Well I'm at Chandler's house as you might have noticed if you read Disiance's blog.
We're watching Pirates of the Carribean now. It's a great movie. Last night we made up a sound pack to replace the standard windows sounds. It makes using the computer 2x funner!
Noramally we'd charge 25 cents a download but for special for my readers you can get it free right here
Well, not much else to write about.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
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"Light sabers don't kill people. Jedi Knights kill people."
~
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
This is awsome!
Woohoo!
This is way fun!
check this out!
I made it at http://disiance.com/Projects/webfridge/webfridge.php another wacky fun thingy from Disiance.
:)
---Update---
Well, this week I've been working with my dad putting up drywall, so that's been a good thing to do to hopefully get a paycheck. I got paid a little money for helping the guy my dad is actually working for, lol so I went shopping (no I really didn't do that just becuase I got some money, I just happened to see a few things I needed) So I was at Wal-mart because benjamin wanted to buy some extra speakers and I happened to find all these sweet things I wanted to buy. I had no idea Wal-Mart had so many sweet things in their aisle where they keep computer peripherials . So I narrowed it down to being less than 20$ (just a little though) and found my self with a new mouse for my laptop (very handy indeed) and a sweet screen cleaning squeegee.
Well, haven't been doing much more, just tons of drywall. I haven't had time to do anything else on my grass armchair. I'm going to put up some pictures if Chandler ever remembers to bring our camera. You can go bug him at his site and help him remember if you want :)
Still have to get my graduation party invitations sent out and I'm praying I'll find time to finish my music test.
Well, till next time
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time."
~
This is way fun!
check this out!
I made it at http://disiance.com/Projects/webfridge/webfridge.php another wacky fun thingy from Disiance.
:)
---Update---
Well, this week I've been working with my dad putting up drywall, so that's been a good thing to do to hopefully get a paycheck. I got paid a little money for helping the guy my dad is actually working for, lol so I went shopping (no I really didn't do that just becuase I got some money, I just happened to see a few things I needed) So I was at Wal-mart because benjamin wanted to buy some extra speakers and I happened to find all these sweet things I wanted to buy. I had no idea Wal-Mart had so many sweet things in their aisle where they keep computer peripherials . So I narrowed it down to being less than 20$ (just a little though) and found my self with a new mouse for my laptop (very handy indeed) and a sweet screen cleaning squeegee.
Well, haven't been doing much more, just tons of drywall. I haven't had time to do anything else on my grass armchair. I'm going to put up some pictures if Chandler ever remembers to bring our camera. You can go bug him at his site and help him remember if you want :)
Still have to get my graduation party invitations sent out and I'm praying I'll find time to finish my music test.
Well, till next time
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time."
~
Saturday, April 29, 2006
The Sleeping Beauty Deception
Well, the play was really really cool. In fact, at least twice as good as I thought it would be. The last scene was probably the most amazing scene in a staged play I've ever seen. It was a massive battle scene between people, angels, and demons. It was amazing! There was one scene in the middle that was dragging a little, just seemed a little long. Other than that, and the fact that it started a little late it was really a great thing to watch. I'm glad we went. Well that's about all I have to post about.
Oh! The grass armchair, Me and Benjamin spent about an hour figuring out exactly how we wanted it and cutting the frame peices before we had to go. We got most of the major ones done, so now we just have to get the little ones done, buy the seeds and fit it together.
I hope I can work on it tomorrow. We'll see though, it sounds like it's gonna be busy tomorrow. Sarah is supposed to have a choir event. I don't know if we'll have to go or what.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
~
Oh! The grass armchair, Me and Benjamin spent about an hour figuring out exactly how we wanted it and cutting the frame peices before we had to go. We got most of the major ones done, so now we just have to get the little ones done, buy the seeds and fit it together.
I hope I can work on it tomorrow. We'll see though, it sounds like it's gonna be busy tomorrow. Sarah is supposed to have a choir event. I don't know if we'll have to go or what.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
~
Cell phone
A few of you have probably been wondering why you IM me and then I don't respond but I'm still online for a really long time. Well, I haven't gotten cable internet yet (unfortunately). What I have done is figured out how to make AIM send me text messages when I'm not on my computer. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I finally got a cell phone lately. So the long and short of it all is that when it says that I'm "mobile" it means I'm not actually on my computer but my cell phone is. If you feel like dropping me a message, please go ahead and feel free to do so, it's still free for me to recieve messages. Just don't get all dissapointed that I don't answer, that's what actually costs me. If I don't, its either becuase I don't have anything that's worth enough for me to say, or my cell phone's down in my room on my shelf.
Well, tonight I'm going to see our "school play" (only say that it's, quote, a school play becuase it's from our homeschool group. It's still gonna be great, but it's not technically a "school play") anyway, it's called the cinderella deception. Or something like that. It sounds like it's gonna be really really good, can't wait. Oh and I've decided that until we leave I'm going to occupy myself with a personal project. I've decided to make this in our backyard. That should keep me well occupied for a while. Since I'm finished with speech, debate, and music theory I'll hopefully have the time to finish it. I'm really looking forward to having a comfertable place to sit since I really enjoy taking my homework outside and working, or just plopping down with my laptop and enjoying the summer like weather. Anyway I'll try to post my progress and pictures if I get it working right. Benjamin will be my associate in this endeavor *grin*
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Everything can be filed under 'miscellaneous.'"
~
Well, tonight I'm going to see our "school play" (only say that it's, quote, a school play becuase it's from our homeschool group. It's still gonna be great, but it's not technically a "school play") anyway, it's called the cinderella deception. Or something like that. It sounds like it's gonna be really really good, can't wait. Oh and I've decided that until we leave I'm going to occupy myself with a personal project. I've decided to make this in our backyard. That should keep me well occupied for a while. Since I'm finished with speech, debate, and music theory I'll hopefully have the time to finish it. I'm really looking forward to having a comfertable place to sit since I really enjoy taking my homework outside and working, or just plopping down with my laptop and enjoying the summer like weather. Anyway I'll try to post my progress and pictures if I get it working right. Benjamin will be my associate in this endeavor *grin*
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Everything can be filed under 'miscellaneous.'"
~
Friday, April 21, 2006
Carl is my hero.
Lego Carl
This is way funny, thanks for the great posting material Chandler ! :)
Well, today we finally got our debate ballots! Our debate teacher has kind of been slacking a bit. Of course she's pretty busy, but it was kind of dissapointing to have to wait so long. Anyway, nothing much suprising. We only won one of our rounds. Interestingly enough the one we did win was against this guy that had come to our youth group activity a couple weeks before. That was the most fun debate because it was nice and slow, heh just the way we need it. Anyway, that was nice to FINALLY see how we did. Then today,
I gave a persuasive speech today. That was pretty fun. The speech was supposed to be 7-10 minutes. Well, I figured since this is the last speech I'll ever give for this class, and since my real teacher wasn't even there (subsitute) that I would go over time. I gave a 14 minute speech, which was quite amazing since I timed it before, reading all but the conclusion which was pretty short. I got 13 minutes when I timed it that time, afterwards I cut out a portion that was larger than the conclusion I didn't read and figured it'd be something like 11-12 minutes. Boy was I suprised when they said my time was 14 minutes. Anyway, that was really fun. I had fun doing that. What really made it interesting was the fact that actually I forgot my speech altogether. I had printed two copies out and stuck them in a folder last night and then forgot the folder today. (duh! somehow I knew this was going to happen) So I asked if I could use my laptop instead since I had the speech there on my laptop *Grin*. So I took a stack of chairs since the flimsy music stand wouldn't have held my laptop and proceeded to give my speech with the laptop (with the teacher's permission of course *grin* ).
That was great fun. I wrote the speech in 4 or 5 days lol, even though I had had two weeks to do it I didn't start it till this week. I was pretty amazed at how good it was for how late I started, but I was working on in almost non-stop throughout those days (at least when I wasn't doing something else I had to do) so it really isn't all that amazing, but good.
So, all in all this week was good.
Sorry about the really long (probably boring post). But that's what's been going on in this kid's life.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Some ministers would make good martyrs; they are so dry they would burn well."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
~
This is way funny, thanks for the great posting material Chandler ! :)
Well, today we finally got our debate ballots! Our debate teacher has kind of been slacking a bit. Of course she's pretty busy, but it was kind of dissapointing to have to wait so long. Anyway, nothing much suprising. We only won one of our rounds. Interestingly enough the one we did win was against this guy that had come to our youth group activity a couple weeks before. That was the most fun debate because it was nice and slow, heh just the way we need it. Anyway, that was nice to FINALLY see how we did. Then today,
I gave a persuasive speech today. That was pretty fun. The speech was supposed to be 7-10 minutes. Well, I figured since this is the last speech I'll ever give for this class, and since my real teacher wasn't even there (subsitute) that I would go over time. I gave a 14 minute speech, which was quite amazing since I timed it before, reading all but the conclusion which was pretty short. I got 13 minutes when I timed it that time, afterwards I cut out a portion that was larger than the conclusion I didn't read and figured it'd be something like 11-12 minutes. Boy was I suprised when they said my time was 14 minutes. Anyway, that was really fun. I had fun doing that. What really made it interesting was the fact that actually I forgot my speech altogether. I had printed two copies out and stuck them in a folder last night and then forgot the folder today. (duh! somehow I knew this was going to happen) So I asked if I could use my laptop instead since I had the speech there on my laptop *Grin*. So I took a stack of chairs since the flimsy music stand wouldn't have held my laptop and proceeded to give my speech with the laptop (with the teacher's permission of course *grin* ).
That was great fun. I wrote the speech in 4 or 5 days lol, even though I had had two weeks to do it I didn't start it till this week. I was pretty amazed at how good it was for how late I started, but I was working on in almost non-stop throughout those days (at least when I wasn't doing something else I had to do) so it really isn't all that amazing, but good.
So, all in all this week was good.
Sorry about the really long (probably boring post). But that's what's been going on in this kid's life.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Some ministers would make good martyrs; they are so dry they would burn well."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
~
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Last night, today, the rest
Well, last night was certainly interesting. First off we went to the good friday service at church, and then came home. We arrived at about 10:oopm and Benjamin and I spontaniously decided to go set up a tent and sleep in the back yard. I checked the weather and it promised to be as good a morning as that night seemed. So we slapped together the tent and tossed in some stuff and went to bed. Not to sleep however. We stayed up a while. Then I found a neighbor's internet connection and played Call of duty till my battery ran out. I got an amazing score of 32 kills and 20 or so deaths which is probably one of my best scores ever, and that was on my touchpad. That was pretty fun. Then we went to sleep. The night went pretty well, however at about 6:oo the weather changed. It began to get very windy. At this point I would like to mention we did not put any stakes in, just us and our stuff to keep the tent down. At about 6:30 contrary to the weather report it began to rain lightly. We had decided upon setting the tent up that we wouldn't use the rain tarp. So as it began to get harder and harder, we got up and threw all our stuff in the house and dropped the tent in a flurry of action, all in pajamas I might add. So that was really kind of sad. That's pretty much all the interesting stuff that happened, but I also went to choir practice at 9:oo, which was rather annoying since I hadn't slept well due to the wind. Anyway,
now I'm just about to have lunch.
Wednesday through yesterday I spent working on a long superhero and villian episode.
I think I'm going to quit writing those. I look at how much work it takes to do one episode and I don't see that it's worth it. Anyway, I put that episode up, and was personally very satisfied with it. I checked today and found some very discouraging comments however. So anyway, that's the long and short of what's been going on of late around me. Probably alot more of the short than the long, but that's all folks. Tune in next time!
Till next post.
Your faithful but sometimes exasperated,
Yokanchi
~
"On a scale of 1 to 10, 4 is about 7."
~
I have alot of quotes to put up, so you get a double dose today.
~
"Cheer up. Life isn't everything."
- Mike Nichols
~
now I'm just about to have lunch.
Wednesday through yesterday I spent working on a long superhero and villian episode.
I think I'm going to quit writing those. I look at how much work it takes to do one episode and I don't see that it's worth it. Anyway, I put that episode up, and was personally very satisfied with it. I checked today and found some very discouraging comments however. So anyway, that's the long and short of what's been going on of late around me. Probably alot more of the short than the long, but that's all folks. Tune in next time!
Till next post.
Your faithful but sometimes exasperated,
Yokanchi
~
"On a scale of 1 to 10, 4 is about 7."
~
I have alot of quotes to put up, so you get a double dose today.
~
"Cheer up. Life isn't everything."
- Mike Nichols
~
Saturday, April 08, 2006
At Chandler's house again.
Yep, Benjamin and I are both at Chandler's house having fun and late late nights with lots of junk food. Anyway, I just now am getting caught up and I have a little tidbit gathered from our last sleepover at our house, which I have for you to listen to you now.
Chandler's Llama
That is evidence of our crazyness.
Here's another great sound byte I got;
aHa!
I have set it as the sound effect used when an "uh-oh window" pops up in windows *grin* it's funny.
Anyway.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Never run out of altitude, air speed, & ideas at one time."
~
Chandler's Llama
That is evidence of our crazyness.
Here's another great sound byte I got;
aHa!
I have set it as the sound effect used when an "uh-oh window" pops up in windows *grin* it's funny.
Anyway.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Never run out of altitude, air speed, & ideas at one time."
~
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Well, here's the update I should've written a while ago
Yerp, here it is. The information.
Well, the debate speech tournament went really well. That is not to say we placed anywhere in anything, which we didn't, but aside from that it was very very fun. Mostly just all the meeting new people, and getting really really good at debate. Also I gave my Humorous Interpretive speech, that was another really fun thing to do. It was really fun just to give it. I think I would have advanced, except that my speech only took up half the alotted time.
The schedule. The first day we started the whole thing out with a bang and did four debates. It was rather interesting becuase we debated our own case 3 times out of the four. The reason being, well, to explain it more fully, we were affirmative twice (which means we gave our case twice), and we were negative twice (which means we debated against another team's case). It ended up being that we did have an equal amount of debates on aff. and neg. but one of the times we were negative we ended up debating against, what was essentially our own case. So that was actually kind of fun. Interestingly enough the one time we weren't debating our own case, that was the time we did the absolute worst on a debate. But, as an excuse we were debating the first place winners that time. Benjamin and I didn't even understand it at all till their second speech, and we used all of our whole five minutes of prep time immediately after their first speech. So that went really bad. One really funny thing that happened (and did happen during this particular debate) was that I went up to present a speech and I was prepared to read a peice of evidence that said something to the effect of; sometimes when there are unfortunate outcomes it is the patients fault because of other factors like obesity and smoking. I pulled out the evidence and was all ready to read it, when I momentarily looked up and realized that the judge for this round was probably the obese judge (it wasn't a guy either) out of every other judge in the building at the time. Suddenly I decided I had pulled out the wrong peice of evidence and stuttered onto my next point. Now that I think about it I think that the evidence I was going to read might not even have been relevant, so perhaps it was for the better, I hadn't quite figured out the affirmative's case at that point either (no wonder they won). Anyway, the whole thing altogether was great. The second day we debated twice and so that was great fun. Also gave my speech again that day. Then the third day was probably the most fun, because I got to go and watch whatever I wanted, already being eliminated the day before from any competition. So I watched a great many funny and captivating speeches. The most interesting thing happened that day. Actually, I think the most interesting thing that has ever happened in a debate (short of someone actually dying, which has never actually happened mind you). During the Octi-Finals, halfway through the power decided to go out. Just to explain for clarity again, the Octi-finals are right before the semi-finals and then the finals are after that. So what they decided to do was switch to a room with windows. There was about 5 minutes of barely useful daylight that hardly made it into the room. So the five judges and the four competitors finished the round using flashlights and cell phones to light the paper. That was pretty cool. Some of them can now say; "I have debated in the dark". Hehe, anyway, tomorrow we're going to actually find out how many rounds we actually won, which I don't anticipate to be any great number but I shall update you guys as soon as possible on this info. Also as for what I'm doing this weekend;
Tomorrow night after classes, we're going to have a Mystery Dinner hosted by our youth group. This is a dinner where the patrons have no idea what they're ordering. Then after that Benjamin and I are going to Chandler's house. On Saturday we are all going to a scottish festival with Chandler's brother in law. Chandler talked me into wearing a skirt*cough* I mean kilt to it. So that'll be interesting. I'll finally be able to say that I wore a kilt. Anyway, that'll be some fun.
Sorry for the somewhat abbreviated and possibly typo ridden post, but I've had a ton to write about and I really am supposed to be making my lunch for tomorrow and hitting the sack.
So.....
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"How do they get the 'Do not walk on grass' signs way out in the middle of the lawn?"
~
Well, the debate speech tournament went really well. That is not to say we placed anywhere in anything, which we didn't, but aside from that it was very very fun. Mostly just all the meeting new people, and getting really really good at debate. Also I gave my Humorous Interpretive speech, that was another really fun thing to do. It was really fun just to give it. I think I would have advanced, except that my speech only took up half the alotted time.
The schedule. The first day we started the whole thing out with a bang and did four debates. It was rather interesting becuase we debated our own case 3 times out of the four. The reason being, well, to explain it more fully, we were affirmative twice (which means we gave our case twice), and we were negative twice (which means we debated against another team's case). It ended up being that we did have an equal amount of debates on aff. and neg. but one of the times we were negative we ended up debating against, what was essentially our own case. So that was actually kind of fun. Interestingly enough the one time we weren't debating our own case, that was the time we did the absolute worst on a debate. But, as an excuse we were debating the first place winners that time. Benjamin and I didn't even understand it at all till their second speech, and we used all of our whole five minutes of prep time immediately after their first speech. So that went really bad. One really funny thing that happened (and did happen during this particular debate) was that I went up to present a speech and I was prepared to read a peice of evidence that said something to the effect of; sometimes when there are unfortunate outcomes it is the patients fault because of other factors like obesity and smoking. I pulled out the evidence and was all ready to read it, when I momentarily looked up and realized that the judge for this round was probably the obese judge (it wasn't a guy either) out of every other judge in the building at the time. Suddenly I decided I had pulled out the wrong peice of evidence and stuttered onto my next point. Now that I think about it I think that the evidence I was going to read might not even have been relevant, so perhaps it was for the better, I hadn't quite figured out the affirmative's case at that point either (no wonder they won). Anyway, the whole thing altogether was great. The second day we debated twice and so that was great fun. Also gave my speech again that day. Then the third day was probably the most fun, because I got to go and watch whatever I wanted, already being eliminated the day before from any competition. So I watched a great many funny and captivating speeches. The most interesting thing happened that day. Actually, I think the most interesting thing that has ever happened in a debate (short of someone actually dying, which has never actually happened mind you). During the Octi-Finals, halfway through the power decided to go out. Just to explain for clarity again, the Octi-finals are right before the semi-finals and then the finals are after that. So what they decided to do was switch to a room with windows. There was about 5 minutes of barely useful daylight that hardly made it into the room. So the five judges and the four competitors finished the round using flashlights and cell phones to light the paper. That was pretty cool. Some of them can now say; "I have debated in the dark". Hehe, anyway, tomorrow we're going to actually find out how many rounds we actually won, which I don't anticipate to be any great number but I shall update you guys as soon as possible on this info. Also as for what I'm doing this weekend;
Tomorrow night after classes, we're going to have a Mystery Dinner hosted by our youth group. This is a dinner where the patrons have no idea what they're ordering. Then after that Benjamin and I are going to Chandler's house. On Saturday we are all going to a scottish festival with Chandler's brother in law. Chandler talked me into wearing a skirt*cough* I mean kilt to it. So that'll be interesting. I'll finally be able to say that I wore a kilt. Anyway, that'll be some fun.
Sorry for the somewhat abbreviated and possibly typo ridden post, but I've had a ton to write about and I really am supposed to be making my lunch for tomorrow and hitting the sack.
So.....
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"How do they get the 'Do not walk on grass' signs way out in the middle of the lawn?"
~
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Whew! what a week
Well the tournament for debate/speech (both of which I'm participating in). So I'm feeling really really really anxious about that.
This last thursday I drove an hour and a half up to go to debate practice, after a few hours of that I had to leave it early to go teach piano and then go to awana. Immediately afterwards (the next day actually) we had friday classes and debated that day too. Well sort of, we didn't actually get very much debating done. Then we came home and Chandler came over and stayed till saturday and then went skiing with us for benjamin's birthday on Saturday. And this is where I got my second degree sunburn on my face for not wearing sunscreen. It was so warm I didn't have anything on my face and it was hardly cloudy too so that's how it happened I guess.
It didn't really hurt so much till today and a little yesterday. But mostly today it's been really painful. Most of the burn is around my mouth and nose area so when I eat it hurts to move my mouth. So after that Chandler stayed at my house again till Monday.
Monday KC and Traci came and picked us up and we went shopping and watched a movie at our house. That was really fun. I found some really sweet headphones and Chandler got an expansion to Carcasonne. Then today I went to the Museum with Traci and KC. It was great being able to hang out with them, but it was pretty annoying becuase by now, my sunburn is really dry and peeling and it hurt most the time, especially when I talk or try to eat. So it was fun otherwise. When I got home I was so drained (I think because of my burns, I slept for about an hour and a half. And now here I am writing this post. That's a nice little short overview of my crazy week
And it's only going to get crazier, I have the three day tournament starting on thursday and I'm going to be debating with Benjamin and entering a Humorous Interpretive speech. So pray all you possibly can for me (I'll need it).
I think after this I'll just lie low for a week and try to get some rest. I'll be lying low and trying to avoid any more teachers who are going to try and bamboozle me into getting into something like this again.
*sigh*
Yep well, that's about all for this post. I really should be preparing for thursday, and here I sit writing this post.
[Edit]
Well, I actually got a whole bunch of stuff done for debate since I wrote this post a couple hours ago lol.
by the way, thanks for the encouragement KC lol, it helped alot!
Anyway, the reason for this edit is, I forgot to say that anyone who wants to hear the song I wrote or see the my speech just drop me an e-mail or comment (though an e-mail will be faster). And I'll send you a link to download either or both.
[/Edit]
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"If you are good, you will be assigned all the work - if you are really good, you will get out of it."
~
This last thursday I drove an hour and a half up to go to debate practice, after a few hours of that I had to leave it early to go teach piano and then go to awana. Immediately afterwards (the next day actually) we had friday classes and debated that day too. Well sort of, we didn't actually get very much debating done. Then we came home and Chandler came over and stayed till saturday and then went skiing with us for benjamin's birthday on Saturday. And this is where I got my second degree sunburn on my face for not wearing sunscreen. It was so warm I didn't have anything on my face and it was hardly cloudy too so that's how it happened I guess.
It didn't really hurt so much till today and a little yesterday. But mostly today it's been really painful. Most of the burn is around my mouth and nose area so when I eat it hurts to move my mouth. So after that Chandler stayed at my house again till Monday.
Monday KC and Traci came and picked us up and we went shopping and watched a movie at our house. That was really fun. I found some really sweet headphones and Chandler got an expansion to Carcasonne. Then today I went to the Museum with Traci and KC. It was great being able to hang out with them, but it was pretty annoying becuase by now, my sunburn is really dry and peeling and it hurt most the time, especially when I talk or try to eat. So it was fun otherwise. When I got home I was so drained (I think because of my burns, I slept for about an hour and a half. And now here I am writing this post. That's a nice little short overview of my crazy week
And it's only going to get crazier, I have the three day tournament starting on thursday and I'm going to be debating with Benjamin and entering a Humorous Interpretive speech. So pray all you possibly can for me (I'll need it).
I think after this I'll just lie low for a week and try to get some rest. I'll be lying low and trying to avoid any more teachers who are going to try and bamboozle me into getting into something like this again.
*sigh*
Yep well, that's about all for this post. I really should be preparing for thursday, and here I sit writing this post.
[Edit]
Well, I actually got a whole bunch of stuff done for debate since I wrote this post a couple hours ago lol.
by the way, thanks for the encouragement KC lol, it helped alot!
Anyway, the reason for this edit is, I forgot to say that anyone who wants to hear the song I wrote or see the my speech just drop me an e-mail or comment (though an e-mail will be faster). And I'll send you a link to download either or both.
[/Edit]
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"If you are good, you will be assigned all the work - if you are really good, you will get out of it."
~
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
[Cybersalt Digest] March 21 and repost
Well I found that post that I was complaining about losing a post or two ago and so I'm going to post it. The little note at the end isn't accurate at the end but I left it in there anyway. I'm also posting a joke I got in the Cybersalt Digest today so that you aren't totally bored with today's post lol.
Here ya go;
"Things to do When Your ISP Goes Down"
1. Dial 911 immediately.
2. Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years.
3. You mean there's something else to do?
4. Threaten your ISP with an impeachment vote.
5. Work.
6. Re-introduce yourself to your immediate family.
7. Get that kidney transplant you've been putting off.
8. Sleep (and dream about surfing the Internet)!
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Repost
* * *
Two things to post about;
AlphaGrip AG-5 handheld keyboard and mouse : Page 1
Well that's the most interesting keyboard I've ever seen. I still can't figure out how you type something. I can't figure out where the rest of the letter keys are.
and then I found this story.
Attacks target Internet traffic cops
Maybe that explains why blogger isn't quite working all the way. lol, I don't know.
Sounds pretty wild though.
* * *
Recital - 2 days
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Visa is everywhere you want to be except out of debt."
~
PS I don't know what in the world the title says on this post or if it's even readable. Like I said blogger.com isn't quite working right. I also tried to post a comment replying to Chandler's comment on the last post, but I don't think it worked.
Here ya go;
"Things to do When Your ISP Goes Down"
1. Dial 911 immediately.
2. Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years.
3. You mean there's something else to do?
4. Threaten your ISP with an impeachment vote.
5. Work.
6. Re-introduce yourself to your immediate family.
7. Get that kidney transplant you've been putting off.
8. Sleep (and dream about surfing the Internet)!
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Repost
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Two things to post about;
AlphaGrip AG-5 handheld keyboard and mouse : Page 1
Well that's the most interesting keyboard I've ever seen. I still can't figure out how you type something. I can't figure out where the rest of the letter keys are.
and then I found this story.
Attacks target Internet traffic cops
Maybe that explains why blogger isn't quite working all the way. lol, I don't know.
Sounds pretty wild though.
* * *
Recital - 2 days
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Visa is everywhere you want to be except out of debt."
~
PS I don't know what in the world the title says on this post or if it's even readable. Like I said blogger.com isn't quite working right. I also tried to post a comment replying to Chandler's comment on the last post, but I don't think it worked.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Sweet!
Ok, so I finally spent my life's savings on a laptop and now here I sit at our local library making use of their highspeed (not so highspeed really) wireless internet access. I ended up finally getting a Dell inspiron b130 with 1 gig of RAM. A pretty good deal too. As for the recital, thanks for any prayers about that. It went really pretty well. My students were spread all throughout the three recitals so I ended up staying there from 11:15 till 4. Personally it was pretty boring, because of the fact that you have to listen to so many boring songs to hear any good ones. I ended up hearing Fur Elise four times, all not done very well (they weren't really the worst and I wouldn't expect any more from the age they came from, but I could have played it better without practice for the most part. I played Jardins siuos le pluie (dunno about that spelling) which means gardens in the rain in french. It was written by Claude Debussy. Well, as for the upcoming weeks pray that we can get all practiced up for debate and speech because me and Benjamin have a debate/speech regional tournament coming up the last two days of this month and the first of next month. So, we'll be going crazy doing debate till then. Oh and I almost forgot to mention. Get your jealous feelings working because we're going skiing this weekend! WOOHOO!
That's all for now
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
~
That's all for now
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
~
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
An interesting article for Y'all.
---
Update
Well, this week I have a piano recital this weekend. Actually I get to go to three recitals, since I have students in all three recitals. There's one student I'm really worried that he might not be very good. He's taken alot of work, but it doesn't seem like he's practicing or something, although I've gotten assurances that he is. Anyway, pray that he gets his act together for this Saturday, which is when we have the recital.
Me and Benjamin finally got a microphone this Sunday. So, I downloaded a really awsome free recording program called Audacity. By the way thanks Jim for recommending it to me it's working nicely.
So I recorded a somewhat good copy of a song I wrote and was planning on posting a copy of it on my blog, unfortunatly I looked at the size of the file (17mb!!)
and found that it's rather large. Too large in fact. So I'll have to figure out another way to share it.
Well that's all I really have to post about for now.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen
~
An interesting article for Y'all.
---
Update
Well, this week I have a piano recital this weekend. Actually I get to go to three recitals, since I have students in all three recitals. There's one student I'm really worried that he might not be very good. He's taken alot of work, but it doesn't seem like he's practicing or something, although I've gotten assurances that he is. Anyway, pray that he gets his act together for this Saturday, which is when we have the recital.
Me and Benjamin finally got a microphone this Sunday. So, I downloaded a really awsome free recording program called Audacity. By the way thanks Jim for recommending it to me it's working nicely.
So I recorded a somewhat good copy of a song I wrote and was planning on posting a copy of it on my blog, unfortunatly I looked at the size of the file (17mb!!)
and found that it's rather large. Too large in fact. So I'll have to figure out another way to share it.
Well that's all I really have to post about for now.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen
~
Friday, March 03, 2006
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Wow that lady is sooo crazy.
Can you say "correctional institution" (which is incidentally what the jail is called...)
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Ok." -Jim Hansen-
~
Wow that lady is sooo crazy.
Can you say "correctional institution" (which is incidentally what the jail is called...)
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Ok." -Jim Hansen-
~
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Well, here's another very odd article for your ever growing knowlege of unuseful facts. Why is your knowledge of unuseful facts growing you ask? Because you are reading my blog and the articles I refer you to of course!
enjoy;
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Knowledge is free, but you have to bring your own container."
~
enjoy;
Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Knowledge is free, but you have to bring your own container."
~
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Eureka!
Me and one of my friends used to joke with each other about wondering what "made girls tick". (besides shoes and chocolate)
So anyway, tonight me and benjamin and philip were pretty wacky because we all had hot chocolate. So then I made a great discovery. I have figured out how philip's brain works!! Basically the whole thing is made up of two virtual snakes which wander around a rather large empty basin. When they run into each other something comes out of his mouth! Even still greater, I figured out how Benjamin's works!
... His has three snakes.
Anyway, how Sarah's mind works is still a mystery. I'll post when I find more.
Till next time.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
~
So anyway, tonight me and benjamin and philip were pretty wacky because we all had hot chocolate. So then I made a great discovery. I have figured out how philip's brain works!! Basically the whole thing is made up of two virtual snakes which wander around a rather large empty basin. When they run into each other something comes out of his mouth! Even still greater, I figured out how Benjamin's works!
... His has three snakes.
Anyway, how Sarah's mind works is still a mystery. I'll post when I find more.
Till next time.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
~
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
[Cybersalt Digest] February 28
A woman had a beautiful black cat with white feet, named Socks. Socks spent his days outside and came indoors only at night. One cool October evening, he disappeared.
She searched for him high and low, for several days, but all in vain. The following spring, however, Socks reappeared, looking healthy and clean. She figured he'd just been out sowing his wild oats, and let it go at that.
Everything was back to normal until that autumn, when Socks once again disappeared. The next spring, just as the prior year, he returned. When it happened for the third year in a row, she became very perplexed, and decided to investigate. She started by asking her neighbors to see what, if any, information they might have.
She was down to the last house on the block, the home of an older couple. If they didn't have the answer, she wasn't sure where she would turn. So she went up and knocked on the door. The lady of the house answered, and she asked her, "By any chance, have you ever seen a black cat with 4 white feet around here?"
"A black cat?" the woman said. "With 4 white feet? Oh my, yes! He's the sweetest thing. My husband and I kept seeing him outside every fall. We hated it that the poor thing had to be out in the cold, so we decided that when we go south for the winter, we'd take him with us. He's been going to Florida with us every winter for the last few years."
Till next post,
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
~
She searched for him high and low, for several days, but all in vain. The following spring, however, Socks reappeared, looking healthy and clean. She figured he'd just been out sowing his wild oats, and let it go at that.
Everything was back to normal until that autumn, when Socks once again disappeared. The next spring, just as the prior year, he returned. When it happened for the third year in a row, she became very perplexed, and decided to investigate. She started by asking her neighbors to see what, if any, information they might have.
She was down to the last house on the block, the home of an older couple. If they didn't have the answer, she wasn't sure where she would turn. So she went up and knocked on the door. The lady of the house answered, and she asked her, "By any chance, have you ever seen a black cat with 4 white feet around here?"
"A black cat?" the woman said. "With 4 white feet? Oh my, yes! He's the sweetest thing. My husband and I kept seeing him outside every fall. We hated it that the poor thing had to be out in the cold, so we decided that when we go south for the winter, we'd take him with us. He's been going to Florida with us every winter for the last few years."
Till next post,
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
~
Monday, February 27, 2006
Yesterday (Sunday)
Well, thank the Lord, the service at the senior citizen's apartment went very well. I gave my testimony, which I was finally able to make somewhat interesting and longer. Me and Benjamin gave our guitar special, that was fun. We sang Shine Jesus Shine, while playing guitar. I was happy because I didn't have to play the piano at all *grin*.
Well, since you're all probably wondering, (actually probably don't even want to know. too bad, I'm gonna tell you anyway! And you have to read it! That is if you want to get to the fun quote at the end :P ) I got through the dumb song we had to do at the beginning, even though it wasn't really that good or fun or interesting. Anyway, aside from that part, it was a really fun! I think we should do it again. I really enjoyed giving my testimony even though I abhore writing things for speaking, it was fun.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
Robert Benchley - "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
~
Well, since you're all probably wondering, (actually probably don't even want to know. too bad, I'm gonna tell you anyway! And you have to read it! That is if you want to get to the fun quote at the end :P ) I got through the dumb song we had to do at the beginning, even though it wasn't really that good or fun or interesting. Anyway, aside from that part, it was a really fun! I think we should do it again. I really enjoyed giving my testimony even though I abhore writing things for speaking, it was fun.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
Robert Benchley - "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
~
Friday, February 24, 2006
Change of Plans
Well, that stinks! Actually I'm really not that dissapointed, but I just found out today that my speech teacher thought that nobody was going to the speech tournament tomorrow. So, obviously she didn't get me registered. So, in all my worriedness and getting prepared, I guess I won't be actually doing it. Thanks, to whoever prayed for me anyway. I still need some prayers, since this sunday I will be helping out in the service our youth group is doing at the senior citizens apartments. Also, the competition tomorrow, is a sort of practice tournament, only in that we can't qualify for anything through it. However in a month they will be having a real tournament, and I am planning on going to that one. I gave my speech again today for my speech class, but this time memorized. Before I hadn't given it memorized. I got some very pleasent feedback, they all really liked it along with changing one of my character's voices to a french accent. That went well too.
So, that was encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to compete next time.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
~
So, that was encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to compete next time.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
~
Monday, February 20, 2006
Skiing and stuff
Well, I had a good time skiing. It was more cold this year than any other I think. I didn't enjoy the skiing I did in the morning as much because my face was going solid. After lunch however I had a good time. I skied with Sergey's friend Mason mostly, because he liked going down blue runs, and I did too. We liked going really fast down them. I wanted to go on Mary Jane, but we couldn't figure out a way to get to it without actually driving to the parking lot. Later I figured out a way that would have worked...
too bad.
It was pretty good anyway. I'm really not very sore interestingly enough. I think it's because I didn't do any blue blacks or anything.
I did some jumping, that was cool. I got some air while going really fast down a blue hill that was starting to form little tiny 'almost moguls' so I went off those and got some air. I did a few small jumps from trails in the forest, that was fun. The funniest part was when I went off this rather large jump from a trail going back on to a run, and I went high enough that I started to tip wrong, and so I screamed. It was embarrasing because it wasn't really a large jump and I wasn't going that fast either. I actually never really fell down the whole time, which was cool. I got a little close to wiping out at full speed on a blue. I slowed down after that. The only real fall I had was at the end. I came speeding down the hill and did some expert turning avoiding people and the fences at the end, and then did a nice little stop perfectly. Then, I lost my balence just standing there, and fell sideways a little but didn't actually get to the ground, because I caught myself with my hand. That's pretty cool.
Well, I have a speech tournament this weekend. Pray that I do well. One question, I have a five minute humorous speech I'm entering. The speech tournament lasts all day and not only that it's in Parker! Is it fair that I have to be there all day to enter my five minute speech?
Another thing I'm going to need a ton of prayer for, is the youth group's senior service coming up. I have to perfect a testimony I need to give by next sunday. I have worked on it some, but I've never written (or given) a testimony before, and I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to make it worth listening to. (concieted as I may seem, I really don't enjoy talking about my life's story that much. Things happen and I move on and forget about them. Boy doesn't that come in handy when people want to know everything interesting you've done in your life)
Also, I need prayer that I will have enough humility to not lose my sanity. We get to do a rather, (how should I put it) humiliating (I guess)and uncivilized (but more like, something any highschooler should not be caught doing)song for this same service, where we sing along with a tape of little kids singing a rather, (this is a more toned down version of what I think) unedifying (or, not worth watching) song.
Oh well, at least I don't have to put on a cowboy hat and dance around the stage with a toy horse....
So, pray for my sanity this week. It's a good thing I went skiing this monday, should keep me a little more relaxed (at least I certainly hope so).
Till next time.
Your faithful writer, (dreading the coming week)
The dreading Yokanchi
~
"How come you never see Cupid with a girlfriend?"
~
(your valentine quote, enjoy!)
too bad.
It was pretty good anyway. I'm really not very sore interestingly enough. I think it's because I didn't do any blue blacks or anything.
I did some jumping, that was cool. I got some air while going really fast down a blue hill that was starting to form little tiny 'almost moguls' so I went off those and got some air. I did a few small jumps from trails in the forest, that was fun. The funniest part was when I went off this rather large jump from a trail going back on to a run, and I went high enough that I started to tip wrong, and so I screamed. It was embarrasing because it wasn't really a large jump and I wasn't going that fast either. I actually never really fell down the whole time, which was cool. I got a little close to wiping out at full speed on a blue. I slowed down after that. The only real fall I had was at the end. I came speeding down the hill and did some expert turning avoiding people and the fences at the end, and then did a nice little stop perfectly. Then, I lost my balence just standing there, and fell sideways a little but didn't actually get to the ground, because I caught myself with my hand. That's pretty cool.
Well, I have a speech tournament this weekend. Pray that I do well. One question, I have a five minute humorous speech I'm entering. The speech tournament lasts all day and not only that it's in Parker! Is it fair that I have to be there all day to enter my five minute speech?
Another thing I'm going to need a ton of prayer for, is the youth group's senior service coming up. I have to perfect a testimony I need to give by next sunday. I have worked on it some, but I've never written (or given) a testimony before, and I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to make it worth listening to. (concieted as I may seem, I really don't enjoy talking about my life's story that much. Things happen and I move on and forget about them. Boy doesn't that come in handy when people want to know everything interesting you've done in your life)
Also, I need prayer that I will have enough humility to not lose my sanity. We get to do a rather, (how should I put it) humiliating (I guess)and uncivilized (but more like, something any highschooler should not be caught doing)song for this same service, where we sing along with a tape of little kids singing a rather, (this is a more toned down version of what I think) unedifying (or, not worth watching) song.
Oh well, at least I don't have to put on a cowboy hat and dance around the stage with a toy horse....
So, pray for my sanity this week. It's a good thing I went skiing this monday, should keep me a little more relaxed (at least I certainly hope so).
Till next time.
Your faithful writer, (dreading the coming week)
The dreading Yokanchi
~
"How come you never see Cupid with a girlfriend?"
~
(your valentine quote, enjoy!)
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Skiing tomorrow
Well, I'm going skiing tomorrow. It should be fun. Max, Sergay, Mason, Benjamin, and Chandler are going too. I'm not sure who else is going.
should be great fun. I'm probably going to try some black diamonds and moguls and such. We'll see.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The opposite of joy is not sorrow, it is unbelief."
- Leslie Wetherhead
~
should be great fun. I'm probably going to try some black diamonds and moguls and such. We'll see.
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
~
"The opposite of joy is not sorrow, it is unbelief."
- Leslie Wetherhead
~
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