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...and carrot sticks too. I'm not joking. Mention cheese, wander near the fridge, or do something that could even vaguely involve cheese, and she'll be right there in an instant. If I'm her target, then she'll hop and scramble around me wishing for (and even trying to get) a piece. If one of my parents or sisters has the cheese, the dog will employ a different tactic - staring. Not merely those puppy dog eyes that normally come with begging , but more of the crazed, manaical look that means "Give to me, give it to me NOW!" Often, she'll get what she wanted. The other thing that she loves are ice cubes, in fact, she'll often choose an ice cube over the cheese. This desire often makes her do some rather daring things. For example, if you slide the cube across the floor, she'll skid after it. If the ice bounces off a wall, she'll try to turn, but often end up bouncing off the wall herself. If the cube goes under a chair, she'll slide right into it as well. If the ice rolls onto the carpet, the dog will usually do a nose dive (and occasionally a 360) due to the terrain change. Needless to say, a tray full of ice cubes can provide plenty of entertainment.
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I just realized I've been completely ignoring this thing. So now I'm returning. On a whim, I decided to try to figure out what the server message 'Servo, ergo sum' means. I'm taking my second year of Latin right now, so that helped. I knew that 'servo' means 'I serve', and that 'sum' means 'I am'. But the 'ergo' confused me. After a bit of conversation with my teacher, we determined that the phrase meant 'I serve, therefore I am.' You've gotta admit, Binky's been creative with these. I was in another fencing tournament yesterday. I did pretty well during my preliminary rounds. I made it through the first direct elimination fine too. But then a problem arose. Because of my standings in the prelims, I ended up having to fence the top fencer in the event for my second DE. I held out for about half of it, then I pretty much bombed the rest. The guys been fencing for probably 20 years, so I wasn't surprised. Even so, making it that far was pretty good. I ended up becoming 7th in the state.
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Yessiree, it hailed today. Well, technically, it hailed a little bit and snowed the rest of the time. First snowfall of the year. It's actually a little late for the first snowfall of the season. Oftentimes the snow comes in September, once it came even in late August. This year it was still in at least the 80s throughout August, so we didn't get much snow then. In fact, it was still pretty warm up until a week or so ago. Then the average temperature dropped quite a bit - like 10 or 20 degrees. The coolness is kind of refreshing, but I still prefer 90 degree weather more than 30. But I can't help that. The snow came on rather suddenly, first with the hail (the ice was significantly smaller than golf balls), then it rapidly shifted into the white fluffy flakes of frozen air, water, and dust that everybody recognizes. Naturally, I went outside barefoot. I usually do it quite a bit during winter, even if there are several inches of snow on the ground. I figured it would be a good idea to get back into it again. After wandering around a bit on the half melted hailstones and snowflakes, I grabbed a good hunk of the stuff, and...well...*coughateitcough* Then a I promptly went back inside and settled down next to a heater vent.
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I just found out today that most of those 88 viruses technically aren't 'viruses'. A couple are trojans and the rest are adware. Oddly enough, I've gotten a grand total of 1 advertisement from the combination of all 80. Sometimes having a corrupted OS has its advantages. Even so, the computer is on quarantine (I'm using a different one right now) until I can wipe the drive. Not sure that even that'll help though, seeing as the drive itself has bad sectors. So I decided to buy a new one. 250GB for $60! Soon I'll be able to get some decent work done again.
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As everybody knows, today was Halloween. People know today even better as the day that you get free candy. Naturally, I decided to go out and get some myself. This time, my dad let me go a little farther than usual. I ended up getting about 3 pounds of goodies! For a person used to getting 15-20 pieces, that's pretty incredible. For my costume, I was lazy and just put on my fencing gear. That was actually a very good choice. It was around 30 degrees outside. That stuff is thick enough though, that I was able to maintain a comfortable body temperature. I was going to go out as something along the lines of 'My Dog Ate My Homework'. But we were having a hard time keeping the stuffed dog attached to the paper. After I got through gloating over my hoard, I went upstairs, and took a math test. There has also been another event in the past few days that I've neglected to mention: My Mom's birthday. I think she turned, well... *subject change* As a present, I decided to make her a nice little computer game. Seeing as she enjoys fall-related things, I chose to base the game around that. You play as a little girl wandering through a corn maze seeking the perfect pumpkin, picking up fall leaves along the way. Sounds kinda boring, but for a person who avoids computer as much as possible, it's pretty neat. I decided to make it more interesting for me by making it isometric. For those of you GM users out there, you know how difficult that is to do. I also decided to put in a nice little day-night engine to take the place of a timer. You have to have found the pumpkin and be out of the maze by dark. Here are some pics of the game: Daytime Nightime That's all for now.
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Well I went to a pumpkin patch with the rest of my family. Everything was pretty normal. Lots of pumpkins, lots of dirty pumpkins, some with good stems, some with bad stems, some with no stems at all...you get the picture. After wandering about for a bit, I stumbled across something rather odd: Tell me - are pumpkins supposed to grow like that??
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Nasty little thing still won't work right. It has a fresh OS, new hardware, all the diagnostics check out, but it still corrupts files. Must be something in the file itself. Oh well, easy to fix. *bangs on case* All better. (hopefully). Even with it's problems, the system is generally working like a charm. No viruses. The thing boots in under 30 seconds, and all the games run fine. So I guess I shouldn't be complaining too much. In other news, as usual, I went to my fencing class today. For the first time, I beat this one 10 year old (I'm 15). I can usually slaughter someone that age, but not this kid. He's usually the one winning in the 10/12 and under events at tournaments. Typically, I'll lose against him 4-5. This time, I beat him 5-4. That was pretty cool. B) That's all for now.
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The hard drive arrived today, so we'll see how it turns out. It's formatting as I type (currently 37%). Once it's done with that, I'll just install windows (and any necessary drivers) and practically have a new computer. Those people at Tiger Direct® are pretty quick about sending their merchandise to you. I ordered the thing 3 days ago using the standard 3-7 day shipping rate. Interestingly enough, they had a 3 day option for about $12 more. I'll keep y'all posted as to how the whole thing turns out. In reference to the previous entry: I did end up shoveling the driveway.
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For those of you who don't know me too well, I typically use that phrase when I'm happy (Bionicle obsession, I know). And happy I am, I just became an Outstanding BZP Citizen (Premier OBZPC to be exact). *faints* To continue my rant on how bad my judgement is about news, well, this time I actually judged good. Not that I had really expected it to make the news though. *sigh* I remember freaking out about my proto for my first month because I couldn't figure out where the darn bar was. :blush: I did manage to figure it out eventually though. Anyhoo, just wanted to tell the world.
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As many of you know, the things been corrupted for a year or so now, but today, it got out of hand. I decided to try to repair the system in an attempt to remove those annoying bugs (mouse freeezes, etc.). So I start the installation, and it asks if I want to install the new updates. Unlike usual, I say yes. So it installs, says some files were messed up and that it couldn't install them, and kept on going. I boot it up, and find that it had installed some little virus update program. It pops up a couple error messages telling me my computer is infected (which explains all the bugs). So I search around for a program, scan the system, and find that the thing has 88 viruses!! Don't believe me? Here's the proof. I think my system is too far gone by now, so I'm gonna get me a new hard drive and start fresh. And don't worry, they're stuck only on that system (which is now quarantined and about to be cleared), so I haven't put on BZP for you guys to enjoy.
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Yep, it's snowing again. Started around 13 hours ago and still hasn't stopped. It'd getting close to a foot deep! It's pretty rare to get a snowfall this big this early in the year. Actually it's pretty rare to get one this big at all. Natrually, my mom decided that I should be the one to shake the snow off the trees, regardless as to whether or not I was in the middle of school and wearing a t-shirt and shorts. But I'm a good person and did what she said. Got covered in snow too. Wouldn't be suprised if she wants me to shovel the driveway later today too. :annoyed2:
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I went to a fencing tournament yesterday - correction, I fenced in a fencing tournament yesterday. I've got a couple bruises to prove it. Most of the were from a round with a 'C' rated fencer (for those of you who don't fence, this is very high for someone under 18). I'm still unrated, though I've been within reach of an 'E' rating a number of times.I was able to knock most of his attacks away from the target area, so they just hit off target areas like my arms or unprotected fingers (painfull). I don't really feel the hits from direct thrusts, but those nasty whip/flick attacks that this guy does make themselves noticable after a couple hours. Back on topic, I had 5 preliminary rounds which would detemine my position moving into the Direct Eliminations. I placed around the middle of my pool; having been put into a round with fencers who were all higher rated than me, that's actually pretty good. I went into the DE's at 10th place out of twice as many fencers. I made it through my first DE (my opponent started at 7th), and progressed onto the next. This time I lost by 3 points, making the final score 12-15. Even so, I ended up being the highest ranked out of that round. Of course, losing that round meant that I was out of the tournament. I checked on the overall tournament rankings this morning. I ended up placing 7th. I was 3 points, 3 stinking points away from getting a national ranking. x2 *sigh* I'll just keep practicing for the next one.
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So I happened to wander on BZP a little while ago and I notice a nice little interview with TT Games is on the news. I click the link and start watching the video, then I hear Binky say "Iruini Nuva asks..." and I pretty much think: Did he really say my name? So I listen to it again, yep, that's me and that was my question. Then I got really excited. I hadn't thought the question was very terrific, but as I said a couple posts down, I tend to be a bad judge of the Mods/Admins opinions. Well, I keep listening and found that his answer was something I hadn't expected. I was thinking he'd say something like "We learned that working as a team gets things done" or something else that people always say when asked that question. Then he comes out and says how suprised he was by our passion about Bionicle. That was pretty cool. B) I'm so gonna save that video.
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At least, not when it comes to blogging. The general extent of my knowledge regarding these things is that you pretty much write whatever comes to mind and other people read what you say. Hence why you're reading this now. So...what to say...well let's start off with the BZP stuff first. Got a bit of news on the front page yesterday. I seem to have this knack for mispredicting what the Mods. consider to be news. I send in news that I think is good, and nothing happens. Then I'll send in some random bit info. that I'm certain they'll ignore and lo and behold they like it. Not that I really mind of course. In other news Biotech (my game company over in software) just had it's first staff meeting. Everything went pretty smoothly and, contrary to what I suspected would happen, we actually got work done. Finally some of those annoying problems with the base storyline got weeded out. Plus we even decided on a new contest for y'all to enjoy. It ought to be officially announced within a week. Outside of BZP, nothing really interesting is happening, unless you enjoy Algebra 2. I wouldn't be suprised if it turned out that I was the only homeschooler in the nation who's spent over 115 hours on a single subject this early in the year. If you have, I sympathize with you. I daresay I could continue to ramble on that topic, but I think that would be better off saved for another time.
