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Well, the Spanish Final is over. It was horrible. I was so confused… I think I’m not going to do too good on it. I’ve missed so much that my other classmates have not because of Lake Bluff’s different Spanish program from where I moved from. It didn’t make it much better when I heard everyone talking about “how easy” it was after I left… it made me feel bad… it made me feel stupid.
That pretty much ends school, however. Now there’s just that leftover stuff like completing the 8th grade slide show. That’s taking a long time, just because I’m putting a lot of time into zooming effects, putting names on every picture, and having nice transitions between each picture. I really hope I can get it done in time… If I can’t, I guess I can split the work between somebody else…
The grammar final is tomorrow… I’m not too worried about that, although I’m probably going to spend some of my lunch time studying for it. I’m really not looking forward to graduation… it seems like too big of a deal for just graduating 8th grade. I have to wear a suit and tie and everything… which I’m not looking forward to. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever worn a suit and tie in my entire life.
In Social Studies we’re doing this thing where we’ve got to tell a cultural version of Cinderella to a seventh grade class during advisory using any method other than just reading the book. My group is doing Jeopardy, where we summarize the book quickly, one portion assigned to each person, and then ask questions to the class for rewards. We’ll see how that goes, but for right now it’s just another thing that I’m not looking forward to.

I’m so glad that I’m going to be done with all of this soon.

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I really cannot wait for Summer. Like I think I said before, I’ve so much that I want to get done. Plus I’ll have time to spend with friends from Hudson. Not much I have to say now… I am pretty afraid of the Spanish final tomorrow, although once I’m done with that it’s pretty much the end of school. I’m guessing this week will pretty much be a hang out week, although I’ve been wrong about those before. The week after this week is fun week, including the 8th grade picnic, the Cub’s game, etc. So yeah, exciting. I think I might change my blog theme… that green one is a little too thin. It’s kind of cool when it makes my articles look long, though.

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Well I went and saw Spiderman 3 today, and I have to say it was pretty good. Not like “best movie in the world” good, but good. It made me think… mostly about ethics. It was interesting.

Anyway, my dog re-gained his constant ear-infection, and so that’s pretty annoying. I feel so bad for him, he’s walking everywhere scratching his ear, shaking it like mad, drooling, etc. We’re taking him to the vet soon, but it’s 12 AM right now.

I added Google Analytics to WiredforWar, so the statistics should prove interesting. I haven’t checked my Google Adsense account for ages, I wonder how much I’ve earned. It’s fun running that site, it gives me some sort of sense of pride. Dunno…

I really, really, really want to start SServ from the ground up. It’s ugly, not fully functional, and not popular right now. Analytics tells me it only gets like 3-6 hits a day, some of them being me. I put so much work into it, so it’s kind of disappointing to me that nobody uses it… I even sort of advertised it at school. So maybe I’ll get that done eventually… I most likely won’t get into it until Summer break begins.

Today I started dragging all of the old PCs out of the basement and sticking a dual-boot of Windows and Kubuntu on them. It’s nice to just have functional PCs around, better yet having one for every person in the family to use. I didn’t finish today, because we went to see Spiderman, but hopefully I’ll finish later. I want to figure out how to get network logins so people’s accounts are synced on every computer in the house, but that’s been hard. I’ll probably just give everybody a small directory on a Samba server to work with.

Last night I went to a disaster drill at my Dad’s hospital until 1 AM. It was kind of boring, but interesting. They apparently got some students from some University or something for “patients” that they would practice evacuating. The alarm code was “code triage”, which was pretty interesting when I looked it up on the Wikipedia earlier today. They have this whole system for rationing medical supplies/staff for people who need it most/have the best chance. Veerrry interesting.

Hopefully I’ll have time to finish up installing OSes on some more machines tomorrow, and hopefully even add Analytics to my blog. Google rocks. I need to sleep.

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While I was trying to think of something to write about, I started thinking about all that I observe in the world. It’s simply too much to describe to someone, you can never get across a perfect picture to someone using only text. I suppose movies do a good job of it, but there’s no way to completely get a person into a true experience, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, Google Analytics has gotten even cooler. New graphs, details, etc. I want to install it onto the Machines forum, but that requires coding it into every template, and I have not the time for that right now. When summer comes, I’ll be able to do what I want when I want to… that will be nice. Right now, I come home, do some homework, eat, and sleep. Except for the occasional TV show or short game of Tribes. Summer will be awesome to the tenth power.

Welp, I should go to bed so I can stand upright tomorrow. Goodbye.

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Ahhh Linux. The only operating system that’s decently good.
I recently installed Kubuntu on a few of my systems because of a recommendation I got from my friend, and I have to say it rocks. The package manager is simply awesome, I was able to get the Nvidia drivers installed within minutes (took much longer in past experiences). The software repository is huge, and contains lots of what you’ll ever need for a good operating environment. The theme is cool, it seems that they’ve modified KDE to look nicer. Buttons now fade smoothly in and out, and the control panel is neatly organized kind of like OS X style. Wireless and wires networking is made easy, it’s just a little icon in your task bar. When you click on it, it lets you choose from a list of networks or just a wired connection.
The only real complaint I have about this system is the super user workings. It just runs off of the current user’s password (if they’re set under the right group), so basically, there is no root user. Sure, I bet you could enable it, but I just think this behavior is a bit annoying for a multi-user system. Other than that, though, it’s the Linux system I’ll be using for most of my PCs from now on.

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So today was pretty interesting…

In Spanish today, I was extremely angry at my fellow classmates, for we had a sub under which they were not behaving properly. It made me really angry, and I brought it up to them several times with no avail. I really, really wanted to see them punished. Ever have that feeling? Like I just wanted the principal to walk in and scream in their faces (even though this wasn’t possible, since he was in Springfield that day). So that made me angry. I’m probably going to send an e-mail to the real Spanish teacher, just because the sub didn’t seem to interesting in punishing these kids. Hopefully, when I told them how I felt about how they acted, I got through to them.

A fight broke out in school the other day. Interesting, stupid, but interesting. One kid broke his finger punching another kid who had previously punched him in the stomach. Huh.

I’m doing much better with homework than I was… Now I actually do it when I get home. I may have said this already, but it’s actually kind of enjoyable coming home, listening to music, and just getting it done. In some cases it’s even something I look forward to toward the end of the school days.

Well, I’ll write more later.

sloik2004 School

Well, yet another post.

I’m trying to catch up with all my homework, and I have just discovered a wonderful thing in the process. This discovery is that if you have a decent amount of late work, that will bump up all of your current work. So, unless you put in a higher amount of time completing both the late work and the new work, you will always have late work. It sucks. So I’ve changed my routine… I’ve finally realized that my PC is a huge distraction, and that avoiding it lets me concentrate more on school work. Right when I get home, I go into the basement, sit on the couch, turn on some music, and drill through my homework for the night. Tonight it kind of sucked, though, because I forgot a text book at school, so I’ll have to go in early tomorrow which I absolutely hate.

I’ve been using Google Docs and Spreadsheets for a bit now, and I have to say it’s quite nice. It saves like every sentence you type, so it’s near impossible to lose things. It allows me to access my docs from both school and home (yes, I know there are many ways of doing it, but this is so convenient). You can upload Openoffice and Word documents and edit them right in your browser, which is cool with computers that don’t have Openoffice or MS Office installed on them. One of the neatest features, however, is that you can add collaborators, who can edit (or just view) your document and you can track who did what to it. It’s neato bandito, and I use it more than Word at school now. Google rocks.

So SwishMax is pretty cool. I know that just Flash is much better, but I just couldn’t get into it. I’ve finally gotten into SwishMax scripting, which has expanded the possibilities of what I can do with it by an enormous amount. The scripting is a ton different from what I’ve learned in the past (basic, HTML, PHP), especially the variables. But it’s still pretty functional, even though it’s highly limiting. When I get this down, though, I’ll actually start trying to implement flash into some of my sites, just ’cause sites with flash are ever so cool.

Well, it’s been nice writing this, but now I must go to bed so I can go into school early tomorrow (yuck).

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