Fascinating

The "link" box is useful. I like links.

This post is much rambling and some unfinished business.

To begin with, I will bring up a... prominent issue on the internet. Does anybody wonder what it takes for a word to be used a lot in internet "slang"? For example, "interesting" is a very useful word, but I think that its usefulness has been overvalued. "Interesting" is no longer interesting to me. The word that I now am attached to is "fascinating". But that's beside the point. Perhaps I can get some input on this, considering all who read are internet users?

Continuing my ramble.

Did you know that in IM terms, *<<<<<-| is a Christmas tree? I thought you might want to know.

F.B., my intent in posting the picture is for you to laugh, or at least grimace, when you see that picture. It always make me just the more merrier. I hope a little jollification from across the Atlantic doesn't hurt you too much. You can only be expected to be stern most of the day. :-)

From the previous post. We don't know who wanted to sleep out there. They must have been crazy, we all agreed, to want to sleep out there, what with the temperatures dropping into the 40's during the night, and probably worse out on that peninsula.



-Petr

Gnarly!

By the way, click on the title.
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October 26-28 2007

"Gnarly" was the "word of the trip" for this year's NACHEA (not NAHSA anymore--I know, it's a little bit of disappointment. I am not big on the idea of an acronym that sounds like a sneeze :) family camping trip. I don't know if anybody knows what I'm talking about, so I'll elaborate.

The camp ground was out near the Trinity River, at Trinity Pines Camp. Some people may know it as "the place Evan and Caleb worked all summer". It's sort of like a family campground area sort of thing out by a lake. I don't quite know how to describe it. Anyhow, the NACHEA families went out and camped in the RV area, and not just with RVs. Some of us had to use *gasp* tents! Needless to say, we survived despite the hardship of tents and bringing our own food. Speaking of we, I need to explain that too. (don't worry, gnarly is making a comeback in the near future)

Unfortunately, we were not able ...Isn't it so splendid having the possibility of work emergencies (some really sick person) even when your off? And not getting even that much time off? I'm sure Dad loves it... to go as a family. So Andrew and I were invited by the Jones family to come along with them. So we is either a general Joshua, Joy, Mrs. Jones, Andrew, and I, or else the NACHEA group as a whole on the trip.

Shortly after "we" arrived, I found Aarin off doing his own thing and describing things as gnarly. I declared there and then that we needed a word of the trip, and that it would be "gnarly". I'll now end this short paragraph with a confident :D



A short video from the trip.

Following are some pictures from what we did all weekend.




Dodgeball, believe it or not. Each team tries to get the other team out by hitting them with little foam balls. Fun. Note that I was unable to get in action shots because of grumpiness expressed towards the camera man.

And of course, the good old truck. It managed to be useful through the whole trip. Bandwagon, bleachers, equipment truck, cargo truck....

Find the hole that is infamous for its difficulty.


I might throw in some scenery from the trip later on, in another post. Toodles for now, my friends.

-Petr

Just thought you'd want to know

Monday, October 15th is a day that shall go down in infamy. Good 'ol Nathan, Esther, gerbil, giblit (don't ask me where that came from) died during the night. 'Twas a silent night, full of silence in the space where rattling and chewing would have filled the air. We shall remember you, old pal...




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In other news, a new picture has appeared, not from Evelyn's photo banks, but from a different source...
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Something funny to think about. Turn up the sound after the screen goes white.



-Petr

It's official

Here is where I put something related to the title and related to the general gist of the post. Well, today is October 15th. That's official. This is my forty-fifth (45th) blog post. Today is Blog Action Day. I'm not too impressed at the moment.

It has indeed been a long time since the last post. I cannot say what has delayed this one. Perhaps it was the overwhelming task of journaling my early fall events. Perhaps it is the doom of eminent debating that hangs over my head (I still think this is too early in the 2008 season to really get serious, considering everything else that hangs over so ominously). But I intend to address the highlights of these past few months in what might seem a monotonous post to those of you who are obviously more expressive than I am in their descriptions. Boy, doesn't it seem like I'm repeating myself?

Anywho, somewhere back in the mists of time gone by... (I'm don't know myself where this is going, where I should start... where it would be safe to assume your knowledge, or lack thereof)
I suppose I shall start with the most recent. Forget chronological order.

From Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, troop 342 from Nacogdoches, or whatever of it decided to come (you might want to know that Venture Crew 342 was there too), attended the 2007 Naconiche area Camporee. This was a rather well organized event. The purpose of a camporee in general is to gather Scout troops from around the area for... an instructive and fun mini camp. This year it was all about search and rescue. Mr. S, area camping chairman, managed to arrange for the fire department to come out to demonstrate and an EMS helicopter to fly in. Very interesting for all involved. The cooperation and effort of the troop (a small concern for me because of the recent shuffling) was actually one of the higher points of the trip for me, despite half of our older, more experienced scouts not coming. The younger guys managed to work it out quite nicely.

Perhaps this was a "coincidence", but on the very weekend that this took place, at the very same place, not too far from our campsite, the model fliers had their little planes going. For two hours of free time, a group of scouts watched them fly the RC planes around in circles. Fun stuff.

The previous weekend was one of the highlights of this fall so far. On that weekend, Dad, Andrew, Robert D. and I took a trip to Houston, for the 23rd annual Wings Over Houston airshow, probably the biggest in the state. Were the computer running at full speed, I might post some pictures. Oh well, I don't even know whether they have been taken off the camera yet. "Pictures are worth a thousand words", yet I don't intend to use one for a thousand, or even a hundred. Maybe it'll work later.

Well it's now 10 PM or later. I'm finished for now. Now this post too shall vanish after a few weeks, assuming we have a few weeks...

-Petr