Life

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Look at the last post. Did I not say that I would post about the events of life in the near future? Well here is this post, consisting of almost purely life events.
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Yesterday, I'm sorry to say I missed the announcement, was International Talk Like A Pirate Day. February 19 each year. Go google it and find some interesting facts. ARRR!

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Going all the way back to the end of August...

Debate Camp!

This trip into the Rockies for the purpose of debate theory was figuratively the calm before the storm. Calm flight in, long road trips from the airport out and back, calm flight out. Lots of mountains. Hey I could've just sat on the front porch of the admin building watching clouds float by or hiking up and down and up and down and oh by the way some ups and downs. I did neither. I missed the only chance to do that. :(

So instead, most of the weekend was spent inside a small conference building listening to useful lectures about the value of isolationism, immigration history in the United States, economics, lectures about case structure, values in general, cross examination, "judge reading" (!), philosophers, time management, club exercises, and probably some more that I didn't even write down. There were lectures about certain debates or group activities or flowing a certain speech in a debate. Lots of theory!

The day after we got back, or rather the day we got back at 1 AM, I slept until 12 PM with little trouble. The next day, the storm broke. I had, and still have daily, to work through algebra II/trigonometry, advanced chemistry, SAT preparation, history (lots of reading or lots of essays), and several DVD and tape lectures. It's hard to keep the algebra equations separate from chemistry formulas and funny looking constants (2.18x10^-18? 6.63x10^34?). And all this the day after I get back from a weekend in Colorado.

Later that Tuesday evening was the first Boy Scout meeting I had been to in a long time. Speaking of which, recently boy scouts have been hectic. Just this Tuesday we had elections and a huge mixup over who should be in what positition and who should be responsible for deciding those positions and what the standard was in the past and what the standard should be now. We still don't know some of the details from the elections and appointments.

Small sidetrack, but necessary for the topic at hand, Life. I mean the life that I can observe, ok? Not the life of somebody in Kansas or Arkansas. :)

I'll skip forward a couple weeks to... Saturday, September 15th.

Last week was the NACHEA (not NAHSA anymore :( teen photo scavenger hunt. Mrs. Yerkes got Jeremy *somebody* to organize it. Several teams of teens ran all over SFA trying to get pictures and solve some clue thingies, leading to the thing that evil Sinisterguy (or something like that) had taken from him. My team never found it, and we weren't told in the end. Regardless, there were some pretty weird pictures we had to get. Big sign reading 5:18, team in stranger's truck, three legged race with non-participant, and some other strange things. At 6:30 all the teams had to gather at this house for an afterward party thing. We found that we had gotten third and the peanut M&Ms to go with it(!!!). It lasted late into the night, of course. It's always strange to be staying after the party, to clean up. The house is so... empty. Sort of like when relatives come and then leave. Not much fun to be left behind.

Well it's getting late again and the black cat is bugging me. Go away Beamer! I can't pay attention to you right now. :-)

So good night to you all, and God bless! Have fun in Ireland F.B.!!

-Petr

And furthermore

Well I finally got back. I'm posting, can't you tell? This is a post. It is meant to be read, so don't comment unless you do so!

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I've had this post formulated in my mind for a long time. A looong time. Unfortunately, I don't remember the original formulation, so I'm just going to, well, go with it.

So beginning with the not so difficult stuff. I remembered Philip's "Potatoes" video this weekend when a video similar in its concept came up in a small discussion. Along with posting this video, I must also mention that I no longer intend to post videos, just their URLs. Web page, if you didn't understand the first time. But back to this video, its essentially repeating something in the right context so much that it's funny. Oh, just follow the link already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tin6NJqQQsM

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Another interesting thing, not so much fun, more disturbing than anything else.

Debate brings up some interesting things. Sure you learn how to debate, speak, etc., and included in this "etc." is researching. Now I was researching for my Affirmative case when I stumbled across something. Perhaps things are a little out of hand... well it's about the supposed "North American Union", told off by Bush and others, but I think this takes the cake. But be warned, Hal Turner is very blunt with his language. I really think some people have taken it too far this time.

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A page update watcher, originally found and posted by Shadow. JCPenney requested this, but I think that more people can benefit from it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwatcher
It is the one that I am currently using, and will tell you if anything is different. Even a slight html code change.

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To answer your predictable questions, yes I did change the template. I am planning some other changes as well, eventually. I wonder if eventually will ever be now...

Considering the purpose of this post, I don't intend to relate current events. That's coming tomorrow or some other time in the near future.

Goodnight, and God bless.