Thursday, August 31, 2006

Absent From Blog

My brain has been at work more during the last two full school days than it probably has this summer, besides having to concentrate and read the required summer reading books over the summer. Already a muscle in the side of my right hand is achy from having a lead pencil held in it all day, and the hardening of skin and the pain of these lumps on the very bottom of my thumb and on my ring finger. This pain is probably because I hold the pencil so damn tight because I write so tiny, but what can one do about changing his own handwriting, which may I add stinks. I didn't realize over the summer how horrible my handwriting is. Thankfully you can make out almost every word I write, but you need a microscope or very thick reading glasses to see them. The funny thing is that I can fit about 12-16 words a line in your average sized tablet. Mostly to me it always seemed that men write big and women write small, but I guess everybody is different. Craig always comments on my handwriting stating that he thinks it's awesome how I never write on the lines in a tablet, but in between the lines. He always told me that last year when I'd be doing homework at his house or at another person's house like Carol's, but he reminded me about it when we were doing the English homework together last night.

Don't mind me if I'm just rambling on and making no worthwhile points at all, but I'm just trying to get some writing practice down for school and what's a better place that your own personal blog that you share with two other friends? I would go and type up my schedule on here to display to you, but I'm not going to. Is it because of my laziness? In this case seneiro, no. Caitlin already did the job for me of typing up my schedule in her previous post. Even though she typed up her schedule, we share the same exact schedule, class after class. The only difference is that she has a study hall on one day I have gym and vice versa. I think that was great because every year since I started recording this information last school year, I had a class with about one person for every class. Last year it was Dan. Just like how Caitlin and I have that study hall/gym switch, Dan and I had different music classes, but at the same time. He had band whereas I had music, but the rooms were right next to each other so we viewed it as being practically the same class. Funny thing now is that Dan isn't in one single class at all with me this year. Actually it's not that funny, it's rather depressing. Gorman, Craig, Corey, and the usual bunch of billygoats aren't in more than three of my classes, and for Gorman and Craig, one of those classes is actually a study hall. Thankfully Corey and I had a class together this year, because we didn't see each other in a classroom since 6th grade and that's if you exclude homeroom in the past three years. Now being in 10th grade, four years later, we have Advanced Biology together.

Being the second day of school, I have already walked in and experienced all of the classes that I have for the 10th grade school year, already doing three homework assignments and a worksheet. Hopefully very breifly, I'll do a little outline of my classes, my thoughts on them, my feelings on them, and comments on the teachers teaching them -- no names given. Also the classes will go in order of when I have them.

  • Advanced World Cultures. This class is going to be rather interesting I must say. The teacher is extremely funny and talks about the most random things. I actually set him as my 'randomness idol' because I tend to say some very unusual random things to individuals, but this guy just goes top notch. Current discussions so far: Las Vegas, pork roast, strip clubs/gentlemen clubs, food, Las Vegas shows, Las Vegas sporting events, and the whatnot -- I forgot the rest. In other classes he mentioned that his wife put a quarter in a slot machine and won around $300+ bucks and was yelling at her because she could've won a couple thousand if she put more quarters in so he gave her a good beating. Many sources told me about this and even sources who aren't friends with my other sources, so I stamp this as being true, and very odd to say to a classroom. We have yet to even open our textbooks, which may be a good thing, but the whole class for two days he talked about random topics that came out of nowhere. "Carol, what did you have for supper last night?" "Rice." "Rice, of course. I hate rice! I mean, it just gets all over the place. You might clean up a little bit of rice here but then later on you'll find some more. You can never just get rid of it!" Only problem: Our teacher, my 'randomness idol', is retiring and moving away either this October or November. And I'll give you a few guesses to where he's moving. His new home -- Las Vegas baby. I'm going to hate this event, and then most likely the teacher who waddles in after his leave.
  • Computers III. I must say that this might be the most easy-going class I might have all year. Besides the stress I might get every once in a while of not finishing a set assignment/project to complete that day and print out, this class should calm my nerves and move me along with the rest of my day. Oh yes, and another problem. Sticky keys -- that beeping gives me a headache. And of course, they also block this very blog from being viewed in the school. I mean, what the hell is on this site. I don't see any porn, disgusting material, video games to play, etc. I guess they're just either blocking blogs or any site that has the word 'video game' on it. Very good class here.
  • Spanish 2. Many people took French as an elective back in 8th grade when we chose our classes because they heard that the Spanish teacher was mean hearted, cruel, teaches badly, has hard tests, etc. We never had our current Spanish teacher last year because a new Spanish teacher came into our school and taught Spanish 1 and other Spanish courses. However that described "mean" Spanish teacher we have this year for Spanish 2, but is she really mean, cruel, and 'evil'? No, no, and must I say it again, no. So far, our Spanish 2 teacher is extremely nice, cracking a few jokes, and gets distracted enough to give us pretty interesting speeches that sort of cover life. We haven't received any textbook or work in her class thusfar -- she just spoke to us. It sort of scares me though when she walks into the room late everyday and starts saying everything in Spanish, to see what we might be expected from in the course of this school year.
  • SAT Prep/SAT Prep Math. Only having SAT Prep Math yesterdy for about five minutes because we had a program at the audotorium to go to with some 'celebrity' guy who walked across the United States seven times (therefore not really having the class that long to comment on it), I had the reading/writing SAT Prep today. The teacher for this class I too also heard bad things about, but she turned out to be just like your usual old yet energetic, nice woman always joking around. We have her in a very small classroom though that contains 24 desks, yet there's 32 students in the class at the one time. Luckily I got into a desk getting there on time, but a few people weren't so lucky, and had to resort to standing or sitting on the floor by the chalkboard. The teacher was cracking jokes about how the kids on the floor were sitting in mouse poop on mouse-infested floors. She is, however, trying to rearrange plans to have the class in a different and much larger room.
  • Advanced English III. For English this year, we're having the same teacher that we had back in 8th grade, however in a different room. My former 7th grade English teacher got his old room last year when I was in 9th grade, and he was put into a very, very tiny classroom that was once a conference room. This year we're doing two big things in this class -- reading and writing a lot. We already got two homework assignments from him during out first two days of school, and we had a good ol' "At The Bell" today. If you don't know what these "At The Bell's" are, then please refer to January to March posts from 2006, it's in there somewhere. I don't mind writing (as you can see I already wrote a novel already in this single blog post), but I seem to always have a hard time writing when giving something assigned to write. I wish I had an English teacher that gave extra credit for having a blog online and updated regulary, as it requires writing. If that was the case, then expect Caitlin and I to keep this blog updated like crazy.
  • Lunch. I'm adding this in here because I need to throw a rock at our school's lunch and yell, "Boo!" The school's lunch was never really special in the first place, but they go and raise the lunch price ten cents from last year to this year. I know, wow, a whole dime. Still, it's the fact that they're slowly raising the price of lunch when it's not even that great in the first place. And then here comes Pennsylvania with a whip in its hand saying, "Our schools in this state need to eat healthy dammit, so all of our kids someday can walk across America seven times." Now besides alternatives for lunch, we call them, oh, I forgot -- something like the healthy choice of the day. For example, tomorrow's healthy choice is tuna on spinach; mmm! That sounds so yummy that I might just give it to my dog as a treat. And now every grain product a la bread is now rye or wheat. Another "mmm!" from me and a bone to my dog. Even the fricking pizza crust is now rye or wheat! Sure, it did taste good last year when they had samples to give out, but our school can't do something good twice in a row. I mean, they took out the cheese on pasta days (Wednesday) because if you add too much you might get heart disease. I say, who the hell cares!? We're all going to die sooner or later, natural, by disease, on purpose/accident by another human being, etc. Now I'm mad...
  • Advanced Algebra II. While doing my algebra homework before, I realized something funny to me. In 7th grade we had Pre Algebra. Then in 8th grade we had Advanced Algebra I. And then last year somebody threw a brick at us being Advanced Geometry. Where the hell did that come from? Like this year with biology -- we had Pre Chem last year, biology this year, and then AP Chem next year; what's with that loose brick in the wall? Anyways, good class here, and a very good and funny teacher. I always liked algebra more than geometry, so this class should be promising for the year.
  • Safety Ed. This class is taught by my gym class, who is in fact a good man, I don't care what anybody says. We only covered so far what we're going to learn for the rest of the year, so therefore not much to discuss concerning this class.
  • Advanced Biology. This class is my only block period class (meaning that we have the class for two periods one after the other). I like the teacher, very nice, calm, and tries to keep volcabulary definitions nice and simple, the way I like them...even though I write up paragraphs for each one. Not much I can really say about this class besides the fact that our textbook is actually a college book that they use during the freshman college year of the University of Scranton and even Penn State. Good class indeed. It will be hard and challenging, but good nonetheless.
Enough with school and the extremely long and boring text, let's go on to my "daily" things, including a whole new one to introduce. I say "daily" with quotations because I don't actually post daily, but I can't think of a better word to mean something you add every single time you do something (posting a blog entry). Anyhow, let's move on to our daily special "Comment That Keyword!" With the site's layout all patched up, the amount of keywords went back up just a little bit, which is good. I'll only comment one keyword a blog entry from now on however IF I do this special, as doing more than one takes up way too much time. Also expect blog entries from me from now on having very little text but just the daily specials, maybe turning them into actual daily events.

"how much are yew log worth on runescape"

I like this question very much because I normally buy yew logs a lot on Runescape to get my fletching up, making yew longbows and selling them 550 gp each. It appears that on members, yew logs go for about 250 gp a log. However in free-to-play, you'll find yew log sellers selling the logs for only 200 gp each, a very, very good price if you're buying them! Now, if you're selling the logs, you might be dissapointed, as back in the early days of my Runescape life, yew logs went for about 300 gp each. The drop in prices is probably due to the number of macroers there are in f2p, as you can see the value is less in f2p than in p2p. If you ever want to sell them for a higher price but you're f2p, go to Runescape Community and post your sale there. I hope my input helped somebody.

Just to add a little note, I added my marketplace suggestion to the competition in the Runescape Community forums, so when the voting or whatever they do start, please vote for me. Link.

And for my last 'daily special' of the day which is actually a whole new one for this blog but in BFBv.1 was actually quite common. It's the...

Picture of the Day



Have a good one.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

First Day of 10th Grade

Today was the official first day of 10th grade! Wow, what a long day! My school did something different this year, mailed us our schedules two days before the first day. I always wanted this to happen, that way I could organize myself better and plan out where I had to be. There also was one other change, no more homeroom. Haha I found this ridiculously odd, I mean come on, what high school in America does not have homeroom?! I don't know about you, I just never heard of that really..haha homeroom is a part of the day! :P I liked it, and it will be missed. -ahem- Now after our morning locker visit we go straight to 1st period.

The first day and the last day of summer went perfectly smooth. I had a pretty good day I must say. :] It was great to see all my friends, and my schedule is picture perfect! I love everything about it, not one complaint, and I have every class with a number of close friends which is just super! For fun and myself, I will list my schedule below:

1st- Advanced World Cultures
2nd- Computer Applications III
3rd- Spanish 2
4th- SAT Prep Classes
5th- Advanced English 2
--Lunch--
6th- Advanced Algebra 2
7th- Safety Ed/ Adv. Biology/Study
8th- Gym/Study/Adv. Biology

I actually have two study halls this year, one more than last so thats real nice :D I am happy though. Today went real good. The teachers seem fine, and some I had before or know well. [: I did have homework though, yes on the very first night! Not a lot, just to read a poem and answer 4 questions, and since I had not done homework in awhile I hope I didnt write too long of answers.. -meep- I don't want to over do it the first time, but sometimes I honestly don't know how it happens or where it comes from :P

I am very tired though! I woke up around 5:30am, waddled out of bed like a duck, and took my time getting ready to leave for the bus around 7am..and I still had to rush a tiny bit, but I waited so long for the bus so..yeah, haha xD I just really wanted to get time in to write about my first day before I got ready for bed (need some sleep tonight bigtime!) I never fell asleep until midnight last night too..gosh can you believe that? x.O I guess that's it then! Adios <3 (:

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Hanging By A Moment

"I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you"

That song by Lifehouse is playing right now and I decided to start off with it's chorus since the lyrics are nice. =) Let's see what I want to talk about. Gosh, school is this Wednesday! I feel like school just ended, which is a good thing because maybe when I go back things will feel the same, and I can get used to it all again as if this was a long weekend. xP One thing I don't neccessarily favor about school ending then restarting like it does, is that it takes someone shy like me, pretty much all year to get friendly with most of my peers. I mean by the end of the year I was having conversations with people I barely spoke to before. So..now going back, as like every year, I will be too shy and won't speak to any of those people and then I feel like I have to take all year to get comfortable enough and used to it all, and catching up with other peers. If that makes any sense to you, or you can understand then that's good. Unless! Unless I saw you over the summer &you were one of my everyday friends I talked to at school to begin with, then there isn't a problem of course. xD Everyone I encounter seems to be asking me if I am ready for school. I tell them all the same line "For the most part, but not ready enough if I had to go like, tomorrow." That stands as still true right now. I sat down earlier and made a to-do list. The point is I am not really, really ready, yet excited and sort of nervous. I wish we could have our schedules mailed to us a week before. -sigh- Enough about school now.

Yesterday I spent most of the day with my bee-you-tee-full BFF, Heather Lynn :] We had lots of fun! I brought her some seashells from the beach for her and her mother, which they both seemed to like. Then we went outside, and snuck over to her grandparent's house to pick apples for the horses. That was quite fun. Heather climbed the tree to throw as many to the ground as she could, all the while wearing a red shirt which she easily could have been seen &caught in, haha. While she did that, I collected them all, pulled stems out, and placed them in a bag. In the beginning we thought her grandfather was coming or something, and it made the whole plan a lot more fun to try hiding from them so they would never even know we were there. Well when that happened, Heather flew down from the tree, and she was like 'Quick!! Grab the bag, let's run behind that tree!!' so we both were in such a rush with us both grabbing for the apple bag and running forward at the same time to where our feet got tangled and we both tripped, and the apples came flying out everywhere all over the ground! It was hilarious, and we were laughing so hard xD We got tons of apples though, and fed them to a few cows and the two horses, Belle and Ginger. Cows have such long tongues! I was scared to feed the cow an apple with my hand, since when Heather did it's tongue touched her hand and it was huge! I have a fear of what if the cow bites my hand by accident? x.O Therefore I poked a stick through my apple and fed it to the cow. It's funn..I love animals! :P

After dinner, we spent the rest of the time in Heather's bedroom. She had this huge J-14 poster of random singer guys such as "Ashley Parker Angel, Chris Brown, BowWow, Zach, Pete Wentz, and Billie Joe". It was one cool poster. We cut it up though, haha. Out of all those people, Heather and I only liked Pete Wentz (lead singer of Fall Out Boy) and Billie Joe (lead singer of Green Day), so I cut out adorable Petey for my bedroom wall, and Heather hung up Billie Joe behind her door. Tehe. I took the pic of Bow Wow for my friends Abby and Nicole, since they love him, hehe. xD We were going through all her school clothes, and her new backpack and just getting stuff together. Heather tried on like every outfit, and I tried helping her decide what she should wear the first day, and then it's confusing because there is a slightly different dress code for Vo-Tech you have to consider, and it drove Heather insane because she doesn't exactly like it. Anyways, it worked out in the end so that's good. (:

Yesterday I spent the day shopping at a dozen stores. My brother needed some stuff, and I came in hopes of finding a new skirt for the first day of school, although I didn't need anything. I found a skirt I absolutely loved at Target, and it would be in the dress code as well, but sadly, they didn't have my size, which made me depressed. Unfortunately, I won't have a new skirt for the first day of school, but that's okay, I'll wear another one and come back to Target next weekend to see if they have my size in then.

Now it is time for a short Runescape update! I played Runescape two nights since my last entry! :D I was stoked, I hadn't played it since before I went on vacation, so I finally found time too! Steve had last left me ready to start fly fishing. Luckily, it didn't take me that long to refresh my mind with where I was and what I had to do. (Runescape maps are oh so useful! Haha) Fly fishing was very neat! Your character's head bobs, and that's funny. I had over 1,400 feathers to use, and I caught so many fish (trout&salmon), that I still didn't even get down to 1,000 feathers! My fishing level went up to 32 I think, and then I cooked all those fish I caught, which caused my cooking levels to go up to 33, making it my highest! My firemaking went up a level or two as well, because my bank had reached it's limit of items to hold, so I needed to try to clean it up. I had a lot of logs from regular trees, 72 to be exact, so I burned them up. Now I am not sure where or what I will do next. I need to take a break from fishing..so we'll see what happens&where I will end up. Runescape is really fun, it keeps my attention since there is so much to do, I can't keep track of it all! :) I don't play on Neopets.com as much anymore, and have been picking RS over it lately. That's okay, there isn't much I have to do on Neo anymore. I will probably delete my 600th guild I had there, haha, and then come on whenever I want to collect avatars, zap pets, &earn NP. :) I think that'd be best. I can't have the stress from my dying guild bugging me during the school year, so now I'll try to make it so I simply can go and play any of my two favorite online games whenever I want to enjoy it and have the time :D -nods- Now I will go eat lunch, so have a good day!

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Runescape During School

A week from today and the summer for all students in my school district is offically over. Backpacks will be loaded up with school supplies as we march to our bus stops or drive our cars to school. For the next nine months, we will be bombarded with quizzes, tests, homework, studying, oral presentations, writing assignments, SAT preperations, algebra problems, studies of world cultures, biology stuff, and anything else that involves being stressed and worried about school. For every new school year, I am presented with many problems. These problems normally aim at geting used to the new teachers we have, and their homework, test types, if they're nice or mean, and whether they can actually teach or not. Once these problems are sorted out, which normally takes the whole first month or two of school, then the rest of the school year mostly glides by. Unless, however, you have one of those mean teachers who can't teach for the life of them and have the hardest tests and gives more homework than you ever had before in your school career. Then these teachers you must worry about for the whole school year. Even though teachers are only human beings just like you and me and every human being is unique and make their own mistakes, I swear some teachers just take advantage of their power of dominating over the students. They're older and they have the authority to boss around their students. I'm not saying 'boss' as in any bad means, but the same way as your boss gives you work to do at your job, therefore bossing you around. But some teachers also have their snapping points, where the stress of having to grade hundreds of papers, teach the same lessons day after day year after year, and having to put up with the bullshit of students who can't give a damn about school will cause a good teacher to go bad. With my desire of one day becoming a teacher (a computer teacher to be exact), I can sort of read teachers and their personalities and what to expect for the rest of the school year from them. If I find a teacher nice and likeable from Day One, they automatically become one of my favorite teachers. The teachers that I have my if's about on the first day, I try hard to either try to understand them or either suck up to them so that I'm on their 'Good List'. If the whole class gets in trouble, then he/she might put me as an exception. And as of yet, I have not failed to do this.

I keep on asking myself this following question and it bothers me, even though I should be worrying about more important topics. This question is, "What am I going to be doing on Runescape during the school year?" All last year during 9th grade I played Runescape and got myself to mostly where I am today. Runescape didn't affect my grades either, and if I happened to get a bad grade, I neglected myself to not play Runescape and study harder. Even though I played Runescape during the whole year, I happened to get the first rank out of all the students in my class, with a final yearly average of about a 100.600. When my mother goes on about trying to get rid of Runescape (she claims I spent my whole summer on the computer playing it, but this was mostly caused because I don't have a tan), I try to tell her that I played it all last year and got wonderful grades and 1st in the class. This being said, Runescape doesn't really affect my school grades. When I have homework to do, I don't go on the computer and do it. Or in the other case senerio, I might play Runescape for a half hour or hour right after school if I only have a little bit of homework or a small quiz the following day. Now that I think about it, I may have a lot more homework this year. Why? Last year I had a class that was a branch off of music where we watched movies and took very, very easy quizzes and tests concerning them. You never really had to pay attention to the movies because we reviewed them afterward and even got a sheet with terms on it that we defined together as a class. Our teacher was cool, Mr. Santoro, whose last year is this year and he's retiring, and he couldn't really give a damn if we did a homework assignment during his videos as long as we looked up every once in a while to see what was going on. Plus, he wouldn't start class until twenty minutes after the bell to start the period rang. I did most of my homework that I got in the morning that day (English, math, home econimcs, speech) during that class, thus not having to be bothered with it when I went home, therefore more time to play Runescape. Not having that class this year, I may have more homework than on average last year. Plus, I think we have the same amount of study halls or less as last year, which was only about one in our six day schedule.

This worries me as my addiction to Runescape has soared over the summer, being my first full summer to ever have the game, and in members. I got members last year in October, during the school year. I'm afraid that I'll be sitting there in school during an oral lesson while daydreaming about what I'm going to do next in Runescape. I do that at night sometimes, trying to conclude what I have acheived that day in Runescape and where I'll find myself the following day.

During the school year, I'll doubt I can do many things, such as training combat, slayer, and doing challenging quests, such as Shilo Village, Monkey Madness, etc. I can mostly only do skills that involve very little clicking, where I can maybe do homework on my top bunk while having Runescape playing on my laptop in the background. These skills would include fishing, cooking, woodcutting, and farming. Farming would be the perfect skill to get up high during the school year too. Why? Go on Runescape right after school and plant herbs using super compost in all four of the full farms, log off, do homework/study, and log back on in about 75 to 80 minutes to pick the herbs and then replant. I suggest doing the Ghosts Ahoy! quest to use this method like I did so you can use the ectophial teleport to get to the full farm in the Canifis area quickly. Using this method will get both herblore and farming up, two skills that many hate, but you can do these two skills while being offline. Also I'll be getting construction up during the school year. To get money, I'll be chopping magic trees while studying/doing homework and then when I get the log amount I need, I'll sell them and use that money for construction. I wish I got the dragon axe before prices soared after the recent update of the axe now being better than the rune axe, that way I could probably get magics a lot faster. However with faster magics, prices might go down. That would be good if I got 85 fletching then and bought the logs, natures, and flax and made the magic longbows and alched. I need to get construction up though, because my construction level is only 1, my only skill not on the high scores.

Enough about Runescape and school. Let's talk about the closing days of my summer, shall we? Yesterday, I went with my father and two good friends Corey and Craig to Camelbeach Waterpark, located in the Pocono Mountains near Tannersville. It was a great day there and we had without a doubt a lot of fun. Even my father enjoyed it, going on three different waterslides. He went on the blue Triple Venom tube and two of the single tube slides. He mostly enjoyed the Adventure River and just the normal swimming pool. Craig, Corey, and I went on the Triple Venom a few times (I went on the red and blue tubes only, not the middle one), Titan: The Ultimate Waterslide, Checkered Flag Challenge, Vortex, Spin Cycle, all of the tube slides including the two triple tube slides, the Adventure River, and some other slide where you rode down on a blue mat. We went into the wave pool (the Kahuna Lagoon) most of the time, enjoying it much. We didn't try out the Flow Rider though, but at the end of the day we sat down drying off and watching people wipe out on the Flow Rider. The weird thing is that I think I saw the Asain girl from the billboard advertising the Flow Rider there doing the Flow Rider. At the very end when we were about to leave, Corey, Craig, and I got our shirts and shoes on and went on the Scenic Chairlift Ride that went all the way up to Cameltop, the top of the mountain. The weird thing about Camelbeach is that it's set on a ski resort mountain. The chairlift was the ride I was looking forward to the whole time since I got there and saw it. Corey and Craig were paranoid about the height (and so was I a bit but I hid the fear) at first, but it was more enjoyable when we saw three doe and just laughed and talked, then Corey and Craig started saying hi to everybody on the other side as they were going up the mountain and we were coming back down. We were lucky because the ride was about to close just a little while after we got on. Overall, it was a great day. Even though I really hurt my back on the Vortex falling into the six feet plus deep pool, the bottom of my feet are sore from walking/running on pavement barefoot, and Corey fell off a tube on a tube slide fooling around, banging his head and the sight of him coming out of the encloused slide with the tube following him (how the tube got behind him is a wonder), is in the end all just a laughing matter.

Now I shall close this entry with a link. The other day I was writing for three hours one night and then another three hours when I awoke. What was I writing? I was working on redoing my old marketplace suggestion for Runescape, that I posted on Runescape Community back in the day. I added a lot more and it's much more of an enjoyable read. Please read it here today. I hope you enjoy it and read, because I put six hours of my life into it.

Make sure you have a good one.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Viewable in All Browsers

I haven't had the motivation to post at this blog in about five days because there was a problem with this blog that would make all people not able to see the blog entries and everything below the counter for about two weeks. And with people not able to see this content and with the amount of daily guests dropping like flies everyday (we only had six on Thursday), I felt that I shouldn't bother writing something up when hardly anybody is going to read it. Not that I'm saying there's a full fanbase of readers at this blog but to say that when people came to this blog using MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or any other browser besides Firefox, which worked fine, that they'd see hardly anything worthy and nothing at all to have a reason to stay and therefore think that this site was a load of crap. So today while I was sitting around at my sister's apartment on my laptop Runescape-less (I dare not play Runescape on the unknown wireless connection I get there ever since I was hacked the day after logging into Runescape there) and was thinking and became troubled about this problem. In the past when Dante first told me he couldn't view the entries in my blog, I just told him to download Firefox -- problem solved, but then another complaint or two came in that people with browsers other than Firefox couldn't view the blog. Then the high amount of daily page visitors started to fall, going from 40-60 to 10-30. I still let this pass thinking the browsers were having some problem recongizing some coding. But today, I linked the problem to the shoutbox.

I had another blog back in the fourth quarter of 2005, The Runescapers. It quickly failed as I didn't see the point of posting in two different blogs when I didn't put enough quality into one blog, the same theory on why I don't understand the fact that people have more than one Runescape account. As of this day I use that blog to test coding, templetes, or to post anything personally to people who don't have e-mail or IM. I have recently copied and pasted this templete to that blog to try and do some tests on why the page wasn't loading past the shoutbox. Today I used that blog. Seeing that the page wouldn't load past the shoutbox and that the navigation area on the left of this page was written in HTML before this section of blog entries in the templete editor, I knew that the shoutbox off the bat was the problem. Therefore at this, I just took the shoutbox out. Then I loaded up Swift Browser (I don't have MSIE installed on my laptop because I got rid of it a long time ago) because it's very similar to MSIE and loaded up The Runescapers. Success! -- the page could load properly and be fully viewed. I loved the shoutbox too much to just throw it away so I invisestigated the coding for the shoutbox. I loaded up the admin panel and took a look. I forgot the tag to close the shoutbox script at the end of the shoutbox. I added it, and everything worked in Swift Browser. Problem solved, a very, very big problem.

Now that I think about it, this problem happened as soon as Caitlin posted the new blog layout on the night of the blog's birthday. I remember staying over Craig's that night because he just took me to Dorney Park the day before and I loaded up Swift Browser quickly while playing Runescape at his house to check the layout and it only went down to the shoutbox. So for almost a whole month now this problem had been occuring, over a simple end tag.

In about three to four days, I'm going to go to f2p in Runescape to hang out on World 3. If you'd like to come and hang out with me, please feel free to do so. I'm keeping my private chat on for the next five days and during that visit so contact me whenever you'd like to. Also if you contact me before then, send me a special request to either take my new dragon two-handed sword or my obby shield and whip to f2p. I'll most likely ignore you though if you beg me for anything, ask for money, or be a downright bastard. I'll help you by giving advice, but otherwise that's the most I can do. Also say that you found out about me through this blog and you'll automatically make it to my friend list. If you're a member or free-to-player, come hang out with me; otherwise I'll be lonely.

And by the way, here's a picture of me with my dragon 2h, taken today.



I would probably do that Runescape event sooner, but my father is taking my friends Corey and Craig to Camel Beach on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Also as a note, I'll be taking pictures or even maybe shoot video during my little visit to f2p for the blog because Dante was complaining I don't have that many Runescape pictures, and I wish to meet everybody's wants. I know I'm nobody special on Runescape and it may seem like I'm making a big deal about this little f2p visit, but I just want to get with any Runescape players who contacted me or know me through this blog and go hang out during the day. Who knows, maybe Caitlin will show up.

And while I'm at it, I feel like commenting on a search keyword before I go and hang up my coat for the day.

"runescape random events gravedigger i lost my zombie stuff will i get it back"

If you lose your zombie items by dropping them or dying losing them that way, then there's no way to get them back other than getting the grave digger random event again and hoping you get the items you lost, which you should if you have the two emotes already -- Zombie Dance and Walk. There's nobody you can talk to if you lost these items. Just bury bones and hope you get the random.

Well, that's it for today. Have a good one.

Ocean City Vacation

Hello everyone! I'm back, safe and sound, happy and relaxed, from vacationing at the beach ;D It's nice to be back, but I feel I missed out on things for some reason. It's strange being in another state, I feel so far away, and by the end of the week I was so used to that new routine of living somewhere else that once having returned back home I didn't know what I should do, haha. Anyways I was able to write every so often about the trip. Although my whole 'paragraph a day' idea never happened. I wrote every other day or so a page or more, lawlz. I'd like to share some of it with you all now. :)

Ocean City Maryland<3
--August 12th, 2006 - Saturday--

We have arrived safely! I had to wake up at 4:30AM, so we hit the road around 5 I assume. It had to be the nicest ride thus far. Seriously, in previous summers, we usually got stuck in so much traffic, but wow! It was a lot better, and perfect timing was made. I really love long car rides (this one was 5-6hrs), and I enjoyed listening to my iPod or whatever looking out the windows. I feel real lucky&thankful to be here because it's so pretty, popular, and exciting ^^ We are staying at the same condominium as two years ago, and it's a cute lil' beachy room. After some unpacking and eating, we actually got to go right to the beach for a bit! I was soo happy. Whenever I see&smell the ocean, waves, sand, and even all the people everywhere I get overexcited. The ocean is gorgeous! I went right in the water to get used to it. Wow, the waves are so much fun because you never know what to expect. Even before the water, I ran and collapsed in the warm sand just like a little kid since it simply makes me smile<3 =) Later I jumped in the pool here at the place, then went out to the store down the block. I left my wet hair down, and for those who don't know I have curly red hair (except it's not really red..maybe copperish) and everyone kept glancing at me! Haha, I'm serious. My hair has always attracted looks and compliments since it started growing. The people at the checkout counter even said stuff and started talking to me about it. I'm flattered with all the attention, especially when I go places that aren't everyday =) Now I am pretty tired (hmm..it's 8:47PM) so that's all for today.

--August 15th, 2006 - Tuesday--

Well, I have found very little time to sit and write since we arrived. So much for a small paragraph each day xD Sunday wasn't the hottest day, so after a short time swimming we got ready to go out. Around 1PM we first went on the bus to stop by this restuarant 'English's'. I think the bus is cool, it's an Ocean City bus so vacationers don't have to drive on the packed "Coastal Highway" while here. It is 2 dollars a ticket, and once you have a ticket it is good all day, so you can get on and off all day/night. Our condo is on 140th street, and we usually take the bus to go down to 27th street which is where the boardwalk begins. It is fun to look out the windows at all the places, plus the bus gets crowded. Sometimes people have to stand and hold onto the bars. I almost fell when I had to stand this one tinme two summers' ago. Anyways we went to the boardwalk Sunday night too. It is very exciting! We walked the whole thing (27 blocks!) I enjoy seeing the ocean, shops, and rides. We went down to the pier which seems most crowded. I went in the arcade, and then had to get a look at this new ride. It's a slingshot. Two sit in this thing, and then they get shot up in the air, and fall back upside down. There is a video camera attached so I went over to see their faces on this TV screen. It looked awesome but scary :P

Today and Monday I pretty much spent my time swimming. The ocean is great, and since I don't see it often I try to spend most my time there. It's a bit chilly at first, but once I get used to that ocean water it's fine. It has been quite windy, therefore the waves were extra choppy. I got slammed hard yesterday. I was using my boogie/body board, but I guess the wave was too strong. It turned white right on my head, and next I knew my board was loose. Apparently it slammed my head into the sand underwater because I fell off and all this gross tasting salty seawater went in my nose and mouth and burns my throat. I bumped my mouth too, and my braces cut my inner lip. Not my best moment :P I love jumping around in the waves, diving through them, floating, etc. It can be so rough though!

I'm enjoying this vacation (: I love being at the beach, but I don't think I could live real close to one. Then I doubt it would be as exciting. xP I won't write much more today. I get so tired at night now after long outgoing days :P I eat twice as much too, but heh, who ever said gaining a lil' weight would be bad for meh? [; <33

--August 17th, 2006 - Thursday--

I couldn't find time to write yesterday, but I think I have enough time this morning to. :) Yesterday was yet again another beautiful day. I went for a long walk on the beach last morning. It was real nice, plus the waves were calmer forming what I call the 'island' haha xD I picked up some seashells I liked for my friends. Then I pretty much stayed in the water all afternoon since it was so nice! I was told I'm improving with swimming in those waves, haha, well it gets difficult xP I actually didn't want to leave the water, but I had to get ready, changed, and showered to go to the boardwalk another time ;-) It's fun to get all dressed up. I got to take the bus again! That's exciting too. It was packed with different people, even 3 honeymooning couples which was cute ^_^ I got to look in the shops I wanted this time, and taste some 'Polish Water Ice' or something. I like the blue raspberry flavor of course [; Then I went back by the rides. I used to go on them, but I didn't this time. I loved watching the people on the rollercoaster, and a ride called 'Freak Out' which so freaked me out, haha :P Later I went to the railing over by the inlet around 9:30PM. I looked out over the water, and saw over a thousand seagulls landing there. It was neat, and pretty with one star in the sky so I wished upon it :) Afterwards, we stopped at the market (where I froze to death from air conditioning and had to take a beach towel from their shelf and wrap it around my ice cold arms until we left because I thought I would get frostbite) :P :P I didn't get back until after 11PM :o PeeWee was coming on, and I heard it on so I wanted to watch it but uh..didn't lol :P I have to get in my bathing suit now to go to the beach :) I can't believe the week is coming to an end soon...

--August 18th, 2006 - Friday--

Time flies when you're having fun in the sun! I can't believe we are heading home tomorrow. The car is about packed as we have to leave by 10AM in the morning. I had fun, and will miss the beach. Today I made sure I stayed in the ocean the whole time with my brother. The waves were so fun. I really liked using my board, and went flying back to that shore =) I saw dolphins jumping again too!

The weather this week couldn't have been nicer, and I'm real thankful for that [; I'm ready to go home now though. School is just over a week away, and I miss my dog too. Plus y'know what I told my brother I couldn't wait to get home and play? Runescape! ^^ I guess that's all I have time to say. Adios<33

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That concludes the journal I kept while on vacation. I was chatting with Buddy Foote in GoogleTalk and he decided to list all the negative experiences he had during his one and only trip to the beach to compare with mine. He should go again someday, and see if he has a better time. I bet he would love Ocean City. Who doesn't? :P There weren't many negatives about my trip..except a few I will list here. Hmm..the hot water in the kitchen sink at the condo had a foul odor, the suntan lotion mixed with salt water started burning my cheeks, sometimes the ocean water was a bit too chilly, sand is still stuck in my hair a tiny bit, my boogie board strap broke (yet I found another to use), I thought I was having a fever and earache in the middle of one night, my brother was just..no comment, I missed Big Brother Sunday night, had gross kisses blown in my ear while walking by some old guy playing an instrument, being too shy to make conversation with strangers, and still not completeing this Sudoko puzzle. None of those aren't too bad though, haha. Now for Steve's list:

"I was buried in the sand up to my neck and I hate being in tight spaces so I paniced, screaming cusses and causing people to run over asking if I needed a shovel; my cousin John and I walked to a fishing pier about three miles from the house in water shoes (they cause your feet to be sore after time) and back, seeing a guy catch a baby shark, and then almost passing out from heat stroke on the way back; being pushed around by others to do things; John and my cousin Ryan, who is lucky to be living after a accident that crushed his car, almost drowned in the bay kyacking when they went oo far to where the bay meets the ocean, tipping over, and then a guy on a boat with his dog who my aunt calls Jesus (we saw the same guy go by when we were at the bay before this happened) came and saved them; being yelled at by my aunt because she thought I was following her around when I was just going into my mother's bedroom to grab something for her; having to watch MTV2, Fusion, and whatever else John watches on TV (I'd rather watch Discovery channel or something); being made to do things John wanted to do which I didn't want to (he wanted me to go kyacking that time he almost drowned, but luckily I said no or otherwise I may be dead right now); getting sucked underwater on my boogie board for a small amount of time, panicing; the ride to and from North Carolina, being in a van of two kids of my younger cousin's friends who threw hoagies at me, threw spitballs out of the window, and various other things, getting on my nerves and making me miserable, and, um, that's about it."

No more can I write. My fingers will cease to exist. :P I hope everything else was fine here while I was away. The end. Goodnight. Adios. Au Revoir. <3

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Rollercoasters Galore!

Point of title: making fun of my old Links Galore! that I did back in July and August 2005. But besides links, I'll be showing the pictures that I promised in my last entry about my Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 park, New Jermyn Park. But that'll be later on after I write some wonderful text.

Yesterday I was playing Runescape when about mid day my friend Joey called wondering if I felt like going downtown to Waynes Diner for lunch, and then maybe for a bike ride. Not going for a bike ride really since I was sick (besides the time I made a hair appointment for my grandmother and then got her prescription drugs) and that the restaurant had really good and cheap food, I told him I'd go with him. I swore he said that he'd meet me in front of my house, so I got ready and got my bike and waited out in front of my house. Then I started to get bored and went around the block about six times. Maybe a half hour or a little less than, I was wondering where the hell he was, so I got his cell number from my home's caller ID and called him on my cell phone. It turned out he was waiting for me in front of the restaurant and said to go there, not my house. Making a rather bad mistake, I quickly rushed up on my bike to downtown Jermyn. At Waynes, I had a BLT with a side of french fries, three mozzarella sticks, and a Sierra Mist. Afterwards, I went for a ride with him back to his house in Mayfield because his parents called him saying he had a chore or two to do. I couldn't stay, so I rode back to Jermyn to my house and resumed playing Runescape. Later on that day, Joey came back and knocked at the door. This time he was with "G". So then I went back to Mayfield, played football, with to Joey's house and played an ATV racing game, then I went back home to Jermyn. Note to Caitlin: I saw Kobrick when I was coming home that night. Kobrick was our pre chem teacher in 9th grade. I noticed somebody fat walking their dog walking down the sidewalk on Madison Avenue and looking closer I noticed it was Kobrick. I'm not too sure though because like I said, it was night and dark out. Finally, school's almost back in session and now I see her after a whole summer of being on the lookout.

Anyway, all of a sudden I just became tired, dizzy, and now I have a headache, so excuse the poor quality entry you have read and will hopefully continue to read. I guess those three eggrolls and glasses of milk didn't mix.

I was having a conversation with Dante this morning while playing Runescape and I was saying some pretty random things to him before I signed off to upload pictures to Imageshack. I was telling him that once I get 75 attack, strength, and defence (I call that 75,75,75 for short) that I was going to go to f2p for two days enforcing the rules (reporting rule breakers) and getting my firemaking up. After saying that I might go get my firemaking to 70, he pointed out that firemaking is a worthless skill and really isn't that important. And I have to agree. Firemaking is pretty worthless. The only good use is lighting a bullseye lantern or the such, then you don't really need it. However I told Dante that I bet someday Jagex will update firemaking in a big way, and when everybody has low firemaking levels, they'll start to complain. I told Dante my own bizarre update idea that I just said to be random and funny. This update will involve some icy and snowy wasteland where you must make fires to keep warm, or otherwise (like in the desert when you have no water) large amount of HP will be deducted from you. I told him that the only trees in this wasteland will be magic trees, because they're magical and can grow anywhere. I told him that when I'm 75 firemaking and sitting in this new wasteland by the fire while I'll be wearing my new fur coat that I just crafted (I guess making clothes would be crafting) that I'll be laughing at all the goblins out there, freezing to death in the artic tundra. Yes, I'm weird like that.

My current Runescape news: I gave up fighting the level 50 agressive giant spiders in the Security Stronghold and headed over to the lost city of Zanaris to fight otherwordly beings. Not only do these guys have 66 hp (16 more than the spiders) but they can drop three dragon items: dragon spear, dragon left half, and a dragon medium helmet. So far the rarest thing I got from them is a half of a key -- the teeth. So at that, I now have two half teeths and a crystal key. I'd also like to mention that my combat level is now 90. Only two more levels away from my goal. I plan on going up a level in strength and defence (being that I'm now 75 attack) once a day. That means it'll take five days or less (if I go up two levels in a day) to get 75,75,75.

And now for the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 pictures:

My amusement park, the New Jermyn Park:

A full view of my park still early in development.



I'm still working on the park in this picture but all shops, rides, and pathways are already in place. The only thing left was adding scenery including themes, benches, garbage cans, flower gardens, and full forests.



This picture was taken when I was trying to figure out the coordinates to use to have my park guests respawn in a new location due to a little bug that I have probably done myself. I used these red objects that you see in the pictures to count up the spaces from where I want the guests to spawn. And in the end, it worked out. Refer to previous post for more information.



Here's the enterance of my park. You can see the first station of the Jermyn Monorail and the mini-golf course that I have both created.



Here's one of the rollercoasters that are custom made by me. This one is called the Wild Mouse Trap and has a very high intensity rating, the highest in the park. However it is still a popular hit for the daring wanting to try it out.



Here's the ride that I have created that I'm very proud of, the Jermyn Mountain Coaster. This long rollercoaster ride (about 5 minutes plus) takes you through and up and down the Jermyn Mountain with steep drops, a long helix, and twists and turns. A popular hit in my park, as you can see by the quene line.



Here's one of the many food courts that I have in my park.



I forgot what this log flume ride was called (something like the Mountain Flume or Mountain Splash) but I too have created it myself. Another hit in the park, this ride goes right through the middle of the food court.



I believe this rollercoaster is called something like the Blue Hurricane or Ice Chaser (I forgot which). This ride was not made by me but was pre made and came with the game.



Another food court, but this one is located in the lovely woods. A quiet place, as you can see. The three gentle rides in this picture aren't really used that much.



My custom made wooden rollercoaster, the Haunted Woods Coaster. This wooden coaster features a steep drop with a loop at the end. Not much of a hit but many guests enjoy it.



The Cyclops, a rollercoaster with more loops than I can say at the moment (due to my sudden dizziness). This is my second favorite ride that I built myself. Note the one drop with the double loops.



The Jermyn Reel, a pain to make because the intensity was very high, about 17 to 18. Luckily with enough work and patience I got it down low, and got the excitement up high.



I forgot the name of this slide,but I too made it myself. It was a pain to make because the ride tracks were very close to each other and I kept on running into other parts of the ride. Finally, as you can see, I made the track complete.



Hyper Splash, my water rollercoaster. Another big hit.



My go-karts track located in the haunted woods.



My loyal park guest, Buddy K. Foote, on the Hyper Splash. He later got mad and left the park so I'll have to make a Buddy K. Foote II.



The overview of my park. Since this picture was taken I added another rollercoaster by The Jermyn Reel, so I'll have to get a picture of that someday.



The tragedy of my guests getting stuck outside of my park when they want to go home, because of that little bug I have in the path. I just try to imagine these people don't exist because it sort of ruins my funny seeing their sad faces and slow paced walking.



My old park, Jermyn Park. It has the same geography of the New Jermyn Park but different rides, and the park sucked in every way. Why? Guest got lost, there was puck everywhere and dirty paths, lots of vandelism, and I didn't have one custom rollercoaster at all in the whole park.




And for some quick Runescape snapshots:

August 2nd: While doing The Freminick Trials, I took a break to talk to my pet rock.



August 13th: Fighting the level 50 spiders in the Security Stronghold.



August 15th: Fighting otherwordly beings.



I was going to add a lot more to this entry, but I'm starting to not feel so good. So, I'm off. Have a good one.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Cabin Log

During my little 'mini-vacation' at my hunting cabin from Wednesday to Friday, I wrote down accounts from my days and any thoughts I had in my head at the time. Learning from my past mistakes of how I never seem to get anything from a paper typed up, I took my laptop to type up logs so that all I have to do is a simple copy and paste, not hours looking at a paper, then the keyboard, and so on. Plus my wrist hurts after writing a lot (oh God, can't wait for school) so I prefered to type. I would've had this posted yesterday but after coming home from the cabin early in the morning we went school shopping all day then went visiting the owners of the property my father and I hunt on. No, I don't hunt at the hunting cabin and neither does my father strangely enough. We have other "better" private land to hunt on. It's not that I don't love the cabin (oh Lord, I love that place), but it's hard to even find your common squirrel running around. We did see a fawn walking around up in the overgrown field my father cut that day for a work party and my father said he saw some deer down the road, but this was all information I never typed up at the time. These logs were four pages long in Microsoft Word and in 10 sized font, Times New Roman, so prepare yourself.

And I introduce to you, my cabin log:


August 9th, 2006 at 11:54 P.M.

I'm here right now sitting at the kitchen table at my hunting cabin
during my first out of the two nights staying up here. My father needs
a good vacation every now and then, but due to the fact that he
normally works two jobs a day, he doesn't have too much time to sit
down and do nothing. So normally we just drive up to our hunting cabin
located in Susquehanna County, PA and have a vacation here. It's nice
and quiet and you have the right touch of nature surrounding you. I
brought my laptop with me so I'm typing on it right now. Like I
expected, I don't get an internet connection in the middle of nowhere
on top of a mountain as the only houses around here are hunting
cabins. Ever see a hunting cabin with a desktop computer and a
wireless internet set up? I never did. However I'll be sure to
recommend that suggestion if I'm ever a member of this cabin someday.

Today we left the cabin around six in the afternoon and drove up to
New York state to Five Mile Point, a stock car racetrack. The races
there were fast, good, and accelerating, the way I like them. No major
crashes though, but you had an engine failure, blowout, and maybe a
small crash of three cars, but nothing bi…actually, there was a crash
that involved everybody besides three cars, but that'll just be my
little secret. The only downside of these races was that the cars
kicked up a lot of the dirt that was on the track, causing practically
a sandstorm. Well, it didn't just kick up dirt (which I didn't mind
because I was wearing protective eyewear) but rocks, and I kept on
getting hit by these rocks. For their small size, they actually hurt.
I thought some idiot was throwing small pebbles at me until I realized
that these idiots were the racecars. However I must say, this couple
sitting by my father and I were quite strange, and their friend
dropped the "f-bomb" as every adjective and adverb she used in a
sentence.

I'm still feeling like shit though. This medication that I'm taking is
making me tired and somewhat dizzy especially this purple liquid stuff
that I take at night. I really didn't do anything at all today besides
lying on a couch in the living room reading my third and last required
summer reading for school, Fahrenheit 451, eating barbeque potato
chips, watching TV, sitting outside by the fire which I let die once
while taking a bathroom break (don't ask a break from what because I
was sitting down), and then the races. I did fish in the pond from the
dock for a while, but the sun just made me too hot so I went back in
the much cooler house. I caught only three fish, bluegills I think.
They were the tiniest fish I caught yet. Actually the third one was a
decent size now that I think about it.

When I woke up this morning before getting ready to leave to the
cabin, I remember having two dreams, or maybe one dream with two
separate parts. One dream was bad and one dream was good. Let's start
with the good, shall we? Remember my rant in my last entry about how I
can't get any park guests in Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 because of a
little error that I made using a trainer? Well, the good dream was
that I used the second trainer that I had to relocate the respawning
location for the guests so that they could avoid the path that they
turned around at. At the relocation, the guests could work in and out
of the park like normal, but the main point was that I had guests, and
that week plus work I put into that park paid off. That's the thing
about a video gaming life. You can put your life into a single player
game but you'll really never get anything worth out of it besides a
good gaming experience. Why not multiple games? Well, you can harness
your skills and perfect them in a fighting, racing, etc. game that you
can use against friends or opponents online. And also MMORPG's like
Runescape too also apply because what you work for can be interacted
with others. Get a high combat level, you're a worshipped warrior.
Have a high woodcutting level, people praise you. Have a nice house
with steel dragon in the dungeon, people will declare you rich, beg
for money, and cause another 6.6.06 glitch. Funny, as my second dream
has to deal with Runescape. I have this fear of the evil chicken. This
random event is just too powerful to be placed as a random event.
Well, any random event can be powerful, but this bastard just attacks
you out of nowhere for no reason. At least a random fight like the
strange plant or the Mr. Hyde gives you a chance to turn down the
fight. You may argue with me about tree spirits, golems, and river
trolls, but I'll argue back saying that these guys at least require
doing something to trigger these random events. For a chicken, you can
be standing there having a good chat and he comes along shooting evil
beams of death at you. Well, in my dream, I remember I died probably
from an evil chicken and I kept what was supposed to be the three best
items I had, but instead it was the three worst items, which was like
an herb, 10k, and something else. That got rid of my abyssal whip,
obby cape and shield, dragon med, rune plate and legs, ring of wealth,
glory amulet, etc. which is about 4 mil+ right there. I think I was
actually in f2p when this happened, high alching in Varrock while
talking to other members near the castle. Or maybe I was at the ice
giants/warriors. I just don't remember. But I do remembered that I
cried, hard.

I once read that a guy got a dragon chain from dust devils and he
buried a bone because his inventory was full before he picked up the
chain. With his luck, the grave digger random event pops up, takes him
away, and leaves the chain on the ground for others to take; or if
nobody to take it, to disappear into thin air. Actually I don't
remember if the item was in fact a dragon chain, but it was some very
expensive item, or expensive at the time of this loss. Actually I
think he was fighting black dragons but…maybe not. I read this on the
official Runescape forums so I can't go back to get any information.

Well, I'm tired and I need to get to bed because we may go for a walk
to New York (which is just a long way up the road) in the morning or
sometime tomorrow so I need to gather up some energy that I never
really got back from this cold. I swear, if this cold ruins my first
couple days of school, I'll be pissed. You NEVER want to miss the
first days of school, never.

Have a good one.


August 11th, 2006 at 12:12 A.M.

Some people say one or the other, either that dreams do come true or
that they don't. Well in my case, one of those two dreams I spoke
about last night did indeed come true. Being that I don't have
internet access at this hunting cabin so that takes out the Runescape
dream (thankfully), but the other dream did apply -- having park
guests in my Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 park that I worked for days on.
This morning after having a good Runescape dream about getting a half
dragon shield as a drop, I ran Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 quickly before
going outside (we didn't go on the walk to New York state because my
father woke up later than you'd otherwise have to) and opened up the
trainer and fooled around trying to get the guests to respawn at that
point. Finally I got the coordinates right -- X:10, Y:90, and Z:0. I
was pretty damn happy about this because I can finally see my park
enjoyed by little virtual people that all appear to be adult men with
brown hair, just like in my dream that night, and I wanted to keep on
dreaming that dream because I was happy that my goal was working, and
a similar situation happened in this case because I wanted to keep on
playing, but I had to go outside and enjoy myself in nature. I didn't
come here to go on the laptop, I came here to go fishing, shooting,
burning things, etc. -- things you can't do in a town near the city.

On another note, my father's friend came up today and is staying up
here for a while. We had a fish fry and ate a baked potato cooked in
the fire pit. Then we sat outside the rest of the night until about
11:30 talking, but I was mostly listening and laughing at the jokes or
any funny comments.

Because my bladder is about to burst and that wouldn't be a good
sight, I'm going to proceed to the bathroom and finish this blog entry
part right here. Have a good one.

By the way, I hope that dragon shield dream comes true. It would give
me motivation to do the Legends' Quest.

August 11th, 2006 at 12:40 A.M.

Nevermind, I'm back. Now that my bladder is empty I feel refreshed
enough to type. I'm probably going to hit the hay ("And what did the
hay ever do to you?") in about twenty to thirty minutes anyway. Once I
take my cough medicine I'm knocked out. I swear, between the
prescription capsules and this cough medicine plus the Motrin I forgot
to take all day, I swear the doctor is trying to make me be a lazy bum
who's going to go work nowhere and…anyway, this medicine really knocks
me out cold. It's like sleeping medicine, but isn't. Damn side
effects. May cause drowsiness. Sure hell does. I'm not drowsy really
but it gives me one of those headaches that feel like your eyes and
packed with something and all congested and just one of those
headaches you get when you're extremely tired. Well, I could've been
in the best spirits, take the medicine, and be a cranky baboon within
minutes. I swear, mood changes these days…

Not having the option to play Runescape up here, I think about it a
lot. Actually Wednesday morning before we came up, I had to quickly go
on RuneHQ and see what my combat level would be at 75 attack,
strength, and defence because it was really bothering me for a while
to figure this out. And God, it would be driving me crazy right now.
With 75 attack, strength, and defence, 52 prayer, and 74 hit points
(it would probably be higher because mine is 72), I would be 92.5
combat. Pretty good in my book. Now something else is bothering me. Do
ice giants drop dragon left halves? I don't think so because isn't the
formula that any monster who drops gems, wait…do ice giants dr…I don't
know, I'll save it until I get internet access. Why ice giants?
Because in my dream I think I got the dragon half shield from an ice
giant. I remember there being snow on the ground and in a cavern and
whatever I killed too also dropped big bones.

Being that I'm supposed to go school shopping tomorrow, I got a paper
and pen and headed up near the fire outside before to write up a list
of things I needed. My favorite two items were the following:

*Upgraded laptop RAM -- makes researching faster and easier
*Preorder the Nintendo Wii -- will reduce stress and calm nerves

Showing the list to my father, he laughed and said that I'm funny. I
need a Wii though. I can live without the laptop RAM for maybe another
year or two or three, but that Wii, I couldn't last a day after the
release date without holding one. I mean, I just want to try out that
controller already. It looks amazing and I need it.

Well, I'm not sure if I'm going home tomorrow (actually today) or not,
because we're getting this crazy idea circling around the place about
staying for another night. Oh yes, I finished Fahrenheit 451 today.
Great book. I highly recommend it. Overall with the three books I read
this year, I found out two things. One, I read the books within a two
day time period. Two, the books all had a rather sad or depressing
ending. I hope I just didn't ruin anything for anybody, but there were
no "happily ever after" said within the books I read. Just treason,
misunderstandings, losses, deaths, war, and rebels.

I'm off to look at the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 pictures I took today. Night.


August 11th, 2006 at 9:12 A.M.

As I said before today at night, I stated that the prescriptions I
take seem to make me tired and drowsy, but ever since I started taking
them I've been remembering my dreams more and more and have been doing
weird things at night, such as screaming in my sleep. My father and
his friend said that just this morning before I woke up, I screamed,
"Zachary!" (my nephew's name). And they said I was pretty pissed off
about whatever Zach did. But I could actually remember the dream and
yelling his name in it, but I guess somehow my brain made my mouth
move and vocal cords to trigger and made me say it also in the real
world. In the dream, Zach and I were having some gaming contest and I
was winning somehow because of my laptop and he was pressing buttons
on the laptop so I yelled at him. I scream or say stuff at night
sometimes, but doing it two nights in a row isn't that right.

Okay, time to walk to New York. Bye.


August 11th, 2006 at 11:00 P.M.

My day: Woke up around 9:30 this morning after yelling out load in
my sleep, went for a three mile walk to New York and back because we
were chased away by a black lab (thankfully because besides a six mile
walk we would have went on a seven mile plus walk), we went to get
firewood in the back woods behind the cabin so I pushed five
wheelbarrow loads of logs back and forth up and down hills back to the
fire pit, then we went for a ride in the truck to see how far and
where the road that we turned around at on our walk was, then we went
to this spot where my father spotted fish several times on the side of
the road on our walking path so we grabbed two fishing poles and went
to see what fish were in there (they were native trout and we kept
them in the bucket to put in the cabin's pond -- we did this several
times afterwards and now twelve trout are happily swimming in our
pond), then we went for another ride all the way to a store because my
supply of chips and lemonade ran out, then we got a fire going while
fishing at the dock and later on toward the evening I shaved for the
first time in my life and we sat around the fire until just now
talking and bullshitting. A busy day indeed. A good day also. Ha, I
should've mentioned that we ended up staying another night, that
little factor might've been important in this great novel of death,
gore, and all things pink. Now tomorrow early in the morning we have
to quickly pack up, leave, go school shopping, come home, and then my
favorite part of the day, play Runescape! I needed a big break from
Runescape though and this mini vacation is just doing the thing. But I
have to ask myself, if we had internet access up here, would I be on
Runescape? Probably not just because I wouldn't want to risk losing my
account using an unknown internet connection just like in my last
hack. Plus once I started playing, I'd probably never go outside which
would sort of destroy the vacation.

My father and friend kept on bullshitting about when I woke up this
morning and shouted "Zachary!". Well, my father told me that yesterday
morning I said, "God dammit, I knew you'd drop it on my fingers!" I
don't remember dreaming that or what caused me to say that, but I
laughed hard when he told me that. Something that random being
screamed at night like that is just rather scary for other people. My
father's friend, Spunk, said that he was sitting on the couch this
morning talking to my father when all of a sudden I screamed that. He
jumped. That's because I'm just a quiet person you wouldn't expect me
to yell. I do yell when I'm mad, but bottom of the line, that's that.
Or if somebody is far away, of course, that's only natural.

So I achieved two things this vacation. My first shave ever and
finishing the required summer reading books. Oh, and walking to New
York. So that's three. Let me tell you, when I shaved I was freaked
out that I was going to cut myself and bleed to death right there on
the spot because the nearest hospital is what, miles and miles away.
So on my first shave (yes, I sort of shaved twice today) I walk
outside to have my father approval my shave, but he said I missed
about three clumps of facial hair, some sideburns, and I had shaving
gel in my hair that I didn't see to get out. So I headed back in and
took my time and shaved everything right. Even my moustache, which I
didn't intend to shave at first.

Wait, I need to get this out of my system:

"Oompa oompa oomph-ade-do! I got something to tell you!"

Okay, I'm better now.

Well, I'm going to go to bed soon. I'm just dying to see what I'm
going to randomly scream out tomorrow morning. This medication I tell
you, plays with my mind.

August 12th, 2006 at 9:34 A.M.

Time to go home.



--Log over.--

And no, I didn't say anything in my sleep that night.

Now I will conclude this topic with my new feature that was introduced in my last entry, "Comment That Keyword!" For more information, go to my last entry.

"zezima's marriage on runescape"

I got these five keywords from last night and when I saw this, I thought it was just some random bullshit where somebody stuck Zezima in a situation. I'm not a person who points at something and says it's not real. I believe everything is real in a way. But this whole view changed today while surfing Runescape Community while 'afk training' at the level 50 spiders in the Security Stronghold (by the way, I'll be at this place for a while taking breaks to fish more swordfish for food, so drop in and train with me; everybody welcome -- and say you know me from reading this blog for a cookie). I was looking at the main page when I saw out of the corner of my eye something about Zezima getting married. So interested and remembering this keyword, I clicked on it to find out more information. Here's the page. As you can see, Zezima (whose real name appears to be Peter) married in-game his real life girlfriend Eli. And the wedding was also done in a very formal fashion. Note that the wedding took place at a player-owned house. I don't know whose though, maybe Zezima's. I was there before twice but I never went exploring to find his cathedral. Enough said here, let's move on.

"is swiftswitch a scam?"

I don't see in any way possible how SwiftSwitch can be a scam because it doesn't cost any money and is entirely safe to use, no keyloggers or viruses attached to the file. But we careful and download SwiftSwitch at it's offical site or at Zybez because you could get a fake that may have a keylogger putting your account at risk. But answering the question simply: no.

"how to make a mil on runescape"

Many people would say to merchant, but I never once really merchanted besides having bought my rune scimmy for 100k and then selling for 105k. Wow, 5k profit. That's nothing to many merchanters. However I'm going to say this: Don't be an impulsive spender and save your money. Many people might get 100k, see a good offer in a bank, and blow it there. Like when construction came out, I bet that money being saved up flew out the window within hours. That's the bad thing about Runescape, you send money faster than you make it.

Mostly there's three main ways to make money: merchanting, staking, and player killing. I hate all three. I do the fourth big way which I respect, high alching. I buy things, put them together, and alch to make a profit. Somebody once told me that you aren't supposed to make a profit alching, but I sure as hell do. But my method requires already having 700k to spend, so many wouldn't do this. Therefore I won't be bothered to tell you.

I honestly forgot how I got my first mil. I just never spent money, at all. I got everything by myself and was a self-centered person. Part of it was cutting yews and selling them. Another part selling raw lobsters. Now for a quick one million gp, I just need to spend a day in a half cutting 1k magic logs. So my suggestion: get your woodcutting to 80 cutting yews. Sell the yews. If you don't have a million yet which you probably should (you need 9,785 yew logs to get from 60 to 80 woodcutting which if sold 250 gp each equals 2.4 mil gp right there) cut magics. But like I just said, you'd have 2.4 mil if you were exactly 60 woodcutting. I actually got my woodcutting up chopping maples for fletching, but you can do whatever you want. Otherwise, catch sharks.

"september pokemon pillow"

I'm looking at this and wondering how it goes together and even more importantly how the hell they got to my site. Actually now that I remember, Chase did a review on Pokemon, but where that that pillow part come from? Well, the word pillow before this post was mostly said somewhere so they just got on here then.

By the way, I'm selling Pokemon pillows next month.

"zezima neopets"

Zezima is a twenty-one year old man who just got married in-game to his real life girlfriend and is attending college -- I highly doubt he plays Runescape. Maybe there's a different Zezima who goes on Neopets, but I say I highly doubt it. I'll ask Caitlin to look at this when she comes back from vacation.

"how do you let the firewall let swiftswitch work"

It really depends on the firewall, but let's say you're using the Windows firewall that's already installed in newer computers. You just go in there and allow SwiftSwitch as one of the programs to access the internet. For step-by-step instructions, I can't help you there. Sorry.


After all this time I forgot to mention a video made by my Runescape buddy, Dante, that features Zezima in it. In the video, Zezima and Dante trade each other. Dante gave Zezima a free ranarr seed and then Zezima goes to the bank and returns with a ranarr seed and trades it to Dante. Pretty funny if you ask me. Note: Dante is the one in this film wearing the full dragon armour. This was before he was scammed for his Santa hat and gave everything away. A tragic event for his Runescape career. But with hope, I convinced him to chop magic trees and get back into shape. He's doing good now, but I think he's on vacation (geez, everybody is going on vacations lately). Video is here.

By the way, I read on Runescape Community today that if you were hacked, you cannot be a mod because they state that your account isn't secure, which would cause problems if a hacker got onto a mod's account and went around muting the world. Hopefully I won't be affected by that because I made my account very secure and when Dante mailed Jagex on their site explaining to them how I helped him get back into the game and how I'd make a good, caring mod, they mailed back aying that I'm doing everything right, I'm following the rules, and that I have a great chance of being a mod. Cheers to Dante and Jagex!

I'm out. Have a good one while I go back on my road to 92 combat!

Friday, August 11, 2006

No Internet

It's official. I, Caitlin, cannot live without the internet. :P I haven't been online in 4 days straight, eh it was torture, haha. Everything was fine until Tuesday morning when I woke up to sign online &then poof, 'No connection could be made.' =( So..since we have dial-up (which I don't like and has been causing me problems for years), I picked up the second telephone line for the internet and it was making this loud crackle sound. That's happened before but not that distinct of a crackle, so I was like 'Alright, I can go a day without being online..' but the next day, and the next, and the next it continued. Finally progress was made Thursday night and the telephone company was called and they said they will come and fix the problem, which is theirs, between 9-4 today, Friday. It's currently 9:06AM on Friday and I am offline writing this in the program Notepad while I wait with my fingers crossed that I will return to the world wide web today to post this. :P Haha..so..since I had no internet and nothing to do at times the past few days, I tried to keep myself busy which didn't exactly work. This would have been fine if it happened when I had a lot of things to do..but I really wished to be online most of the time. Ow..my finger is bleeding again now. Just 5 minutes ago I sliced my finger on a can of dog food in case you were wondering xP

So..back to my internet hiatus. :P Haha..hm I played a computer game I have called 'Theme Hospital' during these past few days, and it got me so aggrevated I announced I won't ever play that game again, yet I do and did. xD It's a game where you create and run your own hospital..like you hire the staff, and build the diagnosis and treatment rooms, etc. It's fun, but the goal is to beat each level and move up to a new hospital with new elements, equipment, diseases etc. I can only make it to level 4 and then I don't know, it just won't let me win. Everything goes crazy in that level on me, all the patients have vomitting virus attacks and my handymen are slow and even if I set them so they only can mop floors, I find them watering plants?!? Plus, I don't know why this goes on, but as more patients arrive, they must check in at the Receptionist desk first, but I watch this, and more people arrive and have to sit and wait in the queue (sp?) line till theres like 20+ people waiting and I don't understand what the Receptionist is doing that she lets people pile up like this until they get stuck in my doorways. It drives me craaazy, and it's a bad thing because the patients can't sit and wait forever. After a certain time a skeleton slowly starts appearing on top their heads which means they are so sick that this better get moving so they can be treated before they die. And they do die, it's interesting too. They collapse over and either a devil looking thing appears with a weapon and a hole forms in the ground of lava firey looking-ness and the person falls in, OR they float up to the sky with wings. I am sure its pretty obvious what the two represent haha, but I find that interesting, yet it makes me mad because the more people I lose to death, my reputation goes down helping me fail the level. Anyways, it gets on my nerves that I can't beat that level, I try and try over and over but no luck. =/ I'd so so so much rather be online playing Runescape over that game. Haha grr I am determined not to play that game until the next internet breakdown in my house, haha.

When I wasn't playing that hospital game, I was outside reading my last summer book for school, The Pearl, which I finished at 7 this morning. Yes I was up at 6AM for no reason except that I was. I decided I don't have a favorite out of the three books, I liked them all equally. They were no where near being a favorite of mine, but not terrible either, just inbetween. I also spent time outside on my bike, playing Pokemon Silver (hahahaha..yep.) or went walking down to my stream sometimes. One point I'd lie in the hammock or something, and think what I must be missing in the online world. The internet has just become a big part of my life I guess (although with all sarcasm put aside, I CAN live without it..I would just rather not okay? =), so I am used to going on it often and checking out what I check and talking to whom I talk too. :P I was wondering what e-mail I had, which affies & visitors tagged my website, if Buddy Foote had written any entires while Chase and I weren't on for a few days, if Steve was feeling better, if my friend Ashley decided what day to have her party so I could come to it after my vacation, if my friend Abby wondered where the fig was at, if my guild members decided to leave rather than stick around for me to return after August 20th, hmm and even if any new neopet avatars came out. That's all I can think of now..

I also miss Runescape, a lot. The last time I was online was Monday night when I was left at this new area I completely forget everything about by now. I was excited to go on the next day and play, but obviously I never did. I had been playing Runescape again finally. Now it's blurry in my mind what I accomplished to tell you about. Well I know my combat, fishing, cooking, and prayer levels went up more than once but no way do I remember what the current numbers are now. Steve came down to my free world one night, and that's always a lot of fun =) I did some fishing and then cooked my fish on his fires. Later he took me to some cows that were closer to a bank, but I think I forget how to get there now but I'll definately have to go back again [; I also was collecting chicken feathers! At first I had a feeling it would be a long, tedious task, but I will admit feeling reluctant to leave that spot when Steve wanted to take me elsewhere, since I had fun collecting those feathers. :P It didn't take me very long to reach 1,000 but I liked that spot (: I ended up by a fishing spot, and I had bought a new fly fishing rod I think..and I guess the feathers are for that? Anyways I never got to go on the next day and try fishing or anything so I forget some now =/

Normally I would say next, 'After I post this entry I should get to play Runescape finally!' Although that wouldn't be true. If the phone people show up (I hope before 4pm), then I'll be jumping like a frog to sign online, post this, update my site, send out the affie gift &vacation notice, check mail, and hopefully chat with Abby, Stephen and maybe Ashley (not neccessarily in that order) because I am leaving tomorrow! :P Yes yes yessss! Tomorrow is Saturday, August 12th, and I'm leaving early in the morning for Ocean City =) This means I'll be on vacation at my favorite beach resort for a week. (: I will be coming home the 19th..but may not get to come online until the next day. Anyways I am very excited! The reason I wouldn't be able to play Runescape is because I have to help pack up the car, go to the library, get ice for the kooler, and jump up and down. To let you all know, not just me, but Chase as well will be gone with me so neither of us can post any entries until we come back. That shouldn't be a problem though, Steve's entries are more interesting I'm sure ;) I am bringing a small journal and pen in my bag though, so in free time (hopefully each night) I can sit out on the balcony and write a paragraph about that day so I can type it all up and have a vacation entry when I return :)

Wooo. This is a large entry. Well I keep on sitting here, typing, packing, then returning to type some more so this entry filled up fast, haha. I guess this is it then. I hope everyone has a wonderful summery week and you will hear from me (and Chase) soon. -waves- Adios<3

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Blog Problems

It has come to my attention one day while playing Runescape a while back that my friend, Dante, told me that he couldn't see the entries in this blog. After telling him to download Firefox, he was able to see the entries, the new layout, and everything that this blog offers. However this was the only problem at the time that I was aware of, as the average unquie visitors a day were 40 to 60, even reaching 90+ for two days after the new blog layout was releashed to the public. However, recently I saw a huge decline in the number of visitors, and many complaints from a few readers saying that they can't see squant in my blog, in terms of what you're reading now (if you could read it, to which you wouldn't have saw this entry at all). After having a discussion with Caitlin about if the layout was made to be compatable with only a certain browser, she said that this layout wasn't made for only one browser and was before friendly with all, including Internet Explorer, to which she edited this new layout in that browser. It seems that AOL and IE (Internet Explorer) are the only browsers thusfar not working well with viewing this blog, however I have not tried others, such as MSN, AOL Explorer, etc. I'm reaching out to everybody and saying, "Download Firefox!" Firefox seems to be the only browser at the time that can fully view this blog, and I think is the best web surfing internet browser out there. To download Firefox as I am too lazy to provide a link at this very minute, go to the link in the left sidebar underneath "Site Best Viewed In" in the form of an image banner saying "Firefox". Hopefully you already have Firefox and you're able to see this entry. Caitlin too also told me that one of her other sites is too acting up in IE, so maybe it's a problem with the browser? No matter what, just get Firefox, have it or not, download it again.

Also in other news concerning this blog: Caitlin and Chase are going on vacation shortly for x number of days so the rate of being updated with new blog entries will be lowered, as I too am going to my hunting cabin for the next, um...three days (?) and you know how I am with posting entries. But I'm not sure when the two are leaving to go away so maybe there will be a gap there and we can keep you updated long enough to satisfy the thirst for knowledge about, oh what's the word...stuff. And yes, that means I'll have to take back the reins for a few days, week, or however long (I swear I knew this information in the past but [here comes the famous line] due to my short memory span I most likely forgot) and keep this blog going. I don't know if I could though. I became lazy once Caitlin came along, and even more lazy when we picked up Chase at the local 7/11 for lunch. Let's see what comes of this. Who knows, maybe I'll post those two month overdue pictures I promised.

Now I need to write up a small rant that'll probably grow very, very large. Ever since I came back from Dorney Park about two weeks ago (wow time goes by fast) I really wanted to play Rollercoaster Tycoon so that I could create my own amusement park. Not really wanting to play Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 because it got old over the years, I tried to pirate (yes, I'm a bad person...) Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Well, that didn't work out. The closest I got to actually getting a copy was a Portugese version of the game, and damn they have a lot of accents in their words. I couldn't get past the installation in that, so I gave up and played Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 on my laptop making the "New Jermyn Park". Because I'm a bad person and cheater in all single-player games, I went and downloaded a trainer, a program that you have to run in the background of the game to get cheats that would otherwise require complicated Hex editing to have access to. So I booted that up, put some cheats on, and played the game wasting hours of my life. I put the span of building the park at once over a few days. Well, today I went to open the park and put some advertisements up for it when I realized that nobody was entering my park. Confused, I followed the path to where the park guests spawned at the map boundary to find that half-way in this path the guests were turning around. After looking into this, I found out that this part of the path was owned by the park and guests can't go on park land without entering the park enterance, which was pretty far away. This was probably because of the "Own All Land" option in the trainer. I then downloaded a second trainer that said you could disown land, but that was very limited and you could really only invert land that is owned to unowned land and vice versa. I got to the point of actually being depressed in the end. Why? Because this was the best fricking park I ever made filled with themes, forests, my first good custom made rollercoasters, wide paths, tons of staff, and a very beautiful landscape, containing lakes, rivers, and a pyramid; and guests couldn't come in to enjoy it. I might take time to post pictures of my "guest-less" park someday. If at all you know of any advice for me to fix this problem, please feel free to comment here and type your heart away.

Now for my Runescape update. I found a new great plan to get money and I have achieved it once, but later learned of a plot turn that I might experience later on. This plan: buy 1k yew logs for 250k, buy 1k nature runes for 300k, and buy 1k flax for 100k; fletch the yew logs into yew longbow (u), spin the flax at Seers and put on the unstrung bows, and then have a party alching the strung longs. I did this once and did indeed make a profit, plus an even bigger profit because I had extra yew logs, bow string, and nature runes in my bank already. Then after doing this, I thought of high alching the 2.1k maple longbows I had in my bank. I went around trying to buy nature runes in the banks but to my disappoint found no sellers this time around. There were probably six guys buying natures but nobody selling at every major bank I went to. Finally I went into #rsmarket on SwiftIRC and found somebody selling natures for 350 gp each. I would still make a profit, but not as big as buying for 300 gp each. After trying to haggle for these natures at a lower price, I ended up buying at the original price of 350 gp, 735k for all 2.1k natures. Being that maple longbows are f2p items, I thought I'd hang out there and alch them, reporting any rule breakers that I came across and chatting with fellow members and new players in need of help. Many begged for stuff but I just said I was poor, which got most away until they went to point out the 4.2 million gp stuff I was wearing/weilding (however I wasn't wielding my whip but a fire staff, so that made the net worth of the items wearing decrease greatly). I got my magic to 66 doing this. When I was done, I went fishing at Caterby and got it up a level to have access to the Fishing Guild. So now I have access to all skill guilds and all guilds besides Legends. Currently I was training at the ice warriors and ice giants and doing slayer, but my last assignment was to kill 55 shades, and I didn't do that quest yet so I must Burthope yet again.

Now for a new special that I plan on applying to all new entries. I'm always interested in the search keywords that people use to stumble across this blog, so I thought that I'd comment on them, or answer them if they're in a question format. However I'll point my finger right now and say go on RuneHQ or Zybez if you need any Runescape questions answered (most of them are relating to Runescape) but I'll tend to them anyway. Plus, another reason I'm doing this is because many people can't find the answers to their questions right away in the huge entries here. Will they come back to get there answer? Probably not, but it's here for future reference.


"runescape braking into banks"

I'm going to think that this man is probably another new hacker who wants to know how to get rid of a Bank PIN so that he can break into somebody's bank. Or this person is a new player and thinks he can break into other banks. If that's the case, then no, you can't -- and don't dare try.

"how do you the key to the blue dragons in talvery dungeon"

Now here's a good question that I'm willing to answer. To get the key to enter the blue dragon den, you need the enter the black knight area of the dungeon. To get here, do not cross the bridge going over to the chaos dwarves and later on the lesser demons, but continue straight until you get to the hill giants. Still continue and go straight past a door in the black knight area. Then go east at this point until you find a Jailer. Kill him and pick up the jail key. Use the jail key on the door holding a man. Tell the man you wish to explore or something among those lines and he'll give you a Dusty Key. That key is your literal key to enter the blue dragon den. Just go back, but this time going across the bridge to the chaos dwarves and lesser demons, and use the Dusty Key on the locked gate. For a Dusty Key respawn, continue past the blue dragon den until you get to where you can fish lava eels for the Heroes Guild quest. By three baby blue dragons is the Dusty Key respawn. Hope that helped.

"joe tuzze"

He went to Lakeland Jr/Sr High School during the time I was in 7th and maybe 8th grade. He was the star football player of our school at the time. I remember rooting him on during the football games when he would run up the field with the ball for a touchdown. I did see him in the hallways a couple of times. He's now playing football for some college that I forgot the name of. I'll have to ask my friend Corey about that. He's a good man and made a mark in our school's history. Can't wait for the upcoming football season though.

"where is the talvery dungeon in runescape"

South of Taverly, northwest of Falador. To get there from Taverly, go south past the small town's boundaries into a forest of dead trees. Around this area near the ocean you should see an exclamation mark on your map indicating a dungeon. That's the Taverly Dungeon. If you can climb over the crumbled wall in Falador, do so and walk west until you get to the mine. Then go up the hill and go northwest. You should get to the dungeon shortly.

"runescape how much is abyssal whip worth"

Looking at the Zybez Market Price Guide, whips as of Augest 8th, 2006 are 2,500,000gp - 2,600,000 gp. I bought mine for the 2.6 mil back in July. Many people, however, are selling for 2.7 mil as I have seen in populated banks. These guys are probably merchanters, as the guys out there who have the 85 slayer to get whips as a drop normally sell for a reasonable price. Whip prices have been like the stock market recently (you can't really say that for party hats because they don't fall and rise, they just dramatically rise) so beware. Try buying whips for 2.5 mil, no lower. Believe me, you won't get any sellers. If that doesn't work, try 2.55 or 2.6 mil. And believe me on this note too: whips are the best.

Now that's all I have for you now. Five comments a day should keep the doctor away. Have a good day.