Donnie Darko

I wouldn't normally devote a whole entire post to a movie, but this is such an incredibly amazing movie that I thought I would. The reason I was going to blog about something different is that I'm actually sitting on the stage at graduation practice. We're waiting for the people that are only having commencement practice because the graduates practice later today. Anyway, I watched this movie; "Donnie Darko" while I was in California with a friend and Max, then we watched it again later with another friend and benjamin. It's a pretty old movie and was actually made in 2001 but set in like 1987 or something like that. The movie has a ton of curse words, but other than that it's the most awesome movie I've ever seen. If you've seen the village, it's something like that in the sense that it looks like a freaky bad movie but it's actually friggin sweet. If you ask me what type of genre it is, I can't actually tell you because it's like every genre. It appears to be a horror movie, but really I can't think of a genre that doesn't apply. It's even comedic. Although this is such a good movie I wouldn't recommend anyone under 17 seeing it for the most part.
Well, I need to wrap this post up so....

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself.
~ (Wow I love this quote...
Yeah I'm not exactly a dog lover)

Traveling.

Well, that was like the sweetest vacation I've had all year. Oh yeah, it was the only one. Well, it was great. One fun thing we did was go to this cool place called galco's. It's a big soda shop that sells tons of weird soda's you've never heard of. Today I had one that I got there. It was called birch beer, tasted like root beer. Sarah was convinced it was beer, even though I told her it's like root beer is not really beer.
Anyway, today we've been driving since like 7 this morning. I can't believe how much I slept today in the car, I just could keep awake after lunch. It's cool though, I picked up an adapter that allows me to plug in my computer in the car, and that's fun. Right now I'm sitting in a tent next to a plugin place at a KOA. It's a really nice place. We're in Utah now. Not much else I want to talk about now, except my graduation and the afterwards party is in a few days and you all better be there!!
That reminds me I should send Tony one of those announcement thingys.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I try to sell insurance to every telemarketer that calls me."
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Lynx

I really need to update the links. I'll have to get to that. You guys can bug me to do it till I do. So, anyway. I'm just packing and getting ready to go. Tomorrow night our homeschool group has a talent show. Our choir is doing at least two songs for it. I saw the talent show last year and it was really good. I'm pretty happy though because this time I'm gonna bring Max and Sergey. That'll be fun. I think our choir is really great, so it'll be fun to get to finally show someone :)

Till next post.
Your Faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The object of war is not to die for your country. It is to make the other (guy) die for his." - General George S. Patton

(I think I might have posted that one before so here's another)

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." - Anonymous
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PS I'm gonna have to start posting a whole lot more. I have so many quotes for the end of the blog! :D

It's Interesting

It's interesting, I'm always coming up with these great ideas for blogging, ideas that are really deep and would make great reading material. But, your blog never has anything that deep. You say.
That, is unfortunately very very true. The problem is when I think of these things. I'm always thinking of them while I'm in bed or driving (usually driving). I guess it's murphy's law, but whenever I think of something great to talk about I can't blog it, or write it down or anything. Anyway, I figured sometime I'm going to just have to lay on my bed and stare at the ceiling till I come up with something real cool to post.
Well, enough of this and that, here's a little update info about what's going on in my life. I'm going to California next week for about a week and a half for our yearly field conference, where all the missionaries to the deaf from BMW get together to have some meetings. It's fun because I get to see friends, and it's usually (unfortunately because I'd like another vacation) the closest thing to a vacation we get. Anyway, all that to say why I'll be offline or otherwise busied most the time. Also, (did you know our youth leader really likes that word; "also". If you pay attention he says it a whole bunch but anyway) I'm gonna have to plant the grass armchair after my trip since I'll have to water it and keep it from getting rained on and waterlogged. It should take about 10 days to sprout, so I'll do that when I get home.

One more thing to mention, I'm trying to get an Electric Typerwriter website going, it's a little hard because I've forgotten nearly all the stuff I knew (which wasn't very much in the first place) about website making. So I'm trying to work a little with Disiance to try and get one presentable. Right now it's still in the stuck-in-my-head stage still. I'm getting all the ideas of things to put on it together before I go ahead and throw it on the screen (that's gonna be the hardest part). So, I'd really like suggestions. I definitely want a picture section as well as a section to put my thoughts and ratings on movies and books I've recently read, and try and recommend too and then I also would like to put a place where I can write a little about certain news articles and websites and direct you viewers to them. Any more ideas are greatly appreciated. Well, it's real late and I have stuff to do tomorrow, so I'm going to try and get to sleep.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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PS Bill Cosby is soo awsome!

Grasschair

Well, I finally got some time to work on the grass armchair, and I barely have enough time to write this post too. Well, we finished making the structure part with the cardboard and all yesterday. I'm probably going to have to plant it after our trip to California, but it's all set. Here's a picture of how it looks



It's a little different than the one made by that company, but I think it's going to turn out really well.

Well, tomorrow is Apathy night, but first I'll be going to Id-Ra-Ha-Je for their chuckwagon event.
That should be fun. I'm hoping this time I can go on the zipline, I haven't been on one of those in forever.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark."
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PS Sorry about the huge picture size, but I don't have time to change it smaller and I'd rather just get it up.
If someone wants to fix it, host it and send me the url though they can! *Grin*

Is that real?!

I was driving behind one of these today and I wondered to myself; "hmmm I wonder if that thing's real" I mean it had "Mirage" printed on the back. Heh, that's how exciting my day was. Oh well, I guess I'm gonna go do... something now, hey, I think I'll go see if I can get the computer and test out Age of Empires III. I'm borrowing it from Chandler. By the way Chandler I'm done with your book, I was gonna give it to you today, but I forgot :(
oh well.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Philosophers always arrive at the same conclusion: I don't know."
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Chandler's house

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."
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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

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"I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time."
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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

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"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
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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

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"Everything can be filed under 'miscellaneous.'"
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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

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"Some ministers would make good martyrs; they are so dry they would burn well."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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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

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"On a scale of 1 to 10, 4 is about 7."
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I have alot of quotes to put up, so you get a double dose today.

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"Cheer up. Life isn't everything."

- Mike Nichols
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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

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"Never run out of altitude, air speed, & ideas at one time."
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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

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"How do they get the 'Do not walk on grass' signs way out in the middle of the lawn?"
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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

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"If you are good, you will be assigned all the work - if you are really good, you will get out of it."
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[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
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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.

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Recital - 2 days

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Visa is everywhere you want to be except out of debt."
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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.

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

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"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
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Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

An interesting article for Y'all.

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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

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"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen
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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

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"Ok." -Jim Hansen-
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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

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"Knowledge is free, but you have to bring your own container."
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