Countdown

School is almost over!!! only 4 more days of classes and then exams. I've put a counter on the sidebar at the right counting down the number of days until exams are over so that we all know how much longer I have until FREEEEEEDOOOOM!!!!!

Grrrrrrroooooaaaan

I came across some puns the other day that would even make Uncle Andrew and John van Eyk proud. Since I enjoy watching other people suffer I thought I would share some of them with you.

This little girl fell into a well and although she kept begging for help her brother stood by and did nothing. Finally a nieghbor resuced her and asked the boy why he didn't help her. "well" he replied "How could I be her brother and assit her too?"

A Guy goes to a psychiatrist: "Doc I keep having these alternating dreams...first I'm a tepee then I'm a wigwam and then I'm a tepee and so on. What is wrong with me?"
The doctor replies "Oh its quite simple really. You are just two tents."

A group of chess enthusiats were standing in the lobby of a hotel discussion their recent victories. After a while the managers comes up and asks them to leave.
"but why?" they ask
"Because" he said "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

A guy goes to a costume party with a girl on his back. The host asks him what is is trying to be.
"a snail" replies the guy
"but why do you have a girl on your back?" ask the host.
The guy says "well, that's Michelle"

Exopolitics

Canadian Parliament Asked To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien "Et" Civilizations What are we ever going to do? Apparently we are in grave danger of starting a intergalectic war if we don't start dissarming the States right now. Actually I think we are in grave danger of being part of a nation run by idiots. I mean who would actually seriously give time to this kind of stuff? Have we lost our minds?

Congratulations

Congratulations to Greg and Corrie . I love you guys and wish all the best for you!! Love is awesome thing, and yes maybe I am a little bit jealous, but I'm still very very happy for the both of you.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all those in America. I hope you aren't too full. Up here we didn't have thanksgiving today but we did have snow!!!! That isn't quite as good but it does help make up for not having turkey. We got about 6 inches so far and there is about a week of snow in the forcast.



Random picture....I though it was pretty cool

She Lives!!!

Yipppeeee!!! I Finally have my laptop back. It broke down on September 16th and I brought it in to TBE Computersthe next day. The motherboard was done for and he couldn't get the parts for it so he had to ship it out to e-machines who had manufactured the computer. He sent it out the next week so around the 20th of september and I got it back a mere 59 days later. Needless to say, in spite of my excitement in having my computer back I am not a happy customer. That is the most riduculous service I have ever heard of in my entire life, especially when they had promised that it wouldn't take more than two weeks. I called them up an complained about it about two weeks ago and so they fixed my screen for free, but I still don't think they did nearly enough to help me out. I'm warning you folks, don't buy cheap e-machines crap.

Random

You know I feel like its time to update this thing, but I just don't have anything much going on. It's basically just school, and school and more school. I can't wait til it is all over. Only 2 more weeks of classes and then exams, but in those two weeks I have 3 lab reports four quizzes and 8 assignments to do. hmmm...doesn't sound like my life is going to get much more interesting for a while. Oh well, at least it snowed today which means that snowboarding might be just around the corner. Can't wait for that. Well, I suppose I should do a bit more studying tonight.

Lest we Forget

November 11, 1918. The end of the great war. The end of the war that would end all wars. The end of killing and destruction in the world. The beginning of great dreams and utopian ideals. The start of the roaring 20's. Those dreams and ideals have long since faded away in the face of the harsh reality of the wickedness of human nature, but every year on November 11 we continue to have a day of remembrance for those millions of men and women that laid down their lives so that we might be able to enjoy freedom and (relative) peace today.

Inspired by the poem In Flanders Fields it has become a longstanding tradition to wear a poppy in the days leading up to and on Remembrance Day. But why is this? What is the point of the poppy? Well, as the slogan says it is "lest we forget." Inspiring words perhaps, but have we forgotten? Do we even know what it is that we don't want to forget? Remembrance day is not just about remembering those brave souls that died for our freedom some 90 years ago, it is about remembering what it was they were fighting for. It is about remembering that we still have men risking their lives so that we can live in relative peace and safety. It is about remembering that human nature has not changed in 90 years and that what happened then could happen again.

Nearly 90 years have passed since that memorable day in history, and what has mankind learned in those 90 years? I hate to sound cynical but I think we have forgotten. We wear the poppy and we have fuzzy feelings about those men that laid down their lives in the service of their country, but we let those very freedoms for which they died slip through our fingers. We passively sat by and watched as abortion was legalized, we shrug our shoulders in resignation at the acceptance of euthanasia, we hopelessly shake our heads as the government chips away at our religious rights and we think that somehow we should not ever have to go to war. There are things in this life that are worth fighting for and we must be sure that we never, ever, forget this. Untold millions have died so that we could have the great blessing of living in the free countries that we do. May we never be guilty of dishonoring them by dropping the torch they have passed on to us. Wear your poppy with great pride and don't ever forget that some things are worth dying for.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

- John McCrae

Snow

The first few flakes of the season fell this morning as I was getting ready for school...Snowboarding season is on its way. ohhhhh boooooya am I excited.

When are we going to ban the evil stuff?

The Hazards of Baked Bread...

A recent Cincinnati Enquirer headline read, "SMELL OF BAKED BREAD MAY BE
HEALTH HAZARD." The article went on to describe the dangers of the smell
of baking bread. The main danger, apparently, is that the organic components
of this aroma may break down ozone (I'm not making this stuff up).

I was horrified. When are we going to do something about bread-induced
global warming? Sure, we attack tobacco companies, but when is the
government going to go after Big Bread?

Well, I've done a little research, and what I've discovered should make
anyone think twice ....

1: More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.

2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households
score below average on standardized tests.

3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the
average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were
unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as
typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of
eating bread.

5: Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that
as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The
average American eats more bread than that in one month!

6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence
of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.

7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and
given only water to eat, actually begged for bread after only two days.

8: Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to harder items
such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.

9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more
than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body
being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey
bread-pudding person.

10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That
kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between
significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.


In light of these frightening statistics, I propose the following bread
restrictions:

1: No sale of bread to minors.

2: No advertising of bread within 1000 feet of a school.

3: A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills
we might associate with bread.

4: No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to
children) may be used to promote bread usage.

5: A $4.2 zillion fine on the three biggest bread manufacturers.

Remember: Think globally, act idiotically.

Volleyball

We had our last two regular season volleyball games last night and we lost them both :( How sad and depressing that is. You shoulda seen the other teams though. Man I went up for this spike and I put my whole body into it. That ball was going somewhere and it was gonna get there fast. Well the next thing you know I was lying flat on my back picking pieces of the ball out of my teeth (I told you it was a hard hit)

"you just got owned"

Well ok, that didn't really bother me cause I get owned a lot,(I think its due to the fact that I kinda suck or something)but then I looked up and low and behold standing on the other side of the net is this skinny little five foot nothing chic. Embarassed? Who? me? Noo...ok maybe yes.

Just as a note some of the above story may be slight exagerations.

Well, actually I was thinking about it and, well, some of that above story is entirely untrue.

you know, I was thinking about it some more and acutally most of that above story is untrue.

Ummm, I think I need to start being honest with y'all.....I DID play volleyball last night, but that doesn't take enough time to say and I didn't feel like doing homework right about now so I had to make something up as an excuse and the best thing I could come up with is entertaining y'all with falsehoods and lies. I'm sorry, next time I'm bored I'll just stick to smoking a cigar.