The grand four-day weekend is coming to an end (I really hope I didn’t forget any homework). That means I have a packed week ahead of me. On Tuesday is the big B-E vs. Mount Vernon basketball game, Wednesday and Thursday are marching practice days, Friday is another basketball game (the pep band plays at certain games), and the Sedro-Woolley Christmas Parade is on Saturday. This parade is one of my least favorites. Hours and hours of marching through subzero temperatures just to find that the other competitor (Sedro-Woolley) won because the judges were all from Sedro-Woolley. Okay, so I exaggerated a bit. It’s really only about an hour, it rarely gets below freezing, and this year, we have something like three Burlington judges, three Sedro-Woolley judges, and two Mount Vernon judges. This year ought to be interesting. That reminds me, I need to find out what the saxes are doing with decorating instruments. Curses! I should have done that a while ago. *runs off to find fellow saxophones*
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Great googly woogly! Friday Creek has transformed from mild-mannered trickle to HUGE ROARING TORRENT OF DEATH!!! And it’s only been raining for a week…no, really, our back yard is half-flooded, our front yard is almost half-flooded, and last night, the creek was lapping at the bottom of one of the nearest bridge of Friday Creek Road. It’s madness, I say! In other non-related news, I’ve decided that Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday (although Easter runs a close second). This came about because of the EXTREME commercializationism of Thanksgiving. What allegedly started as a feast between the pilgrims and the Native Americans who saved their butts by teaching them how to plant corn fertilized with fish has turned into Eat-So-Much-You-Have-To-Buy-A-New-Belt-While-Watching-The-Macy’s-Parade Day. And, in the case of Easter, I don’t see any correlation between the Easter Bunny and the resurrection of Jesus. What has this world come to?? Well, I think I’ve ranted enough. Now I’m off to watch mind-numbing commercials urging me to shop at JC Penney’s, buy Camel cigarettes, and eat at Joe’s. Long live the remote (and 500 channels)!
Sphere: Related ContentThe opening night of senior-directed one acts was a success!!! That was last night. Tonight’s the closing night. Hopefully two things will go better than last night namely 1) Mike doesn’t forget his lines, and 2) the video tape won’t run out at the very end cutting off a bunch of the last play. Oh well, ya live ya learn. Today the band had a hot dog cooking fundraiser thingamajig and during the time I was there, we sold a lot of hot dogs to a small number of people. It was cold! When I woke up this morning at nine, it was 31 degrees out. It’s 43 right now. Baker opens on Sunday (not that I’ll be going skiing anytime soon). What else interesting and slightly odd happened today or yesterday….nothing! How about that? Join Hi5! It’s cool! Cool people sign up to Hi5! Like me! So if you’re my friend (wink wink nudge nudge) go here http://www.hi5.com/i?l=2KCPEYT and sign up! (Future Cody’s note: please don’t.) Well, now I’m off to continue writing stories about things blowing up, cleaning my WSU hat, and saying “fascinating” in a thoroughly Spock-like way.
Sphere: Related ContentWell, it has been a long time since I last played blackjack. Hehe, okay, so I forgot that aces are both ones and elevens. On the flip side of things though, my Sim on Sims 2 died of old age after a fulfilling life. Oh well, it was about time. I’m kidding. It was really sad. Anyhoo, I just got back from spending an hour and a half running around trying to find tape. The high school band sponsors a craft fair once a year and the band members help set up. We mark the areas, set up tables and chairs, and label spots. I also was nominated to be the one to carry heavy tables and chairs around. Well, maybe the chairs weren’t THAT heavy, but yeah. And now I’m off to find useful uses for my nifty Marines caribiner.
Sphere: Related ContentTypical. The day after I tell you all to visit an (most likely) illegal site to watch the trailer, you can just go to starwars.com and see it without worrying about the morals of pirated movie trailers. THOU SHALT WATCH!!! Anyhoo, I very nearly flunked a majorly huge and very important AP chemistry test which determined my grade for the rest of my life! No, just kidding. It wasn’t that important. <—Note: I didn’t say I didn’t almost flunk it.
So now that that’s all and well and done with, I go into the wild blue yonder to find out what my teachers REALLY think about me. That means parent teacher conferences tomorrow. DUN DUN DUN. Good news, however, is that the day’s a half-day. Along with Wednesday. And Thursday and Friday we have off. What an exceedingly inefficient week. We might as well just have stayed at home watching Boston Legal and eating Cheetos. Me, I prefer Mountain Dew and Yu-Gi-Oh!…just kidding. More like SpongeBob…
And in my last few (thousand) words, I want to insert a little rant about people who say Microsoft is the devil’s company. I know none of you usual readers of my blog will care (heck, for all I know you call it Winblows too). I just recently visited this dude’s site (stardestroyer.net) and in a little section of it, he talks about all the evils of Windows and how Microsoft has a monopoly on the computing business, blah, blah, blah. Sure, Windows has lots of flaws and security holes and is practically the only OS on the market. But what OS doesn’t have flaws? I’d love to see a perfect operating system. But sadly, even the vaunted Linux of Windows-haters isn’t perfect. So I’ll stick with the tried and true. This guy also said that people who use Windows because “everyone else does” are doing it for the wrong reasons. He says that just because lot’s of people use Windows doesn’t mean it’s good. That’s true as well, but he in his hatred of Bill Gates and all things Microsoft, he neglects to look at how people just don’t care. Take me for instance. I have no confidential information for hackers to take off my computer (save perhaps my locker combination and SSN although I don’t think either of those is on there), Windows has lots of good products (okay, so they do slow your computer down, but what doesn’t?), and Windows has all the games. Well, Macs have a few games, Linux has none that I can think of, so that just leaves Windows. This dude also concedes that Windows is for gaming but not for anything “important.” What could possibly be more important than gaming??
The main thing that got me is how he says people who use Windows have so many problems, have to reboot all the time, yada yada, but I’ve never had any major problems with Windows! There was one time where it kept crashing but we found that it was caused by a hardware problem, not Windows. C’mon people, lay off the Microsoft-bashing! Microsoft doesn’t hold a monopoly on the computing business! There’s still Apple! And people can go online and find lots of versions of Linux…for free! Jeez, some people can just be so narrow-minded. All right. I’m done. Thanks for humoring me (that is, you people who actually read this far).
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