Monday, January 29, 2007

Too Old?

I was searching the internet the other day on my newly updated laptop (the complaining about the needed RAM actually pulled through when I said that it would be vital for future college purposes) when I stumbled onto Youtube and was watching some random videos. I don't know what made me do it, but I clicked on somebody's user profile on there and was looking at it when I spotted a comment that somebody made. I do not remember it too clearly, but it was something among the lines of "your 31 and still on the internet? get a life!" That comment right then and there made my blood pressure boil and I was furious at the person who left that comment. Why? Because there is no age limit on the internet for freaking crying out loud! My mother is 49 (I think) and she has her own MySpace because it gives her something to do in her spare time. Craig said that he was playing Runescape the other day and this one high leveled player said that they were 40, and were highly honest about it. Now I want to be a computer science teacher, meaning that I'll be going on the internet until I retire. Honestly, just because this 31-year old has a YouTube account doesn't mean that he doesn't have a life! Maybe you're the one being the hypocrite and because you're on the internet for nine hours you assume that everybody else who uses it is on it that long also. My father uses the internet for checking mail, the weather, etc. Does he have a life? Hell yes! He works two to three jobs a day and mostly has to go running errands afterwards. He does in fact have a life and he uses the internet. Wow! Now isn't that surprising? Somebody has a life and uses the internet... Just because most internet sites that you may go on has people on it ranging from 12-17 year old doesn't mean that there's tons of forums and sites with 20-60 year olds. The internet isn't all about fun and games. It's used for essential everyday usage just as checking important e-mails, stocks, weather, getting a cooking recipe, or maybe playing a flash game or two to waste some spare time or to relieve stress. Plus, what's your definition of a life? Can't the internet be a part of your life? What's wrong with that? Can't you get away from reality for once and have a screen filled with pixels as your barrier to the outside world? I sure as hell include the internet as a part of my life, and I do indeed have a life at the same time. My definition of a good life might be different than somebody else's. It's all opinions and most of these ignorant fools are just stamping stereotypical labels on everybody's foreheads that they come across on the street. I could go on forever about this, but I want to go on a different subject for a second.

About an hour ago I was playing Runescape, standing over the duel arena in World 18 alching the 6.2k yew longs I fletched. Somebody asked what sports everybody played and I replied, "I don't play any sports." Well, the first thing somebody said back to me was, "lol lil fatty" Well, I quickly got into a clean argument then. I was trying to explain to the person that just because you don't play sports doesn't mean you're fat, and vice versa. The only reply I got back then was "shut up fatty". Then I try to tell them that I'm 6 feet tall and 149 pounds (which I truthfully am) and they don't reply, probably doubting me because more than half of the Runescape population is filled with liars about real world topics. Then I tell them that my average in school for the second quarter was a 101.6429 (which it truthfully is as we just got report cards today) and then everybody starts calling me a nerd. Then they go on about how they're smart but they just don't study all day and all night...I mean what the hell? Who the hell said that I study every minute of my life with my freaking nose in a book!? I actually hardly study yet I still get my good grades. And when I say hardly I mean less than thirty minutes. A big difference than a few years ago when I would do horrible if I didn't study for a test for more than two hours, but I improved dramatically on remembering things. Then I stated, in the game, that "at least I'm going somewhere in life..." and this guy said "lol? me too". I just ended the discussion there and alched the rest of the 1k yew longbows that I withdrew in silence. There's a big reason why I hardly talk in public chat on Runescape, but that's not the main point here. The point is that people just label way too much online and in the real world. Some guy asked what everybody's age was and out of the six people who were just mocking me on Runescape, I was the oldest. Doesn't that go to show something? Yes, ignorant young brats have big labelers. Now, not all young people are like that. When I was twelve I used to be the most mature in an adult AOL chat room (I think I mentioned that before, a lot). But just for the polls, the majority of Runescape players are stuck-up little brats. Also out of most the people I meet in that game, I'm the only one who types and spells properly. The meaning to all of this? Mankind stinks.

Well, I think I'm going to review a little more for my Spanish test tomorrow and then alch for a little while in Runescape, so I'll leave you with some 'Daily Blog Specials'. By the way, #Foote_Chat has a new layout and I can only now activate user accounts (I was getting sick of the spam bots). If you want to join #Foote_Chat, leave me a comment either here on the blog, in the shoutbox, or in the new upcoming forum on #Foote_Chat created for this reason. You must already be signed up for me to activate you.

"Comment That Keyword!"

"how do you get ores in runescape with out a pickax?"

You can either buy the ores from another player or find somebody who is mining and then dropping their ores to getting mining exp (mostly in areas where there's iron). If you find somebody who is "speed mining", offer to take their ores from them through trade when they're full, rather than having them waste time and drop them all which could take a while. This could save them time, and make you money. Then maybe you'll make enough money to buy your own pickax! But mostly you can't get ores without a pickax, unless you befriend some "speed miner" that happens to always be mining whenever you want ores. It's like the same way of getting logs without an axe or fish without fishing equipment -- it's hard. Buy them, and mostly not too many people drop profitable logs and fish. Hope that helps you.

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Family Force 5

"Hold up, wait a minute, put a little luv in it!!" <33 Ever hear of Family Force 5? No? Neither did I, until just yesterday when I stumbled across a stranger's myspace page when all of a sudden, a voice on the page starts saying "Hey, you know.....cardboard is, uh, one of the coolest things ever made by paper! Dance on cardboard!" and it catches my attention so much because the voice is quite awesome. I sit and listen to this amazingly cool song. I continue to click the band's name, Family Force 5, to visit their personal myspace. Once I heard their other song 'Luv Addict' along with the cardboard one, 'Numb' and saw how totally adorable the guys in the band looked, I immediately fell in love with this unknown band. At least they were unknown to my friends and I. xD Family Force 5 is such a cool band! I love their sound, because it's a combination of genres and stuff I love. Ahh! I told my friend Abby about them last night and she flipped out, fell down, and claims she loves them even more than I do, if that's possible o.O Haha they are gorgeous in everyway ;) To conclude this paragraph, they ROCK, and YOU should check THEM out this INSTANT! =)

Phew! There are so many awesome bands and songs in the world today I was telling my friend, that I never know what to play first when I turn music on. I mean, I have always been in love with Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco, to name some of my tops but now this FF5 anddd..woah music makes me tingly. =P Yesterday I bought Plus 44's CD off of iTunes (another super band that makes me feel tingly :P) along with some other goodies and have a total of 1814 songs on my iPod. Hehe ^^

After I got home from school on Friday, I was rather bored with myself. I was also feeling lonely at the fact I haven't done much lately (like I had said in my blog entry that night, nothing interesting has occured in awhile). I was wishing I had some plans I guess :P It turned out I had a blast anyhow. I spoke with my friend Lauren earlier and she wants us to hang out sometimes on the weekends because she too is really bored. It was an odd coincidence that she would mention that and the exact moment I was feeling the same way :P Later on I signed onto Runescape where I fished and cooked a little more. Both my fishing and cooking have reached 40 so I am happy about that. Once I achieved that, I was debating what skill to work on next. I figured it might as well be one of my super low/nonexistant skills like ranging, magic, crafting, or runecrafting. Some of those I never even did, or tried once and disliked it or didn't get it really haha :P I went to go ranging. I asked my brother if he could help me get a better bow since I had the baby basic one haha. I went to his world and he helped me with that, and then I forget where we were going next or what we were doing from there because I just remember standing outside some building in Falador when Buddy Foote popped literally out of nowhere in his spiffy beast outfit. xD I wasn't expecting him to come so it was funny. I saw the white beasty fur walking near and I remember thinking to myself "woah that guy has the same furry outfit as Steve!!" Haha..and well it was Steve. lawlz. xP Once my brother came back, or you know what I take that back, he never really came back. My brother like always seems to leave people. I was waiting for him and then we kind of went looking for him, Steve and I. My brother can drive me nuts because I don't understand why he has to be so rude about everything sometimes haha :P He was found at the Champion's Guild killing chickens for bones which is like ALL he did ALL weekend x.o Aside from my brother and his sneaky antics, I love hanging out on Runescape with friends. It worked out so well because later on another friend, Craig came, thus I ended up having fun with my friends on a Friday night whether we were in person or not, haha and that is so better than nothing ;P -cough- Dizzy following = best. (: -cough-

Welp, I painted my nails black and blue before. It came out good. The other week I painted them black and pink. No, I am not using black to pretend to act all 'punkish' or whatever, I think it's cute, and I'd never paint my whole hands black. I know that whole statement was rather random but I didn't feel like ending this blog entry just yettt. =) hah, well I do have a daily blog special this entry. I couldn't resist the gorgeous pictures of my new favorite band, Family Force 5, on their myspace. So..I couldn't decide which of my two favorite group pics I liked best, so I wish to share them both. I say you should click them to get the full blown up effect of their adorable faces. haha..shh =))

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Blah

Hi everyone! It's Caitlin, and again I wasn't able to sit and write a good entry until the end of the week =( I really want to try to write one or two during the week though. I need to work on that (; Well, I ended up having a good day today because we had our second 2-hour delay at school this whole year :P It wasn't due to any major snow, but the fact the temperature was so cold. They notified us of the delay (late start) to school the night before which I liked. They don't always tell us the night before, but I wish they would because it makes me happy to know ahead of time xD Usually we have quite a few delays, school closings, and early dismissals throughout the winter, but that's not the case this year. :P -shrugs-

School is going pretty good. I was one of the selected winners in the Literature category in the Reflections program at my school. =) It was the first time for me in that program xD I am really starting to be amazed at the number of literature-related contests I have won this year in some way. The Veteran's Day poem, the Freedom essay, and now this. Plus sweet praise on other random writing assignments in class. I don't believe it...maybe a streak of luck? :P I honestly never thought of myself of being good at writing poems or writing in general. It's really nice =))

I won't continue more into personal life stuff since it probably isn't that interesting to many. Instead I will drift into Runescape because, guess what, I played a few times after school this week! (: I have been fishing and cooking the crop I catch. I don't know why I decided to go that route and raise my levels there to 40 at least, but I enjoy it I guess. After I reach level 40 cooking and fishing I think I should try to craft, range, and perform magic because those skills I never ever do, they confuse me, and are all under 10, haha :P My brother recently gave me a mithril woodcutting axe to replace my black one so that was nice of him. ^^ I might go wandering around Runescape a little bit with him tonight.

So right now I am importing two amazing CDs of the band Say Anything. My friend and I are currently obsessed with their song "Wow I can get sexual too" which is a weird song, sure, but it is just the best. haha. Check it out =)

I think I just realized why this entry sounds pretty boring, pathetic and blah. Absolutly nothing interesting has happened in my life since...what, my birthday? that I have to write about. I started this entry and didn't even know how to start because I had little to share. I doubt this weekend is going to be any interesting. I am not even sure I can get a ride to return to volunteering at the library tomorrow. I haven't been there since last year and I'd like to go back sometime soon. :P I feel bored. I hope something good comes about soon that would make a good entry. If not, I will have to resort to writing about random things simply for the thrill of writing here and keeping it updated since that is fun at least. :) As far as a Daily Blog Special is concerned for this entry. I don't have anything right now. =/ Nothing much relates to this entry to attach..so I will just say that the forum, #Foote_Chat is growing and I look forward to checking it frequently for new messages to reply to. Please make me happy and join. Click here to visit the forum!

-Have a nice day ^^

Reasons for Runescape Part 2

Hello, it is I, Chase. I have come with the continutaion of my first post. Members. More skills. More world to explore. More itmes. More fun? I have recently reached all my goals qualifying myself to be a member. 60 mining, 50 smithing, 50 runecrafting, 770 total. But wait. Something changed. I got full monk and came upon a new plan. I am ready for memebrs, but, something else neds to be done first. Level 52 prayer. 46 currently it is. I will achieve this goal... But, I will be a member. I am going to get memebrs in the current week. But, I will not enter the members world till I am 100% ready. I will fight temptations not to enter, but I will do it. 52 prayer is a big goal, but I will do it! I have full monk, but I will discuss stats and what not at the forum. I have more to say, but that will come in part 3.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Reasons for Runescape Part One

Hello, it is I, Chase. Recently many people have been asking when i will get Runescape members. here is the long awaited answer. When i think of the game Runescape, I see what it really is. It is designed to be like living as someone in old world England, Ireland, Scotland, or wales. You survive by doing what they did. But there mythology is also included. Before the Romans invaded and brought their own culture, these people believed in things that runescape is based on. Not to be modest, but it is the truth. I am a successful free player. I have good skills and can support myself. But, what reason would i have not to become a member. I want to be ready, that is why. The reason for runescape is not only to survive and live, but for quests! I went through all members quests and saw the minimum requirements. I want to be ready for those requirements. See, runecape is like Pokemon in some mutated and strange way. In both games you need to train to meet your goals. The quests give you something to work for. Need to do the legends quest for example. Cannot beat the boss. Keep training until you can. I love that feeling, but it has expired for me as a free player. I really want to do those members quests. I want to have to train to be able to do them. This ends part one. Part two will come soon.

Daily blog special: The average human will eat a pound of peanut butter in one year.

#Foote_Chat Update

For the past few weeks, I have been fighting the spam bots that have been popping up at the #Foote_Chat forum wanting to advertise their worthless products and give links to others to get spyware, viruses, etc. First, here's a history of the struggle we had up to current times:

The fight at first was cruel. It started all when Aeron sent me a private message on the forum saying that guests were creating topics in the 'General Discussion' forum advertising and spamming. Not knowing what to do because I wasn't too familiar with a phpBB admin CPU (I normally used IPB boards back in the day), I just set a restriction that only members with one post could create a topic. Well, guests aren't members, therefore these guest spam bots still got around that restriction. I sent our forum service a few questions regarding on how I can restrict guests from posting and creating topics at the forum. Finally I got a response and upon reading it, I realized how stupid I was. There was a 'Forum Permissions' section of the Admin CPU that I had overlooked. Once I changed the settings on that, I felt that I had officially won the war on spam, and that I could then focus on advertising #Foote_Chat and getting word out about it. In celebration, I sent out a mass e-mail saying that we won this little battle that we had been fighting, and that #Foote_Chat was now safe to enjoy once again. Thankfully that e-mail wasn't received by a lot, because within a day or two, round two of the spam war began.

Caitlin and I were talking one night when she said that she would've jumped three stories high or something exaggerated if somebody that we didn't know joined the forum. I then went to the forum page that I had up and refreshed it, and strangely enough as soon as Caitlin said that, I noticed that we had a new member. I was pretty excited about this newcomer hoping that something good would come out of having this needed member around. The member commented in the 'Forum News' forum under the Member of the Month topic and I went to see what they had said. When I scrolled down and saw ads for Viagra and the such, I knew that the spam bots were not giving up just yet. I quickly deleted the message and the member, but many more came afterwards.

When it came to the point where we had more members and most of these members were spam bots, I thought of the second alternative that the forum service sent me in that message after I asked on how to stop guests from posting. This method was to turn the forums to invitation-only. I put up a notice in the 'Forum News' forum (which that topic was the new home of the spam bots) that the forum was going to go invite-only on January 20th, giving any guests who weren't bots and wanting to join the opportunity to do so before we went totally private. For that week that we had the warning that we were going invite-only, many more spam bots joined and the forum was very inactive. I feared that invitation-only would just get rid of the bots, but would increase inactivity of the forum and bring the forum to its doom. I was thinking of other methods to try and get these bots rid of, but nothing mentally worked out.

On January 17, two new updates came about from the forum service. They were two MODs. The MODs included the Cash MOD and the Referral MOD. The Cash MOD would give the ability of giving members a reward for posting by giving away a fake currency. This currency could then be donated or exchanged for another currency. In the future, the forum service will be giving us additions to the MOD such as shops and banks, so this MOD isn't worthless and if I were you, I'd save up on your 'cuarters'. This MOD could also be handy for roleplaying or having avatar/signature shops. The Referral MOD is also a great addition. For referring others to join up on the forum through the Referral Center, you'll be rewarded publicity in the Top Referrers section, some cuarters, and a better chance of being given or nominated the title of Member of the Month. It's a great system for making #Foote_Chat active with new and fresh members! We also added the additions of a guestbook and shoutbox to the forum.

Now that you're filled with some information of the newest additions we have at #Foote_Chat, we can continue on with the story.

I had a fear that the Referral MOD and the invitation-only system would clash. I read on the Admin CPU that you could only invite through the CPU, thus any others forms of inviting seemed obsolete. The date of the invite-only system launch came fast, and already it was Friday, the 19th. Caitlin referred two new members to the forum that day (Onelastwish and camerawhore™) and I spent the last day of open registration on Runescape, finally getting 100 combat around eleven at night. Once I had 100 combat and had some new hunter levels, I logged out to think further on the situation that the forum was about to go through. It was around twelve to one this morning, and I could've easily went into the Admin CPU and click that bullet to turn the forum invite-only, but instead I thought that I would wait until the morning and see if any new spam bots would pop up. (By the way, I got rid of all 12 registered spam bots last night and their messages were deleted.)

This morning I came on ready to hit that invite-only bullet at my own will. Instead, I felt like searching the Admin CPU. Last night I had a thought in my head of a way to make it so that people could register, I could approve them, and then they could post once their account was activated. I looked yesterday and didn't see it, so at that I thought that there was no hope now and that we would be going invite-only. I looked around this morning and found the golden ticket. I found a way that when somebody registers that they must go into their e-mail account that they registered with and activate their account. I knew that this would either cut back on the number of spam bots or totally get rid of them. And I hope that this new system makes that go bye-bye forever.

There's the quick history of the "#Foote_Chat Spam War" and the newer additions that I wished to speak of in more detail. If you want to see what this forum is about or maybe even join, click here. I have to end this entry short because I'm starving to death as I didn't eat yet today, so here's a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas related PotD:

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Have a good one, and happy posting!

Friday, January 19, 2007

Writing and Reading

Hi =) I have been looking forward to writing a blog entry all week. I'm sure you might be sitting there wondering why I had to wait all week. The answer is because I was preoccupied with midterm papers and midterm-related stuff. Then when I had free moments on weeknights, I felt pretty tired and just enjoyed the fact I could sit and do nothing and think of nothing for a little while haha :P I have just been sitting around listening to music, particularly the band Brand New. I have heard of them before and liked a song or two of theirs, but ever since my friend fell deeper into them I have been listening to them a lot more. (: They are a good band, and I love the song they have called "You Won't Know". I get bored sitting and listening to music, so I like to chat a lot when I have music playing. Unfortunately not a whole of chatting or chatters are available. I want to spread word to some of my friends about the #Foote_Chat forum since there are still a group of people I want to try to get to join. :) In the meantime, I planned on writing this blog entry about writing and reading. I know it probably sounds weird or nerdy, but y'know what I don't care about such a thing, haha :P


I was lying awake in my bed, and the time had to be going on or past 11pm. I really am trying to get more sleep during the week so I am not so tired and miserable over getting up, among other things. Even on nights when I am really tired, I tend to just lie in bed with my tired eyes closed, but my mind still running on thoughts. These thoughts could include random events or moments during the day I reflect on, or what I plan on remembering to do. One of the things I wanted to do was write a blog entry so I lay thinking of a blog topic. I came up with writing and reading, which quite honestly sounded a whole lot better in my head. :P I like to write sometimes, and love reading even more. I continued to lie there, remembering when I was real little. As a child under five, I remember reading this alphabet book like everyday. I would be so excited when it was time for my mom to teach me more of the alphabet and all that kind of stuff. My mom told me I loved learning and once I started school I fell in love with it all, haha xD Apparently I had a nitch for reading, words, learning, and school from an early age. I think maybe that's why I still like it all today. :P The point I am trying to make is that I am happy I grew fond of all that so early. =) Some people don't like books. I don't know what I would do without reading or now even writing. It makes me feel good because being such a shy girl, I don't express my thoughts or feelings through spoken words (I have a hard time making sense in a simple conversation) but when I write or read I don't have to speak a word. I can just listen, and think...and I really love that. :) My English teacher one year even commented that I "may be very quiet on the outside, but deep inside I am roaring with words." It was something along those lines and I think about it so much sometimes because he hit it right on the nail xD


Anyways, I never liked steady writing that much. I never thought much about it, if I had to write for school I did it and that was that. I tried keeping diaries and journals when I was younger, but that only lasted a good two years because it would get to the point where I was like forcing myself to write in one. That wasn't good because a diary should be something I wanted to do, haha :P That and my life can be plain so writing "Hi Diary, today I woke up, brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, played outside, watched TV and went to bed." wasn't very interesting. :P Soon after holding a diary, I discovered the whole online blog thing. Today, I am writing here which is the best. =) I love writing on the computer. A blog worked so much better because I love to type :P It made me want to type, thus I would write to keep pages updated, and that increased my enjoyment of writing in general. The past few years at school, I have been taking my English wrting assignments more seriously because I like taking the time to think real deep and write what came up. English is and actually always was my favorite subject, which again ties into reading and writing as a whole. =)


I won't kill this topic, nor bore you. I think I am going to go play Runescape, believe or not. It's been what has felt like years since Caydalyn last signed in :P I have taken the following survey while jammin' out to more tunes earlier that I want to use for my daily blog special. =)


Radically Random...


THE CANS:
Can you blow a bubble?: yes
Can you dance?: not really, but with my friends I try too xD
Can you do a cart wheel?: yes actually. they are fun! =)
Can you tie a cherry stem with your tongue?: no
Can you touch your toes?: usually.
Can you whistle?: yep. but not with my braces on. i was able to do so before them, haha.
Can you wiggle your ears?: no
Can you wiggle your nose? um..i dont know. maybe. lol
THE DIDS:
Did you ever get into a fist fight in school?: no
Did you ever run away from home?: no
Did you ever want to be a doctor?: no
Did you ever want to be a fire fighter?: nope
THE DOS:
Do you believe in God?: yes
Do you know how to swim?: yes
Do you like roller coasters?: not really :P
Do you own a bike?: yes and lovvve it
Do you think you could handle the stuff they eat on those reality shows?: no way.
THE DOES:
Does hair loss run in your family at all?: i wouldnt know lol :P
Does your car get good gas mileage?: i dont have a car
Does your family have family picnics?: i wish:(
THE HAVES:
Have you ever been on a plane? nope
Have you ever asked someone out?: no
Have you ever been asked out by someone? yeah but i am sure they were joking cuz pssh me? yeahright. that and i said no anyways..
Have you ever been to the ocean?: YES and have a strong attachment to it.=)
Have you ever gone fishing?: Yep! =)
Have you ever painted your nails?: just about all the time, haha
THE HOWS:
How tall are you?: 5'6" was what i was told last time..so who knows lol
How much money do you have on you right now?: maybe a dime..err
THE LASTS:
Last person you hung out with?: abby
Last thing you said out loud?: i didnt say any words, just laughed pretty loud and random, out loud. =P
Last thing someone said to you?: "I'll try"
THE WHATS:
What are you listening to?: Hips dont lie by Shakira o.o
What is the weather outside?: freeezing.
What radio station do you listen to?: krz..bht..or 97.9x :P but my iPod is better than any radio channel, yo.
What was the last restaurant you ate at?: mcdonalds.
What was the last thing you bought?: um..i honestly dont know because i dont buy stuff a lot. -shrugs-
What was the last thing you had to drink?: water.
what was the last t.v. show you watched?: supernanny
THE WHOS:
Who was the last person you IM'd?: Tori, Mica, and Steve. Tie between those fellas' (;
talked to on the phone?: Abby
Who was the last person you took pictures with?: Abby and Nicole on New Year's Eve
Who was the last person you said i love you to?: My dog xD

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Sweet Sixteen

Hey hey hey. =) I really wish I would have found time to type up a blog entry before Saturday, but unfortunately mid-terms kept me occupied. Thankfully Steve seems to be posting everyday which is great! Well I want to make this entry good and long to talk about whatever has happened this week, like my 16th birthday maybe!! (=

Yes my birthday was Thursday (January 11th) so I am officially a 16-year-old now. Do I feel any different? Not really..I never do, haha. I am a bit sad at the fact I have grown up so fast though. I remember for years when I was 9, 10 or 11 and watching TV I'd hear random stories or let's say there was a show on MTV with 16 year old teens. I always thought how I can't picture myself being SOO old and doing such older kid stuff. In reality, I do like no "big kid stuff" and only a select few things have changed dramatically since I was well, 9. :P I am excited that I am 16 though. It's a nice number. xD I had a great birthday as well! I woke up and went to bed with a smile on my face. I love my birthday because you get to be the center of attention for one day (which for a shy girl like me is more than enough). Everyone wishing you a happy sweet sixteen and hoping you have the best day. It's so sweet. =) I had three midterms on my birthday, which was the only bad part because they stressed me out a bit, but thankfully they all went so well for me..maybe I had a bit of b- day luck eh? (: Since I have been fighting off this horrible cold for what feels like weeks now, I couldn't have any friends sleepover this weekend or volunteer at the library. My mother wants me recover 1000% and so do I. I have never had a birthday party before where I invited a number of different school friends, so this upcoming summer I plan on throwing my first sweet sixteen birthday. I am going to be looking forward to that. =) Despite not getting to do anything with my friends, I had a nice family celebration. There was a cake with my name on it and bunches of adorable gifts. I got this perfect new corduroy tan purse from Aeropostale along with 2 plaid skirts/dresses I am head over heels in love with! Plus a whole container filled with jewelry and hair stuff. I also got a wireless mouse for my laptop and a wireless router connector we have been trying so hard to set up. Gosh, that thing is mighty confusing and it makes me sad because I want so bad to set up my laptop in my other house in the little back room I claim as my homework hall. :PMy friend Abby made this collage with pictures of her and I over the years from the many good times we have had. It made me miss those memories! Heather got me some winter clothes, a best friend picture frame, and bottlecap magnets for my locker. (: I know my friends were pretty upset they couldn't come over, but we'll make it up somehow I am sure. Overall, my 16th birthday was special just the way I hoped it would be, hehe. I am thankful for that. =)

I am happy we have a long weekend with Monday off this weekend. I have two essays to write though, so I can't completely do nothing, haha. I noticed that I have been keeping an eye on the weather lately, particularly the 7-day outlook. Everytime I see it, my heart sinks a little when there isn't a flake of snow in the forecast. This has been my first birthday without any snow in sight or on the ground. I was born in a blizzard (at 11:20a.m. if you were wondering) and I really wish we had some snow.. It's winter after all! I always say one of my favorite things with living in this state is that we get to experience the four seasons. That always made me so happy, haha. But this year...it's so abnormal. I love summer, don't get me wrong, but I need my taste of winter at the same time to keep me satisfied. I hope we get some big snow soon before March. I am just hoping this weather pattern doesn't mean I'll be sobbing come July in my bathing suit watching 10 feet of snow plop in my driveway. xD

I haven't played Runescape all that recently even though I wanted too. Maybe I will get the chance to do so tomorrow or Monday. Therefore right after this entry I am going to continue making this plaid background for the new Foote Chat Myspace Steve and I made. Interested in taking a look? Want to be our friend? Click here!

For my daily blog special I found some neat birthday facts about what my birthday says about me and little facts I pieced together from random birthday surveys and calculators. Hehe, plus a funny quote by Buddy Foote during our conversation. I may be throwing something funny he (or Abby) says in from time to time to make them famoys y'know? (;

Radically Random...

I was born on January 11th, 1991...
"You were born on a Friday under the astrological sign Capricorn. Your Life path number is 5."
andd...My birthstone is Garnet, birth tree is the Fir!=)

Your Birthdate: January 11
Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world. You're very sensitive to what's going on around you, yet you remain calm.Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche.Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done.
Your strength: Your inner peace
Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds
Your power color: Emerald
Your power symbol: Leaf
Your power month: November

(Thanks to blogthings!)


...and now a random chunk of thought from Buddy Foote's mind:
" I slept until 11 and my father was knocking on my head to wake me up to go see eagles but I didn't go"
Ow, your head eh? :P Too bad, I bet those eagles were cool too.. =)
For some reason that seemed a whole lot funnier at the time. Haha, yep, have a good day my friends!

Smash It

The title of this blog entry will tell you the one verb that I want to do to my laptop. Yes, I want to smash the damned thing, throw it out the window, and then run it over! This laptop ran good for me for the first few months after I received it for Christmas '05, and then in the later months of 2006 did it start to slowly decrease in performance, and now recently it just does not want to cooperate with me. For example, I just clicked to chat with Caitlin on Google Talk and it took a good minute for anything to pop up as Google Talk froze on me. And from my experience, Google Talk uses a lot less virtual memory than AIM or MSN does, however I shouldn't speak of MSN because I never ran it on my laptop, and therefore it shouldn't go that slow and freeze like such, but it does. When I first got my laptop and in the following weeks afterwards that never happened, but now it's doing so and pissing the hell out of me. And I always get what I like to call the "white box". Look in the internet browser that you're in right now at the top-left corner of your screen and you'll see a little icon. Maybe the Firefox, AOL, IE, etc. icons will be up there. Well, when my laptop goes crazy, "blows up", and doesn't want to work for me, that icon is replaced by a white box icon, or the icon just disappears altogether. For example, I just right-clicked on the word 'disappears' because I spelled it wrong and it took about ten seconds for the Firefox recommended alternatives in their spell check words to pop up, and yes, I got a white box in the waiting. I always used to get a white box when I used the world switcher for Runescape, SwiftSwitch, and when I was over Craig's house, we would joke about it whenever I went to switch to another world, log into Runescape, or walked to an area of the map where it had to load some more of the map ("Loading -- Please Wait.") because it was nothing threatening unless I got a random event and couldn't respond to it because my computer wasn't showing any of the playing field, but recently when I'm fighting aggressive level 50 giant spiders in the Security Stronghold who can do 7's when I have 28 health left and for no reason whatsoever my internet browser (AOL or Firefox) gets the white box and Runescape won't work for a minute or less, then that's serious! (Wow, that was a long sentence.) I'm afraid someday that my computer is going to kill me on that game. I would never even attempt to get the fire cape on this laptop, or even my desktop, because if one doesn't work for me, the other will result in me having to do a chore in the middle of a wave in the caves because I'm out in the open for the family to pick on me.

I always wanted a laptop so that I could be in my own little private haven in my quiet bedroom, where the family won't bother me as much as they would if I was sitting at the desktop. If the dog is barking to go out and my father, mother, and grandmother are in the room with me or the room next to the computer room, I would have to be the one to get up to hook the dog out. But rather when I'm upstairs, I'm not going to have to hook the dog out if my mother or father is downstairs because why would I have to run down the steps to hook the dog when they're right there, already downstairs? That way I can do what I want without being interrupted, such as typing up this very blog entry or talking to friends without my mother standing over my shoulder, watching the screen, and saying, "What'cha doing?" But recently I'm coming to the desktop more often to do my work or to play Runescape because I cannot do such on my laptop anymore. I swear, I can no longer play Runescape on my laptop. It's just not possible. No matter what internet browser I use, or even if I wanted to use SwiftSwitch or Tiko and break Jagex's rules, nothing of any kind will allow me to play Runescape like it used to play back in the day when my laptop was fresh out of the box. When I was fighting those giant spiders, the screen would freeze while I was in the middle of fighting, and then I would still hear me fighting the spider and then slowly all the hits will start appearing on the screen, and the game can't log me out because I'm in battle so either I would gain back control of the game slowly or I would be standing in Lumbridge with three of my most valuable items. Thankfully, I never died with anything expensive and only ever died twice in Runescape.

And now it's not just the fact that I can no longer play Runescape anymore without cursing my brains out and banging my computer desk in frustration that my laptop causes, but I can't even stream videos off the net or go on certain sites without the page taking a good minute to load. Actually, I can't even stream videos on my desktop either. My internet connection is this household is screwy too, yet it's the best internet we have in this area -- Adam's Cable Internet. I can go over Craig's house and play Runescape better and stream videos extremely fast, and even when I go over my sister's house who doesn't even have internet but rather I get a random very low connection there I can still stream videos fast but Runescape there is a different story. The point is, nothing in this house that involves a wireless internet connection seems to work right. Hence, my first Wii broke and that relied on the internet. Now on my current Wii, the internet was working fine on it but now it won't even connect to the internet and I cannot get system updates or even have access to the forecast and internet channels. My laptop: Just doesn't want to work. I was just typing this and minding my own business when bam, I get a white box and the screen froze for a few seconds. I can't take this anymore. I hope this laptop burns in hell...

I need to start pestering my father for 1 GB of RAM. Seriously, I'm just going to walk down to Best Buy with my laptop, slam the frecking brick on the counter, and demand that they upgrade the virtual memory right then and there with their mind powers.

I'm so pissed now...and I have to go write two papers and do research. I'm not in the mood...

My...

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Have a good one. Don't mind my rants.

Friday, January 12, 2007

A Random Discussion

This last Sunday I went over my sister's for a couple of hours just to be with her for a little while and her two cats (and to try to encourage her to write a blog entry on my laptop) when I watched this rather good film on TV. I believe it was titled something among "The New Kid" or something similar, and it was about this kid who destroyed his social position in his school and wanted a change for once to be the popular kid, so he exchanged schools and tried to be a person who he wasn't originally deep down inside him, and then you'll have to watch the movie to learn the rest. It would help if I was certain about the movie title, right? Well, I saw the theme of the movie to be that it doesn't matter what a person looks like or what a person does, but rather who the person is on the inside and what their personality is like. Mostly the movie is based on groups of people in schools, such as the 'jocks', the 'nerds', the 'cool kids', etc. and later how these people sort of fused together and found that everything was better not being discriminative against each group. And in all due respect, everything is better when you can be friends with whoever you want without being judged and pushed by peer pressure, and that schools should indeed be a melting pot and not a group biased society.

I bring this subject matter up because after watching the movie and wanting more of it (as I always do with movies and television shows hence why I rarely watch them), I realized that my school, Lakeland, isn't too group-coordinated. There aren't too many people in my school that don't have more than twenty friends, even if they only talk to a certain friend once a month. Sure, as in most schools people will have enemies and people they just right down despise, but still they'll have a ton of buddies to back them up. Rather in my school, people are friends with everyone. People from other grades, people from other "groups", people from other schools -- if there was a friend tree such as there are family trees, everybody would be linked to one another in one way or another. Also these "groups" aren't too large in our school. Mostly the people who you sit at with lunch is considered your little group, but you can easily walk up and visit another table for the day. It's not like in other schools that you'll seen on television or even in the real world that'll not let you sit at their table because you're not "in" with them. I can easily go sit with the football players if I wanted to because I have some buddies with them, or I can go sit with the punk-like kids or even some girls because I'm friends with them. Sometimes they rather visit us instead. There is no single group that you're stuck in and can't get out, but rather our whole school is a single group.

Besides for the druggies in our school and a few other "poor in friendship" individuals, Lakeland is indeed a melting pot when it comes to friendship, and everybody can sit down and have a good laugh together, no matter who they are, what they do, what grade they get, what sports they do, if they're cool or not, etc. I have realized this just recently and everyday I live through another school day and experience every second of it do I begin to true my own theory. Maybe it's only the sophomore grade that has this unique feature about them. I believe that in the seventh and eighth grades that groups did matter quite a lot and because people in our high school came from two different elementary schools that they tended to stay with their own little group from their original school. Only in the ninth grade and now, in tenth grade, are people all coming together, knowing one another, and are able to appreciate who each other really are. First impressions soon changed overtime, and with that did new friendships bond together and link from one another.

And that is my random discussion for the day.

My...



...Verizon Cell Phone

Have a good one!

Thursday, January 11, 2007

It Begins...

I have a very difficult problem that I need to resolve and that's on how to start a blog entry. I was forming some ideas in my head on how to start off with a basic statement that brought no attention getting words to the reader (as if this is going to do any better) and to rather start the blog entry on-topic, I felt that it would be more refreshing to rant on in one huge paragraph about a recent topic that I was reading in Runescape Community that troubled me yet made me think. Even though I have a grudge against that forum, I do enjoy reading it while playing Runescape. Or I normally read some random Wikipedia articles while playing Runescape. I'm not going to bother leaving a link to the topic as they might do another mass prune again and wipe that topic along with any other topics such as the ones in the suggestion forum that people worked hard on writing and didn't save a copy of the BBcode on their hard drive, like myself! Anyway, the topic was about gold farmers of Runescape and how this individual had a little PM chat in-game with a 17-year old Chinese individual who was a gold farmer. Now, what is a gold farmer? If you're familiar with the MMORPG community or JoyStiq, you might have heard of this phrase being related to World of Warcraft, but gold farmers are in fact in Runescape. A gold farmer is somebody who gathers up the gold pieces (gp) in the game, and then exchanges the pixel money for real world money. A nice way of getting money, right? Wrong. It's against most MMORPG game rules, including Runescape, and will result in a ban if found of doing such an action. Well, these gold farmers, in this topic, are seen killing green dragons in the wilderness for their dragon bones, and then they'll stock up on the bones and sell them for gp. You might start to think that these people who do such are probably greedy individuals who want to ruin the economy of a video game by getting a massive amount of a product in-game and then in the end ending up with some nice real world money, but that's not the case here. These people actually rely on this real world money to support themselves and to live. The value of staying alive for these people is in a video game -- a video game that most people in developed countries play to enjoy rather than to have a job on and be forced to get gp on it. Yes, they're forced. These people are not the ones getting the 42 USD (United States Dollar) for a million gp, but rather 2.50 USD. These people have a boss that they give either the bones or gp to, and in return the boss sells these pixels for real world money and will get a lot of money, but will hand out merely 2.50 USD to the employer. And yes, that's $2.50 a day, not 2.50 USD for every million, but for a good and successful day of dragon killing and hopefully not getting pked. I don't know, I feel bad for these people. I mean, here we are sitting on our asses all day playing Runescape for the thrill and joy of the game, and in general for fun, while on the opposite side of the Earth we have people forced to play for what seems for us to be very little pay daily while their 'boss' is sitting around on a leather sofa reading some expansive book. Doesn't that make you feel like playing Runescape? Well, just be careful next time you're pking green dragon hunters. You might be killing a pixel avatar, but you might also be killing a real life person who can't eat for the day.

And now that I got that off of my chest, I will go on about more personal topics, such as my life. Excited, eh?

It begins. What begins? The midterms. This week at Lakeland Jr/Sr High School, the midterms began to take place and fellow students were stuck in class taking a test that would affect 10% of their overall average in that class. Throughout the year, if you do bad on a normal test (normally referred to 'bombing' the test such as if you did good you would 'ace' the test) then you would be able to make up for it on the other tests in that quarter, but for the midterms, that's impossible. One test equals one grade, and that single grade is plopped right on your report cards. No exceptions and no getting around it, and definitely no altering grades. The midterms is one of the top three worst test taking periods of the year. The others include the final exams and any standardized tests we have to take, such as Terra Nova's or the PSSA's.

I really hate the midterms. Why? Because when my sister went to school (she graduated in 2000), she never had to take midterms because Lakeland did not even have them. Heck, you didn't even have to take the final if you had an A or higher. Now everything is mandatory. We must take both the midterms and finals. What I hate about the midterms is that they're positioned at an awkward time of the year right after Christmas vacation. Really, Christmas vacation is what splits one half of the school year from the other, even though the second quarter doesn't end until another week or two from now. Most students do not remember nor study during this vacation, as the very word in 'Christmas vacation' indicates such. It's a vacation, not an extended study period. Do most people (and I'm not being stereotypical and saying all, because some do for fun at the high school level) study during summer vacation. Besides having to read three novels for the advanced Englishes, you're not going to study for Spanish 3 or AP Chemistry, are you? Summer is time to get away from school, so is every other break we have throughout the school year, including Christmas and Easter. Therefore we should not be concerned with midterms during Christmas break, yet there they are waiting to devour us at the end of the break, right at the smack beginning of the new year. And then it begins...

I personally think that we should be pestered with the midterms before Christmas break. Why is that? Here's something for you to think about: Would you rather get your homework done at three-thirty and then do whatever you want for the rest of your day, or do it at nine at night, and having that thought in the back of your head all day bothering you that you have homework to do, and that you can't go to bed or relax until it's done. Same case here. Would you rather want to take the midterms early and get them over with, actually taking a well-deserved vacation from school and then coming back to school the next calendar year with new material to learn rather than reflecting on older material that sort of floated away from memory over break, or would you want to take the midterms later and having that thought it the back of your head that reads, "You have to take midterms when you go back to school and then there's no break afterwards and you must continue your regular pattern of school until Easter." ?

It's the same reason why I don't understand why people skip school or class to skip a test. Wouldn't you rather just want to get rid of the test early and on time rather than having that horrible test in your head for a day or two later, annoying you and haunting your dreams?

I was actually supposed to devote this topic to what midterms I took this week and my thoughts on them, but rather it turned into a much better post that had a rant and a little bit of Runescape-related information. In the end, it was a successful write. I will get around to posting that second episode of the "Life of Foote" sometime soon. This weekend (I have Monday off -- yippie!) I'll be focused on writing an essay on some poems and a report paper on ancient Athens that are considered parts of the midterms for the corresponding classes, so hopefully I'll get around to editing it and uploading it to the internet. I also want to say that I recently got 80 HP and attack in Runescape, my third and fourth 80's yet. My strength and defense are both 79 so they'll be next.

Well, I have no daily blog special for you because I wrote so much and I have to go review over the material for my biology midterm and feed the lizards some mealworms, but I'll leave this topic with the following:

Happy Birthday Caitlin!

Merry 16!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Runescape and My Essay

Hey, it is Caitlinnn! In an attempt to make up for my pretty stinky blog entry Friday night, I am now about to write another all about Runescape. I spent most of my time Saturday on that game, and have some pretty interesting stories to tell and accomplishments to share.

In the beginning I spent my time chopping trees, oaks to be exact. I can chop willow trees now but it took a long time and I have a weak axe I think so oaks were good enough. Then I would burn all the logs once filled up. My firemaking shot up like crazy and is now level 42, when it was previous 34 or something around there. Having reached that firemaking level, it was enough to make my very own first high score in that game. I wouldn't have even been aware of such a thing if it wasn't for a friend telling me. I was pretty excited since it is cool! Firemaking is probably the least skill people work on raising making it easier, but I am still proud of it. xD

That took place yesterday. Friday night my brother and I went shopping on Runescape. I had to sell some stuff in my bank to make room so he took me to the best shops to make the most gp. It was fun and I made close to 10k! =) He also has given me some rather lavish gifts lately. He gave me a Rune Full helmet and scimitar. He told me I can't use it until he 'says' though. That's alright, my levels are still a bit behind the minimum to wear such anyhow. He also gave me an amulet of power necklace, diamond ring, and a water staff for when I practice magic. It was real nice of him (; To repay him in some way, I did a favor for him consisting of gathering 100 pieces of soft clay. It was tedious in my opinion because after getting the clay I had to stand there by a fountain and wet every, single, piece. :P Then on Saturday we got together again but this other person was tagging along and wouldn't leave so I didn't know who he was but he was nice :P My brother just took us "exploring" and showed us a few places I never saw before. He went up to where these Monks of Zamorak were and he went in there and got attacked so I ran away. Then my brother went down these random holes, and I don't like following him down there because I always end up getting killed. :P I stayed away and that unknown guy followed me around, haha. After so long my brother's friend came and then other strangers started all following us until we had this train of people. It was pretty funny.

I had a lot of fun making fires yesterday after cutting trees. I want to get my woodcutting level to 40 at least, but it is taking a little while. I think I am at 38 now though, so pretty close. (: There has been a number of people talking to me in Runescape that I don't know. Sometimes I think it is funny and interesting, especially if I am just standing around working on my skill it helps pass the time when you have someone to talk to or help out. The only down side is some of those people in the game, probably just for being ftp, are gross. :P The other day I was in Lumbridge which I think is the town that festers most with those kind of players. I was walking up the path and this guy came up to me and asked "Am i hot?" and I ignored him. Then he asked again and I said "idk.." and he goes "well you are.." and I go "hah um thanks" but then he asked me out and I said no. Now honestly, I barely walked 5 steps when this other new guy walked up to me and asked me to be their "gf". Well maybe I don't know what a gf is..huh, why not speak english? I don't want to be their grape fruit. Haha.. it can be so funny xD I try to act really sweet to them though, and say "aw thanks, but sorry no" and if I am sweet they will leave me alone rather than being rude. The one time that didn't exactly work though and this guy added me on his friend list and frequently sends me messages asking about me, and if I am taken, and other stuff. One time I wrote back and said I don't know you. It doesn't make me mad or anything, it's just weird because people need other stuff to do. It ruins the game a bit, gives it a bad rep. -shrugs- Someone will say something to me like that about everytime I login. :P

Now I am going to sidetrack a bit from Runescape to announce that I attended this veteran banquet this afternoon to see who won for the Freedom's Challenge essay contest I was entered into from my English class at school. It was really fun actually. They got right down to it and the man with these envelopes specifially said "I will now read the names in no particular order.." and he did so but my name wasn't called. Then all of a sudden he said "and here we have the 3rd place winner which goes to.." and my name was called (although unfortunately pronounced incorrectly..CaLtlin is what he said..it was weird, lol xD) and I was shocked I actually won out of the 3 places! I was so excited. I proceeded to walk up, be congratulated, shake hands, and recieve an envelope. Inside was a 100 dollar savings bond I believe, and I also got a plaque with a Freedom quote on it along with another 50 dollar certificate. (I am pretty sure it was 50 but I don't remember to be exact.) I was thrilled and my parents were pretty proud of me. =) I got to sit next to the winners and have my picture taken by multiple cameras..I didn't know where to look, haha. It was a very nice little ceremony banquet type-of-thing. Then they served us lunch, spagehtti and meatballs, salad, soda, and desert. I enjoyed it and am so happy with having won 3rd place! hehe :) My daily blog special below is my essay I wrote and want to share that was the 3rd place winner. I hope you would read it and feel free to let me know what you thought about it! =))

Radically Random...

Freedom’s Challenge
Written By: Me, me and me! Don't copy it(;

I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all! This pledge is recited everyday in many places throughout America as it holds a very significant meaning. Which word do you think is most important in The Pledge? Many people might think the words liberty, flag, or allegiance. I would have to disagree with them. I think one of the most meaningful words in The Pledge is the last word “all”. That small word represents such a large meaning. America is a country that will confront any challenges that affect the interest of everyone‘s freedom. It means that all of us, deserve to be treated equally and have the right to enjoy our country’s freedoms, that when have been challenged, were taken on by true heroes.
Whenever most of us Americans today hear the colors “red, white and blue” spoken in that order, the image of our American Flag is probably what appears in the mind first. Almost everywhere a person goes in America today, a steady flag can be seen waving in the wind flaunting it’s patriotic array of thirteen red and white stripes with fifty white stars pictured on a blue background in the upper left-hand corner. Our flag serves as a constant reminder of the challenges against American freedom from centuries past. The flag symbolizes union, loss, pride, and hope for everlasting freedom. This flag and this freedom it represents, has been repeatedly tested since it’s beginning, yet it always seems able to pull itself through to keep the country together in times of conflict.
Over the course of history, the pursuit of freedom has been the intention of most, if not all, of the wars fought that our country was involved in. Starting with the Revolutionary War where the colonists fought for freedom from Britain, to most recently the War on Terrorism where measures are being taken to protect Americans’ freedom to live without fear. Freedom is not free. There have been very brave men that lost their lives, and paid the ultimate price for the rest of us to remain free. Abraham Lincoln once stated, “Freedom is the last, best hope of Earth.” I believe that statement is true because if freedom weren’t, then why would we, as a country, have been fighting for years to preserve this independence each time something that threatened it came about?
In my family’s past, there have been some of these very brave men who went to war to fight for our country. My grandfather, in particular, served in the Air Force’s 714th Bombardment Squadron in the 448th Bombardment Group during World War II. He was eighteen-years-old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Once America’s freedom was challenged, the United States decided to enter World War II. My grandfather volunteered himself to join the Armed Forces a few days later. He felt it was his duty to protect his country’s freedoms. After three years of training, he was given the duty of Flight Officer, a bombardier on a B-24 Bomber. He completed ten combat missions during the war, and received an Air Medal Award shortly thereafter. After the war was long over, each time he would recite the pledge to the flag it would symbolize his real home. This represented a now personal meaning to him. Veterans, like himself, are the people who were willing to take on the challenge of freedom in an attempt to secure it.
Throughout my life, freedom has presented a challenge to myself with the past terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. The result of having such a major attack threaten our country’s safety was frightening to me. Overall, I feel that one day we, as a strong country, will reach a time when there will no longer be a need to challenge independence. “War will cease, we’ll win the peace, and remain forever free!“ tries to sum this immense idea up. That line was the final verse in one of my grandfather’s official marching songs from his time in the Armed Forces. Freedom is something that should not be taken for granted. Freedom may present different challenges for different people, yet we have to realize altogether freedom does come with a price. And so, the next time you stand up to recite The Pledge while facing that glorious flag, take a moment to think about how precious your freedom is, and thank those true veteran heroes who fought for the freedom of all.
-Caitlin

Saturday, January 06, 2007

65 Slayer

Being that I'm very unoriginal when it comes to titles for my blog entries, I'm going to simply title this entry based off of my most recent Runescape achievement. And yes, that achievement would indeed be that I have obtained the level of 65 slayer. During August or October of 2005, I have posted some goals that I wanted to work on and achieve. The first step of my goal was to obtain level 50 in herblore and farming. I did both of those. Second step of the goal was a bigger one -- obtain 76 fishing, 80 cooking, 65 slayer, and 100 combat. I have achieved all of those besides getting 100 combat, which I'm only three levels away from, currently being combat level 97. And those two steps were the only things in my goal that I had down on paper so that means that I'll be finished with my current goal after getting 100 combat. A long run is finally coming to an end but a new goal will be established. I have yet to work out what I want to work on, but I know that it'll involve hunter, firemaking, fletching, woodcutting, thieving, and agility. I also really want to work on mining and smelting. There's so much that I want to do that I couldn't because of my strict following of my goal that I may just have everything free-for-all for a while until I run down on desires to do certain skills, and then I'll create a goal to force myself to work on something. But for now, I'll be hanging out in World 99 at the giant spiders down on the third level of the Security Stronghold afking to get close to 100 combat, and then I'm going to go work on prayer -- possibly on baby blue dragons or hill giants.

Getting to 65 slayer was not an easy task. I'm not big on combat and I'd rather go train other skills such as woodcutting or fishing. Hell, I'm so eager to go burn logs that it's not even funny. Every time I see somebody burning some logs while I'm walking on the road to get to a slayer master or monster, I'd want to stop and ask them for a tinderbox and log for a second, and then hand the tinderbox back and 5k gold for wasting their time. Even though many find firemaking to be a worthless skill, I am in love with it. But I went a little off-topic from my discussion on getting to 65 slayer. I started on my road to 65 slayer from around 54 or 55 slayer and stuck with the skill since, only taking the occasional break to hang out in f2p, make arrows, or fish sharks for food. I had fought more lesser and greater demons, fire giants, bloodvelds, and jellies than I ever had before in my Runescape career, and what a hassle each one would be. I used to range fire giants and bloodvelds and went through probably over 5k steel arrows on each, but then I found it annoying to keep on making arrows so I would just take a full inventory of sharks (well, not totally full) and go melee them. And almost every time I went to skip a hard slayer task by going to the Burthope slayer master, I would get frecking Banshees! I would then use my ectophial, walk all the way to the Slayer Tower, and trek through that to get to the banshees on the first floor. But in the end, I feel like I accomplished one of the biggest events in my Runescape career by getting 65 slayer. Am I going to go to dust devils? Maybe when I'm on my road to 85 slayer...

As most Runescape players already know that were big fans of SwitchSwitch, Jagex turned the tables and said, "Okay, these third party softwares are not legal unless they get rid of their best features" out of nowhere! Now this pissed me off because SwiftSwitch was not only the best way to view other websites while doing skills in Runescape that you could afk during, but it had the greatest feature that kept the "Picture of the Day" blog special alive on this blog. I used to love taking pictures of Runescape by simply pressing F12 and then going back to upload the image to Imageshack later on, and I'm no person to use the long Print Screen method that would greatly interrupt gameplay if I wanted multiple pictures. The other features that many people are complaining about losing, such as the auto-retry for getting into busy worlds and the IRC chat, don't really matter to me as I rarely used them. Oh yes, another big feature was the user lookup that I loved to use, and the server status window for getting into busy worlds the un-lazy way. I have found a good if not better solution to SwiftSwitch and this is AOL. Yes, I know -- AOL stinks. I hate it, but it's the best software I have on this computer that's legal and allows me to easily look at websites while playing Runescape, which is probably the one thing that keeps me going in Runescape. Well, at least AOL runs better on my laptop than SwiftSwitch.

Well, I'm going to quickly post the daily blog specials and be finished. I'm eager to go kill some giant spiders. I just want to quickly note two things. For one, #Foote_Chat now has its own MySpace profile located here. #Foote_Chat in terms does equal Buddy Foote's Blog v.2, so if you want to be a friend of the blog/forum on MySpace, send us a request! Or better yet, just join #Foote_Chat and be an active poster. For two, I now have another new daily blog special. It's called "My..." and it involves me just having a picture of something that is mine, and finishing the sentence of what that picture is. It may be stupid or genius to some, but it's something new that I can use to help keep the blog active.

My...



...Algebra 2 homework.

"Comment That Keyword!"

"runescape-how to stop current slayer assignment"

If the assignment is from a slayer master other than the one in Burthope, you may then go to the one in Burthope to get it changed. If the monster is easy, though, and you want to stop it, then you cannot and you must finish the task to get another and to end it.

Have a good one. My nephew has been here all weekend and my mind has been in pain from the yelling all the time, thus the quality of the blog entry has shrunk. Hopefully tomorrow I can upload my second installment of 'Life of Foote'.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Hello 2007

Hola. Sorry that I didn't get around to posting anything post New Year's. Therefore welcome 2007, a little late, but not too late. (: I had a great New Year's Eve, filled with fun over my friend Abby's house with my other friend Nicole. We stayed up close to 5am after watching the ball drop. We played SceneIt with her family for a little while. I was pretty proud I knew a couple! It was Disney version by the way. Then Abby, Nicole, and I went upstairs where we proceeded to fool around a whole lot. It was pretty funny. We wanted to make up a dance, but instead we created an extreme excersise video. Unfortunately the video didn't record because we didn't know how to do that right, but it was fun anyways. We dressed up in knee-high socks, headbands, and some weird hats. Then Nicole and I had to follow whatever excersise move Abby wanted to present. She chose to excersise some very unusual parts of the body, like your elbow, armpit, neck, and butt so it was crazy nuts. Then we were so hot and thristy afterwards. I guess that shows how good of a workout our video could have been, right? (; Nicole got a new digital camera for Christmas, and we spent the wee hours taking silly pictures of each other making faces and stuff with weird hair-dos. I love fooling around like that with friends, it's so much fun and you feel comfortable and not shy and you can so just let loose and be absolutly nuts without a care in the world! =) I got maybe 4 hours for sleep that night, but was sad when it was time to go. I am considering inviting Abby, Nicole, and my friend Heather to sleepover my house for my birthday next weekend since they all want too..but I will have to see. Plus I have to recover from this nasty cold. I have been sick since Christmas. I never fully got over that cold, but as soon as I went back to school I started to feel real sick again. I stayed after school for drama Tuesday (am on stage crew again for Fiddler on the Roof!) and was freezing. I felt so cold and I think my stomache hurt, then I felt like I had a fever that evening. I probably did, because I went to bed freezing still and woke up in the night sweating like crazy. Then I felt better in the morning but my throat killed throughout the day. By the next day I had pretty much no voice and was coughing a lot. Today I got some voice back, but my nose has been so stuffed since I woke up I have trouble breathing. :P Other than that I am doing okay now and have been taking medicine, staying away from people best I can since I'd feel bad if I got anyone sick, and relaxing. I have chosen not to volunteer over the library tomorrow so I can stay home all day and sleep in. Plus I need to try to feel better because Sunday I must attend this banquet.

For some strange reason I think I lost my train of thought or can't think of anymore to say. This does not happen and it's really weird. I initially intended for this entry to be long, but now I summed up things too much and don't know what I wanted to say next...

Hmm..still not coming to me. I am rather upset now because I wanted to type for awhile. -sits-

...

Well I have been thinking about the blog often and ideas for it. I, too, want to get the word of it and the new forum out there more. I know it's possible so I am going to keep thinking of creative ways :]

I don't like my first blog entry of the New Year. It is short and ridiculous! :P Maybe my cold is affecting the part of my brain that blogs. xD Yeah..well I guess I can share a funny story (conversation between my mother and I just before) for my Daily Blog Special. Or it can be a cute story about my friend and this sweet boy...hm. I think the funny one will work better ^^

Radically Random...

After school today, I believe my mother and I brought up this banquet I am going to Sunday again. I sometimes act really ignorant and fool around on purpose when I talk to my mom, and say some really silly things or ask ridiculous questions because I try to be funny if I am bored and just sitting there, but it never works, haha xD Well once she mentioned the banquet I started to walk away but I turned around and said "Oh, you shouldn't wear makeup to it on Sunday." She looked at me and burst out laughing like "psshh! I need it" Then I replied, "But I think I want to be against makeup...I noticed at school today how many girls apply tons of it and I think it is unneccessary. Plus with my like one-time experience with it, it was horrendous and made me look uglier than I already am.." My mom took offense saying "It is supposed to have the opposite effect! Everybody needs makeup. It makes girls look pretty." Then I asked "Well, why do we wear it on our face then, huh? Why don't they go putting it on their hand or leg?? :P" So my mom says "We put it on our eyes because it brings out a girl's eyes, and when a guy looks you in the eye he can say "Oh baby..."but I cut her off before she could finish and burst out saying "...Oh baby, TAKE OFF THAT GOOP!!"

Hahaha. xD That made her crack up, and my friend I told too. :P I am not really against makeup, it looks perfectly well on everyone else except me who is plain and simply an adorkably ugly duckling but I am proud to be such if I am. -nods- haha. not a problem xP But it was funny because I find that makeup can be goopy and like painting your face and I am sure some guys want to tell some girls "yo take off that mask of goop." Lol :P Anyways that is the end of my weird story. I like sharing stories from my day IF any are interesting to share :) I wish I had something better to write about this entry. I'm sorry. Don't you worry, maybe something less personal and more interesting will be found to write about. I doubt anybody really wants to read about small pieces of personal life stories of mine anyhow. ;P Hehe, have a good day, and don't catch a cold!

Monday, January 01, 2007

2007.

Well, here you have it. It's the year 2007. Just another year of the same old and with new problems, new worries, new conflicts, new world events, new news, new good things, new blog entries, new Runescape updates, and new things that I forgot to mention. I look at the year that's ahead of me and I see a repeat of last year and every single year before it. We have to go through the remainder of the school year, then we have our usual three month summer break where we have to read three required summer novels, and then we have to continue the next grade up come early September. Then new year comes again and it just repeats. The only change will be the year 2009 when I graduate from school, and summer is no longer seen as a vacation to me but rather just a season. Well, unless I start college in the fall of 2009 -- then summer will be just another vacation. And then because I want to get a major in education and become a teacher, then summer will be a vacation for the next thirty-five years until I retire. So therefore, summer will always be a vacation for me and I haven't a clue on how I got onto this discussion when I was originally talking about the new year.

2007. I remember in 1999 when there was such a big deal about the upcoming year and not just it being the start of the new year, but rather the beginning of a whole new millennium. Yes, I was very excited about the deal of being alive to have lived from one millennium to another, and to have rather lived now than in the 1700's or the 1800's, or even the early 1900's and having died right before I hit the big year of 2000. And I just remember the whole scare of the Y2K bug and how everybody thought the world was going to come to an end. And now look, seven years after 2000 already, and we're now in 2007. It goes to show on how fast time flies by. And guess what? I may be sad about how a whole new year is beginning (I was just getting used to writing 06 on my tests in school) but this year is going to fly by like the last, and for almost every single year that I live that'll mostly be true. 2006 was a year filled with many events, but who is it to say that this coming year won't be more exciting?

2007 is just another year to mark on the blog and is the third different year that this blog has seen. First it started on July 24th, 2005, and then survived for a full year in 2006, and is now inside the year 2007, and is all nice and comfy within the warm stomach of it. And here at BFBv.2, we'll promise you a full year of 2007 with blog entries, and we'll expect to see you in 2008 and every year after.

In other news...

#Foote_Chat now hosts four poems that I have written in the past for school. They can be found in the 'Creative Corner' forum. Also in the 'In The News' forum, you can find a fresh discussion on the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Want to make a topic of your own for discussion or to share written or drawn works with us? Then become a member of #Foote_Chat today by registering!

Being that I'm starving and have not eaten anything all day besides a small glass of eggnog and four small peanut butter chocolate things shaped like something, I think I'm going to go downstairs now and bother my mother to prepare supper faster. Y'know, to give her the motivation. I was going to type more, but I didn't want to get into something and then be called down for supper. So, here you go:

"Comment That Keyword!"

"where do you kill vampires for slaying in runescape"

In the Haunted Woods just east of Canifis and south of Fekenstrain's Castle. To enter the woods, just go on the 'bridge' that the slayer master is located on, and head east not on the path. Don't head too far south or the ghasts will get you. The Haunted Woods stretches from Canifis, down to the werewolf agility training area, and east to Port Phasmatys. Happy slaying!

And before I go, I just want to mention that this is the first New Year Day that BFBv.2 has four blog writers on it. Just last year I was the only one here, and it was pretty lonely. The other blog writers mean a lot to me for being a member to BFBv.2, and I hope they continue with their writing and help update the blog regularly for your reading pleasure. It makes me happy coming onto the blog in the morning or midday and seeing somebody else has posted. However because Jenifer does not have internet, she won't be with us until she gets internet. But believe me, when she gets the internet back at her apartment, she'll be throwing more blog entries at us than ever before.

Have a good one and have a good year!