Saturday, March 25, 2006

Random Wording of a Bored Mind

Before when I posted today, I wasn't even in the mood for typing. I was tired and just didn't feel like typing. I'm still tired right now, but I feel like typing. And on here too. Just to go on and on about nothing. You know I had to add something being that my last post was just way too short. For some odd reason, I can't type today. Maybe it's the fact that I'm typing on my laptop with the lights off (thankfully the minitor is LCD and ultrabright) because my nephew is sleeping on my bottom bunk, but even before when the sun was out I couldn't type. My typing finger is going too fast with my mind helping it to even press the keys down correctly. I'm not making too much sense but hey, I'm here for that purpose.

I finished "A Catcher in the Rye" yesterday night and I must say in very simple terms that I loved the book. Reminds me of a blog, but on paper. There's enough cussing for your needs in the book but it's just a wonderful book because you get bonded to the main character, Holden, right from the start. Amazing how you could have a book with hardly any plot but a helluva amount of strong feelings. When I finished the book, I was lying on the couch in my living room next to my grandmother so when talking with her she handed me a book to read called "Sister Sneakers". It's a biography about the author's sister, Sister Adreliean or however you spell her name. She's a nun from the area that I think they're trying to make a saint. It's an okay book thusfar but I can't really get into biographies or any book that says something like "fact, fact, quote, location of fact, person belonging to an organization, fact." I'll read it though just to please my grandmother. She also gave me a book by John Edwards which looks a bit more promising. I've been on te computer too much lately and I need to stop that. I'm actually getting bored of the internet. My blog and Runescape I'm actually getting quite sick of and even today while talking to Caitlin, I wasn't even in the mood for conversation. Maybe because I was tired or because I have a disability in typing today or I don't know...it's something.

I also didn't get to go to the play at my school today because our haircut appointment lasted for about an hour in a half. I might go tomorrow. I also have two tests and some homework to do though. Cut that, it's beyond midnight right now so today I'm going to go see the play. I hate when that happens. You'll be talking about tomorrow when it's really today.

For some reason I'm sweating right now. Like, really bad. I swear I get high blood pressure when I type something up. After doing some homework on my computer, typing up a page or two report on something, it looks like I just got out of the shower and my left shoulder kills me because I only type with one finger on one hand (my left hand, index finger). It's actually killing me right now. What a random thought right there...

You know what's random? When you moo at grass that isn't green. Only one person I know did that, and because I told them to.

I honestly don't know what I want to type. When I read about Runescape, I want to blog. When I blog, I want to just go read about Runescape. I can't win. I talk about Runescape on here but that just helps a bit. Today on Runescape just a while ago, I went to the Talvery Dungeon and got the Dusty Key. Killed some hill giants, baby blue dragons, chaos dwarves, black knights, and chaos druids. Yea....

I've been doing a horrible job blogging today...oh well...I'm bored and want to go read Runescape articles so have a good one and make sure what's happening to me never happens to you, whatever that is. I think I wrote myself out. You know those huge nine page entries. They wore me out. Yep...

EDIT a few minutes after publishing: I forgot that I made a little video today of my nephew playing Super Mario World on the SNES. In my time of computer sickness, I may express my blog entries through media, including pictures and videos. While watching this on YouTube just now, the audio seems to be way off from the visuals. Oh well...enjoy the stripes running down the TV screen.


Easy Going

I was oing good for three days last week, posting at least one blog entry a day. Then all this week there wasn't one update here. Why? I wasn't in the mood for blogging, and I'm still not even today. A.K.A. I don't feel like typing. I've been going easy all week because of the Day Two thing all week at our school due to state testing and hardly had any homework, so I either stayed up all night talking to Caitlin or playing Runescape. I have nothing to add really and nothing to say. I have a lot of images to share and even a video but really, that's it. Here's a short laydown of my last week and then I'll just move right on to the media.

  • Monday -- After school went over Brown's house to help him and Schlasta study for a upcoming geometry quiz on proofs. Went to Schlasta's house twice, once to go get him so we I can teachg him and eat his peanut butter and crackers, and a second time to make a documentry of his house with my digital camera. Here's the movie:




    • Tuesday -- Went outside with Craig after school. Went up by where they're building even more houses in Jermyn on a hill that we climbed up to take pictures. Then we made a ten-minute tape with a short documentry of our pre chem teacher's house on it, in which she lives practically right behind me.
    • Wednesday -- Craig came over again after school. Played catch with a football and went for a small bike ride. Did the only homework I had all week -- analysis on characters and setting between the poem and film versions of "The Odyssey".
    • Thursday -- I think I stayed home all day because my mother said I was grounded but she was sleeping when she said that therefore meaning that she didn't mean anything. If that even just made any sense. I forgot anything that happened that day.
    • Friday -- Went to the WNEP show at the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre. Took three pictures on the way there.
    • Today -- Played Runescape.
    What an exciting week, eh? I hope that video works... Anyhow, I don't know why but I'm just not in the mood for typing. I'm hardly even in the mood for going on the computer. I might go to a school play tonight so if digital cameras are allowed, you'll know what you'll be seeing on here either tomorrow or whenever. That's after I get my hair cut at five though. Umm..I made 920k on Runescape...and...Craig took some pictures himself Tuesday. I was going to put a little caption under the pictures but I'm just not in the mood. Until I ever feel like typing again, I'll just plop pictures on here therefore you'll be seeing the shortest entries on this page then. Have a good one.

    Digital Camera Pictures from Tuesday:







    Okay, here's a little caption. Craig and I started taking close-up of things from the view we were seeing (which is the second picture -- the view) from our little hill (the first picture). We were taking turns with pictures. Starting at the second row, it goes my picture, Craig's, mine, Craig's, and so on.

    Digital Camera Pictures from Friday (yesterday):




    Runescape Pictures from Today:





Sunday, March 19, 2006

Just Some Extras

Around 9:30 this morning when I got up, I quickly turned on my laptop to add another little feature to my 'Extra' page that you'll find a link to on the right side panel. This page is titled "Google Talk Conversations" and I upload, with permission, Google Talk conversations I have with friends, however at this current time the only people I talk to who have Google Talk is Drake and Caitlin. Plus for the record, I only have conversations with Caitlin on there because I'm not too sure if Drake would approve of it. Now if more people got Google Talk, like Kester or Craig, then I'd have more things to post but no, they haven't yet found out the beautiful wonders of Google Talk. I had to rush and make the pages and link each one to one another before Eric's birthday party, which was quite fun by the way. It was a pool party at a hotel, but I'll get into that more in just a bit. Back to the pages, if you happen to have Google Talk, I advise you to maybe add me and speak to me once in a while and maybe if you want to let me upload our conversation on here. I don't know if anybody really cares to take the time to read such lengthy conversations (however look at most of the blog entries I post) but if you want to know more about myself and my friends, then just maybe read a few lines and be happy. You may find soe humor in there depending on your own sense of humor.

Now about the party. It's pretty hard to tell you about the party because my thiry pound cat is rubbing up aganist my arm as I type right now, which makes matters here a lot worse. Anyway, the party was at the Days Inn hotel near Idle Hour Lanes in Dickson City. Like I mentioned, it was a pool party. What I found pretty akward was that it was snowing outside today yet I was going swimming. Now I think to myself that this snow may cause a delay tomorrow morning, however it's mostly just sqalls here and there. Now back on subject. The party was fun. A lot of my friends were there like Andy, Corey, another Corey, Matt, Josh, Kyle, Alan, Tyler, Joe, another Joe, of course Eric, and a lot more including some kids and some girls too, like Amanda and Mica. I was in the pool a bit, playing beach volleyball just spiking the ball back and forth across the pool with two teams of three. Matt and Josh were on mine and Amanda, Alan, and...oh what's his name were on the other. Then when everybody started to pick each other up and toss each other into the pool, I went into the hot tub with Joe, Corey, and Kyle. Then after an hour we ate whimpies (or however you spell it...) and snacks, got changed, and went home. Great party overall.

Then I took some random pictures and talked to Caitlin for the rest of the night. Enjoy.

Digital Camera Images from Today:





Have a good one, or else.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Finally, Birds

After much trial and error in my past of going outside in the freezing cold and trying to take pictures of birds, I have finally succeed. In the past two weeks or so, I have realized that there was a major climb on the bird chart that I have created, in my head that is. This finally hit me after a bird almost flew into me on the way across the street to my bus stop and also when I saw a V-formation of geese flying overhead while too standing over at the bus stop. Of course I never have my camera with me at these times because I am going to school. Once this invisable lightbulb that I presume is just hovering above my head turned on, I realized that there's birds around. Finally! After failing miserably in the past, I took pictures of birds. This time did not come until four this afternoon though, because I was up until nine or ten this morning playing Runescape, taking my real first brake at four. I thought that I should go outside and take these fascinating pictures of birds because I definatly needed some fresh air and to see some sunlight. Anyway, I had earlier plans to go for a bike ride around my town of Jermyn to take some pictures but Runescape got in the way; so therefore I charged my battery and uploaded the pictures from my camera to my desktop today before I went outside. I did get some pretty good pictures of some different types of birds (I refilled my bird feeder and my father moved it away from the owl a long time ago so this attracted the birds). However, the quality is a little fuzzy because I'm not just zoomed in all the way, but Imageshack blows the picture up a bit even when it's not viewed in its largest size. However, some are pretty good quality. Such as the last four ones shown, because these were taken from my front porch, in which my front yard is on main street. Now my front porch is a pretty good distance from the road (I'll get the tape measurer out another day). Now the last four pictures were taken by zooming in on the distance from my porch to the road, the main street itself, and the then whole length of the driveway across the street which is pretty long, so in that case, these pictures are pretty darn good quality. However I won't show any pictures until the end of this post. Text first.

Runescape, Runescape, Runescape. While outside today taking pictures of birds, I came to realize how much Runescape teaches you about real life. For example, it's okay to walk up to a total stranger on the street who is using their cell phone and ask, "How much for camera?" Then they might give you a strange look and tell you and then you respond, "I'll buy it" or "Sorry, that's too much" and then just walk away. Adding another brick to the wall, you could just want up to somebody in public and ask, "Will you be my girlfriend/boyfriend?" Another thing I learned is that it is indeed okay to shout fire in a crowded place. For example, at a bank you can shout, "Selling fire staff for two thousand gold pieces!" Another thing I learned is to not give money to beggers or items because you're just fueling their desire to beg more, therefore do not donate to charity or give items to the homeless. Another thing I learned is that it's okay to just walk into any house and search through a cabinet or drawer, maybe even a chest! Another thing I learned is that I can create runes by getting a flat rock and some crayons and draw symbols on them, then I can cast magical spells and the whatnot. I even learned how to make an arrow! All I have to do is go rip a chicken apart, steal its feathers, find some iron arrow tips lying around, get a knife and whittle logs into arrow shafts, and then just assemble all of the items together. I might just go do that tomorrow after I go to my swimming party. Maybe I can buy some fire runes at the hotel the party is at!

Caitlin did come on Runescape today around six in the evening, after I came back from shooting birds. Well, shooting snapshots. And well, she tried to come on at least. I think the longest amount of time that she was on was maybe three minutes. Her computer was having some major problems and Internet Explorer was closing the page on her for no reason and she lost her cursor when a page just clashed and froze her browser. She did download SwiftSwitch but it wouldn't connect to the internet, saying it didn't have permission to connect to the server. A firewall is most likely to blame for that but I'm not the expect on knowing how to allow programs to access the internet through the firewall. I did it before but on the top of my head I wouldn't be able to tell you. Then I had her download Firefox because I felt bad for her being that she was using Internet Explorer, in which I thought most of her problems came from there, but that's when the page clashed when she ran Runescape on it and her cursor dissapeared and she had to reset her computer. When she actually got through, we were by the giant rats where we left off last night when I had her follow me to the bank. We didn't even move hardly when my laptop screwed up and I was dissconnected and then she was attacked by the muggler and then her page closed on her by itself. After having some more problems, she finally logged on and exclaimed to me that she was in a place that she was never at before, in which there were a lot of people and a castle. At that, I knew she died. I went to get her, more computer problems occured for her, we walked near the Draynor jail, more computer problems for her, and then finally we made it to the Draynor bank, in which I was going to give her some items I made for her this morning. Next paragraph:

This morning, I wanted to get Caitlin some armour and better weapons so that when she came on I could give them to her. My smithing wasn't even ten yet so I really needed to get it up to even make her any armour, nevertheless even an iron weapon. She already had an iron mace (which she lost when she died) so the armour was my main priority. I was at Lumbridge or Varrock or somewhere (can't really remember) and I wanted to travel to the mine near Yanille being that it's the best mine near a bank in my case. I could only make bronze bars being that I was at such a low level. I walked across the map to the mine, mining about 150+ tin and copper ores each. Then I teleported to Lumbridge and walked to the bank in Al Kharid where I was going to smelt my ores there. I did so and got about 100+ bars. I then walked up to the west bank in Varrock where I got those bars out and walked across the road to the anvils, hammering the bronze bars into weapons and armour. Then I got to the level where I can smelt iron ores (I'm keeping my levels a secret until my total level hits 1000, then I'll post a picture revealing all of my stats) and realized I had about 140+ in my bank. I walked back down to Al Kharid, got 100+ iron bars, walked back up to Varrock, made items out of them, and so on.

I'm trying to really short this out because it's getting late and I'm hungry, plus my mother is yelling at me to get off. Point being, I made the stuff I wanted, then I made about 1,181 arrow tips, I made arrow shafts, killed chickens and got the feathers, made arrows, trained my ranged a bit, then I took my break somwhere around there.

Pressure is overwhelming me...here are your pictures. By the way, under the digital camera pictures, the last one is a squirrel.

Digital Camera -- Bird Pictures (And Squirrel):












Runescape Pictures -- Taken Today:








Make sure you have a good one. Because I believe that I have no homework for Monday, after the party I'm going to tomorrow (which is from twelve to two, pretty short) I might go for that bike ride I planned to go on today and take those pictures of the sights and landmarks of Jermyn. I need air in my tires though...

EDIT right after posting and realizing something when looking at pictures: Somewhere in there I fought with Craig at the duel arena, in which you can see we fought just by punching and kicking each other. I forgot who won. Anyway, we fought a lot there. I think I only beat him once or twice...sad. I can't say I didn't see that coming though.