Just Some Extras

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

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

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

Digital Camera Images from Today:

Have a good one, or else.

Finally, Birds

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

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

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

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

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

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

Digital Camera -- Bird Pictures (And Squirrel):












Runescape Pictures -- Taken Today:

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

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

New Runescape Player

I have yet again succeded in getting another one of my friends to play the wonderful MMORPG Runescape -- this friend being Caitlin. I'm getting all of my friends addicts to this game. First it was Craig, then Craig's brother, then Andy tried it but thought it was stupid, and now Caitlin is playing it. I forgot to take pictures because I was on my desktop and I only take pictures of Runescape on my laptop. However if I played the game with her on my laptop, she'd be bored from all of the lag I would be experiencing. However she had some computer problems herself and was disconnected a lot of times but I can't blame her being that she was using Internet Explorer as the browser to run it on. I use the client SwiftSwitch and quickly recommended that. Overall, I recommend Firefox as a default browser. I hope she liked the game though. I tried my best to explain stuff to her, taught her how to follow me and trade, and had her almost die accidentally. How? We were walking from Draynor Village to the outside of the Lumbridge castle walls to fight the giant rats and get her into combat when my desktop acted up for the first time and I couldn't walk, however I could still click around the map and see the yellow crosspoints pop up. I was quite nervous because we were in the area with the mugglers, in which these agressive enemies attack the lower level players a.k.a. new players. I once died on one of these guys myself on my first or second day of playing the game back in Augest. Sure enough, my computer acted up right next to a muggler and she almost died, as I was shouting in our Google Talk conversation, "RUN! Run!" Thankfully she got away, good job.

While Caitlin was doing Tutorial Island, I was standing in the courtyard outside of Lumbridge castle waiting for her in World 43 (my old f2p world) with all of my stuff that I was going to give to her, such as 1,300 gp, some lobsters, cake, gold necklace, wizard hat, chef's hat, iron axe, iron mace, iron dagger, etc. I had my rune armour on and I was weilding my dragon longsword for the first time in a f2p world. I was getting some attention but actually not as much as I got when I had my rune hally out when I was getting my cooking up when Craig lost members a month or so ago. Now I'm going to have to get a dragon hally and see what happens. Anyway, this one f2p player walks up to me while I'm standing around yelling at the noob callers and reporting some people trying to get my password and even talking to some other members who are visiting the f2p worlds and says, "Can I have your sword plz?" Right away I asked, "Are you a member?" Then he says, "No but I'm going to be soon." And then I said, "It cost me 100k." And I believe he then walked away. Ten minutes or more he pms me, "So, can I have your sword?" I hate some people...

Here's what I thought the funny part was. While waiting for Caitlin, I was killing some women and men who were walking around and thought out of bones that I rarely ever bury (I only go for big bones or higher nowadays) that I might bury one. With my luck, a random event hapens. No, not a zombie or a shade but the newest random event (I think) with the grave digger. Well, Caitlin was just finished with Tutorial Island right around this point and I couldn't solve the grave digger puzzle for the life of me. I thought you had to match the pictures up but after a lightbulb was turned on in my head, I figured out what to do (try to identify what type of person each dead body was and put it in the correct grave) and got my reward of two zombie items, being zombie boots and some zombie item you put on your torso...God, I forgot. So I was releashed back to Lumbridge and saw Caitlin standing there walking around in circles avoiding the crowd so I then began my tour.

First I wanted to teach her how to trade. I wanted to take her to a quiet place so we headed over to the Lumbridge graveyard. Well, these two guys followed me over and were standing around me while I was explaining stuff to Caitlin which sort of freaked me out. I told her how to trade and I gave her my stuff but, trade declined. Inventory full. I didn't realize that Tutorial Island gave you a lot of items. So I told her to follow and after some computer problems, we headed over to the bank in Draynor Village. I then had her deposit her stuff and then gave her the items I originally attended to give her, in which she wore the wizard hat and necklace and weilded the iron mace. I then explained the fighting styles to her and how certain ones give you exp in only certain skills. I explained it in a wrong way which confused her even more, so I just shut up and we went to do some combat. This is when that muggler incident happened. In case she died, I would've picked up the stuff she dropped for her but still, the thought of dying just kills you. I then had her fight giant rats, but the darn things were doing more damage to her than she was to them. So I gave her six lobsters and two cakes and ran off back to Draynor to get my tinderbox and rune axe to chop trees to cook the rat's meat for her, but it became late at this point and she was yet again having some computer troubles.

My plan for her now is this: I sent her the link to Tip.It's beginner guide which goes in-depth and explains things better than I ever would. She stated she'll read it before she plays tomorrow (well, actually today because it just turned twelve). Then, we're going to leave the giant rats and train on cows and chickens. Plus maybe level two goblins. Once her combat is level ten, I might introduce her to the other non-combat skills to give her an idea on how to earn a profit. I recommend for her to chop trees, selling the wood. Once she can cut willows, she could then sell those 30 gp each to other players. Then once she can cut yews, it's money paradise. Another choice is mining (my original money maker) but on f2p, it's a killer. Mines are always overcrowded. I also want to show her around so that the other areas outside of Draynor and Lumbridge won't seem scary, such as Port Sarim, Falador, Edgeville, Barberian Village, Al Kharid, and Varrock. I hope you read this Caitlin so you get a basic understanding of what I'm showing you next.

I hope she likes the game though. That would make me happy. The more the merrier.

It's late and I'm falling asleep so have a good one.

On Hiatus?

No, this blog isn't dead so do not fret with the fact that I didn't post in almost a week. There have been many things in my life that has disabled me to be allowed to post here. One are IM conversations, in which I find myself in front of my computer for hours talking to either Caitlin or Drake on Google Talk and sometimes signing on to lagful AIM to maybe talk with my other friends who have not yet found the wonders of Google Talk or my sister. Conversation topics vary. Second, Runescape, Runescape, and Runescape. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Runescape. This game keeps me up until 10:30 on school nights when I have three tests the next day just to soak up the glory of such a wonderful MMORPG. And 10:30 is my limit -- set by myself. I sometimes try to keep the maximum ten but that doesn't work out too well 1/3 of the time. Now that I can finally weild dragon weapons and that I'm into running law runes, I'm on a lot. I was only on once today right before school being that I took the fastest shower in my life but...didn't get too much done. Just 27 free law runes. And last but not least, homework, in which homework isn't the factor half of the time. Also being extremely tired could be a reason but one of those three reasons normally cause my eyes to droop down and for my head to ache badly. I haven't forgotten about this blog. Actually, I think about it regularly, trying to come up with something to type but half of the time I come out with a blank. Sure, I have a personal life, but who gives a damn about that? I need to end this paragraph...

Well, for now, my life. Dammit, I use commas too much... Anyway, let's continue up on my speech that in my last entry I said I had to do and how I was highly worried about it. Just to add quickly before I speak about that I want to say that in a previous entry called "Still Away From Home" posted on February 26th I edited it because some of the thumbnails weren't working correctly when clicked on. You could read more about it there though. Anyway, speech. Saturday I didn't get around to it. Actually Saturday I didn't do any homework I had. Sunday was then work day. On Sunday, I had to do research on Switzerland, print out my sources and highlight the used information, type up and print out an outline, make a map and flag of Switzerland, assemble my speech, practice my speech, do English homework, and then study for a Spanish quiz on clothing. That was quite a lot to list alone. Although our speech teacher said that there was a high chance she wouldn't be there Monday because she may have jury duty, and good news was that she was indeed not there. So our speeches were held off until Wednesday. In other words, today. Only five people in our class had our speech ready today (and we have a pretty big class of maybe twenty or more) including myself so I went third, said everything pretty natural, and finished hearing a crowd's appluse. My teacher said my speech was perfect and that I got a one hundred to the whole class and used my speech as an example on how everybody else in the room should do theirs. That made me feel good. And a got a 102 on my Spanish quiz by the way. So that's three 100's in a row for my speeches delievered.

A lot happened since my last post but I'm not going to write a book. Like I said before, I already wrote an autobiography. Another one is not needed. I have an "At The Bell" test in advanced geometry on Friday with another Spanish quiz too and I have a pre chem quiz tomorrow so...a lot of tests to prepare for. But point being, I have pictures! Yes! New fresh pictures hot out of the oven. Although these pictures are old and none were taken today but I took them previously for my blog entries that I was supposed to post but other distractions got in my way. I have both pictures taken with my digital camera and pictures of Runescape. Let us begin this voyage then:

Fresh Pictures:

Runescape:


This was taken on January 14th. I wanted to buy some gloves from Craig that he had so therefore I did.


This was taken on March 4th. I don't remember why was I went to the Hero Supply Shop for some reason, and bought a tiara.


This was taken on March 11th. I was training my combat level so I could weild my dragon longsword by training on the jogre and cyclops at the Ardounage Zoo.


This was taken on March 13th. I'm on my way to run laws for the first time and just teleported to Varrock from Ardounage. Then I got my axe out of my bank and headed over to Edgeville, where I built the highest kind of canoe and went down the river to Lumbridge. Then I headed over to Draynor.


This was taken on the same day. Just got a succesful run in this picture as you could see with my 27 law runes and 27 noted law essences.


Yet again, this was taken on the same day. This is the actual establishment of the law rune area and I'm just leaving after yet another successful run.

Digital Camera:




At my second-to-last recent visit to my sister's, she and her husband made me my own room in their old guest bedroom. Being that I was the only guest that ever stayed in their house for the night. These are just pictures of the room, including a picture that my sister colored for me.


My sister wanted me to take this picture for her MySpace. I presume it's a bar her husband and herself always go to.


Taken at my last recent visit to my sister's. This is their cat, Buster. I had pictures of him on here before many times. Damn cat...



Like I mentioned in the last blog entry, we're working on redoing the parlor in my house and these are pictures I took last week of writing on the wall that dates back to November 29, 1971. Why is it that whenever I type a blog entry, I forget names of thing. Well, this was on the wall under the other wall...I can't think! I sound like an absolute fool in this entry. Oh well...it'll come to me in five minutes after I hit 'publish post'.


I was going to do something called "Daily Homework Situation" or something similar to that and I took this picture about two days ago so...it's not too daily, is it? Thought I'd still share them because I want to put these pictures on my camera to use before I upload them to my desktop.

I'm pretty damn tired so have a good one.

Finally Better and Much to Say

First I must proclaim to thee that I'm not exactly at my best health at the moment in my time of sickness, but a lot better compared to the rest of the week. Thank God because this sore throat I've been having is a killer. I was sick to the point where I had a 101 fever, but I still didn't miss a day of school yet this school year. Good riddance for that because Thursday I earned the degree "Student of the Month" for my 9th grade class for the month of February. It just has to be the shortest month, doesn't it!? My buddy, Corey, got it last month in which he received the first one in our entire school history being this program just started in early February. Did I get anything special? Well, a certificate, name mentioned on school announcements twice, pictures for newspaper next week, and a visit to my vice principal's office.

This is really bothering me about my blog, but I never deliver the full message that I want to say and overtime I end up leaving these major holes in my plot of telling that results in confusion for both the reader and myself. I can never get the point across in the full way I intended to do so. So I'm telling you now, if I'm ever getting onto something here and I start onto something else because that little something else was mentioned in a word or two in parentheses away from the main topic I was orginally talking about and I never get back to that original topic, that's because I have this problem where my mind wanders around when I'm typing so I get all of these new ideas rushing into my head, ready to be typed up, before the old ones even see their appearance on the computer screen. I think I did a good job there. Speaking of good jobs, my friend Craig got a job at a pizza place washing dishes. See! There's an example! Ouy...

Before talking about the past I need to cover the future. Normally in most textbooks it doesn't go in that order, but who here really likes timelines? I do. Now, I'm not going to really be around to post too much this weekend. My only time in the world to rest. Why? Well, yesterday we got our next speech assignment to do. She's so excited about our speeches that she jumps from one to another. What an excited woman! So we have to do a speech on a country that we "pick" with our eyes closed in which she spins the globe and we randomly point to a country when she tells us to do so and we hope we don't get some country like Cravefuyutboaris. Also we have to have at least, being a minimum, of two visual aids, an outline, every source printed out, and something else probably that she never told us about. So after everybody finishes their demonstration speeches finally, she informs us about the next speech and then has us line up single file to pick our next country. Well, two minutes left to class, bell rings, we stay, pick country, run away. Sorry, I had to have some sort of rhyme going here. I was the second-to-the-last person in line and got my country. Now my finger landed on Germany, but that was already picked. I could've done a lot on Germany with the crazy Nazis and all, but no. She moved her finger to the left a bit on the line of latitude (I think that's the correct line running from left to right..) and said I could either pick France or Switzerland. What did I pick? Switzerland, of course! I don't know why but I did... Main point: It's due Monday. Meaning I have two days to find information on the country, at least two visual aids, an outline, printing out sources, actually whipping a memorized one to two minute speech together, and practicing it a bit. That's just crazy! Oh well, Runescape playin' tonight!

And without the speech itself, I have a Spanish quiz on clothing, English homework, and...I think there was something else...wow I have a short memory.

But with that speech I was nervous. I didn't have internet at all yesterday besides for a one-hour period of time right after I came home from school, which involved just searching around my bookmarks wasting time, getting my headache worse which causes my brain to become congested and I have a harder time doing homework later on. See, I went off on a huge sentence ender there over a mention of what I normally do after school when I'm sick... Anyway, this speech involves looking up information on the computer meaning you need an internet connection unless you have a CD with the whole damn wikipedia database offline on it which is currently impossible for mankind to even attempt at this point. So in other words, I'd simply be screwed. At least I got to bed early...

A lot more happened during the week but I don't intend to have an autobiography written here, or at least just yet. Actually I already wrote one in 6th grade which my mother found when we were taking everything out of the parlor because my father is ripping the whole room apart, walls, celing, floor, etc. and replacing them and putting in a corn burning stove. That's another major event that began this week too... Anyway, yes, I already wrote an autobiography. I was going to talk more about how I died on Runescape last week and what's going on in the game now but I just realized I have litter boxes to clean out or my father is throwing a cat out of the window. So make sure you have a good one.

Blogging Absence from Sickness

Here is the shortest post I'll ever leave here in my unoffical career of blogging. The reason I haven't post is because I'm sick, in which I'm sick right now in which I feel like I have a fever. I got sick this Sunday after staying over my sister's yet again for the night. I developed a sore throat last Thursday, however, in which that day was a snow day like I expected it to turn out to be. Friday was a tow-hour delay so I didn't have my speech. I did my speech yesterday and got a one hundred on it. Being sick since Sunday badly with post nasal drip and a severe sore throat, I still went to school for the last three days. I didn't miss a day of school yet and I plan to resume that record. I'm playing Runescape again. I died last week for the first time since I started playing back last fall on a dark wizard. This time I died from a tribesman's posion, which dealt 11 HP. Saturday night, I went to play pool with my sister at a bowling alley called Idle Hour Lanes, getting my middle finger on my right hand getting a chunk of skin out of it. My backpack also broke Saturday. What bad luck I'm having. This entry had no exact order and is longer than I thought it would be. Good night. Adios. !Nos vemos! Maybe I'll see you yet again when I get better.