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So I started sailing today. It was pretty fun, much like last year. Today there wasn’t much wind, so we did some steering excersizes with the motor boat tugging along the sail boat. Before that we went over rigging and de-rigging, and toward the end of the day we just took the motor boat out and went swimming far out in the lake.
When I got home I nearly fell asleep on the couch watching 24. I’m exhausted. I think I might go to bed in a little bit, even though it’s only 7:40. Hopefully it’s not like this every night, or I’ll become very, very tired!
I finished an image uploading engine titled ImageAssassin for a site called Mancelita. It works pretty well, and I’m proud of it considering I threw it together in only a day or two. It runs off of SQL, and runs all of its images through a PHP file, giving it a level of security…. I also got a custom ringtone loaded on to my smartphone today, despite not being able to set up a bluetooth connection to my Pocket PC. Now I’ve got a much less annoying ringtone than the one that came with the thing.

So yup, that’s pretty much what’s going on.

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It’s 1 ‘o clock… do you know where your brain is?

Anyway, graduation is over, and I’m really glad about that. Sailing starts in a few weeks, and that should be pretty fun. Hopefully I’ll have the same instructor I did last year. My friend’s over for about a week and a half, and so that’s pretty cool. We’re just kind of hanging out… in the basement… doing stuff….
But yeah, Summer’s going slow, but I hope it doesn’t speed up any time soon. I’ve got so much to do, not to mention I’m moving on to High School. I really am not looking forward to that much. Maybe just a little bit, though.
Hopefully I’ll have time between my activities this summer to just hang out, and get some computer work done. Like wiredforwar, and sserv. I’ve already started improving SServ. New theme, and I’ve removed the old user files to make way for the new system. Hopefully I’ll learn a thing or two about web design to help in future projects.

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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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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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Well, I’ve been swamped with work lately. I could hardly keep up with all of it. Most of the trouble was because I was on the sound crew for the production of our school play “The Wiz”. This caused me to have to stay at school ’till 6 PM every night for two weeks, leaving me not much time to complete my homework. But today was kind of cool, since I got a nice 60/60 on my math test, which I studied for the period before. But, it was not long before that happiness effect wore off, because right now I should be writing my portfolio piece, writing a play, and memorizing a speech. I’ll just save it ’till morning, like always.

Bye bye.

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So Math class is going pretty good this year. Although this unit I had a little bit of trouble with the quiz… it was like a brain fart during the quiz. It sucked. I forgot half the methods, but there was one thing that really intrigued me. This thing I had no idea about. I thought we were supposed to fully simplify it past the GCF. Which, now I realize, was impossible with some of the questions. So therefore I had submitted impossible answers. We were only supposed to grab the GCF, and leave it alone. If I had realized that, it would’ve been all cool. But no, I lost 3 questions to it, and then a couple more because of some stupid thing that I realized I’d done wrong about 5 minutes after I’d finished the test.

But yeah, other than that fiasco, every thing’s going pretty alright. Not much homework tonight, which is always nice…

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Alllrighty then.

Starting to post more often because I’ve got this extension for Firefox that reminds me whenever I look at it…

About that one web-design thing I talked about in my last post….
For the third trimester, I got into a class called “computer communication” or something. But we’re learning HTML (at least the other students are. I know it.) So I mention PHP to the teacher, he says he’s never tried it. I show him some examples of account systems, file storage, SQL databases, and he seemed interested. So maybe I can either teach part of the class, or talk to the teacher about PHP, and maybe get him to teach it.

Anyway, we’re going to be making websites, and competing in teams (like The Apprentice). So most of the class wants me on their team… I wonder what’s going to happen there…

WiredForWar.org is going well… The newsletter team, however small it is, has been assembled, and we’re working on the newsletter. Someone made a comic strip for it, which I think is pretty cool. Hopefully once the first one is sent out, we’ll get some more people on the Newsletter team.

SServ is dying. I think I might move on now unless somebody actually starts using it (or suggests more things to add)… It’s boring because there’s nothing my work on SServ is going for any more.

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