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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
 
I had to take my guestbook down 'cause ppl were saying they were getting pornographic pop-up ads, and I kept getting posts that were links to viruses.

 
I don't think I'm gonna make it

-until spring break
-until the end of the school year
-in life
-in general

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
 
did you know that I can drop one full dress size in only 6 weeks online?

Tuesday, February 17, 2004
 
"When did we decide campgrounds needed laundromats? When the car stalled, whose bright idea was it to reach for a cell phone instead of a tool?

There was a time when the words "quick" and "fix" were never found together in the same sentence. When our homes needed to be built, we grabbed brothers, fathers and hammers, not a mouse that clicked on Mr. On-line Contractor. Our nation's great accomplishments were a testament to hard work, sweat and ingenuity. After all, we not only put a man on the moon, but built him a rover to drive while he was up there.

What will we achieve today?

Can we turn our cheek to the enemy known as convenience before it makes us helpless? Do we have what it takes to depend solely on ourselves?

As you ponder these questions, we invite you to join us on our mission.

We're Gerber®. We design the tools, knives and outdoor gear that are essential, not only for the task at hand, but for bringing back something lost: our self-reliance.

Gerber. Fend For Yourself."




that's awesome : http://www.gerberblades.com/co/manifesto.php

 


I thought this was hilarious

Sunday, February 15, 2004
 
I got the really great idea that I could post this survey I got on my blog
I took a couple questions out that I didn't think contributed very much...


(1) What is your name? why do they always ask this?

(2) Are you happy with it? I don't think I look like a Zach, but can't really think of another name I'd prefer

(3) Are you named after anyone? Zachary Taylor, 12th president...okay so I'm not really, sue me

(4) Your nickname: Wang :-p Thanks Bekah

(5) Your screenname: which one?

(6) Would you name a child of yours after you? Zach Jr.? I don't think

(7) Then what would you name your children? Thing 1 and Thing 2

(9) If you could switch names with a friend, who would that be? hmm...I used to know a kid named Xavion [eggs-A-vee-on] that'd be interesting

(10) Are there any mispronounciatons/typos that people do with your name constantly? people ususally spell it "Zack"

(11) Would you drop your last name if you became famous? would being famous make me rich? if yes then, yes

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BASICS
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(12) Your gender: I'll give you three guesses...

(14) Single? no, but not married

(15) Want to be? what, single or married? niether at the moment

(16) Your birthdate: Aug. 6 '85

(17) Your age: 18

(18) Age you act: 75-79

(19) Age you wish you were: I guess 18 is good

(20) Your height: 5' +

(21) The color of your eyes: they couldn't have just said "eye color" dark brown (I DO have pupils Kelly)

(22) Happy with it? I think I'd look kinda werid with lighter eyes

(23) The color of your hair: dark brown

(24) Happy with it? I think I'd look good blonde actually...

(25) Left/right/ambidextrous? yes

(26) Your living arrangement? "in VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER"

(27) Your family: 2 birthparents, several siblings...2 foster parents, several foster siblings, 2 adopted parents, 2 siblings, and the Brambles and the Roddens

(28) Have any pets? yes, one is a dog unfortunately

(29) What's your job: I'm and underpaid, overworked "Utility personnel" at Kings

(30) Piercings? my bellybutton *shh don't tell my parents*

(31) Tattoos? no

(32) Obsessions? cheese itz

(33) Addictions? see above

(34) Do you collect anything? knives;-) dust

(35) Do you speak another language? I'm pretty good at pig latin

(36) Have a favorite quote? way way too many..."ah! oh no! too light!" or "eh that was it, it was eh, ah, awww..."

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DEEP THOUGHTS about life and you in it
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(38) Do you live in the moment? except when I'm thinking about the last moment that I missed

(39) Do you consider yourself tolerant of others? hahahahahahahahahahahaha...uh, why do you ask?

(40) Do you have any secrets? yes, many

(41) Do you hate yourself? occasionaly

(42) Do you like your handwriting? *this* is a deep thought?

(44) What is the compliment you get most from people? "nice boots"

(45) If a movie was made about your life, what would it be called? "Ironic"

(48) Do you ever pretend to be someone else just to look cool? somtimes I play the Mission Impossible Theme on my CD walkman and run around acting sneaky

(49) Are you a loner? I'm alone a lot I guess

(51) If you were another person, would you be friends with you? heck no

(52)Are you a daredevil? *heh heh heh...* "hey Matt, let's go get your sleds"

(53) Is there anything you fear or hate about yourself? hmm, where should I start?

(54) Are you passive or aggressive? usually pretty passive

(55) Have you got a journal? um...kinda sorta but not really

(56) What is your greatest strength and weakness? caution usually, I'm not likely to be caught offgaurd, but partially 'cause I may not take a risk

(57) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? only *one* thing? haha I wish that I was rich, or taller and thinner, the American dream right?

(58) There are three wells, love, beauty and creativity, which one would you drink out of? yes

(59) How do you vent? I kill people

(60) Do you think you are emotionally strong? I'm "unstable"

(61) Is there anything you regret doing/not doing in life? yes ...ohh, you want me to tell you what it is? hahahahahaha

(63) What is the most important lesson you've learned from life? that it's like a box of chocolates: too much makes you sick

(67) Are you confident? in? me? depends

(68) What is the fictional character you're most like? haha "Tulio" from El Dorado maybe?

(69) Do people know how you feel? not always "you're not a very happy person are you?" "uh..."

(70) Are you perceived wrongly? yeah, sometimes

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WOULD OR HAVE YOU EVER...
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(82) Liked your voice? not really

(83) Hurt yourself? lol

(84) Been out of the country? been to Haiti and the Bahamas on the way

(85) Eaten something that made other people sick? does spam count?

(87) Been unfaithful? no

(88) Been in love? "you know, a funny thing happened to me the other day.." haha I guess you could say so

(89) Done drugs? yes, the legal kind, though the extent to which I take them is uh, well questionable

(90) Gone skinny dipping? do you have to be skinny to go skinny dipping? to me skinny dipping is taking skinny people and throwing them into a pool

(91) Had a medical emergency? lol, who me?

(92) Had a surgery? not that I know of

(93) Ran away from home? yeah, to the woods behing my house

(94) Played strip poker? I was going to once, but I abstained by request of the other players

(95) Gotten beaten up? haha not seriously

(96) Beaten someone up? define "beaten up"

(97) Been picked on? come on, I'm a short Asain kid, *who* would pick on me???

(98) Been on stage? what kind of stage? I've been in plays and played instruments in front of people and such

(100) Slept outdoors? I usually do when my parents are mad at me

(101) Thought about suicide? yes

(102) Pulled an all-nighter? oh yes

(103) If yes, what is your record? all-night, isn't that why it's called an all-nighter?

(104) Gone one day without food? um...probablly not

(105) Talked on the phone all night? no

(107) Slept all day? um, well I've never slept for 24 straight hours if that's what you mean

(108) Killed someone? O:-)

(109) Made out with a stranger? *I couldn't help myself*(Sorry Rache)

(111) Thought you're going crazy? "thought" as in the past tense?

(112) Kissed the same gender? "that's gross"(no)

(114) Been betrayed? lol, as in handed over to my captors? no

(115) Had a dream that came true? hmm...I dreamed that I feel down the stairs once

(116) Broken the law? I object to this question

(117) Met a famous person? um, a buncha different Christian artists

(120) Have you ever killed an animal by accident? I don't think so

(121) On purpose? I've tried, but we still have a dog if that answers your question

(143) Committed adultery? lol

(144) Does your significant other know? "lol" yeah I have, and I'm so good at concealing it that I'm gonna answer this survey and send it to everyone

(145) Told a secret you swore you wouldn't tell? probablly

(146) Stolen anything? not from a store

(147) Been on radio/tv? both

(149) Had a nervous breakdown? haha I don't think so

(151) Been criticized about your sexuality? I really would like to know what this question means. I've never been accused of being gay if that's what you mean

(152) Bungee jumped? want to

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BELIEFS
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(166) Believe in life on other planets? not really
(167) Miracles? yeah
(168) Astrology? no
(169) Magic? I like McDonalds
(170) God? yes
(171) Satan? yes
(172) Santa? Santa? Santa who?
(174) Luck? you mean that thing that I don't have?
(175) Love at first sight? lol
(176) Yin and Yang (that good can't exist without the bad)? nope
(177) Witches? anyone wishing for real proof that witches exist, contact the Kittanning Area Kings Family Restraunt
(178) Easter bunny? I think the Easter Bunny and the Groundhog should switch jobs
(179) Believe it's possible to remain faithful forever? yes
(180) Believe there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? which end?
(181) Do you wish on stars? never been on one

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DEEP THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
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(182) Do you believe in the traditional view of Heaven and Hell? um, no not really. fire in hell? yes poofy clouds, harps and halos in heaven...eh...

(183) Do you think God has a gender? yes, sorry femenists

(184) Do you think that science counteracts religion? no, and I think the word they were looking for was "contradicts"

(185) Do you believe in organized religion? I believe it can work, I also believe it can kill

(186) Where do you think we go when we die? usually into the ground

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AMIGOS
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^^haha "for those of you that don't 'habla espanol' "

(187) Do you have any gay/lesbian friends? not that I *know* of

(188) Who are your best friends? "everyone I'm sending this survey to"

(189) Who's the one person that knows most about you? *toddler voice* "Jeesssuss..."

(190) What's the best advice that anyone has ever given to you? "ah ah ah, turning the car into oncoming traffic, is *counter* productive"

(191) Your favorite inside joke? geez, I dunno

(192) Thing you're picked on most about? *see question 20*

(193) Who's your longest known friend? Kyle probablly(that I'm currently friends with anyways)

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LOVE, and all that
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(222) Did you get frightened or uncomfortable seeing this subject title? who? me? uncomfortable? no, why? am I blushing?

(223) Do you remember your first love? well I don't know, I mean there have been so many and all...
(224) Still love him/her? no

(225) Do you consider love a mistake? *thinking* that you love is a mistake I think

(226) What do you find romantic? pink and red hearts with white frilly lace, duh

(227) Turn-on? girls

(228) Turn-off? guys

(231) If someone you had no interest in dating expressed interest in dating you, how would you feel? lol that's not something I need to worry about

(233) Have you ever wished it was more "socially acceptable" for a girl to ask a guy out? I never really cared, I think it'd be okay though

(235) Have you ever been romantically attracted to someone physically unattractive? I don't think...haha, not in *my* opinion anyways

(236) Do you think the preferred gender finds you good looking? hey a guy can dream can't he?

(237) What is the best thing about the preferred gender? smell
(238) What is the worst thing about the preferred gender? smell

(248) What's the last present someone gave you: (this is a "love" question?)does Matt buying me a Ressie's count?

(264) What would you do if you were walking down the street and saw someone hot standing on the sidewalk? dump ice on their head

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POSSESSIONS
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(273) What is your fave possession? my backpack w/all my stuff in it; writing/drawing notebooks, CDs, knives(I really keep all that stuff in there)

(274) What physical, tangible possession do you want most? hmm, a nice car would be nice

(275) How badly do you want it? I'd steal one if I knew I could get away with it

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WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON...
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(279) That haunted you? uh...
(280) You wanted to kill? geez, the *last* person? it's about a 7way tie
(281) That you laughed at? Matt probablly
(284) You went shopping with? lol Matt and Nate- we went to Wal*Mart, though we didn't buy anything, so does that count as shopping?
(285) That broke your heart? Rachel when she went out with Jeremy ;-)
(286) To disappoint you? hmm, well Kelly was *supposed* to make me cookies
(287) To ask you out? I don't think I've ever been actually *asked out*
(288) To make you cry? I just had a dream that I was crying, does that count?
(289) To brighten up your day? my manager Joe when he told me I was getting a raise


 
"It's all my fault I sit here and wallow in seclusion
as if I had no hope at all."

-Jennifer Knapp

Tuesday, February 10, 2004
 
night classes and morning shifts, not a good combination for a highschool student

Sunday, February 08, 2004
 
Self-introspection questions

When it comes to categorizaing people on your AOL Buddy List, which kind of person are you?

- Flippant : you have groups, but they don't really mean anything

- Over-achiever/over-doer: you have a group for every person on your list, in fact you have more groups than you do buddies

- Lazy: your sister put groups in your buddy list but you never put anyone in them

- Perfectionist: you have 50+ categories and reorganize them twice a day

- Other: "categorizing? groups?"

 
"I've lived without dignity all my life." - Me

I was talking to this girl at Kings after I got off work who's going into the Army. Air Force guys (flyboys) always get ragged on a little 'cause we have it pretty easy compared to the other military branches. So we were jokin around and she said "YOU may get the better pay, but at least I'LL have the dignity." To which I replied: "I've lived without dignity all my life, I can probablly do without it in exchange for pay."

Saturday, January 17, 2004
 
don't you hate it when your deoderant is cold in the morning?

*that* will wake you up...

 
sheesh I'm posting more drawing than I am, uh, well actual *postings* If I were actually any good I would might as well turn this thing into an art gallery

 
Uncommon Valor - origonally done by Roy Grinnell



Friday, January 16, 2004
 
it's going to be a long semester...

Tuesday, January 06, 2004
 
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and your O.K.
Money it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack.
Money it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good *******
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Money it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away


"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"

-Money, by Pink Flyod

Thursday, January 01, 2004
 
The Procrastinators Creed
1) I belive that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already
2) I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses
3) I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration
4) I shall meet all of my dead lines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them
5) I firmly belive that tomarrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations
6) I truly belive that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given
7) I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinally small, is not exactly zero
8) If at first I don't suceed, there is always next year
9) I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind
10) I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it
11) I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant work that must be done prior to the beginning of the task
12) I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan
13) I shall never do today what can be put off till tomarrow.

hmm...

Wednesday, December 17, 2003
 
"I was so happy
But joys in this life seldom last"


 
I've given up on my photo page, any pictures or anything I have are just gonna go up on here


recent drawings

an eye, no one's in paticular


Class of 2004
From left to right: Cyclops, Wolverine and Gambit
(yes I realized I forgot to finish Cyclops' leg, live with it)



Saturday, December 13, 2003
 
I don't hate my life, I don't hate my life, I don't hate my life...



I hate my life

Monday, December 08, 2003
 
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
--W. Somerset Maugham

well it's about time I found *something*

Sunday, December 07, 2003
 
My parents have one legitimate question, a question that’s not a case of them simply not understanding, and a question that I cannot seem to answer: “how in the world does your room get so dirty?” The first thing to clear up here is that my room is not “dirty,” it’s relatively dirt and dust free; my room is messy. Last Sunday, exactly a week ago today, my room was spotless, I had cleaned, dust, vacuumed, the whole nine yards. As I look around now, I see books, clothes, a guitar with a broken string, CDs, shoes, papers and bookbags strewn all over. Clothes are the biggest problem, I hate putting clothes away. So when I get a basket of clothes from my mom, the usually go on my bed, and come night time, onto my floor or desk, and then back onto my bed the next morning. Occasionally I find someplace innovative to put them, like on an empty spot on my bookshelf where my programming book *usually* goes, but at the moment is still in my backpack. This is usually the big problem, because with them more or less out of the way, I’m less inclined to actually put them away. As far as everything else around my room, I simply don’t have time to put them away and get them back out again. My work shoes, for example, are in the middle of my floor. Why? Because putting them under my bed where most of my other shoes are, would mean that I would have to get them out again when I have to work, which might very possibly make me late. So when I get home late from work (which is often) I kick them off in the middle of my floor, and when I next have to work, I don’t have to get them out. After all of that, you may not believe that I actually do not *like* my room when it’s messy(not dirty). I actually like a clean room, which is a good thing, because otherwise I might never clean it. It seems to be an endless battle however; I cannot seem to keep my room clean. When I do clean, all that I’m really doing is resetting my room for the onslaught of the coming week.

wow, that's prety long

 
I've given up on sleeping. It's over-rated; I could be doing so many other things instead of having to sleep. If you get 8 hours of sleep a day, a whole third of your day is gone, you accomplished absolutely nothing, all you did was lie there like a vegetable. The big downside of not sleeping, however, is being tired. I sleep, but I'm always tired, so basically I'm just getting majorly screwed over, pardon my French. And of course there's nothing I can do to change that, I have to sleep, if I don't willingly, I'll fall alseep while I'm driving or doing something else importaint. Sleeping is not optional, unforuntately for me. So...basically I can rant and rave all I want but I'll still have to sleep, if only I weren't so tired all the time though...

Thursday, December 04, 2003
 
"Too weak to wonder, too tired to care
Jesus Christ, are you really there?"

-Brave St. Saturn

 
A Guide to my Away Messages

- "brb" means "be right back" - literally. It doesn't mean that I put it up and went to find something else to do, it means one of my parents called me, or I needed to go sit on the john for a while and I'll be right back when I'm done.

- cynical away messages like "yeah whatever" or "driven by hate, consumed by fear" mean that I'm not in a very good mood; something has ticked me off. I'm probablly sitting there thinking about something evil, and if you IM me trying to be all cheery I'm going to very politely tell you to leave me alone before I rip your face off. (this does not nessicarily mean don't IM me at all however)

- work/school messages are pretty self explanitory, I'm at work(or school). This usually means I'll be gone from 5:30 to anywhere around 10:00PM-1:00AM if I'm working, and from between 8:30 and 10:00 to around 1ish.

- random away messages like "I think therefore I get headaches" hmm, well for one it probablly means I'm in somewhat of a better mood, but really gives no clues to my whereabouts. I'm probablly somewhere around the house though.

- "out" away messages usually if I'm leaving I'll have an away message that says so. It may just say "out" but at least then you know I'm not around at all. Occasionally I may tell you who I'm with and where I'm going.

- bored away messages I'm bored, someone IM me. While these messages usually aren't that blunt, they're not hard to pick out. Ones like "it must be put an away message up day" are dead give aways.

- "thoughtful" away messages can, but don't always mean that I'm in a "thoughtful" or "deep" mood. These are usually quotes or song lyrics that have some kind of paticular meaning to me personally. I have been struck momentarily with inspiration and I'm working on a song, or I might be sitting there doing my math homework.

that's about it for now

Tuesday, December 02, 2003
 
this is what I posted exactly one year ago today:

"Only in PA is the first day of buck season a holiday. Our motto should be the hick state.

I guess today would be a bad day to run around in a reindeer costume"


nothing has changed

Sunday, November 30, 2003
 
ah, the days following Thanksgiving, and the inevitable piles of left over turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes that have to somehow fitted into the refrigerator. For the next week or so all Americans will be on a high-turkey diet.

"diet" hahaha

Friday, November 21, 2003
 
thoughts on wisdom teeth

first obvious one, why are they called wisdom teeth? *if* they were in any ways connected to wisdom, wouldn't you want to keep them? they should be called "useless" teeth, or "hidden" teeth, or even "stupid" teeth would be more appropriate, 'cause they're pretty stupid if you can't use them.

two, if it's *so* critical that I get them out...how did people before modern dentistry deal? is *that* why the average person's live span is longer than it was 100 years ago? people were being killed off by their own teeth

three, if you have them...don't they have *some* purpose? Or did your body just go "oops, too many teeth" that'd be like "oops, too many heads." or "hey where'd that leg come from? we better cut it off." I don't think the body has "spare parts" or maybe it does, maybe these are extra incase I get others knocked out.

four, has anyone every actually seen a chipmunk stuff it's face so full that it's cheeks puff out?

 
http://www.clanlally.com/ten_rules.htm

this is good, wish I had thought of it, then again I don't have a daughter

girls with boyfriends: if you like your boyfriend don't show this to your father
it might give him ideas

Monday, November 17, 2003
 
In history I just read about this group of people called The Anasazi [ah-nah-SAH-zee] who lived in the South West. It says that when a woman wanted to divorce her husband that she just took all of his things and put them outside. Interesting...If it were that easy today, how many men do you think you'd see walking around trying to carry all of their stuff? My guess, a lot.

Saturday, November 15, 2003
 
Really, I want to know why in the world anyone would want to run a restaraunt that's open 24/7. (I've been working for Kings, and the paticular Kings I work at is open 24 hours a day.) Why do *we* have to be open at 3:00AM so that all those insomniacs or anyone else crazy enough to be up can have their pancakes? If you've got the munchies anytime past midnight, *you* can make your own food, don't make *me* stay up until the next afternoon just in case you're too lazy or too poor of a cook to make your own meal.

Last weekend I had to work the midnight shift Friday and Saturday, which means that I started at 10:00PM and went home around 6:30AM the next day. It was...an experience, not that I had never stayed up like that before or anything, but I'd never had to *work* that time I was up. Normally when I get off it's either dark(anywhere from 10-12) or light (around 4ish) *Usually* the sun isn't coming up. Werid thoughts come to your mind at 6:30 in the morning when you're driving home. Like "I sure hope that deer laying on the side of the road doesn't run out in front of me."

Friday, November 14, 2003
 
when people leave messages in my guestbook it motivates me to write

*FYI*

Sunday, October 19, 2003
 
a girl said a funny thing to me at work yesterday. I was cooking on the grill, she comes up to me and says "you're not a very happy person are you?" Imagine if someone came up to you and said that, you wouldn't know exactly what to say either(I didn't anyways). So I said that I was tired and had been sick the past couple days. She then said "oh okay, well I've just never seen you smile or anything...ever." While I don't incredible joy being at work...I have to wonder if I'm really that bad...sure I'm a happy person, I think. We won't get into that right now, I just thought that was kinda funny.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003
 
this is an "essay" I wrote that was on my old Xanga


Why Guys Are Retarded

Author's note: don't think that I'm putting myself above the other average guys that I'm writing about, most of the stuff I'm about to tell you is derrived from personal experience.

Guys generally have two main goals in life: girls and glory which often go hand in hand, so to speak.

The first thing to realize about guys, is that they must act tough. This is not optional; guys who aren't tough are wimps, fags, etc and get picked on. If I make fun of you, you must either have a good comeback, or beat me up. Why? Because I've hurt your already inflated ego. You can't actually look stupid in front of anyone even if it is a joke.

Now this situation is bad enough in itself. Guys - you don't need any help in making yourself look like an idoit. You usually end up making yourself look even *more* retarded when you get into fights because someone made a "your mom" comment. Now, enter girl stage right. The first thing she sets off is the show off factor. Guys *suddenly* start doing things from attempted breakdancing on pavement, to arm wrestling, to regular wrestling to just trying stupid/dangerous things in general. They must put themself at some sort of phyical risk. If they can get a girl to go *gasp* "don't do that, you could get hurt!" then they've accomplished their goal. All the while, they're pretending that they would do these things normally on their own.

"Egos fly when she walks by." - Good Charlotte

Ladies keep in mind, whenever you're with a group of guys, each one automatically thinks that you're paying special attention to *him* even if you're just walking by, you might not even know them.

This leads into another major way guys show their retardedness: the way that they treat girls. Most guys need girlfriends. Not for emotional support mind you, but simply so they can say that they have one, and make fun of the guys that don't. To us guys, girls are for either looking at, trying to date, or dating. You date a girl mostly for the lable and so you can hang all over her in public. The danger in dating a girl is the dreaded "whipped" state. The guy must be able to "control his woman." The minute he starts to actually consider her (other than himself) he becomes open to being labled whipped and is subjected to whipping and cracking jeers when he's around his "buddies."

Still...girls manage to find something attractive in all this.
"I know what you ladies are thinking, no no not my guy I'm workin with him, he's coming along. No he's not, he's not coming anywhere." - Jerry Seinfeld


Saturday, October 11, 2003
 
making your bed in the morning has got to be one of the most tortourus ordeals of the day. First of all the last thing I want to do in the morning is get out of bed, more or less *make* it. Secondly, I dunno, making your bed, it's just like taunting you. You're standing there spreading your nice warm covers out...it doesn't exactly make you want to be awake any more than you already are. you shouldn't have to make your bed until lunch time

Monday, October 06, 2003
 
microwaves only scare me when the handel suddenly comes off when you're opening it

(for any english freaks/teachers/picky people, I realize that my placement of the pronoun "it" says that I'm opening the handle, but I'm too lazy to change my entire sentance. besides, you got what I was trying to say right? isn't that the point?)

Thursday, September 18, 2003
 
I don't understand why, after sporting events, they make you line up and shake the other team's hands. Generally I think you should, but I don't think you should be forced to. Say for example the other team was dirty, cheap and did not play a good game. You still have to go through and tell them that they did, why? Does anyone ever really mean it? I think if you really wanted to congratulate your opponents you should be free to do it at will. But that's just me.

Wednesday, September 17, 2003
 
my day in a nutshell:

I get up and do school, then I leave for class (either English or Math and JAVA) I come home and eat and do more school. Then I leave for soccer, either practice or a game. If I have a game I don't have to go to work, but if it's just practice I'll leave right from there to go to work. Usually I'll work until around 10 or 11, but on some nights I've had to stay as late as 1 or 2 in the morning. Either way, I get home and go to bed.

That's pretty much what my whole week is like, fascinating isn't it?

Sunday, September 14, 2003
 
paraphrazed IM conversation:

Rachel: she used to always play candy land w/ me...no one else would play cause they all hated it, I love that game

Me: hahahaha, can't say I have much feeling one way or the other towards it, though I never understood why being stuck in Chocolate Swamp was such a bad thing

Rachel: hahahahaha

Me: other than you lost the game, but if I was gonna be stuck, that's where I'd want to be

I'm retarded

Friday, September 12, 2003
 
finally back. I've been "offline" *no pun intended* for a while now. I sold my one computer because I needed money and I was getting a computer from the cyber school. The problem was that I sold my computer a couple weeks ago and didn't even *get* my computer from the cyber school until yesterday.

Tuesday, August 26, 2003
 
so...school's started. I know I've said this a bunch of times, but I feel like saying it again; once I finish this year, I will have tried every type of school there is (with the exception of like a boarding or prep school). This year is deffinately different. It's not homeschool 'cause I have courses that someone else has laid out for me(instead of me planning my own) and because I'm taking classes at the community college. But it's not public school 'cause I don't have to get up at 6:00AM to ride the bus for an hour so I can sit around all day and do maybe 3 hours worth of work.

I'm taking English 101, Math 101 and Comp 224(JAVA Programming) at Butler, and World History through the online school.

Probablly the weridest thing is having classes every other day. I think it's too early to have much of an opinion on that. For now we'll just say it's different.

hmm...I think that's about it

Monday, August 25, 2003
 
it begins...

one more year of school

Saturday, August 16, 2003
 
"And you know what else? I never liked you spinach puffs!!!"

 
does anyone else's life suck too?

 
You have to wonder how in the world a nation can be so full of itself when huge ammounts of its own people die of heat because they don't have AIR CONDITIONING.

Wednesday, August 13, 2003
 
are there any pencils that *aren't* "number 2"?

"no I'm sorry, you can't the SAT with that #4-and-a-half pencil..."

Tuesday, August 12, 2003
 
"Don't beat a dead horse." I don't completely understand this expression. Wouldn't it be worse to beat a *live* horse? I mean if the horse is dead, yeah it's pretty pointless to beat it to try and get it to do anything, but you're not hurting it anymore or anything. Now if you beat a horse that's still alive and can feel things...that'd be different, then you have the PETA Tree Hugging animal loving freaks come after you.

 
I'm not humble, I just don't have anything to brag about

Monday, August 11, 2003
 
Why are there no U-turns on highways? Why is that little strip connecting the opposite lans restricted to "Authorized and Emergency Vehicles ONLY"? What's so special about it? What could possibly be wrong with someone who just realized they were going the wrong way being able to turn around and go back, instead of having to go all the way to the next exit? I'm sure it doesn't happen *that* often, it's not like you're going to have a whole line of cars waiting to use the turn around. So what's the problem?

Another thing is they have a lot of "Don't" signs, "Don't tailgate" "Don't drink and drive" etc. Just out of curiosity why don't they have signs that say "Don't speed" or "Don't wreck"?

Thursday, August 07, 2003
 
Everyone has away messages that say "leave um", "leave me happy messages to come back to", or "write me something cute". Again, does anyone ever actually leave "cute' messages for the ppl who are too busy to be at their computer? And what is "um?" That's kinda vauge, that could mean leave a fart for all I can tell. *And* I'd like to see someone with an away message that says "leave me a message that's horrible and will make me feel like a loser" or "try and make me miserable".

Wednesday, August 06, 2003
 
You know you've had a long night when you can't remember the name for the squeegy(sp?) and refer to it as "the long water pusher thing"

Tuesday, August 05, 2003
 
Wouldn't it be ironic/convenient if I died on my birthday?

Born the same day, die the same day.

Monday, August 04, 2003
 
I was cleaning out my old hotmail account and found this forward. Chances are that these are all made up, but they're still funny 'cause they all seem like things people would actually do

Top 8 Morons of 2002

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?

AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS:

Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up."

3. WHAT WAS PLAN B???

An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

4. THE GETAWAY!

A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas, Kwik Stop, and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

5. DID I SAY THAT???

Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted, "That's not what I said!"

6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING??

A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"

7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED!!

In Modesto, California, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun, but unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket (hellllllooooooo!)

8. THE GRAND FINALE (I LOVE THIS ONE!!!)

Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, California, some folks, new to boating, were having problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 ft. boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power was applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted to a nearby marina, thinking someone there could tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out drive went up and down, and the prop was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. NOW REMEMBER...THIS IS TRUE....Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer.

Does any one else find it frightening the majority of these took place in California??


Sunday, August 03, 2003
 
What's up with girls wearing shorts with writing on the butt? I mean they *have* to know that's drawing attention, but hey if that's what they want...

The worst is when fat girls wear them, like they're supposed to say "Angel" but all you see is "Al"

 
lots of ppl who are *in love* have away messages that say "In bed dreaming of you" or "I'm dreaming of someone, can you guess who it is?" First of all, guess how many of us *care* who you're dreaming about? (hint: the answer is no one) Secondly, the last time I checked, you can't control who or what you dream about. So if you're *not* dreaming about "you know who" does that make you a liar? or just an idoit? both probablly

Friday, August 01, 2003
 
25 days of summer left. I don't know about anyone else, but it hardly seems like I've had a summer at all. No vacation, no weekend getaways, nothing. I *could* have gone to the beach with the Roddens, last year was awesome, but my parents "didn't want me to." All summer long I've been worried that I'm going to get in trouble for not doing anything. Most of my summer consisted of applying for jobs and getting ready for school next year. My last summer ever as a teenager officially sucked. I leave June 29th of next year for basic training in the Air Force unless I decide to go to college on an ROTC scholarship(and I have to *get* the scholarship).

Sunday, July 27, 2003
 
Could I be out of my head?
Pronounced brain dead?

- Here With Me, MxPx

I love that line, just for some reason, it's catchy I guess.

Lex and I were counting the number of songs called "Here With Me" (there's a bunch)

Saturday, July 26, 2003
 
Something Hannah said before about blogging "do people forget that other people DO actually read these things?" (or something to that extent). So with that in mind...

Things on my mind as of late:

The up coming school year...This fall I have to balance my time between school(two college courses at the local community college), work and soccer. School, well it's school, I have to graduate. Work, I need money, who doesn't? I need money for gas, insurence, paying off my computer, and plane tickets to Pensecola...;-) Soccer, well, besides the fact that's on my top 5 favorite things to do in the world list, I feel like I have to play, just because of the jaggoff school board that wouldn't let me play last year. Hmm...other than that I have to decided whether or not to go into the Air Force just as an enlisted man, or go to college on an ROTC scholarship(which I'd have to *get* first). So you know...just like, things that'll decide the future course of my life...no biggie

Thursday, July 24, 2003
 
You know those pop-up ads that look like a dialog box on your computer? You know the ones that say like "You have 5 new messages" or "Your updates are not updated" and have the minimize/maximize/close (the little minus side/rectangle/X) *everyone goes "ohhhh okay"* Yeah, well some idoit is trying to sue an internet company for like fraud or something like that. "It makes you think it's something on your computer when it's really not." <==not an exact quote. I'm not paticularly fond of pop-up ads myself, but I mean come on. A) The internet is not free, B) you can't sue someone just because *you* are stupid C) the ironic thing about it, is that he's sueing the company for achieving their goal, they want you to go to their sites and you fell for their gimmic.; so now because you feel like a moron, which you are, you're going to sue them

Wednesday, July 23, 2003
 
I finally got a job at Kings. Wait, let me re-write that: "I finally got a job, it's at Kings." I wasn't dying to work at Kings or anything, they were just the first to hire me (and for a whole 10 cents more than minimum wage). I'd applied over 20 other different places, I'd be looking at some ppl I know who have jobs and think "if *they* can get a job why the heck can't I???" Giant Eagle actually told me to stop calling them I was so desperate.

It's kinda funny working in a restraunt, the first thing you realize is how much food people throw away. "There are starving kids in China" takes on a whole new meaning when it's a whole plate of untouched spaghetti instead of left-over brussel sprouts you're mom's trying to force down your throat. America's slowly moving away from the land of the free and the brave and more towards the over-weight and wasteful. Suggestion from me: eat until you're full, and when you're full, STOP. And "full" doesn't mean that you can't possibly eat another bite or you'll explode, it means, when you're not hungry; your digestive juices are no longer eating away at the lining in your stomach. You'll lose weight *and* save money, two things ppl are always trying to do nowadays.

Another thing is that you can tell what time of day it is by what food you're throwing away. Mornings you see a lot of breakfast foods, obviously. Then when you start getting less waffles and more say, burgers or soup you know it's about lunch time. Then, around dinner you start getting more salads, deserts, steaks, those kinda things. The importance of that? None. A) it doesn't matter if your washing breakfast or dinner dishes B) you could just look at a clock C) who cares?

Monday, July 21, 2003
 
People are never really very articulate (is that really the right word?) when they're in the bathroom, or waiting to use one. Say you sitting there on the john, minding your own business and someone knocks on the door. Usually, you respond with "what?" or "who is it?" If someone's knocking on the bathroom door, I think it's pretty obvious what they want, and who it is is really irrelevant because you don't want them to walk in on you no matter who it is. So the *smart* thing to do, would to say something like "just a second" or "I'm in here, leave me alone." Another note, if you're the one knocking on the door, don't ask what the person inside is doing.

Saturday, July 19, 2003
 
the prodical son returns...I tried Xanga for a while, and I just didn't like it...don't really know why, too flashy, too confusing, subscriptions and whatnot, *whatever* this is easy and nice and plain. Lexa says Xanga is more *community oriented* or whatever and that more ppl will see it than blogs. But there're really only a limited number of ppl that read my blogs anyways, or rather, a limited number that I care about anyways.

I've been on and off blogging for...I dunno, at least 3 years now...so this *may* be a longer stretch of blogging, but it may only last a couple weeks, we'll see.

Wednesday, April 09, 2003
 
"War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war, there is no substitute for victory."
- General Douglas MacArthur

Tuesday, April 08, 2003
 
Okay, so you're in the mall, walking past all these clothes stores. Here's the werid thing: All their ads and posters have pictures of people withOUT any clothes on. Wouldn't you want ads with the clothes you were selling on them? In fact you'd think you'd want to pack as many clothes into one poster as you could. So...they want ppl to think "hey if I buy these clothes, THIS is what I'll look like when I'm NOT wearing them." But I guess that's how our messed up society works.

Saturday, April 05, 2003
 
do you like my deffinition of "soon?"

I had SATs today, 3 straigh hours of brain cell frying. What kinda sick world do we live in?

Um...so what's been going on....

I'm 85-90% sure that I'm going to enlist in the Air Force after highschool. This is the deal: you enlist for a minimum of 4 years, in that time you're getting like $1200 a month salary, free food and housing, on the job training in whatever field you want to go into, and by the time your four years are up you can have at LEAST 2 years of college finished. AND after that they pay for the next 2 years. So yeah, that's essentially 6 years to get through college, but that's opposed to say, 20 years worth of loans.

Other than that...just been doing school, SAT prep(thank God that's over with) AP Exams coming up though

Wednesday, March 12, 2003
 
something coming soon...

Monday, March 03, 2003
 
here's a hypothetical situation:

you're taking an online AP english course, you send a final draft of a paper in for the teacher to grade. in a couple weeks you get an email (with an attatched document and your graded essay) saying

"Zach, **
Here's your graded DC essay. My son is throwing up.
Mrs. English Teacher***

how do you take this?(hey this could be a PIQ(Personal Introspection Question)
either your english teacher's trying to gross you out, she's just sharing a fact with you, letting you know how the day's going, OR...is your essay so bad that it's causing ever her son to throw up? hmm...

**In your email, the "Zach" is replaced with your name

***name excluded for confidentiality purposes

Saturday, March 01, 2003
 
I like hanging around fat people, they make me feel skinny

Thursday, February 27, 2003
 
The worst day of my life** - by Zach Weber

Little background, person 1(I'm really pushing it to call them friends right now) asks me if I want to go to a college fair in Pittsburgh. I said sure, then he tells me that they're gonna go to Hooters afterwards - not something I was gonna do. So after being heckled about that, I make arrangements to meet person2 at the Convention Center and get a ride home with him.
The first thing that went wrong, was that I had to get up at 7:30 in the morning. Not really, it actually didn't feel too bad to be up in the earlier part of the morning. Anyways, my dad takes me down to person1's house, who has the idea that we can fit 6 people into his 5-passenger Cavelier *stupid chevys* Anyways, we drive down to Pittsburgh and after driving around for an hour trying to find a parking spot AND hitting a car, we finally make it to the Convention Center. We get there, and I promptly lose the ppl I came down with, looking for person2 and anyone from EHCA. After a while I find Rachel Bobbi and Kelly, and soon after Matt and Mike Z. We lost the girls in about 5 minutes, it was so stinkin crowded, I turned around and they were just gone. Anyways, after a while I try getting a hold of person2 on his cell phone to find a place to meet. I spent practically the rest of the day trying to get a hold of him. Finally, with about half an hour of the convention left I call my dad, who fortunately was already headed for Pittsburgh.

So, everyone I know is gone, person2 is MIA, I highly doubt he was there at all. Oh yeah, there was construction work going on, so it was almost impossible for my dad to get to me, so I spend an hour running around Pittsburgh on the cell phone "okay I'm at 11th and Penn now" "it's a one way street, try going to 14th street" finally catch up with my dad who has to make around an hour drive for a buisness meeting, which was really okay with me, until my head started hurting...what's the correct spelling for [my-grain]? Finally get home and go promptly to bed. Didn't eat, didn't get anything done.

**okay so maybe I've had worse days but this one was pretty bad

 
Fred Rogers, 1928 - 2003

Wednesday, February 26, 2003
 
Did you ever wonder if you are, in actuality retarded and no one will tell you? You are SO retarded that people won't even make fun of you because they'd feel too bad. You're way beyond the kid that gets picked on, even the most heartless schoolyard bully can't find it in him to even tell you. Everyone just acts like you're normal and pretends to be your friend and that they like you. They act like you dress like a normal person, and that your incrediblly stupid comments are funny. Sure they may make fun of you for little things, 'cause everyone gets teased a little bit and otherwise you might suspect something.

Does this thought ever cross anyone else's mind? or am I just retarded. For cryin out loud if I'm THAT retarded someone PLEASE tell me, or at least give me a hint so you don't feel as bad.

 
I saw a quote that said "you're only a loser when you give up" and I thought it was "you're only a loser when you grow up"

oops

Tuesday, February 25, 2003
 
when you're sick of being sick does that make you healthy? or just twice as sick?

Friday, February 21, 2003
 
Woke up, barely. Got in the shower, blah blah blah, did the whole morning routine deal. Was feeling really tired, and just generally worn out, so I emailed my teachers and asked for a 1 day extention on my assignments, got it, good deal. I schedualed a doctor's appointment 'cause I've been sick for, well, a while. Left for physics, go to physics, yadda yadda yadda, the secretary comes out and tells me that my mom called and she wanted me to call her back. So I call and then I had to get home 'cause my dad went to the hospital, he was at UPMC in Harmarville, just like for an appointment and he was coughing *really* bad, coudln't breath, was passing in and out of counsicness 'cause he wasn't getting enough oxygen. So we went down, picked up his car, then went to the hospital. Saw dad, waited until he got up to his room, and I came home and slept.

Wednesday, February 19, 2003
 
My depressing thoughts:

The other day I realized that I'm the only one who hasn't been outside in the snow except the shovel the driveway. I could have, I coulda gone sledding with a friend's youth group. But no, I said I had to stay home and do school, I had a lot to get done that day. Am I *really* doing the right thing by staying inside all week and doing school? Or is it one of those "missing out on life" deals? The sad part is that I don't even feel like I'm getting *that* much done, maybe that's why I'm inclined to stay inside and not do anything. I told Hannah, you know that guy you see in the movies that has no life, goes to work, comes home, eats like a sandwich for every meal, and spends all of his time at home working? That's gonna be me.

 
"What the heck were they doin with a car on the gosh darn moon?...There is no more male idea in the history of the universe than 'why don't we fly up to the moon and drive around?' That is the essence of male thinking right there."
- Jerry Seinfeld

Sunday, February 16, 2003
 
This weekend...

Friday my dad made me go with him to Butler for various errends, which, in short, took up the whole day and 'caused me to have a lot of papers to write in a very short time. Oh yeah, there was some Elvis-wanna be at EHCA who was one of the teacher's wife. Supposedly he was gonna "surprize" her and sing to some tape. Instead he just made a fool out of himself, messed up his music, and was in the physics room for half the period when we were supposed to be taking a test. So that was Friday.

Saturday...I was up at 2:00, no I didn't *wake* up then, I just hadn't gone to bed thanks to a certain someone *cough cough* Um, "took a nap" got up around 10, cleaned, and then.....*dramatic chord* Chris and I went to Monroville and...I finally got my combat boots!!! :-D I'm never taking them off, except maybe when I'm in the shower. Then, we were goin to pick up Rachel and go to the movies when Chris' mom calls on his cell phone telling him he has to come home and clean his room. So I dropped him off, which consequently made me late picking Rachel up and late for the movie. (we saw Shanghi Knights, decent movie, anything with Jackie Chan in it has to be good). She got a ride home with her friend who we were supposed to be meeting there *oops* and I got home just in time to jump in the van with my parents to go to Sam's game and then to the Rodden's for a church "valentine social." Summary: Lots of ppl, not a lot of food.

Moral of the story: I love my boots :-D

Tuesday, February 11, 2003
 
Punk impression:

roar! I hate the government! they don't know what they're doing and they LIE to us (about what, I don't know, but I KNOW they do) rebel against everything because everything is bad! the only thing that's good is being different. don't conform! don't be like anyone, be yourself, but if yourself doesn't look like us then you're just "normal" if you don't wear chains, spikes, and pants that don't fit (baggy or skin tight) then you're a prep! roar! I hate my parents, they never let me do anything I want to. I hate school! no one likes me just because I don't shower. all I want to do is play my guitar, is that too much to ask? why should I have to get a job and make money? that's what everyone else does! roar! I like to argue about everything, because arguing is cool! I enjoy being dificult. just because I wear my mommy's eye liner doesn't mean you can make fun of me! roar!


**Yes, this is a steriotype, not all "punks" are like this, but this is generally the way they think (yes, I'm making a generalization, so sue me)

 
*walks into doctor's office*
Nurse at desk: Oh, hi Zach, I didn't know you were coming in today
Me: Yeah, my mom said I should come in and get a throat culture
Nurse at desk: oh okay, we'll be with you in a second, insurence the same?
Me: yup
*sits down and reads. happens to glance up and see the rack where they keep the folders for the patients waiting to be seen. wonders why one of them is paticularly larger than the rest...*
*Nurse picks up the larger folder and walks into the waiting room*
Nurse with folder: hey Zach, we're ready for you
*gets up*
Nurse with folder: just go ahead down to room 6, you know where it is
Me: okidoki
*passes nurse in the hall*
Nurse in hall: Hello Zach
Me: Hi, Ann

The point of all this? (Other than the fact I made yet another stupid trip to the doctor's office when my mom thought I had strep throat, but didn't believe me when I said I didn't) No point really, I just think it's kinda funny when you know just about every doctor and nurse on a first name basis 'cause you've been there so many times. Same thing goes for the nurses in the ER..."You're back AGAIN Zach? what'd you do this time???"

Monday, February 10, 2003
 
"no thinking before you go to bed"

- the smartest person in the world

 
You know you're living in 2003 when* ::

Before you call someone, you IM them to make sure their line is clear.





*yes I know the title isn't very origonal, or practical, you should know you're living in 2003 not by what you're doing but by the simple fact that you KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS. Anyways I'm trying to think of a better title, let me know if you have any ideas

Sunday, February 09, 2003
 
12 days until the end of economics!!!


no I'm not excited

Saturday, February 08, 2003
 
Hockey is the most inhumane sport on the fact of the planet. Huge guys(and I mean HUGE, some of them are practically ogres), high speed, and sticks. I went to one of Justin's games tonight, and holy cow. Okay I'm used to soccer where a foul is a foul, no matter where it happens or how severe it is (IF the refs are calling the game right). Not in hockey; if some guy's skating past you, it's okay to just reach out and clobber him. And if some guy's on the ground, and you feel like going down and smashing his face into the ice, that's okay too. And THEN, when a fight between 2 players break out, not only is it allowed, they have RULES for the fights. Yeah, both players have to take their helmets and gloves off. Then it's over...I'm guessing when one goes down. But you should have seen the parents, they're actually yelling at their kids to "don't take that! knock him on his *blank blank blank*" it's like blood-lust gone all wrong, these nice old ladies are screaming "GET HIM, KILL HIM, RIP HIS EYES OUT!"

Man I can just imagine what their huddles are like.

Coach: let me here you say "fight"
Team: FIGHT
Coach: let me here you say "blood"
Team: BLOOD!
Coach: let me here you say "kill"
Team: KIKKKIIILLLLL!!!!!!!!!


all things considered, it's an awsome sport to watch

Tuesday, February 04, 2003
 
Right Now I,

Am listening to: Wake Up by RATM
Am talking to: myself
Want to: go to bed
Am: cold
Should be: doing school
Really am: not doing school
Wonder: why pickles are just called "pickles" and not "pickled cucumbers"

 
"swim, don't tread water"

Monday, February 03, 2003
 
Self-Introspection questions::

(this is for Rachel who I was trying to help get rid of her hiccups and describing the "drink-out-of-the-cup-backwards" trick to)

When you have the hiccups do you:

A) Breathe in and out 10 times and then hold your breathe as long as you can
B) Drink lemon juice
C) Drink out of a cup backwards
D) Run into walls <==that's mine
E) Just wait until they go away
F) Hit yourself on the chest like something like a brick

A, B, C, and F(depending on how HARD you hit yourself) are all things people actually do. Well, E is too I guess...okay so I'm the only one that runs into walls to get rid of my hiccups, who asked you?

Friday, January 31, 2003
 
You know what I pray for every single night before I go to bed?

to wake up in a coma

Tuesday, January 28, 2003
 
today::

I did school...boring

I hate Henry David Thoreau, if you ever have to read anything by him, or already have you know what I'm talking about. my sympathies go out to all in my AP english class

I saw *the* best basketball game tonight and #53(she thinks that's her number) on EHCA(the same school I take physics at) was awesome

what? of course someone didn't tell me to write that, it was my idea, yeesh

Monday, January 27, 2003
 
Do you ever have those dreams where something goes really wrong; your friend stops talking to you, you get in major trouble with your parents, Godzilla eats your cat, you forget your 50-page essay at home and spend the whole day trying to write a new one before 5th period...those are the kinda dreams that actually give waking up a plus side.

Saturday, January 25, 2003
 
lachadie: ugh ever played...
lachadie: oooh what was it called?
Agarwaen777: yeah I've played that!
Agarwaen777: ;-)
lachadie: lol shut up
lachadie: grr...it's really really confusing
lachadie: and you have like all these different little pieces
Agarwaen777: scrabble? ;-)
lachadie: rofl!

I'm just too much...

Thursday, January 23, 2003
 
if you don't ever wonder why God is good to you, you really should

 
Pick a whole number between 1 and 3

Is your number 2?

Am I good or what?

Wednesday, January 22, 2003
 
Self-Intrspection Questions::

When you're on IM and you want to talk to someone but they have an away message up, do you:

A) IM them anyways because they are probablly there
B) IM them and just leave a message
C) Not IM them at all and write them an e-mail
D) IM them AND write them an e-mail
E) Not IM or e-mail them, but call them on the telephone
F) Write them a letter(snail mail)
G) Drive to their house to see if they're really home or not
H) Run to your bed and cry because nobody loves you
I) Find something else to do
J) Read this whole list and try to figure out what everyone else probablly does


Sunday, January 19, 2003
 
When the parents are away the children will play
(don't read this, I'm extremly retarted)

It was the first time Chris AND Matt made it to the same thing in probablly over a year. I smuggled Matt's computer into my house from school(yeah, it's a long story) and we tore my house apart looking for a power strip and cords. Chris brought his laptop and we pretty much sat around and acted geekish(not nerdish, because nerds are actually smart). We swapped mp3s, pirated software, movies, cracks(not the drug)...all that good stuff. Watched Triple X, The New Guy and Indepenence Day, and then some part of a Western that was the only thing on TV at 5 in the morning(Chris and Matt weren't up for that one...) At maximum I got 3 hours of sleep, Matt and I got up at 7:30 for some odd reason, got showers(seperately) and did some cleaning that was supposed to be done before my dad got home. uh....that was pretty much it. Oh yeah, except for running/sliding/falling around on our frozen pool for a couple hours(yes, we are admitedly retarted). They left by around 4...I took a nap, a shower, drank a cup of coffee(black) and went to the movies to see Catch Me If You Can with Rachel, her friend Manda and Mari. Yes, it had Lenardo in it, but also Tom Hanks, who would make up for anything; good movie, worth the money. So that was my fun-filled weekend...oh, and my dad and I went to see TTT today(3rd time).

I probablly spent more time watching movies than I did sleeping.

It's not enough for me to have my own werid weekend to myself, but I have to spread it around.

(I told you not to read this...)

Saturday, January 18, 2003
 
Current Top 10 Songs of All Time::

When In Doubt by Thousand Foot Krutch
Day That I Die by Good Charlotte
Every New Day by Five Iron Frenzy
Time Of Your Life by Green Day
Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine
Let The Bodies Hit The Floor by Drowning Pool
Locked In A Cage by Skillet
Still Waiting by Sum 4
Wherever You Will Go by The Calling
Glycerine by Bush


Thursday, January 16, 2003
 
When I'm having good days I wonder what's going to go wrong...

Tuesday, January 14, 2003
 
Self-Introspection Questions::

What do you do when you find a new song that you absolutely love?

A) You listen to it over and over and over, you make an entire CD with just that one song on it and play it everywhere you go. You ignore your friends repeated requests/threats to play SOMETHING else. You may even sing it subconsiously in your sleep.

B) Only listen to it once in a while so you don't "wear it out." When you hear it on the radio you turn the radio off because it's not your schedualed listening time. People don't even know you like it, they may even think you hate the song. If you hear someone else singing it, you jump on them and rip their tounge out so they don't "ruin" it.

If you chose A you're what we like to call "obsessive compulsive." You need some pills or something.
If you chose B you're what we like to call "obsessive compulsive." You need to find a support group or something.

If you're anywhere in between (1/2A) you're OK.

Sunday, January 12, 2003
 
Man, if you think it's cold here, try heading up north towards Lake Erie. There's just enough snow to keep the ground frozen, and the wind-chill factor averages somewhere around -300 degrees, give or take a few. ANYWAYS, we left Saturday morning, dropped the dog off at a kennel(hey at least I got to go a day and a half without the dog) and made the 2 hour trip to someplace just outside of Cleveland(home of the Browns...nuff said). We went straight to Sam's first game, then to our hotel. The best part of the trip would have to have been playing soccer in the halls. There were a couple teams staying there, and took up most of the 2nd and 4th floors and all of the 3rd(which we were on). Imagine 5 - 6 lould little girls under the age of 11, and maybe 1 or 2 older brothers, a long narrow hallway, goals at each end, and a soccer ball(AND no one to complain or make us stop). For as much as we were kicking/banging the ball off the walls/doors and running around, there was really minimum damage. Besides a couple brush burns, 1 broken light fixture(which, for the record, was NOT my fault) and a decent sized gash on someone's left ankle(I'll give you 3 guesses who's it was). We managed to only get yelled at once, when it was 11 and ppl decided they actually wanted to sleep.

Other than that, we watched Sam's games, watched the Steelers lose, ate KFC, and wandered aimlessly around the hotel.

Thursday, January 09, 2003
 
God likes his music loud

Wednesday, January 08, 2003
 
Every have one of those days when it seems like you don't get anything done. The whole day drags on and on, but when it's finally over, you look back and see, that, in reality...

...you still didn't get anything done.

Sunday, January 05, 2003
 
oh yeah, for the record, no football game holds a candle next to World Cup soccer. (although I got up at 4:30 in the morning to watch the USA/Korea game in a heartbeat I'd never even think about doing that for a football game)

 
I'm usually not a big football fan, in fact I dispise highschool football(the only highschool football game I ever went to, I got there at half time and left at the end of the 3rd quarter. All the stupid jocks stand on the feild and run into eachother, I think they threw the ball twice, but no one caught it). The past two games I've watched however, OSU vrs. Miami and the Steelers game were awesome. And both "my" teams won them. The OSU game went till 12AM 'cause there were 2 overtimes, and the Steelers game went down till the clock was at zero. Good stuff.

Friday, January 03, 2003
 
Suggestion:

seeing has I haven't written in my blog for a while, and then just posted a huge long shpeal, and since I personally usually skip over anything long, just read like a paragraph a day, or maybe half a paragraph if that's too much for you.

 
The year in review.

The 2001 - 2002 school year was quite possibly one of the worst years of my life. Soccer was the only school-related activity I was even remotely interested in. Maybe other public schools aren't as bad as Freeport, but I've had all the public "education" I can possibly handle until college.

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings after seeing The Fellowship of the Ring in theatres, these could possibly be the best movies every created. I also read The Screwtape Letters which I highly recomend, the whole book has a great twist to it and makes you look at your own daily ordeal a little differently.

I finally learned why people buy things with money they don't have when I bought my computer last summer. Although I have to say it was totaly worth it, especially the closer I'm getting to paying it off. The fact that we got DSL didn't hurt either.

There was the whole ordeal with playing soccer and the Freeport schoolboard(I'm going to assisinate every member[except the 2 that voted for me] some time in the not-so-distant future with a hammer). But I got to play for my old EHCA team which...was an adventure, as always. We won 3 whole games this year, in relation to 1 last year, and zero the year before that. Indoor soccer was fun too and kept me from complete vegetation, I have to have SOMEPLACE to get injured during the winter.

Music-wise I've gone from playing keyboards to bass to lead acoustic on occasion in our worship band. With any luck I'll be singing soon...*hysterical sarcastic laughter* I'll have been playing guitar for...2 years this summer. I've written one somewhat of a worship song and have many countless other scraps of thoughs and chord patterns I haven't been quite able to compile into anything very cohesive. I still haven't come up with a way to get an eletric.

I got my licence in May, there's nothing like being able to say "hey I'm goin to Mike's for a while" or to go anywhere for that matter without having to bug your parents to drive you or making arragenments to be picked up and such. And the occasional shoffering of my sisters isn't enough to make me complain. Now if I only had my own car...

The highlight of last year had to be summer vacation at Nagshead, North Carolina with the Roddens. I thought my mom was pulling a cruel prank on my when she said I was going with them to the beach for a week. Although the weather could have been a little more coorapative the week was still the best. I think we took 2 days to do nothing but lay on the beach and get fried. And we picked the days when the waves were the roughest to swim and get pounded into the sand and ground into a pulp. Having nothing to do on the beach is great, watchin movies(in the theatre and videos) riding go-peds, running on the beach, not in slow motion(we exercised ONCE because we both had soccer conditioning when we got back).

The EHCA banquet was fun, a bit odd because being EHCA there was no dancing allowed. Not that I'm a big dancer, or can dance at all or even want to, but that just seems like something *normal* ppl would do. We were all at the Lasher's house beforehand for pictures *my favorite thing to do* Not only was it awkward because I never dress up like that, but Rachel, of course is around 2 inches taller than I am(which is HER fault too;-)) So in our pictures we'd try and stand staggared so I didn't look*that* short(didn't work too well) I'm wearing platform shoes this year.

Oh yeah, how could I forget about FRENCH camp...I know a few fragments of French that amounts to nothing, and hate little kids. So the obvious thing for me to do would be to volunteer at a French camp for kids like 10 and under for a week. I never thought kids would be so bad that you'd actually have to chase them and hold them down and beat them to get them to listen to you. Of course they love to be chased and beat, and jump on your back and break it, and soak you with water balloons and NEVER GIVE YOU A SECOND OF PEACE AND QUIET. I'll never have kids. For example: Dante walks up behind Cole(Dante's 6 probablly, Cole's 8) and says "this game is called kick me" and gives him a swift kick in the rear. Cole screams. Dante turns around, sticks his butt out and says "now you kick me" Cole picks up a stick and starts to beat Dante, who is screaming "you're supposed to KICK me!"

Got a little older, a little fatter, wore out my mortal body a little bit more, killed a couple thousand more brain cells, I'm getting old

Saturday, December 28, 2002
 
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don't.
-Kenneth Boulding

Friday, December 27, 2002
 
I wrote a really long entree about 2 weeks ago, but while in the process of posting it, Internet Explorer crashed. And at that point I was too frustrated to go back and re-write the whole thing so I just forgot about it.

Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers was awesome, 5x better than the Fellowship of the Ring(talking about the movies). There was tons more going on in this movie than the first one. Don't you think it's cool how people who have only seen the movies and never read the books know so much about it? I just think it's neat that they think they're such dedicated and huge LOTR fans because they've seen the movies, I mean who need the books anyways? (If you don't feel like reading the books, fine, but don't think you can out-do anyone who can, you're pretty much the equivalent of a groupie, so don't pretend like you're real fan)

I'm in a very bitter mood right now, probablly from the lack of sleep over the past week.

Monday, December 09, 2002
 
Know what's hard? a rock *rimshot*

 
Tip::

Never alot yourself only 2 days to write 3 papers (that's over 1 paper a day folks). Unless you have unwanted hair you want to pull out, and things you have a desperate desire to bang your head off desk corners.

Thursday, December 05, 2002
 
I look an "Anger Check List -- How Is Your Anger?" test today and do you know what it said?

There were three categories:
MANAGEABLE: you could benefit from relaxation training.
MODERATE: you need to learn more about what stresses you, and learn stress management techniques.

But the one I supposedly fit into was
OUT OF CONTROL: you have an anger problem that could benefit from learning anger management techniques.

I didn't know I was such an angry person...

*ggrrrrrr*

Tuesday, December 03, 2002
 
Tip: Don't go outside when it's 12 degrees with only a t-shirt...

no, of course I didn't do that, silly, I just thought I'd let you know, just in case

 
know what would stink?(literally) being a toilet. Taking the entire world's crap, and the only thing you can do is make flushing sounds...

Monday, December 02, 2002
 
Only in PA is the first day of buck season a holiday. Our motto should be the hick state.

I guess today would be a bad day to run around in a reindeer costume

I should put antlers on my dog and let it run around outside...*muahahahaha*

Saturday, November 30, 2002
 
I don't want this to be just another empty song
I need you and I have known it all along
So why did I leave you, why did I run away?
But even in all my doubts you knew I'd be back someday

Chorus
Where has the light gone, I cannot go on
I tried to run my own race, but fallen down without your grace
I cannot live this way or make it through another day
I cannot live this way or make it through (break/mute) another day

I didn't think I needed you, didn't think I wanted to
Follow what you had for me, I ran and thought that I was free
I tried to do it on my own, but now I'm lost and so alone
Lost in my world of sin, but you still will take me in

What are you looking for? What do you hope to find?
Would you still have chosen me, if you'd known ahead of time
How much I am missing, how much that I don't have
Would you still have reached down for the burden of my hand?

*alernate chorus coming soon*


Thursday, November 28, 2002
 
If I was going to take over the U.S. (which I will someday, part of the world-domination plan) I'd do it on Noveber 28th, the day all americans sit down and stuff themselves so full of food that the only thing they are capable of doing for the rest of the day is sit around and watch fat, grown "men" run into eachother.

Thanksgiving::National Day of Gluttony

Monday, November 25, 2002
 
Things I Don't Like:: (not just things that bother me or are hard, but things I REALLY do not like)

-Broken guitar strings
-Dogs
-*The Holiday Spirit*
-Highschool football players
-95% of the crap on the radio

Friday, November 22, 2002
 
This seems to be the *new thing* to try on the internet. Go to google and type "[your name] is" i.e. I typed "Zach is" and these are some of the things that came up in the site descriptions:



Tuesday, November 19, 2002
 
Self-Introspection Questions::
When you're having a bad day and everything is going wrong do you::

A) Yell at someone else because, really, it's THEIR fault your life sucks
B) Yell at someone else just for the heck of it, whether it's their fault or not
C) Not talk at all
D) Cry
E) Carve out segments of your skin with a razor
F) Funnel your anger into doing something constructive
G) Blast hard-core music full of distortion and band your head off walls
H) Just bang your head off walls without the music
I) All of the above

Monday, November 18, 2002
 
do you think it's werid that people name their dogs and call their friends "dawg"?

Friday, November 15, 2002
 
lachadie: Zach..,I actually screwed up a grilled cheese yesterday
Agarwaen777: LOL
lachadie: hahhaa I can't live w/o someone who can cook I seriously can't cook at all ....
lachadie: I know how...I jsut can't do it
Agarwaen777: nevermind, I can cook
lachadie: hahaha
Agarwaen777: in comparison to some...
lachadie: I can't do it I don't know why, I think it's cause I don't follow directions that well
Agarwaen777: Rachel there ARE not directions for grilled cheese!
lachadie: hahahaha I KNOW!
lachadie: but I made one and I did something wrong cause it was nasty...
Agarwaen777: put butter on the bread, put cheese in the middle, cook it
lachadie: LOL....butter the bread?
lachadie: that's what I did
Agarwaen777: rotfl
lachadie: *or should I say didn't do*

 
Excerpts from my essay on tolerance:

people have the right to be wrong

we live in a world where "tolerance" is the only standard

There is, and there must be an absolute standard of what is right and of what is wrong.

A standard simply is; it exists without regard to anything around it.

in our quest to get rid of intolerance we have actually created it

X = Xo + Vo Ät + ½ a(Ät)2
oops, that's from physics, how'd that get there?

Monday, November 11, 2002
 
Now as I lay down, another day has passed me by.
Another day, filled with more broken promises and empty words
This day leaves me no answers, only more confusion
But even in my distress You’re still there
And will be there waiting for me when I wake up
Whether or not I call out to You in the morning
You will be there
This, is the only thing I know to be true
When all else falls into chaos and discord
I know nothing
Nothing but You

That's my *deep thought* for the month...if you punctuate werid and randomly capitalize letters ppl think it has some significance

 
I don't want a insainely expensive super-guitar. People who spend tons of money on guitars are generally crabby. "do NOT touch MY guitar, you'll get YOUR finger prints on it!" "AAHHH!!! YOU SET IT DOWN TO HARD, YOU'RE GOING TO RUIN IT." They become un-human if you LOOK at their *precious* guitar, and they're cocky about it, as if nothing else could ever mesasure up to THEM and THEIR guitar. I have an old junkie acoustic a friend gave to me. The pick gaurd's scratched and the fretboard sucks, but guess what, it still sounds like a guitar. And I don't really care if somebody drops it, or puts a nick the size of a pencil tip in the back.

Friday, November 08, 2002
 
Some people try to help other people from falling in the pit of stupidity...I like to push them in.

 
"God didn't give me athletic ability or an intilectual mind, he gave me a twisted mind, and I'm going to use it until the day that I die" - Ken Davis

Thursday, November 07, 2002
 
I wish that I was nocternal. Well, actually I wish the rest of the world was, I *could* sleep in the day and work at night but the problem is that it would conflict with everyone else. So all I have to do is get everyone else to change...

Monday, November 04, 2002
 
Saturday Chris and I went to see Attack of the Clones on the Omnimax theatre at the Science Center. It's funny 'cause as a little kid I would *always* say "wouldn't it be cool if they played Star Wars sometime?" but I "knew" it'd never happen. It was awesome, some scenes were a little warped 'cause of the round screen, but overall it was crazy. I wonder if they'll do this for Episode 3; it's gotta be a huge money maker, they've been selling out every show. We got there at 4:00 for the 4:30 show and couldn't get tickets, so we had to get ones for the 6:45 show. While we waited we walked down past both stadiums, got subways, walked to point state park and back again.

Wednesday, October 30, 2002
 
one day I lived
one day I died
one day I laughed
one day I cried
one day I ate a pickel
another I didn't::life is so fickle <==yes that's a word
sometimes I rhyme
sometimes I don't

this random scrap of a thought
really has no "deeper" meaning
so if you think that you saw one
you may want to check your seeing

 
Self-introspection Questions::

When you set your alarm to go off in the morning(that is, if you're the type of person that needs an alarm clock to wake up) do turn the clock back a couple minutes?
Example: You have to get up at 7:00, so turn your clock back five minutes so when it goes off the actual time is 6:55.
These people are usually the ones that set their watch back by half and hour because they're "always late."

If you do, you probablly think you're "tricking" yourself into getting up 5 minutes early. Or you may the kind of person that knows you're early so you fall back alseep for 5 minutes.

Personally if you do this I think you're stupid. "Oh man, I fooled myself AGAIN, it's not REALLY 7:00! Boy I'm a tricky one..." You'd think you would eventually catch on to your own "trick." And setting your clock back is not going to make you be places early, although it may confuse the heck out of you and anyone who asks you what time it is.

 
I am convinced that ketchup does not exist to be put on food; but food exists solely to be eaten with ketchup.

Tuesday, October 29, 2002
 
I always think it's funny when you're reading a text book and at the bottom of the page it says "see below"

Monday, October 28, 2002
 
I'm writing about yesterday today because I couldn't write about it yesterday or the day before that.

Got up early to get to church to set up and run powerpoint.
Ran home, ate a sandwich
Went to the soccer fields and reffed 2 games-almost had to throw the parents out
Ran to Mike's house-parked in the middle of his one-way street to load up all our guitars and amps and stuff like that while ppl behind us are getting very impatient
Drove to Puckerty(werid name huh?) Church in Lower Burrell
Set up sound stuff and powerpoint(again) for a youth group worship service
Practiced for the worship service
Played the worship service
Ate pizza
Drove home
Died.
The End.

Saturday, October 26, 2002
 
Extra hour of sleep!!!

 
My Current "Projects"(no Bramble, not THOSE kind of projects...)

-Guitar::You Belong to Me (Jason Wade-Shrek soundtrack)
::Learning to play bass
-Killing the Britons, Persians, and Mongol's kings in Age of Empires (I'm the Koreans of course)
-Finding Medal of Honor somewhere on the internet
-Figuring out Dreamweaver(web design program)
-Finishing my song**

**Yes, I'm making my first real attempt at writing a real(full length)song. I'm trying to keep it as tacky-free as possibly but it's coming very slow in case you hadn't already figured. I may post the lyrics sometime if I feel their worthy enough, or good enough not to be laughed at.

 
I wish I could be good at one thing. Like I'm sorta good at soccer, I can kinda play a couple different instruments, know a little bit about computers and such...but not enough to get me anywhere, I have no specialty. I'll never be a pro soccer player, musician or computer junkie. There is no "Little-Bit-of-Everything" major in college.

 
Sign my guestbook, you automatically get on my "good" list(how long you stay there can have other factors) it gives me something to read.

Friday, October 25, 2002
 
Most people like to go to football games, or parties, or go see a movie on Friday nights...as for me...I like to stay home, get online and see who ELSE doesn't have a "life"

Wednesday, October 23, 2002
 
thinking(the ability to) is over-rated

 
Self-introspection Questions::questions that make you wonder who you really are

When you wake up in the morning, are your covers massed in a jumbled heap somewhere on the floor or side of the bed; or are they just about the same as when you fell asleep?

hmmm....what could this mean?

Messed up - you have restless dreams-possibly nightmares, you wish you could be doing something other than sleeping, you push things aside when they're in your way.

Neat - your 'energy' is directed into mind-matters - dreams are carefully analyzed as they're happening, you sub-consciously keep things clean, you're submissive.




I've noticed that all my entries lately have had titles..."Random Thought" "Reason #88..." etc.

Monday, October 21, 2002
 
Random thought::

You hear a lot of preachers or speakers giving alter calls and saying "if you know that you're not right with God" or "you know you're not where you should be." And it just sounds werid to me, like there is a certain "level" you could be at that is "acceptable." If you're at or above that level you're "OK." But boy if you're bellow it, *tsk tsk tsk* shame on you. As if you could be "right with God" and just stop there. What about the daily call? Shouldn't you always be praying to take the next step? And realize that you can never be "right" with God in the sense of reaching a point that's good enough.

Also, as one speaker pointed out(I forget his name :-p) he said he doesn't "do" alter calls, because he never found a place in the Bible where an alter call was given.

Anyways, that's enough preaching from me for the night.

We lost our indoor game(it was the first one) go figure, we never win indoor games :-p

 
Reason #88 why people are retarted:

"It's always in the last place you look."

Well DUH it's in the last place you look. It's not in the place you looked before, and when you FIND it, that will ALWAYS be the last place you look. The next time I'm looking for something and I find it, I'm gonig to keep looking for it, so I can say that it WASN'T in the last place I looked.

 
"Love is older than I am, and wiser."

Sunday, October 20, 2002
 
PSATs...it should be illegal to make someone think for three straigh hours. ESPECIALLY on a SATURDAY. I went to Bramble's afterwards and we were wiped out. We sat around and stared at the floor and made unitelligent babbling noises most of the day. Then we went to Lauren's birthday party. I didn't really know her until last night, but details...
Bramble(gimpy) played hacky sack on crutches, we sat outside around a "fire" I yelled at the little kids there(don't even think about it sweater-boy) and played guitar until my fingers froze and fell off...it was good stuff.

Thursday, October 17, 2002
 
The four seasons as you know them:
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn

The four season as I know them:
Indoor
Club
Training
Highschool

 
But the moon still shines
The stars seem brighter
I see You through the haze
So I reamain unfazed
- The Waiting

 
I hate school. Writing a 3 - 5 page paper EVERY SINGLE WEEK gets old and very frustrating after a while.

Sunday, October 13, 2002
 
-a 70 Kb/s download
-seeing someone you know at the store
-beating your rivals in double overtime
-mastering a song on the guitar
-getting home from a long day or work(or school with no homework)
-a message in your guestbook
-a big paycheck
-laughing so hard you can't breathe
-figuring out a physics problem

<>this is the stuff life is made of<>


 
I have three obsesive habits that I should probablly do something about...

1) Age of Empires::Anyone (generally guys) who's played this game knows what I'm talking about. I can't stop! I'll start at say, 4:00 and say "okay I'll play for half an hour" the next thing I know it's 7:00 and I've missed dinner. But that's not the only sad thing...I deleted it once...and in the same day redownloaded it(yeah, I don't even have a LEGAL copy) AND...this'll get you...I've had DREAMS in AoE format...like, everything was these computer-generated images of tiny people running around. And it's not like it's happenend just once...I scare myself.

2) Movies. You know when you see a preview and say "I'm gonna go see that in the theatre!" and never do? Well that's the way I am with 95% of them-eventually I forget about them, and don't have any money or a very good reason to rent them when they come out on video(or *DVD* for those 'high tech' people). But NOW...with the wonders of DSL and a shiny brand new(not so new now) Sony Viao...I can get all the movies I want *muahahaha* I've filled half of my 2nd hard drive with movies already. Once I'm done downloading one I search for another one(don't worry, I don't download anything I wouldn't tell my parents, God knows anyways so it doesn't really matter)

3) I run into doors.

Friday, October 11, 2002
 
Right now(Friday night-11:50)::
I wish: That I could sleep in tomarrow
I feel: Like my eyes are going to fall out and roll around on the floor which needs cleaned
I am: Tired, but don't feel like going to bed

 
There's nootthhing to eat in our house. I've been living off of processed chicken nuggets, hot dogs(without buns or bread 'cause we're out of both) and mixed vegetables for the past month. All the tomatoes from our garden are gone, cereal's gone, bread's gone, we're on the last carton of milk, lunch meat's out...

We still have ketchup though, that's all that matters.
One would wonder why we wouldn't just go to the store...

 
If you think about it, everything is just a word.

Thursday, October 10, 2002
 
Why do short people get made fun of? We're more down to earth, so to speak, and there are more of us than there are tall people. Why isn't it "haha, you're tall, I'd hate to be you!" We don't have to make things as big, duck through doorways, and tall people always have back problems.

 
Countdowns:
-PSAT - Oct. 19th
-Last soccer game - Oct. 18th
-Tomarrow - Oct. 10th
-Economics Essay due - see above
-English paper due - Oct. 13th
-End of school - May 30th

Wednesday, October 09, 2002
 
Let us consider that we are all partially insane.
It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles;
It will make clear and simple many things which are involved in
Haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

-Mark Twain

Tuesday, October 08, 2002
 
Ever have one of those days when you feel like the only reason God created you, was so that He could say to other people, "be thankful, look - I COULD have made you like THAT."

Monday, October 07, 2002
 
The best part about away games is stopping to eat on the way back. EHCA played South Hills at their place(we lost, but that's beside the point 'cause we always lose) And the best part of the whole thing was eating at Wendy's and the car ride back. We never go to do that at Freeport.

Friday, October 04, 2002
 
There's no greater feeling in the world, than finishing an essay that you've been trying to work on all week, at 4:30 when it's due at 5:00...I feel like I could dance...almost at least.

October 19th...PSAT *AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!*

 
"Life IS pain, Highness, anyone who says otherwise is selling something." - The Princess Bride

Thursday, October 03, 2002
 
I have the worst case of writer's block in history.

I have two papers due tomarrow; an economics current events essay and a 3 - 5 page paper on process analysis for english...I haven't gotten anything written for either of them. I've tried (no really I have) but all I do is stare at Microsoft Word for an hour...

 
If moths are attracted to the light, why don't they hang out in the day?

 
A new blog.

I don't know exactly why I decided to abandon my old blog, maybe because it was just getting stale and was a burden for a while to try and keep updated. I think the dark colors and werid font made it hard to read too. (However, if for some strange reason you would want to go back and read the ancient archives written by the young punk I was back in the day, please feel free."

Be forewarned that this does not come with a daily update gaurentee. Most of my time is taken up with school, which is probablly what you will general hear about.

Sometime in the future I plan to figure out how to make my own site and move the blog off this server onto my own. Until such time you're just going to have to deal with the annoying flashy ads at the top of the screen.
Until then...