General conference

I should probably be listening to what they are saying about it right now but I would rather blog :D

My favorite so far is Ann M. Dibb's she smiled the whole time, even when talking about how a construction accident where people died. She must have had botox or something cause her facial expressions were hillarious. Also the construction guys only had to fall 125 feet. Thats alot less then the 10,000 a skydiver survived. Oh yea the skydiver had a parachute, but it failed. He also had a backup parachute, but that also failed. And he fell 10,000 feet and landed on a metal roof. He was fine. If you don't believe me here is an article about it http://www.heraldscotland.com/skydiver-falls-10-000-feet-and-survives-1.916715

Best thing is the skydiver didn't even break a record, an air hostest fell 33,000 feet when her aircraft exploded midflight. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/world/europe/26vulovic.html

SF bike trip and friday lap tag

So, I just went on a bike trip through San Fransisco. It was awesome. We got there early enough to see fog stuck under the bridge. The rest of the sky was clear. The coast looked like someone was drawing it and then just didn't have time to finish.

Jacob, someone from my ward, was there. He seems great, I kinda wish he was in the YM's. I guess hes joined the list with about a dozen other guys. Tom couldn't make it because of a cross-country race. Hope you did well Tom. My brother is in Ohio for a linux conference and Kevin just couldn't make it. Only Snieguolė was the only YM able to come. able to come.

On Friday I played lap tag with Anna and her friends. It was great. Lap tag is pretty much full contact duck duck goose. Everyone pairs up and sits together in a huge circle. One person doesn't have a partner. They then pick a few of the pairs, who are not sitting next to them, to go. One person in the pair is suppose to get to the empty lap, the other is suppose to stop them. One person just picked the other up on their shoulder, it was hilarious.

Camping trip... Good? Bad?

I have no idea if the camping trip I just went on was a complete failure, or not. Let me explain.

So me and my brother make it just about on time, better than usual. Tony D and Tom were already there waiting. and we waited.... and waited... and then the leaders(scott and vinnie) showed up. Yea Scotts car broke down in the middle of the Nevada desert. Thats no excuse! Sure Vinnie had a hard week studying pavement. Pfft. So with still about an hour to an hour and a half to get to the docks and the ferry. Its only a half an hour drive. We pump up the tires. We take our time and finally get on the road. I read Max, amazing book series, so the ride was great. However the hour and a half was not long enough for the half an hour car ride. We get there to watch the boat sail away to Angel Island.

So yea that was the bad part, The failure. Other than that we got the reservation switched to china camp, which had all white families and few Asians. We set up the tent and go biking. So it was steep. I don't exagerate when it was steep. Unfortunately my dads bike kinda can't change half of the gears. So I'm stuck at the highest gear the bike could go on. We hiked most of it. But the downhill was great. bumpy, walked parts of it, but amazing. I simply love going really fast downhill. I didn't like the steep cliff which had no protection... but no one died. XD Afterwards we played cards, I finished Max, you need to read it, and we kinda relaxed. We were going to play CTF but scott whimped out. :'( is that the crying face? how do I not remember?
The next day we packed up and biked some more. We road around the area, up more hills which we hiked. We went through some suburbs, which are all the same. Don't move to suburbs NOTHING happens ... ever. Then we went home.

Yay Yay, I know this may look like a block of text, but I'm not going to edit it. good night.

Shell Scripts

This is a kinda geeky post. About the new job I have and computer stuff.
I finally know what shell scripts are. I had a vague idea what they were but I just finished my first script. I was suppose to build it so that it could change an IP address all on its own. It worked. I also made one to fix the IP/internet if anything I did was wrong. It only took me three full workdays to write. Gosh computers are annoying sometimes. I just need to know what the commands are better. I know what to do, I just don't know how to do it or what the syntax is. Either way I get payed to play around with computers. Its fun.

Life part 2

So it seems it was just a bout of depression. I don't think that summer will be that busy, but who knows.

Work was fun today. I learned how to change an IP address remotely.

I will be doing bowling for summer credit.

I just got the newest maximum ride, the final warning. Its on CD so I don't think I will be able to finish it in one night. Well I'm going to get started listening to it.

Life

Life can be depressing. I prefer a more relaxed and open schedual, but thats not my summer. Weekends may be relaxing, given they aren't filled up my things my mom puts on it. I simply want the hard parts to be over. Once I'm graduated from school, and college, and the post graduate stuff, life should get better. All that would be on my schedual would be a 9-5 job. Better than school, which is 6-3 with a part-time job, which is 3-5, and then homework, which is 5-10.

Every day of my summer is already meticulously planed and ready.

Saturday, a few days ago

So I'm posting about saturday the 7th, pretend its that day.

So Aron, a friend from Ireland, came to town to visit. His dads working here and he came to. We first went to jail.... well we went to Alcatraz. Its actually amazing there and they have a good audio tour. Some of the chocolate they sell is really good :D I think it was worth it to go, but then again I didn't pay for it .... I would still recommend it.

After that we went to Benihana, which is amazing food. The person who served it wasn't that fun/funny, but the food is still amazing.

For the last part of the day I went to the Mrom(mormon prom) Personally I haven't liked dances, as not much happens during them. But for some reason this one was great. The food there was good, they had a chocolate fondu (hope I spelld that right) and marshmellows, and potstickers. My date was simply stunning. The music was good, but they had problems with the vocals.

Overall it was a great day.

Trip to Israel day 16

BTW I'm starting my blog at the most recent day and going backwards.

We decided to stay another day in Israel to speak at the Technion (names probably wrong) in Hyfa. The Technion is the MIT of Israel and I was scared to death to speak in front of the geekiest of them. We were invited to speak to the LUG, linux user group there about computer hardware. The talk useually lasted 20-30 minutes, they were used to 2 hours. We got there an hour or so late, we stoped at a really good restaurant. They said not that many people left, but there weren't many in there.

The talk went pretty well, they were nice and friendly. One of them was from Florida and was there for her PHD. There were only 9 or 10 of them there so it wasn't bad, but the photos didn't work on.

Afterwards we went back to Tel-Aviv to take the train to the airport and then began our flights. It took us only one day to fly back home, but only because we crossed multiple timezones.

Overall i really liked the trip, it was amazing to see Rome, Israel, the tomb were Christ may have been burried, and various other things. One thing I found really amazing was the vast number of cats. They were all over the place, so I took photos of all of the ones I could, I'd start posting them but i have to get back to homework, and its not working for some reason.

Debate or Programing

Both the Debate team and Programing club happen after school on Tuesdays. Gah! so annoying. The Programing club has ended early so far because almost no one is there..... but debate is fun to. I wonder if I even have time for either one of them? Ah well a late nights sleep isn't that bad. But I am having a serious delima with these two. They have two diffrent groups of friends. I may be able to move the Programing Club but Debate is fairly immovable. Anyone know which one would be better for college? I guess its dependent on what you want to do. Debate is better for anything linguistic, but Programing would be better for well programing. I could try for both.


Oh and we just got a picture of two of our cats.
Aren't they so cute?

October update

The orange cat is Enie, the three kittens are new ones we got.
Invisa-cat was seen resently. He came into my room with me my brother and my dad. We locked him in for a while... yea we are just that mean. Coco actually snuggled in my brothers arms for a while! he is absolutely pitch black and very silky. If he wasn't so skittish he would be an amazing cat.

School is good so far. Just had a CalcBC test and probably didn't do to well on that, but then again we don't have homework tonight so thats good. Latin is fun and we just moved onto Catullus. I'm just kinda floundering in the poetry because they can do litterally whatever they want. Adjectives could be two lines away from the word their modifying. But its fun. Comp class is OK and I'm starting to understand it some more.

Dish Cat

Need more be said? Yes one of the fuzzballs climbs in the dishwasher whenever he can.

Hi again

So yea, i haven't posted for a long time but i think this is a worthy event. BTW i've got 5|<007(translation:school) and its busy.

So my oldest younger brother decides to have fun. BTW we only got 5 cats now, the three kittens of mamacat have been adopted and we are fostering a new lap cat named Orange Julius, or OJ for short. Hes cute and fuzzy, however he hisses at the other kats. I do hope he gets used to them because he is a total lap cat.
But anyways my oldest younger brother takes a fuzzball, one of the fuzzy kittens, the mamacat ones were the shorthaired, and pretends to throw him at me. However it is time for my two youngest siblings to have story time. So we get them hidden under the covers but still able to see. Then he throws the kitten at my siblings. But this that isn't the funniest part. After the cat is now theroughly scared he bolts for the litter and starts to go. Then I must admit I wasn't watch but the cat gave a nice jucy fart..... did you know a cat could fart? it was so out of place for a cute little cat who likes to eat human flesh.

Shoot.... 8

Yea. So we got back the three enies. But it turns out they have a mum, who isn't dead or adopted. So now we got eight cats. 6 kittens and two moms. I hope none of them die.

shoot, wonder how its going to work

The three smaller cats, The J's not the enie's who should be adopted soon, are going to get fixed..... yea.... That'll make it fun with our eight freeckin kittens.

History

So I have an amazing History teacher. Were learning about global history right now and studying the diffrent types of government. For a lesson he told us to write down the fundemental powers of the government. He then proceded to tell us to make them into governmental power balls, he told us to make paper balls. Then he told us a confederacy is where all the states, us, have the power and if the central government wants somthing the state can simply throw their power at the central government. He closed his eyes and told us to go ahead.
Afterwards he continued the lesson with union governments, where all the power is invested in the central government. That is not nessecarily a dictatorship, it still works as a democracy. However he then proceded to throw the paper balls back at us.
Finally he told us about Federalists, which is when both the states and central gov't have power. We got into a paper ball fight.

How many teachers tell you to throw stuff at them, He's freaking awesome.

Only 4 now

So today my father went and gave back three of the kittens. (hey you foster 7 cats, 6 kittens and one mother, when the mother only has 3 children and is a bit mean to the other three. You have to dump the litter!) Unfortunately, from some perspective, it was the three fuzzballs. We still have the mother and her three kits. It means less litter but also less cute kittys. At least we can help the mother get used to humans more. She is very shy/nervous. I believe she was abused, at least I have heard she was. We will only keep her for 1-2 more weeks but we useually cure cats. One set of cats we fostered were already being adopted before we even left the store. I guess we have a 'magic touch'. :)

Don't worry picture will come of all seven. I just need to use the computer that has them. I'll get around to it.

New Kitteh

So, my siblings all desired to get some new pets after our old cat died :( So we did. One set of little orange kittens we found were named: Enie Meanie, Miney, mo, and tiger. Meanie and tiger were already adopted so we only got 3 identical bouncy kittens. So we were planning on only having them for a day, because we said we'd foster a mother and her three kittens for a while.... we couldn't give up enie miney and mo.
The mother is very thin, she was probably abused. Two of the kittens are orange, just like the other three, and the other is white. The kittens get together well, heck one of the Enie's might have a crush on one of the others. However the mother cat is very territorial, she has hissed at the others.
So now we have 7 kittens running around our feet, every so often we switch which set of cats are locked in a room, so they don't fight, and I've already had to dump the litters multiple times. Cuddlebug used to never go poo, for a whole month, probably did it outside.

Its insanity, but i love it. My nose has been running alot lately so I may have allergies but ah well, their to cute. Some of the kittens (enie's i think) try to bite my hand and it simply tickles, their so fuzzy and cuddly. My oldest brother has gotten three of them in his arms at once, and got them snuggled with him while he was watching a movie.
We watched "I am Legend" Its a scary zombie movie with a moral. I liked it. But the zombies are very.... intricate, a bit to lifelike. Ignoreing the hiddeous zombies it is a good movie. Hunting dear in a race car, talking to dummys, and huge explosions. Also a bit of scientific reasearch.

My Cat

As I may have already said I have a big fat black cat. His favorite hobbies are sitting on your stuff, chasing neighborhood animals, such as other cats or dogs, eating, and sleeping. Actually his hobbies are about all he does, heck he even stopped pooing after we decided to let him outside. Cuddlebug, his name, is very cuddly, as his name states. He would sit on your tummy and paw it, after a while he would curl up and take a nap. When we tried to foster some other cats with him .... he isn't that friendly, but he likes us!

I love that cat. Today, however, our neighbor found him in his driveway, and he wasn't moving. Although he is cuddly and friendly, to people, he ran from strangers, heck he ran from us a few times when he wanted to stay out longer. It is so sad but hes dead. He died happy though, laying on the ground was one of his favorite things. I hope to get some new cats soon but he is a unique cat, so fun and cute. I'll miss him.... :(

First Day

Today was the first day of school. I have had all the teachers before except for one of them, I even have my freshmen math teacher twice. I'm taking Calc BC, Latin 5/6, english, history, and programing. I'm also taking environmental science AP but want to take AP physics. I've requested 3 times to get changed, one was even before summer even started.
It wasn't to bad..... I've gotten homework in all but two classes, only because one of them forgot to give us homework. It looks like a rough year but I think..... possibly hope?.... I'll survive, somehow.
Seminary hasn't started yet and I'm not sure when it will. Tuesday? Wednesday?
Other than that I really desire to have a great year, and get some good grades, presuming I am able to do the work, which I also hope I can.

Work

This is something I wrote and saved as a draft. I've finally found it.

For the past two weeks I've been working on my summer job. I work at a museum nearby and I worked on a Lego Mindstorms camp. Hey I get to play with legos and get paid, whats not to like? The kids are in or about to start middle school so they are well behaved. They loved the class. We build animals and lego catapults. They raced cars and had a sumo wrestling match. At first it was only cars and learning how to program, then they started to get into complicated programs.

Eagle Day Four

Yes it is day four although I haven't posted anything about it yet.

For my Eagle project I am telling people what to do.... so they can upgrade a computer lab. The first day I had my friends come and we cleaned it up, the cords were such a mess that the school was threatened by the fire department. The people were awesome that day.
Day two I got a fellow scout troop to help out, they were fairly rowdy and stayed in the gym. Although my scout leader came and helped. We cannibalized a lot of systems that day but thats about it.
Day Three: A church friend came to help out. We finished upgrading all the systems and installing the new OS (linux rules). I think we did the most this day, but we did stay latter than usual.
Day Four: We labeled the network cables, updated the systems, and received 14 new computers from a local non-profit. we got them installed and had the whole lab updated.

we should be able to finish it in one more day. Almost there!

I finished warriors: new prophecy and it was good. I'm glad that squirrelflight and Brambleclaw were able to get together, the fourth book was so depressing I almost stopped. It did end a bit abruptly, it probably could have gone on easily. I'm just glad theres another series. I wonder, did starclan know of Brambleclaws nightly visits or not? Did they make Brambleclaw the deputy because it wasn't long before he was gone to far? Was it just luck? Also the prophecy Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.... seemed a bit exagerated. Sure it was nearly tragic but it wasn't quite as epic as the lake will run red. Although that part could refer to the bagers. Either way its a great book series. The authors are truely talented.