Its a 22 hour drive from my house, and Becky lives farther away >.> Poor dream Becky. I just had to post that so I didn't forget. I'll probably post again tonight...

Well, my physics partner came over today, and we got to work. Finished it wholly and painted also today, so we're way ahead of the game. Its due next monday (not the 25th), so yeah. It shoots about 24~25 feet, keeping the pumpkin below 6 feet, about 2m. So we've got all the points for doing it, it's going to make the 7m mark, and since we've painted it (and later will put a coat of arms on), we get another 5 points (extra credit)... I'll be dressed, so I get another 5, and I hope we'll get the weight to distance ratio, which is another 5 points... And, we might knock over some villagers while we're at it. That would be another 2 each. So much coolness is to be launched.

So I'm really excited about that thing going the distance... And after he left, I had dinner which was followed shortly by World of Emperium on acRO. Which was fun. We crashed the server at least four times. And I didn't kill anybody, 'cause my bard is so low leveled. I died like, 8 times, but yeah. No EXP loss because they're nice or something. That was pretty much my day. But I'm really pleased with the catapult, it turned out pretty well. And, since mom's trying to get me to log off, I bid you adeu. I think I spelled that right...

Adion is currently listening to: Hellsing OST Ruins - Seishin Keisatsu Sousaka No Urajijo [5:14]

Well, I must have been extremely tired yesterday. I decided I wanted a nap after I got home from school, and I fell asleep pretty fast... And then I didn't wake up. Which was fine with me, I now am caught up on all my sleep. But sleeping for twelve hours means I lost a lot of game time. I think now I'll do my really long journal that says what all is going on this weekend, and what happened yesterday because I fell asleep. Starting with a semi easy quiz in Calc, the day proceeded to reading in english, and then being read to, because that class is easy. Along to CADD where I managed to work hard, and accomplish nothing. Damn. Physics, where we took probably, the easiest test I've ever taken. I'll get that back with only a mistake here or there. At lunch, I ate and then ran off to my counselor to turn in my applications to all the colleges I'm going to. All I have to do now is wait... Off to Challenge Ed where we traversed with teathers, little pieces of cloth about a foot long that we put in our pants (>.>) so we couldn't get too far from our partners. That was a lot of fun. Challenge Ed leads to Comp Sci, where I'm already finished with the current project, so I sat around, watched my blog sit there, stuff like that. I got home, and got a call from Mark, who offered to let me burn Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, which I did. Only he left by the time I realized the burn doesn't work. He did take his finished costume though, and I saw his lightsaber. His is really big, it doesn't match everything else at all. Well, it does because it's a light saber, but it's just too big. But it makes noises, and even clashes when you hit something. So that's cool. This is the part where I decided to take a nap, and here we are.

Now with what should happen soon. Today and soon, I'm going to go shopping to find a lightsaber that I can use, and hopefully I won't be stuck with a monster. After that, I expect a call from my lab partner from physics, so we can build the thing today. I hope we finish it today, because I want this thing done. Tired of ruining my weekends with physics junk. Tommorrow should be a relaxed day, I get to sit and play games. I'll probably invite Mark over again, because I want the game to work >.< I even messed with the registry to no avail. Oh well... Thats my day/weekend. I live a boring life...

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - Evil in a Closet [4:02]

Yay! More to add to my collection! A friend of mine apparently had a large collection that I was not aware of, so now I'm the owner of the songs I was missing on like, 4 CDs. ^_^

Still haven't taken the digital camera to my costume, I might do that eventually, hopefully before Halloween actually comes around. I might even get my dad to let me take the camera to school so I can take pictures of half the wierd ass people there. Last year and the two before it, there have been women dressed up as sluts, usually five or six that are all friends or something. It's rather entertaining, because they still get angry when guys look at them. It's like, DUH, you dress up like that, what do you expect? And of course the dean's give them detentions and so forth because they're way out of dress code. Can't even wear flipping hats, school sucks.

I finally finished those essays. Completely. It's definately not perfect by any means, but I'm just happy they're done. So now I'm giving them to my counselor to put in that last part that says the school will send my transcript, blah blah blah. On the bright side, I got a new counselor than from last year. That one either retired or quit, I hope he was fired. Worst counselor ever. I don't even know the name of mine, Dlhy is apparently the shortened version on my schedual. I'll be able to figure out who it is, hopefully. Only so many counselors...

So there's now a TigerDirect.com store in my town. I'm thinking about going over there and asking for an application, because that should be an easy job for me to do, and it's stuff I like to do. Although, I hear retail is not easy at all. But I don't think it'll pay commission, so I won't have to worry about that. Other than that, not much is really happening here...

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - In Flames (5:33)

Well, the play field trip for school was awesome. Funniest and most worthwhile play I've ever been to. Its about some lady who has amnesia and forgets everything in her life on a nightly basis, and how her "brother" tries to explain her past to her... Its a lot more confusing than that, and extremely funny. Every character has a mental issue, one has multiple personalities, the other personality is a sock puppet (that he actually wears on his arm), and the sock is really angry, and he's really passive. Its hilarious. Supposedly the movie rights were sold so you can probably watch it on the big screen eventually. I'm not quite sure how much of that I said yesterday, because it was 1:30 in the morning and I was dead tired... Anyways, that was good. Nothing else really happened today... On RO I gained three more levels, so I think that puts me to 65/39. The guild invited a novice thats 59/10, and he's planning on going to 99 as a novice. Not super, just a novice. He's crazy, but cool. Can't be impossible with 6x, but man. Takes way too long. Months on iRO killing stuff that he won't ever be able to kill. But, a good enough leech'll get him there eventually I guess heh. Since I can't think of anything else... I'm out. Mata ashita... Oyasumi, yoku nete ne.

Adion is currently listening to: Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower [4:00]

I love this song... The lyrics are awesome, just because his voice is so cool. I'll go back in time to try to write them... That might be my journal for the day. Oh! Going to a play on Wednesday (to make this less confusing than saying tommorrow), and it's supposedly going to be good. But I don't really care, it's better than sitting in school all day. It's called Fuddy Meers, and seems to be extremely abstract, some woman whos got amnesia or something, and keeps forgetting everything that happened up until she woke up, each and every day. Something about how she meets her brother who takes her to her mothers house, and then more crazy stuff happens... I don't really understand. All I know, is that it is crazy. And as for the lyrics... Here they come ^_^

This was the year he fell to pieces. And ironically, this was the year that more people than he even knew existed scrambled to put him back together again. And as they tried, they didn't notice that he was smiling. Smiling his ass off. No pun intended. Oh what have we become, what have you become? Not allowed to kick the feet up and sleep until it's done. Ground control! Ground control to Major Tom! We found a hole in your theory and we named it Shawn. And when the leaves fall, the land looks more human. Its got me questioning the essance of my farmboy blues, hence, (I think that part is right) I never wore the fassions of the know what I'm doing; but there won't be no alarm when we sound up the movement. When we sound up the movement. My fathers name is Art, and my name is Pride. And while my destiny beads the recipe for confusion I'm looking for whoever writes is so empty inside. And as the paneling comes unglued, I'm averaging a camel every hour as a substitute for food. Out standing in this field waiting for the storms, trying to teach the alphabet to the Children of the Korn. Yo! the music ain't loud enough! I can still hear the voices in your head! Choices thats chosen to choose temporarily impared me. I'm terribly proud, if you don't turn it up louder I'm breaking out! I face the sun when I talk, and I hold his hand as I walk 'im across the street. When I can I'm going to build a castle that touches the clouds: not to get closer to god, but to get further from it all. Oh what have you become? Not allowed to kick the feet up and sleep until it's done. Ground control! Ground control to Major Tom! We found a hole in your theory and we named it Shawn. And when the leaves fall, the land looks more human. Its got me questioning the essance of my farmboy blues, hence, (I think that part is right) I never wore the fassions of the know what I'm doing; but there won't be no alarm when we sound up the movement. When we sound up the movement. When we sound up the movement.

Thats probably not all the lyrics, but the next set of it is a few minutes away and I need to go to bed. Oh wait, no thats all of them I think. I take my previous statement back, without deleting it instead. Yoku nete ne, oyasumi.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 2 (4/28/04) [81:10/117:48]

Well, yesterday (sunday) I got a fever, didn't bother to check what temperature I was, so thats why I didnt post. Today went rather well considering what I thought would happen. I didn't do any of my homework from the weekend, so I barely managed to do my physics lab before school and during third hour before it was actually due, and in second hour my in class essay finished only a few minutes after the bell. I was pretty nervous about that lab, because I had only done one question, and didn't have any graph paper at home to actually do the work. But I managed to pull it off, which was pretty cool to me. If I get an awesome grade that'll be even cooler. I'm a bit worried that she doesn't round grades, because I'm getting an 89.9% in there, and if you get an A both quarters you don't need to take a final. I'm really hoping to not have to take a final. I just finished making a custom spray for CounterStrike, and it went well for a first try. But, the colors are all wrong. I think it reverted to a weird colorscale, because it was red text on a black background, now its a transparent background with white text. I'll have to look further into it, but some other time. Ryu's been begging me all day again to get back on iRO, and it's somewhere between tempting and a sort of "hell no" thing right now. Mostly because, I posted a while ago my conditions of return, and none have been met. Ryu claims he can tank me, and that this so called really cool guild will let me in, but meh. I'd rather get Second Life working than bother with RO again. At least, not until I decide if SL is any good. But I'm not going to put Win XP on my computer until I finish downloading Donnie Darko, a movie that so many people have reccommended to me that I eventually caved and said OK. Mom finished making my Jedi costume for halloween, and it looks pretty schweet. We took most of the design from this page, and I think it turned out better than some of the pictures. Now all thats left is for me to get a lightsaber, and maybe a really kickass belt that goes over the obi's belt. Mmm.. oh I need the tabard too, and some boots, which I probably won't get. Boots are not my thing. Pretty uncomfortable, and not really worth the money. Especially since this is the only time I'll wear them, and I'll be standing for a few hours on end. Anyways, thats about it for now.

Adion is currently listening to: Oliver Prime - Liveset for Ets-Global.org July 2003

Well I just spent the past hour and a half or so looking around the internet for a Condition Zero keygen/hack, and found nothing. Well, nothing that works. I found some 150 sites, went through most of them and then some, but 99% had the same file that didn't work, that sort of thing. Oh well, no CZ for me. Which is a shame because Ryan is starting up ASP finally. He's turning his computer into a dedicated server because his upload is awesome enough to handle about eight people we think. The thing is that he's hosting it with CZ, so I can't play ;_;. I finally finished my essay, dad edited it again, and I ignored him because he made all of my sentences three words long and they don't flow. So I went back to an older version of it, fixed it up a bit, and called it done. Bard on RO is 60/27, slowly getting there. I don't really know what to kill now, Agriopes are nice, but slowing down. I think the current exp ratio is 3% base 7% job. I'd have to check again, but way back when I first went there it was 20%/30%, a heck of a lot better than now. Of course, it slowed down, then sped up after I changed to bard, and is now slowing again. The problem is that I'm not strong enough to really solo anywhere that I can't snipe, and I'm also just weak enough that Agriopes still take quite a few hits to finish off. I need a party so I can sit back, relax, and just cast Magic strings or something, without having to worry about bashin' stuff. Anyways, not much else is going on... I had a friend over at about 8, he stayed till like 10:30, and then I went upstairs to play CS. Today is going to suck, I've gotta work on the project for physics and do some homework for physics and english... Oh well. I'm off to bed, night.

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - Lunar Strain [4:04]

Well I have the urge to write something that didn't happen that was really horrible and claim that was my good day, but since I can't think of anything, and I don't really want pity for no reason if at all, I won't. On the other hand, I might get praise for writing it so well. Doubtful though. Either way, the day ended pretty well. At school in challenge ed we apparently weren't done kayaking, even though we put them up last week. I thought that signified our completion of the kayaking half of the quarter, but I guess not. Either way, we did a "seal entry" which is nothing like it sounds. I thought, upon first hearing the term, it might be something like, get into your kayak after you've exited or something, and its upside down, but a seal entry isn't like that at all. It's actually falling into water from a semi-decent height, which in our case was the low diving boards. All you need to do is lean back, a lot, and thats it. Once you land in the water, you need to lean a bit in the direction opposite that you might perhaps tip if you're landing in rough waters for example, but truthfully a very simple entry. We had enough time to do four lengths, one seal entry per person, and take a quiz on the parts of the kayak today. The quiz was really easy, simple things like, which side of the boat is port (left as you face the bow, or front) and where is the bow located. In english we're writing an in class essay, that we get two days to work on. It's pretty long overall: two body paragraphs weighing in at about 11 sentences each, both of which need citations from the novel we've been reading (The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood), and of course transitions, topic sentences, and that sort of thing. Both of which are surrounded by the standard introduction and conclusion, at about 4 sentences minimum each. 30 sentence essay, and we're allowed to work on the introduction at home. That drops it to 26, and the body's should fly by once I find a bunch of good quotes to use (we're allowed to find those too). I'm hoping for a good score to solidify my A, although I'm not certain this will appear on our first quarter grades (most likely not, Monday is the last day). In physics we're doing a lab, as usual, which is naturally really stupid and boring. This time we're proving gravity is -9.8 meters per second. Oh wait, we've done that the past 5 labs. How about that? It's still -9.8 m/s. Wow, science DOESN'T CHANGE AT ALL. Stupid physics.

Off of school topics for a bit, after getting home, I decided to work on my essay a bit so that I can now call it finished (I think so, I'm probably going to get it read by my english teacher), but that only lasted maybe half an hour. At which point, I recieved a phone call informing me of a minature party at Jerry's house, involving Super Smash Brothers Melee, which I for the most part owned them in. Mark beat me in a coin tournament, but only because I needed more time to throw him off, as it is difficult to kill throw somebody off as Kirby, but rather to out manuver them and let them busy themselves with somebody else, where you finish the job as they're approaching an acceptable damage percent. Of course, it's always handy to throw in a few smash attacks every now and then, and a stone or two never hurt anybody. Well, besides your opponents. We didn't play any of the original, sadly, but after a few tourneys on GCN we switched over to Halo, where I rocked them. Won every match except for one I believe, but I only lost that by one kill. We played a bit of blood gulch, some ice world (I think thats the map name, it's meant for 16 players. So I sniped their asses good), and a few smaller maps like sidewinder. The most challenging game was probably the game where everybodys cloaked and you have to kill targets in a certain order to get kills. I won by a hair, a stray bullet killed the guy killing my target, which let me finish my target off before he could. The most fun though was ice world, 'cause I'd be moving around and using the 4x zoom to find them, while they're too busy looking three feet in front of them, I'd snipe their asses from across the map because all the weapons are too overpowered. I sniped them with the pistol for gods sake. The pistol! Woah, this post is getting long and I don't even realize it.

After schooling them on Halo, Jerry decided it was time to go to the Homecoming football game, so Mark and I left to his house, where we played 007: Nightfire, which was OK, but left a dry taste in my mouth. The AI is just a tad too sad, and the controls leave something to be desired. A few matches of Nightfire led to Viewtiful Joe, a very nice 2-D side scrolling punch 'em up action game. A few hours of that ended the night and I approached my house slowly and with contempt. Overall though, the night was awesome, and the day wasn't terrible. Friday nights are great. Tommorrow should be D&D, and if not I left the day open for some hardcore RO'age. On Sunday, I'm working a bit with my physics project partner on a siege weapon that will throw a small pumpkin hopefully no higher than three meters and farther than 4. The problem is it's restricted a lot on size, which limits the ideas, and you can't use a counter weight, so no trebuchets. I can't think of many designs possible, a catapult might be too large for the size requirement, and a ballista won't get it to go as high as I'd like for it to pass over a wall that is one meter tall. Overall, it should be fun to use, if we can come up with any working plans. I've been informed that my partner has no building skills at all, which could be bad. On the bright side, my dad's an engineer, although not architectual or mechanical, which won't help much. And that's my day/coming weekend. Thanks for reading, if you got this far, haha.

Adion is listening to: uh, practically all of Hellsing's Ruins OST by the end of this post

Wow, title names are getting harder and harder to come up with. Not much is happening I guess though, which kind of makes it hard to come up with. I should probably change it to something about halloween, but then I'd have to change the first few sentences, and I'm too lazy... Well, I should change it to something about halloween because a few friends of mine are finally going to use the Jedi Robe Template that Ryan found a while back. The current plan is to get as many people in on it as we can, and we're all gonna buy crummy lightsabers to parade around the school with. Already we've had a kid turn down 'cause he was such a wuss and afraid of what other people thought of him. Tisk tisk Ralph. *Jedi mind trick* JOIN US!!! So that'll probably be a lot of fun.

I posted on my shoutbox at school, and it showed up on the shoutbox, but the link was cut short and I didn't have time to check it. At the time it looked OK, but I saw that it didn't display the rest of my text for some reason, so I posted again clarifying... Long story short, these people can't spell England right. I'd highlight it if I could, but I can't, so no highlights. Not much other news. On RO I made it to bard, and am now 59/25. I did a skill reset a few times, the first time because on the other type of emu you don't need to go to 50 to get all the skills, just 40 & do a reset. But here they apparently fixed it, so the first time I did it, I wasted 5k. But the second time I did it to change my skills around, and realized I don't need to get the last two levels in the basic skills tree, because lv8's skill doesn't work and most likely won't for forever and a day, and lv9's is to change to job 1, which I have already done. So I got two free bard skills haha. Ok, now thats everything.

Adion is currently listening to DDRMAX2 - Burning Heat [1:34], and (later) DJ Johan Gielen - Academy of Trance [71:57]. I have a lot of long songs...

Well, almost made bard today on acRO. Played for a long time, got to job 38, and then decided it was time to do some of the skills quests. So I've got 140 ish trunks, and a bunch of other stuff for random other quests, but only finished one before I decided to call it quits. Right now. So, Soto there thinks he's funny and will get mentioned in the blog if he posts stupid stuff in my shoutbox. I agree, he will get mentioned. But only because I want to make fun of him. Douche.

Ryu's sending me first two episodes of Naruto, which is pretty badass. Because the first episode was good. And he says the rest is good too. So I want to see the other 104 episodes I haven't. It's just going to be a while. A LONG while. Heh, especially since he can only upload at 25ish kbps, which isn't that fast when you're sending 104 episodes of an anime, each of which at least 120 megs. Anyways, not much else to say, and I want to get to bed. So peace. Oh and we're floating our rafts today ('cause its 1:00 AM), hopefully ours will float. Its a race to the other side and then back, so if it floats, hopefully it will move without destroying itself. Oh boy! Cya.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 3 (5/05/04) [120:52]

Woah, Jeff reads my blog!? Awesome. I now have a total of... Four people reading this besides me. Rae, Jeff, Tran (I think...), and David, whom I'm not sure still reads this. To Jeff: I'll cede the point of your orthodontist being a prick, but not the fact that you could have reschedualed. Bum.

Anyways, as is now my custom after reading my webcomic links, I wandered over to Slashdot (which I might henceforward refer to as a "Slashdotter" would, "/.") and saw the most extremely über thing ever. It's called the Centaur Prototype ('cause it might not go to market... please God make it go to market...). It's like a four wheeled Segway, in that it can balance on two wheels, although it normally uses four. Its shaped like an 'X', and goes about twenty MPH, which is pretty nice for a battery powered 4 wheeler. The thing turns on the radius of its wheels, and can go over pretty much all terrain. Turning while on two wheels... Very cool. Only a few problems that I see: not out yet, and I don't have enough money. I need like, a 100k per year job that lets me sit here and work in my spare time of playing RO. That'd be pretty cool. Then I'd have my own house and a small car like the Smart 'cause I don't travel. Mmm... "won't" would probably be a better word. At least, not by car. I mean, I can handle riding by car, but man I can't see sitting behind the wheel for that many hours. I'd rent a limo and take a plane anywhere I need to go. Perhaps write it off as a business expense. Mwahaha.

I'm so organized, that this time I wrote out what to talk about in a .txt file when I got home. Next on the list is RO, where I'm now level 41 in approximately 5 hours of play. Private servers rule. acRO has 3-1 classes, but not the sprites, and not even kRO has sprites yet. So that'll be a while. Going out of order but staying with RO, I'm almost finished sending Ryu acRO through AIM (which takes FOREVER and lags my computer ;_; poor RAM >.> ). I'd probably be finished by now if he would stop going mobile, therefore killing the transfer. After I make my archer to Clown (the 3-1 class), I can't decide what char to make. Perhaps a Stalker? Perhaps an Assassin Cross? Hard to say... Rae says Assassin Cross, Ryu says he hates Cross 'cause they're too overpowered. Mayhaps I'll hold a poll somehow. Wonder if they'res any way to do a simple poll to the side of my blog? I'll have to look around...

Haven't done my calc homework for the day, or the weekend for that matter, and I probably won't. I'm not doing bad, but I'm not doing good. I should probably do the homework, but meh. I'm lazy, and it's downstairs, and then I'd have to actually do work... Can't have that kind of work ethic when I get to college >.< If any of you see me slacking, smack me up the head and tell me to get to work. 'Cause I can't fail college. Not only would I be going with the trend from my high school (more than 90% of the students from CSHS drop out of College in the first year), but that'd be pretty embarassing as my brother survived in a similiar school. Can't have that happen, now can we...

I took the bus home from school today, which was pretty lamezor, because I got home half an hour later than when I get the ride home (stupid bus...), but I learned some chick moved in my subdivision, which is pretty cool. She's got that whole eyeshadow/makeup thing going on, which for the most part I don't like. Especially because it draws too much attention to the eyes, like... waayy too much. Glittery eyes is not my thing. I'd rather be able to look at her face and not be blinded. But that's just my opinion. I'm sure she'll find some guy who likes it for some reason or another. Anyways, her name is Aleece, or something like that, I'm not quite sure how to spell it. So, in my nerddom, I decided to see if some name dictionaries online had the name, and found Alyx, apparently a strictly female name. Any thoughts? Looks like a pretty cool name for anybody to me, why should it be restricted to just females? ;_; Don't need to leave us guys out >.>

Thats my update for the day, sorry its been so long. First long post in a while, heh. Hope you get better soon Rae ^_^

Adion is currently listening to: Initial D - Non Stop Mega Mix [72:41]

Wow, I listen to a lot of long songs...

Woah, time flew by. Weekend just sorta came and went. No LP2K4X3.51 or X4, though, which was a huge upset. Jeff claims he had to go to an orthodontist (sp?) appointment, so we couldn't have it. Next three day weekend... Maybe even this weekend. Whatever. I spent most of the past 4 hours playing acRO, its really fun ^_^ Already lvl 36 I think, and I was leeching Ryan the whole way. My archer was taking out hodes while he stood nearby lol. Was a lot of fun though. Dad made me work on the essay with him for at least two hours today alone, probably another two yesterday & two the day before. So boring, and it's going nowhere. We changed like, 4 sentences today in those two hours, and I think it's slowly getting worse. Every sentence is slowly becoming only 5 words, and Dad keeps saying junk like, "We're keeping it straightforward and to the point." And I'm sitting here wondering how I'm going to get it back up to 500 words again, now that its down to like, 350 from the 620 I had it at to start. Jesus christ. Whatever, there goes my super fast journal for the night, needed to post and needed to sleep >.> Peace all ^_^

Adion is currently listening to: Lynard Skynard - Free Bird (Live) [14:11]

Doing my usual rounds of scrounging around the internet, I once again came across something rather odd on Slashdot, a link to a blog advertisement denouncing Sega. Its all one elaborate hoax, but just glancing at some of the journals is pretty cool. These guys went way out of their way to make the blog look extremely good, they even hired the producer of The Blair Witch Project to make some movies for them. Anyway, it's called Beta-7, you can find it here. I've never heard of it, but apparently, blog advertisement is the wave of future. Not that it matters much to me, I usually don't go looking around for other blogs to read, so I'll probably not notice that I'm the last person with a blog meant for actually blogging, and not advertising. Heh. Oh well... The acRO client is only at 19.4% completed, its going really slow ;_; I was hoping it'd hit 20 kbps and stay there, it was at about 30 kbps for a few minutes a while back. Right now it's a pretty constant 2kbps... There was supposed to be LP2K4X3.51 this weekend, so if we're going to have it, it'll probably be tommorrow considering the fact that it's already 2:47 here. I hope we actually have it this time, but I'm not keeping my hopes up 'cause last time I did that we didn't have it. Thats pretty much all...

Adion is currently listening to: Hellsing OST (Ruins) - 11 - Kikyo Kaoru Iroha Michi [3:30]

Heh, got busy and didn't realize what time it was... Missed my daily update. Oh well, I'll probably post another one today so that'll make up for it. Ryan's friend (I don't know his name >.>) found a pretty schweet private server for RO. Its got some 320 people on right now, and it's 1:02 AM. I can't imagine how many it has during the day... Anyway, I'm downloading their client through Bit Tornado right now. So hopefully that'll work out. Rates are 6/6 and I think the drop is 6, but its got four numbers posted as rates, which doesn't make sense to me. Bexp, Jexp, and Drop, what other rates are there? They wrote 6/6/6/4, so I think drops are at 6 and something else random is at 4. If you're interested, they're on IRC too, on galaxynet in channel #acro. So that's my shoutout to acRO. I think I'll make my bard there. 6/6 should make it a lot faster.

Ryu's knight got banned, right now neither of us know what for. Could be for calling a lvl 99 BS a fag, could be for saying "fuking wiz" to a wizard, could be like last time where he was banned for botting by "sitting in morocc and talking to Gin" (aka he emailed Gravity after he probably did something minor and called them all faggots and that sort of thing, and then Gravity got really mad...).

FilePlanet's giving away 20,000 beta slots for the Matrix Online, but you need to be a subscriber. Damn. It looks to be semi interesting, but if the previous attempts at a Matrix game are any warning, it'll suck pretty bad. I hope not, the Matrix has a good plot and all of that, they need to see a few successes.

I was gandering around Slashdot and saw a link to a weird car... It looks pretty cool. Top speeds at 52 mph I think the conversion is, and a 60 mpg 3 cylinder rear mounted engine. Two seater, and only 1,500 pounds, so thats a bit iffy. Especially since it's only eight feet long, and five feet wide. Essentially barely enough room for fitting two people side by side with a small thing inbetween for gearshifting (or not if you want automatic) or just resting your arm on. It doesn't have power steering standard, or a CD player (;_;), or air conditioning, but its only twelve grand, which is pretty cheap for a brand new car. It also looks just a tad bit too boxy for me, even though I kinda like the Honda Element, which is also extremely boxy and has plastic floorboards for easy cleaning (w00t for waterhoses). It does have a weird thing about the body panels though, you can swap them out for different colors if you want. And the plastic used in making them is the same color all the way through, so even if you scratch it, it's still the right color and all of that. Which is pretty nifty, but I'd rather not scratch it at all heh.

Wow, got really sidetracked with CS. But, I think I'm done. With this. >.>

Adion is currently listening to: Hellsing OST (Raid) - Kikyô Kaoru Iroha Michi [3:30]

Yeah, after reading yesterdays Penny Arcade, I realized I'm going to have a huge problem with the DS. I'm left handed. Which means, I'll either A)have to find a way to write and use the D pad at the same time, or B)become ambidextrous. Perhaps there won't be that many games where you need to be able to use the D pad and the stylus at the same time... I'll probably not get those. I might not even get the system at all now... Damn. A friend of mine gets everything gaming, I'll have to test out his when he gets it before I buy it. I might just get an SP... After the price drop that it's most likely to have when the DS comes out. *sigh*...

I had some other news... I forgot.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 3 (5/05/04) [120:52]

Edit: 2:04 AM 10/9/04
I remembered! No more kayaking in PE. ;_; Now we're trying to make a raft out of milk jugs. Who knows how well it'll work... Hopefully pretty well. Thats everything I believe... (not listening to anything)

Well, I finally wrote a conclusion for the personal statement. It isn't awesome, but it's just unmakeshifty enough that it might work. I'll probably let my english teacher have a gander at it and see what she thinks about it before sending it off. Of course, I also have to write a professional statement for UIUC, and dad's being a prick and not letting me go anywhere until I finish that too. On the bright side, its a maximum of 500 words so I should be able to cook it up in a few hours.

I might go back to RO, Ryu's been begging me for a few days now. A lot too, not just a random "come back to RO!!!!11!!!!1!!one!!!11!" statements from time to time, it's been a consistant, "'I'd like it more if you played RO...' 'DUDE COME BACK!' 'Yeah, I did stuff in RO today. Would have been better if you were there...' " and that sort of thing. He has a vitata card for me too... And I have a clip, I found one before my extra month was up. So that'll work out if I go back. Just need a few Zerom Cards and clips to complete the set. He offered to tank me Anolians a bit back, because they're apparently pretty crazy experience, and that'd let me get to wizard pretty fast.

That doesn't mean I'm not going to get the Second Life, I still plan on it. After I finish writing the professional statement that is... And then yoink XP from Brian...

I've been sorta thinking about moving my ShoutBox up a few spots on the side... Dunno. I'd put it on the right side of the journal too if I wanted to take the time to figure out how to space a new little side to the page where I could throw other things. Perhaps picture links to webpages instead of text, in addition to the ShoutBox. A hit counter... Most of which would probably be me, checking the ShoutBox & to see if anybody commented (as if anybody besides Rae reads this). Now to play some Counter-Strike before working on my professional statement...

Adion is currently listening to: Lacuna Coil - Daylight Dancer [3:50]

Well, I didn't complete my goal of finishing both essays tonight. Er, won't. I still haven't finished writing the conclusion for the first one, and the next one I haven't started yet... But on the bright side, the second one is 500 words max, this one I've technically already finished. I just want it to look awesome. The better the essay, the --hopefully-- better the chances of me getting in. And UIUC is my top choice. I hope it works out >.>

Side note, I can check my blog from school during seventh hour, 2:29-3:17, but it won't let me update from school; shitty blocking programs... But I can see my shoutbox, so if you have something to say you can always post something there. I can even reply ^_^ So that's pretty cool. Not much else to say...

Adion is currently listening to: The Postal Service - Such Great Heights [4:26]

Well, it's already 8:07 and I have yet to finish any of my homework, let alone finish the first personal statement and start on the professional one... I should be working dilligently on both, but... I don't really feel like it right now. I'm more in the middle... I feel like sleeping I think. Small update I guess, nothing much has happened. Today I got invited to go to a football game for, I want to say NIU & some Michigan school, but I barely even know the guy who invited me so I think I'll have to politely refuse. And no offense to the kid, but I don't really like him that much. No offense to band people, but also, he's a hardcore band nerd. Thats all, time to try to work.

Adion is currently listening to: Bodyjar - Not the Same [3:09]

Well, Ryu made me curious... And I decided to go on PlayOnline & check if Kaelos was still there. He isn't. My only incentive to go back: gone. My precious... Oh well, when I get XP, I might have to reinstall all my programs anyway. If I have to reinstall FFXI, thats not happening. I'll move the cursor files somewhere so I can still use them, and then off the HD it goes. But god... an hour install, three hour patch. Twice. For nothing. Fuck.

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

Well, I've almost finished the Professional statement... I need a solid seventy-five word conclusion and I'll be done. It's got a limit of 500 words, I think 400 should be good. When I finish that, I have to get started on the personal statement, which is kinda more important, because I can use that one for the remaining colleges I plan on going to. Truman doesn't care what it's about, as long as it's there, and I'm actually writing for UIUC. I hope to god I get in UIUC or Truman, because I haven't really looked at other colleges. I went to Northern Michigan University, and I wasn't too impressed with it. Their math department has three professors. UIUC has over 30, maybe 40. Truman has a 6 professor Computer Science department specifically. Truman also is, about a fourth (if that) the size of UIUC, so it's about the same ratio. I also like Truman's campus better than NMU... Truman and UIUC are just better choices. Enough random college schpiels...

Adion is currently listening to: Great Teacher Onizuka Original Soundtrack - Eggplants and Cucumbers [2:17]

Well, I really need to finish this personal statement thing as fast as I can so I can get onto the Second Life as soon as possible. Brian can get me XP whenever I need it, so I just need to finish doing the essays before I can play it. So, I'll keep this relatively short. Not much happened since yesterday night... I found out today that I need fifteen gallons of plastic milk carton thingys, but since my mom is nice some of the time, she went to my neighbors houses and got empty cartons from them. So now I only need five, we have two that are mostly empty (chocolate milk & 2% >.> the chocolate's mine ^_^) I'm confident I'll have all the ones I need by Tuesday. I'm asking a few friends of mine for some though, because if I'm missing even just one, I get an automatic 20 point reduction on my grade... Oh this is for my gym class by the way. We're making rafts out of them I guess; the goal is to see who's raft can go the farthest. Today in gym we pretty much only talked about the project & watched a movie on how to do a roll in the kayak. Which seems really easy, but I've been told by lots of people who have already taken the class that it's near impossible. We'll see, I'm still having trouble with a small part of something you need to learn before you can even get that far. Uh... Oh, I meant to mention this during my last blog, but I changed the settings of windows a bit, now the window bars on top are black, to match my background & winamp. So I'm pretty happy with it, I think it adds a nice touch. I already edited the cursors to the ones from FFXI because I like them more, but when I get XP on this comp I'll have to change everything back. I hope to god it isn't as screwed up as I think it is. Thats all...

Adion is currently listening to DDRMAX2 - Burning Heat [1:34]

This song rocks, it reminds me of Zelda. Thats only because this song is similiar (but not by any means the same) as the music from Golden Sun, which in turn reminds me of Zelda. For the NES. Such a cool song. ^_^

Well, the title seems a bit philosophical, but in truth it isn't. Well. It is, but I'm not trying to be philosophical about it. Anyway, to get down to the point: the Second Life is a new MMO I found, by scanning Penny-Arcade, and noticing a promising advertisement on the side. From what I understand, it's godlike. It's a twenty meg download, and a one time fee of $9.95. It has great graphics, and allows for custom everything. You can design your own avatar, vehicles, anything. Some people use robots as an avatar. Anything goes. The website describes making a butterfly, and then scripting it to follow you around. From what I understand, it is very user friendly, and learning how to script is pretty simple. If anybody I know gets it, I'll try to script stuff for them when I get it if they want it. It comes with a 7 day free trial also, but you need to put in a credit card number first, or you can't even download. There's only one small problem: it requires Windows XP or 2000. I'm not sure if that also includes ME, since 2000 and ME are almost the same thing, but I plan on getting XP. Small problem again... I need to finish writing the college applications I'm writing first, or dad won't even think about paying. So, pretty soon, I'm going to back up my registry and all the stuff I have on C to my D drive which has like, 4~5 gigs open right now, and then install XP after wiping C. Hopefully, I won't be forced to kill myself with all the XP shit, and all will go well. If it turns out that I don't like the game, I'll revert back to 98SE if I don't like XP at all. We'll see what the future holds.

Adion is currently listening to Airbase - Session 3 (5/05/04) [120:52]

You don't need eyes where we're going...

Well, I had a really good time. I'm dead tired, but it was a lot of fun. We barely played anything but D&D, but the campaign is definately better than it was the last two remakes. I'm practicing using a voice for my character which is something I've never done before. I think it really makes the game a lot more fun. We've got three Drugar (which are dwarves that were banished to the underdark, essentially away from all forms of natural light, until they eventually became a new species) in the party, and they all do their voices like the dwarf in LOTR, like a bunch of Scottish people essentially. So my voice is like a vendor from Knights of the Old Republic... He's in the undercity on Taris, and he tries to get you to bring Rukil's journals to him instead of Rukil so that they colony won't find the safehaven place. I find it funny that even if you do help Rukil (light side points), the planet blows up in another few hours of playing. Suckers.

Well anyways, after getting home today at about two, I sorta zombie-like walked over to the living room and fell on a sofa. Asleep in a few minutes. I didn't even realize I fell asleep till I woke up again a few hours later at about four. And then I decided I was too lazy/tired to get off the sofa, so I went back asleep until dinner.

After dinner I sorta stumbled up here, and now am typing this amidst reading chapter three, which is, as I guessed, very boring. Vector addition... *sigh*

After reading this, I'm supposed to write my personal statement for the college applications, which may or may not get done. Depends. I should, because otherwise dad will be really angry with me, but... I'm tired. Twas worth the sleep loss though, tonight I'll go to bed early or something.

Woah, I was just thinking, its only going to be another like, 6 months and then I'm graduating. Twelve years has come and gone... I remember thinking back in junior high how far away it was until I graduated, and how great it would be to not have to do all this school crap all day long. And now that I'm about to graduate, and go to college, I realize that I'm not done yet, and I've still got a lifetime of learning left to do, along with all the work that comes with it. Its really kind of depressing. Especially since, even though I kinda know what I want to do, from what I understand, the field is dying slowly. I'll either have to get really good at doing what I want to do ahead of graduation (from college) or just get really lucky and hope the field explodes in size. It truthfully depends on who wins this election too. If Bush wins, I know my chances are shot, but if Kerry wins, theres a slim hope... Perhaps the economy bounces back from this whole Iraq thing, after we leave and leave all our business there because we're fucking greedy assholes; and thats thanks to Bush, that the world thinks of us like that. I don't even like Kerry, but anythings better than Bush to me right now. Except for maybe another Hitler. That wouldn't be better. The economy would be good though... Oh well. I've got to get to finish reading this chapter for physics, so...

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - Touch of Red [4:12]

Tonights the night, boys and girls! Off to Sir Pat's house to play some D&D, GCN, X-Box, NeoGeo, pool, and anything else that comes up. I can hardly wait ^_^

Finished my homework except for one little thing, I have to read chapter three for physics (urge to swear rising), which will be extremely boring. So that should be pretty quick to finish up on Sunday.

On less important, but still cool news, I finished getting the Hellsing OST, the Great Teacher Onizuka OST, and half of Hellsing's second OST overnight, mostly while I was sleeping. So that was exciting. But, sadly, the GTO OST doesn't have the themes from the show on it, so I'll be forced to keep looking for it. It has the music to the rest of the show, but not the themes... Which was the only reason why I decided to get it in the first place ;_;. In time... Well, I'm off to get ready for Pat's & play some games while I wait for my dad to get home so I can go. Cyah.

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - Jester Script Transfigured [5:46]

So tommorrows this big thing at Pat's house. We're all gonna go over there and have a grand 'ol time playing D&D and pool & NeoGeo & F-Zero GX. So much fun to be had. And Ed says he'll come this time. Apparently he went last week (while I was at Dave's house), so he might actually go for real this time. Hopefully he won't smoke. God I hate the smell of cigarettes. Smells like shit, I don't know how they can stand it. Fucking smokers.

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Yeah so I was looking back at previous blogs to see if the title was F-Zero GX or FX, and realized that I was trying to use my homework for the night to judge what was going on around me then, so I think I'll mention that I have to read for english & physics, along with some lab that says springs move in a downward direction when you put a 100g mass on the other end. DUH! Stupid physics. The class had so much potential, but they blew it. I was hoping for some cool math and stuff... Like, last year I told Jeff I was hoping to be able to figure out at what height a balloon floated at if the string was 3 meters long, held 1.5 meters above the ground, and was being dragged at 2 m/s. Figuring in air resistance, gravity and all that good stuff. That would have been fun. But NO! They had to make it all tedious and this gay ass GUESS method shit that I already do in my head and don't need to write on paper. So lame. Physics sucks. On top of it all, they quiz you on how well you remember what a lab is about. AS IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING READ THE LAB AS YOU NEED TO! I hate physics.
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So today mom took me out to Portillos, which has arguably the best salads in the state. So that was cool. I got me a chopped salad, which was awesome as usual. If there's a portillows by you, go there at least once & check it out.

Mental note, think about a cool name to put on BPA shirt. And on that note, I shall leave because Jeff keeps begging me to join his DS server so he isn't alone. >.> Cya ^_^

Adion is currently listening to The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison [3:54]