Recently overheard at the dinner table:
"Does every state have its own national bird?"
Yes, every state has its own bird, even if it isn't a national bird.
:)
This was funnier when coming from Annalee!
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Jordan's deal
Today I saw a picture of Jordan. This is no ordinary picture, this is Jordan with long hair and a trenchcoat.
www.quirky1.blogspot.com
On a different, but still funny, matter, Annalee mined up another funny short. It involves a gopher and a lot of veggies, and the gopher getting sat on (!). Someone did a great job animating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54MDTMP8fnk
watch about 5 seconds of credits. There is a little more.
If you find humor in paintball, look at what JCP has posted. As I said there, it is quite applicable to several people I know.
http://singdanceandplay.blogspot.com/2006/10/paintball-fun.html
Life continues. That is a fact. So I have some updates.
On Friday last, there was a great big teen pool party. Anyone in Nacogdoches should know, but for the benifit of the others, I can comment on it.
This was out at the Elliot place, a really big house owned by Mr. Elliot. Electric company or something. We pulled up in front of a seemingly average sized house, but in the back was a fully enclosed heated swimming pool, and a hot tub right inside the enclosure right near it. Such a pool party I have never seen. Not all the teens in the homeschool group were there, but it was loud and for the smallish pool, seemingly packed. All afternoon and into the early evening everbody was having a great old time. Half the time, either most of the guys or most of the girls were in the hot tub. Half the time half the people were in line for the diving board. funsies.
On Saturday Evan finally had his Eagle Scout service project. This was an original service project. The whole idea of the project was to restore the tee off locations of the Pecan Park frisbee golf course. So most of the poles had to be dug up, new ones painted and put in, maps be drawn and put on their own metal poles, the proper markings be put on the new posts (we had at least one situation where we marked a post with the wrong number--yeah, I'm to blame for that one) I'm not sure anything else though... The part of the project that the troop did was dealing with the tee posts. That should've gone quickly, but we got hung up in places and the job went from 8 AM to somewhere around 3 or 4 PM.
Any questions, comments? Maybe you should put some more info in those posts, Pete? Good.
Well, that wraps it up. I am still alive, Gus and Arwen. I still have things to say, F.B., even if it isn't a lot. I'm done.
www.quirky1.blogspot.com
On a different, but still funny, matter, Annalee mined up another funny short. It involves a gopher and a lot of veggies, and the gopher getting sat on (!). Someone did a great job animating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54MDTMP8fnk
watch about 5 seconds of credits. There is a little more.
If you find humor in paintball, look at what JCP has posted. As I said there, it is quite applicable to several people I know.
http://singdanceandplay.blogspot.com/2006/10/paintball-fun.html
Life continues. That is a fact. So I have some updates.
On Friday last, there was a great big teen pool party. Anyone in Nacogdoches should know, but for the benifit of the others, I can comment on it.
This was out at the Elliot place, a really big house owned by Mr. Elliot. Electric company or something. We pulled up in front of a seemingly average sized house, but in the back was a fully enclosed heated swimming pool, and a hot tub right inside the enclosure right near it. Such a pool party I have never seen. Not all the teens in the homeschool group were there, but it was loud and for the smallish pool, seemingly packed. All afternoon and into the early evening everbody was having a great old time. Half the time, either most of the guys or most of the girls were in the hot tub. Half the time half the people were in line for the diving board. funsies.
On Saturday Evan finally had his Eagle Scout service project. This was an original service project. The whole idea of the project was to restore the tee off locations of the Pecan Park frisbee golf course. So most of the poles had to be dug up, new ones painted and put in, maps be drawn and put on their own metal poles, the proper markings be put on the new posts (we had at least one situation where we marked a post with the wrong number--yeah, I'm to blame for that one) I'm not sure anything else though... The part of the project that the troop did was dealing with the tee posts. That should've gone quickly, but we got hung up in places and the job went from 8 AM to somewhere around 3 or 4 PM.
Any questions, comments? Maybe you should put some more info in those posts, Pete? Good.
Well, that wraps it up. I am still alive, Gus and Arwen. I still have things to say, F.B., even if it isn't a lot. I'm done.
Friday, October 20, 2006
something to say
So I have had a life for the past week or two, but you might not hear much about it. Thats fine with me, but here is a little bit of it.
Saturday last week, everyone except Dad went to the ATM vs. Missouri game. A&M won, of course. It was close though. Also on that weekend, we spent a long time in the car. From 7:30 to 10:20 we were eating and talking out at the Falcon 16 barbeque (if you don't know, Falcon 16 is the squadron Ross is in in the Corps of Cadets).
Wednesday Amanda (from chemistry on my sidebar) had a birthday party out at the Reese's house. Paintball. Thank you Amanda! Of course, Jesse gave me a really big bruise, as normal. I mean every time I play with him, I get something that really hurts. Oh well. I think I gave my share of large bruises.
Later that day after lunch, I had to leave the party for The Bike Shop. That was uneventful. Nothing hardly happened at all. I changed a coupla tires, swept up, started a repair job involving a chain, two tires, and two tubes, when Mom came around and took me home. Not much on that front.
School seems to be going OK for me. Chemistry is not very hard this time. Oh, I have a chemistry class at nine. I need to go now.
BYE
Saturday last week, everyone except Dad went to the ATM vs. Missouri game. A&M won, of course. It was close though. Also on that weekend, we spent a long time in the car. From 7:30 to 10:20 we were eating and talking out at the Falcon 16 barbeque (if you don't know, Falcon 16 is the squadron Ross is in in the Corps of Cadets).
Wednesday Amanda (from chemistry on my sidebar) had a birthday party out at the Reese's house. Paintball. Thank you Amanda! Of course, Jesse gave me a really big bruise, as normal. I mean every time I play with him, I get something that really hurts. Oh well. I think I gave my share of large bruises.
Later that day after lunch, I had to leave the party for The Bike Shop. That was uneventful. Nothing hardly happened at all. I changed a coupla tires, swept up, started a repair job involving a chain, two tires, and two tubes, when Mom came around and took me home. Not much on that front.
School seems to be going OK for me. Chemistry is not very hard this time. Oh, I have a chemistry class at nine. I need to go now.
BYE
Monday, October 16, 2006
North-South and such
I think Shadow wanted to hear about this, and some others might be interested...
North-South and East-West. That was a small argument (the unheated type) that a few people had in the car on the way back from a debate tournament in, er, where was it agin, JCP? Anyways, JCP launched into a strange explanation of how there actually is a North-South direction or an East-West direction. Don't ask me to relate the opinions in the argument, I don't remember how JCP explained the existence of a North-South or how Evan so fervently argued against it. But JCP's explanation of NS and EW was interesting. Click the link at the top for JCPs post about it.
North-South and East-West. That was a small argument (the unheated type) that a few people had in the car on the way back from a debate tournament in, er, where was it agin, JCP? Anyways, JCP launched into a strange explanation of how there actually is a North-South direction or an East-West direction. Don't ask me to relate the opinions in the argument, I don't remember how JCP explained the existence of a North-South or how Evan so fervently argued against it. But JCP's explanation of NS and EW was interesting. Click the link at the top for JCPs post about it.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
A couple more
Compare the two. On the top, a small fuzzball with eyes, a nose anda mouth. On the right is that other "You knit WHAT??". Everyone can plainly tell that the cat is very mad. Nice kitty, no, don't bite me!.
"What have I ever done to deserve this? I've been a faithful cat my entire life. Ok, there was that shoe incident, but that couldn't have been as humiliating to her, could it?"
Does anyone know about the Manah manah? Annalee and Mary and meslef (forget proper grammer) have been websurfing the "sesame street archives", or something very like it.
Manah Manah
Your opinions, please.
"The question is, what is a Manah manah?"
"The question is, WHO CARES?!"
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Clearly angry fuzzballs
"Yeah, go ahead and laugh. Just know that when you do, I'm gonna come over there and bite your face. Go on, laugh."
Mom found these on a knitting site (you knit WHAT??) and I thought they would look funny. I can't remember the caption for the first, but I know it wasn't quite appropriate.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Its October 9th - right?
Ok, so now I've tried to post this several times and it don't work. Maybe this time...
Now playing, or rather was playing, Pachelbel's Canon in D, played on an electric guitar. See here now.
Enjoy, and make sure its loud. :)
Ok. Now is playing Newsboys. Don't bother with track. It will be finished before I can finish this post.
Nice Pete, but what about a real update, for those who might have the slightest interest in your life?
About two thirty on Friday, Andrew, Dad, and myself (oh, forget grammar and all that) left the house headed for Regents Academy. Regents is where Boy Scout Troop 342 has all its meetings and has a storage hut in the back. So every good campout should start there. From there, the troop headed out to the Trail Between the Lakes, a trail going between... oh, those two lakes to the East of us. I'll have a map link in a minute. Their server is awfully slow right now. Well, anyway, We started at the West end of the trail and headed East about 16 miles. In the first evening when we got their, we hiked about one and a half miles and made camp. At this campsite, Jesse and Nick got a campfire ceremony (big woop) in without a campfire or any real procedure. Dinner and sleep and breakfast and then we broke up camp and hiked close to ten or maybe a couple more the next day. The trail was interesting in the sense that whenever it wasn't road, we were mostly following the marks and making our own trail. This post doesn't have much structure, does it? Just go on and on.... The campfire, um, hour or two that Josh and I planned had more organization, but it was mostly that I read off Computer Stupidities and then various spookers told scary stories. An armadillo came through camp right in the middle of one of those stories. A very important factor in the stories, unmentioned until now, was that we camped right near the Jones Cemetery. :D
New line.
Caleb posted some pictures of that trip. He's Cada on my sidebar.
Sunday morning we packed up and hiked another 1-2 miles to the road. We did not actually go to the end of the trail because that was 28 miles and we didn't have time. We sat around at the trailhead or trailmid and entertained ourselves with many things (pine cone wars) while we waited for Mr. Jones to come pick up the gear. The Suburban can carry people, but not equipment. The group got back at almost exactly one of the clock. Every parent should have been there, but some were delayed (you know who you are!) and some of us had to wait while the rides got there.
If you didn't catch it before, that was a Double H shakedown trip--essentially a training trip for the 2007 trip. Again, check out the pictures on Cada's blog.
and the link is coming up...
This is actually a link from a website about the trail. The trail is between Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn reservoirs.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/national-forest/images/trailmap.jpg
I went to a lot of effort on this post--enjoy, or else!
Now playing, or rather was playing, Pachelbel's Canon in D, played on an electric guitar. See here now.
Enjoy, and make sure its loud. :)
Ok. Now is playing Newsboys. Don't bother with track. It will be finished before I can finish this post.
Nice Pete, but what about a real update, for those who might have the slightest interest in your life?
About two thirty on Friday, Andrew, Dad, and myself (oh, forget grammar and all that) left the house headed for Regents Academy. Regents is where Boy Scout Troop 342 has all its meetings and has a storage hut in the back. So every good campout should start there. From there, the troop headed out to the Trail Between the Lakes, a trail going between... oh, those two lakes to the East of us. I'll have a map link in a minute. Their server is awfully slow right now. Well, anyway, We started at the West end of the trail and headed East about 16 miles. In the first evening when we got their, we hiked about one and a half miles and made camp. At this campsite, Jesse and Nick got a campfire ceremony (big woop) in without a campfire or any real procedure. Dinner and sleep and breakfast and then we broke up camp and hiked close to ten or maybe a couple more the next day. The trail was interesting in the sense that whenever it wasn't road, we were mostly following the marks and making our own trail. This post doesn't have much structure, does it? Just go on and on.... The campfire, um, hour or two that Josh and I planned had more organization, but it was mostly that I read off Computer Stupidities and then various spookers told scary stories. An armadillo came through camp right in the middle of one of those stories. A very important factor in the stories, unmentioned until now, was that we camped right near the Jones Cemetery. :D
New line.
Caleb posted some pictures of that trip. He's Cada on my sidebar.
Sunday morning we packed up and hiked another 1-2 miles to the road. We did not actually go to the end of the trail because that was 28 miles and we didn't have time. We sat around at the trailhead or trailmid and entertained ourselves with many things (pine cone wars) while we waited for Mr. Jones to come pick up the gear. The Suburban can carry people, but not equipment. The group got back at almost exactly one of the clock. Every parent should have been there, but some were delayed (you know who you are!) and some of us had to wait while the rides got there.
If you didn't catch it before, that was a Double H shakedown trip--essentially a training trip for the 2007 trip. Again, check out the pictures on Cada's blog.
and the link is coming up...
This is actually a link from a website about the trail. The trail is between Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn reservoirs.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/national-forest/images/trailmap.jpg
I went to a lot of effort on this post--enjoy, or else!
Hello there, handsome.
That little cat, Shayfur.
Actually, that is the pitcher that I intend to use on my profile. I had another one in mind, but it just didn't work out, so this one works.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
October 5th
Here I be. I be me and no one can change that. :)
Ok. So Andrew finally got right up to Makaan and is getting ready to defeat the big bad one and take the third core. Big woop.
Things are hectic, as normal. I have a paper to write (uhoh. its overdue!!), I have to pack for the hiking trip that we leave for tomorrow afternoon, get me chores and piano and such stuf done, make sure I stay alive, get chemistry uptodate, other small insignificant little jobs and things to be done, and of course little stuff here and there that will keep me busy all day. Oh! And also I need to get ANNALEE a BIRTHDAY PRESENT. Her BIRTHDAY is on SUNDAY, the 8TH.
I could tell you all about yesterday, but I think I'll just tell you the interesting part. I went to the Bike Shop (volunteer work, once a week on Wednesday) and guess who is starting to hire more workers? I mean, just from one week to the next, the boss (I think) has hired two or three new guys. I got to replace a bent rim, try to replace another bent rim that wasn't bent, and the tube that went with it, I think maybe I stood around waiting for something to do, um. I brought a box in at one point and loaded a shelf with tubes. Not the funnest job, but not hard. Ok, I told you, ask questions if you want.
Mrs. Rita is sitting behind me reading to the goyles. The girls havta listen to or read a whole buncha reading books. This takes a while, so they take two or three hours a day two or three days a week. Not much there.
Greek alphabet got 24 letters no punctuation or spaces.
"Poetry?"
"math?"
"Mondy mornin? Muxic!"
"kkhhh!"
This concludes this short post. My comment box is open to any comments questions, or other such stuff, considering the commentor shows restraint in certain circumstances (no really weird comments, please)
BY!!
Ok. So Andrew finally got right up to Makaan and is getting ready to defeat the big bad one and take the third core. Big woop.
Things are hectic, as normal. I have a paper to write (uhoh. its overdue!!), I have to pack for the hiking trip that we leave for tomorrow afternoon, get me chores and piano and such stuf done, make sure I stay alive, get chemistry uptodate, other small insignificant little jobs and things to be done, and of course little stuff here and there that will keep me busy all day. Oh! And also I need to get ANNALEE a BIRTHDAY PRESENT. Her BIRTHDAY is on SUNDAY, the 8TH.
I could tell you all about yesterday, but I think I'll just tell you the interesting part. I went to the Bike Shop (volunteer work, once a week on Wednesday) and guess who is starting to hire more workers? I mean, just from one week to the next, the boss (I think) has hired two or three new guys. I got to replace a bent rim, try to replace another bent rim that wasn't bent, and the tube that went with it, I think maybe I stood around waiting for something to do, um. I brought a box in at one point and loaded a shelf with tubes. Not the funnest job, but not hard. Ok, I told you, ask questions if you want.
Mrs. Rita is sitting behind me reading to the goyles. The girls havta listen to or read a whole buncha reading books. This takes a while, so they take two or three hours a day two or three days a week. Not much there.
Greek alphabet got 24 letters no punctuation or spaces.
"Poetry?"
"math?"
"Mondy mornin? Muxic!"
"kkhhh!"
This concludes this short post. My comment box is open to any comments questions, or other such stuff, considering the commentor shows restraint in certain circumstances (no really weird comments, please)
BY!!
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
scouts, maybe?
I just don't get it. How do you long time bloggers come up with some sort of good title, or even a good first sentence? Anyone got any ideas where the ideas come from?
So yeaahh, if you don't already know, we had a Boy Scout meeting tonight (just got back, ya know), it seemed to go alright, the typical things were gone over, upcoming events, some sort of presentation from the ASPL (Assistant Senior Patrol Leader) about some sort of Tenderfeet reqwuirements, tha sort of stuf. We did have something added this time. Instead of playing football, we played soccer!
We got a Double H (HH) shakedown comin up this weekend, had to do a little bit of cleaning and organizing, basically gettin the gear together. Jesse and Nickie have come up with some strange meal plan for the large group that is going (it may have something to do with MREs--Nick?). They also have a great big campfire sort of plan goin on. Mostly jokes and mebbe a skit or two. But the next night (when everyone is out of jokes), Steffen and "my glorious self" (steffen would love to say something like that--we're talking carrilo, steffen) get to plan another campfire sort of something. I will be ready, just in case no one has any more jokes or short skits. I am printing off [technical support] stories! gasp!! (I don't want my source out until after the fact :)
oh, hey guys, I gotta write some sorta paper thingie and turn it in before 11:59 and 59 seconds tomrrow night. I gotta get workin. so fer now, nothin intresting from my corney of the world. I think I'll go try that blog monitor... (ask Shadow)
So yeaahh, if you don't already know, we had a Boy Scout meeting tonight (just got back, ya know), it seemed to go alright, the typical things were gone over, upcoming events, some sort of presentation from the ASPL (Assistant Senior Patrol Leader) about some sort of Tenderfeet reqwuirements, tha sort of stuf. We did have something added this time. Instead of playing football, we played soccer!
We got a Double H (HH) shakedown comin up this weekend, had to do a little bit of cleaning and organizing, basically gettin the gear together. Jesse and Nickie have come up with some strange meal plan for the large group that is going (it may have something to do with MREs--Nick?). They also have a great big campfire sort of plan goin on. Mostly jokes and mebbe a skit or two. But the next night (when everyone is out of jokes), Steffen and "my glorious self" (steffen would love to say something like that--we're talking carrilo, steffen) get to plan another campfire sort of something. I will be ready, just in case no one has any more jokes or short skits. I am printing off [technical support] stories! gasp!! (I don't want my source out until after the fact :)
oh, hey guys, I gotta write some sorta paper thingie and turn it in before 11:59 and 59 seconds tomrrow night. I gotta get workin. so fer now, nothin intresting from my corney of the world. I think I'll go try that blog monitor... (ask Shadow)
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